skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not how we build cities; modern cities have urban planning departments, traffic engineers, zoning etc.

Of course, completely rational city planning is a failure and the only ones people like were built before urban planners and zoning were invented. So far this hasn’t stopped them.
Because it is wasteful by design and gets more wasteful as it scales. Transaction fees are onerous and transactions themselves are excruciatingly slow. Then the deflationary nature of cryptocurrencies makes them terrible currencies. It makes more economic sense to hold them than spend them.

The rare events where their use doesn't involve crime are overwhelmed by the criminal uses.
Hey thanks for the note -- that's a good confounding factor I didn't take into account.

> Based on Custom Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8175M series processors running at 2.5 GHz, the M5 instances are designed for highly demanding workloads and will deliver 14% better price/performance than the M4 instances on a per-core basis.

If we take AWS at their word here, all other things equal 30% is a pretty decent result (with absolutely no tuning) -- I'll update the post with this caveat!

All together though, this does still contribute to the point that Nitro is well worth the money.
Zcash is well designed but in practice I have yet to see any services accept it but many that accept monero.
Upvoted for the footnote.
Where I live in the US we're not permitted to buy these with cash. We don't have to provide any identifying information to activate but we cannot legally purchase them without that link to the original card purchase.
Now that is fun.
Eastern Europeans are the only towards whom racism is politically correct
Phrased in a more useful way: It seems likely that the type of person who tends to act in long term interest including getting an education, following basic health advice and so on, also tends to score higher on IQ tests.
If it really is, then there is no problem at all.

The problem is: how do we trust that this report is true?
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Most actually do not require this. I buy visa gift cards with cash all the time from gas stations etc and spend them anywhere that does not take cash with no activation.
Of course, propaganda is a natural and necessary part of war and what we are reading is mostly pro-Ukrainian propaganda. Stories that are meant to raise morale. You should always take war news with a pinch of salt.
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I've never owned crypto but I can see the appeal for privacy's sake. Even going to the market can mean sacrificing privacy – retailers are constant abusers of personal data.

Did you park at the market? Oops, they read all license plates to build a marketing profile.[0][1]

See an ad online, and then later went into the store? Oops, Google picked up on that and told the retailer.[2]

Did you leave your face uncovered when you went into the market? Oops, they use facial recognition.[3]

[0] https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/06/who_else_is_tracking_y...

[1] https://drndata.com/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20170523182250/https://www.washi...

[3] https://www.axios.com/2021/07/19/facial-recognition-retail-s...
> The thymus of humans self atrophy in order to kill the elderly

[citation needed]
It details how and why land is price inelastic, and how elasticity is defined.

Economically, ag and urban land behave similarly. To wit: they're not making it any more. The supply is price-inelastic.

Your understanding is incorrect.
> Obviously the point is, arbitrary 'unbiased measurements' can be cherry-picked to get whatever discriminatory result a bigot wishes.

And just as easily, constructive means of measurement can be attacked as "biased" simply because the outcomes aren't what you want.
The analytical side of me doesn't understand how scores on a test that baselines the average to X (in the case of IQ, it is baseline of 100), then distributes them around that baseline on a normal distribution curve can go down over time.

The article didn't link data so I can't dig in further.

https://personalityanalysistest.com/iq-score/what-is-the-sta...
Airplane code certainly is put through “formal verification”, but also “putting it through formal verification” is not a magic spell that removes bugs from a program. It only proves it does what is in the spec.

It seems like the word “formal” impresses people too much.
Brawndo is the environmental factor at play.
for who?

Is the value that Google gets from one user having ads really that high?

Youtube Premium is only ~$10/month, does Google really make that much more with ads?
> while reality russia is fighting a Ukrainian force that is 2~3 times the size of the Russians fighting forces.

This is not the reality though. At the start of the war at least, Russian troops count exceeded Ukrainian ones by a factor of 2 if not more.

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+vs+ukraine+troops+cou...
You are thinking of reloadable ones. Non-reloadable visa gift cards can be purchased with cash at any corner store at values up to $500 each and require no identification.
Lots of other things have changed in the economy since 1971. For big one example, see the huge decrease in unions.
Not everyone can start a successful business. When you start you have your idea and yourself, and as the saying goes ideas are cheap.

So I think that the founder is key, indeed, and whether VCs are involved is not relevant. But of course this means that VCs will judge the founder, not just the business plan.
I started my company in 2009. It was great to have lots of great people able & willing to work for cheap because I could barely afford to pay anything. It worked out well.
I was really disappointed that it was really easy to turn-off Luna blockchain .
I was also disappointed when a hacker penetrated 5/9 Axie Infinity Servers.
Both of these incidences outline that nobody has build a fast, secure, and decentralized solution yet. Maybe Cardano is the closest.
The article claims NHS recommends to start weaning at 6 months because of anemia but the NHS site is quite different and more inline with what I have heard for the last 5 years as a parent:

“Breast milk or first infant formula should be their main drink during the first year, you can continue breastfeeding for as long as you both want. Remember your baby’s tummy is tiny and fills up quickly – so offer milk feeds after solids.”

https://www.nhs.uk/start4life/weaning/what-to-feed-your-baby...

I feel the posted article does a disservice to parents who are overwhelmed with opinions that lack nuance and context around infant diet and health. The NHS website on the other hand does a good job showing the spectrum of options for introducing foods and changing milk/formula ratios.
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It's indeed a common technique, not my original idea. SCTP seems to be from 2000, but good old tcp also already does this with its sequence numbers (albeit 32-bit, so while it can't be relied on fully it does prevent amplification specifically).
> the Russian chew through the EU NATO best regional armies as if it's just a sweaty warming up.

Russians are fighting NATO troops now? You have a source for that?

edit: I know I shouldn't be engaging in this as refuting nonsense like this takes more effort than creating it.
This is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375924
ask for donations.

Make good work, people will pay to support it. Works for NPR.
> Say there's an article that teaches you how to build a custom embedded Linux, cross compile software to it, c internals, serial debugging in qemu with gdb/gdbserver, how to write a streaming parser in Haskell for Linux kernel calls, how to run Linux in the browser and use it from JavaScript etc. (all in the same article, with a common goal for all tasks). The article would come with a video walkthrough as well.

You're describing a course, not an article. People do pay for courses. I don't think that many people will pay for an article that can be read in a few minutes.
Yes it is, transition systems are based on state and flowcharts are stateless but can easily be made statefull. I'm not a PhD but here is a PhD that states this although I don't agree with all of his conclusions. http://www.stateworks.com/technology/TN9-Flowchart-is-not-St...

That's the point to asynchronous flowchart programming. Everything is event driven unless timing is specifically specified on the flowchart and synchronization takes place on the flowchart. Flowcharts do not represent the flow of time they represent the flow of events. Timing closure then becomes ensuring that every atomic path on every flowchart meets a system throughput requirement. The flowcharts are partially ordered according to an algorithm that follows the flowchart lines and therefore ensures that these partial orders (atomic path's) are pipelined.
Not really any new info there for anybody who has followed basic economic news but still I would take these sorts of predictions much more seriously if he offered some kind of proof that he's putting his money where his mouth is. If he thinks the dollar will collapse, he could post a proof that he's got some crypto wallet with his net worth in it or some S&P500 puts, whatever. Otherwise, it's just more empty Twitter chatter.
A large number of enlistment offices set on fire means that there is some resistance against war, even on the province
Imagine focusing on a minor typo as the main premise of your argument. How sad
Opt-in privacy has some serious flaws, not to mention the trusted setup that IMO makes it untrustworthy as a currency.
> There are also genetic factors.

This assumption is challenged by e.g. this study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
> This whole “what matters is the founder” idea really discourages me. It’s such a VC perspective. The VC has a flock of people they pick from to invest in and if your traits doesn’t fit the necessary requirements you shouldn’t start a startup.

In an uncharitable interpretation, this is tech/VC returning to the mean -- this is the "good ol' boys club" (the sex of the person in particular is not important) that generally people talk about, and it's how society works most of the time. VC is not charity, they are incentivized to filter, and they do. That does not necessarily mean it's the same discriminatory environment but that depends on the person doing the searching and their ethics/principles/choices.

That said, YC is just about the antithesis of the aforementioned phenomenon -- they were one of if not the first to significantly drop the barriers to accessing VC. They took their program abroad and lowered barriers to entry for smaller international economies abroad. They've upped the amount given to founders and are running hot trying to accommodate huge incoming batches. They make founder school and other resources available absolutely free. YC's made it a breeze to work at any of their companies and get on the hundreds/thousands of rocketships they launch every year, VISA difficulties aside (there was also some mention of them working on a VISA "fast track"-ish path or something).

> It’s just that it feels like if you don’t have the grit etc necessary you’re just out of luck and out of this club and it’s not really something you can work on. (After all if it was something you could improve then it could be taught but PG et al seems to think - and I think they’re right - that it’s an innate thing.)

This is an extremely reasonable thing to filter for -- judging startup ideas is hard/impossible, and with lots of reflection it seems that grit is one of the things that sets founders apart (clearly ideas don't, execution usually will but maybe sometimes doesn't, etc). It makes sense for all VCs to filter for these qualities.

Now where I do agree is that people who can game the system -- but maybe grit is hard to fake. At some point you end up just... acquiring grit, because the situation is hard.

Grit and perseverance can definitely be learned. What it takes to embed it in yourself and motivations may vary from person to person, but it can definitely be acquired most of the time, I think.

[EDIT] - forgot about free founder school and stuff on YT
A 10watt solar panel and a step-down module that can charge a powerbank is the simplest, cheapest, most portable option I can think of.
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The people who would pay for premium are also the among the most desireable targets for ads because they have disposable income.
You’re right!

I advise my direct reports and people new to work that you should seriously interview every six months.

As a manager, the one-to-ones we have when my people are interviewing are much more goal oriented and concrete, and give me actionable information to help them get more out of their career.

That typically helps them, our team and our shared mission. Sometimes it leads to departures, but they and I are conscious about why - we can’t always give them the work or the opportunities that they are seeking. Sometimes it’s remuneration; it’s either a useful datapoint which can be matched and used for salary adjustments through our org, or a unicorn offer which we can’t match in cash, but which offers a discussion about growth and maybe their own priorities.

In nearly all cases it’s just a huge win.
Even in WWI and WWII, generals getting killed in combat was unusual.
No but the value they extraxt from millions of advertisers is much higher.
Both of these are no longer a thing with NU5 / Halo 2
If it wasn't for the "potty police" banning drugs what use would people have for cryptocurrency? But the point is people have a use for it... When the author says "should die in a fire" he really means poor people drug users. The problem in his eyes is the drug users are now rich from cryptocurrency.
How about TIPS?

> TIPS principal is adjusted by changes in the consumer price index, either up or down. The interest rate is determined at issue.

https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-tips-to-i-bonds-2388668

Any good?
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That doesn't make IQ a good proxy. There are a dozen proxy values just as good as or better than IQ.

IQ is unscientific nonsense from the 60s that that been overstudied for cultural reasons.

Any time you read it in an article you can substitute it for "socioeconomic reasons". Which is just as unclear but at least it is less of a smokescreen to cast doubt on causality.
>help me make it die in a fire

I'm rather mistrustful of people that are this forthy about being against a new technology. If it really is that devoid of merit it'll die on its own.

I also think it is a rather fundamental failure to see the big picture.

Not efficient? Well neither was the Ford model T. Newer generations are getting better.

Similarly somehow existing systems seem to get a free pass for things that are consider fatal flaws for crypto. Criminal enterprise? What do you think all the drug trade and sundry criminals use? Seashells? No USD. Systemic risk? Fed is printing trillions and history is littered with financial crises. Humans have managed to make everything from CDOs to tulips crash. Its not unique to crypto.

Personally I think crypto is a 50/50 chance of working long term. The people certain it'll be a disaster seem just as silly as those certain it'll take over the world.
While zk-SNARKs is a cool piece of technology, their source of funding[1] doesn't inspire confidence.

In addition to that, even the few people people who do use Zcash, don't use it's privacy features. 99% of their transactions aren't private and are fully traceable [2]. Why would you want your transactions to stand out?

[1] http://zerocash-project.org/about_us
[2] https://news.bitcoin.com/not-so-private-99-of-zcash-and-dash...
Yeah, pick your medium faction :)

Sun/Solaris machines used to have a machine specific MAC address. Then DHCP, bootp etc would give it the same IP independent of interface. Wonder what would happen in a current *BSD/Linux system if you gave switched the MAC address over.
The article linked the study though: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
The average person realistically doesn't care. You can just use the desktop app and switch a toggle that turns off the nsfw ban which is what Apple requires for apps. Discord and similar IM apps have become small scale social hubs for the world.
> stable coins

Are not a real cryptocurrency.

> pump and dump

Is absolutely a regular circumstance. Last what I remember is sawn wood situation on the very early 2022, afaik it is worldwide. I do not recommend you to buy right now a sawn wood from big stores before researching a market in your location, because some of big stores have been dumped after buying some big amounts of sawn wood on huge prices, and their warehouses are still full of this trade offer.

> insider information. Insiders on exchanges buying up coins they know are going to be listed.

All of that coins usually does something opposite to skyrocketing very soon after early birds have received a way to short their tokens (I do not have any counter-example).

> proof of work of course is the key enabler as it allows those who are running things to hide their identity

Some entities just don't have an identity, like an artificial intelligence. What if I want my pet AI to buy or change hosting without absolutely any of my participation or even knowing? (it is not my funds, the pet has earned it without my participation as well).
After a quick browse of the Tax Jar website I got the solid impression that they were US only. I saw mention of 'sales tax' but nothing about VAT, GST, HST, etc. No mention of international or shipping. And their pricing page which I normally find to be useful for this type of thing was actually totally confusing to me.

The one thing on the pricing page that jumped out at me was, "AI-driven product taxability recommendations"

AI recommendations and dealing with the tax authorities doesn't really seem like a sound choice.
I am not aware of any states where you cannot buy non-reloadable visa gift cards with cash at values up to $500. Reloadable ones are the ones that often require KYC.

I do this all the time in California and have in other states as well.

If you are sure your state bans non-reloadable visa gift card purchases with cash I would love to find out what state to research what is going on there.
Most ships sink in relatively shallow water. Broadcasters may fail, especially in the conditions that sink ships. In that case, finding a ship is easier than finding a floating box. It also simplifies the design a lot.
I'm surprised they don't sell some kind of reciprocating dynamo-type thing for hikers to strap to their knee to charge while walking.
What? Assessing the value of land is a much simpler problem than processing income taxes or sales taxes or VAT.
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Sure, it's actually been a long journey since PHP.

I switched from PHP to Node about 11 years ago. I was probably one of the first 100 Node.js developers. My biggest contribution there was creating https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio.

Go spoils me because it "just works". The best way I can explain it is when I'm stuck on something in Go, it's almost always my bad, not something that Go is doing poorly. This is in contrast to the Node.js ecosystem where it feels like half of the problems I run into shouldn't be my responsibility.

I strongly relate to this post by Kevin Burke: https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/one-year-of-node-js/. A lot has improved since this was written. We're finally over the ES Module vs CommonJS hump, Typescript has become the defacto standard, Babel is less used now and Webpack is effectively abstracted away. I still run into way too many problems with the ecosystem and the transition to Rust will make the ecosystem more complicated, not less.

My transition from Node.js to Go happened because I was working solo on https://standupjack.com/ and I kept running into issues with the message broker. It was using the most popular RabbitMQ client for Node, yet it was still super flaky.

About 6 years ago, I was chatting with TJ Holowaychuk and he kept singing Go's praises. One holiday I decided to rewrite just the message broker in Go. I got it into production in 3 days and didn't have anymore problems with it. That set me on the Go journey :)
Although ZCash is arguably built on better fundamentals (zk-SNARKs vs RingCT), ZCash's history is slightly more fraught than Monero's and that's enough to keep many people in the XMR camp.
that seems like a logical contradiction.

Money made with ads = how much advertisers pay

Money made with ads per user = how much advertisers pay / number of users.

If they average to... $10/user, then it's viable.
I understand this privacy argument - but I'm wondering what the practical downside is of this "spying"?

I've been using credit cards online for decades and I am yet to encounter anything negative from doing so. I get that my credit card provider knows that I'm buying £X of goods from merchant Y. But unless that merchant is very specific, the card company doesn't know what I've bought.

And, if it did... so what? Perhaps I'm naive, but even if I was hiding (for example) my sexuality - what's the CC company going to do? Try to upsell me a rainbow themed card?

I try to take my privacy seriously, and I don't particularly want my interactions monitored and mined. But what are the actual, non-theoretical problems that this causes?
Baden-Württemberg is adopting an LVT in Germany. It is just a matter of time until the co2 dividend is implemented.
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The most of obvious way would be to use the same test as previously and just compare the scores.
> Personally I think crypto is a 50/50 chance of working long term.

Exactly as a chance of meeting a dinosaur on your street today? What a coincidence.
20 years ago you would have understood! ;-)
- render.com

- fly.dev

I'm sure there's others, these are just the ones I happen to remember at the moment.