skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What do I need a stock broker for?

You still have that stuff with crypto, just crypto exchanges not stock exchanges.

>What do I need a bank for?

Banks do two main things - taking savings and lend that out as mortgages. Crypto has been no good at part two.

Basically most financial services would still exist if in modified form.
15% of 400k. Your initial comment clearly said "400k is not enough to live very comfortably". That's what 15% is in response to.

You might want to take your own advice and re-read, since I wasn't talking about developing countries either. Or should we consider Western EU, Northern EU, East Asia all as developing countries?
> Maybe we need less automatic moderation and more humans in the loop

As if humans are never wrong or have no biases.
I'd been led to believe that Ksenia Sobchak is the tame opposition while Aleksey Navalny is the real opposition.

(I assume this music video features a look-alike rather than the real Sobchak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhbOgSKF9k ... it's not relevant but it's a fun bit of Russian culture.)
> They leave trail of pheromones when they go back with food. If ants go somewhere but never return - this path won't have any pheromones and other paths will get more appealing over time.

Most traps do not kill the ants on contact. Ants are supposed to take whatever is in the trap and bring it back to the colony.
AOL pioneered this. And became extremely wealthy for it. Unfortunately it works
"Those who want to break out and go get things done, will find no excuses."

Bullshit. Many people are constrained by things they cannot control.
The key is repeatability in the stats. You can play wide, you can play with a high line, etc. But there's loads of games to look at, and you can see how one decision works vs another, because there's repeated experiments. Granted, modelling isn't some sort of objective thing, but you have better comparability.

Business is somewhere else on this scale.
You completely ignore my point and instead provided a proof for what no one questioned.
Does a web plugin exist that would show an overlay on deceptive stores?
"Adobe has been reported to use deceptive sales methods such as:
..
hidden early termination fee's
bait and switch
..."
It would be great if you could link to some sources for your claims.
Here's a better explanation of the cylinders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yupxceBjDa0

I have no idea what software he used. Just that it's state of the art.
Surely most people pay the sales tax, in which case you're optimising for the less common scenario.

In places where including VAT/GST/BTW/whatever is normal, shops (usually targetting resellers or contractors etc) where a significant amount of people don't have to pay the tax, I think generally both prices are listed and it's required to be very clear about what's going on.
Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea, just that was my limited understanding of what had happened.

Honestly, I think we'll only solve it via legalisation as anything else just leaves the money in the hands of the drug cartels.

One would have hoped we'd have learned the lesson from Prohibition and organized crime in the early 20th century.
No Dr. Seuss books are banned. The publisher decided to stop publishing a few of them.
> Excellent explanation! I think this is far better than my post at explaining why optics are so useful.

Thank you!

> I'm not sure this has anything to do with profunctor optics per se

Yes, fair! I didn't mean to imply that only profunctor constructions can be self-descriptive. Rather, I meant that optics based solely on the function arrow don't really give you anywhere to annotate with description in the first place. By assuming less about the operations they're lifting, profunctor optics give you more freedom to model a self-descriptive profunctorial operation.

In the `(a -> f b) -> (s -> f t)` formulation, the lens takes a function and returns an adapted function. There's nowhere to put additional information, and even if you could stash it on the `f`, you'd have to feed it an `s` just to get at it.

In the `p a b -> p s t` formulation, the function arrow (if it's used in your chosen `p` at all!) doesn't have to be the top-level type you return; you could have something like `(a -> f b, Metadata)` instead. You can add combinators to your concrete `p` that manage the metadata and let you combine multiple such operations, and intermix them freely with profunctor-generic lenses that don't care what concrete profunctor you're using. In the end, you get a `p a b` with the metadata immediately available and not necessarily hidden under a function application.

This distinction only comes up because lenses are polymorphic in both the input and output types. The example of a JSON parser is only polymorphic in its output type (we can assume the input is always some String), so you can easily get a `Parser b` with all the metadata at the surface. Since Profunctors have two type parameters, one covariant and one contravariant, we can build models that vary over the input type while retaining the ability to be self-descriptive.

I read a blog post recently [0] that showed some examples of using Profunctors in this way. It also shows the relationship between Profunctor and Arrow; the latter is basically a Strong Profunctor (you can turn a `p a b` into a `p (c, a) (c, b)` that threads a `c` through unaltered) where you can also compose Profunctor elements directly (`p a b -> p b c -> p a c`). In the end, you get an entire operation `p a z` in your Profunctor, with any statically observable metadata ready to be extracted from its structure.

[0] https://elvishjerricco.github.io/2017/03/10/profunctors-arro...
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> I personally don't believe that an unskilled worker in the US deserves to be paid 10X what an equivalent worker in Bangladesh makes just because they were lucky enough to be born here.

This is a crucial point that gets missed in these debates. Labour price inequality is a driving force of globalisation. That is how Nike pays 1$/day wage to Bangladeshi labourers to manufacture shoes and sell them at $500. And the reason people in Bangladesh are OK with it is because they don't have alternatives and the government is happy to flout all sorts of labour and environmental rules to retain Nike.

To elaborate, there are two conditions under which globalisation works to generate massive profits. Low barrier for the international movement of goods and capital and huge barriers (insurmountable in most cases) for free movement of people across the border. If one follows international trade agreements and immigration policies over last 40-50 years a clear pattern emerges where trade/capital movements restrictions have been continuously whittled down and immigration criteria have been tightened. The net result being incredible profits for multinational corporations.

For sure, the manufacturing countries have benefitted from the newly created jobs. India and China are good examples. China, in fact has been enormously benefitted to an extent where hundreds of millions have emerged out of poverty into middle class. To an extent where China's middle class now is a forced to be reckoned with and many believe the next wave of growth will be driven by Asian consumers.

The flip side though is the divide between rich and poor has reached unheard of levels in, paradoxically, the richest country on earth. Not only that, the poor just don't have a community or governmental support to fall back on. It boggles my mind to see the richest nation's health infrastructure crumble in the wake of COVID-19.
If housing values become stagnant or gradually falling, fewer people will use it as a store of value.

Edit: or even if there is a prospect of this being the case.
Thanks, here is the link to the curriculum: https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/investment-foundati...
But are you extremely rich?
> This is discussing a specific case of statutory rape. He seems to take the position that children should be able consent to sex with adults,

He has explicitly taken the position (no mere “seeming”) that children are both capable of consent and unharmed by sex with consent.in response to a news article about a Dutch pedophile group seeking to eliminate age of consent entirely, with the first step being reducing it to 13.

He did recant this position during the 2019 controversy
Obviously sarcasm, but there's a little bit of truth behind this. The real value of cryptocurrency is if the governments ban it. (They are more of a nightmare for totalitarian regimes, rather than free open societies.)
Krita is pretty decent replacement, if you want a paid alternative, then Affinity Designer / Affinity Photo is half price right now, and they don't use a subscription model:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
> The money does not exist anywhere and certainly can not be used by Tesla.

What exactly is stopping them from borrowing against their shares?
You're right. Thanks for pointing it out, I've pushed a fix for this.
> I want to know what Elon musk's son goes through with that name.. that poor thing with insane parents..

He's going to be socially maladjusted regardless of his name. Also, I wonder if they're just lying about his legal name to try and protect the kid a bit. Though, if I were them, I'd lie that his name is "John Smith". It's tough to steal someone's identity when you don't know their name.
Really enjoy listening to and playing Bach with synthesizers. Marco Rosano made some good albums like this. Thanks!
That's one good way to describe Oil: a middle ground between shell and Python.

e.g. this post has the slogan that it's "for Python and JS programmers who avoid shell".

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/simplest-explanation.ht...

Oil has hash tables, and can manipulate paths with spaces -- in fact the latest blog post is about that!

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/simple-word-eval.html

Also the same blog post mentions that we should get rid of ${VAR##ugh}. Help wanted :)
Obviously money will not change everything but if you get a monthly allowance to feed your children it will probably decrease the incidence of onion vomit for a substantial portion of them. Which seems valuable in its own right. Dealing with a large lump sum payment is inherently much harder.
This is a downside if your goal is revenue generation.
NFTs can store any data. Currently, they're used for art but more and more crypto projects are deploying them for store different types of data on chain. You can tokenize anything and track it on chain - music, art, physical goods, real-world bonds.

In the simplest form, they can be used to fractionalize ownership. Integrate these ownership records with existing infrastructure and you can suddenly transform ownership and royalties.

I'll give you an example.

I'm an amateur musician and every pro musician I know has harrowing tales of being shafted by record labels. They have no power to negotiate because they need the money. Most get paid cents on the dollar and record labels keep the bulk of royalties.

Imagine a situation where a musician can mint an album as an NFT and put it up for sale. 100 people can buy 1% each of it. This entitles them to 1% of the royalties earned from the album. Since all this data is on-chain, it's easy to verify.

Now suppose there's a music platform integrates NFTs. Every time a user plays a song, the platform verifies ownership records from the blockchain and distributes royalties to addresses that own the NFT.

Suddenly, you've completely decentralized and democratized ownership. You've bypassed gatekeepers. And you've given the chance to anyone, no matter where they are, to invest in - and get invested by - anyone.

How is this not revolutionary?
> Surely they had better chances to act in time, yes.

This

> because uprooting yourself and your family is a huge loss.

Once again: unlike the poor folks which have the foresight and the opportunity to act in time, right?
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Na. If one follows the comparison with physics: the subject is about what is taught to undergrads (they do not get taught building particle accelerators) but the essence of physics. So if I use the test what do professors believe is the essence of the field, you get something like: http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/computer-science-engine...
And the computer science part is:

Computation Structures 12
6.006 Introduction to Algorithms 12

6.009 Fundamentals of Programming 12

6.031 Elements of Software Construction 15

6.033 Computer Systems Engineering (CI-M) 12

6.034 Artificial Intelligence 12
or 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning

6.045[J] Computability and Complexity Theory 12
or 6.046[J] Design and Analysis of Algorithms

I would say all but (maybe) the last two (one) are about computers (maybe the first one in between). I just picked MIT as a random example, just to illustrate my general impression.
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Actually, your link to 'evidence' I don't think really supports your case.

I see a guy empathetically admitting his technical faults, and who also seems to be bullied out of academia.

Einstein was notoriously technically weak and this is not entirely uncommon in many fields.

I disagree with your assessment that he believes the 'details are irrelevant' (admittedly, I listened for a few minutes at your link and he didn't say that), rather it would seem logically that at least as a 'first step' the details are not - intuition usually comes before the details.

Unless you have actual evidence that he really believes his ideas should be accepted purely on the basis of their conceptual novelty irrespective of their technical merit, I don't think it's fair to put words in his mouth. (Maybe your link was to the wrong spot?).

I don't know what to make of it - it seems on one hand like a giant 'attention scheme' PR campaign, on another like a man down his own rabbit hole, but I sense on some level there's some good faith however lacking in self-awareness there may be on his own behalf.

None of the commenters here as of the time I've written this seem to be willing to take it on at face value, granted, very few people could, but still, we seem to be posting ad-hominem instead of references to serious discussions of the work.

If it's quackery then hopefully it should be obviously outed as that. If there's 'something' there, even some legit neat ideas, that should be recognized as well.

Edit: I should add, I'm entirely sympathetic to anyone willing to take a serious stab at hard problems. There's no way this guy is actually devious, at worst he lacks self awareness, but there's at least Art in that. As long as people are not taking up research money with 'quackery' then it's great that people are storming the gates of the unknown.
In related news, the bank will soon be renamed to HFSP Bank, in recognition of the crucial role it plays in reducing the risk of its clients making too much money.
It's a surprise you try to defend such a bold claim, "most of tech", by kneejerking a reaction which suggests you realize there is more than the US, while your comment doesn't reflect that at all. It would suit you well to have some modesty and reflect on it.
Every time this comes up I have to remind people that not all land that farms meat can be made arable.

There is a lot of arable land in England itself that can be used, (and, currently used for meat production); however this is not true for many parts of wales and most of Scotland. (which combined make up a about 100,000 sqkm vs Englands 130,000 sqkm)
No doubt. Things out of your control are not excuses.
I'd argue the goalposts are related.

"adobe charges subscription cancellation fee" —
Adobe do not tell you how much the fee is ahead of time. In the conditions of the Australian purchasing page, the monthly price isn't even written in them. They can also renew it for another year while increasing the price without telling you.

"adobe doesn't show the difference between monthly and annual", and "adobe doesn't display the annual total on the payment page" —

They don't show you total price that you are committing to, they don't show you minimum amount to you must pay if you cancel.

All of this could be solved by saying "You are agreeing to pay a total of $923.88 over 12 months at $76.99 per-month. If you cancel, the minimum cost to you is $461.94 (50% of the total Annual plan), this decreases evenly each month.
> There isn't a finite amount of "wealth" in the world. You can go out and make wealth every single day. The rich obtaining more of it doesn't mean there's less left over for you and I.

There is an essence of truth to that, but it certainly does not tell the whole story.

Consider what happens with Amazon. When they put a family-owned store out of business, those people need to work somewhere. They then turn to the only place left that has any jobs in their area: the Amazon fulfilment center. They then get a minimum wage job there. It is clear those people have directly lost wealth as a result of Amazon.

In some cases the "creating wealth" argument holds up, but in reality what is mostly happening in the age of globalism is wealth consolidation, not wealth creation. Amazon is not creating new wealth, they are simply taking all of the customers and wealth away from all of the smaller businesses and consolidating it into a single huge entity.

This obviously has strong negative consequences for the people who are losing wealth. There is a reason wages have remained stagnant for over 50 years while corporate profits keep on growing to record highs.
Based on what you wrote, I agree with RHSeeger that you did indeed make that assumption. That you can’t see it speaks volumes about your analysis not matching the facts.
Wonderful, LiChess is such a great achievement. Simple, intuitive interface, free and open source apps, no ads, no payment.

I play (very mediocre) chess against people from all corners of the world on a daily basis.

What a wonderful thing to bring into the world.
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Good catch they searched for a unit converter online but didn't realized they confused absolute temperature with a relative difference of temperatures.
Doubt it matters, Russians have no choice. Putin will rule until he is dead.
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What first world country can people emigrate to without a sponsor, a degree or specialization?
Japanese cell phone companies did something similar for many years, they all offered two-year contracts with a cancellation fee of around $100, and you could only cancel in the last month before it auto-renewed. The government finally passed new regulation to stop this a few years ago.

The extra insult was they called it a "discount package" (50% off!), but it was already baked into all the advertised prices. In other words you pay double the listed price if you don't take the lock-in.
Would equality be better than the bare necessities?
In the UK the governments of the 70s and 80s stopped building houses and started selling off their existing housing stock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1980

> By 2013, some tenants who had purchased their council flats, sold them later to speculators, investors or property companies. By 2013, a one-bedroom council flat that sold for £50,000 in the early 1990s, for example, had a market price of £250,000.[9] A tight housing market led to increased rent as construction of new homes decreased.[9]
Sounds like some gym memberships that I've seen. Yeah it's a monthly payment of £10 or whatever, but if you want to cancel it before the end of the first 12 months you need to pay for the rest of the months.

It's basically your standard mobile phone contract.
BTW Ion is mentioned here along with many other alternative shells: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells
What China does in the day light, most western democracies like US do in the shadows.

Calling China a totalitarian regime could bring attention to the fact that in most western democracies our vote has no influence over the policies adopted and this same policies are screwing us and benefitting those who have power putting us in the same conditions those living in the totalitarian regime.
In this fictitious world I'm sure there would be other problems, perhaps some we can't foresee and might look like privilege to us today. We don't complain about "issues of the poor" from the past such as child labour (with some exceptions) today. Significant inequality will cause problems regardless of the baseline standard of living.
One of the problems is that people normally do not want to pay for that slack. Getting them on board with spending more probably needs some convincing.

It can be done, see fairtrade coffee/cocoa. (I know that it has some problems, too, but it shows in principle that people can be persuaded to pay more for stuff, if the reason is good enough.)
You're 100% right. Crypto enables the worst actors and the worst humans around. It's a cancer.

Ignorants will start yapping about "money printing" not realizing they're regurgitating talking points from a tiny group of people who are using their lack of intelligence to become obscenely wealthy.
13-15 years old? Sheesh. Those sweet years but with free golfing.
Managed a couple of hole-in-ones on a decent golf course this way.
Too bad that I literally outgrew that sport.
> The mafia cartels will always find a new field to profit from.

Only if they are finding people to work for them. Mafia and other organized crime thrives in areas of weak and/or authoritarian government and poverty since they can lure young people, most often men, with the promise of luxury and riches while at the same time being certain they won't get into too much trouble with the authorities (or can bribe them off if need be).

Remember that mafia started in Sicily (Italy) back in the 19th century when the central government was not much a thing and feudal landlords organized "security" on plantations in exchange for protection money from small farmers.

The solution to get rid of the mafia or at least drastically cut their influence is to strengthen civil society, democracy and governments in plagued regions. Unfortunately, the general trend is exactly the opposite with many governments that have been weak before corona hit now getting absolutely destroyed.
How would one install powertools to try it out? All links off the main landing page take me to an "under construction" page.

The "under construction" page gave me a mild case of nostalgia for 90s Geocities. :)

Edit: nevermind, found the installation shell script right in front of my nose on frontpage!

Edit 2: I think you have issues hosting your installation script:

curl https://powertools.dev/install.sh

gives a 301 response.

curl -L https://powertools.dev/install.sh

returns the landing page (I think - didn't look too closely at whatever HTML it downloaded).
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> Legally, you can run macOS anywhere you want. Apple cannot and has not stopped anyone from doing that. There is no court of law anywhere which will prevent an end-user from doing what they want with macOS.

I think you'll quickly find out that's not the case if you, for example, start a macOS VPS hosting company that doesn't use Macs or that lends them for shorter time periods than one day.

> Apple's overpriced hardware

This meme needs to die, now more than ever (because of Apple Silicon).
You can get a nice hoodie with the new HFSP logo here:

https://www.koined.store/collections/out-and-about/products/...
"Horrible attitude which puts him in crank territory, imho."

You literally attributed his 'horrible attitude' to putting him in 'crank territory' i.e. 'Common synonyms for crank include crackpot and kook.'

I'm in no position to comment on the nature of his work, but there's an unhealthy amount of ad-hominem here. Maybe it's fair to speculate a bit but I don't think we can just say 'bad attitude -> crap science' etc..