skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying back all debt would mean there was no more money! What would that even look like?

It was years since I saw 'Money as Debt' but I remember it as quite flawed in its arguments.

Let's say there's a silly town with a single evil bank. The good people borrow a hundred dollars in total. Horror! The evil bank is now owed one hundred and ten dollars. This can never be repayed, there is not enough money!

Except the good janitor at the bank has his wage of ten dollars credited to his account by the bank for the value created by his labour. He pays the grocer, the landlord and so on and now the silly town people can pay all their loans, should they ever want to.

And then the old grocer dies and his estate defaults on its debts. And it turns out the bank overvalued his house. The banks is now down ten dollars on its loan assets. But the bank still has its liabilities to the other good town people the grocer paid when he took out the loan. Suddenly the town can pay back all their debts and still have ten dollars left owed to them by the bank! The evil bankers are foiled.

'Money as Debt' goes to all this trouble to explain that money is debt. Then we are supposed to be shocked by the fact that debt can be created by no more than signing a paper! It's stupid.
Facebook should be treated as co-accused in riots: Delhi govt. panel
Please list their supposed "multiple significant design defects which result in absolutely atrocious performance in many common scenarios", and explain why you think they are not inherent to CoW filesystems in general.
Not the only one, but one of the few.

glances at the VT-320 hooked to the OBSD firewalls
That's not my point. Being a downstream does not imply collaboration.
Routine is a great counter to ADHD. On long motorcycle trips, I sleep in a different place almost every day. Routine is essential if I want to be on the saddle by 11AM and not forget anything anywhere.

At home, routine ensures that the groceries and cooking are done before I get hungry and that I get 8 hours of sleep every day.

When it's thrown off by jet lag or other events, I make mistakes that ripple through my day.

The only risk is to get lost in routine and tune out for a large portion of your life.
Yeah, you really shouldn't conform data to the problem. It's more an emergent silver gun than a constructed silver bullet.
Remember: ARPANet was originally just a DOD research project to connect some universities and military sites. Back when it was opened to the public you could get a .com domain name for free just by asking. Same deal with IP addresses: in the very early days you just had to ask and you could have your own /8 (assuming you were a university, medium-to-large company, or government entity).

There has never been any point in clawing back the large class A assignments. If that were done it wouldn't even give us an extra year of IPv4 address assignments before we exhaust the pool again... not that there is any legal mechanism to take them back anyway.

The solution is IPv6. Despite the slow rollout it is finally happening now that even the regional RIRs have started to run out of addresses.
Delaying Herd Immunity Is Costing Lives
This is how it was before covid too. Perhaps it was a necessary wake up call.
Wow, I did not realize M2V had dropped off a cliff like that. I'd be interested to hear if you had more thoughts on what is behind that.
I have a WY-185 sitting around, I feel like I should set it up again, on a terminal server maybe
It’s the Carte Jaune (Yellow Card) which has a function of being a record of immunisations that is sometimes useful when travelling to or from regions with specific disease outbreaks (yellow fever, measles, polio etc). The US Government printing office may still print a version of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Jaune

Edit: rogue capitalisation
In the RTS genre, there were the ones on the Spring RTS Engine. I have to warn you that the last time I played (many years ago), the publicly available AIs would cheese you with micro that's not reasonable.
To me, bullet trains and ghost cities are speculation in the most traditional sense.

"If we build a 350kph train from Los Angeles to Phoenix, people will ride it" or "If we build 30,000 slapdash condos in a modern-day Brasilia, people will want to live there" is not really that much different from "If build an app for people to sub-lease their spare kitchen cupboard space to strangers, they'll watch advertisements to gain access."

The nice thing is that tangible-world speculation has a lower downside potential, because you're actually building something that has real-world utility to anchor its value. The ghost city might have to mark down their apartments until they finally find a selling price, but it's probably not going to be zero. The bullet train can fit into a larger economic development scheme, or worst case be cut up for scrap steel. In the process, you probably created a nice long cycle of blue-collar jobs, and worst case, you exit by selling out at 25 cents on the dollar.

When they turn out the lights at a random "tech startup" for the last time, you've distilled a few million investor dollars into a few unloved snippets of code released to the dark corridors of Github, a handful of obsolete MacBooks, and ugly trade-show gift items. There's nothing left to flog to get your money back because there was nothing there of real-world value in the first place.

I feel like this could be a welcoming alternative for some more cautious money-- risk-tolerant but not completely gambling. You know you're not going to get a "call up AWS and order more severs" growth moment, but you're not going to completely lose your shirt, and if it's done with competent people, the process is slow and relatively surprise-free.
It could be, but as an incidental side effect I don't think it's a great outcome. The law as suggested is confusing and uncertain and that will have a chilling effect on sharing 'news' while the crazies sharing opinions might not be so shy.

Day 1 for example, it supposedly won't effect Reddit. But if FB/Goog pull out, Reddit will be the next target really quickly. Repeat for anything relevant until it hits something that hurts.
Let me rephrase, I don't want a huge screen with tiny fonts for my console, the default should be at most 132x48
A vast majority of the bridges in my city (Pittsburgh) are rated as structurally deficient. I don't buy the narrative that Americans are simply less motivated by shining things than the rest of the world.
I am very bullish on Crystal Lang.

Here is a walkthrough:

https://youtu.be/DxFP-Wjqtsc
Life went on fast forward when I worked 40 hour weeks in a corporation. Yesterday feels exactly like 6 months ago. It was 6 months of cereals, podcasts on the train, internet arguments to kill time and Youtube nights. The days are indistinguishable.

On the other hand, when I travel, I vastly overestimate how fast time goes by. Last week feels like a previous life.
Walking, Stopping and Making Photography of California Nature
I read that as designed for angst and animosity not influence, because the intention completely disparages the audience.
Wow I'm not sure if I've ever influenced someone to write a book before. That's certainly something I'd pay to read. Can we call it "The LISP Challenge"? https://twitter.com/JustineTunney/status/971235177002225665/... I think C code generation is great. The problem generalizes well across languages, which is why I love suggesting it to my friends who are getting into the latest one: take The LISP Challenge!
All of those frontends live inside the GCC source tree. Which requires copyright assignment to contribute to. And for a long time, it was difficult to "casually contribute" to GCC; you had to work towards "commit access", and it wasn't anyone's job to review other people's patches, so often it just didn't happen. And there are various other barriers to contribution as well.

LLVM's license was certainly a factor, and I'd never suggest otherwise, but there were many other reasons that GCC couldn't help kick off a wave of language design and experimentation the way LLVM did.
I really don’t get why GDPR gets dragged up every time someone mentions immutable data stores; was everyone really building append-only systems before 2018?
Looking at the website right now, I see three different horizontal arrangements of links.

Of these links, there are four duplicate pairs, at least. Two of these sets of pairs lead to indistinctly named pages (/Home/InteroperabilityGuide and /Home/Interoperate)

I would start by having all of these links be at the top, and adding some descriptive text to each of the fields in the main body, as opposed to meaningless graphics/marketing numbers.

Addendum: Also, I wouldn't want to do the split in thirds thing that occupies the majority of the page. Each of those can get a description of at least a paragraph, and go one after the other. If there's not enough info to fill a paragraph, then they probably need to be merged.

Edit: ambiguously -> indistinctly
I'll never get the US fascination with highways and ugly interchanges.
> You can't have it both ways. "Pay me for this." "No." "I'll make you pay me!" "Ok then I'll stop." "No don't stop that's even worse. Pay me and keep doing the thing!" That's the conversation happening, and it makes zero sense.

But that is the level of craziness we are under in the Google regime: Accept Google's terms or go out of business. That's the whole problem. Google has infinite negotiating power. The counter to that does indeed sound insane, because where we already are is insane.

Yes, Australia is giving news companies a loaded gun, but it's because Google already has a boot to their neck, and they're barely still conscious. Where we are right now is really, really bad. Tech companies are bleeding journalism dry.

And frankly, Google and Facebook can afford this. Tech companies have so much spare cash they don't know what to do with it, while everyone else is struggling to survive. Expect laws to feel one-sided against you for a long time. Let's call it a wealth redistribution. Imagine how much quality investigative journalism could've been funded with just the money Google spent developing messaging apps.
It’s important to note that most leftists aren’t decrying FAANG techies making $300-500k/year. They’re hating on the wealthy.

Techies are wage slaves as much as anyone else. They just have a higher scale of cost and income.
> They didn't say "the quality of your services are at risk".

I think you missed these clear cut sentences: "The proposed changes are not fair and they mean that Google Search results and YouTube will be worse for you." and "There’s no way of knowing if any data handed over would be protected, or how it might be used by news media businesses." which point to service quality and privacy, not price.
I already got one? My employer mostly has these requirements. We ended up writing our own query language because it is a graph DB, but all the bits are there.

LMDB + a journal + a query interpreter is really all you need. We don't have off-line mirroring yet, but that's on the list.

You could start with Synapse [] and rip out the bits you don't need. It is open source.

[] https://github.com/vertexproject/synapse
Could not read without reader mode, which is rare for me in 2020.
Price transparency wouldn't really do much do change this. One of the key ways that prices are jacked up so high is through unnecessary treatments:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/01/5822161...

and especially through unnecessary (and very, very expensive) tests:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/23/7874035...

The people who decide what treatments and tests are necessary are the doctors, so the marketing for this would have to be "buy our cheap insurance, we deny coverage to more testing and treatments than the other insurers do". Which is obviously not a winning strategy.

If you combine that with the increase in insurer owned clinics and hospitals (which unsurprisingly saw a sharp uptick around the time the ACA came into effect), then the insurance company gets to profit more twice. Once when they jack up the premiums, and a second time when those expenses show up as revenue in their other businesses.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-ad...

I'm all for giving more power to consumers, but when you have a regulation that creates such a strong incentive for raising premiums, layering more haphazard regulation on top of it isn't going to help.
It took over 30 years until lithium ion batteries became prevalent and we are still improving their chemistry and structure, heck the first commercial NMC batteries came out around 2012.
That's an Ad hominem attack by Media Matters and doesn't effect my strong recommendation that this book explains the banking system and how the federal reserve functions.
The original poster said since ww2, not same as ( > not >= ).

I imagine the spectre of nuclear armegedon during the height of the cold war was pretty scary, so maybe its still a false claim, but its hard for me to say as i wasn't alive then. I will say that i think this year has been one of the most anxious of my life, only partially due to covid.
I added a whole bunch of features a year or two ago, including a wide range of new goods (cochineal, indigo, etc.) and the repugnant feature of slavery (repugnant, but I would think it would be very tempting to a player economically), but I foolishly forgot to push it off my old computer.

I always wonder if such content (and no functional improvements) would even be welcome in a pull request, not to mention how controversial adding slavery to a game might be.
The Age of the Road Warrior (1995)
It might look like that for people inside the walled garden but I suggest applying for an exit visa to have a look around the great wide world out there where you'll quickly find out that it is a whole lot more diverse than the picture painted inside the walls. Not only is it more diverse, those rumours spread about the constant onslaught of viruses on those poor creatures on the other side of that big, safe wall turn out to be untrue, most people seem to never have even seen one. Even stranger things will start to become clear, like those supposedly poor and oppressed outsiders needing far less money to get around the world than those inside the walls while at the same time having are larger choice of methods to navigate it. It wouldn't surprise me if you decided to stay, just don't forget to plan this carefully so your identity does not get stuck on the inside after which you won't be able to message your friends any more. It is a bit tricky but it is doable, many others have gone that way before.
What if Apple's review process turned out not to be as described?
If a fact need not be disclosed in the midst of prosecution, why is it a requirement to prosecute in the first place?
Perhaps embed some recursive/infinite XSL in an iframe or data src attribute. There are also ways to create memory intensive HTML documents. This will cripple their Selenium or other headless browser instance.
>This increases the support cost and leads to a very negative perception of the browser itself.

Their solution to that problem hasn't exactly led to a positive perception of the browser either, and it hasn't even left them the out of blaming it on anyone but themselves.
Good luck starting that in a post about Italian.
I keep hearing that but when I dug a bit into it to do some ASO, the impression I got is that it's simply not easy to game in name of Search Engine Optimisation because the consensus is that the search engine only looks into the App Title, subtitle, description and keywords and the ranking is affected only by the App's performance. SEO people seem annoyed by Apple that they cannot get their wallpapers app for the "stocks" keyword, so I have a very little sympathy. When they complain that App Store Search is dumb, they essentially mean that If I want to rank up my wallpaper app "stocks" and figure a way to people use it every day. They have all kinds of tricks for Google Play but the ASO tutorials are rather dull, recommending stuff like picking an appropriate title and doing A/B tests on the keywords.

As a user, I tend to be quite happy with the search results in the App Store, I don't remember any time where I could not find the thing I am looking for.
According to some Mozilla people, this part is actually wrong and extension support is indeed not implemented completely. It's merely that I couldn't (and still cannot) find a list of outstanding issues, and everything I tried worked correctly.
Meaning, internal things in chromium change so fast, so you'd slightly wish you could have your custom changes merged into upstream? (I.e into chromium)

So that the ppl at Google would keep your code working? And you didn't need to spend time resolving git merge conflicts, and compilation errors?

But you cannot, because some of those bespoke changes are "secret" and what you make money from? (And maybe some changes are off topic to Google)

I wonder how much time does it take to merge a new chromium version into your repo? Like, hours? Days? Weeks
I remember reading somewhere about the history of the HTML standard that there was a camp of people at the start who wanted the html viewer to just show a syntax error if something in the code was out of spec. Luckily what we got was a very forgiving standard that will always try to show something, no matter how it is formatted.
Hyperledger fabric gets around this by storing a copy of the data up to the last block in some other db, like couchDB. That way, you get (supposedly) the best of both worlds
Apple Maps is my goto because Google Maps just hates showing street names for some reason. Zoom in so a street takes up 100% of your screen and it still won't display the name many times.

Obviously that's not the only reason, haha, it's gotten surprisingly good a few years ago. Public transit and cycling is better in Google (though nothing beats CityMapper for transit if it supports your city). But for walking and driving Apple Maps is my winner.
Is this an exclusive DuckDuckGo and Apple partnership, or are there other websites that also use Apple Maps?
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Already the case for Apple LLVM which has optimizations for Apple Silicon not upstreamed and never will be upstreamed.
Silicon–graphene is used in high voltage LiPo batteries, while Graphene was theorized in the late 1800’s and modeled in the 1950’s it hasn’t been isolated until 2004 where the first single layer Graphene was created using a sticky tape of all things.

So while in the 70’s people were thinking about Graphene application because the physics were modeled and studied we didn’t had the ability to produce it and we still have limited ability to produce it at scale.

This isn’t just about hype but rather what is possible with our current level of technology and manufacturing capabilities.
I'm building something like that as a side project and might have something to share in a week or two.
> It's valid to protest things which are not true?

If you set the bar at "your point has to be true before you can protest", then goodbye free speech. Because who exactly gets to decide what is true, and therefore is legitimate to protest over? The government? The media? That is an insanely dangerous power to give any institution, which is why the first amendment is purposefully interpreted to put the minimum number of restrictions on what is forbidden.
This is the kind of stuff that helps to stay in .NET instead of having to get hold of C++.

I am glad they introduced it, just would like to have had a C# type alias to go alongside it.
No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore(2018)
Doctors are not tech-savvy, there is not doubt about that.

But the Micro$hit Window$ kludges I've seen in pretty much every doctor's office, with many instances of the doctor entering their credentials for login, and then waiting an ungodly amount of time to get in and to the medical s/w interface, is not helping either.
No they do not.

GNU Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, BASIC and plenty of OEM derived ones were never part of GCC source tree.

I had to study GIMPLE and GCC integration as part of my compiler design studies back in the 90's, using those nice Walnut Creek CD-ROMs.
So I'm using iOS 14 and just tried to pull it up. It has a message stating "Cycling directions are not yet available in [my city]"

A quick google search to see if it was simply because of beta or there is a limited roll out, produced this:

>New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Shanghai and Beijing in China.
Mozilla employee here (albeit not on the mobile team):

Relax, everybody. Fenix is a major rewrite. It takes time to reimplement all the WebExtension APIs. Nevertheless, the intent is to eventually add support for all the APIs that make sense on mobile. (See here, for example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632626#c1, or just scroll through the list of bugs here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=GeckoView&c...)

If you go back and read old HN threads from the first public release of Fenix, people were afraid that the lack of extension support was a sign that Mozilla had given up on adblockers. I hope it's clear by now that's not true. (From what I recall of lunchtime conversations, back when those were a thing, the plan for extensions was "well, we're definitely not shipping without uBlock Origin, and we'll see what else we can get working from there".) Similarly, the fact that parts of the WebExtension API are not currently available doesn't mean Mozilla has given up on it. It just means that things take time. (If it were easy, other mobile browsers might support add-ons!)

It takes a lot of resources to support two parallel codebases. At some point you have to rip off the band-aid. The sooner Fennec is cut loose, the more effort we can dedicate to Fenix improvements (like improving WebExtension support). The transition was always going to be a bit bumpy, but things should hopefully get better from here.
Puzzle 1 contains a great example in knowing your audience:

> The problem confronting the FBI interrogation team is to separate the people into these two classes, so that all the managers can be locked up and all the engineers can be freed.
> Personally, I find complaining about a ”fold over a monad” to be equivalent to complaining about an ”integer indexed loop over an array”.

This was just an example of a behaviour that, if taken too far, could eventually lead to those 'hundreds of lines of abstract code'.
Of course a single fold in itself is nothing to be concerned about. But an API that accepts a type 'm a' instead of '[Order]' has lost some of its connection with the business domain already.

Again, this might not be bad, it can even be good, but the problem is that many FP enthusiasts overdo it.

> In fact, I’ve seen a lot more unnecessarily abstracted garbage (usually “design pattern” workarounds to limitations in the object model) in just about every oop based web framework I’ve worked with.

Yes, this is the same problem which pops up in the OOP world as well. I guess it is a human thing to want to use your latest powerful language tool wherever you see a possibility for it.