skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the current direction of these solutions really feels like the technological equivalent of 'solving' the homelessness crisis via hostile architecture. putting spikes on every bench and doorstep doesn't make anyone less homeless but it makes them less visible so you can feel less bad about it.
turning the internet into an increasingly obfuscated series of walled gardens doesn't improve the wellbeing of anyone particularly at risk and if anything, gives ingroups and personality cults all the more power to thrive. but maybe the new york times wont tell you about some neckbearded loser who says nigger too much and therefor you've solved the only problem you actually care about.
more and more i'm lead to believe that the compassion and empathy of the sensible majority is largely performative and on a fundamentally emotional level they just want heads to roll irrelative of any actual justice.
Human powered AI for the future! Because artificial intelligence is not.
Past time for a tax on carbon.
I believe you but have never heard of cities anywhere removing roads or lanes, only adding more. Can you give any examples of cities that have actually done this?
Not at all. Killing people silences them in addition to terminating their other rights, through no fault of their own.
How do you know how much Uber would cost if they had to raise their prices high enough to have a marginal profit on each ride?
Risk of what? Just say it in the headline.
Or it could be an act of desperation to keep their factories running at full capacity. They have a large segment of the population that is only tolerant of the authoritarian regime while their economic prospects are improving.
> If the woman want to wear Burka, it should be within their rights.

What if there are robbers targeting fuel stations and 7-11 stores or mugging people on the street, using burka's and the entire black garment to cover their intent on approach and foil any video surveillance?

How many such incidents would it take before you would consider that Burka's ought to be banned in public spaces? Let's up the stakes and say the robberies were violent; how many people would have to die before you banned burkhas?
Forget electric cars, this is how we should be lowering our CO2 emissions.

We made a huge mistake with car oriented design and we need to rebuild our cities the right way.
Indeed, fertility rates can change rapidly. However it's foolish to simply claim it can change so it will. If the current trend continues the Japanese people and culture will be lost to time.
The entire premise of the post-Bretton Woods neoliberal world US currency is based on an agreement with the Saudis to sell oil in US dollars for military support and on threats to bomb countries who sell oil in non-US denominations. And China is the currency manipulator.
China have been manipulating their currency before this week's drop. They use USD to buy CNY to prop up CNY exchange rate. If they stop buying CNY using USD, the value of CNY would fall (happening now). So China is technically no longer manipulating their currency.

Why are they doing this? My guess is to respond to trade war tariff. The US is manipulating USD through Fed interest rate. The Fed lowers interest rate to prop up borrowing and economic growth. I think China has figured out a way to deal with the situation. They will adjust the USD-CNY exchange to prop up their own economy.

This trade war is turning into a silly cat and mouse game. China is not making a deal. They have ways to get around tariff and TPP. War is about deception. The US needs some sneaky attack if it wants to win.
You'd think laser printers would be prior art - a rotating mirror (usually a hexagon) was exactly how older laser printers would scan across the drum to form out the print.
Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds
> If you want to make a case that gay rights advocates make the world unambiguously worse, be my guest. At a societal scale, you will fail, because there is a clear and categorical difference between that example and mine.

My point was that 20 years ago, there are a hell of a lot of people that would have made that argument. There's probably still a double-digit percentage of Americans who believe that today.

It's like evaluating a stock trading strategy on historical data - success there does not guarantee success in the real world, but failure highly implies it. Your proposed policy - which as far as I can tell simplifies to "ban advocating for things that a supermajority of the population finds distasteful" - would have prevented (or at least harmed) quite a few movements over the past century or three, and so I say that if implemented today it would do the same in the future.
Hmm

At first that sounds like a weird theory to me, but on second thought it’s quite reasonable. China has some long term goals, for which a more divided and more poorly controlled US would benefit them. But Trump is a strong immediate threat to their economy so it’s probably better to have him removed for China.

However the more ammo Trump has to vilify China, the more virtuous he appears. If this were really china’s aim, they should be playing the victim. So I think the us presidential race is not their top concern.
Agreed. A couple of examples to illustrate this: in boolean arithmetic, 1+1=1, in modular (2) arithmetic, 1+1=0.
It's not censorship of the entire alt-right. It's the limited censorship on certain privately-run forums of a small subset that is directly advocating for violence and attempting to tear apart society.

If they want to speak in public, they are free to. They probably won't get a warm reception.
> Pretty sure they could, at least early on

Maybe early on in Google. But to influence thousands of highly opinionated people, all with their own opinions, without negative side effects, is really difficult. Did you mean early on in the employees' efforts, or early in Google?

> No-one apart from you is calling this tampering.

Sorry for the confusion -- I mean "tamping" -- that any topdown attempt to force neutrality on employees when they are agitating for not-neutrality would have negative costs. (tampering is a different word, but it's an understandable mis-communication... darn English!)

> Or maybe all of this bias is accidental...

You could be 100% correct. I have no idea, it's a viable option. My point was to answer your original question of "what could they be thinking".

My objective was just to propose a few ideas about what they could be thinking. I 100% don't know, but I think what I said could fit the limited information we have.
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People have been complaining about basically the same thing with respect to Walmart for decades.
Hosting yourself is a good way to have half your sent emails never arrive.

Own the domain name, but let one of the big players handle deliverability for you.
NPP has been hugely beneficial for p2p. I've used it and now trust it implicitly, as a mechanism.

Being stuck in cheque clearing bank settlement delay is a royal pain.

International funds clearance and KYC remain problems.
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There are plenty of alternatives to Amazon for sellers too. None of them are as big, but they are there.

If Amazon has the power to set prices, why are their prices the same as everyone else’s?
I have lived in both Europe and US for years. It is not fair to compare both places as the population density is totally different. You still do need a car if you are living in suburb area in Europe (in my case the Netherlands). And in US there is much less people living in the city.
Now called Outlook, so you don't even have to worry about the slightly dubious @hotmail.com address.
I do think that inexpensive liquid handling robots will make a big difference if they are used correctly. The expensive Hamilton robots are closer to ~$100k-$150k and require a ~$20k-$30k service contract per year. The opentrons robots are $4k total. That kind of price difference is a PhD-level scientist's salary. But you don't want to buy a cheap robot and soak up someone's time troubleshooting it. To effectively use something like an opentrons robot, you need a still-rare breed of scientist, someone who's both relatively competent at programming and also talented at the bench. This kind of person will become more and more common, but they are currently hard to find. Meanwhile, opentrons is working hard to lower the programming barrier-to-entry, but they're a ways off still.
Because the first step in the law recognizing something has rights is first realizing they have interests to be protected.
Side note to your main point: the IP issues around GMOs are little different than the IP issues around other types of agritech, so I don't think it's a huge concern.

Governments and non profits are free to make GMOs that are available to all without IP issues, too, as has been done with golden rice.
>and there was no devaluation of the dollar against foreign currencies.

There was certainly a strong over-valuation of the economic entities whose bonds the ECB bought (I think the Fed did a similar thing, not 100% sure as I live in Europe and I follow ECB's policies more closely). Had the ECB not bought those bonds then maybe the Chinese companies would have been able to buy even more stuff in Europe, as things stood they were only able to purchase the Piraeus port (because the Greeks were basically in default) and some other lesser assets. That's still economic protectionism.
From the sounds of it, Monzo was/is using customer (card) PINs as a security passcode within their app itself. Hence on 2 operations in the app (cancelling a standing order, and getting a reminder of your card number), it was being logged due to a misconfiguration.

I was of the understanding that it was accepted best practice for a bank to never use the user's card PIN anywhere except card authentication, for this very reason (and even then, to handle it particularly carefully).

It seems that treating the PIN as a general authentication factor within the app might well be convenient for users (only 1 PIN to remember), but then this exposes their card PIN as seen here (which is used to prove you authorized a transaction yourself). The notion the PIN itself was stored in a secure part of the system to "control which staff members could access them" is at odds with how banks used to handle PINs - which is that no staff can see them, and they're held in hardware security modules, which validate encrypted incoming PINs and say "yes" or "no".

Some of the banks use SRP-like setups for app-based credentials - I've seen some clever symmetric hash-based implementations of a challenge response protocol that can be backed by a HSM - low entropy credential info (3 characters from a password) is hashed together with a session salt (presumably) generated by the HSM, and the hash is sent to the HSM, which can say "yes" or "no".

For debit card PINs, the bank needs the ability to verify the PIN, for ATM or magnetic stripe online authentication transactions I believe, but this could again be handled by HSM. Not sure why they were using card PINs as a generic password, and storing them at all retrievably by staff. I wonder if this is complaint with best practice in banking?
Doesn’t seem very scalable. Maybe you can knock over 10x as many houses in a night as a normal criminal. Normal criminals are 1000x (at least) more numerous, so it’s not a big increase in the threat.
Given the huge overhang of real-world testing which vests in public health, I still beleive the best model for biotech in medicine and agribusiness is NOT the private sector, but I suspect I'm an outlier, if not actually a sole believer here.
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
He already has that power, and used it in signing FOSTA/SESTA. No use making slippery slope arguments when you're not at the top.
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> US can barely put sanctions on Iran as of now and the rest of the world is hesitant to follow.

The US has crushed the Iranian economy. What are you talking about? Have you seen the collapse of their economy since the US left the nuclear deal and began pursuing sanctions? Have you seen the extreme inflation rate, the plunge in their currency, the plunge in their oil exports, and their increasingly wild behavior?

If entirely crushing their economy equates to barely, what would be a successful version of sanctioning Iran?

Apr 2019 "Iran inflation could reach 40 percent this year as economy shrinks further"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-economy-imf/iran-inf...

Apr 2019 "Trump's maximum pressure campaign hammers Iranian economy"

"The World Bank predicted in an April report that the Iranian economy would "contract sharply," and it expects GDP to shrink by 3.8% in 2019 on the back of U.S. sanctions."

"Iran's currency, the rial, lost more than 60% of its value compared to the U.S. dollar last year, and inflation surged fourfold to an estimated rate of more than 40% by the end of 2018. (In 2019, the Central Bank of Iran has stopped publishing inflation data, leading some analysts to believe that the rate has kept rising beyond 40%.)"

https://www.axios.com/iran-economy-trump-sanctions-irgcc-0a8...

Apr 2019 "Iran's Latest Inflation Figure Tops 50 Percent - Food Prices Jump 85 Percent"

https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-s-latest-monthly-inflation-...
Third parties have been selling at physical Walmart stores beside store brands for decades. The same with every drug chain.
Well, it depends.

Paris is a bit special, it's not a city which kept a lot of its medieval layout heritage thanks to Napoleon III and Hausmann. You have a lot of Boulevard which are quite large and decently arranged.

As for commuting, it depends also. Basically, the subway is exceptionally dense within Paris (keep in mind that Paris, as an administrative entity is actually very small and dense, roughly 10km in diameter, and you have a station every 500 meters or so in any direction within it).
As for the Paris area, the regional trains (RER) are roughly in a star pattern, with the crossing point between the lines in the center of Paris (Chatelet).

All that means that if you live withing Paris, you can easily go anywhere in Paris, but also in most of the Paris area in roughly 1 hour max.
If you are in the suburbs and work within Paris, it's pretty much the same.
However, if you are in the suburbs, and work in the suburbs, then, it tends to suck, because if you are unlucky, you have to go from your home "suburb" to Paris and then from Paris to your "work" suburb which can be a huge detour.

As an example, I used to live southeast of Paris (Evry), and work in the southwest of Paris (Clamart), in that configuration using a car was the only viable option, and the few times I didn't have my car, taking the transports meant 4 to 5 hours commuting every day. Typically, I drove around 25000km per year in these years.

Then I moved within Paris, and my car became far less useful, I went for 25000km a year to 3000km a year because the public transports became a viable option.

And lately my job got closer to Paris, so I finally sold my car without replacing it.

As for traffic, the roads are not that bad, and there are quite a lot of rings/partial rings, (Peripherique near Paris, in place of the old city walls from the XIXth century, A86 about 10/15km from the center, and the A104/n104/n118 20/30km away from the center, and quite a few highways radiating from the Peripherique (A13, A6, A1, etc). But it's not enough and there are a lot of traffic jams. As an example, the 40km commute when I lived in the suburbs was taking me ~30 minutes without traffic jams, but typically it was taking me ~1 hour and in some cases, with an accident for example, even 2 hours.

Also, a lot of people tend to live in the east of Paris, where housing is a bit cheaper (like almost every European city in fact, the dominant winds pushing smokes and bad smells west to east). But you have more activities in the West, the biggest being La Defense (business district just west of Paris). Which means a lot of long commutes for these people.

So it really depends on your situation.

On last point that is interesting to note: I grew-up outside of Paris, passing your driving license between 18 and 20 years old is considered normal in such cases. When I started studying in Paris, I was a bit surprised to learn that a good portion of the students native from Paris don't even learn how to drive, or do so much, much, much later.
I think it depends. If the age is being used to promote ageism, then this is not good. If however, the age is used to encourage young people to start businesses, that's positive. So... context and tone?
paradox of tolerance.
Are we talking hypothetically? Because as of right now I cannot find any stats on burqa attacks in the states but people are robbing 7-11 stores every day without burqa anyways.
Isn't being able to manipulate their currencies exactly the reason countries maintain currencies of their own? Don't other countries like Japan and the USA manipulate their currencies routinely?
> The USD has risen against pretty much every major currency in the past several years.

And would have risen more without QE.
Adidas uses it on yeezy releases when you stand in queue on each page refresh.

Can't think of a "normal" website using it.
You think if Hong Kongers had cars it would save their city from being taken by the Chinese Communist Party?
> [Interoperability between all banks has] been one of the arguments for blockchain-based payment systems like Facebook's (FB) Libra, which would circumvent the need for third-party payment settlement. During two Congressional hearings on Libra last month, some lawmakers called on the Fed to create a real-time payment system itself rather than having to rely on a network developed by Facebook.

It's a reminder that blockchain solutions aren't as useful if there actually is a trusted central entity, upon whose sterling reputation the global economy relies in the first place, to record transactions. And it does speak to a mission to regulate and facilitate interstate commerce. If they get the branding and execution right this could be huge for enabling micro-entrepreneurship. Of course, they won't get it right, but one can dream.
http://archive.is/eUpyE
Dust in a lens isn't a big problem. It really doesn't effect the image quality [1]. They had another tear-down to remove a fly from Canon 70-200mm [2], and it didn't make difference until stopped down.

1: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2011/08/the-apocalypse-of-l...
2: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/04/removing-fly-from-w...
When I lived for 4 years in Barcelona I didn't have a car and I lived pretty far from the city center (Horta). I only missed it when I went to the Ikea of Badalona.
Aside from the misspelling, it was because I didn't want to look up how to escape italics.
Some bottom feeder stole my personal domain after I let it lapse and is now literally holding it hostage for $6000 last I checked. http://sergiotapia.me/

I just bought sergio.dev, the squatter can choke on my old domain.
But aren’t you kind of making the opposite point? While Amazon wouldn’t sell AppleTVs and Chromecasts, neither Apple nor Google had any trouble reaching customers. If Amazon was a monopoly that wouldn’t be the case.

Apple also sells third party hardware on their site. Should they be forced to sell Dells besides their Macs?
He is looking after number #1 and the rest is flim-flam.

Because his sexuality got drawn into the debate by some opportunistic fools, he has secured significant sway in communities who believe its sacred-private, and sailed under the radar into law, and won. That empowered him as "he can win" which attracted Trump amongst others.

He has echoes of Bezos: whatever he wants, is justified because he wants it. This is bankable around the table of $b people who are tired of being lectured by Actors at Davos.
This argument is far too loose to have any bite. You mention urban displacement and gentrification, but this has only happened in certain cities (downtown Kankakee certainly isn't gentrifying the same way that San Francisco is). You mention inefficient bus routes and link to an anecdote from LA, one of the most sprawl heavy, auto-friendly, and challenging metro environments for transit in the entire US. Gentrification and transit can be intertwined issues, but these sorts of hand-wavy accusations are more injurious to the discussion than helpful.
It takes more than “a significant share.” Being excluded from Walmart blocks you from a significant share of retail sales but they’re not a monopoly.

If the argument is that Amazon might become a monopoly in coming years, I can totally see that. But I don’t see how it is one now.
FedACH is already widely used- this makes perfect sense. All US Banks are part of the Federal Reserve system, so it makes sense for the FRB (which is the entity being discuessed here) to drive this with the help of each Federal Reserve branch.
How about Bitcoin? Does it get a pass for distributing CP? (Since IIRC there's some embedded in the blockchain)
Nobody denies property rights to CF and Voxility. At the same time, both companies went into the contract with the site in question. Did said site violate the contract? From my reading of the situation, no. "Contract obligations for me but not for thee?"

And to be clear: I do think that companies have capacity to terminate contracts, however, there either should be clear violation of ToS, or court's decision behind that. Neither seem to have had happened in this case.
Well I appreciate these interview loops because at least they are still far more objective than big company promo processes when whoever lies the most and forces others to do their dirty work gets promoted.
I do wish the interview process was even more objective, just administer and extremely difficult IQ Test instead.
But what happens to all that cash they would use to buy the treasuries with? Where is that $1.1 trillion going to flow into?
Apparently David Perell is a mind reader... He's never Met Peter Thiel, didn't ask Peter Thiel yet seems to know what Peter Thiel thinks.

This is a nothing burger of a story.. a waste of pixels.
One thing that’s commonly true in statistics: You don’t need a very big sample size to get an accurate representation of a population. I’m willing to bet you could get away with meeting 1,000, well chosen people, and get an accurate sample of society.

If you think about it, people aren’t all that unique. Most people share the same personality, same hobbies, same interests and problems in life. Most of the things in life we think apply to us (for example navigating romantic relationships) are just common patterns that are repeated over and over again with millions of people. In fact we’re all a lot less special than we think we are.
There are alot of places where you can't really get to TPB without Tor.
Inflation isn't global, it can easily happen in economic sectors that exclude the vast majority of the population.
> I didn't know where to find a recaptcha so I went to the demo page.

Well, now you do (though I was a bit of an asshat in my parent comment, sorry about that):

> Even doing a simple Google search with Tor Browser usually gives you a reCAPTCHA to solve.

You can get the Tor Browser from [1].

[1]: https://www.torproject.org/
> It's just giving false hope to US industries which no longer have a competitive advantage in the world market... long enough to last through the next presidential election.

I can see that. He doesn't care what really happens in the world as long as he can win the election.
I could be wrong but I don't think buying US treasuries would directly increase wealth inequality, since the money is being used to fund the US government. If the Fed bought other more private assets off the market (which I believe it does) then yes it could increase wealth inequality