skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China reformed their currency. See the historical exchange rate for RMB: https://www.macrotrends.net/2575/us-dollar-yuan-exchange-rat...

It went from 6 RMB/dollar to just less than 9 overnight. It was basically a crazy rate (no one would use that rate unless forced) before the reform.

Before that there was even a dual system of foreigner money and local money, only foreigner yuan could be used at the friendship department store...it would have been cool to visit China before 1994.
Is it really possible to change the value of a currency without constantly spending money on keeping it away from equilibrium? What I'm saying is, isn't it like extending a spring, where it's always going to go back to its natural state whenever you release it?
Simply purchase your single-generation seed from Monsanto at exploitative prices, and you can continue to subsist without major nutritional deficiencies.
In essence, the company pays third worlders a pittance to transfer humanity's skills to the machine. The skill transfer is limited to what can be done with a mouse and screen, but since that's where most human ability is currently manifested, it's hardly a limitation. What happens to the serfs once the transfer is complete? Do they realize they are exchanging temporary wages for eternal futility?

I like how the investors rationalized this devil's deal and the usurpation of the poor: "If you could be pulling a rickshaw or labeling data in an air-conditioned internet café, the latter is a better job."
> "But the point is: who's to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong?"

I address this. In fact, I explicitly say I agree. No one can be trusted to make that judgment. Hence, the need for a system that doesn't place absolute trust in anyone.

> "we want a system such that [...]" [...] I wouldn't really say this is guaranteed either

What? You wouldn't say what is guaranteed? You wouldn't say it's guaranteed that we want such a system?
I've been following this project and developing for it for some time now. While it's been slow to develop, I think the combination of Linked Data and decentralization is the best way forward. Many LD schemas are widely used, and now with DIDs the Web can be joined with blockchain and other approaches to make private, trustworthy systems with self-describing data and information designed for reuse and actual AI algorithms.

Here are a couple of useful links http://computingjoy.com/blog/2016/09/26/understanding-linked...

https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-f...
And for context:

https://i.imgur.com/NpvySvG.jpg (Pewdiepie)

(It's edgy humor/let kids play on their skateboard)
I guess this opens up a market opportunity for an easy to use video group chat with a youtube integration.
“Homophobia” is a term adopted for bigotry against homosexuals, not fear of homosexuals (“-phobia” in general does not mean exclusively fear, though that's the most common single-word interpretation.) Homophobia and transphobia denote the same attitude toward gay and trans people, respectively, that misogyny denotes toward women, despite the fact that th prefix “mis-” and the suffix “-phobia” aren't exactly equivalent in range of meaning.

But, yeah, that's been an argument by homophobes to argue that their homophobia isn't homophobia for decades, and even if it wasn't ignorant of the general use of tg suffix, it would still only be an argument that the word “homophobia” was a sui generis idiom rather than an obvious combination of it's etymological components (which it arguably is anyway, since “homo-” is short for “homosexual” rather than being a normal use of the prefix), rather than an actual argument against what they exhibit actually being what is denoted by the term.
The Superblock. This is what makes the these cities so comfortable to live in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block#Superblock
There's nothing new in the markets. Tech is the new Nifty-Fifty:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty

Are those companies bad? Probably no. Will they plunge and be available at a steep discount? Quite likely.
Well, you could just never release it, making it basically illiquid. Venezuela and Zimbabwe of recent come to mind...
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Netherlands just banned the Burkha in public spaces for this reason (among others).

In Australia bike helmets are banned in 7-11, Fuel stations, Banks, Pubs, Casino's, Festivals etc for the same reason.

The point I am making is that you can't ignore the possibility of bad actors now or in the future. There are layers of cultural differences and social mores and in a multicultural society you can't just import one aspect of a culture without considering the foundations and layers on top.
How did I miss that? Interesting. So, that makes today's announcement still significant, but not unprecedented. We will see if the response is similar to last time.
Also, despite not technically being a governmental operation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface, from India.
CDNs protect against DDOS by distributing request handling over a wide geographical area, filtering suspicious requests, and caching responses to avoid hammering the origin server.

Cloudflare offers all of that as a service: https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

You can reduce the effectiveness of DDOS in other ways, but there's only so much you can do when you're limited to a few servers with limited bandwidth. Ultimately the only way to weather a large, brute force DDOS is by having enough capacity to service all incoming requests, which is something a CDN helps provide.
> And would have risen more without QE.

And risen even more than that if they had started destroying currency. But the usual target for a currency is value stability with other major currencies, and "devaluation" means that its value goes down compared to most other currencies.

It's completely normal (and basically required to prevent deflation) to create some new currency during normal (i.e. growth) times to provide more currency to use for the increasing number of transactions.
> "...but only one of them would see its financial system collapse."

Unless that is an absolute certainty then and this is a game of high stakes chicken, then I would say the USA has more to lose.

While China has certainly developed in the last couple decades they are still relatively used to living with less. On the other hand, Ameicans lose their minds when Facebook goes down for an hour.

That is, there would be bedlam in the USA. China much less so.
But a police officer can stop your car _right now_ if your passenger-side taillight is broken and then search your vehicle for a variety of things. So many marijuana related arrests have happened exactly this way. With license plate scanners and chips being embedded into cars, the ability to be pervasively tracked in a car is more apparent than ever. In contrast, walking or biking doesn't require registration or licensing by the government.

(As silly as I thought the movie was, the protagonist of the first Jack Reacher movie took the bus everywhere specifically so the government had no records on him, so the idea certainly isn't lost in popular culture either.)
Timely. Not very relevant, but I just sold a domain I've owned for 5 years after being contacted by GoDaddy's brokerage service about an interested buyer.

It was actually cathartic for me -- not only did I realize that I may seem like the squatter to someone else in this situation, but it forced me to come to terms with the fact that I won't be working on that idea, ever.
Speaker Pelosi married into money, so no need to "wonder" (or throw baseless allegations around)
Hopefully Canada next and no, Interac isn't an equivalent service.
I generally agree with your opinion about freedom of speech in meatspace. It's more or less been the status quo (at least ideally) in the US.

But TFA is about the Internet. And that's a very different thing. It's hugely unstable, and vulnerable to compromise by nation states and commercial interests.

So given that, I remain convinced that freedom of speech on the Internet depends fundamentally on technology that resists censorship. That's been the official US position regarding censorship in China etc. The US promotes Tor, and has also funded VPN services, such as Anonymizer. So I see no reason to carve exceptions.

Edit: spelling
I would rather check Canada first. Canada is better (although colder). That's a pity Canada doesn't conduct diversity visa lotteries.
This is my concern. If you can only partially trust the science journals because the science is faulty, what “science” can you trust? ... unless you attempt replicate every piece of research yourself?
Yep, they've trained my neuronet that they always show the images in a 3-2-1 or a 3-1-1 sequence, so now even if shows me something weird, I know I need to select the number of most likely things they want me to. This way I almost always finish it on first try.
Well, America’s QE caused everyone else to do QE as well. The RMB because stronger in that period because China was less interested in doing QE at the time.
To me funding biotech startups seems like pouring gasoline on a fire that we should be putting out.

Our divorce from Nature is perhaps the deepest epistemological problem facing us today.

Biotech is more of the same.

"I and Thou" by Martin Buber talks about the difference between what he calls "I-It" and "I-Thou". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou

We treat the rest of the living world like things that we can use and dispose of as we see fit. We adopt an "I-It" stance to the living world around us only to discover that we are lonely and fundamentally dissatisfied, unhappy, unhealthy, plagued by disease, and rapidly destroying ourselves. It doesn't have to be this way. We can recover our "I-Thou" relationship with Nature.

You can talk to life.

It's not difficult. You don't need any technology at all to do it. You don't need any investment money.

You can literally communicate with other living things (and your own tissues†), exchange information, make arrangements, etc. At that point it's really easy to e.g. grow all your food and medicine in a garden. (Economically, of course, this would be radically disruptive at scale.) For example, they have never made a big deal about it but that's how Findhorn Garden started: they were (and still are) communicating with Nature Spirits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Ecovillage

Folks like Dr. Levine are filling in the scientific story for this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700328

But the actual "protocols" or "algorithms" to learn to communicate with other living beings are very simple and require no technology.

So, can I start a startup? Of course not, there's no money in it. In fact, if more people would do what I do much of the economy would evaporate.

- - - -

FWIW, I'm in San Francisco. If anyone reading this wants to meet up and learn about bio-telepathy and accelerated healing and stuff let me know.

†The other day I burned my thumb taking a pan out of the oven. When I stopped hopping around I communicated with the tissues in my thumb to "shape" or "guide" the healing response, with the result that the pain went away and didn't come back and the burn healed rapidly without leaving a scar. This is not a surprising or unusual event in my life. (Burning myself was unusual, I'm usually pretty careful.) Accelerated healing without pain is trivial if you know how.
> That implies having feasible alternatives when there are none.

No alternatives to Google or Twitter? What?

Just because you don't like the venue or the service in no way makes them "infeasible". Just because you can't as effectively promote your cause doesn't make them "infeasible". There are other search engines besides Google, and there are other social media platforms besides Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit.

Any suggestion that a private company should be forced to broadcast speech that it finds distasteful is a direct affront to the 1st amendment, full stop.

8chan being denied access to another company's resources is in no way a free speech issue. In reality, 8chan's ideas are losing in the "marketplace of ideas" and now we have people who suggest government intervention to give their points of view a leg up.
And I'd like to know what your standards are so I don't waste my time selecting and offering sources only to have them dismissed because you consider them deficient.

Since you already incline to the view that such assertions are delusional and employ a common political trope to characterize such delusions, I feel nagging doubts about your purported open-mindedness. Discussions like this generally devolve into pedantic quibbling which would be a waste of both your time and mine.
"Runs happen when depositors stop trusting the numbers created by a specific bank because they don’t think the bank will meet its reserve requirement at the end of the day."

I don't think that makes any sense as a categorical statement.

If a bank is short of reserves, but is solvent, then there's no need to panic. Or if it's insolvent, but you know the FDIC will make you whole. The case where you rationally try to get your money out before other people is when you either know that there will not be enough in total assets for everyone in the long run, or you cannot afford to wait for a liquidity crisis to be over.
It means the Trump family will make a bunch of money on the volatility, and the US will capitulate in a few months.
Without an SLA it's just a different label on the same package.

Sigh

Without an SLA it's just a different label on the same package.

The whole point is that the service isn't crap. You have a separate telephone number for business support, where even the first-line support people are helpful.

And your static IP also comes from a different subnet in many/most cases, one that tends to stay off the radar of bottom-feeding copyright trolls.
Seconded, and it sends a great signal to the market that people value privacy. With actual money.
I don't know how much influence Germany really has with the negative interest rate that's screwing them more than anyone else in EU.
That's not its unified mission. I don't hear the BDS movement speaking out that much against suicide bomb attacks on civilians either, but that doesn't automatically delegitimize all of their arguments about the Israeli occupation.
Possibly, I may be confused between simply buying treasuries, and quantitative easing. Still learning!
He mentioned this. He wanted to do something that was detached from sales as it cheapened the experience.
I think it will be easier to identify pricing problems with Uber than the 50+ different taxi markets. Uber and Lyft can adjust prices quite easily, while taxi markets require local regulators to approve changes.

There’s also an issue that theoretically Uber and Lyft compete, where in every city in the US, pretty much, taxis don’t compete on price once it is set for a market.

Uber/Lyft might start having anti-consumer prices once they kill all the taxis, but I think they will be subject to closer scrutiny than trying to take on local taxis.
I don’t understand this argument.
Can’t the Chinese buy a LOT of influence, real estate, and US properties with all the dollars? Why is printing money “free”?
How is this not either hyperinflation on one end or just regular currency value on the other. On one end it hurts the issuing country, on the other it’s mutually beneficial. How does printed-paper for goods fit into that spectrum.

I truly can’t wrap my head around this argument: been on the back of my head since I heard I think Peter Thiel say it (iirc.)
IIRC Japan does this as well
Because they no longer get a massive cut?
Allowing "Voice" internally is a pressure release valve that is also stated inside the company as mentioned, so maybe issues can be fixed.

In a way it is a bit like some democracy in a company rather than the usual authoritarian/dictatorial workplaces we have where usually dissent and opinions against the borg direction is stifled and attacked by the vogons.

Democracy is also a pressure release valve that looks messy but doesn't blow up like authoritarianism does eventually. Better to let the proles, sharecroppers, and feudal peasants have their airing of grievances, fix if you can, if not find ways to route around the issues.
Just be aware of those tram tracks riding your bike into them can be deadly. At least in Amsterdam
I can certainly understand some rural reservations and concerns.

I live in a suburban area where outside commuter type service there is no mass transit into the city.

So as the city restricts parking I worry about accessibility. Park and rides are also usually a commuter hours only option too.
Mosques have a responsibility to reject extremism and report dangerous individuals to the FBI. And they do: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant

A mosque in America that openly fostered extremism like 8chan did would of course get shut down.
That didn’t work for taxis.
Humane constant surveillance is an oxymoron. Surveillance has a chilling effect on even just developing as thinking person, so, if you accept the premise (for which there is no actual hard reason), you can have a humane system, maybe, but no humans in it.

Even good thoughts sometimes require incubation in private. Mass surveillance restricts learning, communication, and down the road thinking, to such a degree, it's like outlawing books with more than 10 pages. Humans as we cherish them today -- ones with agency and spontaneity -- cannot exist in such conditions, meaningful social progress will stop.
Daytona: Secrets Injection Fast and Secure
Thank you! I thought I must be missing something.
https://outline.com/hrKMMW
I disagree with you, I don't think that a disclaimer here is necessary. The fact that he works for a company operating in a space relevant to the article does not mean that he needs to disclose that explicitly.
Python does support multithreading. The only thing the GIL does is prevent you from simultaneously running python code in more than one thread. You can still use threads to do io in parallel or to help interleave CPU tasks.
I think that’s a completely different issue from ops concern regarding not turning a profit.
Thats not a monopoly. Thats.. common business sense? I mean even local stores price lower than competitors as a strategy! The fact that there is competitors to all these companies goes to show it isn't a monopoly.
The Nifty Fifty stocks of the 60s and 70s
Japan is an interesting example.

But aren't they the essence of a highly educated society that exactly because of it's neurotic and academic cutoff from their bodies or the "dionysian" undergrowth explode in fetichization of sexuality, infantile fantasies and strict codes of conduct for the forever peter-pan like mind, slaving away as salary men, getting teenage drunk in the weekends with the boss and then have no guts to ask the girl of their dreams out because they have lost all of their mirror neurons to screen culture?

They did this because of escapism from and as a reaction to the extreme horrors of war so i understand why - but i mean suicides, extremely low birthrates, and lots of problems with guys that lack social skills doesn't seem like a healthy society to me - even though i do enjoy both Japan and their cute iconogrophy so i am somewhat infatuated.

What is very interesting though is that cute-culture flips 180 from being a simple or infantile in Japan exactly because it shows restraint! Restraint from the violence that created the horrors of war, so in that light it's pretty understandable. It's actually sophisticated as a reaction in their cultural context, but not in the US because they haven't been glassed involuntarily.

Not that the vapid gung-ho fantasy of the US is much better alternative but it makes sense as a military superpower and as an extension of settler culture.

In that light Japan is the clever little brother that holds his teddy bear tightly while the US is the big bully - but both societies have high levels of infantilization, in the US it's just through mass-media and a culture of extreme convenience.

Point being that both of these are unhealthy, and a return to living closer to nature, or biology or whatever, as an antidote to both climate collapse and bodily neurosis, depression and anxiety will probably also lead to a world where "cuteness" is just a part of nature, and not an object of fetizhization, just like the US fetishises guns, or Germany does Industry.

All functions of geopolitical games that create pathologies for whole societies.

But also ultimately as functions of extreme wealth and a lifestyle where there is even time or space to fetishise anything beyond "nature".

Then again we are on Hackernews the epitome of an apollonian realm and i am also in part spawned from the internet. Maybe the antidote is to try to survive in the woods then travel in third world countries and lastly farm the land for a few years before returning to internet-world as an antidote to Technological Society. (that's going to happen)

Will i be able to enjoy cute kittens after that, will they elicit any dopamine, or will i just club and eat them? I have no idea.
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Question about tech choices for app dev on android
Hi all,

I have an idea or two for simple and useful android apps, honestly they have been done before. I am looking a doing them as a learning experience for mobile app dev. Flutter looks really cool to me, I do have an attraction to shiny things that don't always work out. I am aware of other options java/kotan and typescript/javascript/framework. It is not a very informed view. I am thinking about TS as potnetially the quickest path to done and a marketable skill. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Thanks,

M
If you let it lapse, is "stole" a bit strong? I'd think "stole" would be getting your login/email and transferring the domain away while you had it registered?
The American Constitution argues free speech is a human right, not granted to us by government, but by nature. Even if some all-seeing deity could build a more optimal society by restricting the free speech of some group, this would be a moral wrong because all humans have an inherent right to free speech.

Ultimately this isn't very relevant because right to free speech does not mean a right to web hosting infrastructure. But I agree with the Founders; regardless of whether it builds a more/less optimal society, government cannot and should not infringe upon our natural right to free speech. In particular, it protects us from jumping from your hypothesis (that unchecked free speech motivated a mass killing that would have not otherwise happened, which I give a 60-70% probability of being true) to an ironclad law forever removing some liberties from the citizenry.