skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People know exactly what fractional reserve banking is, and understand that it is ignorant at best to assert that banks creating credit and informed parties accepting that credit at parity with Fed-issued reserve notes because both parties understand how the system works and can access those reserve notes on demand where required and a criminal enterprise selling a claim on a nonexistent asset to people that believe their fraudulent representations are the same thing.

Banks profit from the repayment of loans, not directly from the issue of money, and banks' willingness to accept each others' credit at parity to m0 reflects their knowledge of the facts about other banks' expected future income streams and guaranteed access to an m0 lending facility, not ignorance of their counterparty not having what they claim to have. If everyone wants to withdraw their USD from a bank as cash, the reserve lending system is designed to actually allow this to happen. Banks fail, infrequently, because the number of people who fail to meet repayment obligations to the bank exceeds expectations, not simply and inevitably because not enough Peters are willing to be robbed to repay Paul.

The two are similar only in the same sense that a futures contract and a shyster selling you the Brooklyn Bridge both involve the other party selling something they might not be able to deliver.
This article is too busy looking at the trees to see the forest.

Three of China's top 5 trading partners are the US, Japan, and South Korea - it's economy has thrived for the last decade+ because of those nations most impacted by North Korean threats. China may not have that much leverage, but they know where their bread is buttered. More importantly, China wants to be a global power. The US government policies while directly failures vis-a-vis North Korea, also highlight China's impotence to other players on the world stage. To take that final global power stride, they will need to deal with North Korea at some point.

Bigger picture, I feel like whenever these kind of analytical pieces surfaced in the past, they rightly always included a point about proliferation, something that seems missing these days. If the world moves on and grudgingly accepts North Korean nukes, what stops Japan from getting one? How about Taiwan or South Korea? Same concern goes with Iran's program - what stops Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Egypt from getting one?

It is a slippery slope argument, but the consequences of the number of nuclear powers doubling are pretty dang grave, maybe it is one slope we can keep an eye on.
Jeff Bezos often talks about acting now so as to minimize regret when you are 80. Interestingly enough this article says that 80 is a magical number for life reflection. Probably not a coincidence knowing Bezos.
Bug: Chrome Logged Out from Most Websites Upon Being Closed
I have noticed how the vast majority of my American friends do not express any reactive need to unnecessarily take pharmaceuticals (especially painkillers, in the case of pain) when they have a medical problem. Does my single anecdotal datapoint negate your single anecdotal datapoint?
I fully expect California to come out soon and say:

"WARNING: Sex contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm."
Disagree completely. Too much time and human nature will work around that. My money is on creating virtual soldiers with virtual posts and internet life which hide the real soldiers in traffic noise and allow to identify and trace interested external forces.
I believe resistive screens are also better for battery life, which you'd think would be critical for a watch.
I'd say that the emissions from logistics (transport) may be quite significant compared to the CO2 stored into the materials, at least post-sales.

Take a desk that contains 30 kg of wood material. 50 % of that is carbon, so there is 15 kg of carbon in it, corresponding to 60 kg of CO2, which is emitted by driving 400 km with a medium-sized car (150 g/km). That much is first contained by the material (even in landfill), and eventually released back to atmosphere.

At least you shouldn't do a lot of transporting this desk back and forth. IKEAs logistics from manufacture to store is remarkably efficient.
Thanks!

Some great ideas! Going to add the ability to add custom exercises, this shouldn’t be too hard.

I’m currently building the timer, it should have been done by now, but proved a little tricky :(

Descriptions on each exercise! That’s a great idea! Like notes or tips.

Love it, thanks again!
The worst thing about trying to make something work in the browser for mobile is getting the UI to utilize the full height. This is common when the UI needs to have both something stickied on the top and bottom of the page. Both Chrome Android and Safari will cut off content if that content is 100vh with their URL bar that comes and goes as you scroll. Then you have full screen mode which iOS does not support but Chrome does, except that on Chrome invoking the keyboard does not tell the page anything about the height that it's taking up.

The only browser that gets everything correct is Samsung's default browser. This is pretty ridiculous and the hacks available with current APIs aren't very good compared to if these browsers worked properly with 100vh.
I spent hours last night trying to get Bumblebee to work with my Optimus laptop. Ubuntu is a great plug-and-play distribution, except when it isn’t.
Which makes the article and especially the title fake news.

Tether deviated by 10 cents last May, and then it quickly recovered. Tether may have its issues, but this move alone tells us absolutely nothing. Saying that Tether is dying because of this move alone is absolute nonsense.

Such deviations can happen when one or a few whales take out their tens of millions of dollars out of Tether, or put their cryptocurrencies into Tether (that's when it rises by
5-10 cents).
> For hourly contracts they take random snapshots of your desktop in 10 minutes intervals and they measure your mouse movements and key presses to show your activity

I thought you might have been exaggerating, but that truly is utterly absurd! I just can't believe people actually work under such conditions!
He didn't say he was moving the adult business to SF.
>Any competent C programmer shouldn't need any explanation of that simple example.

Interesting point, and I agree. I read that code a little earlier today, and (was a bit surprised to see that) I could understand it pretty much right away, even though I have not used C a lot for a while. I did use it a lot earlier though, on both Unix and DOS/Windows, and I do remember poring over that K&R book early in my C career, and working out the meaning of each line of code in almost the whole book. That may be why I could figure out quickly what it meant, now. More cryptic stuff might take a while to figure out, though, but the point I want to make is that the general principle remains the same: you have to understand what each line and even what each token (of the code) in each line is doing, how it works, etc., by reading the books and docs, by trial and error, modifying the code and seeing the modified output, using debugging print statements, isolating smaller chunks of code and running them to see how they work and if your mental model of what is happening matches reality, etc.
Windows has PWAs in the Windows Store. So the user goes through the install flow, same as any other app, but behind the scenes they're actually downloading a PWA.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/135665/pwas-comi...

But also, consider that people don't seem to really download that many apps. Less than one a month. So I agree with you, in that users may be conditioned to expect a certain workflow, but it's not like it's a deeply ingrained habit that people are doing daily. Also, when you visit a site multiple times, the browser shows a pop-up offering to add the app to your homescreen. So it's low-friction onboarding.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/25/majority-of-u-s-consumers-...

Disclaimer: I work on Google Web DevRel
Not necessarily. There are also some coins which use methods of securing the network which don't require incentives (ex: RaiBlocks).
I think Bostock had already created D3 by the time the NYT hired him: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_...
"Already taken place" is not crucial, as the conditional can obviously be placed on it continuing.

Plus, an action like an embargo or sanction can be devastating to a country while still being "non-military". That old BS embargo on Iraq has claimed hundreds of thousands lives for example [1].

In fact, what we do have now is that "non-military" action happening, and no counter-response. So, it's more like them sucking up and taking it, with some verbal threats added to save face.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/04/weekend7...
Storage space isn't generally the bottleneck on older devices- it's the CPU/RAM. On that count, native apps are usually overwhelmingly preferable.

If these catch on a big way, it'll be catastrophic for more underpowered devices. Modern web pages are already starting to get acutely uncomfortable to use on older iPhones, let alone older Android devices- we aren't yet at the point where performance levels are high enough that we can slap the equivalent of an electron wrapper on everything, smirk at users' devices' vanishing battery life and call it a day.
This guy can afford it.
> Well, Kink.com just moved to Nevada. But that was because California OSHA started requiring condoms for porn.

Wait, what? Prop 60 failed. When did OSHA change their stance?

The whole reason Prop 60 happened is because Michael Weinstein was mad that OSHA wouldn't punish people who filmed porn without condoms. It was technically a violation before, but only enforced in response to complaints, and the fine was minimal.
I took it as x is better than y. And on certain levels, I actually agree.
With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit
Nouriel Roubini‏: Tether/USD peg of 1:1 is the mother of all scams/frauds
Used ThinkPads.
Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
It seems like there's about a $150-$200 difference between the USD/USDT exchanges at the moment. Note that CEX.io has one of the highest, and they are also currently unable to allow USD withdrawls "because of high demand backing up their financial partner."

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/btc/markets/USD

CEX.io (see middle paragraph for shady explanation)
https://blog.cex.io/news/recent_updates-16999
I think she probably meant some sort of kink that is not broadly accepted as healthy or normal.
WebAssembly (plus PWA) is kind-of promising in terms of games, no?
Either tether is trading at a discount due to liquidity issues like a closed-end fund or due to real credit issues (fraud).
which is why i find the genre of Simulation so interesting. of which Flight Sims seem to be most well known, most typical example of. In the old Falcon 4, there was a large manual that one required just to operate the radar screens. and folks would learn them . Perhaps it provided some feeling of mastery over a complex task - and knowing it derived from something from reality/nature meant that task was in some way grounded in "truth".

In something newer like the DCS series each aircraft has rows of knobs - that represent reality as closely as possible. Of course you can expand Simulation to all sorts of domains. e.g. for tanks Steel Beasts is almost a game in the proper sense, but quite simulation influenced (actual militaries use it to train tank teams).

Finally, why restrict yourself to avation/military... you could truly attempt simulate any experience. essentially, you would de-gamify it.

i think the core values of simulation are free-form structure, customization, exploration, experimentation.

Are engaging with these sims "fun"? I dont' know, but folks sure seem to spend a lot of time "playing" them. They must be getting something out of it.

I'm interested how far you could take this, how far you could expand into something engaging that not along the well-trodden path of flight/military/car stuff.
I'd like to know that as well. It seems like a perfectly reasonable Ask HN.
It seems almost definitional that this effect is correlative and not causative unless the authors are positing that there are structures in the brain whose purpose is to generate brain waves or that we just massively misunderstand the function of neurons.

I read the previous paper summary linked to and I didn't see a way these waves are supposed to affect the neurons. Is there absolutely any theory as to the mechanism? Seems like bad science and reasoning even if the topic is interesting.
Fig. 11 of this analysis links the operation to an address in Kiev. Given the level of sophistication described, it seems likely that this was done by (or at least with the support of) an intelligence agency; I would bet on this having been a project of the FSB.
I don't really know what you are trying to say. If you are saying that health care in Germany in total cost is cheaper than in the US, then you are right. If you are insinuating that the system is infused with tax money, then you are wrong. It is completely financed by the premiums of the insured people. Not saying that the german system is without issue, but compared with the USA, it is lightyears ahead.
> Do you work for a salary? If you do, the shareholders (or private owners) of the company you work for earn a passive income off of you.

This is a straw man. Yes, you can invest in something and earn dividends. But someone is very actively managing that company. If someone was managing that company for 4 hours a week, you probably wouldn't want to be an investor. The people who are earning "passive" income from such an investment aren't just paying me the salaryman, they're also paying my salaryman manager.

> or you can package your efforts in a product and earn exponentially more by scaling the sale of that product.

Right, but as I said in my GP, if you have a cash flowing product—which is already a huge and rare accomplishment—and you decide to spend 4 hours a week on it, you're a fool because your company is either growing or it's shrinking. So you want it to be growing.
This may be another geographic difference - In Germany, unless you are self-employed, if you get a dr's note saying you should rest employers aren't allowed to ask you to come to work. And the amount of sick-leave is unlimited.
I've edited 'he' to 'she' in the two otherwise fine comments that made this mistake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251566 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251562) and grouped several empty replies and one lame off-topic subthread under this one. It's rare that we do something like this (and I've emailed the author), but it seems fairer than to penalize their original posts, which were otherwise informative and on topic.
Brief was pretty fast too. I only used it briefly (heh), but read in some computer magazines at the time, that it used a lot of code optimizations, one of which was that it used assembly language code, and another being (IIRC) that it used BIOS calls to dynamically change the speed of movement of the cursor when it detected that you pressed an arrow key for a longer time (probably by changing the key repeat rate or reducing the repeat time), so that when you did that, movement through the file would be faster. The idea being that a user pressing the arrow key for a longer time probably meant to move through a longer section of the file (than usual) to reach some other distant place in it, so Brief figures this out and assists them with that, by scrolling faster with that BIOS technique.

Anecdote: On a trip to the US (Boston), I once met Norm Miles, who, my US colleague said, was the creator of Brief.

The Brief editor is actually still available, here, and for free now:

http://www.briefeditor.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)
How the Internet gets inside us (2011)
> I didn’t mention that I use ibuprofen like candy

Never, ever become like this person. Do not make a habit out of taking ibuprofen and assuming it's benign. If you have to take painkillers every day to function then something else is wrong and you need to address that. NSAIDs alter chemical production in your body and over the long term can cause permanent damage.
>Everything governments ever do is conditional by that standard.

Not really, the more shameless governments can do stuff that's entirely unprovoked, and that concerns stuff thousands of miles away from their borders.

The colonial conquest of India, for example, wasn't conditioned on some threat or action from India against the UK.
> If you're someone looking to get rich investing in cryptocurrency

I'm not. I'm really really not.
I just looked up my info there (lookup company, by title and sort through to the date my application was filed).

They just have my base salary listed there, which is a super-inaccurate way to compare salaries, in my opinion. RSUs and bonus are almost 50% of my comp. They also have my starting salary there, no increases, etc since then.
Your opinion is irrelevant. The market has the last word, and the market has already decided Bitcoin is the most valuable and useful. You can verify this by looking at hash rate, market cap, and distribution (amongst other things). You may not like it, so feel free to downvote me, but the facts are indisputable.
This is actually an existing Strava feature called Privacy Zones[1]. It doesn't explicitly say that setting up a Privacy Zone will render activities which exist entirely within those zones private or that the Global Heatmap respects privacy zones but those are reasonable assumptions.

[1] https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000173384-Pr...
I am morally opposed to exposing children to faux-gambling to make Blizzard or Valve an extra buck -- or get them to spend an extra 20 minutes in game. The argument that loot boxes are "only cosmetic" is also a terrible argument. The game experience involves customizing your character. Cosmetic items are by definition part of the game and, therefore, enhance gameplay. Many lawsuits were lost a few years ago where dozens of skin selling/trading/gambling sites had to be shut down. At least I'm happy governments all over the world took a stand.

But unfortunately, this trend won't stop until consumers also take a stand and vote with their wallets. I was excited for Battlefront and the new Shadow of War games but decided not to buy (or pirate) either. On the other hand, maybe litigation is the only way to change these exploitative grey-area practices.
A country of 30 plus million shouldn't be able to use an app because some soldiers deployed there are bad at opsec?
This assumes that brainwaves function the same in everybody and that their measurement means anything more than phrenology.
Interesting. I wonder if we have stats on painkiller usage per country? I found this ranking of countries by Opiate usage[0] which places the US at 27 (below Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, and the UK.

Maybe I only hang out with granola Americans, but the only people I know who think the way you describe-- looking for pills to solve minor problems-- are relatives of medical personnel.

I can't think of the last time I personally took a pain killer. I didn't even take one after a major surgery I had a couple of years ago.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...
I got Vicodin and felt really good. Never slept that well before or after but I am not prone to addiction and stopped taking it without problem.
I am a full stack developer and am looking for a project that can generate revenue. I would be interested in learning about the business and potentially helping you if there is a fit. You can find contact details in my profile and send some more information across.
> I've read enough biomedical literature to know there is a source claiming just about anything you can think of

Then as I initially said, it really shouldn't be hard for you to imagine why someone would give the advice that the original person gave. This really isn't a difficult concept, yet you still act perplexed by it...

> Why is your question so loosely connected to the topic? Why say "things" instead of "non-aspirin NSAIDs", and "inhibit platelet aggregation" instead of "reduce risk of heart attack"?

Because I was hoping you were capable of following the thread. And because the specific things arn't all that important to whether or not one should be able to think of a reason why that piece of advice was given.

> If you are thinking of a particular paper, why not just say it?

Because if you're not just here to whine about being trolled, you can easily find it with Google.
I indeed live in Western Europe, and I'm more concerned with the pissing game between the US and NK than with the NK alone (which minds its own business generally and is isolationist). France had attacked them in the 19th century, and the US went to war with Korea in the 50s (with French support), not the other way around.

Their playing with fire and pissing match with Islam (including pissing whole populations, funding rogue groups, and their favorite regimes in the region) has already costs all of us dearly, including in Europe. Heck, we still have an influx of desperate peoples from every country they destabilized in the past 10-15 years.

Say what you want about colonial European powers, but scum as it were, it still managed to control 2/3rds of the globe with much more nuance and diplomacy than the barbarians at the other side of the Atlantic.

>Well, maybe you will have some empathy if after america falls, North Korea decides to target europe with russia.

I also don't read many fairy tales presented as political analysis.
I wonder whether this is the right approach. TeX itself is one of the most heavily documented programs in existence. Not only are its workings documented in detail in The TeXbook (and a host of other books by other authors, such as Eijkhout's TeX by Topic) but even the program itself has been written in a “literate programming” style, with pretty formatted source code (with profuse comments) available in print (Vol B of Computers and Typesetting) and as a PDF (http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/tex/tex.pdf), there's a detailed history/retrospective and log of every change that went into the program (see Chapters 10 and 11 of the book Literate Programming, though the log without explanation is also available online http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl...), and there are even 12 hours of video of Knuth talking about the internals of the program (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqY1mTwrj8&index=12&list=PL...).

So when the article says:

> To reproduce all of LaTeX in the browser is too much to ask

I wonder why? The file tex.web is less than 25000 lines long, much of it comments, so I'd estimate that TeX itself is only about 20000 sloc (in fact tangle on tex.web generates a Pascal file tex.p which is only 6115 lines long). This is not a lot IMO, and it would be a lot better to actually re-implement this, with additional support for things like getting the parse tree etc.
The sibling comments have already discussed that you're misreading the article. I want to address your actual comment with a counter-anecdote.

My previous general practitioner retired a few years ago, and passed on his office to a younger colleague who's in her 40s. I'll visit her maybe once or twice a year because of some infection or internal inflammation. There's a marked difference in how she treats those things compared to my old doctor: He would always prescribe me a few over-the-counter drugs for symptom relief. My new doctors's approach is to just prescribe rest [1] in most cases, together with recommendations for homemade remedies. If that's how younger doctors play the game, I'm all for it.

[1] And lots of it. Sick notes are never for less than a week, and she insists that if the symptoms are not completely gone by the end of that time, I shall come back and get another few days off.