skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not exactly how fractional reserve banking works. I think that there is a misconception that if, for example, there is a bank regulation that allows 10% fractional reserve banking, then if a bank has $1 million in deposits (of actual cash that people gave to the bank to put in their checking accounts) the bank can make $10 million in loans, with $9 million being "created out of thin hair". In fact, if a bank has $1 million in deposits it can make only $900k in loans.

Indeed, suppose you are a bank and you have $1 mil in deposits, which you keep as reserve with the central bank. Now someone asks for a $900k loan. Now you have $1.9 mil in deposits ($1.9 mil liabilities), and you have $1 mil kept with the central bank in cash, and $900k owed from the guy with the loan (total $1.9 mil in assets, it checks out).

Now the guy with the loan withdraws his $900k to pay for his house or whatever; the bank gives him the $900k from the cash account it has at the central bank. Now the bank has $1 mil in liabilities (the checking accounts of the depositors), $100k in cash with the central bank, and $900k owed from the guy with the loan. Everything still checks out, but now the cash on hand is just $10% of the assets. The bank has reached the fractional reserve limit, and it is not allowed to make any more loans.
> You end up wondering what could have been if Palm (the hardware maker) did end up adopting Palm OS 6.

Android? A lot of BeOS people went to Android so the similarities in some parts of the SDK are staggering.
If this came from almost any other group it would be an easy write off. But NIST really does have some of the best analytical chemists and physicists around.
While there are very import duties for fully built imported cars, the market is pretty level for locally made foreign brands. Ford's lineup in India has been locally made expect for the Mustang (priced at ~ $100,000 ) .

The auto market in India has not grown as widely hoped and has been hyped competitive (German, japense,korean and some Chinese automakers all have presence), partly economy has slowed down, partly fuel is very expensive due to taxes at $5.5+ /gallon .

GM already announced their exit some time back, and Ford's been expected for a while now.

It is pity, ford have a decent service network and been a good brand since the late 90s.
More often than not mathematicians look for proofs of things they (and others) are already convinced in being true (or even already know for a fact). The automatic proof checking is just for that - making sure the proof is correct.
When a metric used for planning is conflated with performance measurement, it immediately loses all meaning.
Do you think it’s controversial whether secretly recording images of someone can sometimes constitute harm? To me, it’s quite clearly the case, so I hadn’t considered the need to present an argument that undisclosed video recording can constitute harm.
> I need to get this vaccine, not to protect myself, but to protect you.

> That's strange.

Can you elaborate? Not sure I get it.
Sounds like a good way to end up with all the strings in your app translating to "penis".
I don't think that anything you listed after Facebook was ever that prestigious, certainly not the cryptocurrency or influencer stuff. Prestigious places are prestigious mostly because they are selective in addition to the type of opportunities they offer. There's nothing selective about lucking out on crypto in a bull market or about having many followers on social media.
Thanks a lot! Getting the code for Expression could be interesting, although the code is so old, I wonder how useful it would be. Especially modern C++ has changed a lot, sometimes it's nice to start with a clean slate.
In the past big monopolies have been dismantled. See for example AT&T. Google, Facebook, Amazon, they exist for a relatively short period of time. Don't you think they will also be dismantled in the next 10-30 years?
> Those things also happen in capitalist societies

Yeah, read up on the way secret police worked in ex-communist countries and come back.

> Also, your source is bad. It is like saying that you read something in a book... Which book?

My own experiences. Have you ever lived under a totalitarian socialist regime? Have you had to suffer for ideological persecution?
of course in reality JP will lease the machine rather than buying it

hell my employer (also a bank) rents its expensive multi-function taps
Communist China has only had a mere 100 years compared to it's 5000 year history.
Yes indeed. In fact vaccine studies generally exclude people who have already recovered so we are literally flying blind for these people. If there is no exemption then here are two middle fingers for whoever thinks this is a good idea.
New ML Model Taps into the Problem-Solving Potential of Satellite Data
Which is exactly my point - we don't know what or how prevalent the long term effects of COVID are.
Do you not understand that the critique is with the system?
These chaps always have doors open elsewhere through contacts. I'd expect he'll show up at another major company or university within six months.
It would be interesting to compare the x86 binary translator for the Elbrus to the "code morphing" software used in Transmeta Crusoe/Efficeon chips, since both are VLIW. Unfortunately, not much is known about either...
They used the contract in a way no one who wrote or entered into it intended. When a contract isn't serving the people bound to it there's typically the option to rewrite it when all parties agree.

The only party that disagreed was the Eth classic community, and they still have a coin and codebase with contracts credible by your unusually high standards. The only thing they lost was investor sentiment. If those standards prove to be advantageous for a group to operate under, they'll gain ground over time. That's the beauty of crypto - people can decide the protocols and community they prefer in real time, and vote with their money accordingly.
There were 3 cabins in the area that didn't burn down, the one wrapped in foil, a house built from concrete (a friend of mine, you can see his in the background of the second image on that site), and another that wasn't particularly special. Interesting that all 3 survived, perhaps the topology, fire direction, or other factor made that pocket more survivable.

My buddies house (concrete construction) should be the default in fire prone areas, the fact that we keep building wooden structures in fire zones doesn't seem logical.
Please stop spreading disinformation. Vaccines have been shown in many, many studies to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
"I don't think a bank without deposits would get very far issuing loans."

When a bank issues you a loan, it creates a deposit for exactly the same amount in your account. So what you said is true, almost by definition.

But many loans are issued by entities other than banks. You can lend profitably without being a bank. (google 'nonbank lenders')
It feels like most problems like this end up being defection scenarios in the prisoner's dilemma.

If every worker would just take their breaks, and allow their quotas to slip, what is Amazon going to do? Fire everyone? But instead, individuals decide to look out for themselves first, and defect, which causes everyone to be miserable, including themselves.

I don't blame them in the slightest for this, but it still makes me sad. I guess this is what unions are for. Oh wait, Amazon engages in union-busting, never mind.
What if the employer can buy for 20k, through scale, something that is worth 100k to you?
NFTs might not seem so glamorous in the real world, but in a virtual world in VR they could be so much more, they can be a proof of a tournament win that you could decorate your home with. It could be an exclusive sword/clothing. Since VR puts your in the digital world, it puts you in a world with the item such that you can interact with it. In the real world... you can watch it on a flat screen.
That would be an interesting tradeoff conversation if true.

But they basically do deny the event by claiming only 300 dead and then villainizing the victims of an atrocity.
It's bleakly amusing that you think torturers are worried about some sort of credibility calculus. Where torture is sanctioned or tolerated, people are sometimes tortured for information, sometimes for compliance - but those considerations are often excuses offered to justify the torture to external critics. In many cases, people are tortured purely in order to terrorize others into compliance, or because the torturers are sadists who get off on it.

A lot of HN discussions on this topic are based on the implicit assumption that torture is a rational tactic, if extremely brutal and unpleasant one, because most people will eventually tell torturers what they want to hear in hopes of making it stop, and giving up secrets is a bargaining option. The sad fact is that many torturers are motivated by their enjoyment of others' suffering, so you could give them everything only to have them laugh at your dismay when you figured out they never cared about your secrets in the first place.

In some historical conflicts, this realization ahs been exploited by the underdogs; Algerian guerrillas under French occupation had standing agreements to maintain silence for 24 hours if arrested, but after that they could spill everything freely without fear of moral compromise, thus denying the incumbent powers a credible excuse for carrying out torture. Guerrillas were expected to keep abreast of each others' liberty status and to have an unshared plan to bail out if their network was compromised.

I point this out purely as a tactical maneuver; following the ejection of the French the newly independent Algerian state itself instituted all kinds of unethical and repressive practices.
First they ignore you

Then they laugh at you...
How? Another war? I'm having a hard time believing the economic elite in the US will be in favor of loosing business in China.
Why do you think a college would have an "advantage" for someone black that would not be available to someone white? Is it possible, hear me out, that maybe white people are still at a massive advantage getting to college and that colleges are trying to equalize the playing field?
Both you and the bank can create liabilities and use it to buy assets. The difference is the bank’s liabilities (e.g. deposits in a checking account) are generally viewed as interchangeable with money. Whereas Steve’s personal IOUs are not.

This all comes down to how safe and liquid people view the liabilities. Steve’s IOUs are at substantially higher risk of default than the banks checking account. There’s also not an easy or liquid market or facility for easily converting those IOUs to other money assets. Whereas with a checking account, I can just go to the ATM or send a wire transfer to another bank. With instruments like money market funds, I can easily sell the assets at the push of a button.

To a certain extent this is because the central bank guarantees the safety of the bank. Any gaps in a Wells Fargo checking account would just be made up by the Fed making the account holders whole with newly printed dollars.

But even absent that guarantee, the senior liabilities and term deposits of banks are considered pretty damn money like. That’s largely because banks as institutions bend over backwards to be as conservative and trustworthy as possible when it comes to their liabilities. A bank would never do the equivalent of spending a years income on a new car.

For example Berkshire Hathaway isn’t a bank and it’s not backed by the central bank. But when they issue 30 day commercial paper, then it’s treated as essentially equivalent to money. In fact there’s probably some in your money market fund right now.
Concerning oneself with poster's identity (honestly, feels like a form of ad hominem) can't be exactly the solution.

It could be that relationship to the source matters - rather than author's identity. I mean, there is a subtle difference between "who wrote this?" and "do I trust this?". But the only implementation I can think of is some sort of web-of-trust and all attempts at implementing WoT I know about had utterly failed.

Either way, I believe some form of memetic immunity - not getting provoked - rather than attempts to identify and shut down "troll farms" and "fake news" - is an ultimate solution.
Don't know, perhaps decentralization?
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How does this compare to Tesseract?
Similarly, you can get a reproduction of a Van Gogh which would functionally be the same painting hanging on the wall. One of the fundamental value propositions in art is the history, in that discrete examples of art are representations of cultural history and historical artifacts themselves. By purchasing a piece of history the buyer becomes part of the history through its provenance. That is the difference between owning an original and a copy that is attempted to be emulated by art nfts.

Whether or not it will be successful is a different question, though the most prominent ones will probably remain collectable to some degree purely because they represent the first iteration of a historical precedent (digital scarcity in art).
Tufts University | Junior Software Engineer | Full time | Boston Area (Medford, MA) USA | Onsite or Remote (Must be US citizen)

We are looking for a junior developer to join our data group. To begin with you would primarily be working with Python 3, a relational database, and Kafka. You would be using Flask to create simple web pages that interact with a database using SQL. Also you will be using Python + Flask to create web services that send data to Kafka and Python code to read data from Kafka and process it. As Tufts is a university and believes strongly in education, you will have the option to learn plenty. Whether that is taking online classes or analyzing data sets on our spark/hadoop cluster.

You will be joining a group of 8 people in our data group. We are currently all working remote though you can optionally work in our offices if you want.

Required Skills: Python, SQL, some Linux familiarity. Also the ability to learn on your own is important.

If you are interested, please email be at jonathan (dot) mcdonough (at) tufts (dot) edu
Glad to hear and thanks for the kind words!

Fully complying with GDPR is a requirement as we build this out. Our data policies and practices have been thoroughly reviewed by our legal team. If we are doing anything incorrectly with respect to GDPR, it will be promptly addressed.

It turns out that the data we are actually storing about end-user traffic do not meet the criteria that trigger requirements for explicit consent. Scarf also operates a data processor with respect to GDPR, rather than a controller.
Getting rid of time zones is a nice idea for the first five seconds you think about it.
Headline is misleading. The "new details" are of the sort "if there is a fifth force, you won't find it over here."

> The scientists’ results improve constraints on the strength of a potential fifth force by tenfold over a length scale between 0.02 nanometers (nm, billionths of a meter) and 10 nm, giving fifth-force hunters a narrowed range over which to look.

This is not surprising and it would be possible believe this sort of a thing from a variety of qualified groups.
I mean that if you created a new bank, and never accepted any customer deposits, you are going to run into problems if you simply offer a bunch of loans.

If your loan customer wants cash, or wants to move some of that loaned money into another institution... whatcha gonna do?

Your nonbank credit card company would run into similar problems if they didn't have any income and simply were letting people buy products with magic printed money, but "credit cards create money out of thin air" doesn't get tossed around in the same way as it does for banks.

(Also, your claim about the deposit is entirely false for many loans. Every car loan I've had, for instance, has been either paper or electronic checks for delivery to the dealer, I've never had that money in my own deposit accounts. It goes straight to a deposit account at (usually) another institution, where it would damn well be noticed if the lending bank couldn't actually make good on the funds.)
I wasn't aware Robert E Lee ever traveled to China.
Why not release the source _now_ ? Somehow I'd bet something will happen or the author will lose interest and the source will never be released...
Very nice.

But I see that (like tesseract) it cannot recognize different styles (italics, bold, monospace...) - not only it seems to just translate into pure (UTF) characters, it shows confusion on terms in alternative styling.
Maybe. Vaccines generate a very predictable immune response. Natural recover results in a wide array of different immune responses, some of which are very weak and leave people susceptible to re-infection.
Punish them how? The global economy is heavy reliant on a cooperative China.

UK have made it clear they aren’t part of the EU so why would the EU care?

Just recall the context China are operating from: Hong Kong was stolen from them at the height of the opium wars. There is no fairness in these geopolitical dealings.

Overall this sucks for HK… but it’s actually easy to understand all the parties involved actions/inaction… it’s just crap though. :(
Kelton has a whole chapter on this in her book The Deficit Myth.

https://www.amazon.com/Deficit-Myth-Monetary-Peoples-Economy...
From what I read in this article they didn't prove that the force exists at all they actually showed that it wasn't present in several areas. This helps other people who are doing experiments in the area by cutting down on the range of sizes they need to look in for it but it doesn't provide evidence for its existence.
> Natural immunity doesn’t only last 6 months. Where did you get that?

> I’m coming out of my second COVID infection now.

I know I'm using anecdote here. Coincidently it is the same one.
The descriptions are awful, they provide no details on whether the vehicles actually run or can be driven.
Are you personally not satisfied with LN's level of privacy? If you're not, mind explaining why?
This reminds me of something back in high school, here in El Salvador, one of my classmates had his parents living in the United States. His mom had given him a U.S. debit card which he could use to withdraw money from the local ATMs.
Look back 50+ years. In the Soviet Union and Soviet-affiliated countries, people were denied services and jobs for being not visibly communist enough. In the United States, people were denied services and jobs for being not visibly anti-communist enough.

The idea of not discriminating based on politics or other overt characteristics, as a widespread cultural phenomenon, was relatively new and short-lived.
Or everyone more aware that anyone with these glasses could be recording you at any time.

I can already tell that this will be popular with creeps.
I suspect someone could write a book (or an HN comment at least) about the popular confusion about Godel's 1st incompleteness theorem. :-)

In fact we (my brother and I) agreed that it bears a striking resemblance to Turing's halting problem: They both seem to show what computers or math can't do, but in fact both theorems only reveal limitations of certain models of computers and/or math. We both have undergrad degrees in math fwiw.

Both theorems use a clever logical trick. For Godel's theorem, it is an encoding of "This sentence is false". For the halting problem proof, Turing first fixes the algorithm, asks the algorithm what its result will be, then switches the correct answer, forcing the algorithm to produce the incorrect answer.

Would the proof completely fall apart if the algorithm could update itself to handle the new information? The only thing stopping it is that in the formulation of the problem, the algorithm is assumed to not be able to change with new information (ie it's not an "online" algorithm). Similarly, what if the model of math had mechanisms for recognizing paradoxes, or circular logical requirements, etc. I don't think either of those theorems would work anymore.

Anyway, I'm not saying the Halting problem would be easy to compute with the right model. If we had an efficient algorithm to solve the halting problem, we could solve tons of math problems easily. We could write some code to enumerate any countably infinite sequence, checking for the presence of some condition, and make inferences based on if it halts or not. For example, we could solve the Collatz conjecture by just writing code to halt if any number's sequence doesn't eventually go to one, and checking whether that loop ever halts.

My punchline is, I think it's beautiful that even the undecidable, uncomputable problems are only that way because we are lacking a better model. Or at least that's my current understanding of the situation :-)
wahey, thank you! I see it now. (also on linux)
I'm British. As the sibling comment has pointed out, my understanding of UK elections is fine.

You appear to be arguing that the only way to hold the BBC accountable is to convince Parliament to entirely abolish it, which is rather making my point for me. That is the most limited form of accountability imaginable.

Opinion polls on trust in the BBC vary, perhaps by time, but reputable and recent polls show that most people do not trust it any more:

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1...

"YouGov figures show British trust in the press to tell the truth has fallen, with less than half believing BBC news journalists are honest and impartial."

This document shows trust in BBC News by year - as you can see it has constantly fallen since 2003, the earliest year they started polling:

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/vf1qhxf7kh/YG%20trackers%20-%20T...

This fall in trust is deserved. If you genuinely believe the "supply chain" for two pieces of bread with some stuff in between could have been disrupted by Brexit then you're exactly the sort of person the BBC is pandering to, which is probably why you don't see the problems. There is nothing special about the BBC beyond its archaic funding model. As discussed elsewhere in this thread, it is being regularly beaten by Netflix, Amazon and other larger scale content producers.
The headline is misleading. The work tightened the range of possible strengths of a fifth force by a factor of 10. In other words it ruled out the existence of a fifth force within a wide range of parameters that were previously open.
This is the official haproxy notice on this:

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/september-2021-duplicate-conten...

It can be mitigated without needing to upgrade. The post includes a simple mitigation by adding two rules to each front end that block request/responses trying to exploit this vulnerability.
> they face the risk that the customer will try to take the money out in cash, or transfer it to an account at a different bank

“They face the risk” seems a huge understatement. It would be quite unusual for someone to take a loan from a bank and leave the money sitting there at the bank.
While that is true that fails to mention IMO a key difference. The civil war is not censored in the US, Tienanmen square is.

Removing a statue is very different than shutting down all discussion around an event and locking up those that want to talk about it.
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Most of the "doubters" on Fox News had their vaccinations already. Why wouldn't it be the same for doubters in government?
Many colleges use affirmative action for men to boost male enrollment to achieve more gender-balance. The article says:

"Some selective colleges discriminate against women in admissions to maintain a gender balance, as The Journal reported. Generally, admissions officials prefer to limit the disparity to 55 percent female and 45 percent male."