skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Inflation ate almost 9% of its value this past year. Granted stocks are down 20% this year,

yeah, so you're still ahead of the game if you had it saved.
It is very prevalent in New England. This map shows at least one case in every state in the continental US: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/datasurveillance/maps-recent.html

Anecdotally, at least half the people on the street I grew up on in Massachusetts had it (and this was before the idea of long term Lyme became widely known, these were acute infections).
Upvote for Perun. He very recently did a video on the apparent infantry shortage that the Russian forces seem to be facing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKewF8_SiIs

The short, short, short version is that the Russian BTGs (battalion tactical groups) and undermanned in general, and the conscripts are supposed to be filling most of the infantry slots. Theoretically, because this isn't a declared war, the conscripts aren't supposed to be fighting, and weren't sent to the "special military operation".

I enjoyed watching all the Ukraine war videos on that channel.
You can get 2.33% margin loans through Interactive Brokers right now. I guarantee you a billionaire can get much less than that. Banks will always give rates near zero to billionaires because the risk is very low and they want to curry favor and possibly get other, much more lucrative deals from said billionaire.
> The solution to Chernobyl style accidents is to not build Chernobyl style nuclear reactors

Or, indeed, any at all. Thus, also no Fukushimas, and no TMIs, and no Santa Susanas.
Ah that makes sense. The rules have changed since, though a part time PhD would still take 6-7 years.

I imagine that must have been quite interesting!
Does the "industry work" part of it produce publishable research that could be used towards a thesis?
iHerb ships those internationally.
Some of those pictures could be the only copies. Losing them could be devastating, depending on the person.
> Indiana Jones might kill one guy per movie; Nathan Drake has shot thousands. He’s one of the most prolific mass killers in human history.

Having no idea about either of these games, I guess this is because, again, they combine a story-heavy narrative with a plain old shooter. I sometimes wish that these games which have interesting setting and/or narratives would actually try to innovate on the gaming part and avoid the "just kill them all" genre.

There should be something more between a "walking simulator" and a "kill them all" that allows you to enjoy the setting while still having some type of actual game inside.
> thus your context is just disguised misinformation mixed with the hubris that your opinion matters

This is a really silly thing to say. You're posting your opinion. Is that hubris?
That was no accident...
What's worse is that some of the inflation becomes masked because of shortages. So in a simple picture if the government gives money out to buy baby food, but there is no baby food, the price people are willing to pay for baby food would go up since they have money, but not recorded as inflation since they are not making purchases.
(2015) should be in the title
So basically any real job?
Well, MMT would be recognizing that debt doesn't fund anything, it's just a promise to take the opposite monetary action in the future to the money creation (net of spending over taxes) you are doing in the present.

You might raise taxes to for current monetary reasons under MMT, but you wouldn't do it because debt service costs were too high for it to be attractive to issue debt in the amount your desired spending exceeded revenue before the tax increase, because you would recognize that there is no need to “borrow” money that you yourself issue. You would spend what you spend and tax what you tax and if you want to undertake future commitments for some stabilizing purpose you do that, to, but none of those things depend on or fund the others when you are working in your own fiat. That's the myth of the fisc, which is produced when a fiat-issuing government acts as if the currency is an external commodity.
Part of it is that, in general, there aren't great options to spend 10 or 20 hours/week--or, really, 700 or so hours a year doing interesting work for someone else on your schedule getting paid at full-time professional salary levels. You're not available when needed. You're not keeping current probably. Even if I could do some part-time consulting on what I currently work on, I'd become much less interesting to hire pretty quickly.
BTW, the same blogger also wrote a post recently that specifically discusses the differences in how Russian and Ukrainian forces employ their artillery. Also worth a read:

https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/2148946.html

(I would generally recommend this entire blog for those curious about the tactics and the logistics of the conflict, because it's one of those rare cases when a guy who is directly involved in the war, and has a long-standing reputation as one of the prominent hawks, is consistently writing posts that are critical of his own side - which criticism is far more likely to be accurate than propaganda from the other side.)
Ultimately consumer sentiment has a much bigger effect than just about everything else.

The public are worried about inflation, it's the issue of the day. They will cut back spending until inflation is seen to be tackled which will likely bring about a recession anyway.

Given that, the Fed's hand has been forced, if they do not seem to be aggressively trying to deal with inflation the public will become even more scared and reluctant to spend.
EE in general is a problematic career path in the US. Microelectronics is more so due to the even more limited employment options. All but a few niche fab operators are multinationals and you're directly competing with cheaper offshore labor. Government initiatives aren't going to change this arrangement.
Does anyone know what the limitations are for the free trial? I'd love to try this with where I live and experiment with it in Unreal, and pay for a license if I do anything commercial with it.
It does, and it has:

- reduce speed limits, like in the 70s. Actually enforce with speed cameras everywhere (bonus, fewer people will die).
- mpg mandates for new vehicles, like Obama, but now also include light trucks. (bonus, fewer people will die).

The fact that they are not even being discussed by policymakers in this context of high gas prices tells you that driving fast with large vehicles is fetishized.
What I mean is, can you imagine any system that can see 20s (say) ahead in terms of other people's driving? It's an eternity.
Sure, but you might not care as much because:

- you can airlift 25 2-ton dune-buggies instead of 1 50-ton tank

- you can buy 25 $2 million dune-buggies for the cost of 2 $25 million tanks

- if you sent 2 tanks, losing one is half of your force projection. If you sent 25 dune-buggies, losing one is 4% of your force.

- maintenance on an unmanned 2-ton dune-buggy has to be easier, faster and cheaper than maintenance on a tank. Tanks need dedicated recovery vehicles (or Ukrainian tractors) that cost nearly as much as another tank. Maintenance is going to be much, much easier without armor and the concomitant suspension for the armor getting in the way.

A hybrid powerplant is probably best -- a diesel motor-generator to charge batteries and run for distance, with an electric motor system and nice quiet relatively cool batteries for an hour or two of sneaking around at a time. Tanks don't sneak up on you, but a hybrid dune-buggy in battery mode can.

This also has knock-on effects for the civilian economy, because if the cool support weapon for the infantry is a quiet hybrid dune-buggy, the same thing with a crew cabin instead of a gun and ammo will be a smash hit.
> This is much more a move in favor of the rich that are owed money by the poor imo.

Inflation affects the poor much more than it does the rich, which is why it's considered a "regressive tax". The Fed making a historically large rate hike is a direct attempt at fighting inflation, preferentially so over preventing a recession.

And since we're already very near to full employment, the risk that inflation poses to the poor is greater than that of unemployement, hence why it is better for the poor that inflation is brought in check even at the risk of recession.
Today, storage runs (i.e. supplies) when electricity prices peak, which broadly matches high demand.

It charges, when electricity prices are low, which generally means off peak overnight.

In a future renewable grid, with zero dispatchable power it might be used on occaision to help meet the baseload, but it's almost certainly going to be used more during demand peaks, because that's when most electricity is used. Maybe in equatorial regions with a lot of solar, not much wind and no other energy sources it'll share baseload duties with the solar that charges it during the day, but unless the term baseload has lost all meaning (which I fear it has) storage is not ever providing baseload, since that would imply supplying that amount constantly and storage needs to absorb more energy than it returns.

I can't see a definition of 'baseload' provider that storage meets that solar doesn't for example.
So what was the Antoine plague then?
I don’t think any English language based documentation can achieve this:

> give the project documentation to three different programmers and receive the exact same product from all three.

Nit unless the language used is very code-like and pedantically logical to the nth degree.
That's just for very, very specific fields.

For instance, for something very practical, market-ready, basically Engineering I'd say you're correct. For basic research, not at all.
> But even with Air Superiority over say, Vietnam, USA still degenerated into an artillery slugfest.

I just finished James Holland's Normandy '44 and I'd say, according to his book, that sentence pretty accurately describes pretty much all of the WW2 Normandy campaign as well.
A draft takes a long time to ramp up, and soldiers take a lot of time to train, so we're unlikely to start up a draft unless we expect a conflict to be protracted. The United States is unlikely to invade China and vice versa. A war pitting the US against China is likely to be largely naval- and air-oriented, with ground action (if any) concentrated on Taiwan, and will probably take at most a few weeks or months.

We mustn't forget Vizzini's Aphorism: Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 Is First Native Arm64 Release
Chrome's use of strict process isolation is a fairly new thing. For most of its history, it was trivially easy to open any other site in the same process as your own site (via window.open(), iframe, etc.), and V8's sandboxing was the thing protecting those sites from each other. So V8 was, in fact, designed for this.

When Spectre hit, Chrome concluded that defending the web platform from Spectre in userspace was too hard, so they decided to go all-in on process isolation so that Spectre was the kernel's problem instead. This is a great defense-in-depth strategy if you can spare the resources. On most platforms where Chrome runs, the additional overhead was deemed worth it. (Last I heard there were still some lower-powered Android phones where the overhead was too high but that was a while ago, maybe they've moved past that.)

That doesn't mean V8 has decided their own security doesn't matter anymore. Securely sandboxing the renderer process as a whole isn't trivial, especially as it interacts with the GPU and whatnot. So it's still very much important to Chrome that V8's sandbox remains tight, and the renderer sandbox provides secondary defense-in-depth.

When it comes to Cloudflare Workers, the performance penalty for strict process isolation is much higher than it is for a browser, due to the finer-grained nature of our compute. (Imagine a browser that has 10,000 tabs open and all of them are regularly receiving events, rather than just one being in the foreground...) But we have some advantages: we were able to rethink the platform from the ground up with side channel defense in mind, and we are free to reset the state of any isolate's state any time we need to. That lets us implement a different set of defense-in-depth measures, including dynamic process isolation. More details in the blog post linked earlier [0]. We also did research and co-authored a paper with the TU Graz team (co-discoverers of Spectre) on this [1].

I may be biased, but to be perfectly honest, the security model I find most terrifying is the public clouds that run arbitrary native code in hardware VMs. The VM software may be a narrower attack surface than V8, but the hardware attack surface is gigantic. One misimplemented CPU instruction allowing, say, reading physical addresses without access control could blow up the whole industry overnight and take years to fix. Spectre was a near miss / grazing hit. M1 had a near miss with M1racles [2]. I think it's more likely than not that really disastrous bugs exist in every CPU, and so I feel much, much safer accepting customer code as JavaScript / Wasm rather than native code.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/spectre-research-with-tu-graz/

[2] https://m1racles.com/
>cost of resources across customers.

IMHO, this is all a solution chasing a problem. A server from Hetzner costs the equivalent of 30 minutes of my time a month. A VM on a shared machine can cost even less. There's just not cost there to save in order to justify the security risks and performance ghosts. It only makes sense for extremely bursty loads or background processing where latency isn't important. But those are pretty atypical scenarios and usually buying for max load is still cheaper than the engineering time to set up the system.
I appreciate the detailed response! You certainly got the gears turning in my brain. A couple points:

> What x86 instructions a Virtual Machine/Emulator/Virtual Environment permits to be run directly, that is, which x86 instructions, existing in the guest OS, ran directly on the host CPU (without modification or deletion or "hooking"/"intercepting" or what-have-you), could have a large impact on security...

How would I even begin to map out which instructions get passed directly to the host cpu? I mean even if we just look at KVM, there's many other pieces of software that go into a virtualization environment. Wouldn't qemu, virsh, or KVM versions/configuration impact which instructions go right to the hardware? We haven't even gotten to the guest config, or any host hardware details! My instinct says it's extremely difficult to answer our question without a team of engineers.

> if you're running an x86 emulator on a non-x86 CPU, the option (from the Virtual Machine/Emulator/Virtual Environment's point-of-view) of simply passing on instructions to the lower-level CPU for direct execution -- no longer exists -- in other words, running on a non-x86 CPU (i.e. ARM, RISC-V, etc.) -- the Virtual Machine/Emulator/Virtual Environment now MUST translate or interpret x86 instructions in the guest -- it can no longer ask the underlying host to run them directly, without modification...

Makes sense to me. My follow up is now, does paravirtualization effectively create the same translation requirement? If I have an x86 xen-based hypervisor running x86 guests, does the virtual interface provided by xen give us a similar security control that ARM->x86 provides? (Or at least "good enough")?
This doesnt make sense. I divided range by fuel capacity. There's no longer range possible.
Used that at the time, I've never seen other platforms use that approach.
Depends. I once was an expert witness against someone who “lost” the original email they doctored and printed out. DKIM signatures and spam prevention proved my client had an original, undoctored email saying something totally different from the other person.

That was fun. But generally, both parties have to accept the screenshot you have is authentic, otherwise you just have some text on a piece of paper which might convince a jury.
PV throwing off excess during peak is fine - if we have storage. Storage is has only recently become feasible, it would likely be utility-grade storage, Powerwall/home storage or Vehicle2Grid integration by the 2050 timeframe.

Storage cost being excessive means it's early adoption timeframe. As the need for it becomes clear options will open up.
And if he had asked me to buy specific things for him, I might have actually done so. My grandfather (a poor farmer) regularly told a story about how a man asked him for money, and he turned the man down but bought him lunch instead.

Just handing a man $80 in cash and taking his food stamps means potentially enabling behaviors- alcoholism, drug abuse, etc.- that I don't want to enable. Maybe he just though that less hassle would have been worth having $20 less to spend, I dunno. I've been around enough alcoholics, drug addicts and con artists that I'm not going to just hand money out to people.
I'm pretty sure that most of what's said in this article doesn't apply to "top 5" universities. There will always be people willing to put up with a couple years of shitty pay in exchange for being able to work with a Nobel laureate and put "MIT" on their resume.
It's a shame that it requires a business email just to try it out. My work doesn't have anything to do with city building but I'd love to use this to create a 3D model of my home town for my own fun.
Makes sense. There's a lot of time for the DEI stuff at the company when it's doing well. When it's doing poorly, there's just not that much time for it. From the perspective of the discriminated-against person, it's better the ship go down if it won't provide a fair place. From the perspective of the founder, it's his ship, and he's more interested in righting it than dealing with that. And since time is zero-sum, you're going to be doing one or the other.

> If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

I've always thought that this is Lincoln describing that his top priority is the Union (though others claim its that he doesn't care about slavery - which I disagree with). Essentially, save the ship by whatever means necessary, then fix the conditions on the ship.
The fact that Andreessen is becoming a humanities autodidact through Burnham (the later arch-conservative Burnham, rather than the Marxist Burnham, I assume) is ... well, it's an interesting choice, I suppose. About the only thing that's stood the test of time as anything more than a curiosity is "The Managerial Revolution," but as socioeconomic analysis Chandler did it later, and better; and as geopolitical theory Mahan did it first, and better. I have a hunch he's going back to "Suicide of the West" and its bloody-minded anti-liberalism (in the "western liberal democracies" sense of "liberal") which Carl Schmidt did first, and better (using that word advisedly). All in all, it's an idiosyncratic self-education that's mired in a very specific far-right midcentury worldview.
I was wondering about the other side of this issue. Thanks for providing a glimpse of it.

Reformed, de-housed, and abolished are very different. "Reformed" in particular could encompass a wide range of measures which don't necessarily involve heavily policing student organizations.
It may have changed since I lived there but that was certainly true when I did. And I spent a lot of time rambling around the mountains, creeks, and NFs and NPs there and most all of it bushwhacking off trail.
I didn't.... Continue the quote:

> Only mentioning this here just in case the PR spin doctors threaten the researchers into removing mention of Intel on this one. Which honestly I hope doesn't happen because my interpretation is that Intel asked for that long embargo...

Key part of that closing paragraph:

> ... my interpretation is that Intel asked for that long embargo ... and ... not everybody's going to come to that same conclusion...

If mentioning here to mitigate spin doctoring, the important thing to record in case Intel made them remove it would be the explicitly not open to interpretation paragraph I cited above.
When it gets to that point, the russian army without supply lines will have no other means to stay engaged.

Thus the priority from the very beginning was to disrupt the supply lines and ability to generate resources, meanwhile securing own supply and resources.

Ukraine needs more supply of long range artillery and lot more ammo for it ... yesterday and right now!
Zachtronics: Last Call BBS
This is like asking Michael Saylor if Bitcoin is still a good investment.
For profit, "for export" weapons systems are morally reprehensible.
Arguing that leaked radioactive contamination is less harmful than often assumed does not make habitually leaky nukes seem any more attractive, vs. alternatives that leak nothing hazardous at all, ever.
> At 200 passengers

Unfortunately, most planes fly far from their maximum capacity (even though most passengers are in fact flying in overcrowded planes).
Let's say inflation is 10%. Let's say I have some money. To just break even, I have to invest it somewhere that returns 10%. So I do. (That's easier to find than it was when inflation was 1.5%.)

Then the IRS says that the 10% is income, and taxes me on that. They make more than they did when I was getting 1.5% on my money.
Then put the information on a PC everyone can use.
You are half right. Per the article body, contradicting the headline, the rates increased by 0.75pp, which is equivalent to 75bp. The previous rates ranged from 0.75% to 1% making the 0.75pp hike a 75-100% increase, not the 0.75% increase you and the incorrect headline claim.
Ehh, I’m old enough now that I can LinkedIn/Facebook search my old classmates and see how the crème of my crop turned out. Everyone was smart but the genuine honest-to-god genius from our class is a research chemist at MIT. The richest is a former childrens’ toy maker (STEM-education startup exit).
1.852e+12 nm in a nm
Why would we not look at the total subsidies over time? Here's the spending for Europe until 2007 [1], how much subsidies would have to be given to renewables to make up that difference? Here is some more data on hidden subsidies for later dates going to fossils and nuclear [2], but is not a comprehensive comparison of subsidies.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Too_much...
[2] https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/greenpeace...
Dang, I'm gonna have to try that soon, after I'm done packing, moving, and unpacking...
And district heating systems. Where a 1-2GWh thermal accumulator will be used.
Unleaded gas was introduced in the 1970s in the US - and leaded gas was still made and sold until the 1990s. And it's still available if you know where to look in every city in the US as 100LL Avgas, or with additives.
My partner designed chips (for printers..) It takes a lot of money to design and fab a chip (her company was fabless). They synopsys or Magma software they used for design/layout was crazy expensive. (if you can't find a price....)

https://www.synopsys.com

Then you have to manufacture. There is a significant cost for custom chips. Though once you get going the per chip cost is pretty low, thus the business lends itself to a few large players.
One place for a quick look at different types of armor and their uses, is the recent post at the A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry blog:

https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not...
The large amount of similar comments by new accounts makes this seem a bit iffy. Especially given that most of those comments were flagged.

Good luck on your project, though.