skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point was that government-issued currency fluctuates in value, sometimes quite significantly. This underscores the fact currency is a speculative asset.

And mine is that as speculative assets go, currency is one of the lamest. Volatility is very limited, with most of the variation being caused by the relative closeness of the different currencies.

> Central banks wouldn't be able to debase their bitcoin via inflation, and money printing for political ends would grind to a halt. Meanwhile, the currency unit BTC would work in every country. I'd say that's a win over the status quo.

If those schemes inflated the BTC supply in the slightest, they'd instantly fork off the network. If banks decide to issue cash backed by BTC, it would trade at a discount compared to BTC proper given the inherent lack of assurances. And it would be competing against myriad L2 blockchain protocols designed to enhance transactional capacity.

There’s a lot of untested and unstated assumptions there. Just to get started:

- somehow governments will not agree to perfectly available schemes, like fractional reserve lending.

Just by agreeing to save with tax money the lenders, governments can create sudden inflation by drastically reducing required reserves.

- “inflation is a monetary phenomenon” == “printing is the only cause of inflation”.

There’s more variables there, and some of them would be still in control of governments. There’s this general misunderstanding in Bitcoin believers that just because supply is limited, the price will stabilize. Picture this is scenario, governments create a tax on savings and use this to keep ever increasing reserves of BTC. As long as they have reserves, they still have monetary levers, but it’s the same for all countries, so supernational organizations will be the central-bank-like entities controlling the currency.

> IMO BTC is bound to become global reserve currency in any future where government issued ecurrency comes into the foray, and the private banking sector is bound to issue cash and credit lines backed by BTC.

Right now the whole crypto market is a self referencing speculative bubble. Most applications created deal with either creating new tokens or exchanging existing ones. I’m way too bearish on that until I see Bitcoin (or crypto in general) in the real economy.
> Some juicy federal crimes we're all expected to know

No, we are not all expected to know them.

The first one is from a part of the tax code that covers taxation on alcohol sales. If you are not involved in the commercial beer brewing industry, you do not need to know it.

The second one is part of the rules on interstate commerce in food, drugs, and cosmetics. Again, most of us have no need to know it. Same with the sixth one.

The third is from the laws governing public lands. If you aren't going to fly your hot air balloon into a Federal wilderness area, there is no need to know it.

...and so on.
FWIW we don't know where it's hosted now, that's the point of DDoS-Guard, and the Reuters article makes no claim the site is 'hosted by Russia.'
I had so much fun with this. I actually like that it uses the mean rather than some clustered mode in a lot of the cases I tried out. For example, “space” is pleasantly brighter than the dark black/blue hue that would come from that approach. It’s a little warmer and brighter than that, and feels like a truer representation of the concept in my mind’s eye. Obviously it will end up muddy for some things with several dominant colors. The mean approach also allows for some fun experiments like “black and white” which returned a rewardingly exact gray for me. Which led me to “newspaper” which is gray with most weight to the red and some to blue, and looks just right. I just spent about 15 minutes on this. Simple fun and useful, I am totally going to use this for something, thanks!
This seems less like an answer to the question and more a statement of your position. Amazon is domestic so it's kinda hard to accuse them of direct foreign interference.
Generally unless your at risk of either bleeding or thrombosis/embolism then don’t worry too much about your blood thickness (correct word is coagulability rather than viscosity). It tends to balance and stay In a narrow range in fit and well individuals. I’ve never heard of it impacting on cognition.
> "Centralization is a Danger to Democracy"

Ugh, I figured here we go again, some dumb
startup taking advantage of the current
political climate to pitch some new social network.

But then I looked, and turns out this
is really, really cool. I love it
when my expectations are greatly exceeded.

Definitely going to spend some time
kicking around this thing more. Cool stuff!
1. Twitter and YouTube are both full of conservative content.

2. The difference between Parler, Twitter, and Youtube is that the latter two moderate their content.

3. Parler was banned because it wouldn't moderate violent content.

Your interpretation of events is incorrect. Even Parler, in their legal filings, are not claiming that they were silenced because they were a platform for conservative speech.
Not always.

I think the point is to issue common-sense executive orders and force the Democrats to justify striking them down.
> far more damage and fatalities

Name the fatalities from BLM activities.
Sure.

1. I don't actually believe the VP was at much risk at all of being murdered, just like I don't believe Jeff Bezos was at much risk of being decapitated. This is probably the weakest part of my stance, as obviously I do not psychically know the intentions of the rioters at the capitol – maybe they really did have murder in their hearts. But my gut tells me that none of the people there actually would've hung Mike Pence if they'd gotten their hands on him. I certainly don't believe they would've done so to anyone else.

2. Murder does not a coup make. A coup requires an attempt to seize the levers of power. Usually by the military. AFAICT, there was no evidence of either military support or any plan to actually seize any power. If murdering politicians is a coup, does that mean the assassination of JFK was an attempted coup?

3. I don't disagree that Trump was galvanizing his base with lies.

4. I haven't visited 4chan in nearly a decade.
They are not unaware of the new stuff. But it doesn’t enter their day to day until it’s reached critical mass or if they’ve identified a couple suitable patients to recommend it to. Eg. Advil’s not working for a patient’s headache so, tell patient to try Tylenol because I learned about it during CMEs. Advil remains default for a long while. In many cases, until this doctors kid replaces him in the practice. Their generation learned in med school that Tylenol should be default.
There was a proposal to do just that in our DIP (D improvement proposal) pipeline that nearly made it but it (probably correctly) received enormous backlash.

However, if you use @safe (that's the attribute) the compiler will hard-error if you call any code that you use that isn't explicitly also either @safe or @trusted.

There is also DIP1000 and DIP1021 which both loosen @safe semantics to perform semantic analysis to allow safe memory behaviour (A small borrow checker in effect, this will hopefully be bigger soon).
> Practicing medicine is a learning process, healing people is a side effect.

> See how ridiculous this sounds?

That sounds perfectly fine to me. I very much profit from the fact that humanity has been healing people for centuries, because it means that treatments, hospitals, and a whole education system to educate doctors and nurses exist.

The fact that some John Doe survived his surgery in 1923 and made a recovery doesn't help me much at all.

Sounds ridiculous, actually. /j
First line: 'Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right'

Parler is/was essentially a free speech libertarian site with strict rules and guidelines for posts.

I find it disturbing that the overwhelmingly US neo conservative liberal media companies slap the label 'far right' on just abut anything that doesn't fit their world view and agenda. Any sort of recognition there are center right or moderate conservatives appears to have been cancelled.

Regarding extremists, It's the old story - ban it and it will go underground. Free speech is always better and is also a cornerstone of western democracy. The irony of Parler having to be hosted in fascist Russia is extreme and embarrassing for the western world.
> storm capitol (5 deaths, over 100 injuries)

This 5 deaths stat is one of the most mealy mouthed details being repeated. 1 police officer was killed, 1 rioter was killed. 2 people died of health related issues (1 stroke, 1 heart attack) while standing around. 1 died in the press of the crowd when people started panicking.

2 deaths were medical issues. 1 was a sad accident. 1 was a tragedy of someone being killed in the line of duty, and 1 was a trespasser paying the price for their actions. Playing it up like 5 innocent people were murdered by violent rioters is disrespectful to the one person who actually was, and is blatant politically motivated propaganda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/who-died-in-capitol-bu...
Parler is basically irrelevant at this point. Anyone can stand something up on the internet, but without mainstream technical and legal support it is politically dead.

The most influence it will exert is in mainstream news articles about its fate, and opinion pieces about free speech from American philosophy majors.
This is a legitimately good description of an arguably plausible (but still plausible!) scenario. But I must note that democracy is not lost in this scenario...unless you'd like to explain:

> At this point in time there is no longer a democracy in the US.

If we were to attach a debugger and step through the code, what state (variables and their values) would represent a valid scenario of democracy no longer existing in the United States? Or I suppose we could just look at the implementation of IsDemocracy(), assuming the designer of this shitty simulation is reasonably organized.

> The only thing that saved us from this was Trump's cowardice.

Well, that and other things that you haven't considered.

I don't say these things because I think these morons are righteous, or Trump is a good president, or because I think this event is insignificant, but the opposite: I think this scenario is extremely significant - so significant that I suggest we discuss it with the same rigorous precision that is usually reserved only for discussing topics like computer programming. I think a decent argument could be made that the welfare of the country inside of which we write computer code should command at least as much respect during conversations (even if begrudged) as we enthusiastically heap upon coding arguments.

But of course, this is just my opinion. And to be fair, if shit really does ever hit the fan, most everyone in this forum is well off enough to get the hell out of dodge to some other country that hasn't gone down the drain, where we can start the process all over again.
No. He's telling regulatory prosecutions to focus on cases where they can show that the defendant was duly informed of their violations and did not attempt to remedy them.

Which seems appropriate to me, most of the time.
More here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1188746
Agreed, but at this point even images and videos can be faked and doctored to a pretty high standard. Privacy of the leakers should be worth it IMO.
>> Are you claiming that Iraq did not in fact invade and conquer Kuwait?

> I am claiming that the Nayirah testimony helped manufacture consent for US military involvement.

Oh, I see. I think the difference is that wasn't really the casus belli for the Gulf War (the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention Nayirah at all, for instance), while the WMD lie was the literal casus belli for the Iraq War.

> You claimed that the problem of the last few years was blatant lies gaining traction in the marketplace of ideas. I am pointing out that lies have forever gained traction in the marketplace of ideas, while also being co-signed by authoritative news sources and politicians.

I think we're using different definitions of "blatant." I'm talking about stuff like QAnon or Stop the Steal. In comparison, the lies you're talking about are far more credible and believable.
Fwiw, Putin has always allowed some measure of criticism. Which isn't to say he isn't a modern fascist, he completely is—but it's far easier to pretend you're democratic if there's openly documented criticism that is allowed.

If this weren't the case, surely Pussy Riot would have been assassinated a long time ago.
Religion is complicated and built up over thousands of years. I am sure some rules are to designate an in-group/unity, some are based on the best belief at the time for the public good, some are probably arbitrary dictates from whomever happened to be in charge at the time. I think it would be a mistake to lump all the rules together (just as it would be a mistake to lump all of our modern laws together). Some are also self obvious, for example, i believe one of the kosher rules is dont eat animals that have been poisioned.

As far as pork specificly - i imagine nobody really knows, but there's some speculation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_...
I disagree with such a hard and fast rule. Some pain and discomfort can and should be pushed through. Other pain should not be.

Pain should be a signal to consider carefully what you are doing.
> That would be a crappy democracy if it could be eroded by a bunch of idiots taking an unauthorized Whitehouse tour.

A crappy tour of Congress during a key transition of power, where they intended to kill the VP and whoever had displeased them. After action reports are indicating that they got within 60s and 90 feet of the VP, and we're not even done hearing the story of that day.

Coup attempts are always humorous until they actually work. Do not mistake us getting lucky this time with the narrative that nothing could have happened.
Anywhere with a strong, independent legal system e.g. EU, Canada, Australia, Japan etc would never tolerate an app like Parler being used to incite an insurrection.

Any countries without one e.g. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia would also not tolerate it as it could equally be used to incite an insurrection.

So very curious where you think this "safe" place is in the world.
How is it foreign interference in anything whatsoever?
Strict rules and guidelines that were apparently violated, and they took no action to resolve - this is a paper thin excuse that no one should repeat.
I also get shades of brown. If you take the mean of any image with many similarly distributed colors, it will be brown. Mean is clearly not the best function for this. It should maybe calculate the dominant color instead.
With genetic sequencing it is often possible to trace the infection chains with a bit more confidence.
> Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.

I wouldn't want to be the delivery guy who has to bring that to your door...
Waiting for the first e-mail or API call out of the service to reveal it's location :)
Free Icon Sets
How many do you want? Because there have been dozens of murders, even entirely setting aside accidental and incidental deaths.
Optimum Number of Friends [pdf]
I especially noticed this when I accidentally browsed logged out once. The same thing that was $X + $Y shipping became $(X + Y) + 0 Prime shipping...
Free speech, so long as it agrees with the Putin government.

Otherwise you will likely end up poisoned like Navalny or happen to fall off a balcony like so many Russian journalists.
It's very useful to break tasks down so instead of a month long "upgrade elasticsearch" story, there's dozens of day-or-less tasks to work on. Often it's not noticed how much effort goes in to creating these new smaller tasks. If you aren't extremely familiar with the targeted version of elasticsearch, you'll have to spend significant amounts of time investigating, planning, and writing.

You can get very high accuracy on estimates by spending lots of time creating smaller stories and encouraging people to over estimate. This may not be in the best interest of the project or the business.
Have you seen Twitter or Facebook?
I regret all dental pain I've endured.

Don't be like me. My wisdom teeth pushed my teeth totally out of alignment. The headaches have been unbearable at times. I've had infections come and go.

It's been 15 years. I could have spent $3k 15 years ago to enjoy the following 15 years a lot more. What the hell was I thinking?

Well, I was thinking sort of like you are now. If you can afford to fix it, it's worth every penny.
> 5 in one event?
Which is why they backed their claim with lots of data.
The Histomap – 4000 years of world history [image]
This comment doesn't contribute to the discussion. What evidence would be helpful?
All the vehicle manufacturers I tried gave varying shades of "grey".

Fire is also not what I expected :)
This might come of as a weird question for Mac-users...

But as an Ubuntu-user, why would I want or need this? Are there any OSX software people consider essential? I mean... I barely even use Wine :)
Have you used TF 2.0? It’s definitely better in terms of ease of use. Still not as good as Pytorch, in my opinion. Pytorch is still just more... ergonomic, I would say.

However, I don’t think the Pytorch ecosystem really matches tensorflow yet for production, with TFX and all the other nice-to-haves that google and others have open sourced.

As someone who spends a lot of their time doing POCs and research work, I strongly prefer Pytorch. But I have colleagues who mainly productionize language models, and they all seem to like Tensorflow. I don’t know if that’s just inertia on their part, or the result of a considered choice however.
Was redhat really that great? I used it back in the late 90s, but later in 2010 at yahoo (they used redhat) it was a friggin' nightmare with dependency hell.

I never had that issue with Ubuntu or Debian. I recently moved over to Arch and still don't have issues like that.

Maybe it has gotten better in 10 years but I think IBM is grasping at straws spending money trying to stay relevant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_d...
What can Eric Schmidt do differently? Let's say Google suddenly made it their #1 priority to make sure to never ever collect profiles about minors. Would that make the advice any less useful? They still have competitors from all around the world who may be less scrupulous than them making that advice still useful.

The problem is not individual bad people or bad companies. Take out the ones that exist now and a sea of new adtech startups will take their place.
Don't Starlink sats use hall thrusters as well?
I don't remember the details, but there was a lawsuit (in India IIRC) over some contractual documents, which were proven to be fake since they used Microsoft's Calibri font, but were supposed to be from before Calibri et al. was released.
The words that come from the Parler CEO are very different to his actions.

It's been rumoured (with very good sources) that he happily complied with FBI requests to turn over data. So it wouldn't surprise me if was more than happy to comply with whatever Putin wanted so long as it was kept quiet.
Call me ignorant if you will, but haven't they been deplatforming violent speeches lately?
I was an early adopter of pantry, I used it twice and both times they were out of most of the things I ordered.
Sadly that Twitter thread looks more like the usual conspiracy theory, trying to link multiple "but this looks weird" facts without actual knowledge. The same kind of things used by the opposing side to come up with any of their latest "George Soros controls the world" or other odd theories. A slight double standard in that sense.
Hmm...

Socialist: pinkish
Communist: bright red
Capitalist: light brown
Fascist: dark brown
People do try and argue its justified in specific circumstances. Sometimes people have an over-active imagination for what constitutes self-defense.

Hell, trump pardoned someone convicted of murder (which is disgusting, but i guess he thought it was reasonable).

But my main point is there was never a time or society where the only crime was murder.
> I find it disturbing that the overwhelmingly US neo conservative liberal media companies slap the label 'far right' on just abut anything that doesn't fit their world view and agenda. Any sort of recognition there are center right or moderate conservatives appears to have been cancelled.

This is because "far right" has become a code-word for "neo-nazi" and/or "white supremacist/racist", so labeling everything that does no fit their preferred world view as "far right" automatically sets it up to be something so obscene that it should be banned in the minds of their viewership.

And of course, what you see is the beginning of the banning happening right before your eyes.
You could probably improve the accuracy a lot by ignoring some percentage of the edge of images, to help eliminate averaging the backgrounds.
Americans are far more ardent practitioners of religion: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/01/with-high-l.... In terms of people who pray daily, the US is over 50%, comparable to Bangladesh (a country where the dominant religion requires praying five times a day!). Germany is around 10%. Even Poland is only at 30%. Think of the laws in Poland. Abortion is mostly illegal. Same sex marriage is illegal. How would Poles react if the European Court of Human Rights overturned abortion laws in Poland?

As to what Democrats would do—we already have examples. FDR-appointed Supreme Courts interpreted the Establishment Clause to create a “wall of separation” prohibiting, for example, things like optional religious instruction in public schools, or public support of religious schools. These things are quite common in Europe.

Abortion is another example. While European countries left abortion to voters (with comparably religious countries like Poland still prohibiting it) the Supreme Court created a constitutional abortion right so broad it rendered illegal many limits and compromises voters even in liberal counties like France have embraced. Voters in France only recently liberalized waiting periods, and those are still required in Germany. In the US, those have been unconstitutional for decades.

Going forward, I would expect major changes to include extremely divisive measures such as mass amnesty (which Biden just stated will be a top priority). Also entrenchment of public unions, and federal bailouts of blue state public pension funds.

On the legal side, I’d expect a war on religious exemptions. Countries like Germany have moved slowly on areas like adoption by same-sex couples. In the US, meanwhile, there is a movement to push out religious-affiliated adoption agencies that cannot, consistent with their faith, place children with same-sex couples. In another example, Democratic activist organizations are pushing the Department of Education to pull accreditation of religious schools that teach traditional views of marriage. By contrast in many European countries, religious schools are eligible to receive tax dollars from school vouchers.

I’d also expect another major battleground to be the discrimination laws. Liberals deem “race blind” approaches like those taken in France to be “racist.” In 2014, to liberal Justices voted to overturn a Michigan law that prohibited schools from giving preferences to certain students based on race. These sorts of preferences are unpopular with the public (including with racial minorities) but championed by progressive educators. I’d expect the Supreme Court’s existing standards on discrimination, which embody traditional “race blind” approaches, to be a target if Democrats ever won a Supreme Court majority.
This comment isn't helpful. Could you support it with instances of when they took action versus when they didn't? Currently, you only posted your opinion.