skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with your attempts to equate modern debt with debt of the past is 2 fold

1. Historical debt like referred to in the book that destabilized society was generational debt, passed on in the family. Unlike modern debt where your debt dies with you.

2. Historical debt there was no concept of bankruptcy in the legal systems of that time. There was also debtor prison and indentured servitude to pay off debt.

Those 2 factors are what destabilized societies and caused the need for mass debt forgiveness, we solved those by changing the lender risk metric, and allowing for a case by case relief valve called bankruptcy
There’s the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC): https://www.avcconsortium.org/aboutus
Would love to peak forward 100 years and see the amazing amount of vertical farms near city centers and all the converted agricultural land in the U.S. given back to nature reserves.
Lol if you loaned somebody $1000, would expecting it back make you a greedy profit machine?
If you want to argue that we should take some actions against SA then I won't disagree.

But regardless of if we do that, we still still engage in retaliatory trade actions against china.
What about growing genetically-engineered 'nutrient algae' in giant pools, and processing the resultant biomatter into bars for consumption? A layer of glass could even be put over the pool to control conditions.

If we're pursuing maximum nutrient and calorie output for minimum fertilizer and energy input, why look at traditional plants at all?
When attempting to inform them of real world events has them treat you like you're a UFO nut...

I take it upon myself to do what's best for me. They're free to use whatever they want when I'm not there, but I'm not going to be in the house with the blasted thing.
Oh! I remember watching The Spirits Within in theaters back then
This is pretty much how the music industry operates already.
Ask HN: Inflation is coming, market will probably go down, what to invest in?
I normally put all excess savings in effectively an index fund (Betterment, to be specific). When the pandemic started I paused doing that so I could beef up my emergency savings. That's now in a good place, but I'm not sure where the right place is to put extra income now.

Everyone's saying cash is bad right now because inflation is likely on the way.

The stock market has been looking good but, honestly, too good IMO. I think there's still a slump ahead there too.

For the average person who just wants to be responsible with their money, what's the right place to put it right now? I don't really want to do anything too involved like buying real estate (of course that market is tanking right now too). Just want to put my money where it will grow the most, or depreciate the least.
"On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline."

Seems like the answer for why the API isn't in Firefox. It's also not standardized, and is prefixed, so...
How can they possibly remove the public record of the house you bought?
In this situation we would be taking one of their companies though, which benefits Americans.

A US company recieves this company, and we get it for cheap.
Please see our response to a similar question below. Hope that helps. Thanks.

"The main difference is that Sysbox is OCI-based, so it works with Docker/containerd and hopefully K8s soon (we are working on the latter). Also, correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe LXD runs K8s inside without privileged containers. Having said this, I know LXD and Sysbox use many of the same OS-virtualization techniques to do what they do. And in fact we owe much of the work we've done to the ground-work done by the good folks at Canonical/LXD."
How to Parse XML in Python
Marie Tharp’s maps revolutionized our knowledge of the seafloor
That redirects the output to say's stdin. You probably want '&&' and '||'.

./some-lengthy-job && say Done || say Failed
I rarely root devices but I have yet to own an Android device that couldn't (eventually) be rooted using a community tool. This is anecdotal, there must be exceptions, but in my experience "locked bootloader" just means it might be a while before someone finds an exploit.

Easy enough for grandma, maybe not so much.
Building Bridges for Digital Economy
When I saw the title, I thought it was going this way.

Or, more specifically, a driver to turn an IDE port into GPIO pins that PC programs can control. Closing the gap on making a feature-complete Windows 95 arduino core.
Maybe the long-term plan is to run the trained model locally?
Wonder what Pulumi will do to stay relevant now.
Hi HN, thanks for taking the time to come chat! I'm still learning Rust, so if you have suggestions for how to improve hodl, I'd really appreciate issues or pull requests :)

https://github.com/ajpierce/hodl
A design for touch-free plane journeys post-Covid
As a practicing physicist, i would compare the amount of time, effort and skill needed to complete a PhD to that needed to become a professional session musician. Some people will find aspects of it much easier than others because of talent, some will get a big head start in childhood, some will learn much faster than their peers because they practice 6 hours per day and are driven by their passion. Some people get lucky and have the trifecta.

This doesn't mean that there isn't value in an adult choosing to learn an instrument (i.e. study physics). It can be enriching even if one never reaches the point of quitting their day job to play music full time.
Somehow swiping keyboards have gotten worse since the original launch of "swype" a decade ago. It's gotten terrible after they were bought by Nuance, and none of the alternatives match up to what it once was.
Presumably the reason they want you to opt-in to saving recordings is so they can train DeepSpeech.
I did some work filming dairies late last year and it was mentioned in the interviews.

The biggest "industrial" dairy we visited had most of the cows under cover in large, open-sided sheds. The sheds were ventilated and the cows had fresh bedding regularly, and I'm confident this wasn't put on for us given we were a tiny camera crew. I expected it to be completely miserable but the areas the cows lay to ruminate was clean and they all looked very content. The cows in this operation were much, much cleaner than those at traditional, smaller dairies we visited (who got absolutely filthy with each other's waste, lying out in fields to ruminate). I imagine it's like being given food and allowed to sit on the couch watching TV all day, which is what half of us do already.

Not sure if they have a solution for the separation and permanent pregnancy issues.
You think the banks would have learned a lesson or two from that era. I remember they were foreclosing like crazy in parts of California, new buyers weren’t materializing, and then the cities started cracking down and making the banks do lawn care, basic maintenance, normal homeowner stuff and banks had to eat the costs for all of it. There is only so much you can pass through to the next buyer.
I haven't seen enough contracts from incubators to say what is normal, but I can make a few points:

1) If you don't like a contract, don't sign it. Tell them your problems, see how they respond. I've seen attorneys put clauses in contracts that they just expect you to fight, but try to throw them in case people are timid. Don't be. Speak up and discuss these points.

2) Don't sign a contract that has vague terms. If you are going to agree on a business relationship, then talk through the terms now. Saying you'll grant fair and reasonable terms in the future is too vague to even know what you are agreeing to, and is just asking for future legal arguments. Either be specific, or remove it from the contract.
The power/performance spectrum seems to be very wide:

200uW for 400Kbps throughput with 0.6 accuracy

200W for 400Gps with higher accuracy with 0.99 accuracy

I guess will be interesting where in this range the result (if any) will fall.
"we" can't protect shit.

it has to be privatized and then it will be protected.
do you have a gpu in your pc? i've never seen windows 10 fonts look like this
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> Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford.

This is a clear failure of our justice system.
For many developers its better to work in these auxiliary jobs, instead of game development, because Game Development is made fundamentally uneconomic due to the ~30% commissions charged just on platforms. Additionally B2C sales attract huge sales taxes around the world, whereas eg. a B2B contract with a Government airport is just pure revenue.
The Alexagate aims to stop Amazon’s background listening
Your comment made me think of a movie (which is off epic of these anime films) called Kids.

I saw it as a teenager and thought it was very sad, though I don't remember a lot of details today.
Firstly it seems to me that I need to be true to myself. Your post has reminded me that there are others who try to evoke some particular responses in others by manipulating their own behaviour, which for me amounts to flying a false flag.
Perhaps some people are better fit to carry out deception than others. I personally have not wanted to bring myself to such methods. Yet I know that many people achieve what seems to be success in life through such tactics.
Obviously I'll never be rich.
Yet I have wonderful friends because the soft, gentle ways of kindness are not the leading edge of a greedy riposte, but genuinely lead on to... simply more of the same.
I never have to wonder what is the most appropriate reaction for a situation because I just do as I feel.
I have real riches!
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For some reason people[1] are willing to lock in 0.56% yield for 10 years currently, so people can't be expecting a huge amount of inflation.

1. of which a slight majority are private investors https://fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/treasury-bull...
This page isn't arguing against anything though.
I think what you're asking is, couldn't a Beowulf Cluster of wheat be as efficient as a Mainframe of wheat? And I think that it could be, but there's so many "ifs" involved there it's crazy to speculate at the moment. We might get flying cars before we get massively parallelized vertical underground farms.
Looks like you gave a lot of information but I'm not getting. Firstly, what is pay for delete? And what are you saying? That you should pay the collectors or that you shouldn't? And I didn't get the 1-in-100 part either. Completely lost!
There are democracies we could have enriched instead, rather than supporting an authoritarian regime
Thanks. Will try these
I wrote Instacart’s first Android app and used the money to buy my now-wife an engagement ring, fly to Rome, and surprise her on the last day of her Europe trip.
The situation with debt for average Americans is criminal.

Why lifes and mental health are being ruined, while Fed is just pumping gazillion of free money into corporations?

Not taking any debt is the best decision the person can make in their lifetime. In some cases it is OK to do it, when buying a house or using debt for business purpose from non institutional lender: friends, family etc.

Companies should just write it off. It is just money.
I agree about the overall styles but I think Tim can recognize things worth taking risk on. I think it’s clear that Apple is going all in on AR and Tim recognizes it will be the biggest move towards natural user interface that has happened since the iPhone/iPad all touch screens. Apple does a lot of taking risks and accepting failures behind the scenes. I think Tim doesn’t have Job’s vision, but the guiding principles are the same. Entertainingly, I think Tim Cook’s most Jobs like move is not making any attempt to run Apple the same way Jobs would have. I’m still excited and curious to see what Apple releases in the years ahead. After 25 years of following the company with some intensity. They aren’t perfect and it’s definitely not open, but the combination of thoughtful, considered features, very high value (longevity of iPhone support) and respecting privacy is pretty impressive. I think Apples most impressive/ambitious engineering since Woz is happening under Tim Cook.
I was sure I’d heard of this before, but it looked different. I guess that is why.
> This is demonstrably wrong, and I and others have already provided examples, which you've ignored.

I don't know what exactly you consider to be an example to demonstrate your point, but I must have missed it because I haven't read anything factual on the matter. If you think merely listing a bunch of infrastructure components and deeming the difference between external and internal versions is sufficient evidence, I have already stated that it doesn't convince me.

Maybe we have vastly different experiences in the software development we have participated in our careers, but I think the root of our estimation mismatch is you equivocating rewriting the infra glue code with the entirety of the application. I certainly don't see it that way.

> Moving from stubby to GRPC is a lot of effort. Moving from Google's internal user ACLing to OAuth or whatever is a lot of effort. Switching the APIs used for Google's internal monitoring infra with the ones that are used by GCP is a lot of effort. Removing dependencies on borg particulars is a lot of effort. Doing all of those things is a lot of a lot of effort and reasonably cost prohibitive. And that's ignoring a lot of other sources of "a lot of effort".

To my point, I have explicitly stated this infra glue code will be in need of re-writes. While "a lot" doesn't help quantifying your proposition much, you (or others in this thread) seem to equivocate this to designing and implementing the whole application from scratch, and that is where I disagree. Sure this going to be application specific, but I would estimate the engineering hours spent on replacing the infra glue code to be much less than that went to developing the business logic. I don't deem that to be cost prohibitive when we are talking about a company potentially selling that IP, much less so if it is going to run in their public cloud platform.

Besides, I don't know much about Borg, but if an application like an RSS aggregator is taking dependencies on implementation details of their replicated task scheduling and provisioning system, I think they must have been doing it very, very wrong.

> I don't know how I can make this any more clear. Your estimation is incorrect. You are misinformed.

Keeping repeating your assertions is definitely not going to help making anything clearer. Let your arguments do the talking, let the readers arrive to the conclusion on who is wrong or possibly misinformed. You are bordering on shallow dismissals which HN guidelines frown upon. It is bad form, please don't keep doing this.
Much appreciated. I'll be in this thread answering any questions. Bug reports and feedback very welcome. This app was made with help from Tanya of techtwox.com
I see...the problem is that a lot of these niche applications run on proprietary, often older software. I've run into this with trying to integrate hotel booking systems with websites, with financial institutions trying to add credit applications into apps, and car manufacturers trying to generate OEM incentive coupons. The EHR company may just have one developer working on integration, so you may not be able to get much movement on your custom integration
[Ctrl] Right/Left arrows

as an alternative to 3 finger swipe, to move across multiple desktop spaces. Especially helpful when when you have multiple editors and layouts
> we solved those by changing the lender risk metric, and allowing for a case by case relief valve called bankruptcy

Student loan debt breaks both of these. Student loans were supposed to be low risk, but the jobs never materialized, and they can't be discharged by bankruptcy.

There's also the matter of people even being able to afford to file for bankruptcy. Just for that you're looking in the ballpark of $1500 in court and attorney fees.
There's usually an explanation for this, though it may not be immediately apparent.

But typically the person feels like they have no control, so inventing this universe that makes sense to them allows them to retain some (fictional) control. Or they may feel worthless or low-status, and if they imagine they "know" things that most people "don't know" that would restore them some of their perceived status. Or they may completely disagree with how the world looks like and the direction where it appears to be going, so let's invent this other world that's more satisfactory.

I mean, if all of the above (and similar) explanations fail, you'd just have to assume the person is not very intelligent. I'm not sure what else could possibly explain it at that point.
> Related: can anyone explain why there are still no n95 masks available?

1) The US federal government hasn't stepped in and guaranteed a purchase order to the domestic manufacturers. Companies ramped up for SARS and almost went bust--they learned their lesson. No ramping up unless someone cuts a check.

2) N95 masks require a special type of melt blown material. This material requires high tech manufacturing machines which have long lead times (9-12 months). So, new machines to manufacture this melt blown material are probably just now actually getting installed into manufacturing lines.
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If you’re referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110301, it stands for “The Fucking Article” as in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html
>It can't be "dank" if it's entirely liquid filled, come on.

'disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.'

I imagine I'd describe visiting a predators GI tract as 'disagreeably damp', among other things.

An aside : I agree that I haven't heard it used in the context of submerging, but the definition seems to allot for it?
A better comparison is loaning someone 10 cents.
Is it “a lot more emphasis” or that the math education of STEM students should be rebalanced?

I’m an EE and I think I had a math class every quarter for two years if I remember right. I tend to agree with Strang’s too much calculus essay.

http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Essays/too-much-calculus.pdf
They actually have some cool features to allow multiple scales and scale changes, so intentional accidentals are promoted. This looks a lot like the Ableton Push controllers besides the direct Ableton integrations. I think the unintentional accidents are what would be missed, and those can be just as good.
Why would the US government further the interests of its own people when another 40 billion could be sent to Israel and its dual citizens could have trillions poured into their corporations? What are you, an anti-Semite or White Supremacist or something?
The other way to look at it is to recognize that it is hard to invent and prove the value of something, but easy to copy and pollute once that is done. We are all familiar with unfortunate examples of this.

And yes, copyright extension, yadda yadda, but no one is being forced to enjoy, for instance, Mickey Mouse. That they do, and it endures and retains value- why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it?

And regarding the Kafka reference, the story of his stories is itself enlightening on this subject. We only have them, and the utility of the reference, through the protective actions of his friend. Were there no Intellectual Property, they would have been burned after his death.

Cheers.
A unique challenge for US dollars is that as the defult choice of all kinds of dirty money, it has a huge laundering problem. This is not the case for Chinese Yuan and, I presume, Indian Rupee.

In China the gov doesn't care about any amounts of transation or cash, you can walk in banks and deposit millions of dollars of cash and will be treated as VIPs, "all-cash-bill" buying of condos is normal. I think it kind of has something to with corruption, since you don't know who is behind this money and what trouble will get you if you dig too deep.

Also the protection others mentioned, once the money got to other accounts, which usually happens instantly, it's almost impossible to get it back.
I’m disappointed it wasn’t about Gilded Age business, written by a robber baron or something.
Pretty much any language supporting something like C++'s "template metaprogramming" will allow the programmer to perform arbitrary computation at compile time. This is, of course, "undecidable", because it's Turing complete.

This is not necessarily the end of the world. If you go out of your way to write an actual compile-time program by abusing your type system, and that program contains an endless loop, you probably shouldn't be surprised that your compiler hangs.

Unsound type systems cause more headaches in practice. For example, TypeScript types are only trustworthy if your program is careful about boundaries with the outside world. In larger, older systems, I occasionally do get bit by this.
I know that. I'm still loving it, once I stop loving it, I'll start looking for the next great group of people to work with (probably, or start one, who knows!).

The point is that if you found it once, it's likely that you can find it again.

So far I've been on two such magical teams. Maybe there's a third one.
I'm sorry, but cloud based speech recognition in itself would already be a red flag, even if Mozilla was doing it in-house. Outsourcing it to Google though? I feel like a company as ostensibly privacy-focused as Mozilla should really know better by now...
Luck (as a factor to make someone / something successful) is too underrated.
Creating a Twitter Bot Using AWS Lambda and Go
I actually tried this with Siri while cooking yesterday. It's not there yet but I asked "Hey, Siri ... read me the synopsis of the movie Adam's Rib" and Siri proceeded to read a short synopsis of that movie. It worked on another but had to make me choose one of 7. It failed on the 3 try where I tried another movie, it gave me selections, when I picked one "read me the first one" it just repeated the title instead of telling me the synopsis.
Actually, morality and debt do not intersect at all.

Graeber covers this very point in his book "Debt". It's fascinating.

We all have moral obligations to the people around us: to our families, our friends, our neighbors, the people in our lives. We are generous to our friends, and moral obligations will make them return our generosity.

However, when you borrow money, you are making a gamble. If you manage to repay the loan, you will be allowed to borrow again. If you fail to repay, you will lose something: either the collateral (as in a mortgage), or low interest payments (if you become a "bad risk"), or the right to borrow at all (if you declare bankruptcy, you will have trouble borrowing for 7 years).

The lender is also making a calculated bet. If they ask for collateral, their risk is lower, and they will charge less interest. If they lend you money without collateral (eg a credit card), the interest will be higher. The very fact that unsecured loans charge higher rates means that the lender expects, on average, to make a profit, because the higher interest will make up for the occasional default.

There is no personal relationship between lender and borrower. There is no moral obligation. It's just business and probabilities.

Unfortunately, people confound the two kinds of obligations, personal and financial. Lenders benefit from this confusion, because borrowers will have trouble being cold-blooded about the agreement they are entering into.