skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can. Zero interest rates are the natural rate for money - since it is costless to produce.

Therefore that is the optimal rate for the currency issuer. There is no need to pay people not to spend when you can tax them if they do. That's just basic income for rich people.

Banks then discount assets into liquidity at a markup over zero and they can be allowed to compete fully and go bust which controls the net interest margin.

If you optimise the system so it operates on maximum liquidity then you lower the cost of business investment while selecting for productivity by moving the business to where the people are rather than the other way around.

That gets you around the greying population problem without destroying your society - by learning to do more with less.

Japan has gone some way down this road, but not entirely.
> White ethnic groups that are predominantly Catholic being distinguished from "real" whites and being targets of White supremacists is a real historical thing

Anti-Catholicism is a huge part of the history of the UK, Ireland and the British Empire. As such, it has no particular connection with white supremacy – were the Penal Laws "white supremacist"? Was the Ulster Protestant League "white supremacist"? Is the Orange Order "white supremacist"?

Outside of the US, anti-Catholicism had no significant association with ideas of "race" or skin colour. Indeed, the whole "Irish weren't white" claim sounds so bizarre from a British or Irish or Australian perspective. All three countries have unpleasant histories of discrimination against Catholics, but nobody ever tried to justify it because "they weren't white". They were discriminated against because of their "popery", because they were viewed as disloyal to the state, bearers of foreign allegiance, practitioners of outdated superstition, etc.

And, much of US anti-Catholicism was directly imported from the UK. Which is why trying to view it all through a racial lens – which is a peculiarly American approach – seems so confused. It seems to come from just looking at things from a narrow US-centric perspective which ignores everything that happens in the rest of the world, and even ignores the British historical origins of much that happened in the US as well.
Part of the success of directx over opengl was that very few graphics card companies seemed capable of producing a fully functional opengl driver, for the longest time Nvidia was the only option.

I recall ATI and Matrox both failing in this regard despite repeated promises.
CLICK-BAIT

Lost me in the first two paragraphs.

If you're going to redefine the words "left" and "right" to suit the argument, then there's little point in reading past it.

Left does not mean an antipathy to hierarchy. Social constructionism is based largely on hierarchies, and few would argue it's a belief supported by the right.

Wikipida has LEFT = the section of a political party or system that advocates greater social and economic equality, and typically favours socially liberal ideas; the socialist or progressive group or section.

Right might be defined as "the section of a political party or system that advocates free enterprise and private ownership."
Yeah. Here in EU I get 3 phase cables only coming from the transformer. Then at my house a grounding rod is used to give combined Protective Earth and Neutral (TN-C). At my house main panel they are split into PE and N (TN-S). They are never connected house side and I now have combo RCD’s so each automatic fuse is also an RCD.

EDIT: I was wrong, there are 4 conductors coming from the transformer, 3 phases and a Neutral. Phase-Neutral 230V and Phase-Phase 400V.

Grounding rod connects to the Neutral and 4 conductors come to the main electricity cabinet. There Neutral and PE are split.
You can do those things in other cities too. You don't need to pay $6,000/mo in rent and step over human shit every day to succeed in tech.

My net worth is higher than my peers in SF even though I've earned less than them, and it's because the cost of living is out of control. It's not worth the marginal career benefit.
I still remember installing a Voodoo and playing glquake. It was so amazing after relative disappointments like the S3 Virge. Lots of nostalgia for that period.

The article touches on this a bit, but one of the quirky things about the original Voodoo and Voodoo 2 were that they lacked 2D entirely. You had to use a short VGA passthrough cable to some other 2D card. This also meant that they only supported fullscreen 3D, since 2D output was completely bypassed while the 3dfx card was in use.

The Voodoo 3 finally came with 2D, but I think I jumped ship to Nvidia by then.
Just because there are new jobs doesn't mean the people whose jobs were automated out of existence will be able to take them. This is the whole "teach truckers to write code" thing from back when people thought the next wave of automation would be self-driving, rather than art.
Probably because it looks way different than what we play today while the open gl is more similar to modern fps, just not as polished. But back in the days open gl Q2 was an out of this world experience.
The idea that technology is "illegal" in child care is kind of absurd. Has anyone developed an effective automation method for child care that's being held back?

Just as much, "technology" is certainly not illegal with text books. Text book manufacturers use ever more sophisticated technologies to bolster their abusive monopolies.

And lots of tech goes into reducing health care costs. It's simply failed so far and the various monopolies continue their march.

Sure he says "The lines in red are the sectors where technological innovation is not permitted to push down prices" but that's kind of begging the question - assuming that the use of technology is by itself what allows or doesn't decreases in price.
The idea is that an AGI would theoretically be able to design a new version of itself that is more capable in every dimension. This could continue recursively.

We don't consider it impossible that a human could come up with a grand unified theory of everything tomorrow. A recursively intelligent AGI may be able to do the same very quickly.

If an AGI was able to deduce such a theory would we would be busy constructing things to test it? Or go straight to manufacturing the (incredible) things that the AGI designs to take advantage of this knowledge? The reality is that we wouldn't want to be caught taking our time when the competition could be rushing ahead.
European countries did much better than china regarding covid.
US did protlly because of many internal issues which seem to be unadressable.

Oh, and Nord stream 2 was not the US. At least there's no credible proof or semblance of one.
Not on production, but as a publicly accessible, nginx-proxied aiohttp server running on a Raspberry Pi. For personal use, like having a long-lived WebSocket connection to my home server.

I generally thought it was best practice to always update to the latest patch release. I mean, that's what `apt` is doing for the system-installed version.
Humans aren't the only animals that dream. It seems, like sleep, to be some kind of essential function and not just an accidental side trip.
After reading Ian Hickson's proposal[1] to kill HTML and replace it with proprietary, binary content structure, I'm starting to think accessibility APIs might end up being the future of open, interoperable web publishing.

1.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...
Yep. It's why ZFS, BTRFS, Ceph and Gluster matter. Being able to detect that data at rest has gone wrong, and being able to reconstruct the original state is a big deal.

I'd like to think that as NAND continues to scale up in capacity and lower in cost, that we'll see some real shakeup to filesystems and storage where self-healing mass storage can be genuinely commoditized -- not something that's only accessible to businesses (and computing enthusiasts) due to cost and complexity.
Everyone should read about the Luddites. Turns out this debate has happened before, except with more smashing.
Spaces weren't always used. If you look at old greek/roman engravings everything is jammed together without spaces. I think you could eventually become quite good at reading spaceless text, even though spaces definitely aid in comprehension.
That’s why I italicized it.
Just a side note, I honestly think models, photography people and markup artists will still exist. People will still make clothes, whether that's AI assisted or not, and people are going to want to take real photos of the clothes, with models wearing them.

No not in all cases, but as long as there are people there will be some demand for this.

Same goes for fashion shows, they will still exist too.

People will continue to like celebrities, follow their lives and hope they can be like them or meet them.

Maybe what people are forgetting is that people do actually like doing things with other people, whether that's taking photos of them, looking at photos of them, or watching them walk down a cat walk.

There is a reason why we haven't already completely replaced models (for photography) with wax dolls, mannequins etc. Sure they'd be cheaper, but there other drawbacks too.

Even using some of the latest AI technology, it's still not really easy to get what you want in the same way working with a good model is, then there is also sometimes the creativity that a model can inject into a photo shoot, which yes yes yes, can be automated, but I'm not sure why we'd bother when you can actually just enjoy working with another person.

Like it or not, sex sells, sex with algorithms, doesn't sell...happy to take the down votes for that statement but there is something in it.

Ever wonder why young people listen to a lot of (IMO) crap music? It's because many young people are attracted to the musicians and that attracts other young people which attracts more young people. It's also why AI won't replace bands. It's not just about the quality of music, it's about being part of a tribe and sharing that experience with other like minded people.

While I know AI will replace some areas of our lives, I think people do forget that it's not always about the quality and quantity of something. Making perfect music, a song no one has ever heard before every time, is going to be less attractive to many people than a band your girlfriend really likes and you both like going to see live together.

Handmade goods are another example of this, whether or not it matters, people definitely enjoy using handmade tools, knives, skis, surfboards etc. People will actually go out of their way and pay more money to support people doing these things.
US-Sanctioned Huawei Rents Giant Space at World Mobile Congress in Barcelona
I now know why I got shocked by the ground at my grandparents house
The article on the lake itself [1] seems to paint a different picture - contradictory evidence and a lack of certainty.

While the recent 2017 study cites core samples, earlier studies suggested that sediments were not a part of the lake formation. I don't think there's enough detail in the Wikipedia articles to really shed light on this. Every study seems to reach different conclusions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cheko

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Edit: You nerd-sniped me. Here's a meteor that produced an earth-grazing fireball over Utah and exited back into space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball

I gotta get back to work...
As a developer in China, I am re-strengthening my English, and I hope to have the opportunity to find a job in Japan and immigrate. I want free access to information and I want my daughter to have a life of safety and choice. Before the COVID, I didn't have this idea. After the COVID is over, I can't wait to leave. I'm pessimistic about the future here. As a small, ordinary person, I can't change anything, I can only change myself.
Nvidia has had driver parity for linux, freebsd and windows for many many years. No other graphics card manufacturer has come close to the quality of their software stack accross platforms. For that they have my gratitude.
I loved being able to play Diablo 2 with my Voodoo 5. There could be 100 mobs, plus shitloads of fog effects and fire on screen, and I'd still get like 60 fps.
It seems to me all the money is just getting more and more concentrated. If Amazon succeeds in completely automating it's warehouses, who will see the bulk of that saved money, the customers or bezos?
First, I mentioned regions, and do be clear, I'm referring to regions - Thats the point, there is a point where is does reach equilibrium and the price of lower tier and less desirable housing starts to fall.

The Bay Area has 7m people in it, SF proper 800k, you could grow the number of housing units by 10% every decade, or less - and it's more than feasible. Seattle Metro is 4m people, and Portland is 2m. That works out to 700k housing units in SF Bay, 400k in Seattle Metro and 200k in Portland Metro - those while seemingly giant numbers are absolutely feasible to build.

Why do you think Houston is so cheap to live in? or for that matter DFW? one, we have 100 miles of prairie in every direction to build in, so building is cheap - two, we impose few structural barriers to prevent new construction.
Still don't get the need for it.

You could always use the + operator to join strings. Even a external library would do just fine when you want to insert some kind of variable name inside strings for that purpose.

Don't really get the need for this to be a core function with such a java-unlike grammar.
I had them, got simple surgery procedure to get them out.
There are very low chances to get them out without surgery.
It sounds like the branch circuits must be wired delta (phase to phase, rather than phase to neutral). What's the neutral actually do? Or does your earth have low enough impedance that you can get away with low power loads returning unbalanced phase current through the earth?
This one sentence probably explains 90%+ of all programming advocacy.
Is it possible that for brief moments (on the order of one oscillation, so for 10kHz it'd be on the order of 0.1ms) the noise canceling messes up and is in phase with the incoming sound, blasting your ears with double the amplitude before correcting itself? It could be for such a short time you don't consciously hear it, but it could still be enough to damage your ear.
Even if it wouldn't have detected this problem, that Klein tool detects a lot of problems which don't immediately cause weird issues.

E.g. open grounds, flipped ground/neutral, flipped hot/neutral.

Lots of things which work perfectly fine, until they don't.

The GFCI tester on them is great too.

Klein makes a marginally more expensive version ($20) which does show voltage and you could have seen the symptoms of this particular problem.

https://www.amazon.com/Receptacle-Electrical-Klein-Tools-RT2...
It's more that he came from such wealth that his family could acquire a nontrivial share in an emerald mine on what amounted to a whim.

> Standing with the cash in his hand, Errol was made another offer he couldn't refuse: Would he like to buy half an emerald mine for half of his new riches?

> "I said, 'Oh, all right'. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years."

https://www.news24.com/news24/bi-archive/how-elon-musks-fami...
Just want to clarify - I do not think we have the solution to this problem nor do I claim that cloud services are not open source enough. Rather, I decided to take one (of many) possible avenues that I believe is more upfront and honest about our relationship with open source that directly aligns with our business incentives.

The difference to me is honesty and intent from the outset. Open core companies tend to lean into "we'll figure out how to monetize later" which inherently means it's harder to trust what they say now because their incentives are guaranteed to shift towards monetization eventually. The other models bake in monetization from the start, so you know what you're getting into when you start using the product.
Did you just pull these up from a random google search? I stopped reading the first one once I saw it's bibliography starts at the Church of God newspaper and low-quality wikipedia articles and gets less useful from there. Even though the wikipedia page for the second publication cites no sources and simultaneously claims to have been founded in the 19th century and 1970, it seems more sanely reasoned. However, I don't see how it supports your argument in any way. In fact, the author seems to be just as concerned about automation as I am, which is more than others:

William Strauss, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, stated that “on average, manufacturing output has been growing 3.1% annually over the past 63 years. Automation has enabled U.S. manufacturers to produce significantly more with fewer workers than they did in previous decades. Today, 177 workers can generate as much output as 1,000 plant employees could produce in 1950. Far from a cause for concern, the dramatic loss in manufacturing jobs should be seen as a key metric of success.”

Strauss under-plays the effect on all workers who lose in this game, and he doesn’t even mention what the loss of manufacturing will do to R& D or exports.

I wouldn't call R&D a generally low-skill job loss concern. Beyond that I didn't see anything that addressed your argument. Please enlighten me.
While it's no doubt true that he didn't have substantially more knowledge than we do now, it's important to consider that some areas he was working in have only recently come to bear similar fruit. Specifically wireless power transmission, for example, was patented by him in 1916 and only in recent years were similar effects actually put into practice on a small scale (functioning in a nearly identical way as described in the patent).

There's been plenty of times in history something has been lost or buried due to the death of the creator or societal / political pressures.

Consider the EV1 and the legal fight against California's Zero Emissions legislation, some 20 years before Tesla Motors would shake things up.
Because this thing here adds complexity to the language.

I'll be fine and ignore it completely like I've done with lambdas. I just pity the fools who enter Java world to learn the language and will suffer trying to learn what they believe is something normal programmers use.

Poor souls.
I have a i7 laptop of the same generation that I'm using to type this. I've replaced the screen, bezel, keyboard, touchpad, WiFi board, charger (3 or 4 times, thanks a lot Dell), battery. Upgraded the memory and added an SSD. Reapplied CPU paste once or twice. Never had a single problem with the CPU. Actually I don't know that I've ever had a computer with a CPU failure.

In all I've spent about 25% of the cost of the laptop over the years in repairs, but the result is that I'm able to keep using a device that's almost 12 years old instead of junking it. Saved quite a bit of money vs a new device, too.

Incidentally, it's interesting in regards to this issue that these old bulky laptops with beefy chips are actually quite good at avoiding thermal throttling. Despite having a traditional loud fan, I rarely even hear it come on.
Willy 'N Ethel
I've been a fan of Joe Martin for many years. His sense of humor always brightens my day and his website looks like it hasn't changed in over 20 years, which always makes me chuckle a bit too.
Ironically, Libertarian-Republican Alaska has been practicing UBI since the 70s after reaping in the Oil Boom - https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha...
Is it better to keep everything proprietary?
So after cutting payroll expenses by over half as well as trimming other OpEx, it appears that Twitter will either be breaking even or profitable this year.

If you review the previous public balance sheets, making heavy cuts in expenses would've shifted the company to profitability even with a 40% revenue drop.
> I know trying to innovate in the public education sector is slow for obvious reasons but shouldn't the private sector be able to scale easier, or at least at a faster pace than it is now.

First we should stop repeating that the private education system is better than the public education system. This happens only where there is corruption and public education system is deliberately stunted to benefit the private education sector.

For what a good education system looks like, one should look at the Scandinavian countries, more specifically Finland. Few years ago I was watching a video on YouTube on Finland's education system. In that a teenage girl, who was preparing for 'teachers exam', was asked on how the exam is, and she replied that it is the toughest, most competitive and prestigious exam. And this is the difference between good public education system and other failed education systems. If the system does not recruit the best and then not provide them with the prestige in the society then the system erodes over time. There use to be a comedy series on TV in the UK where one of the sections of each episode was dedicated to some profession where a character, shown as representing that profession, use to make some funny comment. You know what they showed for a school teacher? They showed a worn down, energy less unshaven skinny guy who, standing in front of the camera, looking emotionless says "I tried to get job in all the other sectors, but I did not get any. So I became a teacher". And the audience laughed! Imagine this is the situation in a developed country, what will be the situation elsewhere.
Yeah - it seems to, sometimes, but considering all these prompt leaks, it doesn’t seem terribly good. Like it seems obvious that Sydney could detect its own prompts, but it doesn’t.

I mean you could do that with grep. So what’s with that?
I swear this is why Fairlife milkshakes are so good. I swear I feel a buzz on it. I was quitting painkillers I was prescribed, and when I'd drink one I swear I'd feel a tiny better mentally. It sounds crazy but think about this-- they have 30 grams of protein per 12oz bottle. This means they have to concentrate proteins, including casomorphin. So it would make sense you might have a concentrated level of these morphine-mimetic peptides
>ECC is error correcting. A bit gets flipped and it not only detects it but fixes it. Two bits get flipped and it can at least detect it and panic the machine immediately instead of corrupting your data.

I did neglect to mention that ECC by-definition can correct errors, but I wonder if what's making people upset with my comment is the implication that ECC can't detect all errors.

But it's true: ECC can't detect all bitflips, and in fact there's at least one study[1] that suggests quite a lot of memory errors go entirely undetected even with ECC.

Silent corruption does in fact occur even with ECC and it may not even be particularly rare, even though it is rarer than typical single/double-bit flips. Of course, the majority of desktops use non-ECC RAM and it's mostly fine, so I assume this is only ever going to matter in production workloads, and exactly what impact it has is hard to gauge.

[1]: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/739/Fall2018/Papers...
Says the guy who invests in AI and is a NIMBY part of that red housing line (1)

(1) https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bbd9/billionaire-marc-its-...
Like the sibling comment said it looked way more impressive back in the day. Plus it looks better when in motion precisely because of the dynamic lightning.
> We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million.

Because TV is excellent tool for plush propaganda, education make it header to believe it. Great deal both for lobbying and states.
> First of all, he selected a fairly random, non-representative set of goods and services.

He's not seeking the truth.

He's trying to sell a vision to investors that he got in on early (because he thought he could sell it to them for a massive low-tax profit).

Reading his blog is like reading the blog of some QVC seller.