skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pure paranoia.

The "author" is conducting a learning exercise. There is no sign of a political argument, nevermind a political point here.

He's focusing on certain elements and not others because that's what he has data for, and that's what the exercise is about. The data he's got is bonds: bank bonds, government bonds & corporate bonds. That's what he's playing with, trying to see how this information can be unpacked, analyzed and understood. I haven't seen the actual exercise but I assume students might be able to do things like "how can we cancel the maximum debt with the minimum number of transactions?" The fact that this does not consider relative bond ratings, macroeconomic effects or whatever else you care about is a red herring.

Every economic model everywhere simplifies reality. Otherwise nothing is fungible/general and nothing can be modelled.

You ascribing sinister motives is you being blinded by whatever you think is the important debate in economics.
Hey, thanks for the extra insight, I do appreciate. Interesting to know that those sites show these behaviours too. Why could geo-location based redirect be interesting?
Doesn't surprise me. YC has been mentioned in the news every few months for a year or two now as looking into it too. China has a huge up and coming Silicon Valley 2: Electric Boogaloo.

There's a LOT of talent there, there's a different culture there (which, in theory, could result in different ideas that would be marketable both there and abroad), there's plenty of opportunity for investing.
I'm from a neighbour state Kerala and we don't have this head wobble.
I agree. I doubt there is any turning back, which was a UX nightmare anyway.

I do agree that tactile and predictable locations for the most commonly used functions improve the ability of the driver to focus on the road while operating them.

However, I doubt there are many customers willing to go back to the 12 disc CD changer days where you're randomly selecting discs to get the song you want, or manually scanning blindly until you hit a radio station with reception and the music you like.

We have streaming services and playlists now, and there is an expectation that those are available to you on the road.

We also no longer simply have a dial going from cold too hot for climate. We have basics like direction (feet, center, windscreen), circulating or external air, AC on or off, and then couple that with multi zone, and you end up in the same mess.

If we get rid of the screen but keep the functionality, we end up with an airliner cockpit. If you want to operate that blindly, I think that's more time than any customer would be willing to invest in learning, and we're in deeper trouble than where we started ("where is the damn rear right seat warmer adjustment!").

I do agree that the current state of controls are suboptimal though, but that's exactly the point. We should focus our efforts on optimizing that. For instance modal controls displaying selected mode in HUD, either in the instrument panel or on the windscreen.

I drive a comparatively simple Peugeot 308, which had a horrible touch screen, but not too much functionality. I agree that I check out more often than I should, but that's mainly when I want to know what song is playing on the radio. It took two years to discover a steering wheel shortcut to pick from a 30-station preset list of dab channels.

I doubt any level of modal tactile control would allow me to intuitively change the audio fader settings between "driver" and "all passengers", but then again, that's something I've learned to do while generally focusing on the road as it's a predictable series of touch screen presses. I'm sure it's not great to do that in terms of overall attentiveness regardless how focused I think I am, but given that the alternative is not having the option.. I'll take my chances. And so, I think, will other consumers.

Whatever can be done to improve the UX and reduce risk should be done however, and it should be a higher priority than style.
Even if we assume Tether to remain stable, that doesn't solve the fundamental problem of even getting someone to buy local currency in exchange for fake Dollars.
In the US, liberal and libertarian refer to opposite ends of the spectrum. Libertarian is the same as a “classical liberal” (what you might think of when you hear the word) and liberal means something left of moderate. Ex: Barak Obama is a liberal, Ron Paul is a libertarian.
I find the article a bit pointless. The concept of infinity is made up by men. Just like the concept of numbers or logic.
There doesn't exist something like a 'four' in reality, this only exists in models that we have created.

Therefore it goes without saying that there is no 'infinity' in physical reality. On the other hand, nothing is keeping me from creating some model of reality that has infinity in it.
Is not that they don't have money to eat, they don't have enough food to eat. As I see it, at the hear of the issue is broken economics. Sound money, like bitcoin, could be a great solution to several problems of economics of Venezuela.
Developing on Windows 7/10 is a painful experience that I never wish to revisit. I flat out refuse to work on Windows systems for development now.

I would choose either Debian or Arch as my daily development machine, with OSX as a second choice (there are some annoyances in OSX I just can't wrap my head around).

That said, I do have a Windows 10 machine at home, solely to play games.
But they're an unnecessary 2%.
To be clear, the answer to that question is obviously a resounding 'no'.
My migraines have mostly gone away now that I exercise regularly. For me it was cardiovascular. I'd see an aura and I'd get ready for the pain when I was a kid. Later in life I discovered that taking a simple Advil as soon as I saw the migraine would head it off. When I was a kid chocolate covered almonds and OJ would almost always hit me with a migraine. I discovered this by keeping a journal of what I ate. Changes in weather could bring them on too, especially if I was exercising hard right as the weather was changing. Bright screens in dark rooms could take a "maybe migraine" and turn it on. I've also found that if I wake up with a migraine that cannabis and Advil will put me to sleep pretty quick, though I decided not to use cannabis anymore because it makes me feel dumb for days and I was never a huge fan anyway.
The first version was basically a bus loaded with 486's .
Yup. And you can completely ruin performance, if that is something you need (I do in some of my code). Abstractions in the wrong places can hurt.
The economy failed because it was completely dependent on oil. When the oil price went down the economy went bust. It's only at this point that the socialist politics failed the people by not making the drastic and painful cuts that would've kept the country afloat.

Lack of protection for the private property probably didn't help but making that the main cause for the Venezuelan collapse is a very ideological stance to have IMO. Insert here the obligatory "look at china" counter-example.

As far as I can tell the only way to really avoid this catastrophe would've been to diversify the Venezuelan economy in decades past (something Chavez promised to do but didn't) but nobody did it, regardless of political affiliation. "Free money coming straight from the ground" is just so much easier for a politician than making a complex and potentially impopular long term economic reform.
Crypto isn't the solution to every problem.
"Increasingly being adopted" where?
> rampant government ineptness

The fascinating thing to me is how stability has been maintained. Usually nations have two stable modes. Ones where the peasants are too hungry and illiterate to organize. And ones where enough people are productive and happy to make revolting a bad bet.

Venezuelans are educated. Yet they've devolved to failed statehood without much fuss from the population.
> I wouldn't be surprised if at some point someone tried to train animals to do the driving and achieved modest success.

Somewhat relevant (animals, real time) but I think it failed:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
In my experience the more things are public the better. Very often a quick workaround turns into a monster bodge because some method is marked strict private instead of protected or public.

So I usually make most stuff public as such, but put internals in a namespace/scope that makes it clear that these are implementation details. Relying on implementation details always carries the risk of breaking when upgrading.

This allows for a lot of flexibility when needed, while also not polluting the "truly public" API.
A partial eclipse from a sunshade in space sounds fun until the size and cost racks up. Even with lightweight materials and cheap launches and adding in Archinaut-type construction, it's still totally gonzo money. And the orbit is non-trivial: to stay over (or near) one area it needs to be further away from the Earth so it has less shadow so it needs to be bigger...

Aerosols need to be topped up.
Have a look at this post: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...
Why always these kind of racist articles to the top of HN?????
Observably also when they protect the private property rights of their citizens too much.
Can I vote for you somewhere?
OP was referencing Liberalism as a political movement in the UK[1]. This grew as a left of centre party in opposition to the right-of-centre Tories and was formed with the idea of changing traditional values and practices (such as limiting the power of the monarch).

"Classical liberals were committed to individualism, liberty and equal rights". There beliefs in no way had a problem with public healthcare, but would have issues with curtailing free speech, or a curtailing of free enterprise. Today I think a classic liberal would be in the centre of the political spectrum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
We decompose the problem and some smaller problems one by one. All large enough transactions could be settled with bitcoin. Which means industry could start to operations again.

People who don't what to follow this tried and true approach of solving smaller problems usually don't want problem to be solved at all.
But it would be nice to see a video too ^^)
> What's the point of having a centralised blockchain?

Extracting money from VCs
Tangentially, the author now prefers applied mathematics to economics [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1015988356184866817
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Which is insanely difficult to do at scale and would take a considerable amount of time and resources. Not to mention being really obvious! I'm happy with making things crazy hard for the bad actors out there.
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> China is the only kind-of successful one, but at the cost of rivers of blood, political prisoners.

china actually "secretly" (or openly secretly) adopted capitalist ideals for it's planned economy (such as opening up foreign investments and exports of cheap labour) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping (and slightly better article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...). These reforms have single-handedly made china the world's 2nd biggest, economy after the US.

Venezuela doesn't have the same level of labour exporting, and relied on natural resources, and even actively nationalized private businesses (against the interests of foreign investors). Obviously they are going to stop getting investment, and as oil prices tanked, their socialist policies (or, bribery of the voters with "free" stuff) can't be kept up.
Realistically, they've already adopted the dollar.

Are the regular international credit card systems still working in Venezuela?
So their government is basically bankrupted and have 0 credibility, in literal sense. What could it do to save itself, except being overthrown by its people?
> where trust is required.

Blockchains don't solve the trust problem at all. Except if none of the trust problems you have interact somehow with the material world
Augur's assassination markets are testing crypto's ethos
There seems to be something very strange going on with the way you are building LDC.

On the machine I am typing this message from [1], building DMD using DMD in optimized mode takes 58s, plus another 2s for druntime and 7s for Phobos (the two parts of the D standard library, for those not familiar).

A release build of LDC using LDC (CMake/Ninja), on the other hand, takes about 90s, which includes several versions of the runtime (only one is built for DMD by default), the JIT support libraries and a few ancillary tools. This is with debug info enabled, disabling it speeds up the build a bit further.

Since these are different codebases and the LDC build makes better use of the available cores, these are obviously not directly comparable if what you are talking about is compiler performance. However, a release build of DMD using LDC on the same machine takes about 45 seconds – i.e., it is faster and produces a faster binary.

Take these numbers with a grain of salt, obviously, as this was hardly a controlled benchmark. Your statement just conflicts with my experience working on both compilers, and the timings hopefully illustrate why.

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[1] A 2015 MacBook Pro (i7-4980), so hardly anything out of the ordinary.
Lets end this meme right here. Venuezela was and is a capitalist country. It may have had some left wing tendancies in government, but no more than say, denmark or sweden. Two countries which would rather disprove your point.

EDIT: It's incredible how many people seem to read this and assume that I somehow support the venuezelan government. Just because they have poor policy does not mean that they are communist.
It's been like that for like, 3 years, in France
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Don't skip your coffee.
An equivalent product to the iPod, the Creative NOMAD Jukebox, was also released around 2000-2001.

Saying the Nomad - a larger player that used a 3.5 inch hard drive, with a worse interface was “just like the iPod” so not gets why the iPod was better it’s actually a famous Slashdot Meme on why geeks can’t release great products.

“No wireless, less space than a Nomad...lame”

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

As far as the G1 coming out a year after the iPhone and would have come out about the same time, you don’t know the history of Android. Android was originally designed to be an BlackBerry clone. After the iPhone came out, they completely went back to the drawing board.

https://www.technobuffalo.com/2011/10/27/android-before-and-...
Greek here, never been to India, never hanged out with Indians. The head nod is very easy to interpret. It means 'I am willing to talk to you and even agree with you if you play nice, but at the same time I am looking at you, inspecting you and trying to understand where this is going'.
I'm 30. 5 years ago I had just quit a job I hated and moved internationally to work in another industry for a while.

Advice: quit faster. I've got a hang of it now, but quitting (relationships, jobs, hobbies) that are getting you down is the best.

I've learned quite fast (only started working in industry at 23) what jobs I like and don't like, been involved in 2 startups (didn't quit those - they just didn't work out), and am now a manager in a job that lets me work on my startups in my ample free time. I also own my own home, and have a really sweet girlfriend.
Maduro launched a crypto currency called petro.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/venezuelas-new...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-venezue...
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You don't have to pay that if you actually bother but it also has some other implications. IIRC if you pay church tax then the church you are part of is required to hold your burial, otherwise there is no direct obligation though they can if they want. In turn the church has the ability to levy rules, laws and taxes (as long as they don't break or inhibit existing law), ability to set religious holidays (which your employer will have to honor), religious school classes and some other neat stuff.

Of course, as mentioned, you can not have that and just pretend you're not in any of the recognized religious organisations.
People sometimes barter in the short term, but usually end up using another currency. In modern times, it's often dollars.
Get rid of 24/7 on-call duty
https://www.innocenceproject.org/how-many-innocent-people-ar...

The current estimate is roughly 1%.

Sending someone to prison is basically taking some or all of their life. We currently have an estimated 20,000 innocent people in jail. That's not rare, and it's disgusting that this complete ethical failure of the American justice system is defended here.
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I don't know why anyone would want to appear to leave. Just leave. The property taxes are ridiculous, infrastructure is falling apart, etc.

On a recent trip back up there you can tell when you hit NYS roads - rusted bridges and crumbling asphalt pock marked with pot holes that can damage your car.

Maybe they should focus on things to make people want to stay?

It would be like a SaaS business changing the contracts so people can't leave (e.g. can't take data) instead of building features that people want.
Just what we needed - a Jewish Mother Teresa.

I'm empathetic to his suffering and applaud that he's managed to find a way to see a bright side. But when anyone goes from there to claiming that being in constant pain somehow makes you better, I see that as going overboard.

It's that attitude - with a stronger religious slant and a good touch of stinginess - that led MfT to have her "hospitals" re-using dulled injection needles and not providing effective pain relievers. And blathering nonsense about the beauty of suffering. The idea that suffering is a good thing is pretty much the most perverted idea humans have come up with.
> bitcoin, could be a great solution to several problems of economics of Venezuela

Bitcoin's volatility is the opposite of what Venezuela needs. About the only proven solution for hyperinflating countries with poor institutions is a currency board [1]. You peg the local currency 1:1 to an external currency. If that doesn't work, you switch to a hard currency.

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