skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where there are no false pretences there is no fraud

It most certainly would constitute fraud if a bank were to issue gold certificates for more gold than it had claim to - whether allocated or unallocated.

What happens during a bank run has no relevance here. A bank run isn't caused by a bank issuing more loans than it has borrowed itself. It's caused by the mismatch between the nature of a bank's liabilities and assets. Much of its liabilities have short terms or even worse - deposit accounts can be demanded from the bank at any time - while their assets which are generally loans which are generally fixed term or at least not recallable at will by the bank.

A bank with $1B worth of depositors money could in theory suffer a bank run even if it has only lent out $1m while holding the other $999m in it's vaults. No excess lending required is required for this to happen.

> If this were true then the only money in circulation would be that created by the Central Bank. Far from accurate.

No, that's certainly not implied by the simple statement of fact that the amount of money a bank loans out is strictly less than the amount of money that the bank has borrowed from others, whether from depositors or other institutions.

The sum of the balances of deposit accounts in the banking system easily exceeds the amount of money created by central bank but that does not require banks to "lend out more than they've raised" - it's a simply a result of simple arithmetic and the fact that loans exist in the system.
> American politics oscillates between periods of conservative control and liberal control

Trump is not a conservative, and he's not enacting especially conservative policies.
Brave had great potential, but with most companies they need to find a way to profit. It's unfortunate that they were not up front and instead had options in which you can opt out. I am sure people would support Brave if they were more upfront and ethical about what they were doing.

Of course I'm only going to do me and not try to force my opinion, but I am going to uninstall it as doublespeak and then trying to cover your own ass only means for a future of more of the same.

It was a cool concept, but anything tied to profit and making people rich always has some trade off.
Yeah, I actually maintain such a list on my own site. I should update it more often though.

I think the biggest problem isn't so much find "hey, that's a cool article"-type of content, but typing in [programming concept] in Google. What I want to find is things like in-depth experiences and advice regarding this which complement the manual. What I actually find it loads of "howtos" with "copy this" which just rehash the manual.

Results vary a bit depending on [programming concept], and I don't think simple "getting started with"-articles are completely useless either. But generally speaking, there are too many of them, many of them are not of high quality, and it obscures more in-depth content.

I'm not sure if maintaining a list of links would really solve that. Perhaps community projects like "awesome-foo"-lists have some potential here, but in practice I've found many of them to be dumping grounds rather than carefully curated.
Yeah, that was my point :)

I should have added /s. Sarcasm doesn't always translate well to text.
The parent post said “once it is no longer encrypted”, implying that zoom is encrypted today.
> we should research a new technology before deploying it to humans at an unprecedented scale.

5G is an industry marketing term, not some fundamental redefining of physics. Nothing about emission of radio waves is some new or unknowable phenomenon that requires more research to understand. If you're suggesting otherwise, the burden of providing even a mildly plausible hypothesis is on you, not just "I dont understand this, therefore maybe it is bad".
Fruition (https://fruitionsite.com) - Build your next website or blog with Notion, for free.

Notion has taken over the tech/design industry by a storm, and many people have used it to create web pages. However, Notion doesn’t allow custom domain and the page URL contains a long uuid (for example: https://www.notion.so/The-Beauty-of-Notion-4663b221fd154c07b...)

I built Fruition to solve exactly that. You can use a custom domain and add pretty URL slugs like https://fruitionsite.com/showcase. You can also add custom font and scripts like Google Analytics. It’s all free and open source.

I shared this on a couple of Notion communities a month ago, and 30000 people have checked it out since. Hundreds of sites have been built with Notion and Fruition.
Personal confession - I've been building something for more than a year. I hope to finally release it before the end of the year, although FYI I pushed back the release date multiple times.

When I started coding I was disciplined and organized, writing tests, etc. And as time has passed I've had to sacrifice those guiding principles. At some point changes to UX and logic to provide a better user experience has taken higher priority to well tested code. I've changed and modified things so frequently that the tests I wrote would break. There are tests I wrote for code that is no longer in my code base. It felt like a complete waste.

If you have a clear vision of your MVP, or you have a designer giving you requirements and wireframes, or you know exactly what you want when you start out early on (waterfall?) maybe you can stay true to all these well established and proven software development principles.

But if you are flying by the seat of your pants and figuring out as you write code I'm not so sure doing all the right things should be your first priority. I feel that building you MDP - minimum DELIGHTFUL product - may be more important than building the MVP. And that might produce substandard code.

It could also be that I am a terrible developer and product manager and designer and entrepreneur.

If you are at all curious what the hell I'm doing, you can see my landing page - https://www.keenforms.com - its a form builder with rules
China is in competition with a lot of countries, and in a race for power.

And it is a bloody dictature.

That's not the point. The point is: why does the US has to formulate systematically its antagonist positions as a War?

Given they have the biggest army in the world, this is the best way to have the most violent resolution of this antagonism.
The thing that I don’t understand is, how can the browser render the SSR content if the JS bundle is render-blocking? Doesn’t the JS bundle prevent anything from rendering until all its JS has been executed?
The problems independent mechanics have with new "computerized cars" is the expensive and sometimes unavailable DRM protected HW and SW tools that you need to perform any operations on the electronics which are usually only made available to authorized dealers by the auto manufacturers.

The "new mechanic" for the EV era will not exist if auto manufacturers make every digital tool proprietary and unavailable outside the dealer network, with phone-home to HQ for authorization.
China growth rate during recovery was actually depressed compared to several developing nations. So even the basic premise doesn’t fit the actual data.

Long term compare the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) after the war based on per capita GDP and the mainland is still catching up. The CPP maintained power after completely wrecking the countries economy, so a period of stagnation seems unlikely to be a major issue. More recently you can see how the CPP is placing Hong Kong’s economy as a lower priority than increased control.

While dictatorships like China can fall surprisingly quickly, I doubt slower growth is that critical of an issue.
True, but I doubt that banning this one very specific cheese (that is much less known than Roquefort in the US) is due to trade negotiations. Even the German mite cheese is supposedly in kind of a legal grey area in the EU.
Comparing the systems with Two sockets vs One socket, Hyperthreading vs None. I don't think we can trust the result that much.

But just for general opinion. Intel CPU has strong memory guarantee between cores compared to the ARM. If the implementation is really good at parallel execution so it doesn't require a lot of data sharing between threads, ARM architecture potentially be better than Intel, if its implementation were good.
Searching for information in analog notebooks can be a pain. Also they might get lost, spilled over with water, burned, eaten by the dog, etc... easily. In that respect digital notes with a backup in the cloud are superior.

However I agree that no digital solution beats paper so far when it comes to drawing diagrams or writing mathematical formulas. However the conversion of handwriting to LateX by https://webdemo.myscript.com/ is quite impressive.
Only if the computer has important (and not backed up/replicated) state.
I'm genuinely surprised Sugar is not even in the list.
Sure but I appreciate humility in an author
Maybe Dethklok will come back again too.
Dev tools themselves are often super bloated and slow, requiring tons of memory and storage, so maybe we should start with those.
If hard drugs were legalized, I doubt they'd stay less dangerous than alcohol.
I believe the rest of my statement made it clear that I believe it is very untrue.
This is meant for third-world countries where you need easily maintainable and accessible components. Plus, using electronics implies an infrastructure that we take for granted: it's more complicated in rural third-world.
The Soviets hardly produced anything worth trading for.
But how is china's situation different from the Soviet experience?
Unfortunately today a lot of the good content is hosted on the same domains as the terrible content. This is one of the many great downsides to content centralization.

If I read a really great piece of tech content it's not going to help me to use that domain in a site: query later when it's so often going to be medium.com or dev.to (which is starting to fill up with this same kind of bullshit content in the article).
I don't work 16 hours a day. Writing good content is a lot of effort, especially after 8 hours of coding. If you're churning out a post a week I would say that is already a lot.
I work on calling for Signal, and the last few months we have been working on desktop calling. It's nearly ready and will hopefully be in public beta in a matter of weeks, and (again, hopefully) fully available in a few months.
I think there is a bigger subset for "virtual idols" in Japan that have already existed. They have also automated the singing part (see the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku). And they already have had concerts where people attend. Also they have started making "virtual YouTuber" (Kizuna_AI). This would all go to the point of just starting to make an AR/VR type of experience rather quickly.
They are doing high value deliveries in low infrastructure environments.

I live in a rural region in the US and can pretty much drive anywhere within 50 miles in about an hour, with hundreds of pounds of whatever. There's no market for slightly faster deliveries of 3 pounds.
Thanks for the feedback! One of our goals is to have a robust API that anyone can build apps for so that you can integrate this with any sort of platform you want (and then obviously the client could be open source), but yes, otherwise it is closed-source.
Screen sharing is available on discord web. I believe the only major feature that is unavailable on the web is push to talk.
Seems like there's more money in live streaming on Twitch. I often watch streamers who play chess and they are making quite a lot of money given the low effort involved. People just randomly drop by and "tip" them €10 to €50 for no reason. A few tips per hour is enough to make it a decent salary.

Of course, this requires that you can play chess at a master level or else no one will want to watch. But maybe you can live stream yourself hacking? Deep learning is a hot topic that could attract viewers. I wouldn't tip but I'd watch that.
The headline (and chart) is misleading. The article is about intoxicants.

Also, sugar isn't generally considered a drug.
You can install Firefox Focus[1] on iOS and enable it as a content blocker in safari settings. It works really well as an ad-blocker.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/...
I've been using https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner for a decade now. It works well. It's so easy to backup, since it's just text files. And you can just use grep and other standard tools to look for content. I believe it's the vim-counterpart to emacs org-mode.

I've been forced to use MS OneNote for one contract, since the laptop is locked-down. Works ok, but search-ability and keyboard-only usage sucks in comparison.
Sugar should be on the list!
Good stuff, -- Please do a blog post or few.
This article reinforces one of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a developer - be careful, even suspicious of shiny new things - only after the sheen has faded after extensive use and they no longer are the new coolness is it usually safe to consider them for anything other than a toy project.
Yep. I've read a lot of medium articles that have zero actual substance and are just pharaphrasing a different article. Or, they are advocating for an objectively bad principle that the first SO result says is not optimal...
Very nice. Good work.
Most content is bullshit, including this comment.

For possibly the least bullshit content you'll ever read, I defer to HN user RobertoG's comment from ~2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792243

This blog post shoots itself in the foot with its conclusions:

> Realize that there's tons of misconception in the world. People and their solutions aren't flawless.

Therefore, any solution you come up with yourself is likely to be flawed and full of misconceptions. Might as well use someone else's code / misconceptions / flaws.

> Adapt solutions to your particular use case. <snip> Always analyze it before you decide to use it.

Who has time for that? We're all too busy being distracted by contentless-content. Or you could just say something like: it seemed appropriate at the time.

> Believe in yourself. Your solutions are not any worse than the ones on the internet.

This is the real kicker. My solutions probably aren't any better either. On the whole half of all people engaged in a profession or job-role are below average. You'd probably do just as well to outsource all of your decisions to either someone else or the crowd.

> Being a developer is about constant learning.

That's very idealistic. Maybe some / many people just want to go to work, do the minimum possible, and get home, and for a lot of people that's probably okay.

> People sometimes use libraries without a more profound understanding.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't at least part of the reason for using libraries that they abstract away the need to have a profound understanding of the topic?
> variations on Helvetica have been pre-installed on most modern personal computers by default

Windows doesn't have one.
That's because continuity is an important part of predictability, right? When temperatures change, they do so continuously in whichever direction. A truly unpredictable environment would see temperatures change effectively instantaneously between points. Even for small differences in temperature, that's anathema for any system. Even simple structures would be unlikely to form as they'd immediately be ripped apart by the sudden change in the state of energy distribution, right?
He plays those conservative wedge issues masterfully, though. It works.
Handwriting to LaTeX
Now I am even more interested, but still have no idea.
Such a long comment and again what's your use case exactly?

When do you need files e.g. named O.txt and o.txt in the same directory? Won't you yourself be confused by them? It's the simplest example and it already shows that case sensitive file systems bring nothing but confusion.
> “But if this played out in the most optimal way, and this replaced all forms of energy generation, you’re talking about $6 trillion or more per year of market,”

Unfortunately, this is exactly the same kind of language that perpetual motion machine hucksters use.
> With the waning of the liberal world order, a more normal historical era of geopolitical rivalry has commenced, and trade tensions are merely accompaniments to such rivalry.

Background on "liberal world (economic) order":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_international_economic...
I get the difference with the US, but isn't this the same that was true for the Soviets?
Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes
> that link is 1.5 months old.

Maybe the link has changed since you wrote your comment, but:

"Flawed data casts cloud over Spain’s lockdown strategy

"Erratic numbers create uncertainties for policymakers and the public

"Daniel Dombey in Madrid and John Burn-Murdoch in London JUNE 4 2020"
Trust is an essential element of society. Constant individual validation simply doesn't scale, trust is enormously efficient, and low-trust societies are poor and dysfunctional societies.

That's not to say you can simply declare trust (though TOFU / TOFI tit-for-tat is remarkaby reliable), and the question of how to bootstrap trust is a difficult one. Ironically, many nationalist/populist behavioral patterns substitute a sense of tribal trust patterns for epistemic ones.

Ideally, a set of values and institutions which provide robust cross-checking and validation, distributing the trust verification burden, emerge. Any systemic doctrine of power concentration, whether authoritarian government, monopolistic economies, exclusive religions, educational uniformatism, etc., tends to undermine this.
Not a drug. But of course very harmful.
Potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with Covid19
WifiForward
Prohibition is actually THE biggest driving force behind making drugs more potent for various reasons (one being that potency reduces transport costs for the same effective dose), so it seems implausible that legalization would be worse on this count.
3) people who adopt someone else's thought-system are effectively admitting they are bad at thinking. They will likely continue to be bad, no matter how refined the system is.

You can get Leo Messi to teach me football but my first touch will still be sub-par.
What's the point, exactly?

That there is a certain number of engineers who have a mix of talent and resources (=time), so that they can exercise software engineering and high quality technical writing?

They are an exception. Almost all the engineers I know (with one exception), who also have a regular life (roughly 40 hours engineering/week), have little time to dedicate to technical writing. As a consequence, it's not unreasonable to state that, in general and in practice, software engineering and (regular) technical writing are mutually exclusive.
You eat sugar in some form everyday so it’d be pretty hard and pointless to try and ban it. And potentially more harmful too. Used wisely, just like drugs, sugar can be good for you- that’s why our bodies like it.
How would the drug become more dangerous?
I've done this now, you keep the same game id throughout.
Even though I generally prefer reading to watching, I've found in the past few years that YouTube is better for reviews, and I think it's actually because of this.

If you don't actually recognize the channel, you can usually tell if it's worthwhile by subscriber count, the other (types of) videos they've posted, and usually just by watching for tens of seconds. Most paid reviews seem to say so (unlike written blogs), and you can judge their bias appropriately. Plus for many things, seeing it in action is much, much better than written descriptions or (carefully chosen) pictures.

For example, it's hard to disguise a crappy oscilloscope UI in a video (and if the reviewer doesn't show that, be suspicious!)
Sugar is not a drug.
This is an interesting idea, with the main non-trivial win really being vectorized GBDT inference. Instead of serially going down a DT, you can convert it to vectorizable GEMM code.

By a cursory look at hummingbird/ml/operator_converters/_tree_commons.py this seems to just be doing a GraphBLAS-style graph traversal with dense GEMM, which strikes me as resulting in incredibly redundant computation. I think this would only give you acceleration for very small trees (edit: granted, I think that's what the defaults are for a lot of these packages).

I'd be interested in seeing how this stacks up against:

* native GPU execution for XGB/LGBM

* a _sparse_ GEMM implementation of their algorithm

* the classical reference for DT vectorization, Quickscorer, see https://github.com/hpclab/quickscorer
Wouldn't this just be a classic case of survivorship bias? For every Amazon and Facebook there could be a number of companies that did similar things and fell apart.
There Is No Good or Bad Strategy. There's Just a Strategy
Hey, it's a bit of a head-scratcher why I made a note (well, username tag) of this, but according to it, it's your birthday today or tomorrow.

Might as well put the info to good use, so if correct: happy birthday!

(I suspect this was around the time a year or two ago that I was testing out my HN tagger extension/server)
What I don't get is how SEO isn't countered by unvisiting... By which I mean navigating back to the google search, I always assumed that would be a clear indicator to google that it's not what the user was looking for.

Maybe this does happen but it not weighted highly enough against SEO.
Sure, valid opinion, but I sure ain’t staking my security reputation on the quality of this forum, doubly so since it operates on many hidden and user-hostile rules to get to this debatable quality that I can’t audit.

Frankly I just don’t think they give a damn about the value of open source, at least relative to immediate things, and I respect that.
Functionally, I agree with you on China in many respects. Ultimately no trade with them is really free trade regardless due to the way they manage their own economy. The problem with Trump in this regard is that he didn’t just call out China. He called out everyone, starting trade wars not just with China, but Mexico, Canada, more general sweeping sets of tarrifs, and also weakening our alliances separately. And this is a big deal if one actually wants to take on China economically. A big block of allies all getting into a trade war with China would have a substantially higher chance of success than the US just going it alone. Instead it was just us vs them and nothing really came of it. The cold war was not just US vs USSR. It was the western bloc vs the eastern bloc, and all other allies those groups picked up along the way. And any geopolitical fight between entities the size of China and the US would need to be carried out similarly to be successful.

To the final point on whether free trade is worth it, that’s a decision that can be made. But it is a decision, and would have pretty extreme effects on the US’s standing on the world stage, along with tons of other knock on effects on how the economy works. Whether that’s a trade off that’s worth it is a much more complicated discussion, but certainly far from simple.
US people think "west" is composed of North America and half of Europe.
It easy to gather and drink a bit of alcohol, like in ancient times. I can be social, but the dangers are bigger.
In general I find presentations at conferences not all that interesting; I've been to conferences where I've not attended a single presentation. There are some good talks, but they're not common. Giving a good presentation requires a few different skill and some practice – I'm not good at it either.

The value is mostly in hanging out with various people. The best experience has generally been when I went alone and met loads of new people, instead of going with coworkers or friends and then just hang out with them. Not that's not fun either, but I can do that next weekend anyway.