skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source you cited conveniently links to a 404 page for the study it cites.

But yes, I've read quite a bit about the Reid-Hillview Airport saga. These claims of leaded gas hurting the children around airport is just the newest in a long list of excuses to close airports so their land can be redeveloped into more strip malls and condos. These neighborhood groups are biased towards wanting airports closed. It's textbook NIMBYism and they'll look for any excuse to achieve their goals. If it's not leaded gas, it's something else.

> Instead, the FAA and pilots of piston driven planes have simply decided lead poisoning is a justifiable price to pay for people living near an airport in exchange for individuals getting to fly their quarter million+ $ aircraft.

Don't buy a house near an airport if you're concerned about it then. The airport was there before the houses were.

> Everything you suggest it is useful for could be performed with the already proven and no longer new unleaded alternative. Defending this practice is asinine.

Where did I say I liked leaded gas exactly? I'm quite excited about G100UL being rolled out, even if it costs a bit more, so I can stop having this exact argument about how we need to close airports because of leaded gas. Everything with the FAA moves slowly, but it's moving. We're about to have unleaded gas for all planes.

By the way, the average Cessna 172 is well under $100k (at least prior to the previous two years before asset prices for everything went through the roof). For every fancy late model Cirrus SR22T there's 10 more shitbox Cessna's from the 1970s barely hanging onto life. You think of private pilots as all extremely wealthy individuals. Most of us are solidly middle class. How many people have boats or RVs that cost the same or more? Small planes fall into that same category.
It's comical to call the Economist unbiased. They make their bias very very clear.
At this point, Mitt Romney is a RINO - republican in name only. The party has moved way past his kind of politics.
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USD is up 8% versus EUR YTD ($1 = €0.88 then, €0.95 now). US, unlike Europe, does not actually need Russian oil/gas. And yet, US inflation is above the world average (<https://www.barrons.com/articles/inflation-has-become-a-glob...>).
How long do you predict until Bitcoin hits a price of 0 dollars?
> Homeowner seems optimistic - how or when are they saving for the downpayment?

In most cases, the scenario described involves families who have been in the US for several generations, who are poorly-educated, but own homes and land. One parent takes care of kids. One works.

It's not uncommon.

Wealth and income aren't as strongly correlated as people assume. A lot of immigrants are low-wealth, high-income, while a lot of American families have generational wealth, but little income. There are plenty of families with >$1M homes with $30k incomes where I live. And there are plenty of families with >$100k incomes, who can't afford to buy homes here too.
Its a hard problem.

If the goal of prison is for people to be able to be a non-destructive part of society when they get out, they need to learn skills and be employable.

That cannot be done if they are kept from working and earning.

However, if they earn money, that is obviously something of value, and can be traded or used against them.
> The early 20th century industrialists talked about all the same stuff.

Yeah, this is just capitalism at work.

> People are fickle and managing them at scale is hard.

Well I guess that’s an alternative lesson to take away from this.
Yet, you really can.
This game needs a "gold standard" mode to see what happens to the toy economy with no central bank!

EDIT: It would also be nice if the game paused around major events to give you more time to think & adjust. I found that the economy went off the rails if you don't react right away.
We can talk about how we got here, why the crime statistics are what they are, and what to do about it, but none of that makes imprisoning a convicted rapist or murderer equivalent to the forced internment of an ethnic minority with little pretext. They simply aren't equivalent in any way, our history notwithstanding.

I've noticed that there seems to be something in the progressive mindset -- and here I'm speaking generally, not about you -- that says, in effect, "if we can describe a reasonable causal chain that led to a behavior, then we can excuse that behavior." I don't think this follows. A description of the hardships that led to violent behavior, say, is not universally exculpatory (neither morally, in my own view, or as a matter of law).
Adding a [discontinued] tag to the title would be nice.

The given link points into the documentation of it instead of the landing page (https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) which means there is no warning that it was discontinued.

Got me all hyped up for nothing.
He definitely didn't know (he was just excited about showing us Einstein summation notation), and he definitely informed me to make a wise choice. Not every degree program is about ensuring the best median performance, some are only concerned with picking out the world-changers. And that's okay.
It has literally happened once before, that does not mean it is going to revive again. What if we're at crypto saturation and the demand won't cover another crash?
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing
If we're to believe crypto is ideally unregulated then the crypto fdic isn't coming
In practice transferwise (now wise) is able to transfer money more easily and with much lower fees. At least if your needs match normal consumer needs.

This switches if you need to transfer millions of dollars, or you're trying to pay for something illegal. Which is why one of Bitcoin's significant real-world uses is for ransomware. It does indeed make it easy to launder millions of dollars of money across national boundaries.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1004874311/how-bitcoin-has-fu...
I think that describes all opinion writers. I (almost) never read them. If you are reasonably well-informed about an issue, almost every opinion article is transparent nonsense and manipulation.

The only exceptions I've seen are Will Bunch, who writes for one of the local big city US news publications but seems to get wider distribution (maybe syndicated?), and The Bulwark, a conservative (in the actual non-Trump sense) publication that is actually intellectually honest. I think there's another that I wish I remembered atm.
Yup, and I really hope we get G100UL distributed widely soon so we can stop having this asinine discussion about how we need to close airports because we're all going to die from the tiny amount of lead they emit.

Ideally we could have the FAA promote the certification of newer engine designs so we didn't need to keep flying around with 1940s engine tech as well that relies on lead, but that's another issue.
> truly appalling conquistadors

Do you consider killing thousands of people for human sacrifice appalling?
Sorry what gets clobbered?

If you only need it once, just don’t launch it again? It’s not like it’s always running.
You again omit the stock shorting part.
When you make claims about “NASA figures”, it’s reasonable to ask you to cite/link to where those figures are published.
I was mind blown when I first saw an expert using Vim. It convinced me to invest time in learning it. I don't remember the particular video but there are a few similar ones on Youtube.
You're right. I falsely equated "progressive" and "democrat". I wasn't very familiar with KKK politics, but reading up, it looks they definitely had some strong conservative aspects.

I also agree that both parties are big tents. But I will continue to argue that the democrats were and are still the more racist party: https://nypost.com/2016/03/21/the-progressive-movements-horr...

"During the heyday of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century, people on the left were in the forefront of those promoting doctrines of innate, genetic inferiority of not only blacks but also of people from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, as compared to people from Western Europe.

Liberals today tend to either glide over the undeniable racism of Progressive President Woodrow Wilson or else treat it as an anomaly of some sort. But racism on the left at that time was not an anomaly, either for Wilson or for numerous other stalwarts of the Progressive movement."
Here's my favorite Human Interface Guidelines version (2009-08-20): https://web.archive.org/web/20101113134550/http://developer....
> We're making six figures here

Turns out there are other countries outside of the US. And even in US not all developers are overpaid.

Moreover, software developers are much much more likely to drop out of their career before pension and/or face burnout than other fields.
And revolute when Wise don't work. It's easy and has some of the protection of the "outdated" banking industry.
One of my all-time favorite examples of an alternate communication channel is when, their URL banned from in-game chat, gold sellers spelled it out in corpses on a hillside: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/2y2vb3/back_in_wrath_g...
Ah. My bad.

Looking at specs:
SD662
6/128
829USD

The hardware BOM should only cost ~200usd. The rest is software sorry/markup for being a small company with limited volume. Not great value and a horizontal keyboard isn't my thing personally but I'm glad they're competing!
"Crypto doesn't have any actual use-value..."
Same can be said for most financial instruments yet they're regulated. Gambling has no "real world use-value" yet it is heavily regulated.
Cryptocurrency Lender Babel Follows Celsius in Withdrawal Freeze
> Publishing an openly critical letter and signing it is a quick way to get your employer to not like you.

There was a saying in Eastern/Communist Europe (Poland?):

Do not think. If you think, do not write. If you write, do not publish. If you publish, do not sign (your name). If you sign, do not be surprised.
>I interviewed for a position with Amazon a few months back to lead up a new research program to determine how they can better recruit and retain hourly workers.

Some companies take pride in promoting from within. McDonald's is well known for turning entry-level workers into store mangers, then regional managers, and so on. Walmart does this, too.

Does Amazon not have such a culture?
AWS Quicksight was one, late 2020-early 2021 (which is about 5+ years after acquisition, iirc).

IAM support was essentially useless, you had to create second set of accounts inside Quicksight, with various limitations, and generally it was one hell of a mess.
Feel free to take part in evolution yourself, but leave the rest of us out of it. I feel no allegiance to evolution as a cause or god; it's just a natural process.
I have no idea if it's true, but it seems like people are writing about contagion within crypto, as if it is more substantial than last time, and worrying a little bit about it affecting the rest of the economy.

This game of lending crypto assets for ridiculous interest rates wasn't nearly as popular last time, was it?
PRNET is based on Aloha, which was already part of a functional ARPANET which had been operational for over 6 years before his 1975 theoretical paper.

Citing an academic paper published years after something was built as the inspiration for building that something is just not possible. It'd be like saying Facebook is why Tim Berners Lee made the World Wide Web.

The narrative isn't physically possible regardless of arguments because that's simply not how time works.

Here's an early network diagram btw. IMP is the network device by BBN (they're still around in mini-museums at some of these sites):

https://historyofinformation.com/images/Screen_Shot_2020-09-...

The GE-645 at MIT there is the multics machine. The TX-2 at Lincoln Labs was Sutherland's machine he did sketchpad on while that link at Utah is the one that Martin Newell used to collaborate on his Bézier control points in constructing the Utah Teapot in 1975.

Every one of these links has a story to tell. None of them however involve wars, battlefields or bombs. I've dedicated years of study to computing history - it's not a supported hypothesis unless you want to handwave and string unrelated things together.

DARPA which provided some of the cash, which is the only real link there is, was really unhappy because these researchers just used them for their money - they didn't work on or produce results for them. Go read "where wizards stay up late" for very detailed drama surrounding this.

There's a typo at UCLA btw, that's an SDS, not an XDS Sigma 7 (It's a weird typo because it was later sold off to Xerox and got renamed the XDS 4 years later. But here, it's a typo because again, that's how time works). The Illiac IV at Burroughs would have been very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC_IV
To be sure, crypto has a cost to maintain its stable state/value in storage, compute, power. gold does have intrinsic value, but clearly the value has been over-represented by speculation long term. Conflating gold as intrinsic value is just as deluded as crypto. In the most disastrous outcome, gold will still be worth what people value wearing it around their necks. Crypto will only have value until all participants pull the plug on once the liability to maintain it outstrips it's potential returns.
> Sure... but the alternatives are worse, shifting the financial burden to the innocent public

The innocent public is already paying for it. They're just paying for profits, too...
I’ve run some modded engines (including higher than stock compression) and for street usage, I’d be worried about the variability of gas you get over the years. You’re eventually going to get some crap gas on a hot day and have a bad day if you’re right on the ragged edge (especially without knock sensing).

For track or drag usage, running on the ragged edge makes more sense.
Just flag the lame comments and write a comment about the thing rather than the comments about the thing. The thread will fix itself especially with better comments around.
People said the same probably about enron fud or tulip fud. until it wasn't fud anymore
There is no way the federal government bails out crypto. That would be the most absolute bonkers thing I've ever witnessed.
What specifically might you see as requisite preconditions / operations for reducing US military spending?
> A prisoner costs the same in funding ($150k/year) as 10 school children ($15k/year). The two million inmates in america cost the same as educating 20 million kids -or increasing funding foe x number of kids who need it most-.

But there is no evidence that increasing educational funding for children will have any positive effect. The correlation between educational funding and educational outcomes in the US is already negative.
Lyft is paying shareholders this money. Do we now how much Lyft has paid those harmed by their safety problems?
Gonna be honest. I love brussel sprouts but i found a TON of dirt in my last batch and have been super apprehensive.

Just wondering. How do you clean your brussel sprouts?

I roast mine with olive oil and fairly simple spices.
Cool game, but when shit hits the fan and production falls, everything seems to explode instantly, within a few turns. It would be nice to add some time controls so I can actually think about what to do.

Edit: while I'm asking for new features, two buttons with a step of .5 isn't enough to handle these deflationary spirals. Perhaps turn it into a slider with the step buttons.

Also some historical charts to show at the end of the game would be cool
LG no longer makes phones but even when they did their software updates were never timely. I am definitely excited for the pinephone pro.
You could “prepay” for the next car buy using monthly I bond purchases.
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This is not me defending Amazon's comp structure (they need to improve it in many ways), just correcting the facts:

At the time of calculating an offer, all 4 years are considered the same "Total Compensation Target" i.e. no built in reduction or raise. Amazon just pays cash equivalents for years 1 and 2 - through a signing bonus to make up for the lack of stocks, and through stocks in years 3 and 4.

The stocks in for each year are calculated assuming an average of 15% growth. This can be problematic, or can be great depending on the year you join.

Disclaimer: Worked at Amazon for 9 years.
>doesn’t harm anyone not involved

How on earth do you think this is possible?
I think its one saving grace will be that it is used for non-recreational drugs that will soon become illegal or functionally unobtainable, for example Plan B and HRT.
You can also set your bids by it.
> None of it has ever happened before during a recession.

The 2020 Covid crash was a recession. A very short one, but also one of the most severe since the Great Depression. Bitcoin crashed from about $10,000 to $4,000 in the span of 3 weeks, before recovering and peaking at nearly $70,000.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/past-rece...

What might be correct to say is that bitcoin has never gone through stagflation, but that's a terrifying prospect for every person and asset class.
The Fed is precipitating the next recession (maybe) and also created the crypto bubble along with the stock market bubble, the venture capital bubble and various other asset inflations due to its easy/cheap money policy.

What's happened now is that the Fed has suddenly withdrawn its cheap and easy money and these people are having a wile-e-coyote moment. Currently they're suspended in mid air with nothing below.

Crypto isn't to blame, neither is the Fed (maybe), it's just the hangover from covid and the war in Ukraine.
To be fair, giant towers of indirection are hard to profile since everything is going to be sort of lukewarm.
> It's privately owned, but like a privately owned mall, it is "open to the public" and therefore at least some free speech protections apply.

What are the Terms of Service (EULA) of a public shopping mall? What are they for Twitter?

When you click on "I agree" to the terms of software, or a website, what did you agree to? Where do you click "I agree" when visiting a shopping mall?
The victim is the pensioners, not necessarily the gambling fund. "regulator action" can refer to simply preventing sensitive/prison funds from going into certain classes of risky ventures, and not regulation against crypto itself.
Transmitting power is not, in fact, expensive.

Building an HVDC transmission line has capital cost, but marginal operating cost is near zero.
As much as I'd like them to succeed their phones were always expensive with a mediocre chipset. They always took a long time to release updates (but at least they did!)
What advantages (or disadvantages) do you all trackball users have over using a mouse/trackpad?

The only problems I've ever had with the mouse was stiff neck/shoulders (which I think was more to do with bad posture and desk/keyboard/mouse height) and shooting pains on the back of my mouse hand, possibly from clicking the buttons but the trackball has similar buttons.

Would I appreciate any increases in speed/accuracy over a mouse or touchpad? If that were true pro-gamers should be using them. Being in one place means it can stay closer to the keyboard, so that's a plus--might be cool to have a laptop with a trackball under your palms on home row.
What Canon law are you referring to? What exactly was led by a senior cleric?

Frankly, it sounds as though you are randomly spouting phrases in an attempt to sound educated.
Ex-Amazonian here, so take what I say however you will.

The back-ended equity structure (i.e., you only vest 5% of your equity grant in the first 12mo) isn’t great when you’re comparing it with a standard vesting schedule as an employee. As an employee if you’re given two identical grants for two identical companies with the same future prospects then you take the one that gives you that equity sooner. But the rhetoric is usually that equity is meant to be an employee retention tool. So from that perspective the AMZN vesting structure makes much more sense to me than what is common elsewhere.

As for the service dynamic: the whole “2 pizza team” thing is both a blessing and a curse IMO. Once you launch a service at AWS’s scale you’ve immediately got tens of thousands of users. And AWS takes stability/availability/scalability incredibly seriously. I think it’s more likely that team is now in a permanent operations mode fixing weird edge cases you find at scale and keeping the lights on.

If it was a staff retention issue like you suggest then you’d see the platform plagued with reliability issues and services being shut down. But that doesn’t happen. Even SimpleDB is still available for use (though well hidden).
“Your sexual partners can change your microbiome, a new study in mice finds“

https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/05/your-sexual-partners-can...
But not for the reason you think.

The right place to put PV for Europe is in Europe. You will want solar farms in the tropics producing ammonia to ship around to wherever the wind flags for a few weeks, and to Finland in winter.
I think chainanalysis would be (and is) funded without Coinbase a thousand time over by VCs and every Government agency. This is unfortunately (or fortunately, who knows?) an inevitability. Every time I say "inevitability" and remember "That is the sound of inevitability, Mr. Anderson..." phrase. :-)
Global economy. It's not one village.

The US Fed has to ensure liquidity for all global USD users, to include USD derivatives, USD denominated loans and USD denominated trade instruments; and it has to do that at the same time trillions can sit nearly idle (not contributing to transactional velocity) on balance sheets worldwide.

Impressive, no doubt and good on you though!
It depends. An article is faster to read and has some other benefits, but sometimes I just want to relax while listening a talk without focusing 100%.
FYI they won't work on AT&T because of the IMEI whitelisting.
Hiring from Ivy League or Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Mud, etc. means you are at least guaranteed the top 1% of IQ. It means you are getting someone who probably posses a combination of good analytical skills and competitiveness.
The WSJ advocated nationalism and was a fellow traveller with fascists during the Trump administration. The WSJ editorial page definitely includes substantional hard right content.

> The silo-ing of ideas leads to alienation among people and preconceptions of what the other people believe and who they are.

The WSJ is the most siloed of the major publications. I challenge you to find anything supporting a Democratic or liberal position. As I wrote in another comment, I once collected about two weeks of opinion articles, which IIRC was abouyt 200 of them. As I recall, only one included (not advocated) any support of a Democratic position, only three included any support of liberal positions.

The NY Times covers the political spectrum, from Ross Douthat to Bret Stephens (former WSJ opinion page editor) to David Brooks, etc.
1. There is no retrocausality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser#...
This is an often misunderstood effect and while it’s very weird, it (most probably) doesn’t break causality.
Passkeys has a huge risk hole; all of these services are offered under terms that say they can fire you as a customer at any time; if all my logins are through Google or Apple, and they close my account for any or no reason, I have lost access to all sites that used Passkey or whatever. No thank you, I will keep the blast radius lower than that. At least with LastPass or 1Password, I have a offline break-glass backup.
Identify Birds by Their Chirp
The Enron of this situation (LUNA) is already dead. If you're trying to compare the entire market to Enron or Tulip mania, that's incredibly short sighted.

I'm so tired of these same low value takes year after year.