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I think using the minority argument here actually doesn’t fill the point you think it does in this specific context, explicitly because America has historically enslaved and criminalized ethnic minorities. Practices like redlining, which is the intentional withholding of economic benefits from certain geographic populations where minorities are located, as well as historically destroying minority communities through lynch mobs as well as eminent domain to build highways, have directly made minority communities harder to avoid poverty. Additionally, America has a problem with not doling out punishments equally- minorities are put into prison earlier, for longer, for lesser crimes.
It sounds like it's not really a "crystal" as such. I wonder if the person who came up with this term was a scifi fan. It sounds like the kind of thing that would be in Dr Who or Star Trek.
I agree with you about the first paragraph. Do you think we need more Climate skeptics especially when there is a severe lack of them, and when there is an excessive dogmatism – i.e., you cannot challenge the status quo with the best of intentions and using the same materials/sources, there is a cultural pressure to conform and there is a dire need for strong arming climate catastrophy and apocolyptic motifs?

I hope we can find common ground that when there is 100% dogmatism and 0% skepticism, it is not science anymore. It is like the medieval church.

I take this further in my personal life without engaging in conspiracies and bad faith. Whenever there is an immense social pressure to conform to anything, let alone science, I get increasingly skeptic. There is a wisdom of crowds when a healthy amount skepticism is allowed. There is a madness of crowds when very little skepticism is allowed.
This is patently false, many crypto currencies have done what Bitcoin has done much better, Fantom, Monero, Ethereum to name a few off the top of my head
Fraud and money laundering unironically described as the killer use case for crypto isn't the slam dunk you think it is.
> Creating a programming language, no matter how robust, is not a trivial endeavor

Completely agreed. Not sure why there is so much negativity when I imagine most of the critics have not created their own programming language.
It doesn't seem like the linkage between traditional finance and crypto finance is that strong yet.

If it ever got to that point I think we'd more likely see prudential authorities restrict traditional finance actors from investing in crypto rather than governments banning crypto outright.
> also on the verge of exhausting the viable labor market [at this level of pay]
I canceled the NYT about two years ago when I felt the paper took what seemed like a closed-minded and inflammatory turn in order to 'take a stand' and appeal to its subscribers. I don't care how cheap it got, I could no longer support a paper like that (after many years of doing so).

I try to stick to the financial press since the financial press has an interest in objective facts at least some of the time, since its readers use the information to inform investment decisions. WSJ and Bloomberg. I had an FT subscription, which I think is much better than the previous two (especially for international news and commentary), but it's also quite pricey.
Okay, so what? The reason for missing support for those mechanisms is mostly the lack of need. And this goes deep in the Linux land, for example the Linux-specific signalfd(2) system call is pretty much completely unused - except for systemd.
Amazingly cool that they understood they had to make the statue handle winds in the harbor. Kind of neat to have a piece that's so emotionally powerful, aesthetically pleasing, and so beautifully engineered.
The estimates are from the IPCC, not from the nuclear industry. This is stated in the article.
I imagine there's some useful information in this comment, but I found it incomprehensible.
Gold doesn't provide cash flow and is a 3 trillion dollar market.

Next you're going to say that gold has some magical property called "intrinsic value" which Bitcoin doesn't have.

Well, Bitcoin has absolute scarcity and a global permissionless and trustless payments network. Despite the protestations of many, it's a form of money and useful to many people.
It's all imploding way quicker than I thought. I was giving it another year or two in my guestimates. Now everyone is taking their gains and running or recouping what money they can because of the coming recession and major implosion of all crypto.
>natural gas heating

Natural gas heating is less than 100% efficient (if a new furnace maybe in the area of 80%), and causes global warming.

>Power generation itself and transmission

is separate from the efficiency of the heating process, which is 100% efficient.
Man, I have to respect your true believer attitude about the everlasting cyclical system that has existed within a single lifetime.
Always the same story: New generations of degen traders get wiped out on leverage. The smart ones figure out that Bitcoin is the only signal amongst the crypto noise, and the network gets stronger.
People working at a rocket company work under the same basic value structure that a person working at a concrete company does.

People in academia do not. The fact that you missed this and thought comparing the number of people in a particular industry subset of a capitalistic enterprise to academia would somehow prove a point basically shows me how poor the thought/logic skills are in academia... The one thing they're supposed to be better at.
Andy here! Thank you for reading my article. We had a lot of fun creating this checkbox. Was it necessary? Of course not. We wanted to push the idea of "feel" in product interactions. For some, it's too far. Others not far enough.

Regardless, I love reading all of the comments here because it does what we aim to do which is to bring ideas like "feel" to the forefront and talk more critically about the apps, services, and ui patterns that shape our daily experiences.

We tend to fall into thinking about software in purely functional terms—speed and power—with metrics we can optimize. Yet software is also very personal. It shapes our daily experience as much or more than many of the physical products we use or the spaces we occupy. Great Design (of any kind) reaches beyond meeting functional needs and satisfies deeper needs that enrich our daily lives. If we can appreciate the bevel on a phone or the satisfying feel of a car accelerator, we ought to expect more the software we spend hours in every day.
2009 is well before the iPhone was the default computer
>"I know that name-calling is inherently unserious."

But I must beg the question, if society normalizes and encourages violence against Nazis, doesn't that mean that calling someone a Nazi is a potentially serious act? And, what if they aren't really a Nazi?

The term "stochastic terrorism" has been discussed and I believe it applies here. This is the definition I pulled from dicitonary.com:
"the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted"
How are a that worse? Not paying for a bailout sounds good to me.
Well, indeed, that was a huge problem with Sim City. They believed cities should have low tax rates, so of course low tax rates are the correct strategy. They also discovered exactly how much space building parking takes up so… they made cars take up no space rather than have a game in which public transport and cycling was the go-to approach.
That doesn't include the 1-3 million Uyghurs detained, I believe.
Better, just pump sea water to the desert, and let it spread out and evaporate. The mountains will catch the water vapor and fill your reservoirs.

Releasing in Death Valley, you don't even need to pump. A siphon once started will just run indefinitely. (The high point of the siphon would need to be less than 30 feet above sea level.)

You might need to bulldoze up the salt in the fall and take it somewhere.
Perhaps not necessarily so much that he's so smart, but that he will soon have the technology at his disposal to overcome needing the canon.

There has actually been a widespread belief, for decades, that computers (loosely defined) will soon eliminate the need for experts. His belief puts him in good company with many laypeople, middle managers, etc.
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I wonder what happened. This aircraft was designed for a piston engine, RED A03: https://red-aircraft.com/press_release/niche-company-with-a-....
Oh don't get me wrong, much of it is definitely the result of their policies and could have been avoided if they hadn't treated their labor force like a discardable, consumable resource for years. I just thought it was interesting to see something pop up in the news that echoes what I got a glimpse of a few months ago - that Amazon is starting to recognize that they have a problem on their hands (finally). Just thinking about it in dispassionate scientific terms, it's a fascinating and unique problem - it might be too late for them to pivot and shift back towards "sustainable" practices, and if they fail I'm certainly going to enjoy the schadenfreude, but I'm really curious to see how they attempt to deal with all this.
Their territorial objectives have apparently been redefined to encompass the areas that they already de facto possessed since 2014.

Isn't that true?

The only obvious thing accomplished lately is all the death and destruction. It can't have been planned this way.
In reality of course central plannners 'pulling levers' and setting prices never works. The interest rate is one of the most important prices of them all, which is why having the government meddle with it has proven so destructive.
A CBDC is just a bank account at the Fed with an API. You don't need retail banks anymore if you have one; conversely you don't need one if you already have retail banks.

Banks already have such an account at the Fed, and are getting realtime FedWire soon, and it doesn't really matter that the API involves SFTP'ing ACH files around.
Turns out the brand got bought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29607989
Aren't there companies like Televerde that 100% of the product offering is based on low cost labor supplied by prisoners?

https://therealnews.com/corporations-are-making-millions-of-...

These companies have a well well orchestrated PR effort though that attempts to flip the narrative towards all the good they are doing for these people.

In my mind, both are likely to be true.

Giving prisoners a purpose and minimum wage is far better than prison laundry rates ($0.50 per hour). That said, obfuscating the fact that your customer-facing pricing and incredible margins are based on what we'd all consider to be a form of slave labor is disingenuous a best. Transparency (think home page of their site) vs. back channel PR aimed at arming lobbyists would go a long way.
If this is clear....where is the evidence?
> the slogan "a better world is possible"

This is the essence of the notion of progress.

It is naive to think that we cannot do better.
If you hit too much disinflation/deflation things can go sour pretty quickly. This is a bit exaggerated in this model as there are only 10 businesses and there can be a domino effect as 10% of the economy fails at a time. You can prevent it if you manage to counter deflationary pressures fast enough.

It helps to slowly creep up interest rates up when the economy is going well so you have more space to lower them aggressively during shocks.
They failed to buy off government officials quick enough to get a "too big to fail" card :)
I was expecting a lighter than air inflatable.
>SQLite4 was an experimental rewrite of SQLite that was active from 2012 through 2014. All development work on SQLite4 has ended. Lessons learned from SQLite4 have been folded into the main SQLite3 product. SQLite4 was never released. There are no plans to revive it. You should be using SQLite3.

https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining
Perhaps it's slavery, perhaps it's not. I think you're jumping the gun in calling it a done, unambiguous fact.

I think I'm a sensible person, and I'm willing to entertain the idea that it might be slavery. But if I read this article, I don't find it sufficient in proving its claim. It supposes that this might be slavery, it supports its argument with claims made by prisoners. When I think back about prior information I had about this topic, I also wasn't entirely convinced that this is indeed, unquestionably slavery. In fact, I can see a reasonable world in which this might not be slavery. Perhaps a world in which there are some occasions where a judge would rule that this is slavery, but not systematic actual slavery.

You might think that I'm unreasonable in being skeptic and wanting a stronger proof before accepting this claim. But this is an extraordinary claim, and it would require extraordinary proofs. Just reading an article presenting one side of the story and concluding "it's slavery" doesn't cut it to me. It's intellectually dishonest. It sounds good as a party line, as a slogan, but it's not a cold headed conclusion, in my book.

* * *

And I think that denying this is problematic. Because in denying that it's not clear cut, we jump to conclusions, and we make it a cardinal sin to say anything else than the party line. And this means we can't think this through and examine the situation for what it is. We can't talk about it intellectually like you'd want of an HN discussion. We can only talk about it in flames, screams and battles. And what's the point of that.
The WSJ is published by the same organization as Fox News.
> every prison is for profit.

Sure... but the alternatives are worse, shifting the financial burden to the innocent public or simply allowing lawlessness. Committing crimes isn't supposed to have a free and easy path back to society.
Why does there need to be more housing built in an already dense area?
People have moved for thousands of years to areas where they were more easily able to afford to buy or build a home.
My parents moved from basically a 3rd world country to the US, not speaking the language, with about $200 in 1988. They already had me as a child to deal with too. Now a college grad doesn't want to move to another part of the US to afford a cheap house?
Ah yes, the "leave a permanent record of violating sanctions in an immutable blockchain" strategy of money transfer.
Isn't the only thing from that era the NFTs (original tulip craze paintings) they left behind of any value?
I think it's best to let people make their own decisions wherever possible. Of course with pensions the people with exposure aren't the same ones making investing choices.

I would be fine with regulation that just bans those sorts of vehicles from investing in crypto. That way individuals can speculate with their money, while being guarded against more systemic and indirect risks.
Having immigrated from Canada to the US, and worked as a software engineer in both countries, I don't believe this is accurate.

> I can earn 100k in London and be very comfortable doing less than 40 hours a week, never working weekends, never doing crunch time, never being forced to work overtime, taking 6 weeks of vacation every year, sometimes more

This describes LOTS of engineers at big tech, just change 100k to 400k and 40 hours to 20
Sounds like “informed to make a wise choice” still applies? I had a similar experience with mathematics, having been “good at maths” in high school and then making friends in university with people who are ACTUALLY good at maths.
But as performance gets worse, the ping being slow matters less, relatively, right?
Interesting. I didn't know about the 3 registers aspect, although I haven't read the paper since it came out a few years back.

32-bit instructions, 3 registers, 16-bit addresses/data, and no fancy addressing modes (only lh reg, a(reg) and sh reg, a(reg)), sounds absolutely painful to program for. Like a 6502 without the zero page, and half the instruction density.
But the only way that signal would get to it would be with the connivance of a user level application or the normal OS. At that point you have spyware with extra steps - and it's easier to detect because of the unexpected IP address.
I remember a rule in audio speakers which sounds similar to Lindy effect: bad distortion (>=10%) are bad sounding speakers, but the opposite of that isn't true (e.g 0.001% distortion can still be a bad speaker)
Ack, my apologies, I didn't intend to be so inflammatory! If memory serves AFL was one of the first schemes (or perhaps the first?) to abandon the stack discipline to provide better inference in quite a few cases compared to TT. I remember the graphs in that paper giving me more hope for region inference to be a practical memory management scheme. Later, I believe the imperative regions paper improved on the AFL scheme a bit at least in their single 'life' example, but without more test cases or graphs it is more difficult in general to assess that paper or how common this case matters in practice.
I'm curious what you believe the future of research for region inference to be considering most of the papers written after TT's retrospective paper seem to have moved in the direction of explicit regions rather than inferred ones.
> Them going bankrupt is like long term capital management going bankrupt.

Which ironically would be bullish for bitcoin . stocks rebounded huge after the 1998 crisis.
> edit: this is a "cynically muttering to oneself."

lol, that's exactly right.
Coinbase should reinvent fractional reserve banking and allow itself to issue debt in "basecoins" backed by a fraction of deposits in cryptowallets. SEC might close their shop for that, but they are going bankrupt anyway.
1. In their own wallets that they control.

2. Backup key in a safe, secure, offline space.

These answers might scare you. They probably should.

This statement should not be misconstrued as anti-crypto.
worse for crypto holders
for the same reason casinos are still around, humans like to beat the odds.
Off-topic question. Did you have to advance your ignition timing when you started running E0? I've thought about using it in my Datsun, especially with E15 rolling out now. I've got a 1980 280ZX, modded with flat top pistons mated w/ a p79 head for about 10:1 compression. Currently though, with normal E10 92 octane gas, I have the distributor set to maximum advance and even with that I feel like it's not getting peak performance. In theory I should already be running lower octane for more advance, but I don't b/c I worry about detonation, and my understanding is that E0 is also more prone to detonation than the same octane ethanol blend b/c it runs hotter without the evaporative cooling of the ethanol, so I might even need to back off the advance when really I'd like to increase it. Did you find running E0 retarded the timing and/or led to any performance changes?
You edited "hateful groups are spewing vile..." out of the beginning of that quote which is important because even if people "exaggerate just how "anti" such stances are", there is still a difference between an anti stance and a hateful and vile stance. It isn't talking about opposing affirmative action, being against more immigration, or disagreeing with gay marriage. If you hear words like "Nazi", "White Nationalist" "hateful", and "vile" only to immediately think "they are talking about me" that is a problem on your end.
Global crypto is a small compared to public markets, and financial institutions essentially can't incorporate them in any way that would pose any real risk. This collapse is a symptom of tightening financial conditions. People don't have free cash to throw into them any more. It seems that without that spare cash, there just isn't enough real value in crypto for it to sustain itself.
crypto could go away tomorrow and the impact on the economy would be tiny to nonexistent.
I'm speaking specifically to the question asked - the first time I saw a demo. I worked there after it already existed, and am no longer employed there.
> The address marked as 3AC has a collateral position of 211,999.12aWETH (worth $235 million) on AAVE V2 and a total debt of $183 million in stablecoins USDC and USDT

They picked the wrong stablecoins to have debt in.
Or maybe blood drops. They slaughtered tens of thousands of people at at time, women and children included.
Hard-right implies nationalism or even fascism.

I think you mean conservative. I think it's important to be able to articulate the ideas of those we disagree with. One can be supportive of right-wing economic ideas and socially conservative positions without being hard-right. I say this as a moderate reader of the WSJ, and not a Republican.

The silo-ing of ideas leads to alienation among people and preconceptions of what the other people believe and who they are. That's tearing the country apart.
Cool project, congrats on putting it out in the wild.

> You can prevent it if you manage to counter deflationary pressures fast enough.

Iirc, it was a matter of < 10 months from good to gutter.
As cryptocurrency tumbles, prices for new and used GPUs continue to fall
>Anyone can call anyone a criminal. The question is whether someone can make an individual determination that they think another person is a criminal, and whether this is a legitimate moral defense of extra judicial violence. Do individuals or groups have a moral right to judge others and carryout violence outside of the legal system

That is basically all comic books. Why are you criticizing this one and not like Batman or something?
> country and it's youth

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The flip side is that this was the _only_ place you ever saw them. It's not difficult to find endless videos of Neil deGrasse Tyson or Dr. Fauci on YouTube today. In the 1980's, you didn't see people like Grace Hopper or Asimov _at all_ except for this sort of appearance on a talk show or maybe something brief on PBS if you were lucky to catch it at the time it was broadcast.
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Matt Levine had an aside in one of his recent columns about how ironically, "safe" investments are frequently the most un-safe, because the tiniest crack in the faith people have in them leads to panic.

For instance, the stablecoins.

Bitcoin itself doesn't seem to be vulnerable, exactly because there's no particular objective value. If it goes down 90%, well, nobody promised it wouldn't.