skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> oil producers are not necessarily happy to exchange oil for dollars. They do that out of necessity, for the lack of an alternative

The U.S. dollar is not the world’s sole reserve currency [1]. At 65% it’s dominant, but Euros, pounds, yen and francs are also used and freely traded. Nobody has to accept dollars. It’s just the easiest [2]. (Because we consume a lot and have deep, reliable financial markets.)

In any case, who do you think is pushing for more reserve currencies? Hint: the people who make money when people have to convert between reserve currencies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency

[2] Anecdote: friend, former treasurer for a major European airline, found it easier to buy planes from Airbus in U.S. dollars than Euros. They would sign a contract denominated in euros and settle in dollars. Even if that meant swapping euros for dollars and then back again. Why? Because everyone had loads of dollars and is this familiar and comfortable with dollar mechanisms for moving large sums. Nobody forced anyone to do it this way. It was just, strangely, easier.
Adverts by definition try to sell you things that are not relevant to your needs. They'd be pretty bad adverts, if they tried to sell you things that you do need and therefore will buy anyways.
What's interesting is a reply challenging the assertion on the basis that families or potential-families left town:
https://twitter.com/MetroGram/status/910880679470215168

Quoting the paper:
"Because the higher lead content of the new water supply was unknown at the time, this decrease in GFR is likely a reflection of an increase in fetal death and miscarriages and not a behavior change in sexual behavior related to conception..."

What's pleasant is that there wasn't a flamewar over it.
great iniciative
It's arbitrarily divisible, up to the limit of a float though right? So nominal prices can keep "decreasing" in bitcoin for a long time. Maybe that's just too much work to keep the prices reasonable?
Edit: they can't actually be using a float for money though, right? So what is the actual limit of divisibiity?
"So it's not true that Tlon can't just say $user's compute node is hereby expelled?"

Correct, this is untrue.
There may be no perfect solution but I am really hoping something better can exist. There isn't as much trouble in some other countries, maybe we can look into what they are doing?

I don't have the answers. But, just because I'm not an MD doesn't mean I can't point out an obviously broken arm. This is a problem and it does need fixing.

At this point, it's reached the level of absurd. Not even a great author could have come up with a better storyline. This has reached the point of being surreal. If I weren't witnessing this, I'd have trouble believing it - it's that bad.

At this point, I'm having trouble thinking of something they haven't screwed up. This has more twists than a soap opera.
I read The Three Body Problem by the same author. I wish I didn't. By the third volume I was reading more like the way you keep watching a slow catastrophe unfold.

Not only does it paint an utterly depressing picture of the future and the Universe in general, but worse, the assumptions it makes about human nature basically imply this is a failed species.
If Google needs Mac hardware to test Safari on, CircleCI has a Mac cloud they could use :) https://circleci.com/mobile/osx/
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Then it's a good thing angry mobs are so careful and discriminating, and only ever target the people who are really at fault /s
Congrats the two things you're doing won't help you at all. Start with five or six freezes, then start writing congress.
If we accept the Zombie Tax premise, then we don't own anything.
I got a Lime and I've not really had a great experience with it. You can't actually receieve HF with it unless you desolder an inductor. Also mine has a HUGE DC bias which introduces a ton of noise and basically cuts the usable bandwidth in half, if not more. Sadly I think these things were overhyped and/or ran into design issues that keep them from living up to the promise
This particular attack isn't that bad. It relies on putting the VRM into "illegal" configurations (overclocking/undervolting) thus it can be fixed by preventing such configurations in hardware.
This is the kind of attitude that disturbs me about recent journalism and what appears to be the dominant opinion in the US.

Getting quantitative results is entirely useless if you don't want to think about the subjective qualitative reasons we thought some arbitrary metric might matter and how they might be limited. Having a high GDP or salary is about raising your quality of life and options. If you are actively prevented from living all sorts of other lives simply because they are not as profitable then you are poorer than the wild man.
Democrats fight FCC's plans to redefine “broadband” from 25+ to 10+ Mbps
But I would challenge you to come up with an alternative

Actually, I have. I was homeless for nearly six years until earlier this month. I am medically handicapped and can't work a regular job. I was a homemaker for a lot of years, I had a corporate job for a few years and I currently do freelance writing, resume editing and I blog, which gets me a little money via ads, tips and Patreon.

UBI will solve nothing as long as we do not have universal basic health care and affordable housing. If we establish universal basic health care and create sufficient affordable housing, then the last piece of the puzzle is redistributing work. We did this once before under very similar circumstances where automation was "taking our jobs."

It was called The Industrial Revolution. It gave birth to the 40 hour work week, overtime pay and unions.

If work is structured properly and you can get a cheap SRO or similar somewhere and not have to worry about medical bills, you can cover your basic living expenses working part time. If it is well structured where you work as little or as much as you want, then people who are unambitious hedonists or who have personal burdens, like chronic health issues, can just get by without it being a dystopian horrifying black hole that seems inescapable. Folks with more energy and/or more ambition can work harder and do more with their lives.

I have written a number of pieces laying out the details. Some are listed on this page of my old blog:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/ir2.html

But I don't imagine you are actually interested. That "challenge" was most likely intended to mean "Shut up. It isn't like you have a solution."
I don't see why would they bother with them when things like Chacha20 (which is a popular and well audited algorithm) already exist.
Its also worth noting that inflation only happens like that when demands cannot be met. IE fixed quantity of goods that cannot grow, being demanded more and more over time. That is not how basic necessities work at all. If you increase the profit margin in almost any food crop or raw material by a few fractions of a percent you see dramatic investment in sating that demand because its an extremely safe profit center.
It's two separate books that were put under the hydraulic press and smashed into one tome. Keep that in mind when reading it, otherwise the second act is jarring.
> If you say these things, but means something else, that's on you to adapt your communication, not on me to intuit your message.

It is socially unacceptable to misquote. For that, it doesn't matter if you "just" left out important parts, or actively changed words.

That kind of behaviour removes not just the bases of an insightful dicussion, but of any other form of communication as well.
Looking more closely, is that thing for real? It started as a Kickstarter. The site says "Note: PINEBOOK next shipment date will be on August 25th, 2017. Ship from Hong Kong." and "We will fulfill the BTO queue based on first come first served basis and starting on 28 March 2017. Our sales team will email when it is your turn in the queue." Not good, considering they announced in 2015. Is there a real product like this, as in "you order it and it shows up without any nonsense?"
Interestingly, once the states started getting large payments from the tobacco company settlement, they became interested in the long-term health of those companies.
No, the watch is charging in another room. Its just some red led's too, not glaring at all.
Ask HN: Ryzen or i7 for Visual Studio C# and JS development?
I'm building my next dev rig and wondering what processor is better for C# & JS development in Visual Studio. I can't find any trustworthy benchmarks, only some that relate to C++ compilation. I'm trying to decide whether to get i7 7700k or Ryzen 7, but don't know if Ryzen's higher core count will provide faster build speeds in C# compiler and gulp than faster single-core speeds and lower core count in i7. Can anyone share their experience?
"But when it comes to Phoenix, Aylward isn't focusing his blame on IBM. Like the procurement experts, he faults the scope of the initial contract for the resulting failure."

Twenty-six years of developing software, I haven't worked on a project yet that was any better than 60% specified. This inability of people to specify, in full and in detail, what they want is the reason for the rise of Agile.

A colleague of mine sagely said, "We need to show them something quickly just so they can tell us what they don't want."
I am able to hack on compilers and have spent much of my career doing so. I am also able to learn new development workflows involving idiosyncratic tools which must be installed and configured; I've done it over and over, at many different jobs. You know what? It's a lot of work, and it's all basically a waste of time. I'll do it if I'm paid to, but I'm not interested in spending my free time that way.
This is actually really nice to see. If they can prove that the oil companies were knowingly causing harm, the entire conversation around climate change will shift.

I'm disappointed in the discussion here so far. When did we become a community of "be nice to the big guys"?
Financial transactions between real legal entities probably have no expectation that the transaction should be completely anonymous or trustless. Instead, they probably have expectations that the transaction mechanism can be trusted, and that they have legal recourse to make up the difference. Blockchains probably have very relevant uses, but using them to approximate our existing financial system doesn't seem to be that useful. All of our laws and the current system exist for a reason.
I'd bet on supply chain as the corporate/real world workload that makes the most sense. the distribution of the chain actually provides a relevant service in those cases.
My Mileage definitely Varies.

The pretty girl who struck up a conversation with me on the leg from Minneapolis to Regina, SK was a large part of the reason I decided to move to Minnesota. Single, introverted me decided that if women in MN were as attractive and outgoing as her, it should be a nice place to live.

She turned out to be Canadian, but I moved to Minnesota anyway. Still loving it 20 years later!
The issue of course being that credit reporting agencies are in close company with credit issuing agencies. When someone wants a loan right now the lender doesn't want to wait for snail mail because the purchaser will change their mind. So if the credit reporting agency starts sending out snail mail forgot-your-pin resets, the lender will start using one of the other credit reporting agencies.
Another pandas developer here.

Numba can give you similar performance to what you'll see for highly optimized operations in pandas (e.g., for groupby-sum or a moving average), but you would have to write the low-level loops yourself. Like Wes writes, it's a complementary technology: in principle, the low-level loops in pandas currently written in Cython could be ported to Numba instead.

I had a little project where I experimented with this a few years ago: https://github.com/shoyer/numbagg. Since then, I expect numba performance has only improved.

Note that this is unlikely to ever happen in pandas itself, for various reasons. The existing routines in Cython already work (and unlike Numba, have a good story for distribution), and the algorithmic core for next version of pandas is being written in C++.
Yeah, I've been interviewed for other people and that was a question they did ask me. They also asked some odd questions that took me a while to think of why they had asked them. They'd asked them to make sure I really knew them well and was giving honest answers.

Stuff like, "We know you went to school together. Do you remember what sports they played?" Except we'd not gone to school together.

Crafty buggers. Either way, that data is all out there now. I'm not sure what all made it into the reports, I suspect most of it did.
This is not just the game boy screen, this is the entire GBA as a controller, with custom hardware in the cartridge slot. The GBA is a great embedded system. More power to them!
So, in the first part, I was able to identify characters that are thinly veiled allusions to famous people in the real world. Elon Musk, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, were the ones I've found. Anyone else missing from the list?
They are mostly easing, but they've also put new restrictions on Chinese businesses buying up foreign companies, since they've been on a bit of a spree recently.

Edit: in Jan 2016 the yuan really was going through the floor and people thought the sky was falling in. These latest actions just mean the PBOC is more comfortable with the range the currency is trading in.

https://www.ft.com/content/e17483b4-96ab-11e7-a652-cde3f882d...
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How would this work? As I understand it pensions are almost never fully funded when they begin because the costs would be prohibitive. Can a smart contract guarantee that funds that are not available now will be made available at a later date?
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They didn't just take a game boy screen, this is the whole thing.
>Like all IBM projects now day the bulk of the work was done in India for likely less than $5 CAD/hr,

This was a PeopleSoft install with customization and IBM typically doesn't use India workers for those types of projects. I don't know of this Canada project in particular but I have knowledge of half a dozen other IBM PeopleSoft contracts with the government and they use onsite developers for it. One of the big reasons is the
consultants must pass a federal background check which requires USA citizenship. I would assume Canada has a similar requirement.

Also, IBM doesn't have a PeopleSoft delivery/solution center in India to do this work. Last I checked, IBM does have a SAP delivery team in India.
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Kind of, but I think even so, it just wasn't consistent enough. It felt like his publisher demanded, "Ok, you owe us a third book. Let's go for Stephen Baxter's scale, with Greg Egan's mathematical prowess." That's not a reasonable goal to shoot for, unless you're Baxter or Egan.
I can't do it on my phone though. And that's the device that might change after some time (years). AFAIK, Signal is coded explicitly to disallow backups of the data on iOS. Can't back it up with iTunes backup or on iCloud. I believe security was a reason (sacrificing UX deeply, IMO). I don't use Signal because of its comparatively poorer UX and feature set (the others I consider are Telegram and Wire). And without being able to backup conversations from an existing/old phone and restore them on a new phone, I'll never use it. I learned about this behavior the hard way during a previous switch and lost all my conversations (for some I had the patience to take screenshots).
The market is not just women. Hospitals purchase hospital grade pumps for rental.

And the percentage of women who purchase pumps might increase with more and better options and affordability through insurance, etc.
> For infrastructure, Compute Engine and Google Container Enginer allow you to run your GPU workloads with VMs or containers.

It's been my understanding that container engine does not support GPUs and I can't find any documentation stating otherwise.
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Yeah, pretty much. You could also think of it as the decisions of the governments of people, who were chose to act in those people's best interests.
The adjective is obviously. derived from the noun, and as such had much of the same meaning originally: "relating to or characteristic of an epic or epics: our national epic poem Beowulf."

And no, I'm not proud of having to weigh in on this subject.
Oil companies emit CO2. _YOU_ emit CO2. Facts.
For anyone interesting in toying with a Barnes-Hut gravity simulator that can handle lots of particles and produce pretty pictures, here's one I made last year for fun.
https://github.com/PWhiddy/Nbody-Gravity
Takes about a minute to set up and start generating images and video (mac/linux only, sorry)
Co-creator here.

For existing SQL tools there's currently basically two approaches: where either the full application is hosted, or where the full application is local.

Jupyter and Zeppelin generally fall into the second category— you have to set up Docker (or the myriad of dependencies), and edit a bunch of configuration files to launch a local server before getting started. If someone sends you a notebook, and you just want to read its contents and see the interactive charts, you still have to go through this ordeal.

On the other hand, there's Mode, Redash, and PopSQL, which are hosted solutions. Editing configuration files is replaced with a one-time setup and registration, but you have to entrust these startups with access to all your data.

Franchise takes a hybrid approach— it's a hosted static web page that contains all of the display logic, so if you save a notebook and share it with a friend, you can open it and it just works. To connect to a database, you start a local bridge which tunnels data from Franchise directly to your database through your computer.

We spent a lot of time thinking about the interface and trying to make it easy to use, but still powerful. We built a new notebook layout engine that allows you to run two queries and see the results side-by-side. Deleting a cell sends it to an archive, so you don't have to worry about losing data. Data visualizations are accessible with one click. And if you're just trying to query data on a CSV or JSON file, you can just drag and drop it onto the page.
Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson also appear in the book as pretty important characters, just under different names. ;)
That's usually called the rule of law and it's a hallmark of Western democracies.
Goes on to show that leftist loonbags are running these cities. I will not explain why this lawsuit is ridiculous, because other commentators have already made that point. I also think that YC is a leftist cesspool.
You either need to get out more or maybe re-evaluate if software development is for you.

I might just be lucky but I've never really gone more than 3 months where I'm not creating something new birthed from some idea of my own or someone else.

Personally, I love my career choice because I believe I get to create from nothing almost daily. Do I sometimes string together something I've used before? Sure. Are there times I get bored? Sure. But I find that's usually a state of mind and get over it pretty quick, or find some side project to feed my creative and problem-solving side while "going through the motions" that bring in the paycheck.

The way you phrase your statement reminds me of an interview I had with a guy that was constantly quitting jobs because he "Wasn't making a real difference and that's what he wanted in a job". That's a pretty big ask, and if you really feel that way start an organization that will do that. Or better yet. Keep moving that data, those buttons and tweaking those colors, earning money and then contribute to the causes you care about. Because I'm damn sure you'll be earning at least 20% more doing what you're doing now than you would be working for that non-profit. Take that extra cash and some of your free time and donate it.

To be a bit brutal, stop bitching. Life is what you make of it, either find the joy in what you do or go find something else that brings you joy. But don't belittle what people are doing. One of the people out there doing entry-level menial work is building the skills they need to one day build something that will benefit mankind.
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Buying has its own problems, ranging from access to capital to reducing economic flexibility. In this thread the topic is not having to move but mor generally the problem is an inability to move.

On the the US’s historical economic strengths was the ease with which people could move in order to find work. One major influence in the US is economic slowdown of the past decade or so comes from peoples inability to move to find work
then you should say you are a SiP(system-in-package) maker, not a chip maker? the difference is huge.
I think you mis-understand UBI. UBI enables 'survival' within the country. It will just about pay for a room and basic food. You want to eat steak, you will need to get a job.
under-rated quality: naivete

lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
"the administration's naiveté and inexperience in foreign policy"
innocence or unsophistication.
"they took advantage of his naiveté and deep pockets"
synonyms:	innocence, ingenuousness, guilelessness, artlessness, unworldliness, trustfulness; More
So the private sector picked the default Taxpayer Identification Number the IRS uses? I find that dubious at best.
Still the problem is that when Lockheed Martin rolls in with a $350million bid, Boeing comes in with a $365 million bid, and Joe Schmoe's Web Shop shows up with a $450k bid, they dismiss Joe Schmoe as trivially worthless despite the fact he's got low overhead, had built systems exactly like what they need, and could do it quickly. LM and Boeing, on the other hand, are bumbling fools, giant towering piles of middle managers and upper managers and the worst examples of bureaucracy you'll ever face. The kind of people who if faced with a situation where the company has already been paid but the work location is going to get shut down for a day they will try to trick workers into taking their own vacation time to cover it, simply conveniently not mentioning that the time will be paid anyway. Sure you could just be decent, but if there's a chance to gouge, GOUGE AWAY. But they look 'respectable'. I've seen a billion-dollar contract where they found an off-the-shelf product that did exactly what they wanted... so they bought it, gutted it, and rebuilt it more terrible than ever in order to justify the expense. I've been on one side saying 'you guys will mess it up, just let us develop the new version' and been told 'you can do it... but you still have to pay US for writing it. Because that's part of the contract we won and we'll sue you to death otherwise.'
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