skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one who is this serious about Bitcoin such as El Salvador is here to make a quick buck with Bitcoin unlike what the general population thinks. They are here to play the very long game of HODLING their bitcoins until everyone else starts to gradually adopt it around the world, driving up demand until suddenly it becomes extremely valuable. We have seen this when Bitcoin first came out. Because it is one of the hardest moneys known to man. Bitcoin is still in its gradual phase though.

This articles about Bitcoin losing value are missing the bigger picture. It’s expected that this will happen during its infancy so it actually doesn’t matter at this point in time if it goes up or down.

Give it time to breathe lol.
There are still peole like this who think Software Engineering is Computer Sience

it's barely even engineering
In addition to what cpursley said in a sibling comment:

- http/3 (and 2)

- DDoS protection

- Mount a disk if you need persistent storage across deploys

- Secrets files (not just env vars)

- Private networking and DNS-based service discovery between your account's deployed services

Disclosure: I'm a Render Dev Advocate
Those who earn less pay less in income tax and we still had to implement a progressive taxation policy because of how much a flat tax percentage hurts those without disposable income compared to the wealthy.

The poor already spend all their money on necessities. If you go to a flat sales tax it will hurt them more than the current progressive regime and favor the wealthy.
> If in fact they were exotic and untried, billions of dollars would not already be committed to factories to produce them in industrial volume. The processes involved are used industrially billions of times worldwide every day.

Yes, for purposes different from energy storage. The massive amounts of ammonia synthesized through the Haber process for fertilizer production does nothing to demonstrate ammonia's viability for electric grid storage.

Likewise the hydrogen used in space rockets has no bearing on the feasibility of electrolyzing water, storing the hydrogen, and converting it back to electricity. If anything, the fact that most hydrogen is produced through steam reformation highlights the difficulties of electrolysis at scale.

We have plenty of experience with flywheels. Almost every car has a flywheel in it. Does that mean it's guaranteed to be extremely cheap and scalable to store electricity by spinning a bunch of giant flywheels? That's the kind of leap you're making here.

When someone actually builds and operates a facility that takes in electricity, produces ammonia, and then taps that stored ammonia to produce electricity later, then we can actually measure real-world cost of such a storage system. Until then, it's just optimistic predictions. And optimistic predictions don't actually store any energy.
in a similar position (actually exactly the same position by title) and would really love to find some solid resources that combined the ops and governance aspects of enterprise analytics a succinct way.
The supply chain for solar is in a much healthier state than the supply chain for nuclear.
It was because in April 2020 Regulation D was amended to remove the six-transfer-per-month rule. The idea is that COVID may force people to make withdrawals from savings account more often so banks could allow frequent withdrawals from savings accounts, making them more liquid. It's not a coincidence that after the Fed suspended the rule they reclassified savings account as M1.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/caletters/calt...
EquityBee looks really interesting, but your startup has to have raised over $50M to participate. Does anyone recommend any alternatives for companies in the range of $25M-$50M raised and ~$200M valuation?
>"acceptable workplace behavior" is a rich white cis straight male standard, but you're probably not ready to hear that.

I guess I'm now rich and white since I'm familiar with what is and what isn't acceptable workplace behavior. When does my check arrive, and when do you think my skintone will start to change?
missing are products their competitors have that they do not, notable AWS SES is not mentioned
I work in a 100yo investment bank and am quite familiar with how it all works and yet, even if I didnt just work in a technical-centric company like you but a business and finance-centric one at that, I still think it's gibberish.

Worse, I learned to decode what they refer to talking like that and I still dont see a point: to the gibberrish or to the whole concept.
Depends on the type of wallet. If its a web wallet the keys are in the browsers data store that the wallet extension handles. The keys could also be on a separate hardware wallet that is completely separate from the computer you interact with and requires physical button presses on the hardware device. Could also be that you are in a view only mode and just connecting with an address and you don't even have the keys on you.
My fave is f6f6ef, same as the content background, so the top bar blends in.
What would be a realistic mitigation strategy if a massive one was on collision course with earth? Besides changing earth's trajectory
I'm currently building in the ability to inspect a transaction's effects before it is run directly into MetaMask. So... we'll alleviate some of the problem Soon (TM)
> But the basic concept of combing firepower, mobility, and protection is not going away any time soon.

This reads like the gist of it. I imagine them getting lighter, heavier, more sophisticated/expensive, cheaper, slower or faster. But the basic archetype seems to be almost timeless as long as there is some utility for armor, mobility and projectile weapons.
First is the licensing. VST2 is hard deprecated and not possible for new businesses or developers to target it (* it is possible via some reverse engineered header files but they are GPL licensed, which turns people away). VST3 has an awful license.

Without getting into the weeds too far, VST2 is pretty easy to target without a bunch of work. VST3 is pretty much impossible without some kind of heavy wrapping technology (even the bespoke distribution doesn't use the API directly, it wraps it in a heavy and confusing SDK - most people use JUCE, IPlug, DPlug, or the other wrappers anyway).

Also VST3 doesn't really support MIDI (1 or 2). They pretend to, by making the host do the work to translate MIDI into VST3-specific API calls (which are tricky to keep sound, makes it a pain in the ass for host and plugin authors, and is generally a terrible design) - search for JUCE authors trying to understand why their MIDI plugin isn't working in VST3 (it's because VST3 can't do that, and Steinberg won't accept that plugin authors and users want to be able to do it).

Lastly, VST3's i/o configuration for multichannel audio is a nightmare to try to understand and arbitrarily limited in a way that can't be expanded easily. It added a ton of complexity for no benefit over VST2.

The fact that its taken nearly 15 years and legal action to get anyone to support VST3 for their plugins is ultimately the biggest indictment against it.
Good. This is a space that could use a new, open standard. With Bitwig behind it, I’m paying attention now.
STxP70/STHORM/P2012 – ST's secret microcontroller
And not just secure system design.

“Undo” is powerful in any app, not just because it can roll a change back with a single click, but because scary dialog boxes (“Really, really REALLY delete this file? It can not be recovered once deleted, so check this box saying you know what you’re doing before clicking OK”) don’t work for regular apps, either.
I’ve tried to get into the fediverse many times. Every time the thing that stops me is stupid little problems of the sort that keep me in the Apple ecosystem instead of using Linux. I just keep running into confusing time consuming little issues and while I certainly can figure it out I don’t have time.

None of the issues I’ve found are intrinsic to decentralization in any way. They’re just UI/UX design issues. Nothing about the federated or decentralized design would prevent them from being fixed.
WebTV Shrine (2022)
Right now you want to be vesting in a promising company that is well funded and has revenue streams coming in. We are in the early days of creating the new winners of the next bull market.
> Should queer people be expected to work with people who believe that they should be killed for being queer?

If they want to abide by the civil rights act, then yes. As otherwise those beliefs would serve as a very strong filter against people of certain religious affiliations and national origins.
The number of incident per brand doesn't matter if you don't take into account how many cars they have on the road...

And Tesla could probably tell you how many crash per driving hour among other things
500 for downvotes et al is the last milestone afaik
This is why you use a reputable website, like Coinbase, despite the outrageous fees. They have a brand as collateral if they fuck up. They had that crazy early growth rate, and at the very least the dot-com of a word Satoshi coined, and he's coined more wealth than literally anybody. Modern day Croesus of Lydia. Literally as rich as Croesus.
Nuclear plants are much more complex, take much longer to build, and are much less forgiving of error in construction or operation. As a result, they iterate and improve much more slowly than solar and storage, which have the property of being composed of large numbers of copies of loosely coupled elements.
> Clearly, it'll not pay SW salaries - no engineering does.

For some reason, I assumed that in order to be a chip designer you had to be as good at programming as a developer. Then I became friends with two intel chip designers/engineers and was surprised that neither knew much of anything about programming, despite both having multiple PhDs in their fields. That's when I began realizing that engineering and programming are 2 entirely different fields that have little overlap.
> That's a really charitable description.

No, it's just accurate to what's in the report.

> The entire premise of the AVF at the time was that it would work fine, if you could still do a draft if you needed to.

No, it wasn't. While the standby draft was in the report as a safeguard to slightly reduce the the from-0 spinup time of a draft, the argument presented is not “an AVF is non-harmful as long as backstopped by a standby draft”, but “the AVF is superior on both practical economic efficiency grounds and ethical respect for personal liberty grounds in essentially every conceivable situation (with extensive analysis of the former and philosophical argument for the latter), and, just in case, we can also set up a standby draft system so things aren't quite needing to be built from scratch if Congress and the President ever decide a draft is needed for some reason again.”

In fact, the section of the Gates Commission report on the Standby Draft makes, obliquely, very good argument against the standby draft ever being the right choice, pointing out that it cannot immediately produce forces in an emergency because of time to train and organize, so it is only useful for gradual expansion, but then arguing for voluntary recruitment measures like compensation boosts for gradual expansion to be used in preference to activating the standby draft.
It's really not clear how we as a society can deal with such industrial liabilities. The scale of them is only obvious in retrospect, and the eventual solution always seems to be to buy the affected land, lock it away, and never deal with the actual issue.

Maybe having lots of unusable land permanently off-limits is some kind of fair trade for extracting so much energy, but it definitely doesn't seem right.
On a large commercial network, there's a distinct 'backbone' and self-controlled 'iot' and 'end users', and of the 3 only end users need v4. Compare that to a home environment where there's pretty much all devices need v4, and there aren't too complicated firewall rules going on, it makes less sense to split into a backbone and v6 only devices. Still, you could do it using something like DNS64 if you really wanted to.
How Inflation Works: An illustrated guide for the rest of us
I'm waiting eagerly for the day when these people discover that religions and religious people exist
It's hard because it probably won't change the world, but it becomes much harder when shouting.

It's entirely OK to sit and write without fanfare, we're not wizards or witches any longer, just plain people with the same plain obligation towards the mind as towards the body: tend, feed, and regularly empty out.

If today you really gotta go write, go ahead, knock yourself out.

If tomorrow you just scribble in the margins of empty pages but nothing comes, have a bath or a nap or both, and sit again the day after.

I also find it very helpful to remember that I'm not addressing others when writing, I'm not in a possibly empty auditorium talking into the void, instead I'm reaching across time and continue a discussion I started with myself earlier, and may pick up again later.

The trend since stationary became affordable has been to get a daily journal going, and start some weekly correspondence, that'll give you opportunity both to write and to communicate, and you'll also creating a self-referential echo chamber, and you bootstrap yourself up from there.

It helps a lot if you have questions that bug or interest you. Writing is thinking, you have to want to think about something, don't confuse it with presenting the writing.

Writing helps you sail on the void and dive in its depths. An audience isn't necessary for that, so if you get your writing done on the computer rather than on paper, remember that you don't need to publish it. That may take a load off you, and free you to think about what you want to write, not how it'll be typeset or who will read it or whether it'll get points, stars, or otherwise pointless superficial kudos.

In fact, write daily, but don't publish until after the first couple of times you burn your past notebooks (or "rm -rf ~/txt", though its really not the same).

PS, I just got this stuck in my mind, if you need a silly essay prompt: If you don't write when you think, how do you know that you're thinking when you think you're thinking, rather than hallucinating thinking that you're thinking?
> Except in some specific cases (Finland, other Arctic regions with long periods of low sunlight) I'm pretty sure this cost comparison comes down firmly on the side of wind/solar/storage.

On what basis do you make this assertion?

Because when it comes to renewables, I very rarely see any inclusion of the costs of additional large scale energy storage (probably because it still remains an unsolved issue) and I never see any inclusion of the cost of new transmission lines from any new renewables site.

The Germans have invested billions upon billions in becoming wholly renewable, with miles of new grid infrastructure (but next to no energy storage) and they are still at the mercy of Russian gas supplies... and dependant upon French nuclear power.

It's time to face reality and start investing in fission again, at least until fusion becomes a viable alternative.
Three body problem?
So if we wanted to put PostgREST[1] in front of this would something like this work:

db-uri = "postgres://authenticator:mysecretpassword@project_name.cloud.neon.tech:5433/postgres"
db-schema = "api"
db-anon-role = "web_anon"

[1]https://postgrest.org/en/v8.0/tutorials/tut0.html
What does the whole thing mean? Are we into some new geopolitical situation where we play chicken with Russia and hope the don't mess with something we care about (enough to do more than put a flag in our windows or social media profiles)? Or will Putin die or get overthrown and we go back to normal? Or some other thing? I think it's less a question of if Ukraine wins or loses in whatever this is, and more of how are we going to re-equilibrate? To something stable, or to some fragile ongoing steady-state? There must have been some informed thinking done on this
For someone who has no background on audio plugins, but have a surface level understanding of DAWs, what would be a good starting point to learn?
It sounds like this is funding maintenance of the current product (physical and software) and discounts if you keep the device damage free. As it goes, this ends up better than an old phone as it keeps you up to date, keeps your phone from being swapped out more frequently, and employs some folks to do this in the process.

Phones are not like cars. They’re not “done” when they ship :/
> It makes doing something like writing a distributed web scraper or crawler impractical

That's why they have the limits.
Problems that have been solved by regular banking decades ago. Jesus Christ the stupidity of crypto amazes me every day.
I'm a fan of explaining dark matter with such objects.

Not WIMPs but MACHOs.
> There is no mechanism for Republicans to limit Congress from "addressing" anything.

A few flaws in your logic:

You are doing some sleight of hand with the term “Addressing”.

Any spending bills require require 66.7% yes votes in both houses of Congress, which Democrats don’t have.

You mention filibuster, but the modern problem is a cloture vote. It can currently be rejected by a single _staffer_ of any Congressperson _via email_, so it’s not as much of a party issue as it is a heckler’s veto.

Republicans have a more restrictive policy called the Hastert Rule where nothing will be brought to a vote unless the majority of Republicans whip it. Hence, even if Americans want it, some of Team Red, and most of Team Blue agree (enough for a supermajority), Republican policy is to not allow it for vote. Republicans are every bit as flawed as Democrats in this sense.

The issues with committees and subcommittees are numerous. Individual deal making, seniority, etc. whether the larger party wants something doesn’t mean the party can force an individual Congressperson to do it.

Anyone who pretends like this is a Team Red versus Team Blue is either disingenuous or naïve about the details.

Very few Democrats in Congress want single payer healthcare, so don’t pretend like Team Blue could do it right now. ObamaCare (Patient ACA) was a very Republican proposal from the 1990s, only Republicans have moved the Overton Window to make lots of Americans think it was a radical left takeover of healthcare.
Oh man.. don't get me started on Plaid. The fact that we normalized entering your bank login details in random apps is absolutely insane to me.
Because credit cards have consumer protection and laws and regulations. Crypto has none of that.
> Or will Putin die or get overthrown and we go back to normal

That's a big if... he might have someone lined up
NSFW GPT-J Based Chatbots
Sohn 2022 – John Collison in Conversation with Stanley Druckenmiller
Waiting for the CO2 taxes to rise high enough to drive off fossil fuels.
If you change one pixel on a public domain work, it is now your derivative work. Public domain means that you are allowed to create derivative works.

Technically, their own signature on the image is their novel contribution. (Of course they wouldn't explain it this way to the customer.)
I don't know, people seem pretty greedy still. VIX barely at 30, PE10 near pre-pandemic highs, real yields negative out to 3-4 years, and markets are orderly. If you get weeks and weeks of 4% daily drops, real yields at 5%, and hedge funds being force liquidated like 2008, then you know real fear.

Look at how far behind the Fed has gotten:
https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/
Is there some kind of inflation protected EUR denominated bond or note you can buy? If the maturity date is reasonable that might not be a bad place to park excess cash.
> we still have my 5 year olds car seat in our garage because no place will take them (I have to make a trip to the dump, or get a junk hauler to come by with a big load for them and a few hundred bucks).

Our garbage system allows us two "bulky item" pickups per year with our regular garbage if we call in advance where they'll take anything in a 3x3x6 volume.

For everything else, I just destroy it with old power tools.
Good luck explaining that to the supposedly unbanked crypto is trying to reach.
There's old ways to take blood pressure that haven't been expensified by American medicine.
You’ve said QE is the cause, but provide no evidence to back up these claims. Considering QE occurred multiple times after the 08 crisis, what makes this time different? Bold claims without much substance.
For independent artists, everywhere from "not at all" to "obscene amounts", with most on the lower end of the scale or nothing.

For commercial artists- designers and such for companies- it is usually a good living.
As others here are pointing out, there are a lot of points here that won't hold up for more experienced artists.

For example, on brushes: "a medium round (the pointy but wide-ish one) is all you need"

This depends entirely on technique and what you want to do. Trying to do consistent, smooth lines using a round brush? Good luck.
The least unrealistic mitigation strategy would be to colonize Mars.

Note that even a near miss will cause a significant perturbation to orbits in the solar system. It's likely that a black hole passing through the solar system and not hitting anything would still render life on Earth impossible.
There is an abundance of data, if one is willing to look. Just first links from DDG:

"Has Russia Been Financing Western Environmentalism?" (2022) [1]

"Putin Is Funding Green Groups to Discredit Natural Gas Fracking" (2017) [2]

"German green group branded a Russian ‘puppet’ over Nord Stream II gas pipeline" (2021) [3]

[1]: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18330/russia-funding-envi...

[2]: https://www.newsweek.com/putin-funding-green-groups-discredi...

[3]: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/german-green-group-brande...
Yes good point, there is also the option that his successor maintains this program and nothing change or somehow it gets more dangerous
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Chrome wasn't multi-process all along. But Chrome historically used it more for fault isolation (= crashing one tab doesn't crash them all) rather than security isolation. Historically window.open() would (usually) open a new tab that actually ran in the same process, and iframes ran in the same process, so getting any arbitrary site running in the same process as yours was easy.
The storage problem has yet to be solved for the same reason why any nation has yet to solve the issue of pollution from fossil fuels. It cost money and any increase in energy costs is detrimental to growth.

The insurance issue is similar identical to other energy sources. Why isn't hydro power insured in the case of accidental flooding? If they were it wouldn't be possible to run them at current energy prices. We don't see fossil fuel plants being insured against increased air pollution, nor do they have to pay if people around them get sick. If a hydrodam causes a flood, then there will be a flood. Hopefully those people downstream has their own insurance.