skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you polled all the engineers that work on actually designing and building browsers, I bet they would all say "Of course Wasm containers sounds way better than JavaScript containers. What are you, a pathetic frontend noob? Oh, wait, even they don't use JavaScript anymore. They all use a superset of it that's slighly less stupid. JavaScript containers, sheesh. Go be quiet in the corner."
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MIRI is the only instrument that works in mid-infrared, the other three work in near-infrared. It simply isn't seeing the same things.

"Better looking" is subjective, we are literally talking about your favorite color. I personally prefer the other ones, MIRI looks blurry, but really, they all have their use and they all have great scientific potential.
That plus these:

A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18652629 - Dec 2018 (1 comment)

A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15753150 - Nov 2017 (172 comments)

A CEO's Guide to Emacs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10642088 - Nov 2015 (62 comments)
So it depends what you mean by 'best'.
In most developed countries, if your situation is ideal you can get fantastic healthcare, and that seems to be the point you are making.

There are some niche fields where the USA is demonstrably the best - pediatric oncology surgery, some difficult transplants, and novel cancer therapies come to mind. But I think it is hard to argue that it is anywhere near the best on the metrics usually used to judge a healthcare system, which other people have posted about.

In my experience, it also suffers from thinking it is the best and patients expecting it to be best. I have seen some patients get quite excessive and even unusual treatment in hallowed healthcare institutions in the USA.
This and the arm chair government spending police in this thread is completely wrong. The PPP helped a ton of small businesses who needed it. I, along with many small business owners in our industry got PPP, used it correctly on employee payroll, rent and utilities. It took me all of 30 min to apply for each of the PPP rounds. It took me about the same amount of time to apply for forgiveness.

Of course there were problems with the wrong people getting their hands on the money. If you actually put up a ton of filters to make sure the wrong people didn't get the money, it would have delayed the actual people needing money from getting it. The right thing to do is to hand out the money fast and go after the abusers later.

These comments are the reason why the small guys always gets the short end of the stick. The big companies have their army of people to solve problems. The small guys are the ones who need it fast without the bureaucracy. Comments like "too much waste" and "shameful" do not hurt the big companies one bit. They just put up another road block for the small guys.
That's a big part of the appeal of places like Hacker News and Tumblr- the focus on being a social network without adding in additional ad-delivery "features."

I don't know if going full ascetic by removing images, reactions, etc. will achieve the same effect or not. Something like that would be very nice for smaller communities: IRC is still kicking, despite everything. Curious to see how the project goes, I'm unsure if the article cut off unexpectedly or if it's just very early.
UST seems to be an "algorithmic stablecoin" that is supported by the Luna cryptocoin?

It seems like you cannot trade Luna directly on coinbase. But there's a "WLUNA" (wrapped luna) that alleges to trade like Luna over the Ethereium blockchain. https://pro.coinbase.com/trade/WLUNA-USD

I'm not sure how any of this works. I recognize that the "algorithmic stablecoin" basically sells LUNA to prop up UST (and vice versa, when UST goes over $1, then UST is sold to prop up LUNA). But I thought that the whole TITAN / IRON thing from a few months ago proved that this structure was vulnerable?

Did UST / LUNA just end up making the same mistakes as TITAN / IRON? Why is this article discussing "BTC reserves" ?? Why would they be selling BTC to prop up UST? What mechanism exists there?

All of these cryptocoins have their own rules, and those rules will determine the failure case. I know how much I don't know. But at the end of the day, a $0.90 "stablecoin" is not a good look.

EDIT: Wait, its now $0.78 ?? https://pro.coinbase.com/trade/UST-USD

Erm... that's not good.
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From the article:

"Most of New York's population decline has been upstate."
It has a peg. All that means is that they're targeting a particular exchange rate and managing to maintain it.

The allegation is that it's not fully backed.
I can't think of what county you must live in where you'd be able to afford a home in NYS and pay that little in fed+state+local without any special deductions.
This is very soothing. I feel like I'm being cradled by calm, intuitive, thoughtful UX.
> accept the consequences

"I accept that I have lost all of our users a lot of money, soz". There's a lot of vulnerable people losing a lot of money on crypto, I've yet to see how any of this is good for society.
It's kind of interesting to recognize that, at least with beer, the whole thing can be circumvented/disrupted with a 'radical new technology' like widespread homebrewing. I once had an enterprising neighbor who dove into this project, using large (new, clean) garbage bins to prepare grains, and a repurposed gas-burning hot water heater as a brewpot. Each batch was ~50gal/200L of quite decent beer. (This incidentally is somewhat above the 'home use' limit and bordered on a commercial operation).

It's not likely to see anything like this in the world of computer delivery, although the widespread interest in repairing things like iPads and iPhones is becoming a factor. As Moore's Law starts to flatline, it's becoming clear that the next gen of phones/tablets etc. will not be stupendously superior to the older versions, and consumer demand for repairable computers will only rise in the future, and expected usable lifetimes will become comparable to those for automobiles.
Why is it ok to force the 60% to pay higher taxes and accept WORSE healthcare so that the 40% get better healtcare for nothing?

We already pay to cover our own family members on our plans. Why are we being forced to now cover everyone else's family?

I'm more likely to move to the adjacent state than pay 15% higher tax rate and literally get LOWER quality care.
>How is this not just the exact same formula?

Is it? Specifically, what's the equivalent of "credit ratings that were essentially fraudulent"? If you read the smart contract code, misunderstood how it worked, proceeded to invest anyways, and then it blew up, that sounds like something that's on you. If you invested in some opaque financial product (I don't think MBS buyers can go through each mortgage with a fine toothed comb) and the independent third party that's supposed to be evaluating it was actually biased, that's at least partially on the seller and/or third party.
That's strange. I think VLC is able to play HEVC even if you don't have a hardware decoder. You've tried reinstalling and deleting the VLC appdata folder?
It changes the overall picture because HTML compresses better than JSON, which itself compresses better than your deduped arrays (because of the duplication you’re trying to avoid). So the HTML would be closer in byte size to the most compressed version you’ve shown than it appears, after compression.
I think the next generation of tools like Figma (i.e. Figma 2.0) may end up being polished and able enough for a semi-technical user to visually build out a whole (bespoke, custom) website and with the click of a button publish/host it.

I know there are extensions available for Figma that allow that right now, but from what I could see they weren't as polished as one would want.
The Environment and Disease: Association or Causation? Hill - 1965
Fixed, thanks! The former did a redir to the latter and our software follows redirs now.
We did a long comparison of the constitutional crisis in Hungary and the USA here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...
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Love the sentiment and bipartisan support for this.

As long as reasonable measure are taken to vet the candidates and that the legislation isn’t perversely skewed, this seems like a no brainer.

The ROI on science talent must be high.
> Meme stock investors intentionally manipulating stock prices to cause them to diverge from the underlying value of the company

I get what you’re saying but this point kind of implies that there was information symmetry, or even near-symmetry, between the market of investors and the underlying value of the company.

A few big players and the professionals maybe have their finger on this pulse. But they are still subject to many biases that amateurs are.
Backed by Bitcoin™ - Somewhat of a so-called 'store of value' which was down 11% and $11B of it was bought at >$40,000 and moved to another wallet.

What could possibly go wrong?
Many of the crops grown in Arizona and southern California such as lettuce and spinach are grown there to supply the country during the winter season.

Michigan couldn't replace that during the winter. So it's more of an issue that we would have to decide to only eat vegetables seasonally. No green leafs in winter. Or build vast greenhouses I suppose.
https://archive.ph/7WJws
And, of course, the closer to the edge you are economically, the more you have worse problems than taking the time to cook something healthy.
>plenty of Chinese statecraft was contemporary or earlier than Plato/Artistotle

Of course, but the West didn't have access to them until the early modern period. We're not discussing which came first, we're discussing influence.

>Why isn't that the most common thing we should encounter when reading about political theory?

This is what I meant by you being all over the place. The answer to this question really depends on the topic. If it's a general overview of political thought across time, it's true that Western works on the topic shamefully tend to ignore non-Western sources. If it's an overview of Western political thought, it makes sense to start with the sources of Western political thought and later discuss how the eventual encounters with Chinese thought changed things.
Follow the advice of Wu-Tang Financial and diversify your bonds.
> You are ignoring the unreasonableness of making definitive claims, independent of relative influence.

I'm making the important point that "definitive claims" are only definitive within the the framework in which they are made.

>If the chance of drought is increased 1%, can you still claim that every one of them is caused by climate change?

Again, we can and we can't. We have a seemingly reliable framework that would suggest that every one of them is cause by climate change. There ought to be builtin error bars, but if the probabilities are falling under the predictions, it's reasonable to say there is a causal link. It's also reasonable to have concerns about noise. The concept of definiteness ultimately just breaks down for all empirical claims. That's not to say that we don't use the term all the time, it's just to say that the term "definitive" is effectively a heuristic for "very probably" in the frame we are using.

>At what point do you think someone becomes a liar or misleading? Is there any threshold in your mind?

Again, I have a lot of sympathy about this point. There is a dance between what may we believe and what must we believe. The claim in the frame of we may believe that this drought was caused by climate change is reasonable. The argument against the claim that we must believe that the drought was caused by climate change is generally problematic and generally unreasonable. We can know in the sense that it's falls out from the prediction, but we can not know in the sense that there are error bars and noise and there will be probabilistic events that fall outside of our model's level of precision.

Right now, predictions about climate change made by institutions with academic reputations have shown to be very accurate. If we have predictions that are shown to be completely inaccurate or involve a nonsensical framework, then yes, i would say "lying or misleading" is reasonable. This is especially true for post-hoc justifications for these inaccurate predictive results. This happens all the time in the world of finance, but it rarely happens in the world of science because most of the time scientists are actually seeking the best model of understanding. There was a bit of push back against Einstein, for example, but generally speaking, the scientific community goes with the frameworks that best explain the phenomenon.
> I think a country which lets some get rich off of other’s cancer is an abhorrent, indefensible, system.

lol
In general people want products that will enrich their lives in some way. Sometimes these things aren't necessities, but sometimes they are. Food for example...

I introduce a new food product, Soylent Green. It tastes great, doesn't cost much and is nutritious. It starts becoming wildly popular.

Does that mean that there was huge demand for cannibalistic products? No. There was demand for tasty, cheap, nutritious food.

If this happened in real life the ingredients label would be a list of indecipherable chemicals, proteins, and "natural flavors". What you're suggesting requires that consumers be able to understand the externalities involved in the sourcing of every ingredient as well as the manufacturing process AND then use those to override their own preferences regarding the end product.

Identifying and preventing externalities or at least making sure externalities are factored into pricing is something that governments are MUCH better equipped for than any individual.
In the long term, any stablecoin which requires other cryptocurrencies to maintain a certain US$ level will fail.
A more detailed source: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-quanta-magazine-new-y..., explaining "For coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to facilitate groundbreaking astronomical and cosmological research."
DCA always. No need to get stressed about randomness.
Maybe they could try paying their engineers an extra $200 to work weekends
Ask HN: Disadvantages of Incorporating in Caymans?
Cayman Islands has 0% company tax which becomes a huge save on profits. I won’t be living there thus pay income and capital gains where I live.

I’m currently at a stage where I want to shift to full gear of selling a consumer product and am investigating whether I should get funding and if so, incorporate in US or Caymans.

Anyone has expertise with Cayman companies?

My first thought is people think I’m trying to hide something and scare investors.
You wouldn't save much going from h.265 -> AV1 but h.264 -> AV1 should be a significant savings.

AV1 is ~30% more efficient than h.265. And h.265 is ~40% more efficient than h.264. The lower the resolution of the video, the less savings you will get.

I personally will wait until more devices support hardware AV1 decoding. I believe only Intel 12th gen, and Nvidia 3000 support AV1 currently. I don't plan on purchasing a new laptop or smartphone for 3-4 years, at that point I may start encoding in AV1.
> it has become pointless

That's certainly a trendy thing to say today, about everything. I'm interested in what we are going to do. People who say it's hopeless are present for every problem in every time.
Of course it's hard. Perhaps they should have thought about that before trying to be a middleman in a grifter's market.
The text caption explains that; C-f for "microshutter array". The one you zoomed in on is a spectrograph that's not meant to take photos.
Everything is math.
Unlikely.The lack of jobs in India is quite staggering(see below links).Money earned through immoral means is actually respected as hustle. And in this case the victims are distant foreigners who many Indians believe have looted their ancient wealth. The police are a part of it too and get their commissions as well. Imo unless the US govt itself applies pressure nothing is really gonna happen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-60165825

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/majority-...
> managing to maintain it. The allegation is that it's not fully backed.

Which means if there's a run on the currency, those backing assets might not actually be able to be liquidated at a price that can back the withdrawals. Aka, the peg is only good if there's no run on the currency - allegedly anyway. I personally wouldn't trust it.
to be fair, (if india is anything like srilanka in that regard) she might be shocked when she finds the quality of the food is better. American ingredients are relatively poor. I remember having pizza hut in srilanka and it was delicious and used fresh pineapple. the American version was greasy and disgusting with meager portions of the canned stuff
Do you re-encode your media or something?
>The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki under the 2001 AUMF was constitutional.

Under the 2001 AUMF it would have only been legal if he had planned or participated in 9/11, which he didn't. Read the text of the law.

There was never a justification to not charge him with a crime, especially knowing that he would have turned himself in if they had. But we both know why they didn't, don't we..?
I think the specific scenario the author is talking about, ie a very large codebase providing some important infrastructure (Azure storage) with a relatively stable core is one where the costs of Rusts complexity start to be outweighed by the benefits, and Rust starts to make a lot of sense.

Where Rust’s complexity does matter is in projects that prioritise getting developers on boarded and implementing new features as fast as possible, such as user facing web services. These things probably would not benefit from Rusts correctness guarantees in a meaningful way, but stand to lose by making it harder for developers to get productive.
This happened again in Sweden [1] with another guy who didn't seem to think he was doing anything wrong until he called the radiation authorities there and ended up getting raided. His old blog is pretty funny [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Handl
[2] https://richardsreactor.blogspot.com/
That was at 3:40pm EST this afternoon when the peg was at $0.95-ish or so.

UST is now at $0.78 on coinbase and LUNA is down 50% in a single 24-hour period, and continues to plummet. The last 4-hours are way, way way worse for LUNA / WLUNA and UST.

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What was the saying? Blood in the water attracts sharks? Or something like that?
I'm continually surprised USDT doesn't unpeg. Going from "100% backed" by USD reserves as questionable as that was to being backed by a mix of crypto holdings (who's price is heavily affected if USDT is pumping money into crypto) and commercial paper really didn't seem to have any affect on it's use. For all the winging about money printing and crypto not being printed USDT is seemingly a huge money printer forming a pretty central part of the crypto economy.
No one had said stimulus wasn't needed. It's perfectly valid to believe that PPP was bad policy and also that a targeted stimulus was necessary.
Or maybe they find Emacs hacks more interesting to blog about than the CRUD they write at $day_job. Or maybe their NDA means they can blog about their tools and not what they're using those tools for.

I don't think it follows that just because you blog about something, it means you spend the majority of your time doing it.
Shipilev’s entire blog is worth reading. He’ll even email you back if you have questions.

I really enjoy his anatomy quarks series:

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/
Recently made video summarizes the current situation (for those of us not familiar with it) : "Freight Trains in the US Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9cc4Et-3Ck]

I was once chewed-out by an employer for arriving a few minutes late after waiting for a mile-long coal train to crawl past the only entrance to the town at 15mph. (A rarity at the time.) 16,450 feet? Wuf-da.
The word 'con' in 'con game' is short for 'confidence'. People seem to have learned from the con-in-chief (among others, like the personality cult business people), even those who told me they hated him.
This shows a serious misunderstanding of pretty much everything (I mean that).

It's not a zero sum game.
It looks like this (un-)stablecoin has lost its peg two times in the past. The interesting thing is that's it's an algorithmic stable coin: if its price is below a dollar, you can 'burn' one UST to get $1 worth of LUNA (a regular crypto currency without an enforced peg). That has a deflationary effect and is meant to raise UST's price.
Conversely, if UST's price is above $1, you can burn LUNA to get back UST, inflating the supply and lowering the price.

It's quite the neat idea really -- but I suppose it hinges on people believing that there is a healthy UST-LUNA ecosystem tomorrow that you can use to withdraw your funds if you want. Burning UST to get LUNA doesn't make sense if LUNA loses enough value by the time you could exchange it for something else, so I assume people rather take the loss on selling UST for less than $1, which would explain what we're seeing:
Right now UST is at $0.81 and LUNA is down 47% in the last 24h. We'll see if the system is robust enough to recover from a 'bank run', if you can call it that. It at least isn't the first time the peg has been broken, and so far it's stabilized at $1 again every time.
Wow.

Looking at that image I feel a weird superposition of awe and anger. Awe at the incredible work that it took to get that image and the fact that I'm around to see it, and anger at the rise of pseudo-science and the glorification of ignorance. Acquiring scientific knowledge is incredibly hard work, and we as a society denigrate it at our peril. The extent to which science denial is in fashion nowadays really steams my clams.
Oh wow that’s really cool. I’d love to have a local server running and it would indeed give me more confidence in building on it.

Hopefully it comes packaged in a somewhat user friendly box. If step 1 is have a global CDN the less useful
> grocers have become amazingly good at selling us exactly the kinds of foods we want to buy

The profit motive is quite the shiznit!

Communist stores, on the other hand, tend to be very good at being out of stock of whatever you want to buy. Ask anyone who grew up the USSR.

If you're above a certain age (I am) you'll also remember how good Nixon's DOE was at getting gas to your local gas station. You'd get to wait in line for hours, and you weren't allowed to buy gas at all if the last digit on your license plate was wrong for that day.
It already has it [1]. Native litestream that RPC's to the primary sounds interesting though!

[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4268
> you assume the only life worth valuing is one that you know.

No, I think all life is worth valuing, it's just an objective fact that the vast majority of people would prefer not to be subsistence farming.

> look at the amish.

The Amish are not pure subsistence farmers. Many of them shop at Costco and Wal-Mart if it's accessible to them. They are also dependent on the rest of society for emergency services and healthcare, just like us. Their daily existence is far closer to ours than that of a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa.

> when i am in the field, it is as if there is nothing going wrong in the world. headlines dont pierce the stillness.
something ineffable has been lost.

That's all well and good, I like being in nature and getting away from it all too, but there's no sense in romanticizing poverty like you're doing here. Subsistence farming is pain and suffering for huge numbers of people, not just an escape from the over-technologized mainstream culture of wealthy countries.