skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I the buyer am willing to pay 150% in the store compared to on your website. I need to find my credit card, to trust one more random website with it... I have certainly decided not to buy things for this reason. And if I don't know too much about you, then I'll take all the sandboxing I can get, and happily pay a premium for that too.

And of course you only get 100% if you have zero fraud, zero hassles, no fees, no awkward cases.
The neocons that blundered in Iraq and the neoliberals (like former Sec State HRC) that overthrew the Libyan dictatorship and targeted the Syrian autocracy, were democratically removed from leading US foreign policy. Democracy here adjusts. The 45th has accelerated the withdrawal from Syria due to anger from voters. The neocons and neoliberal have been pushing for Syrian escalation and the ousting of Assad. And there is now a peace path with North Korea, despite again extreme criticism by the necons and neoliberal.

On the other hand there is no accountability in Iran, Russia, or Syria. Russia just straight up annexed Crimea. And Putin is still in power and popular among Russians. Assad still hasn't held
more than a single election in 5 decades. Again, the Bushs are out because of Iraq. And Afghanistan (that sheltered terrorist Al Queda) has a trillions in USD in rare earth deposits, yet we buy from China almost exclusively. China is not our friend anymore. We don't even own Iraqi oil.

Sanctions are just. And Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the Soviets were once embargoed, and they would be running an impoverished world today, if not for the US-led efforts. To the contrary, world GDP has increased many fold and US inventions, like the internet, lift billions out of poverty and into the drivers seats of their futures. Defeated former foes in Japan, Germany, even Russia, et all, and the defended like South Korea are doing fabulously after wisely focusing on building instead of launching an insurgency (after losing) because of "Death to Israel and the Great Satan" or whatever. Shame on the insurgents for plunging Iraq into disarray.

I have no idea what you're talking about with Palestine. The Palestine Authority pays million of dollars (from billions in US aid) a year to the families of terrorists (the longer the prison sentence, the more they pay), like someone that goes into a jewish house and stabs the entire family to death. Iran also supports terrorist Palestinian Hamas. Again, a lot of complaining and little building. Sanctions would come off if they stopped strapping on suicide vests because "Death to Israel".

Is our republic perfect? No. But more people have immigrated here than anywhere in history. We still take in more immigrants than anywhere else. And families that refuse to wait in line, risk their lives to cross desserts to wind up in temporary detention centers for a few a weeks just to get a residency court date. We have a Muslim Somali immigrant woman that's elected into Congress, and routinely disrespects our ally Israel and even the US. She is not in prison because of our freedoms. How many immigrant Jewish Americans are elected in Somalia?

Which country are you from?
If you are this cost sensitive and still demand bang-for-the-buck then you really need to look at dedicated rental. Hetzner is great (not in US), and there are some budget providers in Miami. You might also look at webhostingtalk.com
If extreme political instability from climate change leads to nuclear war, that could threaten human extinction.
No, people search for jobs just like they would anywhere else, and if they don’t find one then they get to be unemployed and broke.

Homelessness is definitely a thing. If you can’t afford a place to live then you’ll just have to make do.
Vertical Linux sched_switch trace-viewer (on the terminal)
One-off. Most stuff on Quora is a thinly veiled advertisement for something - at least when I search for something and end up on Quora.

But there are exceptions - and boy is this article a great example of that.
> Greenland's ice sheet has been melting pretty fast for years [1].

Your link talks about how the rate of ice sheet melting is increasing (currently 4x what it was in 2003), so I'm not sure how you arrived at this statement. The whole problem is not that it was never melting in the past, it's that the melting is accelerating, and that even the rate of acceleration may be increasing due to feedback loops; that is what is threatening.
This is true for any foreign currency, and it's exactly why a country tends to converge on exactly one currency, even when it's illegal. Dealing with multiple currencies on a daily basis is a giant pain in the ass.

Europe is an instructive example here. Most of a continent was sick enough of the hassle that they eliminated 19 currencies in favor of the Euro [1]

Another good example is Ecuador. In the 1980s, both currencies were in use, with dollars being used by wealthier people for larger transactions, including savings. That was due to financial instability that got worse; eventually Ecuador just gave up and adopted the dollar. [2]

So to answer your question, it probably doesn't make sense, which is why approximately nobody uses Bitcoin as digital money. In contrast, look at the digital money scheme M-Pesa, which started around the same time. It has many millions of users and has seen widespread adoption. [3]

[1] http://webs.schule.at/website/European_Currencies/old_eu_cur...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
> Why cant the IRS just tell us every year if we owe or not and how much?

You can already contest how much the IRS claims you owe. Why would this hypothetical be any different?

Yes, it's probably impossible for the IRS to perfectly account for every American-person's income. They already make mistakes and it's not terribly difficult to show them how they got it wrong. Whether they are incentivized to adjust to your lower claimed liability is another question... but that's why we have independent courts.
Not the first time someone posting a project on HN has done this!!!!
There’s tools out there like BetterTouchTool and I imagine several others than allow you to do this and more.
Do you think we can lose 500 years of tech development globally? I can see some areas becoming challenging and definitely a slowdown in progress but it seems unlikely that all this knowledge will evaporate
IANAL, I'm not a tax expert, but I believe you can deduct losses when converting to/from fiat currency (US dollars). Which is where taxation would take effect.

If you invested $10k in crypto mining equipment, you can deduct that investment (over 5 years or something similar), you then successfully mine 5 coins. These coins are/were worth whatever exchange rate you could get. Until you use/exchange them, you aren't taxed. If you buy something, you need to declare the value of what you bought and pay income taxes against it. If you exchange it for currency, you need to pay taxes on that currency.

If you bought $25k worth of BTC, and it fell from $25k to $6k, then you turn it back into USD, you can take a deduction on the losses too. This is how most interactions with futures/stocks works. However the tax rates, triggers and rules are more tightly regulated than straight/regular income. If you're operating under a corporation or llc, again the rules may be different still.

Having a tax lawyer and accountant is probaly prudent if you're talking about 5+ figure transactions over a given tax year.

edit: --- based on responses below, I'm probably wrong about mined coins, and you probably have to pay taxes on the value when mined. Again, I'm not a lawyer/accountant, so if you're in a position where you're talking about a significant amount of money, get professional advice.
as a reminder, the original comment was "I don't see how we are getting out of this alive"
And realistically, they send a letter. They then follow up with a certified letter. Then they may move on to other means.
Yeah, or, perhaps when you downvote, you need to check all the checkboxes which indicate what guidelines were not followed.
This is very relevant for image reconstruction for medical imaging systems. When determining how much a beam of radiation is attenuated through an image, it really matters what the representation you use when translating a 2D matrix of values of material parameters, to an image representation. Are they boxes, trapezoids (bilinear interpolation), 2D gaussians, spheres? Each technique has some drawbacks, but for getting down to millimeter precision in scans it matters.
+1

It's not uncommon to see such basic flaws or misinterpretations in various articles.
It's more vague and visual than what you describe, but this makes pretty compelling visualizations:

https://showyourstripes.info/
Compressing neural networks for image classification and detection
While you panic other people make big money.
the joke leaves the role of the VP as undefined.
Thanks what is your LinkedIn id.
Thanks, I appreciate it
> They don't even reinvest their profits - they return them to shareholders.

Yes, they leave it for their shareholders to decide how they want to reinvest their profits, as opposed to making this decision for them.

> So the value of the "best business on the planet" is that it takes a percentage of every transaction and funnels it into the personal wealth of Visa shareholders?

Yes, this is literally the only thing they do. They provide no service whatsoever, and it's strange that merchants decide to give them a cut into their profits for no reason at all.

> Instead it sounds like it's just a driver of inequality simply because they have a captive market and no real competition.

Yes, the company with ~20% of global market share has no real competition.
> Ability to write source code that adheres to specifications

This article reads like a series of bad advice from 1990s.

- No, engineers shouldn't be writing code that "adheres" to specifications. They should study, understand, question and contribute to problem statement and approach at all times (also called "requirements" in pre-2000s).

- Manager shouldn't be at center of evalauting performance but rather establishing process, standards and collecting feedback and metrics.

- Bonuses are inherently evil and would always motivate individuals to exploit short term gains at the expense of long term sustainibility. Any performance evaluation strategy must keep this issue front and center at all times.

- Large part of performance feedback shouldn't come from managers but peers

- Performance reviews should never be entirely metrics-driven. No finite set of metrics tell the full story and all metrics are susceptible at gaming.

- Don't treat new comers as incapable of fixing bugs or do X but not Y. Don't create class system of seniors vs juniors. Titles cause more troubles then they are worth.
A similar situation happened to my grandfather: a hospital's medical error caused pneumonia and wrecked his lungs. He could've lived another 10-15 years because he was relatively healthy. He wasn't Neil Armstrong and that side of the family wasn't astute enough to sue, at least to hold them accountable for their actions. :(
> having to constantly inform my American friends that yes, they do have electricity and running water in Singapore

I’m afraid to ask where in America is that common sentiment about Singapore. The only misconception I’ve ever heard about Singapore is being executed for possessing chewing gum.
Gotcha, thanks. That embed had apparently been hidden by default due to my browser's do-not-track setting.
> These things are not comparable

That's just true on your single characterization, which is not relevant to making a equivalency. The ultimate outcomes of those resources are irrelevant and it's a disingenuous comment to re-frame a situation and claim someone is wrong within your frame of reference.

*did not mod your comment either way
Slightly off-topic: Is there data on how many people don’t put children into our world because of this?
Were all the filters being compared with the same width? At the same width it will be softer, at a smaller pixel radius is where you can compare aliasing with the same visual sharpness as something like catmull-rom.
That says 6x less per person
Yeah, it's strange people are thinking the display of a spectrum analyzer is somehow 1:1 with the underlying thing which they are measuring. As if a digital clock with only the hour and minutes displayed implies that seconds don't exist.
> The article reminds me of the many mathematical text I've read insisting on that vectors are not tuples of numbers. That thinking of them as anything other than directions with magnitudes is wrong.

I break every mathematical object down into three things:

1. The intuition. Why do we have this concept to begin with? What underlying idea are we trying to capture?

2. The definition. These are the axioms.

3. The implementation. This includes every way to communicate the idea, from natural language words to notation to source code.

Without the intuition, you have nothing but a symbol game. It's hollow. Something with rules and notation but no deeper intuition is, arguably, chess.

Without the definitions, you can't think rigorously about your ideas and you don't know if they lead to internal contradiction. You can dump the axioms without losing the intuition; we did this with set theory at the turn of the previous century, when Russell proved that the previous axioms were inconsistent. We saved set theory without having to abandon the notion, the intuition, of sets entirely.

Without implementation, it's just thought, and you can't communicate with anyone. Moreover, without some intuition, the implementation is meaningless, because you have no cognitive frame to use to interpret it.

So the tuple of numbers is one implementation of a vector. It allows you to communicate some aspects of a vector, but without the underlying idea of what a vector means, what concept we're trying to get across, it's just a list of numbers. They might as well be box scores or something.
Couldn't tell ya. But iPhone SE is the smallest screen in the emulated devices list.
A lot of people will die due to climate change and the ensuing political instability.
It's impossible for individuals to solve this problem. It's very difficult for governments to solve this problem.

Governments aren't very good at difficult problems, but it's not impossible, and we can't give up.

Note that we don't need universal agreement, check out Nordhaus' carbon club.
I can’t imagine the US being as efficient at anything as China is at growing food.
We’re going straight from “we don’t really know if something is happening” to “it’s too late anyway so why bother” without going through the troublesome “we should try to stop this” phase.
I used to work at a very large (and reasonably well-educated) company that had coworkers from everywhere (LA, SF, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, NYC, etc) and it was quite a common misconception amongst almost all of them (and to be fair, I also met a handful of Europeans who thought the same). Also very common was the belief that Singapore is a city in China.
Merely stating something does not make it so. Would you like to give some reasoning for your stance?
Ah, yeah. Not sure "Communist" means much then.
yes.. and also three times the people
> The first step in that is to loosen up your certainty that only via government can anything large scale happen.

If you want to do that, you're gonna need to present some plausible alternatives... otherwise you're not truly "challenging" anything so much as saying "this is a belief you have that I will not provide any evidence to counter but merely point out."
Architecture of Information Products – Explained for Non-Tech Folks
The current haptic feedback on the touchpad works fine because all you need to know is that you pressed the touchpad, not where you pressed it.

That's no longer true once you have a range of keys that you are pressing. You need to ensure your fingers are properly aligned so that you press the key you intend before you press it. Without some actual structure, you don't get that feedback.
The service is incredibly useful.

The profits returned as dividends are pure rent extraction and essentially a tax on global economic growth.

That's why it should have a different structure. The mystery is why the member banks allowed it to become a for-profit entity and why governments continue to allow it to suck profits from their economies.
Ahh yes, I knew it was those evil republicans at it again!

Thank god for altruistic totally incorruptible democrats that are trying to save us from this menace!
I recall reading a CNN scrolling ticker headline about the current European heatwave that said ~5% of European homes/offices have AC.

The DOE says 3/4 of American homes have AC, and furthermore, AC uses 6% of all electricity generated in the United States, quite staggering imo and a lot more than I would have expected. Without AC, a lot of America would just be too unbearable to support some major communities.

[0] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/air-...
You've clearly never bought and sold stock in two different lots in the US before. Brokerages report cost-basis to the IRS, this basis will be calculated based on your selection when you initiate the trade.

You can't start talking about other capital gains in the same sentence as regulated securities as the reporting requirements are going to be different.
I'm not seeing the connection between this research and fixed-point arithmetic.
Governments can solve this.

Thus far governments have been unwilling to solve it. They need to be pressured though political activism and mass protests until the problem for them becomes too inconvenient to ignore.
The devil is in the details--so much depends on how the levels and their descriptions are operationalized.

Would be interesting to hear more about calibration work, how they are defining output parity across the engineering disciplines/business units/products/teams.
Two things. First, anybody ever think about why an ice covered body of land was called Greenland? Here's a clue, it used to be a lot warmer and green. This is nothing new. Ice was a disaster for the settlers of Greenland.

And this:

"Scientists already know that the Greenland ice sheet is melting. But the hidden heat source originating from deep inside the Earth partially responsible for that melting has been a mystery. Now, researchers have pinned down evidence of that heat, revealing yet another force pushing glaciers into the ocean."

https://www.newsweek.com/puzzling-heat-deep-inside-earth-mel...
I don’t think you would ever hear something like that in Seattle. I’m guessing deep south somewhere?
Complete mystery why they allowed it to become a for-profit entity. Are those member banks now shareholders? Does that mean they are profiting on the backs of all new entrants?
Yes, I agree that more spending boosts the economy. (Sorry about the unclear phrasing.)
It was pretty simple in the USSR: the government owns the farms, the government profits from them, they pay the workers (very often in product).

The government/party says a new farm will be created here, the order goes out.

It is all controlled from the top (communist party) through the regional council, through the local council (often a few councils inbetween). After the farm is established, a few inspections by party officials and it's all set up and operating.

This created the perfect opportunity to fudge reports like there's no tomorrow and essentially the party had no idea what is actually going on.

Papers say production is fine, orders are to maintain levels, report comes back saying everything is proceeding as ordered. In reality, production was higher than reported (with no room to grow if ordered), workers are skimming product, managers are skimming product, local council is skimming product and money, regional council is skimming money. To make up for the shit pay, but also because why not, the party won't miss it.

Orders come in to increase production, report says "no can do, need more equipment, need more land, need more workers". Of course, more than is actually needed, so someone can have their own tractors.

The black market, often in barter, was huge.

The party in Moscow could not contain its spread even with their network of spies. People trusted each other, not the party, the police were in on it.

Not sure if that's how it works in China, but they have the advantage of instant communications, instant checks on any level, modern surveillance.

This turned out messy, I'm too tired.
What's your plan if, like in Germany, the government passes laws that make building new wind turbines nearly impossible? Violent revolution?
Interesting. I thought your original comment was explaining why the IRS doesn't have all the information it needs to determine tax due by itself, and your example was stock trading. In that case not only is there a documentary requirement at time of transaction, but there's a catch-all rule for cases where you turn out not to have such documentation. Amnesia or "ad hoc unrecorded environments" absolutely aren't exceptions to any of those rules.

Perhaps you're trying to make a different point now, or I misunderstood your original one.
The landing page has an illustration of the Firefox fox with a VR headset on, which is almost there
You could have written a constructive comment instead. For examples, see the replies by the author of the article in this thread.

From the guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
No, you put a low pass filter on the other side of the DAC and it looks equally smooth. Those stair steps are high frequency. This is the filter is called the image rejection or reconstruction filter. Once you learn about the frequency domain, you realize how silly most digital versus analog debates are and how very few really understand what is going on.
"... but it would still be quite the discovery that car factories are regularly stopping because of a lack of steel ..."

What if you dug deeper and found that the steel-lacking factories were the ones which made the worst cars ?

I think that's the default analogy you should be making when you see cells "stopping".

This idea that cells that stop processing, or that undergo apoptosis (cell death) or are incapacitated by free-radical damage / oxidation should be "saved" is probably a mistaken one.

It's probably a much better outcome that they die.
How to Fetch All Current Identity Values in Oracle
2001, sure.

It's no longer 2001, we live in the era of big data now.
I'm assuming that's a typo and you meant VR, given that I've never heard of XR, and thus wouldn't really be an improvement in terms of vagueness...
Yes, my WAG is that I would be studying tax law in relation to forex investing before claiming crypto is somehow different....
I'm not sure what you're implying. You seem to be missing out the bit describing which non-governmental actor can fix this.

The first issue is that everyone else thinks only government can solve this. If you say governments can't, but have no other solution, you're essentially saying "no-one can do this." Which, while depressing, isn't going to achieve much.

The second issue is that, clearly, governments could actually fix this. They most likely aren't going to. But the capital and human investments needed aren't impossible. It's not like a neolithic tribe building a computer for example. Resolving global warming is actually possible with our current resources and technology.
You keep saying that government cannot do this. All the replies say that regulation, labeling, bans, and widespread legal action are the only things that can prompt the world at large to act, and those have to be enacted by government by definition.

So what is the alternative you are suggesting?