skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the remnant of pre-fiat money era when foreign trade was settled via specie flows. Although it was no longer possible for individuals to show up at the Fed and demand some gold for the dollar, it was still possible for nations to do that under the Bretton Woords system setup by Keynes to manage postwar international trade. When France demanded a large gold shipment from the U.S. to settle accounts, Nixon exited Bretton Woods agreement.

However that lack of convertability still left central banks with lots of Gold reserves that were no longer required to clear trade deficits, so they mostly sat on them. Some central banks decided to sell some of their gold and others bought some, but it is now basically another asset (like Beanie Babies) although gold lasts a lot longer and is more durable, and central banks have spent 100 years collecting it prior to the end of Bretton Woods.

For more info, see https://www.imf.org/external/about/histend.htm

Fun Fact: Many people still think that foreign trade is settled via specie flows, which is why they get all confused about how the US will "pay back" China, when of course China has already been paid (in dollars) and those dollars are not convertible to anything else. If China wants to, for example, use those dollars to retire its own RMB debt, it will need to sell those dollars for something like oil on the international commodity markets, and then sell the oil to its own people for their RMB, and then use those RMB to retire their own bonds. But of course China does not rely on anyone else to supply it with RMB anymore than the US relies on China to supply it with dollars. Once you take settlement of specie flows out of the mix, there is little reason to hold dollars other than sentimentality for the old metallic era.
> have an specialization in Chemistry in the Secondary School

Not familiar with American idioms. What does this mean? Secondary School is what you go to after Primary School where I come from, but clearly you can’t mean that.
I'd love to use it for Objective-C too. I work on a mixed language SDK and right now use Jazzy which is fine but I think there's a realistic chance DocC will lead to Jazzy being abandoned sooner than we can get rid of all the Objective-C.
My experience has been that women are often also into the degrading behaviors/activities. If there is consent, where is the problem?
Foundation is great. Dune (original 6 books). All of Iain M Banks sci fi. Alastair Reynolds’ books. Dan Simmons’ Endymion series.
That was unfortunate type. I wanted to write "no way"
Doesn't Microsoft Teams do this stuff automatically by default?
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Petition urging Jeff Bezos to purchase and eat Mona Lisa gaining steam
> Compared to these volumes, consoles are niche devices.

“Niche” doesn’t mean “this other thing sold more”.

> A traditional game console is in 51 percent of U.S. households.

— https://venturebeat.com/2015/04/14/155-million-americans-pla...

Consoles are in no way “niche devices”. You’re only saying that they are because it’s convenient for the point you are making. If we can’t agree on a basic fact like this, there’s no discussion to be had here.
Maybe we can combine it with Rust's clippy for displaying the error messages.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy
No, it can be commanded from the Internet - big difference. It never has a direct connection to the Internet and even that is entirely optional and a hard opt-in (buying more hardware).

And if you have attackers on your LAN, you're at the point where controlling your lightbulb is the least of your problems. As for Zigbee, go on, present your alternative - I'm all ears!
"I guess my company is going to attract people who prefer this mode of operation, and I know other companies are WFH first"

It will be interesting to see if discouraging WFH can actually be an advantage when it comes to recruitment and retention, but when all of the main players in tech are embracing WFH, its hard to see how smaller players can sell "no WFH" as a benefit.
Suppressors, not shooting fake targets (spotter optics, possibly IR), having multiple snipers coordinate so they can fire a single round each all at the same time and go somewhere else before they get shot at. The last is probably the most important.
If you're in to security at all and are not already familiar with The Grugq, you will likely really enjoy his talks and writings. It's fitting that an expert on deception uses an avatar that projects the image he wants you to have of him. Don't be too jarred when you watch a talk and realize the avatar is part of the smoke and mirrors!
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A live2d anime figure vuejs component
hi all, I recently wrote a vue component of a live2d anime figure.

so, you can visit this site: https://qiokian-example.vercel.app to see what is going on and visit this site: https://qiokian-landing.vercel.app/ to roughly see how it looks like on a landing page.

also, I am not quite familiar with the entire live2d licensing thing... now I am including a GPLv3 licence in my repository and I do not know whether I must do so cos that takes some 30kb of storage, even larger than my code.
Cheers! Good luck to you.
Of course I now had to go dig up the reference due to the flippant Python kernel comparison :)

The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language

Cody Cutler, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert T. Morris MIT CSAIL

https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/cutler

So its from quite a prestigious institution, has at least one big authors, and concludes that it works quite well and recommends it over C for new kernels and VMMs.

I also disagree the "no traction" argument about Ada since it's been used in real projects and had a big enough developer community for a long time, and is alive and well. People can surely pick up new programming languages when they join a new project, I know I've done it many times. Tooling licensing should be fine as well since GNAT is available under GPL + Licensing exception, same as Google has been using with GCC since dawn of time, and under the Adacore license which Google probably can afford.

So, I hold that there were many other options vs Rust. Including the others in my original comment that we didn't get to in details. Except Kotlin Native, I made a timeline mistake there, it was too early in 2016.
It feels like we now have open drivers (at some stage of the development process) for all the relevant GPUs that are sold today, are there any still missing? Even the Apple M1 GPU has reverse engineering work being done on it.
This is a pretty poor solution for trying to get people to cooperate. If people are opposing good legislation just because it is being proposed by "the opposition", then the system is broken. Better to solve the problem directly, rather than some unplanned round-about solution with pretty clear downsides.
Besides all the good suggestions I’d also recommend Ender’s Game and its sequel (but not much else from the author unfortunately). Relativity / time dilation is used very interestingly in its plot line, which drew me to it.
The success of the “open office” on full display.
If you are interested in such novel architectures, I recomment this [1] also.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=sibiu+case+cu+ochi&oq=sibiu+...
Not to you perhaps, but I’d watch the video if some patient/insane/genius built it...
On not wanting the hybrid model, while where you live is an aspect, how you organize is another.

For instance it’s a big difference if you can send and take your kids from school yourself 5 days a week or if for one or two days you need to find someone to contract just for that.

Same for having one or two cars, needing a laptop or not, etc. There are a lot of big and small effects on having to commute one/two days or 0.
> No need to draw unfounded "implicit" proposals. I explicitly invoked a body of everyone with domain expertise to evaluate claims, not a singular institution.

We’re discussing a video of such “domain experts” themselves discussing and evaluating such claims openly, having been taken down by the singular Institution of Alphabet Inc.
As long as I can run Linux easily, edit/compile smallish code projects and watch Youtube smoothly CPU/GPU/RAM specs don't matter a whole lot for me when it comes to a laptop - I've got a beefy desktop at home for that (and I could remote into it from the laptop too).

However battery life, ruggedness, 3:2 display, small size etc (note: not thickness, I don't actually care about that, just the other dimensions so it easily fits in a backpack) are all features I do look for in a laptop, and Chromebooks usually have that in spades (stuff that's intended to be handed out to high school kids is probably pretty indestructible).

If Apple releases an 11" MacBook Air for a reasonable price that would be pretty compelling for me too though, knowing I do have the processing power should want it (and the very high dpi display).
Facebook moving AI to Pytorch fully
I don't necessarily think you should open source your most important bits. I'm OK with binary blobs for the most important bits, and possibly open source clients.
So with an education discount, you can spent $200 more for half the RAM? Maybe if you need the disk space (although if it's replaceable, $200 will buy a lot of aftermarket SSD), but that's certainly not an obvious tradeoff to me.
Because that’s where his political enemies are? Most politicians don’t have very deep reasons for why they act.

The set of people who worry about the state of the internet does not overlap very much with the set of people who worry if they have water and the set of people who worry about Hinduism is separate yet. In a democracy whoever can cobble together enough of these different groups (and many more) to make majority will win. If he cannot he will lose. It’s as simple as that.
The short story is the place the genre developed and where many of the jewels are found. You should survey the landscape and see what you like. Canticle for Leibowitz and Flowers for Algernon are two of the most haunting novellas ever penned. Who Goes There is a classic of horror. Johnny Mnemonic introduces cyberpunk, and Snow Crash ended it.

Greg Egan, Robert Forwards are on the hard edge with universe driven plots. Robert Hamilton does space opera like nothing else.

Military SF is its own world, with Hammers Slammers maybe the best. Be warned: the author doesn't do gore but the horrors of modern, impersonal mechanized combat is conveyed as much as words can be.

The Terra Ignota series is fantastic.
Human eyewitness testimony is also imperfect. How often do you see someone or hear a voice that you think you recognize only to find out it was someone else?

What you are arguing is that voice and face recognition are to be accepted as absolute fact, which is not how they ought to be treated. They shouldn't be considered any more reliable than a human, and any use otherwise should be discouraged. Don't throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
I think you're slightly wrong here. I'd say most, or possibly almost all humans don't learn from other people's mistakes. But _some_ people do learn _some_ things from other people's mistakes instead of their own.

I don't think this is some sort of innate human thing, I think it's purely down to ego. You think you know more or you're better than the person who made the mistake, and therefore you don't listen to them because you would never do that.
"Stranger in a strange land" and "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein.
I recently enjoyed Children of Time. It has it all: Terraforming, post-apocalyptic civilization, alien warfare, artificial intelligence, biological computers...
> Foundation series is a must read

I love the foundation series, but it was written in a very different time. Don't expect well developed characters.

I haven't read Seveneves, but other stephenson novels tend to be him nerding out on some really big idea. If you like that sort of thing (and are ok with the author really going into the tech side of the idea) greg egan is really good.

Science fiction is a pretty broad field, with lots of different types of books that concentrate on different things, so its going to vary depending on what you like. At the same time, without more to go on, this thread will probably just be a list of every famous sci-fi novel ever (if that's what you're looking for, may i suggest picking some novels at random off the nebula award winners list? There are some exceptions, but most are quite good and its a little bit of everything)
Unless Google has lied about its sycamore processor (or I’m missing something) this isn’t true. I definitely could be missing something though

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/google-quantum-co...
It sounds like you need to review some blockchain fundamentals. None of the above should be unclear in any way if you have a basic understanding. I could go on and try to address your questions, but really, at this point you may as well just be trolling. The way you have been strongly arguing above is not founded on reality if your last questions are honest.
The link rot in MS documentation pages is simply maddening. If it’s not a 404, it’s completely different content that is only relevant to v.latest.

Just the other day I was trying to look up a behavior specific to an older version of Windows and the content was completely replaced with content only relevant to Windows 10 (and there was no real parity here to what I needed). I had to go to archive.org to find the information I was looking for from that page.

When I can actually find the docs I need, they are usually great but all too often just finding that content is frustratingly difficult.
Pretty much spot on. The very best engineers often have a mix of technical excellence, courage / nonconformism and loyalty / optimism.

Take out any of those and you get either nothing or a disaster. But if all come together, you will have someone on your team who doesn't just recognize that missed opportunity the other excellent other engineers already realized, but actively go against the plans of at least one level of management in order to do what's right for the company.

They tend to create a lot of friction, but can often save a project. I personally love working with these kinds of people as I was formerly one of them — and they can and often do make the best managers later on (funnily enough, I've heard similar stories in the bio of almost any technology leader I respect).

Having made the mistake more than one time of accidentally enabling people who didn't have the loyalty / optimism or technical excellence parts though, I get why these kinds of people are usually held in place in large organizations. The resulting friction, bickering and havoc can as well break teams and companies.
For space sci-fi fans, I highly recommend the new book by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Andy Weir is the writer of The Martian.

Similar story line but detailed enginnering skills.
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>Absolutely sick of this infantilizing, childish requirement to force employees to come into the office.

It's not infantilizing or childish.

There's pros & cons.

Find a company that aligns with what you seek.

To each company their own.
One that I don't often see recommended, but my absolute favorite sci-fi book, is A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge [0], which won the Hugo in 2000.

It's a hard-sci-fi story about how various societies, human and alien, attempt to assert control & hegemony over centuries of time (in many ways thinking of this as a distributed systems and code documentation problem!), and how critical and impactful the role of language translation is in helping people to understand foreign ways of thinking. At the novel's core is a question very akin to that of philosophical antipositivism [1]: is it possible (or optimal for your society) to appreciate and emphasize with people wholly different from oneself, without interpreting their thoughts and cultures in language and description that's familiar to oneself, even if this is more art than science? There's a meta-narrative to this as well about how the reader should interpret the book with that question in mind, though to say anything more would delve into spoilers. And lest you think it's just philosophical deepness, it's also an action-packed page-turner with memorable characters despite its huge temporal scope.

While technically it's a prequel, it works entirely standalone, and is arguably best read first without knowing character details from its publication-time predecessor. Content warnings for mind control and assault (though they're handled thoughtfully IMO). Highly, highly recommend.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Deepness-Sky-Zones-Thought/dp/0812536...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipositivism
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Climate alarmism everywhere, sometimes I think, that that theory is like the flat earth in physics.
I think you're right. I also think there's often an attitude of "break things and move fast". Take a look at three.js, they break stuff every 3-4 releases which makes all the tutorials on the net out of date. They explicitly state they don't care one wit about backward compatibility.

It's also possible that it's not just that things are distributed on the net but also that the speed of development as accelerated. Some of the is undoubtedly due to the net (easier access to lots of resources/sample/libraries) as well as easier to collaborate and a ton more people doing it.
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> I thought HN was supposed to be an area of intellectual stimulation - not droning on about the same thing for months with no end.

My friend received a flagban seven years ago or so on his “Show HN: Hide this repetitive subject on HN” tool.
I dont mean to offend, but it sounds as if the problem is your workflow rather than the device. There's no reason to keep 100+ tabs open unless you don't know how to use bookmarks/citation software/save pages offline effectively. I also find myself with many tabs open once in a while, but if I see FF above 8GB of RAM I'm not going to think the issue is the hardware.

Opening PDF in FF also always is a pain but there are plenty of lightweight readers.
It really sort of depends what you read for, if it is characterization or language for example, Foundation is not very good (except for one exception) - it is recognizably of its time (the 50s) in many sorts of laughable ways. You might also dislike it because of its view on gender roles.

What it has is some fun ideas, and one really interesting character who informs lots of similar characters that came after him in the writing of other authors.
> It is if your goal is to intercept contraband.

It isn't.

Some airports select a small subset of people and swab their bag manually for drug residue. If people are sampled randomly for swabbing, yet drug smugglers have a demographic skew to e.g. young people, then you've got a suboptimal policy in terms of maximizing the proportion of all searches that find illicit drugs.

> Previous contraband seizure statistics will be skewed by survivor bias.

What do you mean by this? Are you suggesting that it's difficult to design an appropriate skew in search frequencies due to a lack of high quality data about the demographics of drug smugglers?

> This kind of reasoning results in ... ineffective solutions (security theater)

I disagree. Peak ineffectiveness and theater is searching 90 year-old women as often as 21 year-old men, when nearly 100% of suicide attacks and mass shootings are perpetrated by young men and 0% by old women.

Searching 21 year-old men may still be theater to an extent, but it is less theatrical than searching 90 year-old women with equal frequency.
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I think there is a difference in that there were things you could do with the internet that were immediately useful and so it was demonstrably beneficial. Outside of currency I haven't seen a demonstration of the technology that makes me think it's a requirement for the future to grow.
Yes, the Foundation series is short and great, but only the original. I think the later additions were a let down.

The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin, if you like to explore different social systems and its implications. Great, but might not be everyone's taste.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, obviously, which is half dry British humor and half nerd humor. I probably missed half of the British humor part, but even so it's really great. Recommended if you want to spend a weekend laughing.
> at the moment I have hundreds of tabs open in a saved browser session, with htop pegging Firefox at 16GB RAM utilization!

This must vary by available RAM or something; I can get Firefox with 2000+ tabs (lazy-loaded) to run on a machine that only has 8GB of RAM.

(Aside because someone always mentions: Yes, I know that many tabs is insane. It does work, though.)
According to the recent article on an extra robotic thumb, people got used to it very quickly. And that one wasn't even controlled by neural link, but by sensors on the user's toes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27218940
The link in the grandparent comment is (essentially) a really good and extensive definition of the term. And then also a history of MUDs and what they've since evolved into.
Yeah, I would have liked to see different trade-offs made too (especially giving the same treatment to TLS), but I’m satisfied that it’s at least a good direction to start exploring and putting some level of support behind.
Fish get their DHA from algae[0], so algae oil can substitute.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387034/ (ctrl-f "Long-chain PUFAs")
>But this quickly disintegrated, and the bargain tech execs drove in embracing an already-notorious figure like Modi became much harder. In 2016, India blocked Facebook’s “Free Basics” initiative, an attempt by the company to offer free internet access through a network of Facebook-approved sites, out of concern that the program would have created unfair tiers for internet access;

I wonder why author thinks that "free basics" was a great idea that was crushed by Modi.
Carbon nanotubes can generate electricity
Going by the title, I think I can guess the proposed solution to global warming. Anyone else thinking along those lines?
There’s also the eyes of Sibiu[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_of_Sibiu
Dune (first book only), The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur Clark, Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land), Uplift Series by David Brim, The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson, Ann Leckies books are really interesting new sf.
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Do you want to volunteer for the study?
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(thinks of human Kryten in that episode of Red Dwarf trying to find the zoom function...)

Perhaps rotate your phone?

It is irritating when pages block zoom (sometimes intentionally but usually as a side effect of working around sizing oddities in some devices/browsers/versions) but here you may have all you need to solve the problem.

Unless you have a smaller device and it is still too wide in landscape orientation.