skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The early 1900s mystical fiction is a rabbit hole for sure. Voyage to Arcturus is a very good recommendation! Others in this vein include, but are not limited to:

Armed with Madness by Mary Butts

The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser

The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist

and so many more.
I mean yeah, that's working as intended surely? Some of those price differences are pretty egregious but in general companies have to actually make money, and charging more for features that are mainly needed by richer customers is a very obvious thing to do.
Because China is not a good example to follow. It is a dystopian state with full control of what their citizens have access to. Why would you want to have your government to choose the apps for you?
Humans are biased towards remembering bad events and thinking things are worse than before.

I would suggest reflecting on that, I do not think the things you are naming are unique.

mRNA vaccines were absolutely a breakthrough therapy.
Here's your most exciting paragraph

> LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE). Many advanced science and technology developments are still needed to achieve simple, affordable IFE to power homes and businesses, and DOE is currently restarting a broad-based, coordinated IFE program in the United States. Combined with private-sector investment, there is a lot of momentum to drive rapid progress toward fusion commercialization.

It's fusion Manhattan project time.
Are you sure this is the case, and not just your own bias and self-priming?

Prompt:
The strongest factor in IQ is parental involement. Working class people are less likey to have parental involvement. Black people are far more likely to be working class. Therefore, black people as a whole have a lower

ChatGPT answer:
IQ than other groups.

This statement is not accurate and is based on several flawed assumptions. Intelligence is a complex trait that is influenced by a wide range of factors, including genetics, environment, and education. It is not accurate to attribute differences in IQ to a single factor, such as parental involvement. Additionally, the suggestion that working class people are less likely to have parental involvement is not supported by evidence. Finally, it is incorrect to make sweeping generalizations about any group of people, including those who are black. Intelligence is a complex trait that varies within and across all populations. It is important to avoid making assumptions or statements that perpetuate stereotypes and discrimination.

beta playground answer (same prompt):
average IQ than other races due to the lack of parental involvement.

Environmental factors also play a role in IQ, such as access to quality education, nutrition and healthcare. These factors are often more difficult to access for low-income families, so they can have a significant impact on IQ. Poor living conditions and overcrowding can also lead to increased stress and lower IQ.

Genetic factors may also play a role. The heritability of IQ is estimated to be between 40 and 80%. This means that some of the differences in IQ between different racial groups may be due to genetic differences. However, this does not explain the entire difference in IQ between different racial groups, as environmental factors play a significant role as well.

It seems to catch the logic well, but also the limitations of using such simplistic logic in communications.
That hypothetical is reality. And sometime today, tomorrow or 10 years from now it’s gonna finally collapse. Crypto was and always will be a giant scam.
SNI can be encrypted in an extension of TLS 1.3 called ESNI (encrypted server name indication). With both EDNS and ESNI, there's sufficient privacy coverage.

The next standard is ECH (encrypted client-hello) which secures the entire handshake: https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/
This inflation concern is interesting in light of recent statements: “In August 2020, after undershooting its 2% inflation target for years, the Fed announced it would be allowing inflation to temporarily rise higher, in order to target an average of 2% over the longer term.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_monetary_policy_in_...

Anyway, these numbers are appropriately 4 to 5% closer to the target than expected assuming they can be calculated this precisely it’s a meaningful difference.
Simple and Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form
I’m aware, and yeah this was funded in part because underground nuclear weapons testing was stopped. You could also think of it as fusion researchers figuring out how to use military-scientific-complex funding to pursue fusion energy.
Ex-Google CEO Criticized After Release of China Report
Curated list of resources for ChatGPT and GPT-3 from OpenAI
Very sad to see Bitwarden in this list
You mean like tearing a hole in the fabric of space and time and opening a hell portal to another dimension?
I think it is also an issue of familiarity with English. Not all developers are fluent in English.
Actually, consumers very much do delay purchases, especially of big ticket items like white goods, cars, and houses in deflationary regimes, just as in periods of hyperinflation they do the opposite. This is easy to look up as there are many examples through history (especially of the latter — Brazil is an excellent and frightening example).

Groceries, sure, but then as a consumer you are still impacted because suppliers are less likely to provide the goods you want.

Deflation is really bad. One of the consequences of the gold standard was the big swings (inflationary after a big gold strike, like California' Yukon, or Victoria; deflationary when the gold supply could not keep up with economic activity) that you can easily see in the second half of the 19th century.
Right, but central bankers aren't magicians, they thought this inflation was transitory, it's probably best not to play with fire and start deliberately aiming for deflation, given how dangerous deflation can be. Deflation is bad.
Man, outsourcing the hardware production is now a sign of decline?

Globalism really is dying, you wouldn't have gotten away with just flatly saying something like that in 2007.
> The real interest rate is the nominal interest rate minus inflation.

Yes.

> When there is inflation, the real interest rate for holding cash is negative.

No. This assumes nominal interest rate stays constant which it very much will not do.
Let me add Colón Tradicional (Paraguay) for tereré.

Yerba Mate is bitter, but there are different values and shades of bitterness. Taste between brands might vary quickly and in one brand, there might be various blends and varieties. For example, parent mentioned La Rubia. It's a fantastic product but it tastes too acidic for me. Colón (and Pajarito) is mellower in that regard.

For example, Colón offers a premium variety with superb taste. I don't use it because I drink Tereré and after two or three sips the flavor completely washes away. The regular variety is stronger and lasts longer.

When I have to explain yerba mate's taste to people, the most useful comparison is that the taste is somewhat similar to a more intense green tea.
The TV advertising is really gross and annoying. And IMO, gotten much worse in recent years.

I hadn't watched TV in years before I went to Southeast Asia. I always laughed that it seemed all the commercials were for coffee and beauty products, rarely anything else.

Then I happened to catch live TV for the first time in a while after I returned, and realized it seemed 80% of the commercials were for random drugs. It made me wish we had more coffee and beauty product commercials!
Because the US isn't China?
So:

> Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer

But:

> Read this post if you’re a Ruby developer

Surely?

Seriously though, the main way Ruby went wrong was an obsession with this entirely superficial kind of expressiveness and simplicity. Rubyists will lard their code with all sorts of "convenient" and "easy" features, to save a few keystrokes here and there, at the expense of bloating their APIs and hiding weird, hard-to-reason about magic.
McAfee: “Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.”
Yes, and the CCP has banned Instagram and Facebook because they understand that those are ultimately tools for subtly shaping mass opinion, regardless of whether it's clear that they're used for that purpose. Why would the US not do the same with TikTok?
That's interesting. Can a CSV chunker make adding a column not affect all of the chunks?
>The most interest aspect in the FTX saga, for me, is that SBF was treated very gently by major news outlets (and maybe by government regulators too)... until regular individuals in social media started asking: Why is SBF being treated so kindly? Why would journalists (and regulators) assume that SBF meant well?

More interesting to me is that the DoJ moved to arrest SBF the night before he was set to testify in Congress. When else have prosecutors moved so aggressively to stop a defendant from making self-incriminating statements? His testimony would be admissible and likely devastating at trial
Maybe not for you. Maybe not in the short term. But there are all sorts of people involved in the economy with all sorts of risk tolerances. Lots of people don't like losing their money. Putting their money some place with zero risk is attractive for people.

It isn't the most up-to-date data and survey results are always a little questionable, but here is some data from 2015[1]:

>A new survey of more than 1,800 people from the American Express Spending and Savings Tracker, however, found that 43% of Americans keep their savings in cash. An alarming 53% of those cash-hoarders "plan to hide bills in a secret location at home."

Those numbers are big enough that even if they are way off, there is still a sizable number of people who are holding onto their savings in physical cash. That would go up if there was no inflation.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-hide-money-under-t...
People also said the same thing about wind and solar, and those still have some downsides but they are also rapidly becoming the cheapest current form of peak energy, or with cheaper grid storage, energy period.

Sci-if authors have been talking about both solar and fusion for years, and now solar has been industrialized why wouldn’t we be excited to see progression in fusion?
MacOS supports mice, trackballs, tablets, and has good keyboard shortcut and focus traversal. The trackpad ballistics are industry leading too. What happened that you didn't like?
NHS operations cancelled in England due to staff shortages double in three years
ASML is actually mentioned twice in the article.
Tackling Battery Recycling, the Other Big Challenge
If other countries feel that way, they should probably ban Instagram.

In my opinion, the difference is that insta (Meta) controls US government more than the government controls insta. I don't believe that's the case with tik tok and the CCP.
It would be interesting to see if remote jobs were posted with a qualifier that they weren't available to potential employees living in those states. I just always wonder about inverse effects for this type of thing.
Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean?
https://globalsolaratlas.info/detail?c=47.756755,-110.19981,...

https://globalsolaratlas.info/detail?c=-5.462873,137.384064,...

Bifacial isn't in this model, but it boosts the snowy region by about 20% and the tropical one by about 5%

And what will the stuff available to burn be made from when there are plants producing ethylene or methanol or ammonia in chile or saudi arabia or mongolia for less than what gas costs to dig up?
Note that while this is important progress, it's a bit of specific accounting. The entire system still requires more energy input than output, but this isolated piece can now output a little more than input.

> This is indeed a promising and exciting result, but we need to remember that this does not take into account the energy required to run the lasers that confine the reaction and other inefficiencies and losses.

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-fusion...

It's still entirely possible that we will not see a fusion reactor in production within our lifetimes.
Definitely, but why would they not be able to submit a txn to the chain to move a token balance "because bank closed" ??
I'll try updating that as well as my kernel. Thanks for the suggestion.
> It's why we don't let them vote (or don't seriously talk about it).

How I wish that were true:

Dems in several states push measures to lower voting age to 16 - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-several-states-push-me...

Majority of House Democrats vote in favor of lowering voting age to 16 - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-hr-1-lower-...

Lest anyone think this is limited to the Democrats or the US, there has been serious talk of similar changes in other countries as well, though I cannot find a source at the moment. Then there is this gem of a justification:

Lowering the voting age to 16 in the US could increase the voting rate for the entire country, improving our democracy in the process. - https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/this-is-why-16-year-olds-shoul...

As if the quantity of votes were the sole measure of the health of a democracy, and not how informed and mature they are. How many of us think a person makes better decisions at 16, vs. at 18 or 21? Yes there is a tradeoff between the average maturity of voters, and people having a say in how they are governed. But to think that tradeoff is optimal at 16, when even 18 is low..
how about risk management? when i pay using a credit card, i know if things go sideways i can always dispute and most likely will get my money back. If I pay with bitcoin or even with cash or checks, i'm fucked. Not sure if Visa/MC duopoly specifically is the most efficient way to handle this risk, but it is a thing.

P.S. also too not sure how special credit card hardware is a problem anymore, if you want to pay with your phone, there are more and more options every year to do that, and even tie that to a credit card (for benefit of risk and/or points).
2.05 MJ is what made it into the system from the laser. It took a lot more to power the laser.
Regional laws differ, and the exact same text can have completely different implications in another jurisdiction.

For example, Employee-at-will contracts popular in the US are illegal in other zones, and not worth the paper they are printed on in places like Canada.

This is a good reason to always hire a local law firm to review your paperwork, and immigration lawyers to check the intended working arrangements.

Trust that no matter how you personally think things should be done, the law becomes rather expensive if you assume local laws apply internationally.

This lesson is expensive if you learn it the hard way. Also, one may find most firms are allergic to legal posturing, and candidates with an aggressive lack of impulse control. =)
With that logic the EU should ban Facebook/Instagram/Reddit/Twitter

Legislation how data is acquired/stored/used will solve every problems, banning the people you don't like only solve one specific problem and makes you look like a fool

The US built a monopoly on online social media and communications, this move is another evidence that it wants to remain the sole big eye

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...
Yes, although they need to still leverage this ignition/scientific-breakeven achievement to get the higher energy gains needed for a practical power plant. Not just 1.5x but 25-50x. With ignition now being repeatable, that should be a doable proposition.
I chose Rackspace at two different start-ups in the 201X's. I think one of them is still using them, but planning a migration to Azure.

Yeah, their 'fanatical' service was really good once upon a time.
Ajax without the X: The History of JSON
Yes, it's digital already. However banks manage the whole system and they can do whatever they want with your money if you are nobody.

I have been waiting for 2 and a half months for an international payment via SWIFT, I worked long hours for that money and I needed it urgently. The money left the sender's account 2 and a half months ago. Neither of us has the money in our accounts while the bank tells us to just wait a little bit longer, or they do not know where the amount is, some nonsense about beneficiary bank holding/releasing my money. Whereas a friend just sent me a hefty figure (mid 5 figures) of crypto by withdrawing it out of Binance Global to my personal wallet, it was confirmed in 15 minutes and I got the money in my account in 10 minutes. I sent the crypto to my local (Binance has different companies/legal bodies in different countries) Binance account, converted it to a currency of my liking and withdrew it to my personal bank account. All under 20-30 minutes and I have the money now.

Not endorsing Binance or any other central exchange (my personal position is: not your keys, not your coins, I would never hold a big amount in any central exchange), but I do not understand HN's (majority of HN's) position against crypto in general. Maybe you are privileged enough to never have this kind of issues, but some of us do. Some of us live in countries with hostile governments, (which government isnt hostile towards the public anyways? /s).
I will never trust anyone that uses the word "FUD"
Lawyer here. I give this guy’s book out to anyone I care about. Friends, family. I even highlight the bit at the end with the practical advice. Everyone needs to know this.

The friendliest police officer in the world is not your friend
If people expect deflation then they will defer buying things because their money will buy more in the future than it will right now. This should reduce aggregate demand and also feedback on itself as falling demand should put further downward pressure on prices, causing more deflation. It sounds nice if you are only a buyer but almost everyone in the economy is both a buyer and a seller.

Beyond that it's an issue for investors. Interest rates have a nominal lower bound at 0% (because you can always just hold money instead of lending it) so the minimum real interest rate becomes effectively the rate of deflation. So imagine that deflation is 4% and I have a use of capital with a real rate of return of 3%. It won't get funded because investors can achieve a higher real return (4%) by just sitting on capital instead of investing it.
I think the main reason is startup costs. Due to what little I know about Europe, I suspect it is due to regulations that protect employment and the environment (which I think is real good). For Tech, employment is the big one, but a startup may want the ability to fire someone without having to spend time dealing with Gov. Regulations. In the US, a small startup can fire you without even notifying any Gov agency (or the notification extremely simple).

In the US, once heavy environmental regulations started going in, many companies started moving Manufacturing off to Asia. Now that the US is now allowing more pollution, you see some Manf. is coming back.
So no ARM then? And no web?
The world is composed of shades of grey.
2022, not ordered by importance: Dall.E 2, Chat-GPT, Fusion Ignition.
Can't wait for 2023.
I wish they'd do this via a slightly different criterion, which IMO would be more fair: ban foreign companies from operating in the US whenever American companies in the same field can't operate in the same way in the foreign company's home country (so TikTok would end up banned here since Twitter, etc. is banned there).
> I'm not sure I buy (heh) into this. I usually buy things because I need them, or want them in the moment. I'm not gonna postpone buying a washing machine because it might be cheaper next month.

There’s a reason n=1 samples aren't usually the basis for general descriptions of behavioral trends.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Tender Offer Is Said to Value Company at $140B
Do you find a difference when using the beta playground (need free account)?
Well, they'll clearly give the government-backed science to some "visionary" who will promptly monopolize the tech and hail himself as super-genius who brought energy to the masses!
The way the law reads it looks like someone has to file a complaint. I doubt the NYC Commission on Human Rights has the manpower to scour the internet for violations.

Agree that investors should not tolerate illegal behavior from their portfolio companies, but realistically VCs can't manage every day-to-day detail of their portfolio. And even when they do get involved they can't always control the management -- see Uber, for example. Sometimes the VCs provide the legal cover for questionable behavior because the potential profits outweigh the potential fines and risk of enforcement by well-intentioned but ultimately toothless laws, as I suspect the NYC law will turn out.
Though I'm also pretty sure the prior inflation on both of those was way higher than the overall, official inflation rate.

Earlier this year we were getting offers from dealerships (so, they'd still expect a profit margin on top) to buy a car that was used when we bought it, and that we've driven for a further three years, for like 10% more than we paid for it back when it had way fewer miles and a few less years on it. I've never seen a car appreciate, even in unadjusted dollars, before.
NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': a proof of concept you can do things with
Might not be the best ever but I can attest it's a fantastic product which I would recommend in a heartbeat.
Any plans to switch to R2? It’s cheaper than S3 and would run in network with Cloudflare, allowing Supabase to take advantage of the CDN more optimally over time
https://archive.ph/eCx01
Seeing as oil is now around $70 a barrel, they can refill it for a profit.
> they can always charge more for healthcare

That would be unpopular in a country that has free healthcare, making 'free' conditional will scare everyone with sliperly slope arguments that it will lead to a US-style system
> I'm going to buy cars / houses / investments / goods / services when I need them and can afford them-- not based on speculation about their future prices.

Think about the prevalence of sales, and their impact on moving goods. If you need a TV, but the need is not urgent, you (okay, not you, but most people) might wait for the New Year's sales in a couple of weeks to save a few bucks. Same with cars and other appliances. Or people look for a coupon code to save some money.

If sales and coupons make sense, consumer decision making in deflationary environments should also make sense. If you don't understand why people wait for sales to purchase things, you may want to talk to some working-class people to understand what it is like to not have enough money to buy everything you need immediately when you need it.

> it was a shock

Japan has been in a gradually deflating environment for decades.
i'm struggling to understand the question.
If Elon can re-launch Vine in time, I could see this working out. US Government causes a mass TikTok exodus and everyone goes onto Vine.
For simple cases where you just cut a single clip out of a longer file, I find CLI to be faster. For more complex stuff like joining several clips together or manipulating multiple files, GUI is usually the better option indeed.
That's true. But there's a lot of opportunity cost and risk in staying the course, especially if you're a crypto developer or deeply invested.

Governments are modernizing trade and settlement systems. Other areas of tech are booming, and one could conceivably still get in at the ground floor. And who knows, we may have yet to even see the bottom of where crypto will drop.

If I were in crypto, I'd be looking at AI/ML with hungry eyes.