skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes you can provide liquidity for eur-usd if you jump through all the hoops.

The emphasized part is important. Most people either can't or don't know how to jump through these hoops. Is it even worth it to jump through these hoops, when I only have 100 USD to "invest"? Entities like Uniswap make the process much easier and widely-accessible, which makes a big difference (particularly if you live outside the developed world).

Furthermore, you did not respond to what I asked: which institution do I need to contact for this? My bank?

> A quick google search will show you that lots of savings accounts have positive yields. Rates have been low cause of fed action but banks have provided positive returns in savings accounts since like forever ago.

This comment is rather US-centric. My experience where I am right now (outside of the US) is that interest rates currently are either negative (yes, you have to pay money to the bank to park your money there; example: [0]) or basically zero (an interest rate of 0.01% might not even cover the "maintenance fees" of your account, let alone losses due to inflation, particularly if you are not rich... might as well just stash the cash under my mattress and keep the maintenance fees to myself).

So, yeah... this is what entities like Uniswap provide that traditional financial institutions don't. Among other things:

* Capacity to borrow, lend, buy and sell "crypto-assets" or whatever you want to call them (most traditional financial institutions will not touch them with a 10-feet pole, for obvious reasons);

* Capacity to do those things with minimum friction/overhead, from anywhere in the world, at any time (no KYC, no gatekeepers);

* Exchange and interest rates that are actually decided by the market, rather than centrally planned (by your bank and central banks), which leads to reasonable interest rates for borrowing/lending (i.e. positive rates).

Of course, you can argue that some of these "features" are "anti-features" (e.g. no KYC = no friction, but it also means that perhaps money laundering could take advantage of it). Either way, it seems clear to me that Uniswap et al. enable you to do things that you (or, at least, "most people") simply cannot do within the traditional financial system; you may not see too much value in these things, and even be generally suspect of "cryptocurrencies", but it seems complicated to argue that Uniswap does not bring anything new to the table.

The proof is in the pudding... if Uniswap was not useful (beyond what traditional financial institutions already provide), you wouldn't see so many people flocking to it.

[0] https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/marketinfo/official_interes...
> Afterwards, once successfully deployed, said malware was used to plant evidence on the acrivists computers.

When?
Possibly, but having a good story or metaphor is way better for spreading an idea than having abstract terms defining it with utter precision; so this kind of "romantization" is valuable for debate.
Sometimes...

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/no-more-9-to-5_swiss...

;->
There are at least 8 ways to divide up the “ten commandments” passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy into a total of 14 commandments, the Quran has a different set (not being a religious scholar I can’t meaningfully assert how different, given linguistic drift and translation challenges).

Bushido (or the form of it on Wikipedia) has a fairly different and also interesting set.

Anton LaVey (Church of Satan) has an interesting, albeit stereotypically American, eleven.

The philosophers in this list seem to focus on commandments of rationality more than morality, but that’s not something I find hugely surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Comman...
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.
Something that we're trialling is first asking several questions similar to what we would ask in an interview[1], and only if the answers make sense then asking for a candidates CV. This means that by the time we see the CV we're already interested in the candidate, and have a high probability of moving forward with an actual interview.

[1] For example:

You need to implement a new feature you’ve never done before. How do you go about it?

When authoring a new endpoint (for example, a REST endpoint or a GraphQL object), what do you pay attention to? Feel free to go into as much or as little details as you wish.
Westlake doesn't get mentioned often enough on here. I love his books.
If that's true, then the UK is doomed.
Thanks a lot for these recommendations, I'll get these on my Kindle as well.
Honestly, when I read "Computer Graphics Hacks", I was expecting something different (like, for example, various obscure graphics programming techniques for games/demos/whatever). But this is cool too...

Side note on http://graficaobscura.com/ccode/index.html - interesting to see that SGI was still using "K&R style" parameters for C functions in 1994, when ANSI C had already been around for 5 years. Must have had something to do with the 80 character line lenght...
> Corona especially has shown us that the quality of education received at a school is much higher than at home.

Among a population of parents who have a revealed preference not to home-school, sure. But it says nothing about outcomes among a population of parents who actually want to home-school their kids.
Ah nice. Although a line by line walkthrough would be nicer.
Yep, that's definitely something you can observe. I think we've had a rich history so far of experiencing different types of online community software (newsgroups, web comment sections, IRC, BB forums, myspace, tumblr, etc) and I think we can classify them by the effect they have on their users' interaction with one another. Shifts in overall online behavior (at least perceived by the general public and the old school press) can be attributed to a shift in software used, I think.

Many of the old online communities still exist and often times the old conversations and interactions are still online. This would make for interesting and I think fruitful and enlightening material for social studies.

Ask anyone who has participated in various online communities and they can tell you pretty well how moderation and other users influence the overall social conduct in the respective online spaces quite differently. Most people can at least tell you about specific shifts in their online community and it would be interesting to find out what decisions of the site owners or software developers created this shift, if at all.

I think as a software user interface designer you have a responsibility to be aware of your creation's psychological and behavioral effects. Sadly only the big social media companies really invest in this research and weaponize it for profit maximization. But I think this knowledge should become more widely available and more people especially the users should be made aware of it.

To me people on Twitter and on 4chan aren't free in the sense of the enlightenment:

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another.”
i'm so tempted.
Webmentions for Your Static Site
> Corona especially has shown us that the quality of education received at a school is much higher than at home.

This definitely depends on whether those are the only two choices. If homeschooling includes the parents having the choice to send their kids to private academies of their choosing instead, then it's possible that homeschooling can be superior.

I don't know what it's like in the Netherlands, but in South Korea, with the very strong private academy culture, the public school system is actual comparatively subpar. Public schools are more useful for subjects like civics and history than more academic subjects like math and science.
The very excellent effect of Ma's downfall is that it will remind wealthy people in the West that democracy has its good points.

Much easier to sympathize with the expropriation of a Billionaire than some schlub from the middle of nowhere.
Your heart rate needs to go over a certain threshold in order to see physical benefits of exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate#/media/File:Exercis...
I don't believe that the differences which you mentioned between those languages are relevant for kernel development.

* Point one is a convenience/ease of use topic. Absent C++20 concepts or alternatively static asserts and enable_if, error messages will be harder to parse by the programmer. The one place where this may be relevant is for custom containers, but a kernel list for example wouldn't have to implement iterators and certainly doesn't need to follow the STL design which can cause hard to understand errors.

* I don't understand what you mean when you say that Rust "solves" zero-cost abstractions, but C++ has had this goal for a very long time.

* Exceptions would be disabled when doing kernel development. That being said, having exceptions in application development can be very convenient. C++ supports both, but std::optional and the like are not as elegant as in Rust.
If you really want to keep it Twitter-specific, the person who joins the call could also auth via Twitter and I think you could verify that they actually follow the call’s owner before they’re allowed to join? Otherwise this seems wide-open for trolls/bots, and kind of only half-anchored to Twitter.
Imaging before photography – a history lesson (Part 1)
You skipped over the second part of my response. I'll point it out again:

"Researchers would have to grow the virus in cells in order to stand a real chance of infecting people"

They were filing patents on designs for bat cages. Videos from inside the WIV before COVID showed live bats. They were doing far more than growing virus in cells, they were growing them in live animals, as virologists typically do.

"PCR amplification means that you can find the needle in the haystack and find enough RNA to construct aa genome out of it"

This would be relevant if virologists were mere lab technicians running PCR tests, but they aren't.
its named after Clio, the muse of history. Famously noted by Schopenhauer as:

“Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.”
in the off chance there is an editor reading :

it's 'up the ante', the gambling term -- not 'anti'.
Edit: Removed this. I was agreeing with parent (CCP != communist), but don’t wanna encourage more replies like the one I got
Blockchain Revolution
To reference the top comment right now… I’d imagine if you are looking at the metric at all, you’ve already lost. This, coming from someone who’s mother was walking 10-20k steps per day for decades, and seeing them fully stop walking after a few weeks with a Fitbit.
I always open the web inspector and remove or hide them. There's nothing to be gained by answering these if the site is following the law.
Did you read the linked article? I don't like it either, but I can understand the reasoning behind it after reading the post.
That's not really an XMPP thing. There are many "Matrix clients" that don't support everything that Element supports. Some of the things Element supports aren't even in the Matrix specification yet.

This is just a fact of life for open-source open ecosystems.
For me, the reason was partially the engine, partially their active work at confusing me.

I would keep seeing stuff I don’t want to watch, and they would keep switching out thumbnails to trick me into thinking it’s something I haven’t encountered. Both of those combined made browsing a chore, and I simply had no interest in using something that’s actively working against me (which is also the reason I went from being an active FB user to only using it for groups and messaging, so it’s not as if "actively working against me" is a Netflix exclusive)

A more minor reason is the lack of information displayed, but I could have handled that.
Conspiracy: Muse Group posted some anonymous posts on 4chan, hoping this type of response would result, in order to stop the fork from succeeding.
They would deliberately set themselves up to need to run across hot sand to reach water? Why?

(I understand why a standard human might do that, but how would stranding oneself in a desert be adaptive? And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?)
Yes, but the key is the proper structure and stimuli, which animal intelligence gets through having a body. Can we get computers to have the same sort of intelligence without a synthetic body? This becomes more of a robotics versus traditional AI debate. Think Rodney Brooks versus Marvin Minsky.
I've never worked with multi-grid, but I assume the preconditioner is also based on the Cholesky factorization? Incomplete Cholesky was pretty effective as the preconditioner for the pressure solve in my toy fluid sim.
People say this without thinking about the consequences. Unfortunately the biggest loser of non-trackable Internet would be small businesses and startups that are trying to find their audiences.

The recent changes in iOS for example have led to a situation that none of the startups I'm involved in can buy cheap ads anymore. Revenues are down, investors are unhappy, companies are struggling to find new channels.

As a user myself, I avoid places that seem to track me aggressively but at the same time I occasionally click on ads (Facebook is especially good at it) that are well targeted and on point. Maybe the world needs a different way of delivering well-targeted sponsored content, but nobody has invented one so far.

So before saying "fuck tracking" think of the small guy, the entrepreneur who is trying to reach out to the audiences with their limited funds.
How the heck youtube algo is so good? Just start with incognito tab and once it hints your interest he can put you in Rabit Hole.

I really dislike it. I wanted it to be more like netflix so I don't get suck in.
Uniswap is an exchange without an order book. A Uniswap pair has two assets in quantities X and Y, and a constant k such that X*Y=k. If you give some X to the contract, then it will give you back enough Y so that k is still constant. Effectively the ratio between the two assets' quantities is equal to their relative prices.

By giving the contract both X and Y, you're providing liquidity. You get a new token Z, specific to that pair. Every exchange of X for Y (or vice versa) skims off a transaction fee, which is apportioned among holders of Z.

(This actually describes the first version of Uniswap. The new version 3 has more complex math that lets you do fancier stuff, but is the same basic idea.)
Sit at a computer for work all day so that you can sit at a computer for fun all night.
My commute is 20ft, this increases by as much as 30% if i get out the other side of the bed.

I get a 30 minute walk every day in lockdown but you can only trudge aimlessly around the same grey/brown industrial estate so many times before losing the will.
Does the Clojure debugger give a live Repl, where one can examine values of locals and restart execution if required, likes the elisp debugger in Emacs?
Our house (with a ground based heat pump) uses active ventilation with heat exchangers (and pollen filters) and as a result we have better indoor air than we've had in rented flats in all years before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

Most places restrict the age at which you can buy alcohol and most places seem to restrict it to at least 18. 21 is higher than the average but legal age laws seem to be pretty standard.
I ... think you just broke the website of the President of Mongolia by posting it here.
LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser
Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy: Using a real life example
Consider a horizontal navigation bar with these links from left to right: Privacy Policy, Gallery, Directions and Contact Info, Our Products and Services and finally Home. The most important, relevant links are presented "last" and are hard to find. This would be the experience of a RTL user if you only swapped in translations and did not mirror
I've seen examples from translated schoolbooks where they replaced the text on the mirrored page. That must have led to some weird geography classes.
I just heard it in the T.V. show, Silicon Valley.

They defined it as addressing problems that don't exist. I always think about battery powered spinning forks.

I've been to a Vipassana camp and every day for 10 days we would meditate for 12 hours a day in a hall. As people have for more than 2000 years. I'm in no way a meditation guru nor a traditionalist but any app that would give you stimulus whether it be through vibrations or visual/verbal instructions would take away from the grounding and mindful experience.

I am confident that most people who buy meditation apps don't actually meditate for more than a few days. We all already have a meditation app. It's a the clock app, you can set an alarm on it. Similar to those people who buy a expensive ellipticals or bikes and never use it. Peloton regret is a real thing.

I think this is a first world problem regarding consumerism. Capitalist society and the higher ups convincing us to worship money. Where we put all our energy into obtaining money in order to put it back in the system. Man has successfully domesticated man.

If anyone really wanted to meditate, they would just do it. Maybe look up how to do it, then do it. But we live in an app world today, it is what it is.

I just realized you're the poster of the article. I don't mean to say what you're doing is pointless but it'd be cooler if you made a meditation app that locked the phone or something totally different than the other apps.

What do you mean by: "I personally believe that all problems are, at their core, human problems. Hence why the focus on meditation as an Archimedes lever."

Yes, tech should solve problems mindfully which is why I always see meditation apps and the like to be oxymoronic. Our brains did not evolve at the rate our technology did, it is nigh impossible to be mindful with technology. We also did not evolve to work and play on computers all day and we are now seeing the psychological and physiological epidemic of problems. That's why people in the cities go camping to "unplug". That's why there a movement of high income industrious workers like yourself quitting and picking up manual labor jobs. Making things with your hands is far more fulfilling than coding small parts in a multi billion dollar app. It's just how our brains and bodies work. I believe this is another fundamental problem with humans today, up there with consumerism.

Your Memento chrome extension is pretty sick though and is pretty mindful. I just installed it.

Thanks for reading this probably incoherent rant.
Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
Yes, this gets into the (very important!) topic of what exactly the definition of science is.

Consider that the normal 'street' definition of people doing experiments on nature would mean the following fields aren't scientific:

1. Computer science

2. Economics

3. Climatology

I'd personally be fine with all three being considered un-scientific or even defunded, even though I quite enjoy reading computer science papers. It's more of an engineering discipline in my view and the attempts to make it seem scientific mostly just obfuscate things.

And most people would be fine with economics not being a science.

The live wire is of course climatology. These people don't do experiments, they just compile data and analyze it. Good luck convincing people that climatology isn't a science, even though you may be in the right about it!
I think he does a great job explaining why this isn't the right angle to approach this from.

There is no one "we" and "we" aren't aiming for any one goal in particular.

Aside from holding guns to people's heads, you can't force every policy maker to simultaneously try to maximize only gdp and nothing else. They have other goals and other constraints.

Nothing iq being solved for in the aggregate. There are different situations where different things need to be solved for
My approach is to not engage with them, and treat them as an unchangable part of the design.

If I can read the content around it, then I do that. If not, I probably am not missing much.
This page[0] about Terra Luna makes for laughable reading.

> Terra combines the price stability and wide adoption of fiat currencies with the censorship-resistance of Bitcoin (BTC)

Yeah, the price looks really stable.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna/
Or we don't have the proper design. If we want machines to be like animals, maybe we need to make them that way. Like the replicants in Blade Runner, or the humanoid "toasters" in the recent Battlestar Galactica.
What happens if Xi kicks the can tomorrow? How smooth is the transition going to be? China is so massive I cant understand how they dont have multiple power centers bumping into each other all the time.
EU internal borders are open, the external ones are not. It’s a bit like the USA in that regard, biggest difference is our versions of California and Louisiana have their own national languages.
How different societies handle billionaires with a mid-life crisis:

China: Cool it, buddy.

US: Outer space? Sure thing. Here is a couple of billions from our infrastructure program.
Really matters could be interpreted different ways. Expressed in startup-metric terms, it might be "% of users that watch something" or "time spent browsing before watching something." Any real improvement on such is probably important.

Think of it like Google's famous obsession with speed. Did returning search results 17ms faster really matter? It's hard to say for sure, but I suspect it did.

That said, I agree personally. I don't like Netflix' UI. I suspect you could hand code a browsing/ranking UI of similar value, from a casual users' perspective.

>> large enough catalog

I think this is a case where Netflix didn't end up where they expected the. I think they expected to have a vast catalogue... a "spotify of movies." It just didn't go that way.

You could also reverse the question. Does netflix have a big enough dataset to make a great recommendation system? I think this might be the more pertinent question. Google & FB have their vast ad-centric datasets. I suspect these could be used to make a recommendation engine that's a lot better.

They haven't really done this for youtube though. The priority is to match ads to users. For this, they're willing to push the envelope on how they use user data. For youtube recommendations, it doesn't seem that youtube gets access to much data from outside of youtube.
You don't sound like a typical person. Not many people go to their chickens when they want an egg.

Lots of us work from rather small homes and haven't been allowed outside much in 18 months.
Colour me paranoid.. but I think I'm a realist.

From China's point of view, the creation (and concentration) of (large amounts) of wealth in the hands of individuals, leads to the concentration of power. That power in turn, becomes a threat to the current approach of the CCP, and the messages being shared with society.

In 2019, China began working with PWC in an effort to repatriate, or at least dual-list IPOs, in either Shanghai (Star) or Hong Kong. DIDI publicly want against that goal - by single-listing on the Nasdaq.

By accruing a massive amount of wealth, and freedoms, Ma began to become a thorn in the side of the CCP. It's one thing to have (direct) access to finances, it's another to disparage the state-run financial system. But it's still another to control purchase platforms, chat platforms, and the next-generation of educated, technology executives. This is where he was.

Ma has been silenced, the threat has been eliminated. The CCP has proven, once again that they are adept at addressing both the internal and external threat to their perceived stability.
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