skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“KP: I’m not blaming the banks. I’m blaming the unintended consequences of the rules. I think the rules unduly penalize equality-enhancing financial services.”

(1) Bankers (rich people) lobby to have Glass–Steagall taken out back and shot in the head.

(2) Banks go nuts with financial wizardry leading to a housing bubble.

(3) Bubble bursts which ends up ruining the lives of millions, mostly lower and middle class folk. Nation enters into the worst recession since the Great One.

(4) Banks are bailed out with taxpayer money because banks have somehow become "too big to fail".

(5) Some regulations placed belatedly and half-heartedly on banks because of (1-4)

(6) Hardly anyone rich loses their shirt and hardly anyone is locked up† and some make out like bandits.

(7) Wall Street salaries and bonuses through the roof.

(8) Gov Regulations (along with Fed quantitative easing – the Fed is kind of a collection of banks, no?) exacerbate income and wealth inequality. Where did the Secretary of the Treasury at the time of the crisis, Hank Paulson, work beforehand?‡

(9) Banking policy "expert" Karen Petrou says “I’m not blaming the banks”

(0) In the words of Ace Ventura, “Allllrighty then!”

† https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-26/why-no-on...

‡ “Before becoming Treasury Secretary, he was required to liquidate all of his stock holdings in Goldman Sachs, valued at over $600 million in 2006, in order to comply with conflict-of-interest regulations. Because of a tax provision passed under President George H.W. Bush, Paulson was not subject to capital gains tax. This saved him between $36 and $50 million in taxes.”
Is the Apple charger superior to USB-C? That's the main standard the article discusses.
What would be the value add here for a company over their existing infrastructure?
That’s the opposite of what the article is about.
P2P Piracy Is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests
May cars already implement such a noise. The fact that most people don't realize this, despite undoubtedly being exposed to it regularly (the Prius has had this since 2012, for example), is a good indication of how unobtrusive it is.
I clicked on that link ready to experience a revelation that was going to change how I debugged infrastructure problems.

I came away with nothing. I got nothing out of this article. I have re-read it twice now hoping that I was missing something, or had failed to understand some point.
Ignoring all of BTC's significant issues for a moment, there are a lot of groups in Bitcoin. One of those is the fairly average, tech-savvy want-to-be-investor, who has a little bit (but not a lot) of disposable income and wants to do something with it that's better than the 2% annual yield of ... pretty much everything else.

With BTC, you could buy in at almost any amount, get out whenever you wanted, and transfer fees were pretty low. Those aren't common traits for most other investment vehicles.

It's kind of a side effect of so much capital being locked up in a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. The folks closer to the bottom are clawing at anything that might improve their situation a little, even if it comes with a lot of risk.
This is not true and you can demonstrate this for yourself by just searching on Google three or four times and looking at the carousel. Only the top stories and breaking news / live coverage carousels require AMP.
> I used to ride on the crypto hype train.

What crypto hype train? Most crypto, such as AES, RSA, Mersenne Twister and the SHA series of hashing algorithms were very carefully designed and vetted over a long period by professionals. There's not much hype there, just solid technology. That cryptocurrency thing seems to attract scam artists like moths to a flame, though.

> The point is many crypto businesses screwed people over

Like RSA making the backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG the default RNG in BSafe?
I've collected a lot of music from the 60's. An interesting thing about that era is most of the content was covers of existing popular tunes. Albums and albums full of re-arranged re-implementations. That practice pretty much stopped in the 70s.
> So you believe that white americans start from a harder place than asian americans?

No. And this, "If anything I am an asian supremcist" angle is so dated, so boring, and so tedious I'm not going to entertain you further. Everyone can see what you're doing. Go debate a 6 year old youtube video rather than waste an instant more of 2018's time.

Folks are acutely aware that Asian immigration in the US only allowed extremely rich and overqualified immigrants until relatively recently, and that economic disparity is clearly reflected in many social scales. We're also acutely aware of many eugenicists using "well asian people are just genetically and culturally better" as a blind in America for their racial oppression for years. That history is well-documented.
* "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."*

No, it bends towards wherever it ended up going. Which by some remarkable coincidence, will be whatever most people currently approve of. Equating that with "justice" is a tactic to bash people who don't like whatever change is being discussed, without having to actually explain why that change is good.
If your explanation to the officers was even 50% as longwinded as your blog post, I'm not surprised you nearly got yourself in trouble... (I think you admit as much when you talk about a "central mistake").
One thing I feel nobody talks about with regards to AR is that it introduces a new paradigm, a new behavior that is "not normal". It asks you to wear something and walk around all day with information being displayed. That's not a muscle memory we have today. If you think about the most successful companies today, what they have done is that they have taken an existing behavior and make it better. We already shopped at stores and Amazon just made it easier to do it online. We already had friends and Facebook simply made it easier to interact with them. Google helped us search information faster that we were already looking for. Very few companies have introduced a completely new behavior to humans that we weren't already doing. In that sense, I am struggling to think about a behavior that AR and consequently Magic Leap will replace. I can think of B2B applications with oil industry and perhaps surgery. But that' niche. Beyond that, what exactly is it solving for ?
Quick lessons in data science practice
But why does it bother you so much? Clearly this is a feature for somebody else, and it's not an issue for you.
The Secret API of Banks
I bought a Das keyboard for a friend. A year later with very little use, the keys stopped responding as expected and I was SOL with a shit product and no support from the company. I was disappointed since it was a pricey gift, but lesson learned.
Many men on TRT says their balls shrink to grape sized lumps. What does it mean if they don't shrink?
AMP can be served by anybody and browsers will preload likely destinations regardless of AMP or not.
In case anyone else is wondering why you'd not just use LXC:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/open-sourcing-gvi...

That said, they don't quite go into the details of what type of isolation is missing from standard containers - I'm curious. It does seem like it would have been ideal for everyone if LXC would have had better isolation, rather than having to run a userspace kernel emulator thingy for each container, but c'est la vie!
agree, agree! mozilla have forgotten their root objective. someone should fork mozilla, remove unneeded features and publish a slimmer, focused version under a new licence.
Of course nobody wants to pay more taxes then they have to pay. I'm not talking about paying extra taxes because you're nice. I'm saying per individual, those that actively avoid taxes by "technically being an Irish company which is actually a shell company and a bank in the Cayman Islands", those people that make immense amounts of money and pay next to no tax on it, per individual they contribute the least to our society. And they use their immense wealth to keep the system that way. And they rarely suffer any meaningful consequences for any of their actions.

Just because a CPA can do it for $300 doesn't change that.
Dutch IT firm lets staff set salaries, by app
Usually that same % doesn't understand the tech AT ALL. They repeat the same koolaid about "Money not managed centrally by the government"
> Congress pushed the banks into doing them in the early 2000s to extend credit to marginalized populations!

How so? Subprime mortgages were largely not sold to government entities, but to private investors as CDOs. And government banking regulations about investing in low income communities never required making subprime loans.
2 points.

One, regardless of the money, Democrats clearly support net neutrality and Republicans clearly oppose net neutrality by wide margins. The votes are nowhere close to balanced.

Two, be careful with looking at the totals on OpenSecrets. Look at the PAC money specifically. OpenSecrets tallies up every donation by employees working in an industry and calls it an industry donation. Which means that my $20 donation to a Democratic Rep is considered the same as Comcast literally giving $20 to a PAC which then donates to a Republican.
What is the access to your hosted postgres like? Do you still have to use that proxy thing? I'm wondering how much effort is require to move a sqlalchemy based app over to this.
How does a low interest rate prevent a bank from making a loan to a small business?

A low interest rate is not a federally mandated cap on interest it is an increase in supply which drives down the cost. Which should increase ROI.
Dynomodb for nosql managed dB, or Aurora with read replicas and multi - AZ for high availability.
People do get motion sick from FPS because a lot of popular games and applications are not optimized, or have degenerate cases that cause hitches. ASW\ATW help with this (run at half fps and interpolate basically), but don't fix really bad fps or hitches. It doesn't help that often people are running PC VR with under powered (minspec or lower) or "misconfigured" (bad drivers, software, etc.) setups.
Go there : Au Petit Fer à Cheval, 30 Rue Vieille du Temple, 75004 Paris, they are open in august. Order the duck :)

Not a bistro but if you can go to Mumi it's worth it (14 rue Sauval, 75001)
Or... maybe it's not AMPs fault (not that I'm a fan of AMP). Maybe it's just that Ruby is quickly going out of vogue and you're just seeing the signs.
> Female candidates are likely to get pregnant and society is better off with females getting pregnant because japan has a low birth-rate problem.

This is a value judgement, and a tedious one at that. You cannot compel women in a free society to have children to meet your expectations. If you want to encourage women to have children, you need to create an environment where it is equitable for them to do so without being unduly penalized.

Again: if your approach worked then Japan would not have a birthrate decline. This is, and has been, already their stance. Women are effectively removed from the workforce upon pregnancy. They are declining that proposition because it's unfair, and society COULD structure to redress that.
>System visibility connected to automation designed to diagnose root causes and provide simple solutions to common problems.

This. At the end of the say you gotta put the right stack trace in front of the right eyeballs so someone can connect the dots and figure out why your crap is burning down. Automation helps people who are not intimately familiar with every aspect of each system do that.
I'm flattered by your interpretation of my comment as one which allows me to "exert moral superiority". I have made no judgements against your morals, only against the merits of your arguments. Now let me correct your other misconceptions.

>> "We've gone a long way towards making sexism less of a problem for everyday women."

> I couldn't have asked for a better example of precisely what I was talking about. We are so primed to jump down people's throat because of SEXISM that by the time you reached the end of your post, you've already slipped into the assumption that it's the only possible explanation, and are lecturing the doctors in question about how sexist they are and how they should stop it.

You misunderstand context. That last line was there to convey the sentiment that society HAS successfully addressed sexism in the past. It was a direct refutation of your claim:

> if it "truly is" sexism, then you also foreclose any chance of fixing it...

> But you've been programmed to assume that if I'm bringing up the possibility that a scientific paper may have a second explanation, then politically I must also be denying the existence of sexism in the universe and must therefore be downvoted and also lectured to about how important it is that we not be sexist.

1. Calling people "programmed" for disagreeing with you is rude, and hacker news readers tend to prefer polite discourse - this may have affected your votes.

2. You did not propose a second explanation at all. You simply said that the one I proposed should not even be investigated until every other alternative is ruled out. How can you claim to care about science but not even be willing to investigate a hypothesis that is supported by data, just because you don't like the idea that it relates to a political and social topic? Take your anger out on the people tar-and-feathering, not the people trying to figure out how to stop women from dying disproportionately due to preventable health issues. If you really have a strong theory on an alternative reason behind this data, then propose it and make your own case.

3. "lectured"? I disagree with your assessment of tone there. I simply re-iterated my argument with context that is more relatable to hacker news readers and shared a relevant experience.

The point is:
Even if it's NOT sexism underlying the root cause of this particular issue, you appear logically biased when you dismiss the role it could play for no reason other than "I don't like when people blame sexism for things". Dismissing it out of hand due to a purely emotional appeal makes it seem like your analysis is troubled. It's as short-sighted and illogical as people who blame sexism for every little thing ever. Morality aside, the downvotes you earned were well deserved due to the poor quality of argument and the uncivil tone.

Also, "sexism" doesn't need to have the "s" capitalized.
The S&P 500 has a ~10% annual return (7% adjusted for inflation) as a historical average. 2% is what you can get in a savings account with no risk at this point.

Index funds/ETFs allow anyone to invest in the stock market starting with small amounts of money.
That does not align with their documentation.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-lis...

The search results you see just put in the effort to provide structured data to google. You can do this easily and without any AMP integrations by simply embedding structured data (such as JSON-LD) on the page.
Very cool, I’m wondering whether I could use this for something. What applications do you have in mind? Charting/graph visualisations? What about games?
Thus explaining why I'm mystified by what everyone is complaining about. For at least the last couple of years (whenever iOS allowed DDG as default search engine) I've used pretty much nothing but DDG. I'm guessing I've probably never seen an AMP page (certainly not that I've noticed).
The only way they "prioritize" them is with the lightning symbol. They don't get better ranking just because they are AMP.
This is a pretty silly argument.... every company's decisions are based on their own interest. That doesn't mean that your interest and theirs don't align.
> Perhaps a similar solution should be added to birth control to continue the natural production of progesterone?

There are very effective ways for couples to deal with the fertility problem (edit: that don't involve chemical castration with patented medicines containing xeno-hormones). They are not profitable for the Medical-Industrial complex, so these strategies have been ignored by the high priests of medicine for the last 60+ years.

Strategies for women, strategies for men, strategies for couples... A different friend got panicked by a missed period, dealt with it in her own way, then went to Planned Parenthood for a free blood test. They said, "you had a miscarriage, let us deal with it next time." Hrmph.
I’m at the other end of the spectrum. I don’t have a good internet connection and it’s painful to wait for a page to load. If I see the AMP icon I will visit that site than the non AMP site. Oh and I’m in US. If I travel abroad, it’s much worse. As a consumer, AMP has been phenomenal.

AMP + Safari reader mode = Best browsing experience.
> Only the top stories and breaking news / live coverage carousels require AMP.

I took that to be what the parent meant. And it's not cool and has never been cool, but I thought they backed off for some reason.
This is okay as long as you are in one of the locations where mortgage is roughly equal to rent. In some places it’s closer to double, unless you want a 100 year mortgage.
Spoken differently to see the glass half full: Ethereum Classic jumped to new hights, the highest of the last 4 month, while Bitcoin returned to the 6.something it was at the last month before passing 7k due to ETF rumors

Business as usual, some people make money (those who bought ETC 2 or 3 weeks ago at the dip, and are selling now in BTC or in USD), some people lose money (those who speculated on the ETF success). These are cold hard facts - not the half full, or half empty glass.

The article title however is just dramatization, maybe for clickbait, or maybe intended to please an audience of people mostly hostile to crypto? It is bloomberg that hits a new low.
Cool.

What does that have to do with the SEC postponing its decision on whether to approve VanEck's ETF backed by Bitcoin, specifically?
Practical use of these things is always just around the corner. At the moment it seems to be too slow and expensive to use for transactions (as currency) and too volatile to use as a value store. Right now it's a fun gamble, and for transactions where using normal currency woule have a higher cost (i.e. you are buying something illegal).
Fortnite for Android leak
I think this is a war just beginning... this is a pda... smartphone/ipod hasn't been invented yet.. when we get the ipod nano of AR, I'll buy one...that's when we know we'll have arrived...

It may come from ML 4 generations and a decade from now, it could come from google, apple, microsoft, or some as-yet unknown company... but it will come and it'll change everything.
Asians make up 15% of California population and is the fastest growing ethnicity in CA. While they make up only 3% of Texas. It is not comparable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas
Do you imagine that this is the right place to complain about this phenomenon, which is by now well-known to people on HN?
AMP is just a fork of HTML, creating more pressure and work for publishers to implement.

The reason why they do it is because of better search page placement in Google. It's unfair and wasteful, since site speed can easily be measured by the most advanced search engine that already has tools and reports doing exactly that.
"Although I'd like to point out that bitcoin is now a rather small fraction of the whole spectrum of crypto economy."

What? It's over 50% of total crypto market cap. And a huge chunk of the altcoins are barely liquid.
https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_f%C3%BCr_das_....

§ 130 StGB lautete in der Urfassung des Strafgesetzbuchs von 1871:

„Wer in einer den öffentlichen Frieden gefährdenden Weise verschiedene Klassen der Bevölkerung zu Gewalttätigkeiten gegen einander öffentlich anreizt, wird mit Geldstrafe bis zu zweihundert Thalern oder mit Gefängniß bis zu zwei Jahren bestraft.“

The article you linked even explained that Nazis were prosecuted. That some of them had parliamentary immunity is another topic. Distinction of criminal and civil law is also secondary.

1960 a second paragraph was added the said that human dignity is indisputable. It was a reaction to anti-semitic attacks.

But it is pretty factual that Germany had hate-speech laws before the Nazis came to power.

> including the most recent legislation regarding social media

most legal experts think this law is not constitutional and it was responsible for banning satire on the first day of its inception. Future rulings will decide its fate. Not giving you a quote on that, let's just wait.
Improper operations at Tencent Cloud led to data loss worth millions of yuan
You'll have to explain 8.

From first principles it makes sense that reducing the price of capital would help workers, and hurt capital owners.

And all the research I've seen backs up this intuition and show that a loose monetary policy helps inequality.
I think it could actually have the opposite effect — that someone you've tagged at one point as someone you disagree with later posts something that you agree with (or vice versa).
Except the reality is different. Sightings of non-AMP links in the top carousel are basically 0.
Time to just accept that "crypto" means cryptocurrencies and also cryptography, and interpret the context to understand which is being spoken. Here it is clearly cryptocurrencies. Moving on...
I'm not sharp enough to take the hint. What is the proper way to fix it?
'things like Tether' - There are basically two of them. Tether and MakerDAO.

MakerDAO has the advantage that it is designed so that you don't need to trust any human or organizational player. Just the crypto itself.

Tether can fall apart any minute. (e.g. when Tether executives play dirty)
There are professional drone operators out there and they have been deployed to help out with emergencies.
> At first, normal wear-and-tear on the surface of a garnet creates divots. Microorganisms, probably fungi, can colonize these hollows. Then, if the stone is the best nearby source for certain nutrients, such as iron, perhaps they use an as-yet mysterious chemical reaction to burrow deeper, harvesting sustenance as they go.

Tunnels like those reported in the article also appear in sand and small rocks in biologically active regions (eg, soil). Some of the theories are the same: The holes are consistent with fungal hyphae ('roots').

I don't think anyone has found a smoking gun yet, and I'm not sure how you can explain finding the same patterns in deep geological formations. But I think they may be trying to answer the same question.
> Second, the reasoning. Why?

Given how they've positioned Pocket and how Firefox's new tab page contains "Recommendations from Pocket", Mozilla seems to want you to enjoy browsing. They want you to enjoy using the Web and to enjoy it using Firefox. It's an interesting play and I'm excited to try it.
The speed of the web is scaling very quickly. IMO avoiding JS completely is ridiculous.
So to you OO means Java?
Why would you use bitcoin as a hedge against inflation instead of some real asset that has persistent value? Land, gold, etc?
Magic Leap One: The Time Has Come
No, because TypeScript can be compiled to JavaScript, so you can use the resulting library in plain JS. If you want to check the source of the library, then yes, you need to know TS.