skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, for my wife and me, like the featured couple, we moved here to Cascais, where we have leased a 3 bedroom apartment. (We moved from Seattle, not L.A., but most of the dynamics are the same.) The concerns that you raise have not happened to us.We have plenty and frequent meetups with our friends back in the U.S. via Facetime/Zoom/Signal. No, it's not the same as being together in person, but it is "good enough"; we all enjoy ourselves. And, our niece and her husband live in the U.K.; they popped over last weekend, where we got together for dinner in Lisbon, and had a great time, in our native language...

A large percentage of the Portuguese people speak and understand some English, and nearly all people under 30 speak English fluently. And no one, ever, has been anything but delighted when we (try to) speak in Portuguese. They are very patient, really want to help us learn their language, and are fine with translation apps.

I suppose you could see all of the tourist attractions in Lisbon in a (long) weekend, but living here lets you see so much more; it is a culturally rich and interesting country. As for cultural attachments, I guess I'm not sure what that means; but if it means "people and places being the way I am used to", then I respond that for us, it is fascinating and fun to see how other people and places are; seeing what other ways of doing and thinking are possible. It is an adjustment, definitely, and it may not be for you.

It is true that rent prices in Cascais are higher than we had hoped they would be, but they are still significantly lower than what they are in Seattle. Our apartment here is at least half as expensive as it would be in Seattle. And groceries, utilities (including 1Gbs internet), restaurants, consumer goods (e.g. clothes) are dramatically less expensive, as well.

And finally: Yes, it is SO MUCH safer here than in Seattle. The constant tension of looking over your shoulder is gone; you have no idea how heavy a mental weight that is until one day it is lifted.
Just like houses built in known flooding zone.

It’s a good point.
Unironically as a Nigerian Bitcoin has been a god send. I was and am completely skeptical about crypto given that I believe 99.9% are basically complete scams. However, the idea of a censorship resistant layer of money transfer with no intermediary has worked wonders when our government was restricting access to our own money in our bank accounts. Will Bitcoin be that in the future? Who knows, but the demand is there for sure if you live in a society like this.
Ty very much! We'll keep this in mind.
Wouldn't that be trivial if you have your training data set?
"The cryptocurrency market isn't pretty right now. Look anywhere and you'll see red"...

I saw green today just like on the stock market... and red yesterday just like on the stock market
Ty! Always looking to learn about new ways to add value to you
But we don't have a free market.

The government has heavy handed regulations distorting the market and spent the last years creating money out of thin air and killing small businesses.

The government propping the market up during the pandemic kept alive the myth that the market is always growing but also caused a terrible inflation.

Now that the market is going back to reality the government can't just print more money again - or inflation will kill the entire country.

The incoming crash will hopefully pop some of the bubbles the government created in the last 20 years. But it will be painful.
Well presumably they have insurance, although I think the days of insurance companies offering insurance to just about anywhere in the western US are numbered, with the rapidly disappearing water and constant threat of wildfires. But people who bought LUNA didn't buy insurance.

But generally I agree with you, there are definitely tragic events that happen to people that get more sympathy than other types of tragic events, even if they're pretty similar ultimately.

But I'm also someone who "gambles" on nothing but "ponzi schemes", (i.e. I buy Bitcoin and Ethereum) according to HN. I don't have insurance though, if some black swan thing happened and I lost it all, then I don't have much recourse.

Crypto is far from the only thing where that's a possibility, though. I'd say three of the startups I worked for have been even more of a gamble than my crypto purchases (all three shut down a little more than a year after I joined and I never made a dime more than my kind of low salary, and they didn't offer a 401k so I missed out on a lot of financial accumulation and security there).
Another fun fact: Bitcoin is fiat. You can't redeem it for anything.
imagine if that had been invested in land or physical assets.
If you do kill him I'm guessing he gets reset after a while?
Did you mis-paste? I don't know what that east coast west coast tweet have to do with anything? Seems like a non sequiter, unless I'm missing something?
You've just described how you haven't avoided it, but instead have actively engaged with it by availing yourself of moderation tools.

It leads me to suppose that you're underestimating how much you're exposed to that you find disquieting.
I just bought a house in cash, the seller wasn't willing to accept any non-cash offers. With a cash offer the seller and buyer can close in a significantly shorter amount of time than with a mortgage.
Is there any place I can read more about this?
Final lap to where?

Is this really going anywhere, or is it just floundering? "We've made many pivots and have had inconsistent growth" sounds like it's just floundering.

In six months, are you actually going to have a product that 1) works and 2) people care about? Or in six months, are you going to have made two more pivots and still not gotten any traction?

If there's a real future, and you leaving would kill it, that's a very different situation than if they're just going to muddle along trying random directions until they run out of money.
What you're saying makes zero sense. What is this commodity that you think will skyrocket forever, that people should perpetually hold as an investment vehicle?
Commodities can be part of a general portfolio. They can be a reasonable hedge on inflation and, if you are well aware of their markets, reasonable to speculate on. I would surely explain this to anyone i talked to.

That said. "Buy bitcoin/eth/avalanche/shitcoin" is not a nuanced understanding of commodities, and the people i was talking to were not asking if "a responsible percentage of their portfolio should be dedicated to commodities."

These are multiple people in my life, people with no equity positions asking if they should put some of their precious savings into bitcoin or etherium, period, and asking which one. After that we had long talks about investment philosophy.
>The license plate should follow the car and ownership should be changed online as part of the transaction. It sounds incredibly wasteful that every time a car changes ownership the seller must hand over the plates in person to the DMV.

There's too many personalized plates and other exceptions in the US to make that viable.
On (2), here's something I've been wondering. Shouldn't the explosion of SaaS and remote work tools close the gap between internal/external transaction costs, and lead to a decrease in firm size? Because we've been seeing the opposite. [0]

Maybe this just hasn't shown up in the numbers yet, because there's a delayed effect? Or do SaaS and remote work tools benefit firms internally just as much, or more, than someone contracting out work on the open market?

[0] https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HN...
I'm guessing the inefficiency-is-good formulation was chosen for rhetorical effect rather than because OP believes inefficiency is good in itself.
Bitcoin isn't a fiat currency by definition. it's not issues by a government and is not legal tender. It's not even a currency. It's an asset.
"The average employee at Uber is barely over 30, which means you've spent your career in a long and unprecedented bull run" - quite an American experience this. Many across Europe and the rest of the world were in a recession until 2014-2015. It was difficult to find a job out of college even with masters degrees in comp sci from tier 1-2 unis.
(Pub/Sub Eng at Cloudflare)

We are testing the broker using the Paho C wrapper
https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.rust

.. and have added a client example to our dev-docs
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pub-sub/examples/connect-r...
I'm sure there were still plenty of boys for whom it worked. The BSA that I liked, however, had passed into history, much like how chemistry sets were emasculated at about the same time.
I have a BMW diesel sedan, and have averaged 56 mpg over the past 14 months. Starting from a dead stop is nearly all the fuel consumption, like an Atlas rocket. On flat ground, the car gets 70-90 mpg, and if not driving like an idiot up small hills, it's in the 50s.

My commute is very stop-go, otherwise I think the car would be in the upper-60s all the time. I've often wondered if there was a way to have an electric motor handle the movement of the car up to about 15 mph.
I don't mind them. I expect any company worth a damn to want to screen out people who can't code. When I work there and interview other candidates, I don't want my time to be wasted, and I don't want to work with people who can't do their job.

A quick coding test is something that any places where people should know how to code has to do, doing it through one of those platforms seems perfectly reasonable, and I'm happy to do it.

Writing fizzbuzz is not "working for free" any more than any other form of interviews.

And is the "when you apply to be a carpenter" sentence really true? I've heard of the interview process for welders being "here's a machine and two pieces of metal, I'll watch".
> All around, there have been too many dollars chasing too few assets.

You can thank the central banks for this. They seem to be too focused on propping up the wrong metrics. Meanwhile the real economy - and the real people in it - are limping like a three-legged dog.

Yet the top layer ignores the messages (e.g., in the USA, Trump being elected, and perhaps re-elected) and persists with the insanity. This cycle - and the associated level of denial - is not sustainable.

Not economically.

Not socially.

And not ecologically either for that matter.

We can't consume our way out of this madness.
This is really cool. Is the music video related to the slider or it's just visualization? Would be cool to convert the func into sound like this:

https://glicol.org/tour#meta1

Will look into the source code tomorrow.
The article also says that OpenShift failed, even though it is also still around and (presumably) making money.
You have a hilarious amount of confidence about the competency of America's oligarchs. Elon is a financial scammer, his money all comes from government subsidies.

He ain't as smart as you think he is.
You’re arguing semantics. No one is arguing that dumping all your money into Bitcoin or PTON specifically is a good idea.

> One, I can buy a Peloton. People pay for Pelotons. Positive sum.

Yes and once Peloton runs out of people to sell overpriced bikes and treadmills to, the valuation will (hopefully) return to reality. Uber continues to lose money on every ride.

If you’re going down the “people pay for it” route, we could say that people also pay for NFTs of monkey pictures.
It's literally called bit-coin.
i wonder if these kind of things happen within the cardano ecosystem given their focus on peer reviews
It's strange that Lisp became so popular, and Forth - not so much! I've enjoyed GraFORTH on Apple ][ and then using it to generate it in PostScript to generate logos and complex graphics programmatically not using an editor.
I do get the impression that teachers could get fired for making students write an essay about the photo. It might make the student feel guilty about their heritage.
>Almuradi clock is still a solar clock hence it only works when the light rays hit it

No, Almuradi's works are powered by water and moved by gears. At least one used light to illuminate particular numbers, but the optical aperture was moved by gears.

>Which are most probably shadows creating something like a circle (or an oval)

During the course of the day the shadows make a half circle at best. Over the course of a year the end point at the same time of day makes an uneven figure eight, known as the analemma. At no point is there a circle or an ellipse.

Passive solar timekeeping has its limitations and the next phase of development was the water clock.

These simple water clocks, which were of the outflow type, were stone vessels with sloping sides that allowed water to drip at a nearly constant rate from a small hole near the bottom. There were twelve separate columns with consistently spaced markings on the inside to measure the passage of "hours" as the water level reached them. The columns were for each of the twelve months to allow for the variations of the seasonal hours. These clocks were used by priests to determine the time at night so that the temple rites and sacrifices could be performed at the correct hour. [0]

If anything the circular three hand clock is a pragmatic method of indictors based on the method of power control. Looking at the Antikytheria mechanism for example, the back side shows a deep understanding of how the different cycles of time measures interact.

Going back to the original topic of "an alien digital clock written in alien language," to the degree that we could comprehend on what basis they kept time a time communication rooted in a sidereal period cannot be a given since the aliens might come from a tidally locked planet or one like Mercury which "rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun."[2] Even if they just used the Unix epoch time would look linear and relative; not circular.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
Oh, that's a matter of scope creep and bad actors. I have people in my real life community who suck the life out pf any interaction with them. Always going on about victomhood or gender or whatever, when really everything is getting along in a healthy way without them. The only way to stop this is to avoid giving them an audience, and to vote literally and figuratively with whatever you have. Don't buy the game and voice your reason. Or try the game and see if you still like it. A lot of the time it is easy to be annoyed that intruders are taking over, but some of that comes down to pre-existing bias. Most of the people who hate gays for example haven't really met any.

But ya, vote with what you can vote with. Start your own company that you control etc..
It even looks like some humans tried to draw like an AI, in a reverse Turing test.
Cub Scouts is the under-12 youth organization that "feeds" into Boy Scouts.

Many, but not all, Boy Scouts started off as Cub Scouts, rising up through the ranks to earn their Webelos before "graduating" into Boy Scouts around age 12.

Cub Scouts organize into "Packs" (analogous to a Troop in Boy Scouts), and break off into "Dens" (analogous to Patrols in Boy Scouts).

Scouting is an amazing youth experience, both in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Unfortunately not all Packs and Troops are created equal, although some "specialize" in certain activities (such as canoeing/kayaking, backpacking, etc). Finding a good Pack or Troop that fits your interests is key.
They probably would decrease somewhat, because there's no longer an incentive for landowners to prevent people from building housing to keep the supply low.
I do not do scratching.

But perhaps sleeping on the stomach is bad
Solar is race to bottom, very low margin competition with Chinese manufactures. Batteries will follow as well. And if that was really going great why did SolarCity get bailed out by Tesla money? I would have expected it to be a massive company as well.

Also, I never really understood robotaxis as something magical high margin business. It is also race to bottom operating with very thing margins. And probably only after huge waste of VC capital.
TSLA does make way more EVs than anyone else. They are valued on their potential as the clear leader going forward.
There are lots of books on the history of financial downturns.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372440-this-time-is-dif...
Tesla has nothing on the market for smaller, cheaper european markets, and smaller, cheaper cars like Renault Zoe are getting more and more common sight on the streets. There is no premium pricing on those, but the numbers of cars sold is quite huge.
Someone came up with this delicious game:

Landowners decide for themselves what value their land has, and pay tax accordingly. But whatever they say the value is, someone else is allowed to buy it for.
> "... at the end of the day, creating a business that makes more money than it spends is what it's all about, and that is very difficult to do. These never-profitable businesses have been benefiting from the era of free money, and as that time ends, so will they."

Indeed. You cannot cheat the fundamentals -- you can avoid/delay them, but they'll eventually catch up with you.
General idea of having two balanced cryptocurrencies doesn't look bad by itself. But the promises to pay 20% of interest per year are super suspicious. Where would that money come from? What kind of goods or services do they produce? Do developers of cryptocurrency expect to receive exorbitant fees from users?

If there is no valid business model explaining where that 20% come from then it is just a Ponzi scheme.
The evidence against this is that tsla stock has gone up since musk said the deal was "on hold". This may be because the market expects him to not have to increase supply by selling more shares, but he's already trying to arrange outside funding to limit what he has to sell.

It could be that confidence in musk and his brand is having more of an impact on share price than supply and demand. He's behaving erratically and is clearly distracted from running tesla by this twitter fiasco. I'm not sure what weighs more on the minds of institutional investors.
Check out the TypeScript release notes if you like extensively documented notes :-)
Looks awesome. livebud.com isn't resolving though so I can't install.
> People in the tech industry seem weirdly enabling of petty hateful stalker behavior

I wonder if it's because it's become so normalized to collect so much personal data all the time. Arguably a lot of us are enabling our companies to spy on people constantly, so it's not a stretch to imagine people are ok with weird stalker behavior.
I want to write one for bare metal (non-Linux) raspberry pi (ARMv6 32 bit on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero; ARMv7 and ARMv8 on higher models and also supports 64 bit). I want to have no dependencies required though so was thinking of bootstrapping it with nothing but machine code (determined initially with the help of an assembler and documentation of course). Someone has already ported jonesforth the Raspberry Pi[1] but using serial i/o as the user interface and it has dependecies to build it, but I should be able to get ideas from how they coded their assembly parts compared to the original jonesforth. I want to be able to use HDMI for the screen (already tried it out with some bare metal tutorials in assembly so that's do-able) and again, with no dependencies. And I want to show people how to do it themselves, not just have it be something to run that they don't understand fully. It should also be possible to have the forth kernel build/assemble itself if needed, or cross-target another platform.

I know I'm all talk right now, like you say, I need to manage my free time so that I would have the "copious free time" to work on this.

The only reason I was thinking Raspberry Pi was I wanted something that would be readily available to anyone (although, at the moment it's out of stock due to supply chain issues). I was actually looking at whether anything similar was available with RISC-V (like you mentioned) to target, since that would be interesting.

[1] https://github.com/organix/pijFORTHos
Is it actually possible to hire someone without some level of discrimination involved? Seems like this ideal world where candidates are hired purely on technical ability or merits without regard to any other aspects of their life is impossible.

For example, if I were hiring a programmer, and the programmer was technically competent but spoke with such a thick accent that I couldn't understand them very well, I'd be tempted to pass on that candidate even though they meet all the job requirements. And if it happened every time I interviewed someone from that particular region, I'd probably develop a bias against similar future candidates.
And North Korea's official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK").

What's your point?
That's what I wonder too. Honestly, the efficiency of a chain drive system is really high. (however, it should match your body's efficiency - 90 is supposed to be an excellent cadence for cardio, and is good for the knees)

wikipedia says up to 99%:

Mechanical efficiency

From a mechanical viewpoint, up to 99% of the energy delivered by the rider into the pedals is transmitted to the wheels (clean, lubricated new chain at 400 W), although the use of gearing mechanisms reduces this by 1–7% (clean, well-lubricated derailleurs), 4–12% (chain with 3-speed hubs), or 10–20% (shaft drive with 3-speed hubs). The higher efficiencies in each range are achieved at higher power levels and in direct drive (hub gears) or with large driven cogs (derailleurs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_performance
That’s what the whole crypto industry has been saying for years. If they didn’t think it was stable (or didn’t want you to believe it was), it wouldn’t be called stable. Millions of people at this point have been led to believe a stable coin is stable.
What's your favorite bit of obscure Apollo hardware?
On the other hand, The Fed goes over the top with what they can do and Congress refuses to lean in on its supervision of The Fed.

Imagine that. You refuse to do your job and you still have a job.

Only in America.
No? The article is talking about RNA World hypothesis vs. RNA-Protein World hypothesis. The RNA world hypothesis has been accepted widely for a long time.

Before membraneless RNA viroids were discovered, some abiogenesis researchers may have thought that DNA is fundamentally required for self-replication, so whatever first occurred must have had it. But this is simply a lack of imagination on what RNA can do.
I joined the Boy Scouts at 10 mainly because the Cub Scouts abandoned Wolf Bear Lion Scout as WeBeLoS.
It's also an American experience outside tech and finance.
I think perhaps you are looking at a different part of the funnel; disparate impact seems to be around the sort of requirements you are allowed to put in a job description. Like “must have a college degree”.

However the sort of insidious discrimination at the margin I was imagining are things like “equally-good resumes (meets all requirements), but one had a female/stereotypically-black name”. Interpreting resumes is not a science and humans apply judgement to pick which ones feel good, which leaves a lot of room for hidden bias to creep in.

My point was that I think algorithmic processes are more testable for these sorts of bias; do you feel that existing disparate impact regulations are good at catching/preventing this kind of thing? (I’m aware of some large-scale research on name-bias on resumes but it seems hard to do in the context of a single company.)