skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two exchange rates for USD and Argentine Peso. One is official, set out by the government. The other one, called blue rate, is not. With blue rate, the dollar is almost 2x more expensive (https://bluedollar.net/).

As an Argentinian, there is a limit of dollars that you can buy per month using the official rate. If you want to buy more, you need to find someone that will sell you dollars at the blue rate (~2x more expensive). Due to this, even if you're making good money in Argentina (working for a US based company for example), you'll get hit heavily with the exchange rates, sometimes twice if you don't have a foreign bank account.

Source: I spent a couple months living in Buenos Aires.

Still, I'm curious about what is the process of buying crypto with Argentinian pesos? Any advice?
Is it harder to spoof a number in Singapore than in the U.S.?

In the U.S., it's trivially easy to make your call look like it's coming from whatever number you want, so scammers just have caller ID display the real phone number for the bank they're pretending to call from.
I own a business. What you propose isn’t really a option. People leave a voicemail, telling me to call them back. Even if I do so right away I almost always get voicemail. Even calling back 10 minutes later and then 30 results in…voicemail. If I leave them a message or text to call me back again the universe often chances it to be when I’m in the bathroom or driving.

It’s infuriating.
Stop gaslighting me about the meaning of enshittification.
IMO Litestar is even better than FastAPI and its governance structure will better enable a solid foundation to build from. FastAPI a bit all over place and quite minimalist (which is great in some respects). I just prefer that Litestar offers more goodies similar to eg Django in many respects but still much more lightweight. Litestar feels generally more well integrated than FastAPI.
Stupid questions get stupid answers.
Doctors refuse to acknowledge the existence of voice mail. It might be some perceived legal/liability thing or maybe it's just a manifestation of their arrogance, but in my experience no doctor will ever leave a voice mail ever. I fully expect that if one of my relatives ends up incapacitated in the hospital and I'm their first contact, the hospital phonecall will go unanswered (not in my contacts list, so my phone won't ring) and I'll receive no voice mail or SMS.
The Corrosion of Character (1998)
sacrifice five years of your life on an abstract idea.
Do less of things you'll regret
I agree that declining birth rates and later child bearing is a problem, but I heavily disagree with the alternative you seem to promote: depending on what you mean by birth control, we definitely don’t want everyone having 10 children, which was not uncommon without it; divorce is an essential freedom we absolutely should have; and feminism is a very important movement and attacking it is just vile.
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Experimental insulin implant uses electricity to control genes
> regenerate their keypairs

I don't think that this is possible with most blockchain based implementations, because it would imply wallets can be administratively compromised.

Note also that _until they appear in person_ the imposter has full access to the victim's wallet. And disclosure time spans in the cyber security world would argue against this, because there won't be any money left 6 months after the incident happened.
Click-baity topic indeed Doc!
Museum of Science and Industry pricing is still reasonable (Adult – $25.95, Child ages 3-11 – $14.95).
The ones about marriage and the relationships between men and women than exist in nearly every civilization in the world for thousands of years.

I think the jury is out on the modern world, as many slaves in middle ages lived far better than the capitalist "slave" workers in the America, India, Philippines, today.
Ah I didn't know that and thanks for bringing it up.
why can't it be reset? you could change the data, from a fingerprint to a thumbprint, for example
Just first-hand experience. I haven’t used Libby for years, but I do recall it had multiple counter-intuitive “features”, such as theme and language not having a selector (relying on the OS), and that to enable email notifications, you first have to disable the app’s push notifications on the OS level (!)
With the Proton compatibility layer, the Microsoft Windows versions of Battlebit, Squad and Warno perform perfectly on Debian - I don't even think about it. Steam gaming on Linux Just Works !
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/visit

Good lord. Yup, $43/head if you want to see all the "ticketed exhibitions". (Is there sales tax too? Sometimes museums don't.)

Beyond just the prices, I really don't like the new spreading trend of charging more for "current exhibitions" separate from the rest of the museum. The Field Museum is "only" $30 for basic admission that excludes those.
The old building next to the zoo was smaller, so it was more cozy and you were just surrounded by fascinating things. And it had a periscope. It might well just be nostalgia that remembers it as a superior experience, however. I share the fond memories, but it's hard to say the new location is objectively worse. It's a lot larger and spread out, for sure, which changes the ambiance significantly. But it accommodates a lot more people. And there's an actual submarine now, instead of just a periscope.
Good points. I haven't used wearable tech like this and always thought it would a pain for the wearer. I didn't consider what it would be like for the person on the either end. Who wants to interact with a person that is distracted by visual information?
I wouldn't call it manipulation per se. I would frame it as "The Overton Window has moved and we have new socially acceptable talking points."

Talking points are never The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth. More nuanced discussion is not readily well-accepted and embraced in large groups -- like, say, the internet.
I'm sorry but your facts don't comport with my preconceived notions so you are wrong prima facie.
Rent Growth Is Slowing (Where Housing Got Built)
Japan, would be one option. Singapore as well. Marocco maybe. I would never migrate to the US so, not that I would consider the US particularly stable so.

And no amount of wrong decisions of one person gives another person the right to decide for them. That's what laws, courts and a legal system is there for.

Edit: Other countries: Taiwan, Malaysia. The problem is less religion and stability, it is more that free democracies are somewhat far between globally. Add in somewhat economical stability as a requirement for me migrating, which was the question, and the list gets even shorter (it would also exclude the vast majority of Latin America by that measure alone, not that these countries are particularly stable despite being staunchly Christian).
Speaking from my own experience, it doesn’t necessarily matter. All that matters is what you each bring to the relationship every day. It can be a blessing to meet later in life, after both of you have worked on your issues.
Sounds like a lot of challenging administration work. Some questions come to mind like:

Who organizes and pays for all of these in-person sessions?

How many people have access to reset a private key, and how trustworthy are they?

What happens to people who can't verify themselves in person (disabled, remote area, no transport, etc)?

If you need all of this organization and centralization, what's the point of using crypto?
Thanks for the feedback.

I understand that the fields page could be confusing, especially for people who are not already versed in databases. I guess this is one reason that the spreadsheet as database metaphor has taken off so well in recent years?

There are docs, but of course some kind of introduction video would probably help a lot? What do you think?

Again, thanks for the kind words and feedback. It is invaluable.
You are extrapolating way too much from your limited data — in fact, younger generations have less sex than those before, as per a study linked in this thread.
I think there's a non-zero risk that you'll eventually run afoul of local organized crime like this.
> Government spending isn't the issue, corruption and centralization of power is.

Why not both? I think both are big problems. Is there any time government has cut spending and it ended up making the economy worse by some measure?
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So, the epiphany to have here, is that for many countries — but not the US! — historical cultural sites and artefacts (not just museums, but also things like monuments and land features) are a large draw for foreign tourists. People fly to Paris just to visit the Louvre; people visit Egypt just to see the pyramids; etc.

These "historied" cities have built up powerful hospitality industries around foreign visitors there to see historical cultural sites. Insofar as you can think of a municipal government as "a dozen neighbourhood business associations in a trenchcoat", hospitality-focused cities like this have strong incentives to put large amounts of public funding into museums, art galleries, etc. — both just to ensure that these things are very nice to visit and continue to draw tourists; but even more, to reduce the costs to tourists of visiting those sites in particular as much as possible... as a loss leader to draw those tourists into the rest of the city, where the hospitality-focused businesses can then capture their money!

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But, why doesn't this happen in the US? Well, it's no one single thing.

• The US is big. There's a lot of stuff in the US, but you can't see all of it on one vacation. The "draw power" of any one US city to foreign "cultural tourism" is diluted because you can't just go to one or two cities and see all the cool stuff.

• In fact, many of the most "tourist-driven" sites in the US — Niagra Falls, the Elvis museum, etc — aren't in cities that people have any other reason to visit. All there is there is the site itself, and the hospitality businesses, with no other reason to be there. Because of that, people who e.g. travel for business, can't sneakily justify a vacation to these places by holding a conference or retreat there; there's no "there" there to make that practical, let alone enjoyable. They're just tourist traps, that you have to go a long way out of your way to visit. (The one exception being Las Vegas, a tourist trap so overgrown that you can hold conferences there — but it's hard to justify a "business retreat to Vegas" for other reasons.)

• And a lot of the other well-known stuff — the Grand Canyon, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, etc — are (or are in) national parks, i.e. places excluded from capitalist build-up. Which is good insofar as it prevents a tourist trap; but bad insofar as it prevents these places becoming genuine hospitality-focused cities!

This is all very much unlike most of the rest of the world, where the big cities and the "stuff people want to see" are mostly co-located.

• Also, re: art and museums specifically — some might suggest that the US has nothing that foreign tourists want to see because "it's too young to have culture", but that's not true at all (see: e.g. MoMA; the Smithsonian.) I think the real "problem" with US museums is that they're modern in a way that means that all the coolest stuff can be seen in online catalogues; is well documented in video documentaries; etc. Meanwhile, other galleries and museums are old and crusty and not hip to technology (save for archival-science technology), in a way that means that you have to go there if you want to see it.
I feel it is pretty straight forward. We are just the greediest species on the planet. Greed begets power and power begets more greed.

But part of the problem is that by and our large our quality of life is ever increasing. No one wants to go back to subsistance farming and bartering. That will only happen when there is literally no other choice to live. Water is going to be the most valuable resource in the coming decades in a way we can't yet contemplate.

George Carlin — 'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.'
A lot of museums have free or low cost days or are perpetually free or low cost for certain communities. I have to wonder if higher prices for those who “pay retail” price isn’t just subsidizing a lot of free museum experiences for underserved people/children.
> I don't understand why people are attaching any weight to Alexandra's claims.

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
I actually really love this quote, I’m saving it. Thank you random citizen.
Haha thanks. Although I'd love to see how other people may be able to use it too.
The theory of this particular alleged superconductor is that it's a result of internal stress. I don't think that's compatible with bending.
Always excited to see new web frameworks for Python, very exciting. Kudos to the author and Godspeed! Always looking to try new Python frameworks.
Yes, this is also very sad.
This would be less like setting up a new IP address and more like setting up a whole new AS. Sure, it can be done, but it costs the scammer a lot more than a simple blocked number.
> and the economists will say, "fuck the poor, we will create a pay to play system so that the rich can continue with their lifestyle and the poor will be priced out of it".

This approach has practical limits though. At some point you can't realistically get people to work for you, or create a pseudo-insulated environment that's actually failing. On one hand side that's most still far away, on the other... see the SF and people complaining about the homelessness problem.
> Would you be luckier to be her 1st, knowing that it would be short-lived and 22 others would follow after you?

The answer is a definitive yes, from an emotional standpoint.

When you are young, you make partner choices based on primal, raw desire. As you "age out" of your youth, start a career, etc, you make more practical partner choices based on provisioning capacity, conscientiousness, agreeableness, etc. Particularly when you are the sexual selector.

The problem is that that primal desire never goes away, even though people get better at making practical choices. If you're #1, you have the emotional security of knowing that your partner loves you at a deep, primal, biological level.

If you're #23, that emotional security is gone. You've been selected because you earn $X, you're stable, you're capable, and you get along well. And maybe that makes for a great partnership, in the sense that you could have a great partnership with your co-founder. But you still know, in the back of your mind, that your partner doesn't love you in a deep biological sense. You're a practical, rational choice. And your partner's body will never crave you like it does others.

And in a world of no-fault divorce, it's a trivial matter for your partner to give in to just a taste of the old days.

The word "insecurity" gets thrown around a lot here as some sort of pejorative. And it's true that #23 often has "insecurity issues", but those "issues" are not unfounded. Insecurity is often an emotional response to a genuine lack of security that actually exists in interpersonal relationships.
And it's not on Anna's Archive, unfortunately. It seems to be too new.

And btw., you should never (NEVER!) give money to Springer. They are truly evil.
Second this! Moreover, most muesum memberships pays for itself after a couple visits. We just took the family to NYC and went to the AMNH twice, and a membership was worthwhile.
This is awesome. ImGui is the only native UI library I've seen that makes intuitive sense to me. Other things are all bogged down in their own frameworks rather than just providing a simple interface for people to create UI elements with. I think most ImGui users are in game development, so I wonder what kind of uses this would be good for. Maybe some debugging information, but personally I've never needed aggregate statistics for debugging info
What is amusing and sad to me is that we have now created so many insanely big problems through greed, and unbridled technological progress in the name of profits that we actually now need AI (which will for sure have introduce it's own problems) to get us out of the shit situation we've created.

I hear this parroted all the time, "AI will save the world", well maybe, but what about thinking about what has fucked this world and tackling that instead?

I know AI progress is being made but I really think it's also a fantasy to think a talking computer is going to come to our rescue.

I 100% agree with you and have recently come to the conclusion that we already are the paperclip maximizers. We have turned the entire fucking ecosystem into money.
I keep reading that room temperature super-conduction will revolutionize so many fields.

Is there a good summary of which fields, and how, somewhere?
Our genes don't care bout our beliefs, only that we procreate with a partner whose immune system is different from ours, which is signaled via pheromones. It does not matter to them if we are able to form a stable bond. My ex is still a pain five years after breakup, even though she has a new partner and child with him. Our son is doing fine.
The story you are commenting on is about a hardware survey of gamers. I think quite a bit more than 0.5% chose to use Windows intentionally.
They apply to some degree, but it still takes X amount of materials to make each panel, you don't magically get more because you're making a continent worth of them. Even if you magically reduce the overhead 50% somehow, that's still only 18x which is not even close. Plus the fixed cost of making a laughably absurd amount of superconductor, and the monumenal logistics of deploying and maintaining all of it likely puts the project into net negative for a decade or two.

Saharan dust will also cover those panels in like a day. Probably makes more sense to float them on some body of water instead, with automatic washing and cooling?
I wonder if he’ll still give talks. I don’t blame him if not, but he’s really good at it.

“Simple made easy” was a classic even if everyone proceeded to ignore the practical advice contained therein. And “Maybe not” is my personal favorite, a great discussion of requirements/provisions and the downsides of option types.
They’re raising the entrance fee from $25 (which was apparently set in 2015) to $30

According to the BLS inflation calculator, $25 in 2015 had the same buying power as $32.64 now

Apparently museums are getting cheaper in real terms! What’s the issue?
'independent thinkers' for me has become synonymous with anti-science, climate denial and antivaxx groups.
>>> Why do brilliant programmers make bad teachers?
It’s called the curse of knowledge. Some of the smartest authors in the business are clueless about a beginner’s needs.

So true. I'm usually good at teaching and explaining things but after learning software development gradually over the course of my whole life, I have no idea what its' like for beginners, especially nowadays that stacks have so many layers.
There's now at least one Linux distribution that kicks out all the Gnu stuff. See https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/chimera_non_gnu_linux...
Enshittification is only possible because a vast majority of users will tolerate the abuse with a smile and continue to feed from the hand that slaps them across the face. They will do that because they are genuinely, in the truest sense of the word, addicts. The withdrawal symptoms may be nothing like those of alcohol, nicotine, opiates, or benzodiazepines, but they are no less addicts because of that fact.

It's an old joke that the only group besides Tech Companies to call their customers 'users' are drug dealers, but there is great truth in that.

When tech companies performs enshittification, it's not terribly different from a heroin dealer doubling the profits he extracts from a customer by cutting with other substances (mixing with cheaper substances to dilute the concentration of the most expensive component, for those unfamiliar with the lingo) when he knows that customer is experiencing withdrawal - he knows the customer is hopelessly hooked, addicted, and desperate for more, and he knows he can manipulatively extract even more value from the customer in such a vulnerable state.

For this reason, I propose it may just as well be called something more like "Addict Abuse", or "Heartless exploitation of the vulnerable", because that's exactly what it is.

That society continues to cherish and prize companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Reddit, Apple, Twitter, and others rather than regarding them with the extreme prejudice and utter contempt commonly reserved for manipulative dealers of addictive drugs is nothing short of baffling to me.

P.S. Before any corporate shills accost me for using the previous names of technology companies - I know I'm using the old name. I'm using the old name for the same reason I still call Blackwater "Blackwater", even though they call themselves "Academi" now - rebranding to cover up old sins is itself a manipulative tactic to memoryhole the sins. I will be no more complicit in covering up the rampant psychological, privacy, and government-directed first amendment abuses of Facebook or Twitter than I am in covering up the war crimes of Blackwater.
All the other years are the same colour, giving the impression that it varies within a range. But other graphs colour them by recency and the most recent ones are clearly moving upwards, which makes the newest one seem more inevitable than surprising.
That's an interesting contention, and I'm looking forward to your precise explanation of the precise neural pathways involved in the production of a painting, if whatever is left over is the empty set, and every single activity is determined only by chemical and physical interactions in the brain. In particular, I would like you to show the precise neural firings and chemical pathways that lead to the exact composition of each brush stroke. By this contention, there should be essentially nothing interposing between your past memories and the exact contents of the painting.

I think you're taking an extreme view for the sake of argument, but there is still quite a bit unknown about how we actually process information. There is a clear biological component to all of it, but the biological processes fall well short of a complete explanation of things like creative processes and the sense of self (let alone logical thought), and you seem well-versed enough in the literature to know that.
It's interesting to note that these are not natural forests, but essentially man-made tree plantations, reforested since the 18th century after the natural forests had been eliminated in the centuries before mainly because of ore mining. Same story further to the south-east in the Ore Mountains.

Getting rid of the spruce tree mono culture and letting a mixed forest regrow will be a good thing even if it will take a century or more (that's at least what the strategy seems to be in Ore Mountains).
Re: problem 51, a friend of mine made an interesting observation: if the probabilities are different, but always in the same ranking, i.e. Alice is always worst, Bob is always better than Alice, and Cheris always the best shot, there is a mix of probabilities where Alice's most successful strategy changes from the solution to the original puzzle. What are those probabilities? The easy version is to describe the general circumstances. The hard version is to do the math and describe them exactly.
Lease it to whom? All the other museums are in the same scenario.

There's more art of value than there is space to show it, so we rotate stuff in and out with special exhibitions and whatnot.