skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to read this with an eye on current global macroeconomic conditions.

The dollar is significantly overvalued today, a result of its status as the global reserve currency. And the consequences of that are all the same ones mentioned for the pound in the article. The U.S. has been running a large current account deficit since 1980: we import more than we export. Our jobs are moving overseas, because it doesn't make sense to employ Americans at the wages they demand, because the wages they demand are artificially inflated by the overvalued dollar they're paid in. We need to keep interest rates high relative to peer countries to maintain the dollar's reserve status. We insist - through foreign diplomacy if possible and military intervention if not - that oil-producing companies price their oil in dollars, creating demand for dollars that would otherwise flow through other currencies. And all of this has been widely reported for the last couple decades.

The U.S. has stated that they're committed to defending the dollar as the world's reserve currency. What happens when they can't, and the collective weight of the market is more than a national government can prop up?
Progressives of the past were all about the principle of free speech. Now that they have the power to control the public space, all they seem to care about are the technicalities of the first amendment.

Arguments like that in the comic revel in enforcing groupthink because the author thinks it will be used in a way he finds favorable. If you take a step back, it’s obvious that every censorious organization has very strong reasons for silencing badthinkers, and they use the same type of self-righteous language when justifying it. Just look at how The Chinese government talks about Hong Kong.

edit: Point being, either you uphold the principle of free speech, as argued in the linked article, or you end up with those who control the platforms dictating their own worldview. They will always come up with some smug justification for why society will fall apart if they don’t, and anyone who’s silenced deserves it anyway.
I think this will be the third time Robinhood has to address something that happened by way of /r/wallstreetbets...
"Meritocracy" itself is a fraught concept:

Although the concept of meritocracy has existed for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1958 by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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I live in a city with streetcars with dedicated lanes. They constantly stop and honk at cars that are illegally blocking the dedicated streetcar lane.

There are also "bus only" lanes, except the buses can go around blockages sometimes.
Regulation doesn't need to apply equally across platforms. Regs could be made to kick in at certain sizes of users, or other quantifiable measures of impact and revenue and views.

...kind of like we do in lots of other places, like taxes. It isn't a wild idea, but this author forgets.
As a Denverite I was pleasantly surprised to see the Sun on HN. I did sort of wonder why Backcountry Delicatessen suddenly changed their name to Yampa (yuck) last year, and the article acknowledges the change states the owner was never contacted by backcountry.com. So at least they didn’t cause that monstrosity.

Still, I think I’ve ordered things from them before, but never again.
Those sorts of maybes don't really matter. "Please don't be a dick" doesn't even work at the neighborhood kids level. It certainly doesn't work at the international finance level.

The Bank of England propped up the currency in a non-sustainable fashion, and spent billions trying to avoid having to admit that was a bad call. Someone was always going to come along and smash it, especially with billions of dollars of upside available.
From my observation, even the largest GPT-2 model has difficulty retaining any long-range relationship information. In the "unicorn" writing example that was published originally, the model 'forgets' where the researchers are (climbing a mountain versus being beside a lake iirc) after just a few sentences.
Because of this, it's hard to imagine models of this type being able to write long-form coherent papers.
Now if we could somehow constrain the generated text to conform to a predefined graph structure that isn't forgotten so quickly...
I honestly tried to shop at Dick's, about a decade ago. (I have spent lots of money at e.g. REI [although I haven't lived near one recently] and Bass Pro in the past .) At Dick's, if I ever had a particular item in mind or a question about an item they did sell, whether that was for hunting, cycling, kayaking/canoeing, snowboarding, skating, whatever: I was always disappointed. So far as I can tell it exists mostly to sell high-marketing-spend branded athleisure apparel. Their recent public stand against 2A and the resulting drop in sales would fit with that...
Fake news. They've been warning of a climate emergency since the 90s. Completely useless! All they want is to milk the government for more money.
That's really helpful, I'll think about how to reword this. We covered calculus physics in Lebanon which uses the French Baccalaureate program so was making some non global assumptions.
It's not "sick of politics," it's "sick of those who seek to insert politics into every facet of life."

For those of us who go to work to work, I'm tired of having activist co-workers engaging in political shilling.

Used to be that having politics was like having a penis, fine to have them. Just don't whip 'em out and shove 'em down my throat.
recently, seems, many, a lot of, very, completely, appears, most, far more likely, huge, could, some, may...

so that's

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+1 doi link provided

+1 doi points to the actual article
It's a damn shame that it's always the often-coined "alt-right" media sources that publish these findings - which then get dismissed by many because "oh they're not reputable, they post scam/sham articles all the time for attention, etc. etc. etc."

I know quite a few people that would jump on me for sharing a dailybeast link - while other, well known reputable news companies (like ABC!) hide the same stories from the general populace because it won't make them money.
It was a political choice. The idea was to avoid inflation and keep prices low for consumers. Of course the same action strangled exporters but they don't vote much...
If regulating a large bad actor ends up making it stronger, that is a sign that it needs to be broken up, not merely regulated.
Thank you both for your answers!
Gamers are an unforgiving bunch and this won't be forgotten any time soon. By now, you would think that the PR departments of these gaming companies would remember this.
This might be true but Es has to overcome the history of burning their users via breaking changes, perf and reliability.
People will migrate up to where the coast is. The North-Sea used to be inhatibed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland )
Cool project! This is something I've always been looking for. I'd love to contribute.
Can someone explain to me why that original source needs "an alternate set of line breaks"?

Why one set (vertical bar) is not enough?
Not necessarily. There are routes to social change (which the world is largely following but not nearly fast enough) in which the average family (average woman?) undergoes a voluntary, unsolicited reduction in fertility. These are the routes they mean when they discuss policies that "make family-planning services available to all people, remove barriers to their access and achieve full gender equity, including primary and secondary education as a global norm for all, especially girls and young women"
That’s not a reason. Give me a justification for why you think money should be worth more later. Because it would be sweet for you isn’t really compelling. I gave you a reason for inflation and your counter was “because I would be rich” - see if you can make a better case and if not, maybe reconsider your position.
ah . sourcecred looks cool, but the current solution sounds a bit like counting klocs.

congrats on the launch though, i'm really excited about incentivized cooperation without dedicated managers!
Sorry, by locally produced, I'm referring to (mostly) foodstuffs, additionally, local small retailers that were resellers.
If we are wanting to save the earth, then maybe instead of buying an $80k Tesla, people should buy a much cheaper Nissan Leaf (or ride a bike) and put all the money saved into carbon offsets.
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Or maybe after much research and some testing they conclude (correctly) that "blockchain is useless."
Yes, I realize that. I was merely addressing the first sentence: "Alexander Hamilton was against the Bill of Rights.... This famous xkcd comic explains why:"
No. As the report itself says, stabilizing the population (or slightly shrinking it) will help fight climate change, but that can be done very easily without "population control".

"make family-planning services available to all people, remove barriers to their access and achieve full gender equity, including primary and secondary education as a global norm for all, especially girls and young women [1]

Which makes sense! Rather than some sort of authoritarian China-esque policy of limiting children, just spread access to goods (like education, contraception and abortion) which allow people to control how many children they have.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6403/650
Yep. A few miles north of town. Beautiful area, mostly nice people. The few who are not are easy to avoid :)
I'm sure Netflix does this mainly just to obfuscate how shallow their catalog really is, but some of the bigger content platforms really have no excuse for taking away features as basic as filtering and sorting.
>Since yoga balls are made out of cheap plastic, it’s not a question of if the ball will pop, but when.

I don't get the feeling this author has much experience with yoga balls, or is just making a statement they want to believe is true and peddling it as fact.
I think you mean several miles. Which is why the PLSS grid looks like a checkerboard out west. Alternating sections for the public and the RR companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
> I'm confident on the startup I chose will grow big

Just a word from hard-earned experience here...

Most startups will fail and any options you get will be worthless. It's just a cold fact of life.

Be optimistic, be hopeful, be excited about the possible future of the startup you're in -- but do not arrange your life or plans so they depend on the success of the startup. It might be the next big thing for sure, but the odds are much larger that it won't.
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> I suspect Facebook’s longer term plans, were they to actually launch Libra, are to move to a permissionless proof-of-stake model much like the one used by Cosmos

It seems really naive to think that if FB were to get a foothold in the currency markets with a permissioned product that they would later on go against their own interests and transition to a permissionless alternative (not to mention the massive legal and technical hurdles that this transition would require)

...but I don't know why I'm arguing against Libra, it's such an all-around terrible product, I should just keep my mouth shut. Facebook is tarnishing the idea of a "corporatecoin" for the next few years and doing all of us a favor in the process.
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If one must pick either an expensive EV where the manufacturer is pouring the margins into expansion (factories, charging networks, etc) or a slightly cheaper, weak EV that is barely an effort (compared to their total manufacturing capacity), it's obvious which I would (and have) picked. Tesla invested over $400 million into a charging network so EV buyers could be confident about traveling with their cars, other manufacturers have not (VW's Electrify America is a requirement of their Dieselgate settlement with the US gov). Expensive Teslas (Roadster, S, X) helped deliver cheaper Teslas (you can get a Model 3 for $40k, within spitting distance of the average price of a new car).

The thesis is straightforward. People aren't going to stop driving outside of areas that have public transit (most of the US), therefore we must default to cars sticking around. EVs don't get cheaper unless battery manufacturing scales up. Cheaper batteries means cheaper EVs as well as energy storage (both utility scale and for the home). EVs and energy storage reduce fossil fuel consumption. Serious companies scale up their EV powertrain manufacturing. No manufacturer's actions have been as serious as Teslas. Carbon credits are fairly useless if you're not contributing to the rapid electrification of transportation, like a bandaid on a bleeding artery. Clean up the blood after you get the bleeding stopped.

Or buy that cheap Toyota while Toyota still flails trying to convince the world fuel cells (and the 35 or so hydrogen fueling stations in the US) are the future, while they continue to pump out 10 million internal combustion vehicles per year.
There's nothing wrong with that if that's the logic you want!
No, std::string definitely changed between c++11 and c++14. It could be an implementation detail between different libstdc++ versions for the g++ version that supported c++14, but the incompatibility was definitely there.
It turns out creating "good tests" isn't so easy. Generally tests suffer from one or more of the following: subjective grading, game-able question formats, or superficial coverage of the material.

Most tests administered by school teachers have very subjective grading. Basically every essay question has subjective grading, as do "show your work" math test questions. Multiple choice questions remove much of that subjectivity, but at the expense of a system that can often be gamed and often covers the subject matter in a superficial way.

If incentives are correctly aligned, tests with subjective grading can work reasonably well. But when tests taken by students are used to evaluate the performance of teachers, the incentives of the teachers align against you. For wide scale experimentation, you want a test that actually measures meaningful understanding of the subject matter and at the same time can be graded objectively and at the same time defies the attempts of students, teachers, and school administerators to subvert the results. That's basically the holy grail of tests.
> I consider it to be a gish gallop that bombards you with a bunch of negative claims, many of which are false or at best, specious.

Is it me or is this a common trope of blog posts that hit the top of HN?
There's nothing wrong with having a trigger that turns deletes into updates, if that's what you want. Why would you be surprised that you can do this, or that it's been done?

Your schema is an interface here, so read its docs!

EDIT: BTW, it's quite reasonable to have a policy to not delete, but mark deleted/terminated, rows in certain tables. This is especially important for security-relevant tables where the names of entities are liable to get written down in external (to the DB) ACLs. It's quite reasonable to implement such a policy in the DB as triggers -- indeed, there's no better way to do it, since otherwise a user who doesn't read the docs (like you) but does have privilege, might break the database.

So, actually, I really think you've completely misunderstood. What you thought was a problem was likely a solution to a bigger problem that you were not aware of. If you removed that trigger, you likely broke something. Meanwhile you're convinced triggers are a bad idea and spread that around as gospel.
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Envoy Mobile v0.2: Ready for Donuts
Envoy Mobile v0.2 now provides direct APIs for performing network requests through Envoy Proxy!

https://eng.lyft.com/envoy-mobile-v0-2-ready-for-donuts-a8aa852a900b
It's particularly surprising since the story references "rural food deserts" and cites the USDA "number living 10 miles from a grocer" statistic, but doesn't put 2 and 2 together. The USDA publishes that stat because of its food desert definition: "more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas, and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas".

Now, the USDA definition sound weirdly broad to me. I apparently grew up in a suburban 'food desert' which encompassed most of the town, including several extremely rich subdivisions. Since it was a suburb with practically no traffic or stoplights, that means "desert" applies to a ~15 minute walk or ~3 minute drive to the store. And in a town with brutal winters and minimal public transit, even the sub-poverty-line families outside that 1 mile radius completely relied on cars. So looking into this has made me more skeptical of "23.5M Americans live in food deserts".

(Ironically, people did what this story promotes: bought short-lifespan foods at the close store, and expensive or bulk goods >10 miles away. The USDA just needed to apply its rural definition to that suburb.)

But the USDA at least has the right idea: access is defined by time and effort, not distance. Time is fairly obvious; walking, public transit, and driving in traffic are all slower. More subtly, my experience living 20+ minutes from groceries in a rural and an urban setting is that it was much more pleasant with a car than on foot. With a car, you can freely get heavy or bulky stuff, stock up for longer, go after dark when you're tired, or shop in summer and winter without spoiled groceries or frostbite.

There's no way to write this story effectively without understanding that 10 miles can be 10 minutes, or that for farms outside these small towns everything is 10+ miles away. Hence the people in New Mexico saying that a grocer right in town is still less good than driving 45 miles to a better store: you're already planning major trips to get goods regardless.
Thanks for this rebuttal.

I'm by no means a fan of Facebook and Libra, but Diehls post felt far from frontpage worthy to me.

> Stephen Diehl doesn’t understand cryptography, but sure has a lot to say about it.

This is how I felt about the entire post, to be honest.

It felt like a consultant on a mission, who doesn't really understand the topic, only took a cursory glance at a project, and yet berates it extensively. All while sprinkling in some of his particular knowledge, giving a false sense of technical expertise.
> it would be very bad PR for people to start thinking that they can lose a lot more than they put into their accounts

LOL WAT? If you are using the margin feature of your brokerage account it should be implicit that you understand you will lose more money than you have. Many people have bankrupted even due to a temporary fluctuation in pricing causing margin calls. This is true even if you don't trade options, just less likely so.

Personally I trade options but I don't enable the margin feature on my account. Then the worst case scenario is I lose everything I put into the account; I wouldn't lose the money I didn't put in my account.
Maybe things are better now but in the past almost every new library I added to my projects required a lot of fiddling with headers , link options and other stuff. With C# this is so easy in comparison.
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I don't see a chicken-egg problem here at all. Please explain.
Seeing as he has to know that the cost of Lidar will continue to fall precipitously, I have to believe the only reason he is actually going all in on cameras only is because he has to be able to continue selling the fantasy that the Tesla you buy today will be fully autonomous with nothing more than a software update.
I've never had an apartment offer power at the parking lot. I couldn't buy a non-hybrid EV until a solid majority of them install that (either metered or on an indoor switch if I have an assigned space). Street parking is a harder problem.
Oh there are a lot of interest: otherwise these topics wouldn't appear on the front page. It's just that there aren't a lot to comment. What's the point of admitting we are screwed for the hundredth time?

Even "climate debate" has lost its appeal for me. The theater is on fire and we don't even know if there's an exit. I don't have the energy to argue with those saying the smell of smoke is entirely in our imagination.

If we want to get serious, it's time to metaphorically leave behind who's not on board, but then there's not much to debate any more.
Oddly enough, there's a chemical with proved hundred-million-year-plus storage capability for solar power, of the general form CnH2n+2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbon

Though in recent decades sourced from naturally-occurring reserves, a practice which raises both suffiency and unintended consequence concerns, these are also produced within the biosphere (though at levels insufficient to present or projected future levels of human consumption), and may be synthesized by artificial means from surplus electricity generation, or possibly, other forms of energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel
You couldn't pay me enough to climb on a Chinese-made belay device.
Every empire has created the conditions of its collapse.
I can highly recommend the children’s book Thanks to the Animals by Allen Sockabasin, a Passamaquoddy storyteller and historian

As a bonus the last couple pages of the book, after the story, tell some history of the tribe’s seasonal migration and the pronunciation of many of the animal names. It’s really great

https://www.tilburyhouse.com/product-page/thanks-to-the-anim...
You just reminded me: A friend of a friend who worked at Autodesk told me once that their inter-office "mail" system was international and didn't go through customs.
Data Acquisition Testlab Environment
Imagine you can build a brand new lab for electrical-functional testing, i.e. emc, temperatures, strains, system stability.

How would it look like from a software point of view?

I really want to get rid of Labview, Windows Licenses, driver dependencies.

Aiming to Linux, Python, SCPI.
One requirement is that it can be disconnect from www, so an offline server like WSUS for Linux should exist.

Measurement device commands and test script repository could be svn or git-based? And how to do software deployment? With tools like spacewalk?
Its crazy how at the time, people argued that since there was no power given in the constitution to do something, that it would never happen (i.e. writing down that speech was protected was unnecessary since there was no power to reulate it). Its interesting how the system has figured out the "loopholes" in the document and used it to essentially control everything that wasn't expressly forbidden (and even have power over those things to some degree -- e.g. weapons, speech, religion).

I guess it turned out Hamilton was partially right, since it has eventually been interpreted as an implicit right of the government to regulate everything not explicitly given as a right. But at the same time, I can imagine without the "protection" ammendments, we'd probably still have even more rules and regulations (I doubt implicit mention of powers was the instigating factor).
The flaw I care about most: The lack of transaction privacy.
I mean, generally I do not disagree, but that makes a lot of assumptions about depreciation rate, interest rate, and OpEx.
>That's not what I said. I said that merely creating a verified formal specification of a language is not in itself a good path to increasing correctness, and I wouldn't focus on that as a significant cause for concern given all others.

This seems to be poorly considered. Isn't it easier for an OS and a language to be verified once even at great cost than hoping future billions of lines of developer code already produced at lesser cost per line are actually correct?

https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/verified-so...