skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never really got the point of layaway. I give you money and you keep it interest-free until I pay for the item? Why not just put it into my own savings account and at least get interest on it?
VC Fred Wilson: “Apple won't rule tech in 2020” (2014)
You should only borrow for an investment. Houses sure. Cars, less so. You’d have to be very poor with a very strong need to have a car, and then I guess borrowing 3k to buy an old Toyota could make financial sense
The DMV in my state requires you make an appointment 4-6 months out right now. Walk-in appointments are unavailable or only available during a few hours a few days a week, if they happen to have staff that day. Good luck if you have your drivers license stolen.

I sold a car of mine to Carvana in October. I returned the license plate to the DMV immediately, which is how they're notified that you no longer own the vehicle, waited 7 days, then cancelled my insurance policy on that car. A month later, I got a letter from the DMV that it is a crime to not carry insurance on my vehicle and I will have to reinstate the insurance and pay a $70 fine for letting it lapse. On the car I no longer own, that was now titled in another state and resold by Carvana already.

It took 2 more months and 3 different forms to get the DMV to accept that I no longer owned the car and to stop pursuing me for this "crime".
Exactly! The average american has more than one payment app on their phone
You can estimate yourself from the comfort of your own home how many accounts are spam. Just make a list of 100 random accounts. Truly random, not just "followers of X" or whatever. Then manually look each of them and classify as spam or not. There's your percentage.

If you want more accuracy, hire some people from say Amazon's Mechanical Turk and do 1000. 10k.
Uber only still exists because the Saudis dumped $5 billion into them.
I think it is the military idea, because it doesn't really map to risk perfectly anyway.

In Risk, the attacker gets 3 dice to the defender's 2, but the defender wins in a tie. It is actually an interesting mechanic -- the defender has a big advantage if it becomes a 2v2 on the dice, but the attacker has an advantage while the have the extra die. So, for large battles the attacker has an advantage, while small ones lean toward the defender.

Here's someone who did a simulation and made a table. The interesting bit is the diagonal -- even sized armies. They didn't go far enough, but eyeballing it, I suspect it would swap over to an attacker advantage around ~10v10-ish.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2h224y/requ...
... which was not the reason given for the war of aggression initiated by NATO.
It’s been fun y’all. Time to apply to medical school I guess.
More Than $1T of Crypto Vanished in Just Six Months
Soon to be Nato MILSPEC.
"...decarbonization of cement production can only go so far by using waste materials and biomass, and new processes have to developed and be commercialized to make cement CO2-free..." Not only can we make cement CO2 neutral but even CO2 negative! We can capture 100Kg per ton of cement produced.
I think there is some notion that VCs are these rational, brilliant people who are making money hand over fist investing in the best projects. The reality is that many VCs do not make money and invest in tons of bad projects all the time.

Why would they invest in bad projects? Because they are humans who happens to have a crap ton of money. As humans, they're susceptible to FOMO and hype. They are susceptible to things like first impressions, a good slide deck, a good sales person, etc.

All this to say is that it might be the VC, it might you, or it might be your project. Who knows. This is why many founders end up pitching to 30-40 VCs because sometimes it's a numbers game.

The whole VC funding thing is a game that you have to learn about and crack. The easiest way to crack it is to show you have growing revenue. The next best thing is to show you have growing users. If you do not have growth, then you'll just have to hustle and put on your best sales game.
To be clear, I'm not posting this to pile on a VC for being wrong about a prediction, I mostly just found it super interesting to see what the outlook in 2014 looked like about 2020 and beyond.
Deep, ah, cut.
He openly admitted to having (deprecated term) Asperger's syndrome on SNL.

> That's just called childish behavior,

That's pretty judgy, IMHO.

> But most adults who act that way can't get away with it. When it is paired with wealth and a megaphone as it is with Musk and others like him, not only can they get away with it, but it can be amplified by a mass following of people who wish they could get away with it, and live vicariously through them.

True.
Jogged my memory to share this: https://twitter.com/NealSpackman/status/1510297102915571716

"An estimated 20% of alfalfa in the American SW, meaning about [20%?] of all water in the Colorado watershed, goes to foreign nations like KSA to feed their dairies. Related: if Lake Mead drops another 75 feet, the Hoover Dam will stop producing power.
#virtualwater"
> Affirm wasn’t originally built for pants loans, or at least that’s not the founding folklore: Peter Thiel was tired of driving a carless Max Levchin around after they’d sold PayPal, the story goes, but Levchin couldn’t qualify for financing on his own.

Imagine selling PayPal *which you basically co-founded*, but not being able to purchase a car outright.

I’m baffled on this one, and want to know more about that entire situation.
Yeah but alot of it is too inaccessible. The dense areas like LA county are built out to the mountainsides. What's left is desert that has no good access to the urban core containing the rest of the population, due to the massive mountain range in the way and only like two good routes that are nowhere near a convenient straight shot through. Its a lot easier to just think about how we can stack up people where they already are, where the jobs already are, then to go off scarring up more and more of the earth with development. There's plenty scarred already, lets just build up there.
I'm not terrified of interviewing. I just think it's an even bigger pain in the ass than dating. The older I get the less patience I have for people who need me to sell myself to them as if I were a commodity and not a human being.

I don't think you need to be a feminist to say "WE ARE NOT THINGS".

I am not a resource.

I am not "human capital".

I'm a man who happens to need to work for a living. Deal with me as such or not at all.
Why Google should bring back the “Discussions” tab
I am hearing from vendors that the card companies have been raising their rates recently too.
dont care, nft trash

you havent posted since 2014, then suddenly come back promoting NFT trash
> You’d have to be very poor with a very strong need to have a car

This describes many, many people.
Very much a minority. The average credit card balance is over $5000 according to https://www.creditcards.com/statistics/credit-card-debt-stat... And the interest rates are ridiculously high so they can afford even a large number of people paying off their bills each month.
True traditionalists insist on rosewater and sugar.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h6XvMKdD2tY
The standard explanation is that the market tends to price in future gains, and Tesla is seen as having far greater growth and market domination potential than the other brands with small P/E.
This is fairly true for most businesses already, though - at least in tech. It's just a question of how they value your skills that might not be in alignment. Some companies will value what you bring to the table more than others, just because of what their needs are. Or they just can't match pay. We regularly lose people to FAANG because we just can't comp the same, and that's been true for every startup I've hired for ever.
https://www.infoplease.com/primary-sources/philosophy-religi...

You don't have enough forces to overwhelm with a direct attack, but you have enough that you can send half to another location (perhaps a flank attack), while still holding your current position.
Don't worry, that money is gone. It's already in the coffers of western oligarch-equivalents and shareholders. Did you think all that military hardware we've sent them grew on trees?
And if the merchants have it priced into their product, you're a fool to pay cash instead of getting your cut of the rebate.
The GP post wasn't describing a method for stopping fake accounts, they were describing how to sample what percentage of accounts are fake.
I would call it something besides a pyramid scheme if the people who got in at the bottom didn't then turn around and endlessly proselytize for crypto -- not because they think it's actually great, but because they can't take their money out unless some other poor sucker buys in. At the point where crypto bros are paying Matt Damon to say you're not a real man unless you buy their crypto, it's a pyramid scheme.
It doesn't matter how tiny. 9 billion in stock market trade by management will move the market both from the amount of sell orders and from the market reaction.
There is queueMicrotask (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/queueMicrot...) to queue onto the end of the current iteration and you can use an `await 0;` to cycle the event loop as well.
Took me 20 years to figure out I had an autoimmune condition.
Chronic fatigue and brain fog were the biggest symptoms.

LDN: low dose naltrexone has been a life changer so far. Even seems to help a little with ADHD. So far only side effect has been intense dreams. But that is fading. I was also finally able to get off pain meds thanks to it.

Plaquenil worked well for a few months but side effects were too much.

Tried Adderal and all its variations as I also have severe ADHD. energy wise, they were great. But they inflame all my nerves. Not worth it.

Diamox also helps with my energy level oddly enough. Two hours of being sleepy, 10 hours of improved energy.

AIP diet has been a big help. Closer I stick to it, the better I do.
What due diligence occurs when buying a public company? We already have access to the company’s financial filings.
Doesn't mean they end up cutting costs. That's generally to make sure to make sure they get a pliant executor loyal to them.
Wiki says his stake was worth 34 million at the time of the acquisition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin#PayPal

So I wonder what was going on there. Maybe some kind of vesting issue?
Elon already signed. There is literally no such thing as "putting it on hold." See Matt Levine's latest column, he can't even back out if it turns out there are more than 5% spam/fake accounts. [1] He's playing games because he's the richest man in the world and if you try to hold him accountable he will make your life hell. He's really shown his true colors these last few years, absolutely no respect for him anymore.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-13/elon-m...
I guarantee that's by design, also the references to hackers "hack the planet" on the device etc. It's a love letter portable device that's very reminiscent of the various badges that have been at Defcon and other hacking conferences over the past few years. This brings a whole new level of polish and finish. They did an awesome job.

Sadly though, I kick start a lot of stuff that doesn't end up being 50% of what's promised if delivered at all. I still kick start fun projects like this though as a gamble on seeing someones ideas take place. I think the big problem for most of them is the designer suddenly has "all this cash" and has no clue how to manage or spend appropriately, ends up allocating to things they don't need or straight up siphoning off for lifestyle changes (SEE DUNE CASE) and then stuff is never delivered.

Either way HACK THE PLANET! I hope to see all these dolphins at Defcon!
You are mistaken about the i3. Some friends had one and I joined them on several road trips. Driving it long distances is no different than any other car. You just stop and fill up the tank every few hours. The range extender pops on as needed to keep the battery from fully drawing down. It's important to remember it doesn't actually take that much horsepower to just keep a car putting along at reasonable speeds. Even economy engines are oversized compared to that due to the need for good low end torque in start/stop conditions. But a hybrid solves that the other way.
Resist the urge. Your smartphone is far more powerful.
No. If I have the money I buy it. If I don’t I save. And if by the time I have the money if I still want it then I get it otherwise I don’t buy it (I usually lose interest).
Wasn’t that the Soviet double ruble system? Whenever the Politburo wanted to find a mega project the money was wished into existence and things happened (just as it’s done today) yet it was illiquid and only usable in a sealed silo, separate from the normal exchange ruble.

Wonder how a similar mechanism would work today
> It doesn't need to run on hardware, as most Linux-based OSes run on hypervisors.

Virtualization hypervisors typically emulate hardware. They provide a "virtual machine." It may not be real hardware, but for most purposes the function and appearance is the same from within.
It seems that every day we are getting closer and closer to a 'tricorder'. I used to laugh at fictional devices that could detect/emit any frequency and communicate with anything. Not laughing now.

Pair something like this with a smartphone(specially those with ML cores) and things could get... interesting.
My point wasn’t to say DMV is ALWAYS inefficient but just that the DMV is a good litmus test for efficiency. Sounds like in your state, the DMV is efficient and therefore perhaps fiscal policy would be well-spent!
That's approximately the same performance hit the go compiler itself experienced switching from c to go.
There is also this, and it's one of the things that propped up Bitcoin at the beginning. A large chunk of the Chinese drug black market ran on bitcoin. In many ways the cryptocurrency boom was the 21st century's opium war.
I used this exact method a decade ago (thanks statistics 101) to estimate and got 10% with a minuscule margin of error. That was a decade ago though.
A more eloquent way of putting it :)

I agree!
Google Stands Up Exascale TPUv4 Pods on the Cloud
Baby formula supply shortage and oligopolistic interests
Yeah, cars are an investment in the sense that people need them to make money (hold down a job).
Whom do you believe has a greater capability to hold anything for a longer period of time: the individual, or the investment firm? And for holding for a short period, and thus having to deal with taxes: again, whom do you believe more capable of dealing with that?

Any regulation is an advantage to large over small, at the right level of large vs. small, since the burden of optimizing to win is more easily borne by the former. In some cases, it's just more obvious.
Except the Twitter board had almost no shares between them (Jack being the only exception). I recall reading that none of them even tweet, but that's neither here nor there.
People who currently are forced to commute daily with cars could be much safer doing so on a more robust train system. You wouldn’t get the same benefit from cheaper flights.
I wonder if this is at all related to today's news. How big of a bot problem is there and who knew?
For a different apocalypse poem, allow everything existing to be used, but the coming population collapse demands a full stack replacement. To preserve existing capabilities and progress, but supported by far fewer people.

We've had environments with far greater individual programmer productivity than is currently common. But while forth starts out nicely with simple systems, costs escalate unhappily with goal complexity. Similarly with smalltalk, lispms, prolog, haskell. The perennial "we'll easily do a full-stack rewrite in our wonderful X" efforts... haven't.

Past/current efforts avoid implausible goals, like LLVM-quality compilation has to become a one-person project. Or slather on viability constraints, like must run on M in time T, and be accessible to population P. Or "we don't know how to compile that leverage efficiently and consistently - that paper hasn't been written yet - so you can't have it".

But there are increasingly opportunities to do things differently now, if narrower goals demanded it. Community-wide compilation caches - "it ok that the type proof / bulk code translation / whatever sometimes takes days, it only needs to happen once". Compiler runs spinning up 10000 cloud instances. And so on.

What might it look like, to attempt not merely a bootstrap, but a subsuming breakaway?
Current price on your link is ~$100k not $140k. It was much more confusing to use the first site, but click through I found something that was also about $100k when you chose the budget options. Meanwhile, for all numbers that both Tesla and Mercedes list publicly the Model X has better numbers. For example, in horsepower and 0-60 the Tesla does better. For some numbers, the Tesla lists the number - like range - but the Mercedes doesn't.

Declaring my bias: I think this is because they are much worse in range. Now looking up the numbers: 340 mile range for Mercedes. 350 for the Tesla. I was wrong. Tesla was only better, not much better.

Clicking through to order takes several clicks for Mercedes. Along the way of the happy path toward immediate purchase an interstitial pops up and warns me that the price will be changed if I try to order because they don't have the supplies to service the order. Tesla by contrast just lets me order the car with a delivery date in January of next year.

To say your post is deeply misleading as to who is obviously the no-brainer in value for money is an understatement.
Was the new darling of the finance world. Affirm has fallen 80%, Zip/Sizzle has fallen 80%, Afterpay has fallen 60%, Klarna is reconsidering its IPO. This entire space has taken a well-deserved beating.
> I can't come to a firm judgement on him because I don't know how much of what we see is truly him

I say all we can judge someone is what they do. It's perfectly fine to judge Musk on his public persona. Unless you want to try to divine secret reasons for his public actions, but even that is judging him based on his public persona.

I'm not saying you need to naively believe what he says are his motivations. But his public persona is at least somewhat predictable.
that makes no sense at all
WD Touts 3D NAND That's 60% Faster, 50% Higher Capacity
It depends on risk. I lost my job and ended up tanking my credit score after several thousand in credit cards went to collection. Affirm offered me 29.99% APR for purchases.
With the genesis theme that ships with it there’s nothing that would be inherently incompatible with bootstrap if you threw it inside a container — provided you’re already using Vue.

Happy to hear if you’re having any issues! We have a very active and helpful discord community.
The only Qualcomm designed 64-bit mobile core so far was the Kyro core in the 820. They then assigned that team to server chips (Centriq) then sacked the whole team when they felt they needed to cut cash flow to stave off Avago/Broadcom. The "Kyro" cores from 835 on are rebadged/adjusted ARM cores.

IMO the Kyro/820 wasn't a major failure, it turned out a lot better than the 810 which had A53/A57 cores.

And then they decided they needed a mobile CPU team again and bought Nuvia for ~US$1 Billion.
Every system works better with honest and competent people. That’s my point!

Some systems are more resilient to dishonesty and incompetence than others. I suspect a mixed system is the most resilient. But we CAN change the behavior by choosing to reward competence and honesty by who we elect, who we hire, and who we do business with.
Possibly pixel local storage - I think this can be accessed with extended raster order groups and image blocks in metal.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/resource_fun...

E.g in their example in the link above for deferred rendering (figure 4) the multiple G buffers won't actually need to leave the on-chip tile buffer - unless there's a partial render before the final shading shader is run.
The central bank doesn't control policies like that though. They have scant few actual knobs to turn on their own without Congressional intervention.
Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century
He openly admitted to having (deprecated term) Asperger's syndrome on SNL.
In our household blackpillers are a running joke that isn't funny.

My son says that "people talk about incel terminology, such as 'x-pill' but it's really 4chan terminology... Thanks to the media, which only pays attention to mass shootings, people think it is 'incel terminology."

An ex-friend of my son is testament to the destruction wreaked by blackpill ideology, but you never hear about victims like him because he hasn't shot anybody (at least yet.)

This person quit talking to my son because my son is taller then him, turned down a chance to move into an fight club house filled with Polish neo-nazis to mooch off his parents, stole $1000 out of an envelope to buy illegal anabolic steroids (I couldn't get him to work out at the gym though...) About the only good thing that happened was he dropped out of Wheat Waffle's cult because he (being Chinese) couldn't stand to hang out with Indians.

It's as bad as Scientology or People's Temple.
> Why not just put it into my own savings account and at least get interest on it?

Because if it's immediately available in a savings account, the vast majority of people are much more likely to spend it on something else. The appeal of layaway is the willpower enforcement - worth the price of whatever pocket change you're likely to get in savings-account interest.
For me, the point of layaway is that I want something enough to commit to paying for it in advance a little at a time. A savings accounts is fungible; it isn't necessarily dedicated to anything and subject to me raiding it if I need to cover an unexpected expense.

Incidentally, where do you live that the interest on a mere savings account is worthwhile on a timescale of years rather than decades or centuries? Or am I taking "savings account" too literally when you mean things like certificates of deposit or money-market accounts?
The DMV outsourced it's service in some areas. Service improved. So it's possible to benefit from the benefits of public spending and private efficiencies. It's a pretty common method for governments to spend money.
I don't know, I think decentralization will exacerbate the problem of bad faith actors because you can't do bulk moderation anymore.

If a million people are repeating similar permutations of a 50 Cent Army script on Twitter or Facebook you can use string-distance algorithms to find them and down-mod them at once. If you split those million people up into the fediverse it is significantly more complicated, which reduces the speed you can respond with... and you magnify the efficiency of lying... the “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots“ problem.
I grew up lower middle class in the 80s. We got layaway to lock in a sale price and make sure the product is still available.