skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i can't read the entire article, but i can read the comments. it doesn't look like anyone is talking about the real reason for CBDCs. which is to create more liquidity. in other words, to get money out of escrow while international cross border payments are settled.

when a large transaction [billions] is made between two countries, there must be that much of each currency in either institutions account. it is there for days or weeks at a time. so that money isn't being put to work, it's just sitting there. a CBDC would settle these transactions within seconds. this is why something like xrp is interesting to many people.

specifically, CBDCs are interesting where the IMF is involved. they issue to countries something called special drawing rights, SDRs. these are a basket of currencies used to 'balance' the international monetary system between the developed world and the developing world. [the world bank is where the g7-20 do their banking].
a 'one world currency' might look something like a CBDC SDR. since currency transactions can be immediately settled anywhere in the world, a [diversified package of] SDR would essentially serve as a 'world dollar'.

as an aside, the economic reset being promoted, coincidentally by the world economic forum, i think, is an attempt at a peaceful transition away from the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency. and while it might be china's Yuan or reminbi that replaces it, i think it might be something more like an SDR. or, in other words, a basket of currencies lumped into one digital currency; a one world digital currency.
Fair enough, however I'd want to review those studies to see what similarities do exist - even if in different households/environments. Studies that aren't taking into account the relative general lack of health of people in many parts of the world needs to be addressed, accounted for, in research as well.

I do understand how some makeups could allow a large amount of people to certainly to be prone to environmental stresses, have a more fragile-sensitive system - and if those factors are allowed to continue say for decades, there will be a hardening.
There is another great book on the subject, The Yoga of Dream and Natural Light my Namkhai Norbu and Michael Katz. It's kinda fascinating that a thousand years ago Tibetans were exploring this fascinating subject in depth - with precise methods, scriptures and so on - while at the same time in Europe theologians were debating how many devils could be fit on the tip of a needle.
> Hospitals have hospital administrators at the top

I really don't understand how this does not create an endless stream of problems (or, quite likely, it does, but they are well hidden). But keep in mind that the power of hospital administrators is severely restricted compared to software development managers (what is really reasonable, by the way).

It's a general rule for all kinds of engineering that one can not deliver quality if the management isn't composed of good engineers. You can deliver all kinds of stuff, but not quality.
We-didn't-start-the-flame-war.mov
Contrast:

Congressman: Would you buy GME at $45

Gill: Yes

Congressman: ....
> Do they ever get resolved? Not in my experience.

I've found this to be less true than perhaps it used to be, particularly in places like HN. I don't think you'll change anyone's minds overnight on a big issue like climate change or racism, but I regularly see people share insights and perspectives in a reasonable way. Over time, these add up into real change, even if you don't see it happening in the course of a single thread.
The problem is that on average we are not professionals like doctors. There was a thread here about monolith first with a lot of confusion. One person mentioned how their job interview started to go wrong when they mentioned some of the down sides of microservices.

How did we get this bad? Is it our education? Computer science isn't really even science let alone engineering. It's more like a branch of pure mathematics. As a result people who should have been trained to make engineering tradeoffs instead obsess about things that don't matter to the job they are actually doing.
I believe you could intentionally make it not bootable using Disk Utility if you delete the firmware partition (thus requiring a DFU mode recovery) but that is an expected behavior
Anyone who has spent a substantial amount of their free time on internet forums will laugh at this article with cynicism.

It's not wrong per se but I've found most people come to online forums to blow off steam or waste time, not to have fair conversations or arguments. Also, you see the exact same debates over and over. It becomes tiring.

My solution has been to just post less responses on forums, and to suppress the urge to argue with someone about the same topic I've argued about hundreds of times before. I still fail at it but I have gotten better.
It's not hidden. It's literally in the documentation.

All this shows is that people do NOT read docs and expects others to read it for them.
Do you know how many sunny days are there in Belarus between March and October?

Also, where do you suggest building a hydro power plant, given that the difference between the highest and the lowest point in the country is about 200 m?
Cool people use .mkv
> What value does electron add to the user? I would argue none. That Slack can’t find the resources to write actual Swift for a Mac App is just amazing to me. Instead we are essentially interacting with a lowest-common-denominator web app. Is a chat app that hard to write natively? We’d get better performance, a smaller footprint, and a more polished, platform-specific product.

Exactly, one can look at Telegram app, it is clean, polished and open source client written as a native app that works across many platforms (and one of few that has Linux client).
You can't get out of it completely, but you can reduce the risk of it actually occuring and, maybe more importantly, reduce the constant paranoia whether the system is ok or not.

What has helped me as the only technical founder, as freelancer or in very small teams in general:

- Choose boring technology. Especially when alone I prefer reliability and tons of state of the art on how to operate it, over shiny features

- Choose technolgy and infrastructure that you know. It is a whole lot easier to maintain a stable system with something that you have ample experience with.

- Keep system complexity roughly aligned with team size. E.g. when alone, it might not be the best idea to maintain 5 very different database systems altough on paper each is "the best tool for the job"

- I don't think you need any super advanced, well tought out archiecture, but if you are constantly fire fighting while at work, it might not even be good enough

- Setup basic automation so the system can recover iteselffrom the unavoidable but benign hickup every now and then.

- Don't deploy before going for lunch, coffee break, dinner, weekends, etc.

- While working, observe your systems behaviour over time, and especially the impact of changes on it. If you see a degradation, fix it or at least put it in the backlog. Otherwise it will bite you eventually out of nowhere.

- Have nice error pages and messaging that are shown to users when the system fails. In my experience in early stage companies, crashes suck, but aren't actually that bad after all and users are quite lenient as long as they see that the system is down instead of having the bad experience of it just not working correctly.
No you can't, when Apple silicon Mac with M1 cannot load Recovery options. It shows exclamation mark and url to go for support, where you learn that it would boot only with the help of 'another Mac'

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211868
You should watch their CEO Thomas Peterffy's interview during the gamestop situation - he basically said "shorting is illegal" and a lot of other such nonsense .. completely lost respect for IB after that, even though I still maintain an account.

https://streamable.com/ycdec9
There's definitely bullying within families and between spouses unfortunately. Kids may internalize that and act it out with their peers.
Boys who play video games have lower depression risk
Unrelated but this reminds me of temporal pincers from Tenet
Every country’s social media is heavily controlled by their government or by corporations.

The thing that matters more is GDP/capita
> I've been able to put the OS on a usb stick and boot/run from that.

Wouldn't booting from an external drive like that be a gaping security hole for the Mac?
Frankly, I can imagine a full-page ad in New Yor Times arguing that the forthcoming legislation against ads in dreams is hurting small businesses.
Well, you mean those?

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Completely OT but might as well ask here. Does anyone know of a good replacement for Turntable.fm/Plug.dj? Social music playing/DJing experience with avatars and a chat is basically what I am after. I have a group of friends that I think might enjoy this type of thing but Turntable.fm pivoted years ago and Plug.dj, while being able to link to YouTube seems to require an API key which these non-tech folks won’t be able to figure out.

I think the kinds of shared digital experiences is what is helping keep people sane while we are all isolating so I welcome all new attempts at new social platforms.
>you would think that a sane national security strategy is to maximize security of every citizen

exploiting adversaries is also a way to protect your citizens.
Amusingly, a lot of flight search continues to run on Lisp at Google (QPX).
Yeah not only was the value proposition a one-time fee, but also paying at all. A lot of alternatives were free, and the pitch IIRC was if you pay then the archive is more sustainable.

I'd be interested to see what a re-up of a one-time (two-time?) fee looks like. When I'm being frugal I tend to cut subscriptions, but today I can afford a lump sum.

I'd sooner pay today for the 2011 Pinboard Civic and run it until it needs replacing, than lease a 2021 Pinboard Model Y.
Turntable is coming back. tt.fm
Ask HN: Why Perseverance team was using two layers of masks?
No don't, you're going to be in for a bad time if you wear cotton as a base layer in -10C weather.

If you wear cotton socks and they get wet you might lose tour toes.

Most wool is definitely not polyester. At least not in Scandinavia.
> You can't contract to buy a commodity at the spot price

No, no, the problem is that they can. It shouldn’t be possible for consumers to do that.

Nor for wholesale prices to reach $9k/MWh, but that’s a different thing.
Dog bitten by human or why the title twist?
The problem with building a country around resource exports is that it becomes highly profitable to import basic needs like food. Domestic production cannot compete because there is an excess of foreign currency in the country and using that currency on food is better than simply accumulating it.

I'm not exactly sure how to counteract this. A potential solution would be to introduce tariffs on consumer goods like food and a government program that subsidizes local food production with the tax income from the tariffs.
> pi has a greater than aleph-0 digits in any numbering system, because it's, well, an irrational number

In usual math, irrational numbers have aleph-0 decimal digits.

(Rational numbers also have aleph-0 decimal digits, but after some point they start repeating in a loop of finite length.)
It’s a typo, the original article is correct
I've long wrestled with myself whether to buy a remarkable (2) and have finally decided against it because I expect that I will own another technical device that will be obsolete and an expensive door stopper in a couple years time (made that mistake with a 1st gen Kindle). Also, while it's extremely sleek, my main use for paper & pen these days is for editing and it's just no fun without a red pen ;-)

My expectation (and sincere hope, ngl) is that we will see a major innovation push in e-Ink displays and devices over the next year(s) and I have now resolved to buy a remarkable 3 (or 4) which will hopefully be available in color (and fully usable without any mandatory public cloud tethering). And maybe with some saner pricing options. I mean, a cover for $150? That makes it clear that this is a veblen good, not a workhorse for a wide audience (like schools, students etc.) - or it's Apple-monitor-stand-style consumer rip-off, who knows. I'd much prefer a faux-leather option anyway (not too comfortable with wrapping my tablet in dead cow skin, but don't like the $79 grey option either) but they unfortunately don't offer that.
Yes, the analogy between school and prison is spot on.

In everyday life, if an environment/person bothers you, you can simply CHOOSE to deal with it if it's worth it or avoid it if it's not.
Schools and prisons are closed systems where the social hierarchy inevitably gets established and constantly contested.

As someone who has been on both sides of the game telling kids not to fight back is counterproductive. If the situation is handled correctly it can become an incredible opportunity for growth.
Spring is coming all people will go outside no goverment can stop them. So news are apearing like bird flu in Russia and Ebola in Afrika.
It's to keep everyone at homes till goverments will say go outside, covid is seasonal virus you can go outside. But not letting to go outside by own will. Totalitarism.
My understanding is that registration is not required before infringement occurs, but it is required before a copyright lawsuit can proceed. That is, any lawsuits with regard to a unregistered copyright will be paused until the copyright is registered.
Try syncthing

I've been using it for years to sync files between all my devices

https://syncthing.net/
Yup. I just learned this as well while inadvertently missing out on a 'mining bitcoin with micro nuclear reactors in space' session I was invited to.
It’s the South Park Walmart problem.
> It adds a lot of value to Linux and to a lesser extent Mac users: before a electron a lot of apps didn't have a version for these platform at all.

I prefer web versions of those apps on Linux than electron.
Sorry, I want to run just one browser and it is not Chrome based one.

And for sure Electron apps don't allow that ease of cross platform development as one thinks, I would argue that it is on the same level as a native app with good abstraction library (see Telegram client source on github).

It is more that they don't want to hire desktop developers (or just ones that want to learn something else than JS).
Try Krita instead of Gimp
It doesn’t matter if it’s her lawyer. Any lawyer would have told her not to do this because it damages her case, and the emails are discoverable anyway in pretrial.

Also, I have to ask, why didn’t she just print them? Or take screen pics with her phone? Emailing things from work directly to external parties seems rather dumb for a computer expert.
Yes, but C is one of the languages with the very low amounts of inherent safety. So using a language/tooling that will be offering stricter possibilities of validations of behaviour/more safeguards against unsafe behaviour would likely catch a lot more bugs earlier when they are easier and cheaper to fix.
And knowing the difference is an important part of rocket science:

https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbi...
Sure, but that's distinctly not the way you'd write or think about that definition in everyday mathematics. It encodes the definition but it doesn't really express it.
It reflects even more poorly on a serious publication when the top comment points out all the errors and bias in the main article. They understandably don't like that.
Predictive Policing Explained
I believe you need to upgrade to the premium Robinhood Gold before they can lend shares. It isn't the default, AFAIK. But a lot of people who post online about trading (selection bias) use Robinhood Gold.
I use KeePass and Syncthing. $0 a year and and you don't need to store your password db on someone else's sever.

https://syncthing.net/
Historians and scientists have studied this and basically the rise of government has reduced the murder rate. There's a great PBS episode on it.
this is amazing, like a dream come true!
Yes definitely. I try to find some more generalized, non-controversial statement that we both agree on. It's easier from that point to figure out what exactly we disagree on and why.

It also serves as a litmus test. If the other person isn't even willing to take an agreeable tone to something that's not controversial, then I know I'd be spending my time more wisely by doing something else.
Ooh! Any clue when it might launch and what the pricing structure might be?
Electron app is not a native Linux client, it is just a browser app.
If you ran that app in a tab it gives you much better performance and less memory used.
I like the modularity of prosody; the choice is similar to postfix vs exim. I merely wanted to point it out that ejabberd is a more full fledged solution out of the box.
Modules are global singletons, class definitions are global singletons. Monkeypatching is less common in Python than Ruby but I'd still consider it a significant risk.
> ...it is scripting that is the best trojan horse for pushing a language into an organization. Scripting is usually mission-critical without being acknowledged as such, and many scripts are small and standalone. Look how many popular "scripting languages" there are as opposed to "systems programming languages". Then normalize it by the amount of corporate backing a language got on its way to popularity. Clearly scripting is the best trojan horse.
India's prosperity must not become hostage to European climate agenda
Are there likely to be many more researchers in the US who's purpose was similar?
First time I played D2 might have been in 2010 with people who played D1&D2 on release. It was genuinely one of the worst games I had ever played.
For context:

1. Gebru is alleged to have terrorized a Google Brain manuscript discussion forum with unfounded accusations of racist disregard for her contributions https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

There is some disagreement within this thread as to exactly what happened, but it seems to me that Gebru had a tendency of taking perceived slights and blowing them out of proportion, creating a more difficult work environment.

2. Mitchell was fired for stealing thousands of company emails

I wasn't impressed with the process Google used to rid themselves of Gebru, but let's not pretend that Google lost the ethics A-team here.
> Of course super determinist asteroids become worrying. Or can they adjust those?

Yes, but not on the highest level. :(

So it depends on whether they can simulate the future, and whether someone up the ladder will be nice enough to simulate enough future (with the asteroids deflected) for those below them before they (the ones up the ladder) get killed.
That's not the point. Exfiltrating the data means it's available to non-employees (and it appears she did send it to non-employees which is by itself a clear and prosecutable violation), is not protected by the company's security and privacy policies, and would still be available to her beyond her period of employment. She's not entitled to do any of those things, especially since as you say she had access to the info as an employee anyway so she had no legitimate excuse.
Within one day of the press release this has drawn so much negative attention in Germany that this "study" became a major embarrassment for the university and its press department. Now they are mostly concerned with damage limitation...
Not the parent, but here's an example of the converse: VS Code does not play any videos because it does not bundle ffmpeg because doing so would "infect"/burden it with heaps of GPL requirements.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100599, https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Both: Performance.

Java compiles in 30% shorter time.

Probably also true for .Net but I haven't checked.

Running smaller apps is also noticeably quicker on Linux.

Once I benchmarked a hello world .Net app on both a new Windows and in a VirtualBox VM on the same machine. The difference is in the 10x or 100x range.

This is especially obvious when working with anything that uses git. On Linux it happens as you lift your hand from enter.

On Windows you can wait a couple of seconds.

Compared to Gnome, I feel KDE treats me like an adult. Gnome wants to tell me how things are supposed to be. In KDE everything is configurable (so use something with sane defaults like KDE Neon).
Take a look at Telegram client, looks great on Linux, not sure how it looks on macos or Windows.
And this also will lead to further divides where the wealthy get batteries and generators while everyone else is literally left out in the cold.

Seeing the failure of American politics recently is sad - it feels like society has just given up any ambition in favor of petty in fighting. The article touches on an important point - we are hopelessly short term in our thinking, and the political system reflects that.

Look at China's Belt and Road initiative, it's a 40 year, ambitious plan. Do we even have any serious 10 year plans? 5 year? And why not?
As it appears to be a phenomenon almost exclusive to the very young, expansion to the general population seems unlikely as that implies biological constraints.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2869...

Note the study itself is limited to under 20s but shows a clear age-related decline.

My own anecdotal experience (which I agree, was awesome) confirms that.
It is a common and appealing idea that good ideas always start with ridicule and resistance. It is an appealing fantasy especially for the great many people who like to imagine they are very clever but are not. However, it is important to keep in mind that for every crazy idea that ends up working, there were 999 crazy ideas that were just that, crazy.

Some amount of resistance to crazy ideas is appropriate. If the idea works the resistance will be overcome eventually. If we accepted every crazy idea enthusiastically a lot of effort would be wasted.
Ask HN: Have you taken on debt to fund your startup?
I run a SaaS and we're looking into non-dilutive funding options. Here are the categories we're looking at:

- Loans (e.g. https://www.captec.io, https://www.triplepointcapital.com)

- Factoring (e.g. https://www.capchase.com, https://www.pipe.com/)

- Venture Debt (e.g. https://www.svb.com)

A few questions:

- Has anyone used any of these products or a competitor?

- I can't find much information on the terms for these products / reviews of the process, do you know of a place to get this?

- Are there options I'm missing?
> Just hold down option at boot time, and select the drive you like from the list.

This would not work on M1 Macs.

First: because they've changed keys .It's no longer 'option' key. It's 'power key' holding long enough.

Second: because when M1 Mac fails to load Recovery Options it would also fail to load this 'boot options choice screen'.
It's not like with previous Macs.
So you stuck there until you connect to another Mac and use Apple Configurator and pray it works. Iv'e spent 3 hours making it work and I Cann't reproduce the steps. Those listed in official site did not work for me. And Apple Configurator seems to have own bugs I've encountered.
https://youtu.be/UNrMnFM3VvE
You may want to revert the (tedious) patch about intersections. Here is a simple workaround:

> turf.unkinkPolygon=(x)=>x;

Press F12, click 'Console', copy-paste the above one and press Enter.