skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advocates of the vacancy tax imply that their goal is to eliminate vacancies thus freeing up more housing. If our goal is, instead, to maximize tax revenue in order to build permanently-affordable housing then that is a much different (and better!) conversation. That's a long-term good.

But if that's our conversation then everybody needs to be prepared for the possible answer to be that the vacancy tax should be negative.
Magnetic paper feel screen protectors are pretty good in my opinion if you haven't tried one yet. I picked one up for about £10-£15 on Amazon.
I am incredibly tired of hearing this same argument, especially because DEXes like AAVE and Compound does not have anywhere close to the liquidity it is needed to short Tether to the point it causes any trouble (or even slight discomfort) for them. I just checked, and it seems like the total size of the borrowing pool of USDT there is about $500MM (~$330MM AAVE, $170MM Compound v2), which, together, makes 0.73% of their total market cap. That could probably cause trouble if Tether was, say 0.5% capitalized? But we know that number is probably above at least 20%, as in, Tether may have ~$13.6B in cash that they can and will spend to defend their peg.

So the liquidity is enough for small fishes to take bets that they don't know is actually swindling them out of their money. However, it is not large enough for an institutional/activist investor with a few billion in capital to take up a real position against Tether/Bitfinex.
Thank you - talk about it's not a bug it's a feature.
Center for Cartoon Studies: Summer Workshops
Can someone explain why this is not being shot down immediately?
Police are morons, by design. https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
> Now is a good time too, the mainstream media's credibility is on it's heels and has less influence over elections than traditionally.

Most of the ground the mainstream media has lost is to absolutely whacko q-anon and alt-right podcasters and video bloggers and alt-news, which is not a great environment for third-party people, unless the third-party that you're trying to start is a christo-fascist movement.
Is this a thing? Where?
Why do people want to use Tether and not the Coinbase backed USDC?
Show HN: GPT-3 Rapper for your Twitter profile
With the growing popularity of GPT-3 and its applications in rap song generation, I wanted to try something new.

I've developed a fun and unique app that takes your Twitter username and creates a rap song based on your profile.

Do give it a try and let me know your feedback.

https://cookup.ai/a/generate-rap-song-for-twitter-profile-cp...
I'm not sure what the point of this is. In the last 60+ years we've obviously learned a lot and widened our definition of where life on Earth can live (eg subsea volcanic vents, in rocks in Antarctica). We obviously don't know the limits of biochemistry and thus in what environments life can evolve and where it can continue to live where it exists. We're certainly not going to be detecting a world full of microbes from light years away.

What we're primarily interested in is detecting tecnological life. At stellar distances this really means detecting evidence of spacefaring civilization. This means practially the same thing because the gap between initial technology and spacefaring technology is a cosmic blink of an eye.

And those signatures will transcend biochemistry and what type of world you originate on barring some major glaring error in our understanding of physics (eg thermodynamics being violated).

The reason is that life will ultimately come down to energy and mass. Both of these mean there is pressure to expand and to expand is to become visible. You can argue that expansion isn't inevitable in all cases and you might be correct but it doesn't matter. It matters only if all civilizations remain small and/or hidden. And the odds of that go down as the number of civilizations go up.

I am of course talking about Dyson Swarms, a cloud of orbitals around a star. To put this in perspective, a full Dyson Swarm around our Sun would give each of the 8 billion people on EArth living area roughly equivalent in size to Africa and each person would have a million times more energy than the entire of humanity currently uses.

Such megastructures would be very obvious from a great distance too (ie due to the IR signature of dissipating heat). Likewise, there would be no hiding from such a civilization.
Ampersand is really not dead - I use it quite regularly. I always sign cards from me and the wife as x & y. It is shift 7 on a en_GB keyboard

English also used to have the letter thorne. It looks quite a lot like a Y or y and leads to the notion that "Ye olde shoppe" is NOT pronounced as "the old shop". Here the the would probably have a long e so "thee". Modern thornes look more like a d - see Icelandic for example. See wikipedia for the full run down.

I still see r written as a sort of squiggly mess rotated 45 degrees. Mostly by the generation before mine (I'm 53). A lowercase s used to be written looking like f with the crossbar missing.

I suspect the kids might have said: "et per se and" or "ut ..." and then that collapsed into "and per se and" -> ampers& (yes I have seen that monstrosity used in anger)!
Its funny to say but this game has had a huge impact on my life.

I've joined cyber cafes and made life-long friends that last till now, travelled to different countries to play against other teams and won tournaments nation-wide when the main prize was a can of beer and a motherboard.

We used to pick-up our keyboards, discuss mouse DPI and how it influences aim as well as trying to figure out whether 640 or 800 was the best resolution.

I am glad that this game was made, such nostalgia!

Also if someone wants to go down the memory lane remember the golden age of CS movies? Annihilation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6gcmbioqiE&t=96s
The use in programming is also just a result of it being available. It’s a great fit for binary AND, logical AND, but there’s countless symbols that we just assign to operators because they’re available.
The second most annoying gaming debate of all time, after Playstation vs. Xbox of course. Answer to both: who cares, use whatever makes you happy
Ah this is why I can never find Wayne's World hilarious review of November Rain MTV video by Gun'n'Roses. :-(
I agree with your assessment of how it'll go down. However that verdict will in effect be legalizing a categorically new thing.

Software is often built to perform well for expected inputs, yet when given unexpected inputs it may produce bizarre results that when passed to other software create difficult-to-anticipate cascades of failures. The legal system is capable of the same.
Sure, the "show me what you got" factor, but what if it is only interesting to higher order primates? Maybe the aliens are too busy playing in infinite fun space or just have sublimed out of biology?

https://youtu.be/m1fZ7Ap6ebs
>side from both incidents happening in countries not particularly well known for long-term follow-up on the consequences of failures by the state

Journalists followed the other people. We know their names. We have evidence of them dying for other reasons later on (unless you want to get into Damar Hamlin clone territory)

>law of inverse squares is what saved a lot of people in these incidents. The source wasn't actually that close to them. In a dense city, a hypothetical terrorist probably wouldn't have to work too hard to get around this.

The law of inverse squares is extremely hard to get around. The amount of radiation 10 feet away from the capsule is only 1% of the radiation 1 foot away from the capsule. That's the whole point I'm trying to make. I don't know how 'in a dense city' overcomes that law of physics.

>Some radiotherapy sources are stamped "DROP AND RUN."

Yes, and if you're even a few feet away or on the other side of attenuating matter, you're in much less trouble (See: Alvin Graves).

>The impact wouldn't be that high in terms of people injured/killed. The real impact would be on the public psyche, as well disruption of the health system when people showed up in ERs and doctors offices thinking they were exposed, clogging those systems for care of other patients. In that sense, as a terror attack, it would be highly successful.

Sure, but then what's the point of even doing it vs. just saying you had? And again, aren't I doing exactly what you should want by telling people that their risk in this scenario is basically zero?

>It's really bizarre seeing a bunch of HNers downplaying how serious these sorts of incidents are. We're very lucky that the lost sources have never ended up in the hands of anyone but non-malicious actors. Now 'bad' people are far more aware of them...

I'm really waiting for the explanation of how these bad actors get over the inverse square law...
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/07/71/b3/0771b3b5d67375af2c598550f...
Same playbook Microsoft uses, where Azure includes O365 subscriptions.
It is an error in Bayesian reasoning. All high school shooters play violent video games, but not all kids who play violent video games are going to shoot up their high schools.
The CCS just released their summer schedule of workshops. I've taken their Workout several times and worked through a couple others to great benefit in areas of story-telling, thinking through drawing, and even directing camera work for film and photography.
This is also the case for electric showers though, where the shower itself contains the heating element and heats its own water, rather than taking arbitrary feeds of hot and cold water.
Curious how they know that it is chinese?
For one, this converts it to a gravity weapon, which could hurt people or damage property.

There is also a risk of somehow triggering an unanticipated outcome due to e.g. unknown materials or chemicals on board.
That's a very convenient kind of morals for the people who invested billions of dollars into developing this tech, fully aware what it could be used for. (And OpenAI was aware, it's their entire justification why they don't publish the models)
Congratulations on the launch! I noticed however that all the image responses from the API appear to navigate to 404ing URLs :( Otherwise love the project!
Making maps for Half-Life and Portal is what lead me down the path to become a software developer.

I was never that good a mapper but it got me into computers in general.

If I had never discovered Hammer Editor on one summer afternoon in 2008, my life would be SOOOO different
I'm guessing its a reference to shodan.io
Password sharing can be thought of a trial version of Netflix, before someone actually subscribes, so I don't think it's always bad. This is probably why Netflix has not come down harder on it.
While this is a good list of books, I find it hard to believe that a curriculum could cover them in any sort of detail. Imagine trying to cover Proust or Dante or Gibbon in the week or so you have until moving on to the next book. A little absurd
Chromium is preparing experimental iOS builds, for testing
When I heard you could pay for the twitter checkmark, I naively assumed they would use that money to actually verify the identity of the people they gave the checkmark to and twitter was being positioned as an authority on identity verification on the internet. I think that space is ripe for the taking, and twitter was in a good spot for it, before they devalued their checkmarks into a meaningless status symbol
I agree with the developers. If malicious code is running under your user account, it could steal your master password no matter how KeePass is coded, e.g., by waiting for you to start KeePass and then killing it and showing a fake one that you unwittingly type your password into instead.
Compared to conventional alkaline electrolysis at around 70% apparently.

Doesn't brine electrolysis also produce chlorine, or has Factorio fed me some horseshit?
no, common hallucinogenic tropes are just remnants of our evolved collective unconscious; not any proto-communications from other dimensions.

i am plenty familiar with them and other characters, and their lessons always seemed terrestrial, subconsciously familiar.
The Fine Arts Building in Chicago's Loop is beautiful. It houses a theater, a ballet studio, luthiers, music teachers, a bookstore, a sheet music store, and various others. Rents are pretty reasonable. The elevators are all manually operated.
Thats not how you would do it, the way you would do it is to place it in a shielded briefcase. There would be a mechanism on the briefcase that would allow you to open up an exposure focal point effectively exactly like a radiotherapy device. Taking this into a subway, coffee shop etc. opening up the aperture and aiming it at a person quietly for a hour would give them a potentially lethal dose of radiation.

A serial killer, assuming they could construct and acquire the necessary radioactive materials could probably perform this many many times before being caught.
In medicine those kinds of arrangements exist, but they charge 30% (I forget if it's off the top or the bottom).
20 is definitely questionable especially considering competition is coming right around the corner.
I like this style of what I’m assuming is marketing.

Infrastructure providers open sourcing code so infrastructure users can then copy it and sell it.
> I would love to know what interest groups are working on this actively that I can support further

Same. If you learn of any please drop a comment, and I will do the same!
The Tight US Labor Market: Missing Hours, Missing Workers
My understanding is that the cost of producing hydrogen is not one of the major bottlenecks about why those vehicles are slow to be adopted?

I mean, good to have such breakthroughs, but this is not (right now) a huge limiting factor on why we don't drive more H vehicles, is that right? It's more the storage of it? And specialty fuel cells needed to power the cars?
> Not sure why your dishwasher changes anything, they normally run off cold water and use their own heaters.

For North America at least, this is not true. Dishwashers are hooked up to the hot water supply[1] (and it's a good idea to run your sink tap hot to "prime" the hot water for the dishwasher).

They _also_ use built in heating elements to keep the water hot, and to dry the dishes, though.

[1]: LG Dishwasher Installation instructions (as an example), page 8: https://www.lg.com/us/support/products/documents/Dishwasher%...
They are a central point of potential failure. Whether or not they're transparent doesn't enter into it.
I'm all for learning more about the historical roots and overall development of Western culture, but one should keep in mind that the sheer amount of notable works that have been described as "classics" and "Great Books" is absolutely humongous; this list is of course highly selective and will necessarily be missing a lot of interesting stuff. In general, most people will probably want to focus on the narrower subtopics that specifically draw their interest, and perhaps explore the interconnections among works in that area.
The contents of the archive could be verified rather than the archive itself, since that's what needs to not change. If the compression level changed the archives would also have a different checksum, but no one would say they require archive's to always have a specified compression level.

The fact it looked like an immutable file is much more relevant though.
Employing people at market rates is not remotely comparable to slavery, and it's pretty gross to equate them (indeed it likely does far more to help lift those people out of poverty than any number of more reputable charities). Pouring scorn on what sounds like normal legitimate business and equating it to fraud or child prostitution undermines the point you're trying to make.
I particularly liked "Katamari Damacy scheduling", but I would guess that at least some of the cultural references (dilithium crystals, Marcellus Wallace) could be confusing to folks not steeped in a particularly nerdy subset of American-ish culture.

I think if references and jokes are landing for (say) 80% of your target audience then you're doing pretty well.

I liked the article. Interesting approach to scheduling as kind of a market exchange problem. It's cool to see what an infra service can look like when you ditch the constraints and path dependence that led to the "standard" cloud architecture and build something totally new. The user experience seems like multi-tenant Borg, but nimbler.
Snowplow announced the acquisition of an Australian consulting firm, Poplin Data, two weeks ago and "six months after Snowplow raised $40m in a Series B round of funding": https://www.mrweb.com/drno/news34450.htm
E.g. a supply chain attack.
I'm a double bassist, and other family members are string players. I think there are problems beyond replicating famous instruments, especially for those of us who are likely to play "lesser" instruments throughout our lives / careers. One is that instruments are actually designed to sound different from one another, and it's up to the player to decide what they want.

When I was shopping for my current bass, I was able to play instruments alongside one another that had noticeably different characteristics, along with different design details such as dimensions, and price tags. There is no "best" for makers to aim for, and among the choices that we can actually afford, there are real tradeoffs that have to be made. A wonderful sounding instrument might have maintenance issues that make it an expensive headache to own. I steered away from those basses regardless of sound.

And there's no practical way for an individual musician to conduct a blind test or compare measured characteristics, though I would absolutely love it if there were. Most players would like to cut through the bullshit and woo.

And don't get me started about bows and their maintenance.

Oddly enough, Stradivarius could not have known how his fiddles would sound today, because most of them have been modernized.
> A question that often arises is: if current life evolved from chemistry that's simpler than DNA, why has that one disappeared? Maybe it hasn't.

If that's the case, it was almost certainly because of the atmospheric oxygen.

Almost all of the chemical reactions that used to happen before it do not happen anymore on the wild.
Heaven forbid someone flies outdated spy technology over another superpower. checks decade oh wait no I'm thinking of the US flying U-2's. Carry on.

edit: wow, lots of folks apparently unfamiliar with the 1960's U-2 incident eh? Time to brush up on military aviation history.
Ah, ok. You were talking about the small molecules, not life. That seems ok, although realize that the amino acids formed are a large superset of the ones life has ended up settling on. So it's conceivable another OoL event would settle on a different (if not disjoint) set.
> Yes, we all love to complain about paying overhead, the same way we all love to complain about paying taxes. "If only I didn't have to pay this chunk of money, imagine what more I could do for myself!"

I agree with you! I believe a tax rate of 0% OR 100% is insane, and the right number is somewhere in the middle. Right now, paying 67-50% "taxes" to the university and then also paying ~30% in real taxes just seems unfair/inefficient/unjust.
> Is the concern the color of the bubbles, or is the concern the lack of RCS?

The lack of compliance and interop with internationally accepted standards by Apple, which should be of surprise to exactly nobody. It's kinda their thing.
Pretty sure it usually produces chlorine gas and caustic soda, but I could be wrong.
If you can get something to above 65k feet and conduct some sort of kinetic action against a small moving target for only 5k dollars I'm sure lots of us defense contractor UAV manufacturers would like to hire you or license your technology.
My phone cost $1 a month in this plan for 2 years.
Back That ‘S’ Up: Moving to RISC-V’s Supervisor Mode (2020)
Three tankers? Exactly how many jets did they send to need that many refuelers
Nice point. Will check it out!
Additionally

Measure Response: Determine what an adversary nation does in response to the violation (what resources are scrambled, where do they come from etc)

Messaging: All the permutations of two sets of government folks trying to send a message the pair mutually understand re: defense etc

Tie up resources: Low cost provocation may divert higher cost resources and tie them up for a longer period of time since its a dwelling threat

Acquire signal information: Use sensors and measurement systems outside of the threat to measure the locations and signatures of tracking systems deployed to assess and monitor the threat

Deploy lightweight physical payloads: dust something of interest over an area etc
We didn't even know about Megaviruses[0] until 2010.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megavirus
I was interested in CSGO for a while because of the eSport history videos but never got the chance to try it out because my main computer is a Linux and my brother's Windows computer is absolute garbage at running everything honestly. Thanks for this OP!
Abusive legal guardianships demonstrate we can’t trust individuals not just the government.

So, my point is if you can’t trust people, companies, or the government then what’s left? IMO, the best option is to simply limit the number of things we need to trust. You don’t need to trust news organizations for them to act as a balance on government corruption. That only goes so far, but it’s still useful.
The tax fight thing. He’s not going to get gas taxes increased. Anyone who tried would be wrecked in elections. No one gives a damn about “the climate” dude. We’ve got fun to have. And the power to keep that fun cheap.
> ASCII is so bloated that it even has a ligature from a dead language.

It was actually an english letter (at least as recently as the late 19th Century), considered part of the alphabet; its current name being a corruption of the end of the alphabet recitation including it, “... and, per se and”.
Fwiw i bet you'd call me anti-Jewish in this context. Not because i believe it more strongly against Israel, but because i'm uneducated on this front and the big countries like Israel make the news more frequently. So if i was to have any opinion at all it's more likely involving Israel than other similar countries.

I suspect that's true for most people.
Oh no, I do read some conservative places, National Review, Washington Times, Fox (web, not TV).

I'm moderately good about detecting bias, but I see more 'gotcha' questions from the media interviewing administration officials, there is no answer, nothing that can be done, but they're still expected to answer the questions.

I can detect bias in both 'mainstream media', and and right wing sources.
Ignorance is bliss as they say.

however, "let me light this glowing-blue stuff on fire to see if it is gun powder" really sounds like they forgot the part where he said "hold my beer"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itano_Circus
There are many, many uses for green hydrogen unrelated to road vehicles. Long-term power storage (use cheap summertime solar to bank hydrogen for utility power in the winter), ammonia synthesis for fertilizer, replacing fossil fuels for high-temperature heat to drive industrial processes such as steel and cement production, possibly as fuel for long-haul shipping and aviation (either directly as hydrogen, or after conversion to other forms such as ammonia or hydrocarbons), etc.
Speaking anecdotally, nothing enhances my mood and energy level better than vitamin d.

I take (5k-10k+ IU) of d3 + k2 daily in the morning, in amounts much more than the recommended daily allowance (600IU). It has also helped me sleep at night.

If you're depressed and are thinking about getting on anti-depressents/SSRI's, consider exploring vitamin D as an option.

I am not trying to shill, but I have tried a bunch of vitamin d3, and this one has been the best.

Ortho Molecular - Liquid Vitamin D3 with K2

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095K1Z0K