skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His (undoubted) role in the Trail of Tears aside, it's not at all clear why Andrew Jackson belongs on money anyway. As far as I've read, it's not even clear how the decision to put him on the $20 was made, except that one fan of his at the mint thought he should be.

All that not to mention, it's ridiculous to be putting someone who didn't think the US should have a central bank on the US's money.

Statues, money, and the like are how we communicate to the world and ourselves reminders of those whose lives we find worth emulating. As our morals change and we start to find things like slavery, forced death-marches and ethnic cleansing abhorrent, is it really wrong for us to update our imagery of whose lives we should emulate? At least to stop idolizing those people who were most notable for, or even raised arms in insurrection in support of, those acts?
First thing I thought of. I believe the trade off was getting a warranty extension on the engine/emmissions system.
The sample newsletter looked interesting, so I signed up. Thanks for providing a sneak-peek.
It’s a bit odd it was “leaked”to the BBC. They have an odd parity with these kind of stories and official government line.
Google is a for profit business, not a person. Profit is it's sole purpose for existence.
Having to use the older insulins is shitty, and it shouldn't be happening, but it's not the thing that's killing people.

In a way it is killing people, blood sugar control is much easier with a mix of the newer insulins, and patience compliance is much higher. This directly translates into better quality of life and lower disease burden from diabetes complications.

No one can argue that pharmcos shouldn't be paid for R & D that increases quality of life, in civilized countries the taxpayer should and will pay for your medication if it's an improvement over what's already at market.

But here people seem to be arguing that if you can't afford anything else there's still Walmart short-acting Humalog, and you get to bear all the risk, and that's just fine.
I hate it when companies do this, and they've been doing it a lot recently. I think my irritation comes from the fact that they're not doing it to make their customers happier with their product; they're doing it to avoid a storm of controversy from people who in large part aren't their customers.

They have the right to do it, I understand it, and I might do the same in their place, because who wants a twitterstorm against their new product? But it's still annoying.
I don't agree with this. I oftentimes see colleagues from "distant" teams who have a tendency to use their own, opaque acronyms even when they specifically look for me to help them with something. My first response is always, basically, "what's XYZ?".

I think people have a tendency to assume that their context is shared by the other people.

Also, on a wider level, I think that the infamous "twitter wars" are due to people taking short sentences out of context. Of course, this is likely not the only reason, but it's probably a contributor.
> Converting them all is gonna take a while

What sort of backups?

(My experience is that) NTFS filesystems mount just fine on other OSes, particular Linux.
Companies cannot grow and be successful without a wide variety of roles. And different roles tend to attract different personality types. The personality type for sales and the personality type for accounting are likely to have much less overlap than the personality types for media relations and human resources. It's not hard to imagine the archetype for each of those roles, and they are typically distinct personalities.

The gamut of personality types includes both introverts and extroverts. And not only are those not the only two, even among introverts and extroverts, there are degrees of introversion and extroversion.

Companies need all types to be optimally successful. Conflating personality types with goodness and badness is simply creating conflict. Don't fall for it.
I only feel bad for them to an extent. Many people are entering the crypto-space solely on hype hoping to get rich quick but honestly have no clue what they are doing and have way too much cash to burn.
> 0.1 and 0.3 have non-terminating representations in binary

No. "1", "3" and "10" can all fit easily in just four bits.

Just use rational numbers and solve the problem for good.
1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this really started, but I don't think it was "from the very beginning".
It depends how you define wealth and power. I mean, $200k at Apple may not be super wealthy or super powerful, but it is still way better than retail work.
WL batch processed sources. You get the boring ones with the salacious ones, possibly useful for context. I listed three assumptions and you denied one. Since you want more disclosure that goes against the judgment of the site owners, why not just start your own site?
> You are wrong to include fairness on your list

The company I work for is owned by a huge French bank. Even though I am in tech I still need to do some mandatory (legally required) training, and one of the courses is Treating Customers Fairly.

The FCA say "Treating customers fairly is a requirement for all regulated firms, no matter their size or the nature of the activities they undertake".
Not actually the question since countries with modern healthcare systems provide all types of insulin at an average cost per unit that is roughly 1/10th to 1/20th the cost in the United States (cheap vs. expensive is an over simplification).
> As a result, SafeDollar’s price—which was supposed to always be equal to $1 since it’s a stablecoin—has plummeted to zero, according to the protocol’s own website.

Any defi project can all themselves a stablecoin. It is false advertising to say that you will maintain the peg to a dollar if you cannot meet that promise.

If you are just experimenting or trying to get something for nothing (synthetics- created out of thin air 'backing' your stablecoin), then don't make claims that it will be a dollar.

Also, selling unregistered securities is illegal. Operating a money exchange business is a crime without license.
"Go away and tell everyone that Big Pharma muzzled you, if that makes you feel better. But in the end, you’re already going to be the last people standing after the vaccines wipe the rest of us out, right? Isn’t that enough?"

:-)
The defacto state of nature is reversible transactions.

Unless the things have been destroyed, the trade can be undone
Talent, pay and IQ (if you believe it’s valid) have almost no correlation. Without question, the people I know earning them most money are rich kids and I assure you they are neither talented nor intelligent.

There are incredibly talented musicians out there that can’t even afford rent and genius mathematicians are rarely seen purchasing a yacht.
HN has dedicated people like dang that moderate the comments. Derek only has himself and unfortunately it's now far too much burden for him to both write excellent content, and moderate an increasingly unruly comment section. I'm sure if someone funded Derek's blog to have dedicated moderators it could be whipped into shape and kept manageable, but who is going to write the checks?
Great, we are step by step getting to a place where a government could actually ban software because these machines are no longer under our control.

All for the sake of "consumer safety" when in reality it has to do with control and preventing someone from committing the horrible crime of copying a Netflix show. /s
Replying to adtac:

But what if someone does not want the insurance of the bank? There is no opt out. With something like bitcoin you ideally have the option to take the risk of final settlement on your own or delegate it to some insurance deliberately
Kiwifarms people always, always, and always lie about what they do.
> I.e. sometimes computers just need to reboot, and there's nothing you can do about it.

And this is the attitude that brings us shitty software, and "I dunno, just reboot to fix the problem?", which is what we have now.

Short of kernel upgrades they really really don't.

But if you've bought in to "oh computers just need to reboot sometimes", then I guess you fall into the category of people who have just given up on reliable software, or you don't know that there is an alternative and no this was not normal.

>>> We need desktops to boot up fast, because you said it yourself, sometimes they just need to

>> I didn't say that. Because they don't.

> Yes you did[…]
> people just Do. Not. Reboot.

So is that what I said? I believe you did not read what you quoted.

The main reason people reboot is because of shitty software that requires reboots. So if you want to go self-fulfilling prophecy, then systemd is optimizing for boot times because it's low quality software that requires periodic reboots?

But maybe you count forced reboots once a month (or every two months) for kernel upgrades (but also the above arguments since they also run systemd and therefore need reboots). Fine.

So in order to save ten seconds per month (from a boot time of a minute or so, including "bios" and grub wait times, etc.., so not even a large percentage) this fd-passing silently breaks heaps of services, wasting hours here and there? And that's a good idea?

And all for what? Because you chose to have installed services you don't need, and don't use? And if you do use them, then the time was not saved anyway, but just created a second wait-period where you wait for the service to start up?

And ALL of these services could in any case be fully started while you were typing your username and password.

So what use case exactly is being optimized? The computer was idle for maybe half the time between power-on and loaded desktop environment anyway.

> If nobody cares, then why do people hate rebooting so much?

Because all their state is lost. All their open windows, half-finished emails, notepad, window layout, tmux sessions, the running terminal stuff they don't have in tmux sessions, etc… etc…
Run Scripts on websites using this simple technique and be amazed
You can literally say that about cold hard cash. Blackmail? Pay cash. Buying illegal substances? Cash. Gambling? Get your cash out. It's all in how you use it.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/05/moon-missi...

Anything is a store of value, wood, gold, water, dogecoin ect. If people want to accept something for something else this is a way of life.

It's just sad that people only see the bad use cases. How about if I transact only in crypto (Monolith card), now every purchase I make is via crypto, nothing different to using a bank card with US dollars backing it, just you have the full control over your own money.
The only difference is that you personally believe the evidence to be less strong than others… there’s no fundamental difference, just difference of opinion.

If a socialist candidate is assassinated in South America and someone on YouTube says “this was the American imperialist regimes doing” without evidence, I wouldn’t assume they are right, but I’d see it as an opinion based on historical evidence that I’d hate to see censored.

This applies even if someone claims it was aliens!
what happens if gemini goes belly up like mtgox? are the assets backing the peg isolated from bankruptcy event?
> he only way to compete with that is to make a ketchup that is less appealing to the average person but more appealing to some niche subset of people

You sound like it's some kind of bizzarre weird strategy that only few insane weirdos would try. As in fact that's how most of the food brands (by number, not by volume) would work - find your niche and serve it. And not only food, of course. Some produce average food for "average person", some produce excellent food for people that value it. That's how it has always been.
Safety features reduce cognitive load and allow reallocation of limited attention span.

Take the example of (airline) autopilots. Or in the case of a car lane keeping and radar cruise control. The driver can reallocate the cognitive energy used for precise steering input and throttle control to situational awareness, further improving safety.

These features improve safety, even (especially!) in the hands of competent drivers.
If the commenters are looking to do science, they can publish their own studies.

If they're looking to argue science, They can start their own blog.

They aren't being censored or silenced. They're just being removed from a personal blog.
This blog isn’t science, it’s a blog. People talking about science isn’t science. Actual science still allows people to disprove results through peer reviewed studies and research.
They're correlated. The correlation is not 1, of course, but definitely positive. (Won't provide references -- there's plenty on the internet.) People in the bottom 30 percentile earn way less than people in the top 30.
Well, my point is that your ass belongs to the government where you live.

You can pretend to be a citizen of the internet but the police will still come after you in meat space.
> If you steal my credit card and buy things with it, I will call my bank and I won't need to pay for it when I settle my statement balance at the end of the month.

This is an epically terrible argument for why you shouldn't have to pay for things someone else purchased with your stolen credit card. "I shouldn't have to because I don't have to"?

Compare tptacek's claim:

>>> which is why when your credit card gets stolen you don't end up paying for stuff.

There are four parties involved: you, the thief, the bank, and the merchant.

When you can afford to pay, here's a win/loss table in the case where you have to pay:

you: lose
bank: win
merchant: win
thief: win

And in the case where you don't have to pay, but the bank collects from the merchant:

you: win
bank: win
merchant: lose
thief: win

You don't have to pay, and the bank can't collect from the merchant:

you: win
bank: lose
merchant: win
thief: win

When you have to pay, but you can't afford it:

you: win
bank: lose
merchant: win
thief: win

Where's the lose/lose scenario?
It’s something they can guarantee to some extent at least. Perhaps they want to have an out in order to deprecate support in the future. But just like Win10 doesn’t run CPUID and show a “sorry” dialog on your Sandy Bridge 2600K, I doubt it will for a Skylake in Windows 11.
On the other hand maybe some separation between the cyclists and spectators isn't a terrible idea? Or at the very least require the spectators to have a least a minimal level of situational awareness.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/27/sport/tour-de-france-crash-in...
I don't understand why I need to upgrade from Core to Extended to find out if Ultimate is right for me?
Always refreshing to come to the technobro website to get the technobro take on how to solve a social problem with technical means.
I'm not sure I'm an introvert, I think I live in a broad range between the two poles, but I definitely notice that sometimes too.
Thanks! Small world!
> Gambling? You got it...

I had high hopes for betsofbitcoin but after making a bet on the 2014(?) superbowl the mtgox scandal occurred and my last bet was never redeemed.
I have been getting up at 6 am this summer (compared to 8-9 before this summer). It's because I moved into a new house that the bedroom has this window high up with no blinds (and since it's high up it would be a pain to install blinds into it). And the sun shines in around 5-6 really bright through that window and wakes me up naturally (presumably at the bottom of one of those sleep cycles where you should wake up to feel refreshed).

I get up and start work immediately (work from home) and get in 3-4 hours of focus time before meetings start and it's made me a lot more productive. The morning momentum also carries over to the rest of the day and I get more done then too. I would recommend such a window to everyone although unfortunately it's not possible for most. When the winter comes I'm afraid the sun coming up later will make me get up later and may invest in some sort of timed light in my room to slowly turn on at the time I want to get up.
I want to like this because I’m an introvert and a wfh advocate, but it doesn’t make a very good case. Gates and Musk aren’t successful because they are introverts, they’re are successful because they are sociopaths from rich families.
Women Are Having Fewer Babies Because They Have More Choices
Google's ContentID came as a result of Viacom's lawsuit in 2007. It's used to hang on to their "safe harbor" status.

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

One of the provisions is that the service provider isn't directly profiting from infringing content.

A publisher would argue it's unfair for Google/Youtube to be considered a safe harbor if they make money from ad revenue between the time the infringing content is published and taken down by a DMCA claim. They'd also claim Google makes money using infringing content if users know that content is being hosted on Youtube.
>We shouldn't pretend poisons don't exist, we should label them with warnings.

We also shouldn't put them in the fridge next to the bottle of coke no matter how well labeled.
Possibly. But I think most of us would rather pick another hill to die on than deciding that removing visible cleavage on a hyper-sexualized 13 year-old is "censorship".[0]

[0] https://kotaku.com/xenoblade-chronicles-xs-director-on-local...
A tip that may or may not help:

I don't make tortillas, but I do make pitas, which have a similar ballooning thing. The best way I've found to get them to puff is to preheat the broiler and a cast-iron pan, then put the dough disk on the pan and the pan under the broiler.

Cooking it from both sides like once at that gives me spectacular puffs every time. I'm not sure why I can't get that from the stove top -- overcooking? undercooking? too high a temperature? -- but this setup works great for me.

(On my stove, with my pans, under my broiler. This all seems to have so many variables that maybe any advice other than "practice on what works for you" is useless.)
I am not addressing it, because I do not see any further evidence of distortion of an MCO's net profit margin other than what this article claims. Nor would it matter to me unless some MCO executives are smuggling cash out of the country or something.

As a customer, it does not affect me.

In the healthcare business, the flow of money is:

Individual -> MCO (insurance company) -> healthcare providers and drug manufacturers

What does it matter to the individual what portion of an MCO is earning what profit if the net profit margin of the whole MCO is 5% or less? They are obviously not left with a lot of money, their employees are not known to be lavishly compensated.
Yes, the algorithm accounts for the exploration-vs-exploitation problem.[1] Right now it uses a simple epsilon-greedy strategy: 20% of the newsletters you receive are picked completely at random. I also use a technique I call "popularity smoothing," which limits the number of times that popular newsletters can be forwarded.

I think the concerns about ML causing echo chambers/other problems, while not completely unfounded, are overblown (perhaps due to the overall anti-big-tech sentiment). I think human behavior plus ease of sharing online is a much larger factor. I'm optimistic that ML filtering can actually help people get a much larger variety of information, which is one of my goals for this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Or just small experimental things. I can pay for jmp.chat with bitcoin, the dev doesn't have to deal with paypal and I don't have to worry about my credit card being stollen.
I also like that I can effectively opt out of the meeting just by moving my real work to my forward facing monitor and putting the meeting on the side.
If you are remote living in Texas but working for a company in CA, do you get the unemployment if CA has the benefits, but Texas does not?
People have never lost their life savings when held in a bank account?
If you don’t know, that’s just how his face always looks, he’s not a super emotive guy.
Most employers are all in on MS products like Office365. Everything in that eco-system revolves around you MS account. That's the paradigm shift. I guess the flip is what makes you so special to buck the trend that most people have signed up for? If you think MS cares what you do due to some tinfoil hat type concern then that's one thing. Ultimately MS doesn't care what you do as you're not really that important. Your lack of MS online account is gonna be lost amongst billions of these things. Who cares?
Yes! I can't wait until enough people are using the version of Safari that has html5 date input support. We have a big dumb custom date input that we can just completely throw away at that point and delegate to the browser.
Tofu and seitan get "beat up" because (1) tofu is soy and seitan is gluten (many people dislike those, for various reasons), (2) they're often used to mimic (fake) meat, not made into creative meals of their own, and (3) for me personally, tofu is extremely bland.
I believe you can plug in a USB keyboard and enter it that way.
Maybe don't use the verb "pump"?
Does Wise (fka TransferWise) send money to those countries?
Yea, I haven’t used the app in years
My experience living in a large Midwest Metro area is that I never see people outside certain activities. I used to play pickup soccer, these people would never join me in a programming meetup, or as a musician, non-musician friends are non-existent outside certain events. I attribute it to everybody living in different areas etc., but do tire at everything being so compartmentalized.
How did they have a marketcap of $250M as a stablecoin when they had 1000x less in reserves?
You're absolutely right that either would be better than the current situation.

The issue, though, is not that it's half-assed and fucked up. It's working by design, to use legislative schemes to funnel money to incumbents and friends/donors, while still supporting the "free market" ideology, when really it's just regulatory capture.

The system is designed for graft, and it's working as intended. Those with the power to "fix" it won't, because to them it's not broken at all.

The US has the same problem in telecommunications, war/defense, and medicine. The largest vendors become integrated with the budget- and policy-makers, and the whole system exists to extract maximum value from the consumer class.
I'm sure your nice discussion held as much sway with them as hundreds of thousands of dollars of "donations".
>less policing has resulted in a much higher murder rate in 2020 and 2021 than in prior years.

Source?
I wish sites would just disable commenting altogether, at least on certain topics. That's what CBC up here does on anything that's in any way related to race, gender, climate, first nations, etc.
I fully agree that they want to use the prestige of the trusted website's name on their rants. I think a lot of people genuinely believe that they're owed a soapbox, though.
The Linux Foundation is working to improve voice recognition ethics
A new pricing model for Tailscale
I dunno why this is such a hard concept for people to understand

Imagine you want to earn money and thus you need learn a skill. Which would earn you more money: learning to code or learning to stock shelves.
I wasn't surprised to see that beef was left out initially. Even without the religious objection, they aren't likely to have much of a market for vat-beef locally because cow-beef isn't desired locally.

But once they go more global, there's a really big market for vat-beef.

And I would love to know of the religious implications of this as well... Both for cow and pig, for various religions and other beliefs, such as veganism.