skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No new currency enjoys a stable value against the dollar unless it's in some way pegged to it.

Just because a currency is not stable in value at first doesn't mean it won't stabilize.

Further, we seem to be talking past each other. I'm thinking more along the lines of the amount in circulation and how if a currency like BTC was in use, we wouldn't have inflation and likely much more stable pricing.

I know the Keynesian arguments for inflation about people never spending their store of value if it's not inflationary, but you have to realize we also live under a Keynesian government, are educated by Keynesian economists in schools subsidized by the Keynesian government.

There are plenty of good arguments for hard money, but they aren't backed by the current monopoly of force as it doesn't provide them with a source of extra dollars.

See
https://mises.org/library/did-framers-favor-hard-money

https://saifedean.com/thebitcoinstandard/

For some alternative opinions from outside our bubble.
If you require good developers and managers with "extraordinary developer relation skills", and do manage to hire them out of wherever they worked before and fire all that don't satisfy that requirement, where do all the average developers and average managers work? Picking out only the best people is something that a particular company can choose to do, but it can't be a recommendation for the whole industry - what do we do with the other half of the tech workforce? We need reasonable processes that work somewhat well for most developers and most managers.
Sounds like that's a problem for the pro sports leagues to solve. They have the money to do it, so they'll be fine.

Baseball does an adequate job with its system of minor league teams. Pretty much every other country in the world manages to have professional sports leagues without having universities be their feeder teams.

Even in your scenario, there's nothing stopping the aspiring golfer from attending Stanford part-time while they try to make it in pro-golf. Or applying and deferring admission for a couple of years. Frankly, they'd do better academically if they didn't have golf distracting them.
Google needs to get its Search team into the driver seat. Its the information age. They are the ones who should be leading and laying out a path into the future.

Instead, the god damned empire defense crowd is laying out that path, for almost a decade now, and its naturally a road to nowhere.

There is no real big vision coming from Google on what is wrong with how info is being mindlessly generated and pumped into people's heads 24x7.

They are very proud and happy they index 2 billion 'how to make a boiled egg' videos. WTF are they even enabling? They have no clue because its all driven by empire defense.
I actually think they need to bring back home economics separate and distinct from financial literacy.
Speaking of bandying words, when Peterson refers to himself as a classical British liberal, he means free market and not progressive. The NYTimes rates him as conservative leaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#Political_view...
Maybe the part of the Internet that's in English. I don't see it elsewhere.
It can also be a great conversation starter.

Memes can make everyone involved think. And then if some start talking, common basis for solidarity can be found.

If you ask me, memes are doing a lot to generate the fertile ground needed for greater class awareness and solidarity.

Lots of noise in that, but it is the signal that adds right up.

In any case, there is no stopping any of it. I would bot even try.

One can generate better ones and contribute to signal. That is also effective.
Google I/O 2021: A peek into 3D video chat booth Project Starline

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gives-peek-into-3d-vide...
Funnily, I use a GUI almost exclusively to resolve mess-ups: Ungit is a great tool to understand the current state of the repository and fix it.
That's the original title of the article and it was changed later. This is a common "glitch" in CMSes.
Given that college sports mostly loose money for schools[1], why do we think its OK to ask students and (for public colleges) taxpayers to subsidize professional sports' feeder system?

I went to a large state school (SUNY Buffalo) where the administration wanted to go division 1 when I was there in the early 90s. Transitioning to division 1 came along with a large (to us) mandatory athletic fee. The student body voted against this multiple times, and then the administration simply stopped asking and went division 1 anyway (and imposed the fee).

[1]:https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/do-college-sports-make-mon...
I always have to wonder at what point does this just result in lower productivity if you know you're going to have to leave a company within a few years to another company and go through the whole process again? I understand that some folks don't learn or catchup all that much but at some point GOOD ENOUGH should be GOOD ENOUGH. Instead, we have entire corporations who predicate their HR culture on the idea of constant churn on what seems like baseless theories. If it's your immediate boss that's tired of one particular slacker that's one thing but it's a wholly different situation when HR comes down on your boss demanding they fire 6% of their team whether or not they're doing great. It's this kind of stuff that I think makes it suck to work in software anymore.
I think the libel and defamation laws are too slack in the US. I think Twitter and News Companies who repeat libelous and defamatory tweets about people should be liable.

Society has dealt with how to deal with people spreading rumors and falsehoods about people, and one of the solutions was libel laws. It is not surprising as the. US Supreme Court gutted those laws, and Congress gave safe harbor with section 230 to tech companies, that we have seen a huge spike in these problems.

Hold Twitter, the posters, and any retweeters jointly and severally liable and watch the problem disappear.
Yes continuing on into postdoc is another 3+ years of opportunity cost, certainly it does add up quickly. But OP was implying that PhD students actually had to pay for their degrees which is not true. Most people will finish PhD before they are 30, if you compare to top SWE or finance jobs then sure there is expensive opportunity cost, but compared to entry level jobs more generally it really is not a huge deal. Most people doing a traditional STEM PhD wouldn't even be able to get one of the "high roller" jobs out of undergrad, because only a handful of majors are considered for the most part. A pure neuro undergrad wouldn't learn enough CS in school to be considered for a FAANG.

IMO postdoc is where people really start to get set back - you don't get benefits like free health insurance or subsidized housing anymore, you are getting older with additional life expenses, and you aren't getting a degree that can open doors to additional jobs anymore. You are basically just continuing to chase a university career at shit pay by the point you reach a postdoc. The worst part is that people are forced into postdocs almost immediately, because you literally can't get one after you are a certain number of years past graduation.

I don't disagree that as a society there are better ways. But as an individual actor unless you make an absolute killing with some start up or something there is no way you can afford to do proper biology research (for example). Perhaps if you're willing to move into some specific niche based on feasibility, but you'd have very little freedom in what questions you could ask this way. Beyond money there are also logistical questions surrounding care of animals or possible clinical collaboration, so unless you're happy doing in vitro work only this is another can of worms for someone attempting to be an independent researcher.
I’ll grant that it meets the definition of being striking, but not that it meets the intended goals of activism.

The entire point of the article is that this style of pseudo-activism debases activism, as a whole.
There might be something to that, but I think you still have to actually get to the watering hole / square / etc. Many people complain about there being no more boundaries when WFH, working all the time, etc. I think the issue is more psychological than purely logistical.

I live in Paris, where you can easily find a watering hole within walking distance [0], yet I used to hear this same sentiment from colleagues even before Covid was a thing.

At a previous job we used to work a lot from home, which I really enjoyed, and whenever I brought the subject up at the current one, many people would comment something along the lines of "I don't know, I'd hate to be alone all the time". And this was coming from people who seemed fairly sociable and who were often talking about friends outside work (so they weren't isolated).

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[0] Assuming you live in Paris proper, not in the far-away suburbs.
And this is sidetracking the point that college-athletes being recruited with aspirations for professional sports view the college as a means to the pro-level job; college courses and the degree are not viewed as benefits but necessary side-effects. Is this true for all sports and all athletes? No, not for fencing or handball, but for football, basketball, and other potential high-earners.
No worries - in academia, the number is a lot higher.
Just as an add on to this. Are there any self-taught programmers looking for lab partners for the OSTEP book projects?
based on the fact that you're even writing about it and really reflecting so deeply makes me think that you're probably NOT that kind of person. and that is why all of this crap is so dangerous. actual decent people are collateral damage and anyone is up for dismantling.

my question to those who read this comment is: given all that has happened regarding canceling disgusting people (i.e weinstein) and potentially more controversial ones that maybe didn't deserve it (e.g aziz ansari) is it a net negative or a positive for society?
What I said and what you are saying, no person could argue against. On paper, it looks great.

But look at reality, and what we do have and it doesn't look so useful a list of ideals anymore.

I am very much against Gov toes. But it really is way past the time something needs to be reined in. Nothing is being done, or has been done, for decades and hope for change to come from the people 'up', has been sold for short term, looping, distraction.

To think my children's children will no longer use the word 'search', they will use the word 'google' but google is google, its not searching. This is the reality.

Politicians are in their pockets so deep before too long there will no one with any power, in power. That's what I see. It makes my skin crawl when Tim Cook talks about how green the Apple Campus is. This is base irony, and not enough people bat eyelids, imho.
I think other comments have noted this, but I don't see where the harm of memes is supposed to be.

Yes, far more people are happy to fleetingly express support for an idea than will actually take meaningful action

Yes, political movements need short slogans which naturally obscure a lot of detail

These really just seem like facts of life and it's not clear that either thing (lots of half-invested people sharing hashtags; people misunderstanding slogans) does any harm to the actual movements, or to society
Nothing went wrong there, it's just what you get if you configure an encoder using just some quantization setting and not a visual target. The same will happen if you would encode images with libjpeg quality 50 (and then derive all other bitrates from there). In some cases the image will look OK-ish at that setting, in other cases it will be complete garbage.

JPEG XL is the first codec to have a practical encoder that can be configured by saying "I want the worst visual difference to be X units of just-noticeable-difference". All other encoders are basically configured by saying "I want to use this scaling factor for the quantization tables, and let's hope that the result will look OK".
Interest rates being held so low for so long disadvantages the working class. It may look like you're paying fixed "prices" for things, but that's just a cover over what always comes down to a bidding scheme. Sometimes that's even directly visible, like when buying a home. Since borrowing money is so cheap. you end up in bidding competition with people who took out the cheap loans, meaning you either have to come up with more money yourself through other means, or compete with them by taking out loans yourself. The worse off you are, the more likely you are to end up doing the latter.

The end result is the entire working class is enmeshed in debt all the time just to stay even with where they would have been if the interest rates weren't so low.

It's astonishing how effective the upper class was at coming up with this policy to endebtify the entire middle and lower class without ever once talking with each other about how to do this or coordinating any actions to produce this result. It just sorta happened. Neat for them.
It's a little weird to hear about people being "cancelled" for things that they did. Usually, to me, "cancel culture" is the phenomenon where people are relentlessly harassed for what they said, or in some (rare) cases, where they were ("so-and-so pictured with so-and-so at such-and-such"). People getting in trouble for doing stuff doesn't strike me as a particularly new or unique cultural phenomenon.
He should be worried about the fact that he accepted other people telling him how to behave. THAT'S humiliating.
In this case it's intentional: highlighting divergence from the global average :)
This is borderline insanity. What, you want life without side effects now? The only ethical way is death, since no humans means they don't affect ecosystem around them.
> I was extremely disappointed to see Jeff defend Megan Kacholia's firing of Timnit

Jeff had 2 options: pick a safe leader, or a corrosive person. Timnit has shown incredible tone-deafness and arrogance; just view her Twitter exchange with Yann LeCun. She was clearly out of her league, and doubling down every day with newer and newer antics. She needed to go.
Noah Bradley did not get cancelled for online behavior, he got blacklisted in the art industry for being a sexual predator.
My impression is he made himself sound worse than he really was.
I agree, I'm not saying you should have your entire life uprooted because you said something stupid on Twitter when you were like 13. The situation in this case is a little different. Again, don't be a dick or try to avoid it when possible and I don't think you will have to worry about being canceled.
Oh. Also. If I lose my VPS my network is still functioning to a degree. If you lose your wireguard server I believe you’re out of luck?
No, any kind of purely speculative investment meets that definition. That is exactly what the other poster is saying. It is a misunderstanding to say that such an asset is a Ponzi scheme.
>(sidebar: best name ever for a banker)

That title belongs to Emilio Botín, who used to lead Spain’s largest bank and hid several hundred millions in a secret account in a Swiss bank.

Botín is spanish for pirate booty :)
> If you think you understand better than a leading professional in the field, you might be the mistaken one.

I don't understand professional baseball, but if the owner of a team says "my pitchers are the BEST" - I can call "bullshit" on them without actually knowing if his pitchers are the best. It's in his best interest to say his pitchers are the best, even if they are not. He owns the team, and his livelihood is linked to the efficacy of his pitchers. This MN reserve employee has the same link between his livelihood and perceived value in the US dollar.

tldr; the "professional" making the statement is heavily biased.
Did you know terms evolve in English and often come to mean similar though not exactly the same thing after some decades or centuries? Of course it doesn't exactly match the original scheme of Charles Ponzi (even Madoff didn't), but there are enough similarities for it to be an apt comparison
> tend to fund all the rest

How much 'funding' does an amateur university sport need? I don't think my fencing club at university had any 'funding' we just met and fenced. Occasionally we borrowed a van to go to a competition. We had a coach we paid from a few pounds of membership fees we collected from ourselves.
Delegate. Delegate that supervision of some people to someone else. That's what middle management is for - there's a limit on how many direct reports you can effectively handle; someone does need to "keep mental track of is measuring individual performance and success", but above a certain number (whatever that is for you personally) you can't be that someone for everyone in your company.
This is definitely out of date! As of version 4.0, released two years ago, Plotly is "offline/local by default". Check out our docs: https://plotly.com/python/is-plotly-free/#can-i-use-plotly-f...
The bill says "Thirty-six (36) states guarantee access to personal finance education in their public." - http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/billtext20/housetext20/h7... . I wonder how that's helped those other states.

My personal opinion is that the system is set up to screw people out of their money, with the push for (expensive, self-funded) college education instead of on-the-job training or government-funded college education, the low minimum wage, especially for employees in tipped positions, the nerfing of union power, the high cost of a privatized health system, the difficulties of switching jobs due to employer-funded medical insurance, the lack of funding and political support things like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, high banking costs, and so on.

Do these personal finance classes teach about these systemic issues? Or do they imply that the student is responsible for a system weighted against them?

I wonder what part of the existing school curricula will be removed in order to have the time for this class.
A YouTube personality I follow got cancelled not long ago. They responded by exiting Twitter, but there were complications. One of the things they mentioned that had never occurred to me is that as a published author, they had a contractual agreement with their publisher to maintain an online personality.

They had to come to special terms with their publisher to modify contract because the nature of cancellation is such that at the time, there was basically nothing they could say that would improve their "brand," so the purpose of the contract stipulation had become counterproductive. But as parent notes, this is a real problem some people have, depending on their profession.
It's a decentralized Ponzi scheme. That's the real magic of the blockchain: diffusion of responsibility. Nobody's guilty if everyone is.

The overwhelming majority of the liquidity and price action is driven by Tether which of course is backed by thin air. This fake money is used to pump up the price to drive in real money which can then be used to pay off the earlier investors. Taken in isolation no part of the system individually forms a classical Ponzi scheme. However, put the pieces together and it start to look awfully suspicious.
> No, in a typical investment, you don't really care about what the market thinks, if your time horizon is long enough. Investments generate cash or utility to the owners.

I don't think you can describe a "typical" investment in this way. Many investments lose value in the long run. Many investments value go to 0 in the long run. Your time horizon being long enough doesn't help here. In fact, it is actually what hurts you.
Had a professor who wat was at big company. Forget which.
IBM came in with a list of patents that were being violated.
Professor went through the list and managed to document fully how each one didn’t apply to company. One of which was for pythagorean theorem.

They had another meeting to go over it with IBM to show results.
Not impressed IBM said fine you don’t violate those. We have a hundred thousand more patents.

Are you buying a license for these, or should we go find more that you “violate”

Company purchased a license.

This was 20 years ago.
It's probably from https://twitter.com/BettyDesuJiang/status/127450059571858227...

No clue whether or not that claim is true, just pointing out the source
Moreover - as you go up the capital spectrum you see an increasing emphasis on teaching financial literacy to children (just look at the marketing materials of private banks an wealth managers purporting to help educate the next generation)
> He said the dollar has value, not that it is sound.

He gave a completely ridiculous reason why the dollar has value. It's along the lines of "Bitcoin has value because it is scarce and hard to create". It's a non-sequitur. It's also ignoring that 90% of the money supply is not created by the government.

Perhaps he wanted to sanitize the following argument: Each year, there's a lot of people that owe a certain amount of dollars to the US government. If they don't find those dollars, they could end up in jail. This is a valid reason why the US dollar has natural demand and thus is valuable.

> If you think you understand better than a leading professional in the field, you might be the mistaken one.

That's not what I am saying. I'm pretty sure he knows better, but he is lying to you with a straight face. That's part of his job.
WWW: April 30, 1993 (28 years, 2 months)

Bitcoin: January, 2009 (12 years, 5 months)

In two more years, we'll be just about halfway there. I think the internet had far more apparent uses at 12 years (2005) than bitcoin has now.
I'm factoring in performance. The 1065G7 has a similar power profile to the M1 but it's much slower - both perceptually and in benchmarks. I like Passmark as a quick and dirty comparison tool, and it has the M1 at 1.7x the 1065G7, putting it in the realm of (but faster than!) the i9 Macbook Pros. 4x runtime was off the top of my head and it looks like that was an overestimate, but it's still over 2x. Also I've used those things and there's no way they get 11 hours.

You're right about the process node. AMD's new laptop chips are on 7nm and they compare more favorably than Intel's. x86 isn't dead yet, but the trend is still not in its favor:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory.png

1065G7: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-1065G...

M1: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+8+Core+320...

9880H: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i9-9880H...
There is only one correct response to these twitter mobs: say nothing.
A fact that counters your hypothesis: Amazon is obviously one of the most productive companies to have ever existed.

*Edited: Turns out I have been misusing the word "counterfactual" for quite some time.
This is mixing up a few different things.

Vue and React are primarily client-side frameworks, intended to run in a browser. They expect that the Document Object Model (DOM) APIs be available, so that they can update parts of the current page based on your components.

However, they can also be used for "server-side rendering", using the same component definitions to generate an HTML string and return it (similar to how you might generate HTML via templates in a typical server framework like Rails or Django).

I know just enough about Deno to know that there are technical differences between how Deno and Node handle defining and loading JS module files, and that might have implications on whether Deno can handle loading libraries like React and Vue as they're currently packaged and published.
This post is a great example of how to attack something (cancel culture) while also acting like a victim (downvote me). This is a powerful technique that seems to be getting more and more common in society.
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