skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the breakdown of Bretton Woods, the petro-dollar was created by the US being a hegemonic power.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untol...

Any threats to the petro-dollar have been met with death and invasion like Libya and Iraq.

It seems that any new hegemon has a chance at a reserve currency if they can force their currency as the default for commodities.

China has a voracious appetite for commodities and if it pays for them in Yuan (like in Russia-China gas pipeline) this could be mean that we might be heading for a multiple reserve currency scenario globally.

Fiat currency as a reserve currency requires being a hegemon and military might. So wars are not just for taking over the resources of other countries but also in how they are priced and sold.

Also the rise of crypto and the “return” of gold could change matters as well as money supply of fiat currency continues to increase beyond economic growth.

https://eurasiantimes.com/petro-dollar-vs-petro-yuan-is-chin...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-usa-oil-exclusive-i...
When I get that vaccine, it's totally going to be entered on my paper yellow card/Carte Jaune. It's designed for exactly this purpose.

I've had that thing since I was a kid. Last updated in college with an MMR shot during a mumps outbreak. Didn't have it handy for a tetanus shot 10 years ago.
The "bits that are missing" relate to Python's standard library, which is huge. MicroPython has svelte versions of many of Python's standard library modules... Pick and choose what you need, given your specific context. MicroPython is pretty friendly in that respect.

FWIW, MicroPython, as a language, is a complete reimplementation of Python (and an amazing feat of engineering on the part of Damien and his collaborators).
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same here. Lost 2fa due to water damage on phone. and all the data was irrecoverable. Now even if i give every data their customer service don't care.

From that day i haven't used any 2fa and just use password manager with additional backup.
This is a speed trap working as intended though. Lower speed is the goal, not fines.
Have you considered:

One tier and one price? Make it simple.

Consider this, how much time/money/effort do you want to spend incentivizing multiple tiers of payment which may or may not just stress out the user to not sign up?
> There's no rule that when the number of parameters is small deep learning shouldn't be used

I would be genuinely interested in examples of problems with a very low number of predictors (say two to five) when a neutral net would be appropriate (where as you say less complex methods have been tried and failed).

I just can't think of one.
EU government might be trustworthy enough to run an institution like this. US definitely isn't.

In the UK the soil association is a private charity which mostly decides which food is "organic" and which food is not and it does a pretty good job. In the US, the USDA decides whether you can call your food organic and from what I understand it's kind of meaningless.

I think a private charity would work better here.
If we can remove one perverse incentive at a time, it's still progress, but i agree that, without punishment for misinforming the public, and it's delicate to draw lines there, the problem won't go away.
Then, of course, Latin itself became the language of educated Western Europeans for centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Roman Catholic Church no doubt had a lot to do with that, thanks it its near-monopoly on education, but even after the Reformation scholars continued to use Latin for a very long time.

Isaac Newton wrote some of his works (e.g. the Principia) in Latin, but others (e.g., Opticks) in English. Leibniz wrote some works in Latin, and some in French. Their time may represent a transitional period.

Latin was routinely taught in British schools, and other British-influenced schools with pretensions to being "good schools", well into the 19th Century.
its abit unfair to me where cow milk costs $1 but soy milk costs $5. Lets hope with this growing trend soy milk also gets subsidized.
Use a 2FA that lets you take backups?
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You're right, that should be

awk -F, -v OFS=, '{print $4+$7, $0}' foo.csv | sort -n -k1 -t, | cut -f2- -d,

Explanation:

awk -F, -v OFS=, sets the input and output column separator to comma, '{print $4+$7, $0}' outputs the sum of column 4 and 7 before the rest of the line.

sort -n -k1 -t, sorts the file numerically on column 1, with comma separator.

cut -f2- -d, removes column 1, with comma separator.

This is of course not robust for general CSV files, but I don't think OPs marcel is either. A robust solution requires a proper CSV parser.

The biggest warts I see in the classic unix solution is that all the tools use different flags for the field separator.

edit: if you know that the csv doesn't contain tabs, you can omit some flags for a more concise

awk -F, -v OFS='\t' '{print $4+$7,$0}' foo.csv | sort -n -k1 | cut -f2-

since sort and cut default to tabs/whitespace as separators. If you're unsure about the contents of the CSV, you really need a proper CSV parser.
Back then the internet was created and run by enthusiasts which passionately wanted to share and build.

Today it’s run by people, standing on their shoulders, whose dominant motivation is making money or how to “capitalise” on something, something which they have no fundamental interests or passion for.

Obviously the outcome is going to be different.
From his collected fictions, the sampling was:

- The Secret Miracle

Personal favorite, I actually think it links well to this discussion of earnestness.

- Man on Pink Corner

A bar story, the characters are a bit rough on the edges. Action packed.

- The Lottery of Babylon

Mystical world where a
lottery runs everything.

- Three Versions of Judas

This is a good example of Borges combining non-fictional and fictional elements, he is doing a critical analysis on a fictional author be made up regarding the “real” role of Judas.

- Deutsches Requiem

Part of his explorations on fascism and nazism, written contemporarily (1946) so it has a bit more rawness.

- On Exactitude in Science

The title well describes this short piece.

- In Memoriam, JFK

Also short and incredibly well-written.

- The Zahir

The Zahir creates obsession, to the point of driving the obsessed insane.
Missing one fundamental feature of a ponzi scheme: the transfer of value from the victims to the entity running the scheme. Folks have occasionally claimed without evidence that photos are being used to train nefarious machine learning models. But in fact the free tier of storage has simply been that: an entirely free halo product.
I find it amusing that one of the sections has "Electronic slide rule" in the title. I guess that was the reference mark to beat at the time.

The YouTube channel of "Professor Herning" has some good videos if one is curious on slide rules:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorHerning/videos

Both their use:

* https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorHerning/playlists

and comparisons between different models. There's a still lively trade for them on eBay that seems to go on for aficionados and the curious.
>Instead of building the proper infrastructure to allow traffic to pass through we just slow it down.

And then they might build a road hump. So now the nearby residents and pedestrians get a noisier road and anyone on a bike or in a car gets less comfort and less control even while following the speed limit.
I think this take is not particularly insightful. It reminds me of the fact that Fight Club was also supposed to be “a warning.” The interesting question is why these are appealing to so many (myself included) and what that says about our current culture and society.

My theory is that its appeal is largely aesthetic, as in an all-encompassing aesthetic. “Regular life” in 2020 in a Western country is a fairly drab affair. All the new buildings have the same boring style, a monoculture pervades everything, and the notion of something being deliberately secret or hidden is antithetical to the social media generation. Deleuze (the philosopher) has a concept called deterritorialization which I think is relevant here.

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

Ergo, a ruined mess of a city with bizarre, hidden subcultures and disturbing body modifications becomes appealing, even if the overall society portrayed is dystopian. The same appeal is there with something like Kowloon Walled City. At its core, cyberpunk (the genre) is a reaction against the homogeneity of modern technological society. That’s my take, at least.
It appears MediaFire is no longer unlimited
> It is a great book, and Orwell was spot on with so much of what he wrote. How did he do it?

Not to diminish Orwell's prescience in any way, but Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We precedes Orwell's work by almost 30 years. It contains all the same themes, and without a shadow of a doubt, had a massive influence on Orwell's work.
Aren't you just subscribing to an USA bubble now? Is there a way to add e.g. chinese, indian or islamic reddits to the mix?
You can use "else" that way in ordinary speech. "If this then do that else do the other thing" is perfectly legitimate English, just a bit archaic.
This book is actually a candle, I'm pretty sure: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28314296M/Harry_Potter

How do you even get an ISBN for a candle?
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_thaler

The Austro-Hungarian Empire hasn't been a thing for over a hundred years now, but their coinage is still circulating.
Thanks for the great service MediaFire is. It outlives many file sharing services out there, the links are pretty safe to share, knowing that they will be retained for practically forever.
This is a great idea! Thanks for making it.

Is there any way you could bring in a synopsis without me having to leave the site? It would be nice to keep browsing there rather than have to link out to Amazon just based on the title and cover.
Until you hit a pothole, a bird or other animal, aquaplane or any other thing that happens to thousands of people just like you every day. I hope you are an organ donor at least.

>that same car will stop from 100mph in less distance than the highway code requires for 70.

What car is it and with what tires? I'll be happy to look up the facts.
These are really good tips, but a lot of them could get their own blog post just about why they're so important.

Just the "every alert should be actionable by somebody at 3AM" requires a lot of work, because the implications of a single alert and how to respond to it can become very deep. And you probably won't meet it until you actually get the call and realize you missed something.

I prefer to imagine alerts as if they're going to your Grandmother. She can turn her computer on and surf the web and make phone calls. But she doesn't have tribal knowledge about your product, or very specific technical knowledge. If she can't figure out what to do from reading the runbook in the alert, it's likely your on-call people can't either and will just end up waking up other people, and at that point you're just delaying resolving the alert and waking up too many people.
for anyone interested, chris olah has a good blog post providing further insight on this topic: https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/
in cities, a lot of people have $7.8 million dollars in assets at time of death

these aren't the same edible rich people that the populist furor is being made towards
My dad bought one as a student at Stanford at the time and he passed it down to me for use in high school >20 years later. An amazing piece of technology.
I never buy this argument. If this were true, why aren't Tesla cars, Apple computers, Rolexes and other premium products plastered full of adverts?...
It's not mentioned in the article but Amazon had disabled their affiliate link program for Goodreads ahead of this announcement, which cut off a major source of their revenue for them, and forced them to sell. They had no choice.

The strategic reason for Amazon is obvious. As someone else mentioned, Amazon doesn't want Goodreads data to be used to add value to their competitors' offerings.

Speaking as a developer who tried to build on top of Goodreads API, I also want to add that this was a long time coming. The API had been neglected for some time. And some of the most interesting datasets weren't even made available through the API.
Mathematically speaking, even though there is a recurring cost, if the cost goes down over time it's entirely possible for the cost to be finite overall. Simple example: If the recurring cost halves every year, and in the first year it's X then the cost to store it forever is 2X.
Two oreilly books to give you an overview, sorta know the lie of the land.

Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins

Unix Power Tools 3rd edition

Two additional worthwhile books:

The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike

Mastering Regular Expressions by Friedl.

All 4 are classics.

Also try tldr.sh website in addition to man pages. They are easier to grok.
Similar here. I've been using PayPal to receive our Patreon balance each month and pay various project (sqlitebrowser.org) related experiences.

Just over a week ago, when I tried logging in to PayPal (2FA is not enabled) a new screen appeared saying they'd sent an SMS with code to my phone number, and I need to type it in.

Problem being, the phone number they displayed is not mine. I've never given them my mobile number, as they've always had a little blurb about that saying people have to also give them permission to receive marketing messages. Hell No.

So now I'm locked out of my account. With sufficient screwing around in their help system, there is a phone number you can call:

+44 203 901 7000

Trying to get through to a human being there however has proved an impossible task (after many attempts). From just being hung up on by their system, through to being told they're out of business hours (nope, double checked that), etc.

Looks like in about 51 weeks, they'll start stealing the remaining balance until the account is empty.

Fucking scammers.

PayPal is the main reason I'm not positive on Elon Musk's history... they've been "known bad" for many years, including when he was there. He started his fortune from building a company that knowingly scams people. :(
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Yes, Forth is stack-based RPN so "IF" naturally comes after the test; "THEN" marks the end of the block; so if you want "ELSE" it ends up in the middle to let you nest conditions.

: /CHECK DUP 0= IF ." invalid " DROP ELSE / THEN ;

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Germany was a first mover in solar as well as in wind energy. It does not make sense to compare the installed capacity of China to Germany. It is 17 times bigger than Germany.

China was the second mover profitting from proven technology and prices that were lowered for all players by subsidising not German companies, but the installation of solar power (no matter where it was from).
> I think it's mostly change in markets. HP reputation (as IBM Thinkpad) came from serious devices for serious tasks. When you sell to the average consumer, a race to the bottom occurs.

I wonder if this can be avoided or mitigated by creating a subsidiary or sub-brand to differentiate between the high-end and high-volume. Something like Toyota/Lexus, VW/Audi, etc.
Nice, a bailin.

But sure, most banks have fees like that, and typically don't for a few years just to attract the broke people that were looking for an account with no fees. Then they turn them on.
Remote onboarding doesn't have to suck
There's nothing you can do other than move away from unlimited storage. The model, as the OP states, works well initially, however over time, "power users" emerge to want to make use of unlimited. The only choice is to remove unlimited storage as a fixed subscription fee. You may have metered billing (unlimited storage but you are charged per GB) or to do away with unlimited storage all together.

Keep in mind, that change is great for the business and 99.9% of the users. The business saves money on resources, and those resources are re-invested into the other 99.9% of users.

Edit: grammatical error
Wiktionary has a usage example from 1903, clearly before modern computers but not too ancient.

> 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Grosset & Dunlap, page 44:

> […] and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.

As an aside there is at least one common word which does seem to have been invented by the software industry: "access" as a verb
The idea was to try to cover some of his range, which isn't trivial given how many styles he can write in.

My favorite is the Secret Miracle, though. The idea of finishing your masterpiece in abstract of the fame, recognition, even impact is beautiful.

Here’s the ones we read and discussed:

Man on Pink Corner

The Secret Miracle

The lottery of Babylon

Three Versions of Judas

Deutsches Requiem

On Exactitude in Science

In Memoriam, JFK

The Zahir
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I've used pushover for this as well. Nice perk: on iOS at least you can easily define a custom image and sound to go along with your message. This is FUN to use.
I’m not sure but it seems irrational.
> The formation of something new, and independent, means it would also be less susceptible to corruption.

"independent" is doing a lot of work here. Government regulators are, at least in theory, independent because they're paid from taxes collected, and have no incentive . What mechanism is supposed to keep the new 'independent' entity, actually independent?
I don't want books based on POV; I want authors that think and analyze well.
> GDPR is quite decent as laws go; the problems you mention happen because the regulation enforcement is too weak. Displaying a cookie popup was never anything but an admission that you're doing something you're not supposed to. GDPR notices again mostly give the same evidence. A lot of them aren't even compliant. I honestly wish DPAs of EU member states would start beating these companies down until this bullshit stops.

All that sites will do is do a cost assessment of whether it is worth serving those in the EU and just block the IP range and people that want to use those services will just use VPNs anyway (which is what I do when I am banned by IP from a site because of the GDPR rules).

>Potayto, potahto. Capitalism structurally favors something resembling corporatism, because capital compounds - the more you have of it, the easier it is to get even more. The market is a dynamic system - what matters is what it evolves over time into.

No it doesn't. Corporatism is a collusion with government. If governments were smaller, buying influence wouldn't be effective. You don't even understand what you are arguing.

Yes the market is a dynamic system that why if you allow it to operate freely those companies that are abusing their position will start to lose market share when other competitors that don't will be more attractive to consumers. However once you involve regulation, then that mechanism doesn't happen because you just raised the bar higher for all the would be smaller players.

Again you always want to frame it in the worst light.

Anyway. Fuck this site, dissenting opinion is frowned upon here. So much for the hacker part.
> With that said, we really need to let calculators go

I honestly can't understand why hasn't anybody made a TI-compatible calculator, ideally with a clean-room-implementation OSS stack.

It could probably get most of the TI market share, and be more exciting to use.
You should go work at, then get fired from, the Google AI ethics team. They have the same prejudice against reality as you do.
I’m just bored of transactional emails, isn’t there a better way?
Email marketing is boring, for me.

I’ve been thinking about the whole email marketing spiel that has been going on for a while.

There’s a lot of transactional interaction happening and when I’m looking at for-profit startups and even nonprofit organizations, I’m not seeing a whole lot of good storytelling.

Instead I’m faced with me Me ME messages about how cool they are and what nice discounts they have this week.

I feel like they’re pushing “news” as if we’re still living in the 1950s or something.

So, is this only me?

And what products or tools are out there to make email marketing more fun and more relational?

I’m asking because I just came up with an idea of how to make email marketing more like 1970s text-adventures (Interactive Fiction) if that rings a bell for some of you - but updated for 2020/21 so it’s relevant and recent.

I’m not sure I can include a link in this message because when I submitted a URL just a few minutes ago it got flagged immediately.

My intent is to have a conversation not to promote my stuff. I’m not in “greedy growth” mode.

I, therefore, hope this message makes it through the moderator’s filter.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on that.

Cheers,
- Alex
password managers let you store the one time password key.

this removes the "two factor" nature of two factor, but retains the one time password nature of one time password.

I honestly can't relate to people losing their access because something happened to their phone. The QR code is just a string of letters and numbers and you can save the QR code and the string of letters and numbers. I've been doing this for like a decade.
The thing is sometimes it's faster to goes to the shell use a grep -r/ag than to wait that 'jump to definition' does its job..
Depends of course the language and the project, but it's true for me at my work big C++ project..
CLion is awfully slow to start, VSCode starts fast but often I can find things faster in the shell than in the IDE :-( so I use it mostly as a dumb text editor.
Sounds like civil suit time. At least file a complaint against the officer (with IA) and the judge (judicial conduct board).
Super off-topic, for which I apologize, but being put on a pedestal means being admired. Probably the opposite of what you meant.
How is this exploitive, you are given a choice