skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same. i rent largely because i haven't prioritized buying. (i.e. the money i could have saved for the down payment went to accelerated student loan payoff, cars and fun stuff)

aside from the federal tax breaks and very high amount of leverage ($40k to get a loan on a $200k unit that you _might_ be able to resell at $300k to get into a larger $400k unit that you _might_ be able to resell at $500k to get into a larger $600k unit...), I never saw, and still don't see, the benefit of home ownership.

actually, that's not true. for people with families who need (or "need") stability, home ownership makes a lot of sense. you're going to be in the same town until the children reach maturity...might as well get a loan on a house since you're going to stay put for a while. cheaper than hoping that your landlord doesn't bump the rent up.

however, we are not having children, have moved three times in the last six years, and spend a lot of time traveling. i very much like emailing my landlord "hey, weird noise" and they bring in their contractor friends to look into it on their dime

i do hate how there is this sense that you should feel "bad" for not owning, i.e. renters are always pictured as troubled people in financial distress who don't have a choice but to rent.
I think most teachers just don’t care. In highschool, I remember asking my math teacher about ruler’s identity, and she had never heard of it. In middle school our math teacher told us pi was exactly 22/7. In elementary school one of my teachers said there was no gravity on the moon. My highschool chemistry teacher told us that if you put two cheerios in a bowl of milk, they move towards each other because of their mutual gravitational attraction.
Legal? I think you mean PR team. They realized it would have an impact on income. There was obviously no legal issue.
You base that speculation on nothing but your existing bias against this "rich white old man" strawman you've imagined.
Note that he only recently finished his PhD in a tangential area related to Quantum computing, so he is not a giant in a field like say Aronson who I would be interested in knowing what they think on this industry.

I do in fact agree with most of the article. However I also think if you measure ratio of scientific/technological impact to funding, I would place Quantum Computing for higher than many other hype bubbles such as crypto, blockchain, web3.

In other words the size of funding QC is getting is nowhere close to the other hype bubbles and there are some significant peer-reviewed results that have been generated from it, so for the time being you can still give it the benefit of the doubt.

For example, compare how many QC startups YC has funded (I think 0?) compared to blockchain, crypto, AI-assisted medicine and web3. There is no comparison. Picking on QC is far below my list if you want to have a go at hype bubbles.
Just because you know where it is doesn't prevent it from being stolen--and you not able to get it back.
Have you tried https://www.paddle.com/?
It's an interesting problem - designing a basic forum that can survive DDoS attacks without a centralized protector such as cloudflare.
Doxxing to facilitate swatting is attempted murder. They aren't unearthing this information because they're devoted archivists; they operate within a broader culture of harassment, and when one considers the modern arsenal of digital harassment that's enabled via doxxing, the SWAT team is front and center.
So the best indicator of harm from vaccines allowed its well to be poisoned from the start? Certainly smells bad.
The issue isn't really bandwidth - it's about the host and device agreeing on a suitable codec.

On a Mac, my Sony headphones will fall back to the SBC codec if the mic is active. Fine for voice, but music/video/gaming sounds terrible. On Android, however, they will negotiate bi-directional AptX or some similar modern codec, so the quality is much better.
Additionally, many doctors have said that 2 weeks between shots was too quick and would not be enough time for the first shot to "primer". 2 weeks acted more like a single larger dose than 2 spread out doses.

Edit: My memory failed me, the spacing was 3 weeks and 4 weeks (Pfizer and Moderna respectively). Point still stands though.

Ref: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/94315
Am I a doctor? Do I support triage? Or am I just talking about why someone might take that position, given that they're the ones who have to clean up the consequences?

And, seriously, fat people? Do you really think that "a lifetime of eating choices, shaped by gut health, physical education, literal physical location, upbringing, and genetics" is equivalent to "sitting still for a vaccine, just like all the other ones you've uncontroversially received all your life"? Perhaps I've missed an easily-accessible vaccine against fat that the obese refused to get?

I don't think you do; I think you're choosing to present an untenable situation in order to score points. Just get the vaccine.
It's not going to be helpful anyway, because the size is measured in diagonals, and it's quite difficult to imagine how large a screen is if you only have the diagonals.

If, instead, we had height and width, I can roughly use my body to estimate screen size.

Last time I bought a TV I had to tape out its size on my wall to get a better understanding of its size relative to the size of my living room.
I don't think it matters which provider you choose. Big corps ban entire IP blocks, and you will get spammers as neighbors both at a low-cost provider and at a "proper datacenter".

FWIW, I've been using Hetzner for the last 10 years or so (but bare metal server, not a VPS) and haven't had issues.
The article never mentions why folding in half is a good thing. It is, of course, but why half, and not fifths?

The reason is that two is a good factor to work with. Multiplying and dividing by two is more common than by five in a lot of domains. Three is pretty useful also.

But the metric system is based on ten, which has factors two and five. Five is not such a great factor and often creates awkward numbers when dividing by two or three.

The US measurement system, while inconsistent and arbitrary in many ways, but handles factors of two a lot better. Two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, four quarts in a gallon.

Better would be to have a consistent measurement system in base 12. Two twos and a three are a nice set of factors to work with. And twelve is still a nice "order of magnitude" that gives a good sense of scale.

When it comes to distances, feet are actually pretty good in this regard. Degrees and time are base 60, which includes an extra five factor, so I guess it's combining all of them.

The non-US world is smug about A4 and the metric system, but the very reasons that A4 is good shows why the metric system is not quite as brilliant as people like to think it is.

(Obviously standardization and consistency have value, too. The metric system is good in that regard.)
People only want to see the lies they want to see and the impact they want to see.

Maybe some of those 38% voted for it because the believed home-ownership would be banned.

Maybe there were other misinformation that showed it in a more positive light that convinced some people.

Its dangerous to assume misinformation effect only happen in one direction.
Could you expand why base-12 is more beautiful than base-10? Is it because it has more divisors? If so, why not base-2?
While I'm convinced Google and Amazon are doing plenty evil, this article is just a fear mongering piece. There is nothing alarming about a cloud migration project. Just like every other agency in the world, the Israeli government has decided it's time to migrate its infrastructure to the cloud. Google and Amazon just happened to have won the contract (huh, what a surprise). When you pick GCP or AWS, of course it will come with all the managed services they have to offer. Any individual in the world who signs up for GCP or AWS will have access to all these services including the vision API, AI and ML tools. Google does not vet whether an individual should be using these services, why should the government be treated differently?

The article is doing the age old folly of blaming the tools instead of the actor. If Google does not provide technology to the government, somebody else will. Heck, the government can even build those capabilities in house, the research is largely in the public domain. The real problem is holding your government accountable and having policies in place which prevent authorities from violating human rights. It's a political problem that needs a political solution. Blaming everyone else is not going to solve the problem by any means. So make sure you elect the right government.
You should hear the folks that gun it a couple streets over with their modded mufflers at 2am in my neighborhood.
Basically, yes: the returns are diminishing.

There are two types of debt (for the purposes of your credit score): revolving (you regularly borrow money and pay it back, like a credit card) and fixed (you borrow a lump sum and make regular payments).

Just having any type of fixed debt at all (car loan, mortgage, even a personal loan) is a huge boost to your score. Thus, a second car loan will make much less of an impact because OP would already be getting this boost from their first loan. (Similarly, having any type of revolving debt at all provides a boost, so for anybody new to the credit score game try to get any shitty credit card that will approve yoy and buy at least one thing with it each statement).

On top of that, getting approved for a second car loan (at the same time) is wayyyy harder than the first. I have no idea why this is, as the economics should be the same, but maybe lenders have some data that shows people with two car loans are more likely to default or something.

I generally wouldn't recommend this strategy to OP unless they were already going to buy a second car for a spouse/family member/etc. Cars depreciate very quickly even if you don't use them at all and the score boost won't be very big.
What do you mean? Fahrenheit is not logarithmic. The conversion function from Fahrenheit to Celsius is literallay a linear function: c(f) = f(5/9) - (160/9)
There are multiple parallelization techniques that apply to finite state machines in general.

Yes, it is a surprising result. But that is what makes them worthy of study.

Hillis / Steele even did it using the standard technique of prefix sums over an associative operator. So it's the sort of thing that a parallel programmer should be able to invent on their own (if they are expert enough with prefix sum pattern)

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EDIT: For regular languages, here's a "really simple" method that achieves 2x parallelism.

1. Thread#1 parses from the start.

2. Reverse the language / FSM, and Thread#2 parses from the end working to the beginning using the reversed FSM.

3. When Thread#1 and Thread#2 meet in the middle, ensure that there is a valid state-transition between the two states. If so, accept the string. Otherwise, reject it.

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This concept can become generalized to "starting in the middle" of any regular language, but that's the tricky part. The first and last characters are the "obvious" starting points. Once you can "start at any location", and learn to match up states, you've got general parallelism for the entire set of characters in the whole string.

> Each other string starts at the set of possible states

A good start.

The Hillis / Steele prefix sum methodology is a bit more nuanced.

Compute the following in parallel:

* a[0] + a[1]

* a[2] + a[3]

* a[4] + a[5]

...

* a[2n] + a[2n+1]

Where + is the transition function between states. This results in n/2 possible FSM machines. Once you've done this, then compute:

* (a[0] + a[1]) + (a[2] + a[3])

* (a[4] + a[5]) + (a[6] + a[7])

...

* (a[4n] + a[4n+1]) + (a[4n+2] + a[4n+3])

Which represents "taking 4 steps of the finite-state-machine, starting at a[0], a[4], a[8], etc. etc.".

Each time you do this, you double the length of the substrings computed. After O(log2(n)) steps, you'll have processed the entire string with O(n) processors.

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I don't think the Hillis / Steele algorithm is practical. But it proves that the problem is in Nick's Class of complexity (aka: NC complexity) and therefore worthy of parallelism study.
As someone who owns half a dozen Tiles, one of the reasons Tile had its lunch eaten by AirTags is the persistent disconnect between Tile management and their audience. You created a product that appeals most to techies and hackers and then buried it in anti-consumer nonsense. Normies can't tell the difference, but we notice when you charge for things that don't cost you any money to provide. Before AirTags I used to give a lot of Tiles as Christmas and birthday gifts. I don't know a single person who saw you trying to charge three dollars a month for the app to notify you of loss of signal and didn't go "Oh my God, go fuck yourself".
They might look into a federated server + p2p content exchange architecture like notabug.io was building for a few years.
CyubeVR: Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR
There is nothing preventing the use of neutral third party contracts, For example a non profit arbiter of such cases, recognized for impartiality in an open market. Just like the better business bureau, or similar organizations. Merchants can display a "your purchase protected by" banner, the market itself will determine the best form the material incentives for such an organization would take, perhaps "loser pays the fee" could work, or a subscription model, more like a traditional bank.
Hospitals have always checked for vaccines in public health crises when relevant. That is part of the playbook. They have also required staff to be vaccinated for decades. Schools at all levels have required proof for decades. Those other businesses didn't need to check because most likely someone was already vaccinated or enough people were vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. COVID was the first virus and vaccine in decades that needed to be treated similarly to measles, etc.

Please stop throwing the word gaslighting around. First, it has a specific meaning that isn't relevant here. Second, using that word in this context just shows ignorance on the current topic.
It's not particularly amusing, because it's normal and what users expect (by not caring in the slightest when the program was written).
8,200 miles. Seat cushions full of astronaut farts.

Probably a decent deal for someone.
One point of interest was the paper on quantum computing applied to quantum chemistry[1]. In that paper, they did not find generic exponential speedup for a list of chemistry problems with current quantum algorithms. There are 3 problems with this: a speedup does not need to be exponential in order to be incredibly valuable; a speedup does not need to be extremely generic, just enough to cover real-world use cases; and quantum algorithms are still in their infancy, and it's unclear how much more we might discover in the next 10-20 years.

Furthermore, the paper itself links to a github repository[2] with a list of papers that either imply or use an exponential advantage in quantum chemistry. Now would be a good time to mention that I am not an expert in chemistry, nor have I read the entirety of this list of papers so I am not in a position to go through each and every one to decide how generic their results are or what the limitations are. Perhaps all these papers have fundamental limitations that prevent it from being useful in normal chemistry, only in weird souped-up problems specifically devised for a quantum advantage.

Either way, this paper is by no means conclusive on the subject. There's a ton of more research to be done in multiple fields to know for sure.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.02199.pdf
[2] https://github.com/seunghoonlee89/Refs_EQA_GSQC
> A foot is at least something very closely aligned

Hmm, the largest historic European foot listed on the corresponding Wikipedia page is almost 30 % larger than the smallest foot. So while they indeed all are somewhere roughly 30 cm-ish long, after a few feet those differences will still add up considerably…
Heating, using electricity to heat anything is a mild environmental crime. For rest of the thing, all appliances are efficient enough and still improving.
This doesn't take into account the cost of replacing the battery when it degrades over time, and the cost of the much more limited range, and the cost of a much much longer fueling time.
Because theft protection is an extremely compelling use case of trackers. Unfortunately, features that make a compelling anti-theft device (concealability, secrecy) are diametrically opposed to features that make it hard to abuse for stalking purposes.

It would be a killer app to somehow have the best of both worlds. I agree that robust authentication is one way to go about this. Perhaps a tracker could have a “stolen” mode, that when enabled disables anti-stalking features but also automatically notifies the police with the identity of the tracker’s owner.
But the current bluetooth and wi-fi buttons don't turn them off at all. They just disconnect your devices while still broadcasting. They're still using power, updating airtag locations, and serving as a beacon that physical retailers use to identify you and track how you move through the store.
Why does it matter about covering your purchasing tracks? I presume most stalkers believe their targets won’t find the device. If it was found, how are you going to easily know what it is and then identify the owner?

AirTags don’t let you cover any tracks at all. A GPS tracker is easy to buy, without any nefarious connections.
Please don't pretend any kind of consistency with any form of the English language.
True, obviously the most impactful innovation of the 19th century was Taylorism.
Note that he only recently finished his PhD in a tangential area related to Quantum computing, so he is not a giant in a field like say Aronson who I would be interested in knowing what they think on this industry.
I do in fact agree with most of the article. However I also think if you measure ratio of scientific/technological impact to funding, I would place Quantum Computing for higher than many other hype bubbles such as crypto, blockchain, web3.

In other words the size of funding QC is getting is nowhere close to the other hype bubbles and there are some significant peer-reviewed results that have been generated from it, so for the time being you can still give it the benefit of the doubt.

For example it has definitely enhanced our understanding of quantum chemistry and computational complexity, and anyone who invests time learning QC will end up having solid new insight about how the world works and deep engineering knowledge of electronics, which you can't say about many other bubbles.

For example, compare how many QC startups YC has funded (I think 0?) compared to blockchain, crypto, AI-assisted medicine and web3. There is no comparison. Picking on QC is far below my list if you want to have a go at hype bubbles.
I just can't get past referring Scheme as "schemes". Forcing myself to read the rest of the article. Am I getting punk'ed?
People pay for DDOS for the stupidest reasons, one of my favorite game servers have been under constant DDOS attack because they changed their discord icon in support of Ukraine.
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Being called cowardly sheep was divisive too. The nitpicking of language is highly asymmetrical.
> big delta that's far less than the "efficiency loss" of a battery

I agree with you, I'm just trying to explain why I think there hasn't been much emphasis on optimizing usage with regards to solar. For the most part people do not want to be their own electric company. They want to offset their bill and feel good about creating some solar production. Those that do want to be their own electric company are called "off grid", and end up going down a rabbit hole of custom engineering time that doesn't translate to the larger consumer market. It's closer to farming and that type of ingenuity rather than standard suburban living.

For resistive heating, you should also be able to continuously vary the power using a triac dimmer setup, although your solar inverter may be incompatible with this, or you may at least have to massively oversize it.

But heat pumps that use variable frequency drives do exist. They're commonly called "inverters", at least in US marketing, and should allow you to vary the power the heat pump consumes. Maximizing self-consumption isn't as important as maximizing the efficiency of that consumption. If a heat pump has a COP of 3, you're better off with a single 1kW heat pump than a resistive array that can sink 1, 2, or 3kW. Add in some storage batteries that can handle the cycling of the heat pump and you can dither its power consumption in time rather than worrying about instantaneous usage.

You said above that you've got a wood stove for backup. That's the way I'm leaning for now because heating with solar, heat pump, and battery storage in my climate seems impractical. If you're already doing water for heat storage, I'd recommend looking into setting up the wood stove so that it can heat the storage water, such that a single burn could perhaps give you enough boost for a few days.
As it happens, I genuinely didn't know what decremental had in mind. It seemed likely that it was something race-related (because why else be so coy?) but I wasn't going to not seek clarification just because it was possible that clarifying might be socially awkward.

And, for the avoidance of doubt, it was no part of my purpose to go trawling for "evidence I can screenshot and share", and I think that accusation is well out of order. Nor was I intending to be any sort of troll. I genuinely wanted to know.

It seems to me that your position is that it should be possible to nudge-nudge-wink-wink state potentially-racist-looking views, but not possible for anyone to ask exactly what's being stated. Which means it's also not possible for them to be examined or criticized. I don't think any views should be immune to examination and criticism, and it's not obvious to me that things like "gangs of North African / Middle Eastern immigrants are stalking the beaches of France and Denmark looking for women to assault" belong high on any list of candidates for such privileged treatment.

(Is that thing in quotation marks actually a fair representation of what decremental was hinting at? Well, there's the thing: I can't tell, because he only hinted at it, and you find it objectionable that I tried to find out more precisely what it was he was hinting at.)
The Organic Transit ELF and the BetterBike PEBL are enclosed electric trikes (two wheels in front, one in back) but are more expensive than your wish.

Both are currently out of production for engineering improvements with plans for assembly lines to reduce the cost and prices.

Organic Transit channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OTvehicles

BetterBike channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC59bSWio0f0eSPd5MPpEPAg
https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

The cloudflare blog is a better resource on this topic.