skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have too much faith in the social system. Clue: I am in Eastern Europe. We have exactly zero protection. Not small. Zero.

TL;DR if my reserves dwindle, I get thrown on the street. No conditions. No if-s. No but-s. No social safety net. I become the next fresh bum on the street.

To more directly respond to your question: medical insurance in my case means I get to schedule a meeting 2 months from now, with an old-school psychologist who is going to look at me annoyed and badly hide the fact how impatient he is for me to leave. I heard stories from acquaintances.
Yes and no. I think there are two levers on the CI side of the equation and only one of them is hyper-palatability (optimized flavor); the other is simply cost. Food costs have fallen sharply, and that contributes to over-feeding. Hyper-palatability also contributes. It's not irrelevant, but not the only factor.
I’d be curious to see a breakdown, aren’t a lot of federal jobs in red states? Besides I’m more interested in the second order impacts, what happens when those people stop spending in their communities?
Other countries don’t care about US politics as much as Americans think they do.

Especially non-English speaking countries.
It’s not hard to start a venemous snake farm. Most states allow venemous snake keeping with various levels of oversight (some states there is no oversight) I think it has more to do with how hard it is to get venom out of a reclusive rear fanged snake.

The main point is just that “naturally occurring” has nothing to do with price.
Protesting isn't about hating your country, it's free speech and a form of political expression.
How do we know if something is truly irreversible?
Paper money was first used in the West in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690, was used in limited fashion, became unpopular and then phased out. And that was the end -- paper money was a failure.

Wait....

The currency was initially unpopular for anything except paying taxes, and was phased out. Within a few years, however, paper currency would return to Massachusetts. The Bank of England began issuing banknotes in 1695, also to pay for war against the French, and they became increasingly common throughout the 18th Century.
At some overseas US military bases they have a huge dual rhomboid for HAM / MARS.
Isolating things is easy; engineering them to still work is the hard part. If the engineering was easy then every OS would isolate every operation and memory space, and Apple would have isolated these things long ago. But that's not possible because of the performance hit and because of the practicality of using 'perfect security' (it becomes secure even from developers and users).

How does Apple choose what to isolate, and how do they make the isolated parts functional with the rest of the system and for developers? And what changed to make it possible now?
>"The big suppliers can ratchet up prices with zero consequences. What are you gonna do about it?"

I think one (uncomfortable) solution is this. Consumers should budget their expenses. So when the egg prices increase, they should consume less to maintain their budget for eggs, for example, a month.

This will mean that when the companies increases prices, more of their stock will remain unsold, increasing their expenses stocking them to go up. This could also cause disruptions on their supply chain. This should force them to reduce prices.
> I fail to see how gold-pegged, gasselized […] constant supply cryptocurrency would not be in fact better than the dollar and the euro and the yen, and it would be both inflation & deflation resistant.

If you don't see it then then you may wish to read more economic history, as the history of gold-pegged currencies shows that they caused anything but stability:

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...

* https://archive.is/http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-go...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression#Causes_of_the_...

And it was only after leaving the gold standard that countries started to recover from the Great Depression:

> In the end, recovery from the Great Depression does not begin until countries give up on the combination of the Bagehot Rule and of commitment to sound gold-standard finance. Those countries that have central banks willing to print up enough money so that people are willing to spend it--it is when you adopt such policies that your economy begins to recover. If you don’t, you become France, which sticks to the gold standard all the way up to 1937, and never gets a recovery. When World War II begins, Nazi Germany’s production--equal to France's in 1933--had doubled between 1933 and 1939. French production had fallen by 15%.

* https://delong.typepad.com/delong_long_form/2013/10/the-grea...
This is just plainly false. Passkeys, biometrics, app permissions, and a suite of other user-centric privacy features have clear benefit from strong isolation from an "insecure world" kernel.
Amazon is Full of „high potency“ stuff cause idiots think bigger number better
The Tesla team also spys on their customers [1] but there was way more pearl clutching on HN about Mozillas ToS change.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
No, it's literally the opposite.

I was describing how you lose fat all over. And as part of overall fat reduction, you lose fat in your arms, because your arms are one part of all over.
I think Musk should be more bold in his vision here. What if instead of a cybercab that seats just two people, we could come up with an even bigger one that seats many people at once? And then maybe we could have it drive on a predictable, efficient route that covers multiple popular destinations, instead of just going from point A to point B. Has anyone considered building something like this?
I just checked consumer reports and Tesla 2023/2022/2021 model 3's didn't have very good reliability scores.

That said, it's not the powertrain that has the issues with the Teslas (battery/motors), it's build quality and steering/suspension that appears to have the biggest problems.
I highly enjoy watching these old instructional documentaries even if the tech is obsolete by now. There’s something that makes old tech a lot more graspable as a concept even if you’re not familiar with the technology.
> If using USD was voluntary in the US a lot less people would use it.

I'm curious what makes you think so, and what the alternatives would be. My impression is actually that if shops weren't forced to accept USD, 100% would still do so.
> Were I writing a go codebase in the UK, all spellings would be UK.

What about if you were in Australia? Germany? Poland? Bulgaria? China?

> how absurd it would be to retrain the staff to split their brain on a trivial issue of this kind.

I've seen this argument used to argue that all the spellings in source code should be US English, always and everywhere. In my opinion, this (being able to use the same argument to argue both for and against the same issue) invalidates the argument entirely.
Tolkien was simply articulating the fact that the distance between non-existence and existence is far greater than the distance between existence and technologically-enhanced-existence can ever be.
Do gas cars get advertised mileage on steep hills? I don't believe so.
> My long-shot hope is that the page can come to embody most of the wiring on the page, that how things interact can be encoded there.

I would love this. As a Tailwind user the last few years, it’s really been refreshing to have my styles both readable and inline on the elements instead of filed away in SCSS I’ll never see again. Even with scoped styles, some components get large enough that it feels unwieldy
you cannot just wake up and decide to grow your own, it is regulated heavily :)
The infrastructure is not set up yet, but the multi-nationals have good facilities for it. It's just like any currency, up one day, down the next, which is why I say it's long time past we did away with the concept of money. Not only is the concept of money outdated, it's not a natural phenomenon, other wise trees would give receipts. Living a life in a money world is not unlike living in a cloud cuckoo land, it's just as illusory. There's fish in the sea, crops give up seeds from the ground and barnyard animals reproduce, not a penny passed hands. The world has the education, if the Egyptians could turn a desert in to paradise more than 15,000 years ago, why can't we?
The net margin on a Tesla is only a few percent, and of that Musk only receives 12% (only owns 12% of Tesla stock).

A guy who is worth hundreds of billions, and is willing to give Wikimedia a billion dollars to change their name to dickipedia, doesn’t care whether he makes an extra hundred from you or not.

Just buy the car you like.
Are they as volatile as Bitcoin? Also, what can a government do to control Bitcoin's value, money supply, etc.?

> You can never be sure what the price of anything is going to be next week.

I do know what prices will be next week, within a sufficiently narrow range that I don't care. I think that applies to almost all consumers in advanced economies.
It’s in Walt Disney Presents at Hollywood Studios. There is a bunch more Disney models and memorabilia inside as well. Feels like a hidden gem because it’s always pretty empty, plus there is even a character meet and greet with little wait.
The legal tender experiment failed, the crypto experiment is ongoing. An entrepreneurial audience like this would be more charitable in interpretation if this was a company in the middle of a pivot.
Pro-Palestinian is the same thing as pro-Hamas according to AIPAC and the administration. So according to them, yes. According to logical peoples, no,
You can’t disentangle the two like that. If you posit that the first gulf war was justified, you’re 90% of the way to justifying the second. The intelligence was that Iraq was rearming. If your position is that the U.S. would’ve had to intervene in the event Iraq invaded a neighbor again, then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to invade preemptively to avoid a potentially costlier conflict.
It's not based on legal precedent, it's right in the code. It was part of the "Immigration and Nationality Act", which most people refer to as "INA".
They didn’t. No ruling exists. This dude was just black bagged.
And yet, this is the inevitable end-game of unfettered capitalism: to monopolize a market and prevent new entrants so as to eliminate competition and lock-in customers to a single producer that can set prices to whatever they want.

If the orange Cheeto was truly interested in combatting corruption, he would break apart this entire industry clear down to individual factories and processing plants, and implement laws to prevent anyone from ever buying out anyone else. Consolidation would be impossible, only organic growth would still be legal.

Or just put the entire industry under public control by nationalizing the industry. Without investors and CEOs to Hoover up those profits, prices could crater by 80% or more without affecting production or maintenance.
you said “budget” in the context of America. 93.98% of americans are not finacially literate enough to budget. this is by design…
That's a stronger claim anyhow. We'd merely need Pi to be a rich number, ... which hasn't been proven either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence#Rich_numb...
That assumes that people exist within a shared reality influenced by facts, but people aren't connected to reality and aren't influenced by facts. We can see that with vaccinations.

The system that divorces people from reality is social media, so as long as social media is pumping un-reality into people's lives, I think you're being rather optimistic. What's happening right now is directly empowering social media oligarchs, so they have absolutely no reason to stop. The foundation of their power is un-reality.

Hope is not a strategy.
Anyone else thinks that the argument "it doesnt really think, it's just math" is incredibly superficial?
Someone using AI to cold message me is an immediate turn off.
You’re the one who doesn’t know the history of mistaken american wars in the 20th century and I’m the one being disingenuous?

How do you distinguish Korea, Vietnam, and the first Gulf War from Ukraine? And I suppose your only quibble about the Iraq War is that we should’ve waited until Saddam invaded another neighbor, like he did the first time?
Doesn't take working at a crypto company to realize 99% of crypto is a scam. Meme coins, ICOs and NFTs were the icing on the cake for me though.
- Your password has expired. You must choose a new one.

- Uh, oh. How am I going to see behind me, then?
there is literally nothing he cares about except for money (including his own myriad of children he probably can’t even name)
Government employees draw their money from taxes, inflation, or debt that's paid by one of the two. Stop spending is a bit of a myth, it reverts the spending to whatever productive entity in the economy it was taken from.
Turning oil into cryptocurrency requires electrical power plants and related infrastructure. Russia has very limited industrial capacity to build this stuff anymore. They're still heavily dependent on pre-1991 industrial infrastructure. I think most people don't realize how weak Russia really is.
I have since read the article and you are correct, thank you.
There's no need to use existing laws when you can invent new ones. Under the process of Gleischaltung, many new laws were passed in a five-month window that didn't have any historical precedent including:

* Disbarring every lawyer and judge

* Requiring that all new bar exams could only be attended by NSDAP members of over two years who possessed certificates of "ancestral hygiene"

* Arresting every state governor (turns out the Weimar Republic was also a federal republic) and replacing them with NSDAP officials

* Reconstituting the party seat allocations of every state legislature to match the party seat allocations of the federal legislature
If you're in a group and some of your peers leave the group because they've mastered the material, you might feel like you're being 'held back'. And observers might feel that certain demographic or identity groups are being 'held back' at a higher rate than others.

Sure, perhaps you leave it up to the student to decide which group they should be in. But what if they move to the next group when they're not ready? Does the tutor cater to them or to the rest of the group? What if some demographic group is less confident on average, and doesn't move ahead even when ready?

The setup you've described might work, but people will find all sorts of reasons to be mad about it, to claim discrimination and/or to use whatever outcomes there are to claim that somebody is being treated unfairly.

The academic literature on 'mismatch' doesn't all lean in one direction.

You should read Sonja Starr's article on the coming magnet school wars. She definitely has an opinion, but she made a decent attempt to present fairly both sides of each issue she covers.
BTC aside, the rest are scams. As for BTC I went to this presentation at Princeton University in late 2024.

BTC isn’t perfect but often enough it’s better than centralized alternatives.

https://www.princeton.edu/events/2024/book-talk-resistance-m...
> Prices change continuously. You can never be sure what the price of anything is going to be next week.

With a decent central bank you can, as the rate of inflation is fairly predictable:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_targeting

We've recorded some of the most stable prices in the last few decades with that policy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moderation

as compared to when the gold standard was around:

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archi...

And gold isn't as stable as most people think:

* https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...

even in the modern age:

> The idea behind a gold standard is that a currency becomes tied to a commodity with a stable value. The great problem with this is that gold does not have a stable value. Like any other commodity, its relative value goes up and down. For instance, in September 2022, US dollar milk prices were rising over 16%. In gold terms milk prices were rising over 23%—dangerously high inflation.

* https://www.ubs.com/it/en/wealthmanagement/insights/article-...
Like I told my family recently:

I think people are going to start realizing that there's a lot more invested in crypto than it's worth. Trump putting the federal government behind a crypto reserve didn't intice new investors/investment. Not sure where the bottom is, but we might find out sooner than later.

The people who want crypto have it. The people who recognize it's not worth the lack of fraud regulation/protection and instability aren't going to suddenly start buying.
You're proving my point, that users have to be protected by software engineers in the same way that pedestrians know nothing of civil engineering but trust that bridges are safe to walk on, and aren't to blame when they fail. It's not a marketing or FOMO issue, it's a matter of culture within our profession and way of life as engineers.
You’re right but the difference isn’t as big as from the advertised 270 to 90-120. Also electric cars suffer from battery degradation which hampers the range quite a bit.
You don’t need an ORM for that, though. I’ve used Scany in the past, and it was great. Raw, parameterized SQL that is easy to reason about and easy to scan into your structs:

https://github.com/georgysavva/scany
There's a massive operation targeting Polish-speakers with clear objective of persuading public opinion to stop aid to Ukraine.

Did anyone notice similar trends across other social media?

How are the spam bot farms created? Directly or via automated malware that takes over infected devices and uses it's IP to create these accounts and post these things?

If the latter - they have to have a server hosting all the footage to post at random - any chance of finding it?
> Before retiring from NRAO (years after my interviews with him), Mr. Sizemore outfitted a new Dodge Ram extended cab truck as an RFI vehicle, a feat which was written up in USA Today.

Dead link but luckily archive.org has it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140725075606/http://usatoday30...
I went to the trouble of finding monthly egg production totals for the US based on "NASS quick stats."

https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/results/80AF9DAE-99AE-31D0-...

Hopefully yall can make heads or tails of the data.

The querying tool is also linked at
https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/#80AF9DAE-99AE-31D0-8F1C-EC...
Yeah, Greece didn't survive IMF.

Oh wait...

(Nobody remembers the long term success stories, just the short period pain)
> The post makes it clear that it just not working on the author is a possibility,

This is my hypothesis. I'm very confident it worked for me, but I'm guessing that there's a certain combination of symptoms and traits that it's effective. If it was a placebo for me, it would be literally a miracle: likely the cheapest thing I've tried and had the biggest effect without requiring me to make a habit out of taking it.
Today, in the Murchison Radio Quiet Zone:

The Power and Signal Distribution (PaSD) SMART boxes (Small Modular Aggregation RFoF Trunk) are an essential component of the Square Kilometre Array Low frequency (SKA-Low) telescope, currently under construction at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, in Western Australia.

The SMART boxes provide electrical power to the SKA-Low telescope's 131,072 antennas and collect signals received from the sky to go off-site for processing.

[ .. ] “The ‘radio quiet’ results that the ICRAR-designed SMART boxes achieved were to the highest standards in radio astronomy. A mobile phone on the surface of the moon would cause more interference to the antennas than the SMART boxes that sit among them,”

~ https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/cyber-space/icr...

I still haven't found any vehicle guidelines for the Inner Zone ( 70 km radius ), but for anyone with an interest:

* General introduction: https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovatio...

* Restricted airspace: https://www.avsef.gov.au/consultations/restricted-airspace-o...

* Limits of intereference by frequency and distance table: https://www.ursi.org/proceedings/procGA11/ursi/JP2-17.pdf
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You could make it your self for the cost of soybeans basically. It's a cheap food sold as a gourmet item because it's rare. Like a lot of other fermented foods.
I actually have mine set the other way around. It always wants to write backwards-compatible stuff, so I force it to use the latest versions and libraries that I'm blessed to be able to use. So much that I have to force it the LLM to use web search to find the new features because its training is too old.
Did you read the article?

> Moreover, the policy cost $375m in all—from the Chivo rollout, subsidised transaction fees, bitcoin ATMs and more—according to Moody’s, a rating agency. That far exceeds the profits on bitcoin holdings, which could still evaporate. By delaying an IMF deal, the crypto experiment kept El Salvador's risk premium high.
This is about process privilege. Apps and services are a layer above.
They literally did this in the announcement for the cybercab. Look up the “Tesla Robovan”. It was clearly a proof of concept, but in theory it’s a good idea. Claimed to be able to seat 20 people.
At a previous job there were two fairly old Fortran code bases running on emulated hardware. I think one was using an old proprietary compiler (I want to say from IBM) while the other was almost certainly using some ancient compiler given the emulated hardware that it was running on.
For what it's worth, this article is much better.
But the ECM?
What about Vivaldi? Isn’t that on iOS better than FF on iOS?
If I’m not mistaken some or all also have battery heaters that consume a lot of energy.
The sacrifice is that you can't use 40% of what's supposedly the range.

> Did you gas up your car every time you drove back from work? No, right?

Right, you gas up your car when it needs more gas. You can't do that with an electric car for two reasons: (1) you need to fuel the car well in advance of trying to use it, because fueling is extremely slow; (2) you can't go low on fuel without damaging the car.

The only logical response to this state of affairs is to try to fuel the car whenever it's not in use.

> So why complain that the car doesn't sit at 100% all the time in your garage?

Capacity that you're not supposed to use is not capacity that you can usefully be said to have.
Are you saying the Europeans or Chinese cannot reverse engineer an aerospace engine for mass production? I have no particular preference where it’s done, any sufficiently advanced country will do.

I suppose any afterburning turbofan engine will do if it fits? Again, not particularly opinionated. Just get out from under US control using the path of least resistance.
Vaporware is different that fraud.

If I promise the public next year can buy a car that will fly you to mars, well, that's not prosecutable unless particular people enter into a business contract.

If I promise the public that if you pay me $50k now for a car and make statements that next year it will fly you to mars "once they get the bugs worked out". Well, that borders closer to fraud.
I was a non-citizen for years and felt I should hold myself to stricter conduct standards - not just for legal reasons but also moral ones. You don't ask to come into someones house and then complain about the cooking or start giving unsolicited advice on interior decorating.
50 mg is over 30 cans of diet coke for most of us.

If we had to consume the amount of aspartame per kilogram these mice did we would have far more serious problems on our hand than insulin resistance