skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying but this is backwards. If you think your cash is going to be worth much less in the future you should absolutely save up for a down payment on a house. In fact buy the most expensive house the bank will let you purchase because you'll be paying it back in worthless 2030 dollars. Normal inflation over the past 15 years made your money worth 73c on the dollar. If you think it's gonna be worse then that then you should be overjoyed buying a house.

The saving the article is talking about is long term saving, nest egg kinda stuff. Saving money specifically to immediately spend it would be reducing savings from the article's pov.
> 70% of Russians think Hitler has resurrected from his grave to run Ukraine himself.

This mistake is understandable, when Zelensky's security wears totenkopf signs: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SEI_125395028...
That's some top notch intel Zeihan has there, intel I didn't hear about elsewhere.
India's lattice buildings cool without air con
Ah yes, just like the space shuttle. ;)

"They took a high-performance business jet, added extra drag, and ran the engines in reverse to simulate a flying manhole cover."

https://youtu.be/pfNQW4jToHE?t=340
Just curious, how would a high-level IR processor knows beforehand that a certain piece of code was longer/shorter than 4kB/1MB, if it do not try to compile it in pieces first.
There are some politicians who definitely need this.
I’m not sure Russia is in any precarious situation. They certainly have more cards to play.
you forgot the most important variable: the college wage premium, which is the widest ever and shows no signs of narrowing. As long as college grads earn a lot more, tuition will go up. Even after factoring in debt, grads still earn more than non-grads.

Most people would be better served by trade schools or apprenticeship, but the US hasn't figured out how to do this well yet.

This may apply to college dropouts, but college still pays way more than trades, and also trades work req. a lot of training and time and you have to join a guild.

Coding bootcamps seem to be an answer for the software industry

Except that bootcamp grads tend to be woefully deficient in skills and also have a hard time finding jobs, also bootcamps can be very expensive and inflate their success metrics. I am not saying that college is the answer, but it's not bootcamps.
CEO of Crypto Exchange Kraken Steps Down
>But I think the main argument still stands, that we should be careful not to view the Russian people as being all victims.

This is a fair point. I didn't intend to paint all Russian citizens so broadly, and I could've done more to drive that point home than the single sentence at the end of my last post.

>However, do note that this can act as an argument for his point as well.

Also true!
History curriculum is routinely modified to match the modern ethics. They don't call this banning, but it really is. Out with an old version, in with a new.
I know that a lot of people will find this to be a little dystopian.

To me, as long as it’s done in a way that’s reliably accurate with no false positives, unobtrusive to use, and doesn’t phone the police or write a guilty-until-proven-innocent-ticket, I think it’s a great idea.

Alcohol-impaired crashes are responsible for 30% of all traffic fatalities. [1] That’s huge.

Way too many people casually drive drunk or buzzed.

[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-alcohol-...
> If I knowingly create a pallet of fake gold bars and sell them to an unsuspecting idiot for far more than they're worth, then was that "real" wealth?

I almost want to say this is an impossible question to answer. At the time it was, until it wasn't. Likewise, suppose I have an art collection. A bunch of Van Goghs. One of them is a forgery but nobody knows it's a forgery. Is it worth millions?
Just tested this on some developer podcasts which usually fail hard given they're full of technical jargon, brand names, etc. Whisper is a revolution! It's picking up terms like Heroku, DigitalOcean, GitHub, ECS, AWS, etc. and capitalizing properly - something nothing else did unless you provided a whole pile of guiding vocabulary.
To be fair, there's an argument that it's effectively the same as the government printing 400 billion a year, or something (this is MMT). I don't fully follow the argument and honestly it's not something really actionable by me. Personally it's all too complicated for me to think about and any analogies are going to fall short in horrible and painful ways.
> people living in russia should bear responsibility for what russia does

Ramzan Kadirov is a regional warlord in russia, known foe decades for murder and torture. Before the war he had instagram and other social media accounts. Should the Western leaders ever take responsebility for working with blooduly dictators when it suits?

As opposed to some poor John Doe in the middle of Siberia, who protested mutiple times and got nothing but a broken skull to show for it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/09/the-ob...
A lot of models we currently use seem to do the same thing. The model will transcribe a "best effort" interpretation in real time, then as you can continue speaking, you'll see it go back and make corrections. I'm sure you can feed the first X seconds you have into the model, followed by (30-X) seconds of silence, and it will do real time transcription just fine... it would be weird if this broke anything. Then, as you get more speech, you continue getting better transcription of the first 30 seconds, then you switch to a 30 second sliding window.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the problem here.
I mean isn't that a fair question all around? Why pay more for a high end laptop when you can just buy a cheap chromebook? The myth that ChromeOS is just a web browser is just that a myth. It can do so much more. Some people like a high end laptop, but also prefer the safety and security that ChromeOS provides. I owned a Pixelbook and loved it. Honestly still miss it. I would absolutely buy another high end ChromeOS device.
Even though the article is about biomass and not consumption per se, I take it like a reminder the global human population (in our current state) is currently throwing the atmosphere's equilibrium off into a negative feedback loop that may render the planet uninhabitable for many - human activity has to change, otherwise it will inevitably cost (more) human lives.
Seems like you have a responsibility to yourself and your team to bring this up with the appropriate party and go farther if need-be. Proactive feedback is more useful than passive resentment.
Floorplanning a Better Chip with AI
They don't have ACID guarantees with this setup.
The boom of the past two decades was fueled by low interest rates!
LockBit ransomware builder leaked online by “angry developer”
Look up Abraham Wald, e.g. https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
>According to journalist Amir Tsarfati...

Do they mean this Bible prophecy teacher? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Tsarfati
First I “locked” my phone number disabling transfers (although I suspect this is vulnerable to social engineering attacks).

I have also frozen my credit with the three credit bureaus (the attacker also opened a new line of credit in my name)

I am also closing the bank account that was compromised. They aren’t giving me any info but I suspect the attacker got my debit card via social engineering. It was a new account and I hadn’t even received my debit card yet.

I have a subscription to a credit monitoring service as well which has proven its worth in this situation.

Otherwise honestly I am not sure what to do. It sucks to know this person has my name, social, phone, and other info. I basically plan to keep my credit frozen indefinitely. I am also disabling text based 2FA for me and my wife wherever possible.
Serverless to me just means I don't have to worry about managing a server (as in hardware, OS, updates, etc, etc.) I just have to manage an app/container.
Based on personal research: They mostly have mansion with bunker. In the capital of Russia there is a village area. It's called Rublyovka. It's a homeland for all powerful people. 70% of mansions have a private bunker. size depends..it's a real deal.
You can see the "Authorized but not issued" numbers at https://tether.to/en/transparency/ and a detailed outside analysis of redemptions http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2022/06/watching-tether.html
The route from Dallas, TX to Trinidad, CO is the particular one I'm aware of that lacks charging stations. Things could have changed because its been like a year or two since I last made the trip, but it was well known as one of the tougher routes for EVs to conquer, particularly the stretch of it in New Mexico.
How do they actually withdraw the money (is it money, or is "liquidity" something different than M1).
> Google's product marketing is the absolute worst

As long as ‘killed by Google’ continues to be a well-known meme, they could have the best marketing department in the universe and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference..
Did you try with a recent release of the Go compiler? Versions above 1.15 have seen significant performance optimizations, most notably better inlining.
The “old bonds on their book” will decline in value if rates rise.

Consequently the ETF will be cheaper by exactly the right amount to keep the income/coupon component of its return in line with buying an equivalent basket of US treasury bonds directly.
This definitely needs a citation. Why would the natural rate be 8%, never mind 15%? Apart from the Volcker Shock it's been less than that for literally all of American history [1]. Are you sure you're not just assuming that whatever the rate was in your formative years is "natural"?

[1]: https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020...
So you agree it's a downgrade in quality of life? Not sure what the point of this comment is other than being rude to people earning more than you.
No company is ever going to say "nope not hiring". That's suicide. It would be like saying "nope our competitors product is better".
Because it's for children. Surely you don't think anything goes in a children's library?
To be fair, that's only according to what he himself has admitted, which doesn't rule out more cheating than that.
one big difference is - what was it trained on? It is unlikley a little photoshop filter, whether ML or not was trained on billions of images.
We live in a world that is awash in capital because old people & rich people have a large amount of capital. When the supply of something is high, the price goes down. And the price of capital is interest rates.
That's a fun one.

A couple years ago someone posted a solution to that here. I'm not sure if it works for SQLite, but it worked for Postgres. The basics of it were that each replica was aware of the latest transaction ID it had seen. On a normal read you'd deal with the usual set of eventually consistent issues. But on a read-after-write, you would select a replica that was ahead of the write transaction.

Ultimately that's a very odd flavor of sharding. What I don't recall is how they propagated that shard information efficiently, since with sharding and consistent hashing the whole idea is that the lookup algorithm is deterministic, and therefore can be run anywhere and get the same result. WAL lag information is dynamic, so... Raft?
"Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny is a Science-Fiction novel using Hinduism/Buddhist philosophy as background in an intriguing way.

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light
Yeah, why would we host dissidents from countries we almost at war with? Good for all of us the UK didn' host a buch of dissidents and governments in exile during WW2... Oh, wait, they did!
> Putin didn't appear in vacuum. He is a product of his society. Every Russian out there is to blame for this war.

I agree with first 2 sentences but have to correct: his societies were outlaws and KGB (legal outlaws) which is far from representing the whole population.
Vegeterian?
The sparks will really fly when they begin to require FNMA and FHLMC conforming loans be assumable.
Summed up nicely. But now they will get some sobering up.

I have little faith that Russian society is going to come out of this war any better. It's a cultural thing. Germany had to be razed to the ground by am external force and millions of Germans had to be killed for the society to ditch militarism. And Russia has nukes.
Meh.

I have a weirdly unique counter-point. Of course totally anecdotal but: I lived in a shore town for a few years that exclusively had a ton of Ukrainian/Russian workers over the summertime.

Not only were they usually quite attractive - they were also intelligent and hard working (most of the time, emphasis on MOST of the time)

You had to be careful as they would latch onto you for obvious reasons but they were honestly typically pleasant. (Green Card, etc;)

Where did you hear/read about russian horror stories?
Only if you are unavailable on week days.
Of course I am. My point is that others should stop using the name of a Chinese city as shorthand for kidnapping and forced servitude.
Oh, I actually received such a call from a government-funded polling agency while still in Russia. Told them everything I think about it (which was still somewhat difficult despite the fact that the actual risks were low), but some questions were tricky to answer in such a way that actually reflects my opinion, e.g. something like "do you think our army is succeeding in defeating the nationalist batallions in Ukraine and protecting the people of Donbas?" Yes/No/Refuse_answer
It would be easier to use MS probably. Because there you know they used your code.
those pictures suck though
What activities are that? And was it these activities that made it possible to completely ignore international laws on territorial integrity and warrant and invade Ukraine outright?

No.

All this “but USA!”, “but NATO!”, “but the Nazis!” whataboutism is complete nonsense.

It doesn’t even begin to explain one country invading a neighbor with 125k men, leveling entire cities and killing thousands of civilians.

Even making hypothetical Mexico comparisons is impossible without focusing the debate around something other than the invasion and therefore sounding like a Russia apologist.
I’ve “locked” my number and it requires a transfer PIN. I hope Verizon’s systems won’t allow a transfer without that pin even with a malicious employee, however I wouldn’t be surprised if they are able to override it.

Apparently my attacker had a fake ID with my name and their photo. It’s possible a store employee could override the transfer lock if they are sufficiently convinced it’s really me.
If you search for [what year was queen Elizabeth born], Google doesn't return pages that have that phrase in it, rather it returns pages that have an answer to that question. You could call that "ignoring" if you like, but it's what 99% of users expect.
Urban Air Mobility
I just tested it and it was pretty mediocre at least with my accent. I can definitely benefit from a decent app for quick note recording with a button press->transcribe->upload to gdrive/good UI app for later grepping.
Fed doesn't have to fight with inflation if it not creating one. So Fed's balance sheet could be as well $0
I do wonder how it'll work with passengers drinking on the backseat meanwhile driver is 100% sober
Individual accountability. If something like 'git blame' shows you're responsible for a 'dark pattern' then you have your license revoked and are blacklisted industry wide.

Companies like Facebook are only made up of individual people, armies fall one soldier at a time.

(fwiw though I don't agree that regulation would be a good idea)
I have no idea what that term means.
> There is already not enough experienced soldiers and now they will be diluted with even more that have no idea what they are doing.

Just as a caveat, note that the provisions of the current partial mobilization explicitly exclude students and conscripts and is for 300K “reservists who have previously served in the Russian army and have combat experience or specialised military skills”. So, I don’t think the mental image of fresh recruits who have no idea what they are doing is necessarily accurate.
I appreciate the write-up representing the flow of discussion, not just the outcome, for the insight it carries about how decisions move through the group.

It appears Linus has said it is happening, and a bit how it should happen, but has not given strong guidance or even parameters on how long any experiment would last.

Instead, he says the maintainers can decide to accept or reject or use Rust however they like. He doesn't even say they should state their policy, so they can let people try and still reject them.

Giving maintainers the ultimate discretion I think tracks the incentive system in the kernel: maintainers, who do boatloads of work, get to be deciders. That also gives companies a strong incentive to employ maintainers.

On the tools front, Linus expressly said he wants not just an anointed compiler on kernel.org, but compilers from the distributors. He's driving Rust normalization and platform adoption as a condition of use, even though the kernel historically adopts a fairly narrow (if not archaic) set of tools.

Somehow this all seems like a bunch of rafts tied together with (platform) boats pushing at the edges -- somewhat tenuous, hard to drive, but vaguely heading in the right direction.

As others have mentioned, it's interesting that Linus and many maintainers are getting older, and instead of getting freedom and flexibility in their maturity, they can look forward to more low-level bouts of increasing complexity. When they talk about the integration of Rust, they're clearly anticipating it might not fully happen until after they're gone. That, too, could change the incentives.
I read Moby Dick two years ago and that book literally shook me to the core. Since then, I cannot help but see any whale reference as imbued with great philosophical and metaphysical meaning. However one of the most interesting aspects of the novel was that even as the White Whale took on mythological proportions, the descriptions of whaling and of whales were discussed in precise, scientific terms. Melville kept everything grounded, even as he reached for the heights.

I like that this team of scientists is, in a way, doing the same blending (rigorous science + religious belief).
Hong Kong's central bank prints their own currency. They defend the value of it by engaging in open market operations. If they fail, you can still pay your taxes in Hong Kong with it.

Tether does not print their own currency. If USDT goes to zero, you have nothing. It's good nowhere.
There's also a "run in, punch a guy in the face and steal the tablet" method. Can't get around that either.
I think this is kind of the plan with Amazon though. The separate organizations don't necessarily exist to make a profit, they exist to feed logistics and AWS with product ideas and tight feedback loops.

I do agree with the burnout culture point though, Amazon seems to be having trouble bringing in good talent, both at the IC level and the leadership level.
Vendors being greedy doesn't explain why they would risk losing access to a very profitable markets for a worthless one.

Sanctions are slow. Kazakhstan, for example, only blocked truck transit from EU to Russia a couple days ago.
> World Athletics has determined that it is not possible for someone to push off the block within a tenth of a second of the gun without false starting.

> Besides, do you know what Devon Allen’s reaction time was? It was 0.99 seconds. One thousandth of a second too fast, according to World Athletics’ science. They’re THAT sure that .01 seconds

That should read 0.099 seconds and 0.001 seconds respectively.
What were interest rates in the late 90s? hmm...even higher than today, yet that was the biggest tech bubble ever. If VCs and other investors expect to make >100% in a year , what does it matter if the interest rate is 3% or 1%?
There is such a thing as facts and truth. Yes, the partisanship is unfortunate, but it happens. It happened back in 1939 too, and there was a right side back then too. It wasn't flawless by any measure, it was just better than the other side.

The worst example of left-wing extremism you can find is the BLM protests, and as unfortunately as they unfolded the griveances there were not unfounded. The American police is largely unaccountable, corrupt and infiltrated with white supremacists. Antifa itself is often discredited, but it's a response to the rise of far-right extremism. The difference is that antifa is not a major domestic terrorism risk.

Do I have to cite the worst examples of right-wing extremism? Between Trump's criminal conduct and messages and the Capitol attack there is an entire culture and media of political violence, culminating in several mass shootings, cults like QAnon and several militias. Right-wingers live in a bubble of paranoia and victim mentality. They contested the result of the last election violently. They've built a cult of personality around their leader, who must never be questioned.

Most scholars don't think there is an equivalence here, and I don't either. I'm not even a left-winger or whatever, I have my own thing, but they are not equivalent, and when I have to choose the choice is obvious.
Just tried it on my linux box:

* Trying 2a09:8280:1::a:791:443...
* Connected to fly.io (2a09:8280:1::a:791) port 443 (#0) ALPN,
* offering h2 ALPN, offering http/1.1 CAfile:
* /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: /etc/ssl/certs TLSv1.0
* (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22): TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS
* handshake, Client hello (1): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Certificate
* Status (22): TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): TLSv1.2
* (IN), TLS header, Finished (20): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header,
* Supplemental data (23): TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted
* Extensions (8): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS a
* header, Supplemental data (23): TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT
* verify (15): TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS
* header, Finished (20): TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change
* cipher spec (1): TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): SSL connection using
* TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:

...

Same on my macbook
LFP = LiFePO4

- Less energy dense than lithium ion
+ Safer/stable chemistry (not prone to thermal runway)
+ Drop in replacement for lead acid, which allows you to use it with the vast array of 12V/24V/48V equipment.

If you're not constrained on weight/size, I see no reason not to choose LFP for stationary uses.
https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=WLY

no big single majority owner. a number of funds though in the 5-9% range.
They sell bonds. When they sell bonds, USD is converted into bonds. This has the effect of removing cash from a bank account and replacing it with an IOU from the government.

The actual account balance stays the same, but where before you had cash, now you have government backed bonds.

This is what they call "quantitative tightening".