skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are missing the point. It decentralizes a centralized system that IS useful to most people.

You still haven't told me why it's interesting or good to decentralise getting a bank account, you're just asserting it.

> Your “direct transfers” take days to settle.

No, they transfer pretty instantly and the funds can be used instantly, and whether there is some background process that takes longer is not really relevant to me or the people I transfer to.

> And again, a centralized solution.

Again, why should I care?

> “the big players do it for us with their proprietary, KYC solutions.”

KYC/AML is a good thing. It is good to be able to keep an eye on, and regulate, the flow of cash. It is an important set of tools in combatting all manner of crimes.

FYI there is a vibrant fintech startup ecosystem, that works with and within these regs. There are even a number of startup (challenger) banks these days.

> Do you really not see the need for being able to send someone electronically without being at the mercy of a big bank?

I genuinely, 100%, do not care a single iota, no. Being "at the mercy" of a bank provides me with all manner of insurance, assurance, protection and regulation.

> Darknet markets and ransomware

And I should support those things? They are a great argument for KYC/AML in themselves. And even so, these are niche compared to the speculative market.

> Good thing we have developers working on simplifying the technology and making it idiot-proof?

Irreversible transactions are not idiot-proof by nature.

> Finally, if you hand someone cash you can’t take it back either.

Sure, but you don't keep cash in a file on an easily compromised computer, and you don't keep all of your cash with you all the time, you keep it in a bank where someone else is responsible for custody, can reverse things out etc.

> Demonstrably incorrect. DAI is ...

Running on a system of 'trusted' oracles, which is not trustless.

> a decentralized, bank-less, ..., reserve-less algorithmic currency exchange that anyone can use pseudonymously. It’s incredible.

And entirely superfluous to any need I can think of.

(Plus, you know, unregulated financial products and services, doesn't that just scream "bad idea!" to you?)
If they were over Austria, are you sure the other countries on the way to Russia would have let them through? Or would they have suddenly also refused access over their air space?

We will never know of course, but the closeness of the situation is still alarming.
It was fast, cheap and the integration was great. Until the apps with the actual integration took offence.

One problem was Windows Phone made facebook (big at the time) a service. I could check on people without loading facebook. Youtube also took offence to the Windows Phone IIRC.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/15/...
> late twenties

Wait, is this considered old now? I recognize that you're fighting the good fight against ageism and giving up. But by painting Bacon as an exceptional case, you're also helping reinforce the myth that of you're not wildly successful by 35, you've missed the boat.

I have a hard time believing that Bacon's case is such an outlier. I never collected the data but i know of plenty artists and entrepreneurs who started in their thirties, forties and older.
It was the destination airport, can we stop making up possible reasons about why they couldn't land there?

They couldn't because the fighter jets forced them to land at Minsk.
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I was wondering why Serbia, but you meant Siberia. Thanks for the interesting video, though!
It was posted as a "cheese photo", it just happened to include his fingerprints.
The Wikipedia entry reads like a CCP release. See also http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Mar/8452.htm and https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/95thcpc/2016-06/16/conte...

While this is nothing to shake a stick at:

> The "Super Rice" Yuan is now working on yields are 30 percent higher than those of common rice.

The famines experienced by the communist regimes were not due to the quality of available breeds, but simply due to the lack of functioning price signals and the fact that production was directed by central authorities.

See also https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/19/3/42/13671/Political-...
As far as I'm inclined to agree, that causation can't be easily defined, I believe that your cycling argument is incorrect. Not only because of what the @dentalperson wrote below (they are completely right that there is a crucial difference), but also because it doesn't follow the human intuition on causation.

I understand the sentiment though. Causation should imply correlation at least on a "direct" level. Pressing the gas pedal correlates with the higher speed of the engine, not the vehicle speed. I believe the problem lies in our ability to detect the correlation. Sometimes, the correlation may go undetected (as in the case, when we ignore the engine speed in the vehicle example). I would be very happy to hear a stronger argument against "causation -> correlation" :)
Excellent list of resources. Only addition I'd suggest making to that list would be https://swiftui-lab.com and the companion payware app. No affiliation, just someone who has found the information and large number of readily runnable code examples a huge time saver.
Australia has a different winter and different flu strain from Wuhan. Sure, Australia's flu came a couple of months early but it's also 10 months removed from when Wuhan would have been getting the flu in 2019. And that's what the parent was addressing in the first sentence and you repeatedly choose to skip over.
IOC President says “we have to make sacrifices” during deadliest Covid19 wave
It’s time for updated internet regulations
Please don't use the word batka to refer to Lukashenko. The word means father, and it was originally used to mock Belarusian for supposedly liking his approach to ruling the country. He's no father to any of us, and it's insulting to Belarusians to see someone referring to him this way.
Deadliest covid19 wave IN JAPAN, didn't have enough chars for title: https://covid19japan.com/, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/
Yeah, this. No civil-aviation pilot is going to argue the fine points of law while in target range of an armed MiG.
Aircraft don't fly in straight lines in Europe, though. A 100 (nautical) mile difference is more realistic. Still, a tiny detour compared to the Wizzair flight linked elsewhere.
I was hoping it'd be some extremely rare regional cheese that allowed them to find the guy.
I expect the fact that this virus emerged in Wuhan during the World Military Games makes the Chinese very cautious about allowing in 'investigators' from countries that potentially deployed this biological weapon.
Its enforcement is severely lacking though, to the point where you wonder if the parties supposed to enforce it are actually benefiting from the status-quo.
I wish there was a reference for this statement in wikipedia:

>>> In 1979, his technique for hybrid rice was introduced into the United States, making it the first case of intellectual property rights transfer in the history of the People's Republic of China.
no It's not

exhibit A:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bolivian-presidents-pla...
I don't the think the thread was about defending Lukashenko's terrorist act, it was about reminding everyone that, shamefully, such acts are not limited to demented regimes like his.

We are all right to be outraged by what happened in Belarus. We should also be even more outraged when our own governments,which we nominally have some control over, do similar things.
Germany insistence on closing nuclear power plants is doing Europe a lot of harm. It opens up one of the great powers of Europe to be controlled by Russia.
Let's just hope their engineering teams in Romania and Vietman get a respectable share of the profits.
Are you monitoring temperatures on it?
its worth a dollar - its a scam.

its worth a hundred dollars, people use it to buy goods - its a scam.

its worth a thousand dollars, people start using it as a store of value and a hedge against inflation - its a scam.

its worth 65.000 dollars, theres also ethereum changing the face of banking forever - its a scam.

calling me a scam artist while disregarding all the givens of reality, at this point its really hard to convey how extraordinarily mind-bendingly narrow-minded this point of view is.
I dunno. That would be coincidental. Given that we’ve never had a random outbreak of a new disease similar to this in the past 100 years.
Ask HN: Best hacks to promote mobile apps?
I am having a hard time promoting my latest mobile app, so I would love to hear the best ways you managed to promote your app.

Do you focus on SEO, newsletters, content marketing, etc.?
Hate to derail a thread, but why is Joe Rogan popular at all? I think he is a poor host.
In my opinion it’s like Japanese government announcements. They’re telegraphed by rumors and hearsay for quite a while before they’re actually announced.

It’s just a matter of time here. The question is mostly what to do with the information once it’s confirmed.
Yes and look at Macbook 12 retina [1] and remember.. keyboard is one of the things to worn out quickly and can also be easily damaged by liquid spill. Also notice the video is fast-forwarded many times during the procedure.

[1] https://youtu.be/CizrupL_02o
I kind of wanted it to be a Wallace and Grommet crossover with Breaking Bad.
> Rather, I'm interested in thoughtful discussion of what implications such a scenario might have.

If it had material implications it would be “science that is currently impractical to proceed beyond the stage of hypotheses”; but it’s not, and is instead, as you note, untestable in principal. This is equivalent to having no differentiating material consequences.
What a gorgeous writeup. Love it. Gonna go make some lines now.
Political Famines in the USSR and China
Not specifically, but the top of the keyboard does get warm when all this is going on. Do you or anyone have any recommendations for temperature monitoring software for a ThinkPad running Windows with various other OSes in VMs?

In any case I think the POS software may be the main culprit, as it normally runs on a standalone machine and wasn't designed for power savings. I did set the Windows VM it runs in to "Power saver" but it doesn't seem to have helped much.

(Sorry if this is off topic for the thread!)
I expect to see a landing page with questions instead of an registration page.
> Those aren't real market environments by a long shot and far from stress tests.

They are definitely real markets. You buy something at a free market price and get something in return.

They are definitely stress tests in that they prove that crypto can be used as digital cash. You can not buy drugs safely with a PayPal, Zelle, wire transfer, or ACH, but you can with Monero. This fulfills the original vision of cryptocurrency: decentralized, uncensored exchange of value without being at the mercy of another.

There is not really a more difficult stress test that tests the ideal and purpose of cryptocurrency.

> Me, what I'm looking for is something along the lines of "How many grocery transactions globally can crypto do per second?"

Again, why does HN expect crypto to be perfect today? It will improve over time. For what it’s worth, today,

- NANO transactions confirm instantly. The network can handle over 7000 TPS, more than Visa’s peak of 4000 TPS. Nano TPS scales with the size of the network.

- XMR transactions confirm in <2 minutes. XMR can max out at about 1700 TPS, which is much more than what is actually needed. XMR TPS will scale with the capabilities of XMR nodes (mainly network speed).

In the coming years,

- ETH2 with Optimistic Rollups can scale to 100,000 TPS.

- Lightning on BTC will enable millions of TPS.

Again, this is a technology in its infancy. I do not understand the disappointment - Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Replicating the concept of exchange of cash digitally, in a global, decentralized, trustless manner is no small feat. If it works, we free will users of digital currency from the mercy of banks, and give them back their financial privacy.
I think their point is, there's just so many bad candidates that even among those that pass whiteboard coding challenges, most can't code - but it increases the ratio of good to bad coders in the pool, so in lieu of a better option[0], it's still used.

--

[0] - There are plenty of better options, but they tend to not scale - so they cost more, and companies avoid them.
Is the rather obvious (or I would think) observation that empires tend to make decisions for pragmatic reasons of self-interest as opposed to ideology a "very extreme, no nuances opinion". You cannot just dismiss all criticism by the intellectual hand wave that is things not being "black or white" - as if people who disagree with your smug sycophantry really view the world that way.

No, it's not that we don't lack naunce, it's just that we don't flinch away from ugly reality by labelling it as a "very rich area" just because it concerns an empire we are a part of as opposed to the enemy.

For all of your indignation on the fact that I refuse to play apologetics for your favourite hegemony, you have not made one real counterargument for why my view of the US and their role in the wider world is incorrect.

I'm very proud frankly to hold the "extreme, no nuances opinion" that imperialism is bad and for that matter ethnic cleansing and the intentional bombing of civilians. You apparently disagree, seeing as in an earlier comment you dismissed such charges against Israel and Saudi Arabia as if they are wild accusations as opposed to a matter of public record for the wider international community and the UN.

I'll let everybody else decide which of the two modes of thinking we could do less of in the world.
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Well we're both assuming the intent of the OP, so there's really no winning this argument on either side.
And those are more usable for other devices with their general power jack (or USB) The Pi Hat only works for ... the Pi.
>>My problem today is not that repairability laws impede my progress here (they certainly don’t exist in China either).

While repairability laws do not exist in China, Anti-repairability laws also do not exist in China.

In the US we have layers upon layers of regulations to the impede or outright prevent repairs on electronics and other devices.

I am not sure if "Right to repair" is the correct path, or if removing these anti-repairability laws would be a better path.
It wasn't a dark pattern per-se. They assumed good faith and relied on morals and compliance with the law to be sufficient.

Keep in mind that when the GDPR went in effect (and maybe before that with the "cookie law", as the advertising ID is equivalent to a tracking cookie), using the system-wide advertising ID (which is enabled by default - the dark pattern you were talking about) would be in breach of the regulation; apps should still ask for consent before using it and allow users to decline.

I can't fully fault Apple for expecting that the GDPR would actually be enforced and clean things up. It clearly wasn't the case however and they're thankfully making changes to mitigate that.
http://archive.is/hjCTm
EU doesn’t have a joint foregin policy. Foregin relations is still an intergovernmental matter.
I was immediately reminded of this incident as well. But just because it happened before does not make it right now.

And Morales was not arrested so there is a difference. We don‘t know if Snowden would have been arrested or if in that case the plan would have landed. Assuming it wouldn‘t, would anyone really shoot it down, killing a foreign president? I cannot imagine, the repercussions would be enormous.

edit: Additionally it seems nobody forced the plane to land in Vienna. Instead what happened was that France revoked the permission to fly over France. That‘s all. The pilot chose where to land and had various options and chose Vienna. Then nothing happened after the landing.

It‘s not even close.
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Most ICO money has already been spent in the bahamas. This is probably less of a joke than it appears :)
Also likely is that part of the genome that produces toxins in one part of the plant that isn't normally eaten gets turned on in edible part.

For example: asparagus berries are toxic, but the toxin doesn't appear in the stalk. The mechanism to produce the toxic chemical is there, just turned off in those cells. Enabling it is the sort of thing that small mutations might do.
It lowers coupling between teams. If my team is responsible for microservice A then I have no dependency on the team working on microservice B. Microservice A writes to its own database. There are no migration dependencies, etc. It's a distributed system. You have to accept that one microservice could be using mongodb, another postgresql, another mssql. You're typically communicating through APIs, one microservice is not reading directly from the database of another microservice. Materializing all this crap when you want to do analytics is where the problem comes in as now you are forced to construct some unified data model.
Paywalled, couldn't read. (a pity because I would have liked to)
Because this is largely outside the scope of most 3D game engines. Rendering crisp 2D lines (or any anti-aliased complex vector polygon) on the GPU is hard: it involves a lot of high level decisions about how to process, structure & submit the data to the graphics pipeline. Depending on the application, one approach may be vastly superior to the other.

I do think ThreeJS should include basic thick screen space line support, though, as it covers most use cases and doesn’t add a lot of bloat/complexity to the core framework.
so how would you go about doing this using ml?
is it a classification problem? Count the number of instances. Or do we do deep learning and say here is a picture the result is 10?
Gold was volatile when it was initially introduced as a store of value too. Look up the historical charts when compared to silver (the primary store of value at that point in history)
Windows Phone (Mobile) has everything I need. Build quality, battery friend, smooth animation, minimal UI, smart UX, excellent hardware, good community support, enthusiastic fan... Except the important thing: application.
Yeah surely they just wanted to say hi.
How would the plane have gotten back to Russia from Austria, even if it did have enough fuel (according to the Wikipedia article, that was not clear to the crew)?

Why do you think Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, even Ukraine would not have similarly refused access if the crew had not landed in Austria of their own will?
That's why Factorio is such fun and addictive crack for programmers: it's 100% useless stuff! There are no stake holders screaming for features. No QA nit picking and submitting bugs against your unique artistic self-expressions. No customers canceling their subscriptions because they don't like the coal smoke belching megafactory bitcoin mine you just built in their back yard. You can do whatever you fucking well please, for as long as you want, and don't have to answer to anyone. The only existing life in the universe is you and the bugs. And you can disable the bugs if you like! What other programming environment has a "disable bugs" feature that works?
The whole ATT thing merely forces companies to do what they were supposed to do 3 years ago when the GDPR came into effect, and maybe even earlier if you consider the ePrivacy Directive ("Cookie law").

The regulators should use any company's complaints about the change as evidence of past GDPR breaches, but then again the reason ATT was required and companies complain is that the regulators are so incompetent that the regulation is routinely broken in total impunity even 3 years down the line.
O'Leary: Continues to fly his plane over the same route the very next day because passengers didn't buy the "anti kidnap" add-on

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1396771259724206082...
http://archive.is/qqtn9
I think there's a lot of people on HN that profit from breaching the GDPR, so it's unlikely to have a good reputation here
Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture
Magnetogenetics
Your comment is pertinent, so I won't change mine. Apologies.

In my country the word is frequently used to carry sarcasm towards the role that Lukashenko believes himself to have. In other words, it is meant as sarcasm towards the tyrant's ego, not the gullibility of the nation.
Cook's narrative looks a lot like a dictator's political propaganda:

"Without us the world would turn into hell. Our centralized control, punishment, extortion, and dictatorship are the only way for all of us to survive. Otherwise the hell would let loose and y'all wouldn't want that. So, obey! Pay your share for our protection!"

This is absolute classic and through the whole human history this was the main narrative for dictators to defend their position. The same goes in Russia, China etc. — everywhere there is a dictator, there is this exact rhetoric. They try to scare and paint themselves as the only barrier that protects paradise from hell.
I don't think passenger airline companies have the authority to close the airspace of a country. That would have to be a political decision.
"It’s not the best system for everyone" but it's the best system for people that accumulated vast sums of wealth pre-capitalism and what they say usually goes.
I evaluated it less than a year ago, and it froze after about 30-60 seconds. This happened about five years ago as well, when I evaluated it last time. It turns out to be the global search that somehow just... freezes the whole program while indexing.
Try running a full node for ETH on a beefy desktop and you quickly run into the limits. There is also the maximimum speed of light, which will make scaling interplanetary a bit difficult on high speed block times.
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i think you are mistaken here. Bat'ka in this context is more like Bat'ka Mahno, ie. a leader outside of formal rules and leading more by personal power like a leader of a gang or a rebellion (or for example in Belarussian context - "Bat'ka Minay", a commander in WWII Belarussian guerilla resistance https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%91...).

> it was originally used to mock Belarusian for supposedly liking his approach to ruling the country.

not even close. It has always been used in the "leader" meaning described above.

>He's no father to any of us, and it's insulting to Belarusians to see someone referring to him this way.

as nobody uses it as "father" in this context it is hard to see your point.
And also leaves the GPIO pins free for other uses
To be fair, the GDPR is only good in theory but its enforcement has been severely lacking, as demonstrated by all the companies suddenly complaining about App Tracking Transparency, despite ATT only mandating what they should've done to comply with the GDPR anyway 3 years ago.
State-sponsored hijacking when they do it, friendly landing to refuel when we do it.
My direct transfer settles in seconds, so that's clearly not an issue with banking in general.