skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a security threat or whatever and immediately deleted.
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That's sort-of how it's supposed to work? The price at the time was the market-determined value considering the uncertainty of recovery. As you mention, there were multiple hedge funds, so they would have been competing to buy up these coupons, making me suspect the price at the time reflected the best knowledge of the fund's situation and the law available at the time.

It sure seems unjust post-hoc. But I can't really think of any improvements. The rate of recovery is somewhat extraordinary, as demonstrated by the appearance of it in the press. And it would not have happened without giving organisations with deep pockets the incentives to try to effect it.
This country has a tradition of semi-anonymous writing. (See the federalist papers) I think with AI semantic analysis, the ability of writers to remain anonymous will be threatened. Software will out anonymous writers.

For non-fiction, this is important. (Is it worthwhile to know that a book about public Health Care is authored by a pharma exec?) Can the same case be made for fiction? Or is the damage of not getting art too big to dispense with the pretense of anonymity?
Cool. Apparently, a documentary related to these events was produced:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1894541/
Could be this one ( the quality is horrible ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veDZfejpbs8
More materials:
https://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/brazilian-sate...
If someone has more information, links are welcome.
The thing about norms is that, once they're broken, it's very hard to un-break them.

It is in every politician's best interest to obstruct their opponents, prevent their opponents from voting, destroy ballots, jail their enemies on made-up charges, halt investigations into themselves, pack the court that will oversee their cases with allies, etc.

"Democratic norms" are a gentlemen's agreement to not use these highly effective tactics against each other, in the mutual interest of republicanism and democracy. They are highly advantageous, but the consequences are dire.

This is why, during the Obama presidency when Republicans first started deploying them, they called it "the nuclear option". Once one side has gone nuclear, the other side must reciprocate or die.
Nitpick note:

The phrase is actually “deep seated.”
iirc they reproduce most rapidly in nervous tissue. thus brains have the highest concentration of them.
"The scooter technician gig didn’t exist a little more than a year ago. It’s an example of how shifts in business models, social norms and consumer habits spurred by startups can spawn new kinds of work, defying predictions that new technologies will destroy more jobs than they create."

Ya... people riding scooters once drove expensive cars fixed by mechanics earning far more than 22$/hour. Manpower is the only real cost in any organization. So any new tech or business model that is cheaper than an old system (ie scooters instead of taxis) almost certainly means someone somewhere is earning less money than under the old scheme.
It's an immutable law of the internet that if you share a story of misfortune, someone will come along to tell you it's your fault.
Unfortunately the app seems to be broken on iPhone 8+. Fails with "App could not detect camera."
Born and raised in Kentucky (Lexington). I've never heard of squirrel brains as a dish. That's an interesting tidbit. Would it be fair to guess that the parts of KY this is popular are on the south eastern part of the state on the border with West Virginia? All of the normal rules of everything are different when you're in Appalachia.
Here is excellent documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_tClcS6To&list=PLdO1m6dMye... anyone wants to see documentary related to Kuru (Prion Disease)
> If you look around you'll be able to find reasonably priced LEDs with 90+ Ra and no flicker, but its a pain in the ass to research it

For people in North America, I'd recommend https://www.hyperikon.com/ for LED products from screw-in bulbs to large area lights with high CRI and no flicker (note: a few products don't have high CRI, so do check the product page). They offer a good range of color temperatures too.

> Most LED lamps have a Ra value of 80, meaning that they emit on average in the 80% of a spectrum that covers most of the visible light.

That's not what Ra means. It's not a percentage - in fact, something with a perfectly flat distribution covering all the visible spectrum would not have especially high CRI, because that's significantly different from the spectrum of blackbody radiation, on which CRI is based. The actual algorithm for calculating CRI doesn't fit nicely in a comment, but it's in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index

Edit: missed the negation - CRI is not high for a perfectly flat spectrum.
Yes the HifiBerry is very very good for the price.
> It’s an example of how shifts in business models, social norms and consumer habits spurred by startups can spawn new kinds of work, defying predictions that new technologies will destroy more jobs than they create.

Hands up everyone who predicted that scooter companies would destroy jobs. No-one? thought not.
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No, that's just my opinion.

One of the main reasons wouldn't like to see browser games come back is that they are usually basically 100% tied to a server. They're not like standard games, where even if the servers go down, you still have the files and can either keep playing offline or even hack together a server implementation. Once the server goes down, that game is gone[1].

Not to mention, that if an industry were to arise around web-based games, most would probably either be the "free but pay-to-win and with ads" kind, or on Netflix-style subscription platforms where you don't actually own anything and you're just paying for the access.

[1] - not saying it's impossible to preserve it, just that it's not preserved by default, like a locally-installed game is
Pi MusicBox?

http://www.pimusicbox.com/
Thanks; I was reading the docs, which do say "turn off".

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?visit_id=...
Based on which precedent did you arrive at this conclusion?
Even in the Win95 era, I remember having to boot into DOS to run some games (Redneck Rampage comes to mind).
Should also mention this does not support video.
I think 'pause' is a better word than 'off'. The reason is that a person is more likely to think that turning 'off' location history deletes the old location history, which it does not. 'Pause' makes this differences clearer to the user who might not be as familiar with technology.
Count dankula has a communist flag tattoo. He marched and demonstrated with socialists.

The fud is weird.
Which perhaps illustrates why it's not so good for your stomach and why, therefore, aspirin (same properties without stomach issues) was a breakthrough.
These are just Alibaba emulators with ROMs preloaded right? How is he expecting not to get sued by every game dev and manufacturer from the last 30 years?
It doesn't detect the camera on my iPhone :(
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What's nice about it?

FreeBSD is a nice BSD platform. Darwin is kind of a weird mess, with Unix awkwardly mashed up with Mach and extra C++ frameworks (IOKit etc.) on top.
You are correct. I've heard it both ways and ascribed slightly different meanings, but deep-seated was what I meant.
> The economist has been freaking out about norms destruction since day 1 of the trump whitehouse.

Isn't this a necessary action in order to preserve any semblance of norms? If no one said anything, we'd just silently drift to a new field, let alone a moved set of goalposts.
For the reasons you mentioned, a cashless society is extremely susceptible to disruption (the bad kind) that could lead to a serious breakdown in social order.

Keeping cash as full legal tender, even with the availability of a cashless alternative makes sense, in the way keeping farming and defense manufacturing domestic makes sense, even with the availability of cheaper imported substitutes.

We should be having these conversations now, because the push for a cashless society is coming. Mobile payments may solve a real problem in say, Kenya, where rural people don't have bank accounts but do have phones.

There is no such rationale in the developed world, so you better believe the current crop of fintech startups (along with the usual PR push across media channels) will be coming up with frivolous reasons as to why cash is history, and we all join the 21st century by channeling our transactions through their solution so they can take their cut.
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I like the idea, but there are a lot of issues apparently. I went to visit a friend in Baltimore, and he told me rental scooters are being vandalized all the time for no reason. I also read an article that the accident rate and ER visits due to scooters went really high with this business. No idea if it's the quality of the scooters or what.

I haven't tried one yet myself. I want to after this insurance season...
Everyone gives this pitch, but I alwast spot the teltale digitl diatortion immediately. It affects the transients. We are training ourselves to hear worse.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestreet.com/amp/story/136...
>But prions aren't code.

It was an analogy and reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteopathy#Seeded_induction it sounds very much like they act like a piece of code corrupting another piece of code

>Some proteins can be induced to form abnormal assemblies by exposure to the same (or similar) protein that has folded into a disease-causing conformation, a process called 'seeding' or 'permissive templating'

That sounds a lot like many computer viruses

>A computer virus is a type of malicious software that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code
It's overkill to use a Raspberry Pi for this.

I made a dozen Airport adapters with the TP-Link WR710N which was $25 at the time and connects to Wifi or ethernet. Add a USB soundcard ($10?) for powered speakers or a Topping USB amp ($75?) for unpowered speakers. Install OpenWRT, connect it to your network in client or bridge mode, install the built-in shairport-sync package, and go.

Not sure what has replaced the WR710N but I'm sure you can still do this just as cheaply.
His post "I hate the news"(0) was(is) very influential for me personally.

It was seminal in what become a rather significant change in my habits and view of the world. I am now very conscious that news are entertainment, purely and simply. With the goods and bads of any other entertainment form.

From time to time, while explaining my position to others (often seen as kind of radical), I refer this post. I hope it continues to be available.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
Cooked goat and cow heads are a delicacy in some regions of Tunisia. Obviously, this includes the brain. I now wonder if Prions have ever been an issue in Tunisia...
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Why would they even remotely touch that horrendous SoC?
Here's some info from a quick google: http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/victim23.html

Looks like the dish is called Burgoo

> The center of the burgoo universe is Owensboro, Kentucky
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The intelligence agencies obviously aren't doing this. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment.
I don't think that is fair exactly as described. Someone who invested $1MM in 1988 should get back more than someone who invested $1MM in 1999, IMO, because their alternative investment would have grown substantially in the interim. IOW, on a then-present-value basis, the 1988 investor invested more.
I've wanted to see something like this for a long time. IMHO the missing pieces are...

1. the ability to identify which components of a summary you would prefer to see expanded.

2. for expansions to be more clearly highlighted
-p is also very commonly "password". It may take an argument, or it may cause the program to interactively prompt you for a password when you run it. Similarly, -k is often "key".

-a could also be "ask"; Gentoo, for example, uses it to ask you to confirm before proceeding with emerge.

-h is very often "host".
Then can I ask, what do you think about this? from the point of view of external search?

Topic list: https://www.talkyard.io/forum/latest

Example long discussion: https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io/-11/my-son-was-sent-home...
(of a length that might work less well with sort-by-time + lazy-load approaches)

It's also new forum software (I'm developing it), sort of a combination of Discourse and HN and Slack. I would think it works ok with external search? Becasue, like here at HN, good comments surface to the top, + they're included in the HTMl directly on page load. So, what a search engine sees, ought to be the original post, + the best comments.

I'm wondering, what do you mean with: "Also, it's making it easy to link to a great comment is import"? (What does "import" mean, here)
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Interestingly there was a Ask HN about Amazon using HN for advertising its product recently as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553815. It was around the time of reinvent, which makes sense, but it also made some people suspicious.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but do not post on behalf of my company.

Edit: Removed facetious comment about potentially enjoying being on HN as part of my job.
I've been doing this for a couple years with a Zero (pre-W) and a pHAT DAC[0] with great success.

It just runs and reliably shows me a Airplay device for my garage speakers. I recommend it for people who have audio hardware lying around and don't want to replace it with more expensive and worse sounding smart speakers.

0: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/phat-dac
I've had the experience of thinking I'm doing well and then getting exposed to another level of "well". Here in Tokyo, at least before 2008 but I think still, there were lots of "expats". In my vocabulary, "expats" has a different meaning than just "someone from another country". It specifically means someone sent to a foreign country and "set up". A good example might be not only do they make $300k to $1million a year but their company, trying to reproduce their lifestyle back home in order to compensate them for asking them to move abroad ends up renting them an extremely nice place, usually in the $4000 to $8000 a month range and paying the rent for them.

There was an English language magazine who's ads targeted these "expats" showing the apartments in that range and other service far far far out of reach of anything I was making.

So in that sense I felt more like a failure.

That said I don't believe I'd always want more if I had 10x what I had now. What I have now is not enough to stop needing an income. 10x is enough to stop and then just do what I want without having to worry that I'd better have a real job saving for when no one will hire me.
You can read that post if you navigate to the main blog page and then scroll down to that particular post.
The top comment sheds some light on the rarity of the disease and the article just being some sort of fear mongering -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648393
I don't think there's a problem with fictional works' authors being unknown or anonymous. The problem lies in nonfiction works that seek to directly convey any kind of knowledge or wisdom that is difficult to judge and evaluate independently on its own merits (with would cover just about everything outside the hard sciences). There is value in knowing the identity and character of an author, as well as the fact that they associated their personal reputation with the book they wrote.

For example, If I look for a book on developing physical fitness, I want to know who the author is and how fit or disciplined they are. If I read a book about history, I want to know how much the author has studied their topic, whether through formal scholarship or not. If I read a biography, I'd like to know if it's written by someone who personally knew their subject, how close or far removed the author was in time and space, and the kind of scholarship that the author is known for.

Identity and reputation matter when evaluating sources of knowledge in topics that you don't have the time to learn and master yourself.
My main point in citing the stats is that almost none of France's immigrants come from migrant crisis countries.
800 preloaded games? The disregard for copyright is embarrassingly naive... usually the idea with selling something is to come out financially ahead in the end.
There are listings an adjacent post links but I don't pick and choose. The staff at a court will tell you e.g. that Court #4 is done for the day, or it's doing a bunch of calendar management which you might find tedious. I guess you'd want to plan at least somewhat if you have to travel a long way to attend, for me it's just across the city.
In my opinion it’s likely that they are holding the $130B of cash equivalents because they’re expecting a downturn in the economy and want to buy up assets on the cheap. It’s not that they are investing in the cash, they sold some assets at what they perceive to be at the top of the market and are holding for the next downturn so they can get back in on some discounted equities. This is large-scale buy low sell high. It’s not a productive asset but a short term store of buying power.
"Prions don't really suggest that life is a simulation."

If life is a simulation, prions suggest either the simulation is run at an extremely high degree of verisimilitude, indeed simulating QM at a particle level for living things, or that the simulator has an incredible desire for accuracy, and has put a lot of non-trivial work into ensuring it. Almost anything you can think of that would reduce the computational load for simulating a human being would eliminate the possibility of prions arising in the first place, since "protein folding" is one of the first things you'd want to get rid of to cut the load down.
It is hard to un-break democratic norms, but there is no theoretical reason it can't be done. It'll just take a lot of work and some major changes.

Here's a little game that pop historian Mike Duncan released a little while ago. See if you can figure out the political moves you have to make to pull the Roman Republic back from the brink: https://www.riddle.com/showcase/165065/narrative
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This isn't my understanding of how it works. I thought that if you bought a stolen car from a dealership, the police could still tow the car and give it back to the rightful owner. You would get your money back, and you would sue the seller if necessary. I don't see how buying from a dealership makes this any different, except a dealership is easier to sue and recover damages from.
Is alzheimers a prion disease, or maybe just Prions are involved?
> 'Pause' makes this differences clearer to the user who might not be as familiar with technology.

I'd love for the Googles of this world to really make things easier for people not as familiar with technology. For instance lightswitches do not have a pause button.
Be careful about the "victim" label. Lots of Madoff's clients had very quiet discussions with lawyers.

"I had 5 million in invested with Madoff, now it is gone".

"No. You gave him 2 million 20 year ago. He told you that had grown to 5 million. He also paid you 2.5 million over those 20 years."

"So I only lost the original 2 million?"

"No. You were paid that 2 million back, plus an additional 500$ stolen from other people. That 500k was stolen money. You received and spent stolen money. If the FBI or IRS calls SAY NOTHING before talking to me again."
Well the immune system needs to be able to do something of use in response. Just putting it in even with an immune sensitizing agent would add another prion that it can't do anything useful about. But antibodies, if we had ones that worked for a strain and weren't essentially prions themselves we could vaccinate for it or use it to "chelate" assuming the prion grabbers wouldn't cause other unacceptable problems.
Sorry friend. Not off the hook yet:

> patients with very long incubation periods of at least 34 years, and probably more than 40 years.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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I wonder if artificial learning could recreate the intellect of Socrates.
Thunderbird. But I'm considering switching to Claws.
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/c...

Let's not forget that Rome was broke when it met its demise, having debased its currency as tax revenues declined, and after taxing land owners to the point that additional revenue was unavailable and - anecdotally at least - some land owners sold themselves into tax-free slavery rather than face the consequences of non-payment.
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There was an old program called Karel++ that had simple commands for programming simple virtual robots on a 2d grid. Learned it as an introduction to c++.

I wouldn't recommend it these days, but something similar would be cool.
Nice use of a Sankey diagram in that article!
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yeah, I thought this was going to be like, if I click on a paragraph, it expands into several paragraphs worth of detail.
I really enjoyed Dan Carlin’s ‘Celtic holocaust’ that went at length into the character and motivations of Julius Caesar. What I mostly appreciate in listening to Carlin is his ability to sympathize with the people living through the moment but being respectful not to bias his reading of history so it doesnt reflect modern wishes and thinking. It’s in this vein I criticize the book as it sounds like it’s applying modern realities (income inequality, discontent, lack of democracy etc) to the past as a way to justify making predictions you want to see today (popular revolt / trump is evil and will be toppled etc what you will)

But I haven’t read the book so I could be talking out of my ass
I just use HDMI to connect it to audio receiver.
As one get older, you seems to remember all these pitch for "Flutter" were exactly the same <insert X>.

And given Google's extremely good track record on their product / services / and tools. I think I will take a pass for now.
If you looked at who exactly those "rich people" are, you would see that it has more to do with who they are in a system controlled by their own.
What remains to be seen is whether the demographic trends here are due to fundamental differences in what gen Z kids are interested in, or whether it's just a function of the fact that YouTube is free, and Teenagers don't have money, and your parents can't see what you've been watching like they can if you use their Netflix login.

It would be like looking at transportation data and concluding that since teenagers tend to take the bus or ride bikes to get places, the auto industry will be doomed in 20 years.
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