skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No such thing as “hoarding”. That’s just a low thought argument like calling everyone you disagree with a racist.

Think of how many people’s retirement account owns Apple shares directly / indirectly. With Apple having $100b in cash, some portion of their valuation reflects that fact.

So perhaps, Apple would be worth N% less if it just distributed all the cash tomorrow back to shareholders, correct?

The point I’m making is that, the owners of the shares now own more valuable shares and thus benefit. The guy who is 95 leaves on his will that his favorite charity should get his Apple shares.

Now there’s a very real example that counters your “hoarding” claims on the assumption that no one benefits from their savings.

Not only that, Apple doesn’t keep the cash in a basement with dragons. But you’ve thought that one out I’m auree
Really nice design of the home page! Do you folks use a template for that or you built it in-house?
How Simulations Work (2016)
Only weakly in that others will only extend credit to USG as long as their revenues are sufficient that they do not default.
Move your email off Gmail immediately is all I can say. Google cannot be trusted to provide continuous access to something as important as email.
Most of those supporters still support Fox though, no? How many are actually against Fox, never watch it, and advocate against it?

Perhaps that number is bigger than I’m imagining, but I doubt it. Edgy comments online saying Fox sucks for a week because they didn’t do a good enough job isn’t the same thing. That’s still on Fox’s side.

I don’t think the comparison is the same. Maybe for Democracy Now and some progressive YouTuber/online shows.
In the simplest terms, it’s seeing a beautiful naked body of the opposite sex and getting zero sexual pleasure out of it. That’s it. Being gay doesn’t stop you from forming close bonds with the opposite sex just like being straight doesn’t stop you from having best friends of the same sex.
I've been cycling through free services that create a feed from a webpage. The latest one I'm using is PolitePol.

https://politepol.com/en/

The free version of it meets my needs perfectly.
Yes, in practice you always have to rely on someone. Even before the internet you'd have to rely on the USPS to carry your letters.

Unless you are physically speaking to someone in person, then there is always a middleman.
How will we do mathematics in 2030?
Kind of hopeful we can stop using genetics as a way of justifying queer peoples' existence. Whether it's conditioning, a choice, or genetics, shouldn't really be a factor in how you treat queer people.
From the wikipedia article: "Such ships will be used on transatlantic routes and are expected to perform the journey in 12 days, longer than the current average of eight."

I 100% get that half speed = 1/4 drag and thus 1/4 power. That makes sense.

But I'm not sure how to reconcile half speed with not at least doubling the trip duration. New York to London is 3000 nautical miles. At 10 knots that's 300 hours or 12.5 days. If there are boats doing 20 knots then they should arrive in ~6 days rather than the 8 quoted.
Definitely not a _new_ weakness, right? The vast majority of financial wealth is locked up in digital stores, which are even more so in the jurisdiction and immediate control of their respective governing body.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of crimes don't produce evidence that rises to the level you call for.

After all, if my next door neighbour barged into my house and beat me up, the only evidence would be my visible injuries and my statement that it was my neighbour.

I'm not sure if I'd prefer a society where he would be convicted, or where he wouldn't.
The problem is no different than their content moderation problem, and I'd point out to you that they do mostly solve that, and mostly through masses of human contractors.
The cultural factors related to being gay could easily be unrelated to how much being gay is accepted by society. Especially considering how many famous people are now known to have been gay during a time when it was not acceptable.

Also, there are lots of social studies that seem to suggest having gay family members can be beneficial to the family as a whole, so reducing the amount of homosexuality in the world may actually be undesirable.
Sure but cash is held in banks and banks lend that out to be reinvested elsewhere (this investment channel is moderated by central banks). Not so with cryptocoins, it's just pure accumulation of tokens.
It's from 2019. The headline should be fixed.
DOGE is not a security.
They could start with having support for all the accounts that make significant amounts of money for them. If an account makes Google >$100k a year then isn't it worth it to have support personnel that will handle the 2 tickets the account might have in a year? And the rest of the time they can focus on other tickets.
It goes beyond resumes. Our criminal justice system also uses AI to make judgement decisions. I understand the need to eliminate bias from systems (though I question how much bias is actually being eliminated via these systems) but the need to humanize people when they are most vulnerable is important.
> This is the part I find baffling. Why can’t they take 10 Google engineer’s worth of salaries, and hire a small army of overseas customer reps to handle cases like this? I realize that no customer support has been in Google’s DNA since the beginning, but this is such a weird hill to die on.

My best guesses:

1. The number of automated scams/attacks and associated support requests is unbounded vs. bounded human labor so it's a losing investment.

2. Machine learning is sufficient for attackers to undo the anti-abuse work on a low number of false positives from human intervention. Throw small behavioral variants of banned scam/attack accounts at support and optimize for highest reinstatement rate. This abuse traffic will be the bulk of what the humans have to deal with.

3. They'd probably be hiring a non-negligable percentage of the same people who are running scams. The risk of insider abuse is untenable.
Game Theory with Costly Computation [pdf]
Code search have been broken for us for a couple of months, it's no longer reliable, I suspect something is wrong with their indexer.
That's not an accurate description of current consumer arbitration precedent in the US.
I'm one of those people, generally, but even I'm not signing up to host an email server. Screw that.
Pity, but expected.
> Bitcoin has as of now failed to do in anything of the many things its true believers want it to achieve.

It's already successful. First of all: simply by enabling new methods of civil disobedience and eliminating future opportunities for government overreach it is already working to strengthen our democracy. Second, people are actually using it today to escape oppressive currency controls in certain places like Argentina. And there is real potential for Bitcoin to act as an inflation hedge that is much more convenient than gold (we have yet to see the long-term price behaviour).
Did anyone ever actually think there was a gay gene-- more accurately, allele? Homosexuality clearly has a genetic component, and we've known that for decades. But we've also known for decades that most traits are not controlled by a single gene and that human sexuality is not a binary matter.

This seems like describing a launch to the ISS with the headline "No firmament".
As masklinn commented below, that process of removing the excessive water should be (logically) slowing down the process, reuquiring extra machinery (lease/purchase, maintenance, contracts, spare parts, time) thus increasing the cost of the yogurt.

The FAGE-Total, wherever I find it, it costs around £3, while the "Greek type" costs £1 is is significantly more muddy/wet. I can taste the differce in quality, and they definitely make for a different outcome in any sauce you are trying to make.
Both. It is not fear-based. It's the full package when it comes to sexuality and romance.
Simple async queues with while/do and Postgres. No need for Kafka and friends
Gun sales spiked in 2020 amid pandemic, social justice protests
I would think that being "gay" doesn't 100% prevent someone from fathering / mothering children.
Hopefully, no. Because if true then it legitimizes conversation therapies.
Well yes and no. It might actually give a benefit to other siblings. It could manifest itself only in certain circumstances in the womb or in the environment if something helps the phenotype manifest itself...

For example there is a correlation with sibling order and homosexuality. The more boys your mother had before you the more chance you have of being homosexual. We're talking about a non-negligible increase of over 30%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_male...
I talked to a recruiter for a three letter company, and they told me that they actively search for keywords on people's resumes and the applications that most apply to the role. This would in fact be considered filtering. Now I don't know if the software they use (brassring) automatically "suggests" applicants (which would imply automated filtering) or not.
It would also give every person convicted using their software an incentive to open an appeal.
Thanks! The site design was custom done by a friend of ours.
here if "fsn-node-01" is down, we know it's a major ganeti node that dies. if "unifolium" dies, ... can you guess what happens?

at first I couldn't either, but then I learned it's an old KVM node hosting a bunch of virtual machines, and it means pain, definitely something severe. yet it's not meaningfully different from "corsicum" dying (which is "just" a VM).

adding meaning to machines reduces the cognitive burden (for oldies) and discovery burden (for newcomers) of figuring out what is what.

that assumes you don't run services bare-metal. if you do, then maybe it makes sense to use meaningful names for those, but in general, I strongly try to avoid doing that anyways... and if I do, having a functional name for that metal is mostly harmless: if the function changes, the name changes, and then I need to do a name change, which I allow for.

but that is rare, because if i dedicate full metal for a function, you can bet it won't be readily available for other purposes...
The Remittance use case may be better handled by Stellar.org

Bitcoin is the first time in history of a financial asset that no one can take from you plus you can send it. It is gold++
I know I risk looking dumb by asking this, but does this idea lead to any new ideas or conclusions, or is it just a way to draw graphs that look like upside-down deciduous trees in the winter?
I would suggest asking yourself "what is being straight?", assuming that you identify as such.
Going against popular sentiment, I dont know how people can't get in touch with a human at Google.

Whenever I have needed something that required human support, such as resolving a false DMCA claim against my content or help with my G Suite account, I had no trouble getting email and phone support. I'm not a big company or influence of any kind either.
Columbia University's data security guidelines for travel
> The AI of the first Winter had nothing to do with ML, rather expert systems and symbolic processing

Between 1988 and 1992 I worked for a UK company participating in a multinational project to use Common Lisp to build an expert system building tool. After creating the thing, we worked with clients (internal and external) to try to solve real customer projects. Our conclusions matched others, and contributed to the AI winter:

* the rule-based expert systems were extremely brittle in their reasoning

* once you got beyond toy problems with small rule sets, you needed some programming skills in addition to the domain expertise that you were supposedly encoding

* you sometimes spotted the actual algorithms that could be coded in a conventional language rather than rules + inference engine.

We eventually abandoned the AI side and kept going with the underlying Lisp, and started to get real leverage in the company, rapidly becoming a prototyping / risk reduction group who delivered usable functionality.

[Edit] We were using Lisp processors embedded in Macintosh hardware, with outstanding (for the time) IDEs and thanks to the Mac interface, we could create some really slick apps for the end users. One of our Lisp systems that got rave reviews internally was a drag-and-drop network modelling tool that replaced a frightening mass of Fortran and data entry spreadsheets. No AI/ML at all, but it really improved the throughput of our network modelling group. As we were a comms company, this got positive reaction from senior management, offsetting the non-return on investment in the rule system.
Democracy is not just the way we s/elect people in charge, it's also the idea of having people in charge and having a single way of life for millions.

The country where I live (Czechia) was praised for having one of the strongest constitutions ever written. Now its been destroyed by a populist government for a decade, with the destruction rate multiplied with the pandemic which this government is unable to do anything about while constantly trying to shift money into their pockets. Thanks to the pandemic they can do anything regardless of the constitution or law, but even before the pandemic we found out the constitution is worthless if there isn't anyone with the power to protect it, and that any wording (specific or broad, doesn't matter) will bend to the will of the judge.

If constitution is what you rely on you're in for a bad ride, you need ordinary people with guns ready to defend it. I will not trust a constitution to protect me or my property ever again.
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Asking whether these covid vaccines work is not anti-vaxxer. The antithesis also holds true, what data shows that they are working? Your example of Israel is the most troubling because they have the highest proportion of vaccinations, but their statistics of cases/deaths are not falling as fast as the rest of the world (or even the Palestinian population that isn't getting vaccinated). Does it mean that the vaccines don't work? Not necessarily. It could be as you suggested, not yet. It could mean that people are changing their behaviors now they are vaccinated. It could mean that at risk people are getting sick on the way to/from getting the vaccine.
What do you expect? A bunch of kool-aid drinkers? Good hackers have a healthy skepticism to most things. Sign of intelligent thinking to ask questions.
A rural small town judge probably doesn't have the best insight into that, just that Corporal Bubba said he calibrated it so it must've been right.

I know, this is exceedingly cynical.
Even though the status page shows all green checkmarks, we are still experiencing issues. The web interface is showing stale data and we can't perform merges in git.

Looks like some of their systems got out of sync and they aren't done resynchronising yet.
Stages of Despair in Configuration
Inspired by discussions of various configuration languages that have cropped up, I wanted to write down an encapsulation of the vagaries of simple old "configuration" in modern IT.
Yes, ham radio has sufficient throughout for Bitcoin because very few people actually transact on the blockchain. If people actually ever used Bitcoin, ham radio would be useless.
What you described is how a banking system in many countries works.

I can send a wire transfer for free to any other person in Poland at 4am on saturday night, and they will get it instantly (some exceptions apply).

I can even send them a direct code to withdraw a specific amount of money from most ATMs in the country, instantly and anonymously. (Could be to an unbanked person, but we don’t have those really - aside from some very senior citizens).

What you described is not so much a flaw in the banking system in general, but in the US banking system specifically.

Crypto has a ton of awesome use-cases - DeFi is the most promising one. Sending money to other people wirelessly can, and will, be solved by centralised institutions.
OP has explained that.

For Bitcoins, concerns about trust are warranted. Currency requires trust that it retains value; that is not given for Bitcoin and its countless clones at all.

Stablecoins collateralised by actual dollars quite obviously require trust, namely in the entity providing and holding the collateral.

Stablecoins collateralised by "the algorithm" have never been seriously tested, in my opinion, and it not clear to me at all whether you can manufacture stability algorithmically. DAI, SAI, MAI, whatever, are only collateralised by "assets" on the Ethereum blockchain, so ultimately self-referential (or, if collateralised by something tied to something real, require trust there.)
Same here. We're only in the high six figures in annual spend, but we wanted to do some low-level multi-cloud replication of our data and database read replicas, maybe looking toward compute multi-cloud in the future. Google Cloud entered and exited the discussion within a day.

We do disaster recovery and analysis all the time. And, not just dumb-brain "well, this is what their policies say happens", but real-world "this is what we're reading around social media, use-cases, blog posts, etc". This Terraria situation has already made the rounds in our slack DR channels.

We pulled off G-Suite about a year ago due to their stance on privacy, and concerns that the corporate firewall of G-Suite may not be as strong as they want you to believe, intentionally or not. Account lockout issues are also, obviously, a secondary concern.

Google Enterprise/Workspace/Cloud/etc needs to be separated from Google. At this point, I am blown away that their investors haven't begun to demand it. I understand that they may look at it as a new revenue growth area for the whole company, but frankly, this is flat-out wrong. These conversations are happening in nearly every technology-oriented enterprise. Google cannot be trusted, not by consumers, not be enterprises. Google proper is a cultural liability to the actually strong products their enterprise divisions put out.
> well administered flexible ms > fixed ms > badly administered flexible ms

The issue then becomes of how to have "well administered flexible money supply". Is it working in the US? EU? China? Turkey? Lebanon? Japan? Argentina? Brazil? Venezuela?

Besides the financial elites, are people seeing their work turn into prosperity? Are people from lower income nowadays more capable of saving and investing, or is it becoming something available only for the rich?

Even if we consider the rich countries: do we really want to live in a world where the majority of people depend on welfare and a perpetual money printer running to keep people consuming crap that no one really needs and enabling governments to fund armies to fight over resources across the globe? How sustainable is this?

> So, let central bankers do their job, unimpeded by politicians.

You might have trust in a bunch of technocrats, I don't.

Alternatively, let people make experiments with different crypto currencies, different governance models, different technologies, different requirements and different values. Evolutionary processes are more reliable/less fragile than a rigid central-planning structure. Haven't we learned anything from the almost-century-long experiment called USSR?

This is not to me saying "all flexible money supplies are crap, let's get rid of it." Only Bitcoin maxis would say something silly like that. What I am saying though is that Bitcoin was the first successful attempt at decentralized governance and that has a lot of value and (to some) is better than many of the existing central banks.
I think it is REALLY hard to overstate how dangerously naive a view of the american justice system that is
This pdf interested me as it touches on ideas about "best move" in chess. For sake of argument, accept that chess is drawn with not only perfect play, but also good enough play. The comparison of moves thus comes down to choosing lines which reduce your computational complexity for correct play while increasing your opponent's computational complexity for correct play. Better players can thus seek lines which increase computational complexity for both players to increase their odds of winning so long as they can continue to find correct moves

If anyone has more resources on these ideas, please share
I loved Clockwise but unfortunately not allowed to use it at my workplace anymore. If you can use it do so! It is the best personal assistant I had in ages!
You might already know this but taxes you pay to the country you're resident in are (in most cases, depends on the country and the tax treaties) deducted from your taxable income.

You only need to pay Federal income tax and since most countries have higher taxation rates than the US, most expats and up with no tax liability on their income. Capital income taxes are a major pain though.
What if the "gay gene" is tied to the "sexually attracted to our parents gene" ?

And evolving out the former would cause the later to go which is detrimental to the overall health of the species.
The state of JVM desktop frameworks: Jetpack Compose for Desktop
As others have noted, GitHub Search is not particularly reliable. It might make you think you're finding all uses of some token, but that can be misleading as not all instances are necessarily shown:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-...
It's unlikely there's a gene that codes for being gay. Homosexuality instead is better thought of as more like why men have nipples. Obviously the nipples are not useful to the reproductive success of men, but genetics and natural selection are messy and there's likely no easy path to not having them in men while maintaining their function in women.

For homosexuality, the systems of sexual attraction in the brain need to tune to the gender somehow, and this is a system which, apparently, isn't 100% successful at aligning gender and sexual attraction. So the answer to "why are some men attracted to men" is the same as "why do men have nipples:" it's because women need to be attracted to men and because women need nipples.

And of course it needs to be said that just because someone's sexual attraction isn't aligned to their gender it doesn't mean that they're inferior. We don't measure the worth of a person by their reproductive success.
It'd be super cool to have RSS feeds (limited to episodes that have already aired), so I could subscribe to shows I care about and get updates in my feed reader when new episodes come out.

My biggest annoyance with TV is not knowing when it's time to come back and start watching again - this would totally solve that for me. I would pay for this.
Mass blocking NYT linked accounts on Twitter
I assume it’s a physical attraction to members of the same sex, with the emotional dimension developing in the same way as it does between any two individuals in a mated pair.
Hi folks, I built this over the week-end as a side-project to learn GraphQL. It focuses on giving you actionable SLAs on your issues. In particular it should give you interesting insights about how fast your team is solving bugs :)
Note that if you have multiple Linear workspaces, the app will by default connect to the latest one you logged in to.
I'm going to create a "Free" service where you can just "freely" choose to stop creating these totally useless and backward pieces of production art.

Then, you might see the unicorn out there in the mist... the UX person who can actually just "make the prototype" and the design system - instead of inspiring hundreds of useless meetings to deliberate over a flat perversion.

I like paying for things. Good things. And when I pay for good things... (and they are managed well) - they inspire people to make more good things.

This whole "Free" thing... is costing us all - big time.
Indeed, sexual attraction is a lot more complicated than "I am attracted to this bimodal extreme of gender."
Tesla Buys $1.5bn in Bitcoin
I know. Hence my claim.