skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you describe would be a healthy form of lending (lending out money you otherwise have sitting around, so it can be put to good use). Unfortunately, this is not actually how our global financial systems work.

I think most people would be shocked to learn that when a bank lends out money, they are actually “cloning” their money many times over: each dollar from their reserves actually gets loaned out multiple times over, to multiple people (such that e.g. 100 people all have claim to the same 1 “real” dollar that exists, although it’s not actually tracked that way). But because almost nobody uses physical cash any more in large quantities, no actual cash needs to be printed to cover this. Then, if/when the loan is later repaid (which again is not a physical transaction, but occurs as numbers being updated in balance sheets), the repaid “clones” get “erased” from circulation, and only the real original reserves remain [1]. The banks keep the (greatly multiplied) interest paid though as profit.

You (as a mere peasant) are not allowed to clone your money and lend/invest it out, but banks are (in fact, this is essentially what makes a bank a bank), and it’s called “fractional reserve banking”. Some argue that this is very unfair, and argue that this is actually the root cause of a lot of financial problems and wealth inequality in the world.

For example, this system inflates prices (usually starting with investment assets like land, stocks, etc. but can later trickle down and in very delayed way start to inflate food prices etc. too), due to this expansion of the money supply (commonly called “money printing” even though no actual printing needs to occur) being funneled through financial institutions and into various investment assets and derivatives.

[1] Note that in practice, the total amount of outstanding debt tends to increase over time, because old debt just ends up getting replaced/refinanced with newer debt of even larger size (e.g. due to decreasing interest rates). This creates a system where the global economy is essentially “addicted” to perpetually increasing amounts of debt. The official stance though is that central banks should be able to unwind this debt when we are in good economic health, but this is debated; for example, I don’t know of any case in modern history where overall money supply has actually been decreased without markets immediately panicking and starting to crash (after which the central banks always quickly give in and reverse course, usually re-inflating the money supply far more than even before).
Pan-American anything often boils down to just good ol’ NAFTA +
Colombia.

Brazil and Argentina feed China, benefit from China’s presence re: the US, and Buenos Aires is as far away from Miami as London is. Throw in the guay’s cause geography, and Bolivia because Bolivia, most of South America’s productive land isn’t counter arguing.

Because any reasonably committed extent of that economy ends at the Amazon, it’s just NAFTA + Colombia + Peru + Chile. Colombia’s a great get and arguably already in progress, but Chile is tiny and Peru is far.

The rest is some of the most picturesque, violent, non trivially developed (expensive!) tropical geography on earth that’s been in the pits for centuries even by extractive colonial standards for a reason, with the Caribbean part anchored by Cuba and Venezuela.

Total population addition less than Mexico, spread across a region the size of Australia, with the “easy” wins a 1000 miles away tucked into the Andes.
I remember another attempt at this model not too long ago, but I cannot remember the name or what the outcome was.
Yeah - content blocking has been supported by safari for several years now.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
yes! Jetbrains GoLand helps quite a bit with the more annoying parts of the language (GOPATH, remembering commands for tools, managing go modules, etc)

There are some small things about the language that can feel a little cumbersome (lack of generics for example) but largely happy with the language and the trade offs so far seem worth it.
>That's just too much for my old dog to wrap my mind around

My theory is that Apple has specific hardware for much faster and better memory compression and decompression. macOS has always had memory compression but I think those are done with Software on CPU.

You may also get some additional memory from Unified Memory. ( Not sure how it worked previously on macOS, so this is a reference from PC perspective. )

But Yes generally I agree, That's just too much for my old dog to wrap my mind around.
Doesn't Amazon not use AWS for its main business?
The state of the "news" media is truly sad to behold. They lie, sensationalize and have become political activists for one side or the other. I do not believe the rights they are afforded in the US Constitution were intended to be used in this manner at all. In that sense I agree with the statement that they have become the enemy of the people. They don't provide information, they publish ideology and lies.

And, yes, we have to be fair and clearly state that Trump was a complete moron in the way he handled some aspects of this. As an example, I cannot understand why he had such a problem with masks.

I can't even imagine the reasons other than to look at it from my background in manufacturing. This is what I think could have happened: The administration quickly understood we don't even make the cloth necessary to make masks. The US and Europe could not manufacture ANY of the safety equipment we needed for this pandemic at scale back in January of last year. We didn't even make the machines that make the masks.

Telling the public to go get masks would have resulted in a mess and panic. I get that possibility. Here's what they should have done: Figure out how people could DIY some level of protection and widely publish this. Trump should have gone on TV and told people the truth: We can't make enough masks. They are important. This is what you have to do while we sort this out. Instead he engaged in stupid battles with the media. That was dumb, unnecessary, and, yes, it likely cost lives too.

All that said, we are vaccinating at a rate of over a million people per day today because of what the Trump administration set in motion a year ago. They pushed for and succeeded at having multiple vaccines developed in the span of eight months. Something never before done in the history of humanity. And yet he/they were vilified for the stupid shit he did in front of the cameras and, to some extent, rightly so in my opinion.

This was a year in which both our politicians and our news media failed us in monumental ways. Both of these groups lied to us. And the consequences were deadly. I hope historians get this one right.
I just want a phone that turns into a full desktop when connected via USB-c to a dock with two monitors, keyboard and mouse.

I'm not talking sandboxed inside a guest user within my iPad OS, I am talking full fat administrator access Ubuntu Gnome, MacOS or Windows.

If that happens to be a linux distro, open source, or otherwise, I'm not fussed.
Earlier summary of his thoughts on "liberal software:

https://lwn.net/Articles/712376/

Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nJR7PNgI4
We use it. Gorilla mux (https://github.com/gorilla/mux) to route requests plus some in-house handler chains that log, check JWT tokens, etc. We have a Go client library which accesses the web API, so we can do testing without having to involve the frontend team; a combination of tests in the client library and some judicious curl commands is usually enough.
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Properly configured, you can get much better adblocking capabilities on an Android phone than you can on iOS.

There's a weird situation with mobile phones where for most people who aren't going to go out of their way to make their devices private, Apple's ecosystem is the right choice; it has better defaults and better sandboxing. But once you do decide to go out of your way to make your device private, Apple's ecosystem stops being the right choice.

On a rooted Android phone I have network-level adblocking on my device that directly works with the firewall. I also run Ublock Origin in my phone browser, which blows every single Safari adblocker out of the water. I can also cut off Internet access to specific apps and games, not just to domains. I also have access to a litany of Open Source apps that wouldn't be allowed on app stores like NewPipe that improve my privacy by replacing services. And LineageOS imposes additional sandboxing on top of Android's built-in features.

But if a friend buys a phone, they're not going to do any of that. They can't get NewPipe because they're not using F-Droid. They're probably going to stick with Chrome, which has next to no adblocking or extra privacy controls. An iPhone will be more private and more secure for them in almost every way.

So it's a weird situation where which device is more private depends a lot on who you are. For most average consumers, it's likely iOS. But it's not quite so simple to say that iOS has the best privacy overall.
It’s not an analytic application, its purpose is to benefit users not Apple, and Apple doesn’t actually have any profit incentive to collect user data from this service.

Facebook operates a free service that they use to collect data about you to sell for advertising purposes. Apple sells expensive personal electronics directly to consumers, and has made it a part of their core brand to be privacy-conscious. They’re certainly not perfect, and they’ve clearly made missteps along the way, but they’ve done more than virtually any other public company to further their customers’ privacy and demonstrably collect as little data as possible. When they have made mistakes, they’ve carefully explained what circumstances led to it and have generally gone above and beyond in ensuring that kind of mistake can’t happen again.

Your perspective is little different than the indefensible “both sides” mentality many people have toward politics. Apple is not Facebook, and there is a massive difference to anyone actually paying attention.
He's right to use it b/c Mensa membership is sometimes used as a hiring filter. It's neither discriminatory nor illegal to do so.
I wasn't aware of the long now project, I'll look into it.

The point is that it's not totally from scratch and there's a very good proportion that can be passed on easily and a lot of trial & errors and research doesn't have to be done again.

Mathematics can be learned with only books, important concept such as calculus doesn't have to be rediscovered.
Major scientific discoveries don't have to be reinvented.
Hard learned mistakes can be learned from History without making them.
Prospected resources location can be saved and are static by nature.

Also assuming that nothing whatsoever will remain is unlikely. Any such project should provision a set of plans to accommodate multiple level of destruction from the Bronze Age to pre-WW2 technology.

Having some kind of roadmap with essential milestones like making concrete and the Haber process will save a lot of time. Disseminating the information in different ways such as stone tablets (like the Voyager Golden Record) to micro films could be done in a large scale for redundancy and could also be done for relatively cheap.
A legacy of the AlphaStar work is ongoing amateur SC2 AI play. If you're comfortable writing software in, say, Python, and can play SC2 at least a little, you can see whether the reason you aren't a world famous player is just that you were too slow or whether your strategy actually isn't that great even if executed perfectly :)

https://sc2ai.net/competitions/3/

Unlike Alphastar, these AIs are intended primarily to play each other because as you say inhuman perfection in execution is not an interesting difference. This means it makes sense for them to exploit behaviour in the game itself that would be inaccessible to humans (e.g. "speed mining" by individually controlling every worker) as well as executing ludicrously multi-pronged mid-game attacks since they can just as easily manage six individual small battles as one larger frontal assault.

That site links a Twitch channel which automatically plays random games between bots with auto-camera, but if you prefer human commentators (and as a bonus, speeding up the period when the game is clearly lost but bots rudely never resign since it's not as though politeness scores points) there's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLpEzq_6_go which is the next ESChamps tournament cast later on Thursday.
This significantly surprised me, and I tend to trust this guy a fair bit (... not that I necessarily have any good reason to trust him to an unusually high degree. Just, whether or not I have good reason to, I tend to.) .
So, I suppose this suggests I should maybe reevaluate what led to my beliefs that led me to be surprised?
Don't zip files store the directory structure/index info at the end? I would assume that's pretty important for decompressing.
You really think a non-globalized economy would be better? Some country had a drought, needs to import food but there is no one to do it because there has never been a need before?
> But I don't think desktops are the problem anyway as opposed to laptops/tablets

On the Apple end of things, h265 hardware decode has been supported since the A9 (iPhone 6S, introduced 2015)

They also list hardware decode support on Macs as of Intel 6th gen CPUs (Skylake, introduced 2015).
A lot of history's very well-known human beings sometimes displayed 'creepy' behavior. They weren't 'neuro-typical' either. (Dig the newspeak for 'normal' and 'abnormal')

For each one of them, there are 100,000 'creeps' who never got caught - and contributed a lot less to humanity. Sometimes their behavior was even creepier than the behavior of all the sanctimonious trigger-pullers in US culture today. Who's next here in Salem?

Where are the scales of justice? A hundred provable things done right can't balance out suspicions? Suspicions raised by people with no names? No statute of limitations? We're digging ourselves into some very deep trouble with this stuff.
Will be hard to pre sell tickets on this platform then convert to a venue’s ticket. Most of them have exclusive ticketing deals that won’t allow this or severely limit % that can be sold. That’s why the focus is on “perks”
Lazarus makes it almost trivial to build a Windows 10 GUI that just works. If you knew Turbo Pascal/Delphi in the past, this is the ticket for you. It includes SQL components.

I used it a year ago to build a MySQL backed database of cutting tools at work.

Homepage: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Have you managed to get GoLand's IDE tests to work properly? I found that it imports only the file for the test but nothing else which causes errors due to "undefined" things (things defined in the package are not accessible as it only imported a single file). Other than that I'm a happy GoLand user
If I could boil down the author's thesis into something reasonably edited, it's...

1. The FSF has an overly narrow view of user freedoms that doesn't actually protect users freedoms [because they assume all users are developers]. Users want warranties, not source code that they aren't able to inspect. Even if they were, fixing that source is effectively forking the program into an unsupportable version, hence why proprietary licensing started [to save users from themselves]. Ergo, source availability is not a reasonable way to protect users. (Insert hamfisted metaphor about assault weapons and QAnon.)

2. The FSF has no legislative adjenda to mitigate or eliminate the harms of proprietary software. Their sole strategy is based in litigation: locking software into copyleft licenses that mandate source code publication as a condition of redistribution. The FSF could have advocated for moving software out of copyright and into patents, where source code disclosure could be mandated as a condition of patent grants and we'd be flooded with public domain software today.
He suggests flânerie to revisit the old internet, suggesting that's how we used it. But are enthusiasts working for their own fun on the spectrum between getting-things-done and strolling? Joy in creation can be anywhere in there.
Love it-- How can I buy the book? I might not ever read the whole thing, but I love the sentiment and the fact you're giving this away.
I remember voting to send Pitbull to Alaska (to his credit, he went): https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-19060579
The title seems absurd to me. Too much of _anything_ _is_ bad because "too much" is by definition "too much", which is too much.

Paracelsus FTW!
This doesn't make much sense and I think may actually be another instance of this paradox. For example, why would having an easier time in life dissuade someone from putting in effort to become smart (by your definition of smart)?

Do you think people who have a hard time in life are compelled to study hard and succeed, as if somehow people living in poverty or in third world countries are putting in significant amounts of effort to become smart? Of course not, not because people in poverty don't want to be smart of course, but because they are compelled to deal with time consuming hardships.

People who have it easy in life are far more compelled to study, to the point that the term "scholar" is literally the Greek word for "leisure".

I wouldn't be surprised if you drew out two axis, one measuring an individual's hardship in life and one measuring how "smart" they are, you'd reveal how paradoxical your statement is. The overall population would show that hardship places a huge burden that inhibits ones ability to learn and pursue intellectual endeavors while having an easier time in life facilitates it... and yet if you then filtered out the bottom left group (hard life and low "smart" score), you'd see the exact inverse correlation that Berkson's Paradox is all about.
The Windows kernel was a random example and probably nit the best one. I don’t think it’s so crazy to think an employee at a vendor would copy paste some code they wrote for a previous vendor.
OAuth Attack Vectors
Something gets made at a plant domestically. It gets brought to the train station to be shipped. Truck -> train. The train carries it a few states over to the wholesaler's mega warehouse. Train -> truck. Wholesaler breaks it down, groups it with other things to send out, Truck -> Train. Regional distribution center picks it up from the train station and takes it back to their distribution center. Train -> Truck. Then it gets put out as individual orders in the region. Truck -> Store.

If you're needing the truck to take it back and fourth from the train station, you may just find it easier and faster to just have the truck carry it all the way from the port to the mega warehouse, then to the distribution center, then to the actual delivery site.
I think the key counterpoint to your argument is “like all other things.” That’s the thing you’re calling a silly idea: wealth, trade, immigration, etc. I think it’s unclear which side wins, but getting Goebbels out of the White House certainly seems like a step back towards the “silly idea.”
Thanks for confirming! ... Those were eagles I saw on that run months back :) Yea they have a funny bird call, super distinct staccato, unmistakable.
Not at all. Many midwest and high-plains cities make it easy to be near a pleasant urban core for reasonable cost.

Lincoln and Indianapolis are two random examples that I've looked into recently.
If you mean raw, in the sense of a stream of RGB (or YUV) images one after each other, i would expect zip to give significant compression, especially for something with solid colours like a desktop screen.

H.265 is obviously going to be a lot better, but compared to doing nothing, even something stupid like RLE compression is going to be helpful.
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EU leaders to discuss boosting vaccine supplies
I'm an introvert. And a VPE. In the SF Bay Area.

I absolutely despise open office plans. I can't work in them.

My productivity shot an incredible amount as soon as I had no choice than to work from home in March, and everybody else in the office. Saved 2 hours a day. And I can use my own bathroom... that alone is worth it.
> there are standard interfaces new companies can develop for.

Not so much in x86/x86_64 though. This ISA is a minefield of patents if you want to do anything state-of-the-art. AMD and Intel have mutual licencing agreements with each other, which prevents any upstarts from competing with them. Any competitors will have to license ARM or invest into RISC-V.
no way i'm giving google access to my mental health records.
Then perhaps some remote groups that live on downstream mountain spring water?

There have to be variations globally we can find. Although, the cause seems rather obvious, the only unclear part is the magnitude of effect.
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I don't claim inflation has been happening yet - people have been crying wolf for a long time.

But something has changed. The fed is determined not to raise interest rates until there is serious inflation, and a lot of politically minded people are looking at trillions in stimulus and seriously saying the idea that we have to pay for spending with tax revenue was always a lie that we should now be free of.

It's easy to view inertia as evidence nothing is changing.
There would be some work required to prove that a particular chain of blocks is the correct one and not another.
That's just commodities futures. All the fat has been shaved off. Very little to get without highly specialized knowledge - like you're the guy about to block coffee shipments or something.
see also: the 5 minute "what went wrong with civilization" vignette that opens Idiocracy
> (Am I misinformed?)

Quick appreciation regarding the intellectual humility required to add this to the end of your comment. In my humble opinion, this kind of attitude and approach represents some of the best of the HN community.
It's so boringly cynical to suggest that people use something because they're lemmings rather than any of the great reasons to use something.

Go watch the original React debut talk and ask yourself if React had/has anything going for it beyond Facebook's backing. I know I, and most developers I know, dropped Backbone/Knockout/whatever instantly to use React because it was so obviously better.

Now that unidirectional flow is the state of the art, the difference between the main frameworks just isn't that big. You gain a few things here, lose a few things there, and write a solution that is similar to what you would have written with the other frameworks.
Indeed. And who is doing the work to manage the stockpile and pay for it?

I did some work for a strategic US stockpile and it’s not trivial in the least.
This is a really good point. Urban redevelopment can go awry and lead to reduced density if not planned well.
40nM is about 13 years old at this point, and has been replaced superseded several times.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/40_nm_lithography_process

Probably the only reason that line is still running would be validated long term stability products, or niche hardware designed with special application compatibility (E.G. radhard, higher end mil / aerospace concerns, maybe automotive).

Semiconductor tooling is rather expensive and I imagine that updating this to a more modern line would require overhauling and re-balancing many systems. It might help someone not familiar with the industry to imagine each technology node as an entirely new model of car.
No issues with GoLand tests here, maybe edit your configuration and change the "Test kind" field from "File" to "Package" or "Directory".