skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have strong feelings about prop 13, but what does it limit here? It's not like it's sane to arbitrarily raise property taxes during a recession (make housing even less affordable at the moment people have less money to spend). Seems like prop 13 or not, the solution is the one you identified in your last paragraph: maintain a buffer that can't be touched until a recession is declared (for some reasonable, objective definition of "recession").
Intermittency requires the use of dispatchable energy sources. This can be delivered through hydroelectric power, for those regions that have hydroelectric potential. But for those that don't have the right geography for hydroelectricity, fossil fuels are the only dispatchable source.

Energy storage could theoretically avoid the need for alternative energy sources during periods of non production. But storage solutions capable of being deployed at relevant scales only exist in white papers, as has been explained to you numerous times before.
There are other benefits to this approach too. You'll visibly age slower. I've yet to hear anyone say that your skin has to absorb vitamin D from your face or hands for it to be effective.
Many motorists do suffer head injuries in crashes.
Buffett indicator is meaningless at this point. The S&P500 makes about 30% of their revenue outside the US.
Isn’t the Netherlands very flat? I would probably feel safe without a helmet if it weren’t for the hills. My usual ten minute ride has an elevation difference of 35 m.
There is only so much you can do, or will do.

The things that you're not going to be able to do will be eliminated from your list regardless of your choice(s). The question is whether you do this deliberately or incidentally with time.

David Allen's Getting Things Done isn't a perfect system, and has flaws. That said, it's quite good, and is better than virtually anything else I've seen. I strongly recommend it.

In an era of information abundance, what is limited is what information consumes: attention. (Thank Herbert Simon for that observation.)

The other thing information consumes is time, and no matter how much technology improves, you have only 24 hours, 14,440 minutes, and 86,400 seconds in a day.

Ultimately, where information exceeds capacity to process it, what is needed is fast, cheap, and guilt-free disposal. Elminiating obligations without having to think about it, and without regret.

There are 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,765 hours in a year (roughly 2,000 of those are spent at work, sleep, and everything else, respectively).

An 85 year lifespan is roughly 1,000 months, 4,500 weeks, 31,000 days, 750,000 hours.

Think of the things that you do once a week, or once a month. Do you read a book a week? You'll read at most 4,500 in your lifetime. If you've stacked up more than 4,500 books, either you're going to need to pick up the pace ... or you're going to leave most of them unread. Perhaps you'll only read a few sections of each. If not books, than games, videos, movies, articles, etc.

My suggestion is either to consciously select for quality, or to extract the most you can from what you do gain access to. Preferably some mix of both.

Few of the most excellent works of all of human history were written in the past 24 hours. FOMO is an exceedingly misleading anxiety.

Your time here is limited.

Yes, you need to cut back.

If you have a partner or someone you trust to help you with this, include them.

Figure out your goals, what's important to you, what's necessary (regardless of whether you like it or not). Count that in.

Eliminate as much of your current committments as possible. If you can't do so by a rational method:

- Elminiate by classes of accounts: entertainment, little used, media, etc.

- Eliminate by least used.

- Eliminate at random.

- Cut everything. Re-add those which turn out to have been useful.

The last approach is drastic, but surprisingly effective.

Yes, cut your discretionary spending. While you're at it, see if you can increase your income as well. Times may be tightening, but it has been a competitive labour market.

I'd suggest limiting additional storage until you can do better with what you have. Though the notion of ever-additional storage and never deleting anything is an information technology vision that seems increasiongly likely.
there’s already beeline that does this

https://www.beelinereader.com/
According to Wikipedia:

> The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.4 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2021. If California were a sovereign nation (2021), it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy, ahead of India and behind Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California
Everyone was looking, and it was well known that it was best in-class; two random examples:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/4

https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/912047023871860737
It starts with one flag. A couple of years later, developments you didn't forecast have led you to adding two more flags, and now you suddenly see you need seven more and wish you'd used an enum.

This happens. It's not code smell. It's failure to forecast. An enum for one flag can be silly. Five flags instead of an enum is also silly. The latter doesn't just happen because the programmer didn't know about enums -- it happens organically over time.
I grew up in a place where gun ownership was the norm, and I have had a gun pulled on me in anger following a mutual fault car accident. People fuck up and get mad, confrontation happens. It is better for everyone if having firearms at hand is not the norm.

Aside from that I also caught a stray bullet in the hand when I was 15. I was in the woods, it was hunting season, I should have known better, etc etc. Hundreds of miles of beautiful nature that it was my fault I was injured while exploring.

The rural american attitude towards guns is indefensible. It just is. I'm as much a product of that culture as anyone, and in some ways as country as they come. But the problem isn't "crazy people" it is the guns.
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I'm sure that there are people that genuinly create happines from interacting with and having children. Just like there are people that takes pleasure in hurting themselves.
The real tragedy is You cannot know which one are You until is too late.
I think maybe you're talking about something else, or believe that I am, or I'm misunderstanding you because it feels like you're trying to tell me that my _imagination_ is a parlour trick. Ive been on the internet for a long time and this is the first time that has ever happened.

I value the time you put into explaining your position, however I dont think creative thought exercises like trying to explain why wall street is full of a-holes using evoluton is a parlour trick. Because there's no trick. It's just a thought. On a discussion forum. Where people discuss things.
Custom Android ROMs exist for you and me.

Someone who lives across the backyard from me was social-engineered out of several months' salary. Almost their complete savings. It was a nasty story, and no, the money hasn't been returned.

If a smartphone vendor wants to give a wide audience access to apps and the net, then the vendor has to cater to people like that neighbour. And that, in turn, means that it must be very, very, very difficult to social-engineer that neighbour into granting another app access to the data in the banking app. To my mind, protecting most people's savings is much more important than catering to people like you and me. You may disagree.
Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents'
For Germany's risk, the the price doesn't make a big differencem, should Russia decide to cut off the supply.

As long as the supply is NOT cut off, it matters quite a lot what Germany is paying for it. If the choice (for a set period of energy supply) is to pay either 100 billion euros for natural gas, or 20 billion euroes for uranium, the difference is 80 billion euroes less that Russia could spend to keep their war machine running. That's as much as their peacetime yearly military budget.

As for Russia's enrichment capacity, that is something any advanced country could set up, just as several countries have deposites they could start mining. Ones mining and enrichment has started, it could be kept running for as long as needed.

For natural gas, on the other hand, there are fewer good sources. By far the cheapest source is from wherever it can be transported in pipes. Other countries can convert their gas to LNG for transport to Germany, but that also requires expansion of LNG facilities in both ends, and perhaps construction of more LNG ships.

I don't know which take longer, between LNG from other sources or uranium from other sources.

And even when the transfer has been made, natural gas is a more limited resource than uranium, so even if it is purchased from, say, Saudi Arabia, the global supply and demand situation isn't changed much, so Russia will still be able to find buyers for their gas. (For instance, Germany may start to buy up gas that would otherwise be exported to China. If so, China can just buy from Russia.)

This doesn't even start to go into having dependencies on fundamentalist islamic monarchies in the middle east. I would think it would be preferrable for Germany to import their energy from Canada and Australia, countries they that share most of Germany's values.

Finally, with nuclear there is always the option of setting up strategic fuel reserves. This would be analogous to strategic oil reserves, except with massively lower storage costs. Nuclear fuel is stable for 100s of years, and so dense that reserves able to last a few years could probably be fit in a single warehouse (or several small ones):

[1] http://lnsp.mit.edu/strategic-fuel-reserves
the system can and does favour those by social class, connections, race, gender. discrimination in financial and lending services is a well documented issue. the fact that the banking system “imposes limits and barriers until you reach a certain social class” is not a point in favour of the banking system.

most private clients are getting cushy services such as better lending and interest rates, faster payment times, better wealth management services.

but I digress. the banks are useful obviously, despite their flaws, and in the EU and UK the banks tend to be some of the best in the world. this is not to say banks as a whole are useless, but banking systems on average across the globe have many aspects that fall short of our ideals. crypto does not fill all of those, and has plenty of flaws and issues as well, but it does excel in certain areas and at the very least provide a competition that forces us to more closely consider the pitfalls of our typical financial structures.
‘He said he feels Mayweather and the other promoters “took their payouts and moved on while everybody who scraped by to invest in their futures got robbed.”’

Astounding. This moron borrowed $12k without the capacity to repay it and then spent it on a get rich quick scheme where he would buy a picture of a monkey and sell it to someone even stupider based on a youtube recommendation. It is really hard for me to feel any empathy at all here.
I don't see a claim that it was.
I wonder -- could CRC32X be something that would also, specifically, not as interesting for Apple? They are mostly optimizing for desktop workloads. I wonder if worrying about checksuming, especially maximizing the throughput of checksum operations, is more of a server thing. (Like we have to checksum when we download things on desktop, but that's a one-off, and I guess things get checksummed in the filesystem, but even the nice NVME drives are pretty slow from the CPUs point of view).
> to filter out the riffraff who can’t afford larger homes.

When I was poor, I just wanted a home I could afford in a safe neighborhood. Now that I have money, I just want poor people to be homeless.

/mockery
> it's literally just impossible to even apply the problem to the system

if you can't see why this is completely false, I don't think it is of any use to argue further.

You should also prove me that in practice it never happened, because it's impossible.

> We already have that problem.

No, we don't.

Our system is run by politicians, influencers and politicians are different jobs, if you think Obama, Bush , even Trump, could be replaced by Shane Dawson, you're delusional.

Short lesson about the difference: politicians have to reach consensus,often with people with very different ideas, influencers value only their own personal popularity and would do anything to increase it.
Also: politics is strictly regulated, influencers are not.
There's a reason why proponents of liquid democracy are against public funding of free press and politics: that way they only have to buy influencers and not much harder to convince politicians.

Putin is financing many influencers and very few politicians.

He knows!
A hybrid approach where you could "sketch" with SolveSpace, but then generate OpenSCAD style code that you could later edit would be amazing.

The main advantage of OpenSCAD is that it doesn't "blow up" when you change a variable to be out of some range where things work. In OpenSCAD, you can put it back if it does cause a problem.

Changing a dimension in SolveSpace sometimes throws off the whole design. SolveSpace's precision, constraints, and great keyboard user interface make it a fun program to design parts in. It is among the best open source tools out there.
... of "continuations", not "continuation":

Reynolds, John C. “The Discoveries of Continuations.” LISP and Symbolic Computation 6, no. 3–4 (1993): 233–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019459.

--

Reynolds 1993 has the concept of continuations as firmly part of the discourse by 1973, having been rediscovered in a few different contexts in 1970-71 after van Wijngaarden’s 1964 initial description of the idea. -- https://eighty-twenty.org/2016/10/18/actors-hopl
Coca-Cola Introducing Bottles with Caps That Stay Attached
Of course it’s suspicious. A floating fiat based system is a great tool to enslave the global population. Backing a currency by gold erodes this tool by constraining the ability to grow and manage debt
What am I misunderstanding/miscalculating? The US uses ~4000 billion kilowatt-hours [1] and these $1 Billion reactors produce 8GW. 8GW is 8 million kilowatt-hours. 4,000,000 MKWh / 8 MKWh = 500,000 reactors. To provide 20% of electricity we need 100,000 of these reactors at a cost of $100 Trillion? A quick google says:

> One hundred trillion dollars. That’s the total net worth of all Americans in 2017*.

[1] In 2021, net generation of electricity from utility-scale generators in the United States was about 4,116 billion kilowatthours (kWh) (or about 4.12 trillion kWh). https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
I feel like people wouldn't buy as much liquids (soda etc.) without a shopping cart. Tea, coffee, cocoa powder are all small and light in comparison, and milk was delivered.
Anecdotally I've never seen anyone who has acne and a tan.
I don’t think this addresses the differences in the way they spread

Covid is spread almost my exclusively by the ultrafine <2.5 micron PM, which is produced in great quantities by actively infected with high viral loads.you are basically breathing covid air. Measles does this as well.

While influenza can be found in fine aerosolized mist, it is mostly spread by the larger droplets. The virus also survives In the wild for a while, so anything coated with influenza expectorant that gets touched becomes a disease vector. Everyone eventually rubs their nose or their eyes, or worse, gets eaten. This is not how covid Spreads.

Funny that they put influenza containments in place, called it the science, and had little impact on transmission. The sars researchers from 2006 already knew this.
> Researchers getting closer to a “universal” flu vaccine

They shall get closer to a flu vaccine. A lot of people got scammed to take the flu shot and then developed a severe flu. And if you look at the datasheeet of the european vaccine you see that is is based on an Asian strain.
Do you consider the above to be beliefs or knowledge?

Do you think being paid causes people to automatically make such important distinctions, consistently and without error?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
You could turn that on its head. Had Germany created uranium stockpiles in 2014, enough to last, say, 5 years, they would not be vulnerable to this tactic in the first place.
Which means it ends up in the landfill.

I wish there were more repair cafes that might takebin items like that.
That is a pretty old paper if they made the switch before MongoDB 4.0 was introduced. 4.0 was released in 2018. One from the archives.
Well he's a dermatologist. His bias is towards fighting skin cancer. He looks at it through the lens of somebody who regularly deals with people who are dying from melanoma.

He's tasked with fighting a battle, not winning a war.

As an anecdotal aside, I always read about people who treat cancers as being more militant in their beliefs, but they're also dealt with tough hands.
Right, it’s saying that race matters in this context because sun exposure skin cancer is rare in African Americans. The article is trying to make an argument that the American Academy of Dermatology needs to reconsider the opinion in your first quote.

Your original comment was effectively ‘why does everything have to be about race?’ and it matters in this context.
Completely agree. I'm hoping to one day see Jena [0] compiled to a native image [1]. Having a persistent triple store with transactions, and an inference api in owl/rdfs/shacl with a prolog-like "logic programming engine", running in-process like SQLite, would be awesome.

[0] https://jena.apache.org/

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/
That would be called implicit structural coupling for the benefit of reducing syntactic boilerplate. And as you note, sometimes it can be a good trade.

Much like functions that have to be called in a specific order are called "temporarily coupled"
https://archive.ph/6Kbgt
If you have a good enough password, you cannot be made to do unlock anything so long as your keys remain in your head, in contrast to what randall munroe believes https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

The alternative is that the manufacturer holds control over your device, and when the government wants to get in, you're none the wiser.
This is one of the downsides of having the state budget be so heavily dependent on a highly progressive income tax. Incomes at the top of the income distribution are relatively volatile, so boom-bust cycles in the broader economy have an outsized impact on state finances. (The top 1% of income earners pay about half of California's income taxes.) Unfortunately in a recession, state income falls right when services are needed the most. This hasn't led to any problems in most voters' memories since the last recession was now 14 years ago. But it has always just been a matter of time.

Any more stable alternatives aren't really political feasible in California. If anything, the political appetite in the state is to continue to increase taxes at the upper end of the income distribution. Income taxes at the middle and lower end are already high enough that voters probably wouldn't go for increasing their own tax rates. (Same with sales taxes.) Increasing the proportion of taxes that come from property taxes would probably provide a more stable revenue stream for the state, but would in effect require Prop 13 to be repealed, which is also a non-starter.

The state rainy day fund is meant to help counteract against this, but the fund essentially has a cap due to the Gann Limit, which limits its utility. The Gann Limit in general requires the state to return revenues in excess of a certain amount back to taxpayers. The way the political winds are shifting, the Gann Limit will probably be repealed in the next decade or so, though whether or not those extra funds will make it into the rainy day fund is unclear.
The obvious solution is to require passengers to wear helmets, as well as the drivers. But this brings us to the core of the endless helmet debate, which is that lots of people are deeply repulsed by wearing a goofy ass helmet and getting nasty helmet hair while out on the town. And the data shows that if you require helmets, lots of people stop cycling — in this case, people would stop using bike taxis.
I really think it’s insulated especially compared to the housing market collapse. This is because most banks will not take your crypto as 1:1 collateral whereas housing was perceived to be nearly risk-free. A big difference. I am not saying we are not in an asset bubble. But it would be a mistake to draw simplistic comparisons.
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I’ve found that, no, they aren’t.

The ratio of this content on the DHT is so incredibly low you’re very unlikely to pull it. I never have, and I’ve resolved a metric tonne of random torrent hashes.

You do find content labeled as such - but it’s either password protected rars (I suspect the password is to remove plausible deniability? Idk what’s inside these rars, I obviously don’t have the password and I immediately shred them when they do fall out of the roulette wheel - I’m not interested in trying to break into them) or a honeypot with a government agency video advertising a support hotline. I’ve noticed a government in LatAm has a lot of honeypot content on the public BitTorrent DHT. It’s a guy sitting at a desk in front of the state flag advertising an anonymous support hotline.

I have, however found some ethically questionable things. Dumps of credit card info, sus military schematics written in an Eastern European language, etc.

Ethics aside - if you live in the United States, more than 90% of what falls out of the Roulette Wheel is going to be strictly illegal because of copyright law. Downloading random hashes from the DHT is not something I’d suggest doing from a computer that can easily be traced back to your identity. I summarize this in the README of Taboo: https://github.com/retrohacker/taboo
Not making a statement on what the true facts are, but I don't see an a priori contradiction between these two statements. People who are rich have wealth, and are therefore less reliant on their transient income. But income taxes target income, not wealth.
Nah, the raison d'être of the project (like anything cryptocurrency related) is earning the creators tons of money. Scamming a whole bunch of cryptocurrency users by selling them tokens, and then absconding with the assets they’re supposedly backed by would be a highly effective way to do that
> FTA: "it was not feasible to determine personal exposures to UV radiation and temperature"

Sadly no current consumer devices exist on market that can track these two numbers. The Microsoft Band used to have both needed sensors, but AFAIK no one else has tried to widely release a consumer product with a UV exposure sensor on it.

FWIW that sensor was a major hassle, took up a lot of space, and finding a plastic cover for it that didn't also block UV was super hard.
This article is from 3 years ago, and talks about how there are upcoming studies that will give us more information. Is there a good summary of what we currently know?