skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Argentina, not Venezuela, but here there are 3 ways to go crypto -> fiat.

- If you have a bank account you can go through crypto exchanges. Centralized of course.
- There are p2p platforms that connect buyers with sellers. So in the platform, similar to Binance p2p, you can see how many transactions other people have and buy/sell crypto from them.
- There's a black market which has home-delivery. So you contact them through the internet (you can find links in reddit and other sites, most go through Discord) and they send you a person with your crypto/fiat and make the transaction in your home. You can also go to their location if you prefer.

Not sure if that really answers the question, but if I was receiving remittances from abroad doing options 2 or 3 would be simpler and cheaper than using any traditional finance tools, which all require you to have a bank account in the first place (a LOT of people don't have one here because of the requirements to open one) and have higher fees and bureaucracy.
Does anyone know why they hemorrhage cash?
I don't think the image has to do with the term Brazilianization, it shows a brazilian problem sure, but the term is deeper than social inequalities, is more about not reaching a never ending promise of future
> What history?

Pretty much all of it. Children were the people who would continue to do the work required to gather food once you were too old to do it yourself.

> an extension of the family tree

Yes, but why does this matter?

> If your statement has any weight many underdeveloped nations would've never had children.

No, this argument is exactly why many underdeveloped nations continue to have high birth rates (this and higher child mortality requiring you to have even more kids per adult)
Hitler's problem, IMHO and only militarily, was that he was right more often than not in 39 and 40. He failed to figure out why, so. As a result, he thought working against military expertise was the silver bullet. That, and that there never was a real chance to win a conventional war against the allies.

Another general that comes to mind os Field Marshal Haig. He wanted a break through on the Western Front in WW1. He got a war of attrition, which worked for him and not for the Germans. So he thought going for a break through was the way to go. It worked in the end, but for the wrong reasons.

That being said, a lot of German WW2 generals are over hyped, first on their memoirs and then by anti-communist "propaganda".
can anyone recommend a linux desktop app that does this? I've run into the same issue as the author. I got a lifetime for the great app https://markuphero.com but they haven't added saved signatures yet - I just write with my pen. Also although I trust them reasonably it would be nice to have something local.
It's perfectly possible, if the machine was behind a good power stabilized, and in an air conditioned environment, to have it run for a very long time. If he wrote the software into a cartridge, it'd last even longer (as there would be no wear of the 1541)
Even if the missing middle is a real consumer demand, it may not be enough of a real demand to achieve the economics of scale to be profitable (or it is profitable but with 15% margin instead of 30% and the bean counters can’t stand that).
> software-accelerated ray tracing

Is this a particular term/concept, or do you just mean non-hardware-accelerated ray tracing?

If the former, what does it mean for something to be "software-accelerated?"

If the latter, I apologize if this comes off as nit-picking.
"I thought I'd be helping people who are underrepresented in tech"

What made you believe this? The service doesn't seem to pitch that angle whatsoever. Indeed, being $300 USD per month (for what it is) puts it on a pretty pricey level and largely guarantees the opposite.
Percentage of household products manufactured in china is irrelevant, he's talking about spending (excluding investments)

so music, movies, television, video games, internet, cellphones plans, healthcare, schooling, food, gas, sporting events are all included in this equation. So importing Chinese goods isn't that much money when factoring the entire US consumption. That's a novel idea, that I never thought about before reading that article.
Software estimation is hard – do it anyway
> ongoing investigation involving Ms. Beverly and a suspect

It should be illegal to directly spy on people who themselves are not suspects.
There does seem to be some kind of difference in people, which isn’t surprising. Things like alcoholism also seem to have a genetic component.

Anecdotally, my wife and I both quit smoking. Many years later she still has the desire every day whereas I go months without thinking about it (and if cigarettes weren’t common in society I’d probably never think about them again, let alone have a desire to smoke one)
Same director.

Apparently Valerian is based on a French comic and it doesn't diverge too far from it. Hence the quirkiness.
And the original article has exactly ZERO comments.

A lot of his concepts were right, but the implementation isn’t as aggregated as predicted.
He says that, but it's also a fairly nice card to pull if you just like being an arrogant asshat.
There doesn't seem to be any context on whether this was an intentional feature, intended to be used by userspace programs, or something entirely undocumented that wasn't intended to see widespread use. What's more, it doesn't dive into why it matters - if the microarchitecture's the same, isn't the only benefit a shorter pipeline; maybe you can skip some of the complex CISC->RISC decoding?

Itanium seems to have, in any case, shown us that exposing the microarchitecture for the sake of performance is an antipattern.
>Though, (1) is wrong on iPhone; there’s an “add to home screen” action in the share menu.

As I said:

>WebApp shortcuts are quite involved.

Most people don't know about that functionality, you need to teach them. It would have been cool if Apple supported that, then I guess everyone would have been trying trick you into it like the good old days where every website was trying to trick you into making it you start page.
That too, but if the microarchitectures had a numeric identity for example (even in parallel to the xyz lake name) the route to a better numerical ID for CPU's would be easier.
I'm embarrassed to say I had never even heard of this. What an interesting and inspiring read, thank you for sharing.
The Essential State
From a purely logical angle, people willing to fork out $300 a month for this could well be underrepresented in tech, not just those who cannot afford it.
Google Maps Strikes Again
You may remember this thread from a few months back where we all traded stories of dangerous directions on Google Maps[0].

Despite having the terrifying experience of driving my motorcycle into the jungles of Indonesia, I managed to *make the same mistake again* much closer to home, driving from Utah to Colorado.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25576799
Also high summer humidity which basically gives the choice between extensive maintenance requirements (which requires that the house was built to allow for it) or… just tearing down the house before it's gotten to rot.

I also expect the situation is different in Hokkaido: it's drier with lots of winter precipitation (spring is the driest season in sapporo versus winter for tokyo), and the more extreme winter weather probably leads to higher quality construction (for instance central heating and extensive insulation is common in hokkaido while it's quite rare on honshu which tends to go by "tactical heating" and quite drafty houses).
1 case 9 years ago is it?

You're assuming that a) buying things is bad, and b) you're interested in everything that's good for you and already know every product that exists.
That wasn't a problem when GCC was a requirement to keep free beer UNIX alive, how quickly people forget.
It blinds all the vendors and one of the panel data sources was Facebook.
> What I'd prefer, and where browsers could actually play an integral part, is an easier system for online (micro)payments. Want to read this article? Pay €0.05 please. No registration required. Want a monthly subscription? That'll be €5/month, please create an account.

HTTP 402 Payment Required

It goes back to at least 1999 [0], but as far as I'm aware was never implemented (has been "reserved for future use" until the past few years, where Mozilla now lists it as "experimental technology" [1]).

Edit to really fast downvote: I'm not saying this works, but that 1) there is a longstanding mechanism a new feature could be built on, and 2) it's apparently not been worthwhile for over two decades - but it seems it is being looked at now.

[0] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html / https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
It does make a difference, even so slightly. Trust me in that one, I have been called off more than one time by not using mints. But yeah, I agree that it doesn't remove the stench completely
It was called "reveal codes".

http://wordperfect.helpmax.net/en/creating-and-managing-docu...
It's really wonderful for you to link the dataset here. I think neither of us would have the time to compile the dataset manually. Admittedly and regrettably I didn't check the appendix.

So the conclusion was from Xinjiang's 2017 and 2018 birthrate, which respectively as included was 15.88 and 10.69, so that's where the 50% drop came from. However, the same index for China overall was 12.43 and 10.94, where we see around 20% drop. I don't think it can be categorically concluded it's some racially-motivated policy. (whether it's a good policy or bad is a whole different matter.)
How to Recover Yahoo Groups from the Internet Archive
> Just look at Italian elites’ desperation to remain part of euro, despite the penury to which it subjects the country and the destruction of any future for it.

It is an absolutely false hyperbole to claim that the Euro is the cause of economic decline and the destruction of Italian future.

I was in agreement with the general premise of the article but this wild claim written as a fact makes me question all the other claims that I lack the knowledge to challenge.
What are the rules of choosing board members in US publicly listed companies? Why board members typically run unopposed?
I think the point, though, is that irrespective of the exact price in the Rust Belt, prices are a fraction of those in desirable places like SF or NYC.

You can't create demand by government fiat. People aren't living in rural Japan or Missouri because nobody wants to live there, for a littany of reasons of which the direct financial cost of home ownership is but one.
I knew a bunch of people who started smoking menthol because of sickness.
one fake mission ended everyone's aspiration & research
What helped me was learning about how my brain functions, and all the ways it likes to sabotage me. Check out "learning how to learn," it's a free course on coursera and I think udemy.
You're missing the part where those motorcycle messengers move at the speed of light, that the speed boats used were tiny commercial ones which could have never loaded let alone fired the heavy cruise missiles used and that blue force's defenses were off because the simulator otherwise would unintentionally target civilian shipping and aviation.

If the Iranians could have they would have done so already. There's a reason why they had resorted to militias and sectarian violence in Iraq instead.
By intentionally being a massive arsehole they exclude people who won't tolerate arseholes so that they don't have to expose themselves to criticism from anyone with any sense of self-worth or intelligence.
Definitely.

For me, at least from what I remember from school in the 90s/00s in the US, this stuff wasn't taught at all. We just learned a bunch of left-over cold war rhetoric about being "leader of the free world", and little discussion of what actually went on in the "free world" that was being "lead".

Events like this one -- or the Bodo League mass killings [1], or the institution of slavery in Korea [2], etc -- were not covered at all. Even more shocking is how violent and unimaginably cruel so many governments have been, and yet to this day they manage to be fondly remembered by many conservative citizens. For example, President Park Geunhye, daughter and "successor" to the dictator President Park Chung-hee, became president in a (questionable) election in 2012, with mass support from conservative voters. So even if a given dictatorship is gone, it's supporters are still here, and will be voting in as many similar policy as they can.

History in high school used to be my least favorite subject, but as an adult, reading history books is like all I do, and I will use any excuse to go on and on about it (as evidenced by this now very long post lol)

Edit: Not sure why I got so many downvotes so quickly, but just to be clear I'm not trying to pick on Korea or single out Korean conservatives --- this applies to many, many countries [3] --- I'm only using South Korea as what I thought was an interesting example, due to the original post being about Gwangju.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

[2] Slavery is now illegal, but for a modern horrific example in 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_on_salt_farms_in_Sinan...

[3] Brazil is one I know well, but for a European example, the Mussolini Family continues to be elected by Italy's conservatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Legacy
An urban legend goes that at least two Soviet Mars probes missed the planet because of a typo in the nav program. The code was in Fortran and one of the commas was mistyped as a dot (or vice verse).
The Linux version is freeware now:

https://xwp8users.com/
Testing in the Twenties
Illegal activity in crypto isn't as prevalent as you may think, and it's actually on the decline: https://blog.coinbase.com/fact-check-crypto-is-increasingly-...

ISIS has figured out how to get funded long before crypto was a thing. Banks already launder billions and that's harder to trace than Bitcoin transactions. And now, like it or not, crypto already exists and is here to stay, so perhaps it's better to start building legitimate use-cases around it than to just mumble about ISIS from afar.

All of your examples seem very contrived for how crypto won't work. I can make up examples of areas where crypto won't help, too. It's not supposed to be the end-all use case for everything.

The lack of conflict resolution in crypto is a side effect of decentralization. When you're talking global interoperability and value exchange, conflict resolution is off the table anyway. What court am I supposed to go to if I wire money to a guy in Nigeria and he doesn't fulfill his end of the bargain?

Ownership of the Mona Lisa might not be one, but there are many use-cases where removing a centralized mediator has a ton of potential benefits. One example might be Basic Attention Token, where advertisers and users can get a better experience because there's no need to satisfy the Google Ads middleman. What's the use for a conflict resolution mechanism in online advertising? Same with device connectivity with helium network, or decentralized lending that can provide better interest rates because there's not a huge meatspace banking infrastructure to support.
Using Wikipedia as an Impromptu RottenTomatoes API
The bubblegum misogyny of 2000s pop culture
Just curious as to what the urge two 'hardest things' are. Could you elaborate?
We keep learning cops turn cams off when inconvenient, generally without meaningful consequences.
I think we need "Demand explanation" button for comments like this . It's a useless statement as is. It's essentially trolling and trolling shouldn't be happening on HN.

I know the reasoning of that statement but it's not providing an argument to refute. What am I supposed to say? "No. You can't, that's why it's not happening".
Possession in 9/10 ownership law, right?
Possible that we in the US do not learn much about the atrocities of South Korean autocracies because they were largely supported and propped up for decades by the US government.

After nearly 40 years of Japanese rule, Korea formed a unified independent, democratically elected government with representation from right, center, and left political leaders on September 6, 1945. The very next day US forces showed up to dissolve the government and keep power in the hands of the Japanese.

The subsequent election in South Korea was boycotted by nearly every political group.

In the late 1940s, Kim Gu had unification talks with Kim il-Sung but the CIA had him assassinated in 1949.

From there it’s a long chain of military dictatorships, coups, and suppression of democratic uprisings, with US influence and support.
I had no idea they'd gone back to 4 numbers for some of their CPUs. What does G7 even mean?
Impressive. Tried on Chrome. I had to zoom out to 25% for more clear text. Everything lags, so not really playable but it looks like it works.
Because people who are into cryptocurrencies are in it for the "not fiat" aspect, not the "electronic transactions" aspect. If you care about the latter, credit cards and/or mobile wallets adequately covers 90% of the use cases.
Geomagnetic Reversal
Note that plenty of advertising like bus stop ads, especially if there's any QR code, is often tracked for conversion (by having a unique reference code embedded in the URL in the QR code).
What device did you try on? PC/Mac or mobile?

Thanks for the feedback!
> makes you part of the problem.

Fortunately for everybody, I have no influence on any military nor political force anywhere. Or any relevant responsibility for that matter. The world is safe from my wrong opinions.
much to some grumpiness from the home office, we even used postgis at esri's Portland R&D center.

it was a pleasure to use, and pramsey is definitely a stand up person.
We are actually very well acquainted haha.
Yes, it's important to remember that in the modern world, states often transition between a variety of forms. The common forms are representative democracy, military dictatorship, populist/strongman dictatorship (which can be formally democratic to whatever extent) and single-party "totalitarian" dictatorship but there are endless variations.

All these are based on particular power groups and only partially relying on the consent of the governed - while also organizing the governed to give their consent, with represent democracy naturally relying most on the consent of the consent of the governed.
Like the "Made in USA" stamped on the giant underwater phone line tapping machine on Russian phone lines?
For CineBench R23 Score. ( In case anyone will read it the wrong way )

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 by default is an 15W TDP CPU, especially true if you are spreading load across all cores. ( 28W if you are on single Core TurboBoost ) It is on 10nm SuperFin ( equivalent to ~TSMC 7nm ), Quad Core and 8 Thread, Not sure about its AVX 512 clock speed limitation I dont have time to dig that up.

The Apple M1 is ~ 24W TDP, 8 Core 8 Thread, with 4 being High Efficiency Core on TSMC 5nm.

You are looking at a ~60% higher TDP number. The results are still impressive, but needs these additional context before it is consumed.

I will also not be surprised if A15 has a major GPU uArch change. ( Something similar to IMG B-Series )
Or the cool "Salmon cannon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3ZyGlqUkA
Went into a wikipedia rabbit hole about restricted writing after reading about E-Prime.

It's a very intriguing topic.
I’m reading Stephen Sinofsky’s new book as he writes it, he’s blogging the chapters, and it up to just a few years earlier, about 1993.

These are the operating systems they were developing at that time. DOS, OS/2, Windows, Windows NT and Cairo. Each was a different code base, different strategic vision and different technical requirements. That’s unbelievably stupid. They soon ditched OS/2, DOS and the failed Cairo project, but then added Windows CE.

They never valued and core technology. Each product or market segment was addressed separately, from scratch by a new product team. The compiler team barely talked to the tools team, who developed separate tech from the applications teams who used their own frameworks different from those provided by the OS team. Most of the narrative is about teams talking past each other in meetings and struggling to get them to work together. It’s nuts.
I'm my view, the argument isn't that stuff bought on Amazon shouldn't be allowed to be shipped by Amazon. It's that Amazon shouldn't be able to force sellers to set a certain price when they sell on Walmart.com .

I don't see any consumer benefit from Amazon forcing sellers to change their Walmart.com prices.
I started vaping around the same time as the first lockdown. I never enjoyed it really and it kind of actually hurt my lungs a couple of times. I stopped. Break until next lockdown. I started smoking a tobacco pipe. Maybe 1 bowl every 3 days. More meditative, lasts around 40 mins, with the geeky hobby of different flavours, blends, techniques. It's also less nicotine and because there's no inhalation, much less worse. But it feels good and much more "right" than vaping or smoking like an addicted monkey.

I never got into smoking cigars, they seem to last way longer and be more powerful. Like being forced to drink 10 espressos over the space of 20 minutes.
I have no idea. I'm just saying that quitting smoking will be one of those three. Probably not the hardest, but it's up there. FWIW it's the hardest thing I've done in my 34 years of age, it's taken me 10+ years to quit, I'm now 1.5 years nicotine free and I will have to be vigilant for the rest of my life.
There is no universal morality. Morals are likely partial genetic and partially cultural. Natural selection selects for cultural values ("morals") that allow a culture to survive to destroy other cultures.

Random morals are constantly being created - mutations. They sometimes are negative for cultural survival, sometimes neutral, and sometimes positive.

Based on a changing environment morals needed for a culture to survive will also change.

Over a long enough time, some moralistic behavior has become embedded in our DNA. (e.g. protecting children). Moralistic behavior that is embedded in DNA is probably the closest thing we have to "universal morality".

Controversial examples might be procreating at 13. When people died at a much younger age, it was not immoral to procreate as soon as we were able. Now it is morally abhorrent. Some cultures still allow it. It is absolutely not universally immoral.
> Russia has been an accounting game since the fall of the soviet union

Again, the argument is that it does not matter. As long as the people in power are well compensated the general wellbeing of federation is of little consequence.

It is pretty simple. People who barely scrape by have no time, resources or focus to be fighting. They can't have too much or too little.
Indiana Pi Bill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
From an economic perspective the biggest losers of the dollar standard is manufacturing and the biggest winners is wall street. Wall Street had secular growth and manufacturing had secular decline from the adoption of the petrodollar and the dollar becoming the reserve currency of the world. Similar changes happened in Europe when the pound became a reserve currency (growth of Germany etc in manufacturing) and then the issues that surrounded relative decline in the City as a financial center till the Big Bang in the 1980s.

Reserve currencies create huge beneficiaries and losers (especially in “tradables” like manufacturing).

Different arguments on this subject:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-bring-back-u-s-manufacturing...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dollar-and-the-future-of-u-...
Yes. We should all wish her a speedy recovery.
Midway had it's fortunate moments, but IJN didn't have much of a chance from the get go due to the absurd USN ship production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M