skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This implies a probably lack of understanding of what Central Banks do.

"When the ships come into harbour, nail them to the dock" - not realizing that eventually, when the tide goes out - the ship will go down several feet relative to the dock and be damaged by the fixed boarding blanks.

You have to use ropes to fix ships, because the water moves.

Dumping the Central Bank and even using hard currency would lead to economic collapse the very first time there is an existential shock - and the only 'saviour' would be a different form of monetary intervention i.e. fiscal policy (i.e. government budget).

Also, in a completely unregulated scenario, powerful financial interests would leverage ownership of the crypto scheme and power would even be further centralized.

Bitcoin is disproportionately owned by a small number of players who have absolutely zero civic perspective, they're looking to make a Trillion dollars out of nothing.

If you don't like that money is managed by a large swath of banks working together with government and regulatory oversight and frankly relative transparency ... then you really won't like it when your monetary system is managed by the insane tyrant offspring of the Winkelvi and Satoshi dynasties who own 30% of the economy.

Crypto mining that is energy intensive should be banned immediately on that basis alone.

Aside from that, anyone declaring monetary value on a crypto asset should have to declare it, and if they don't, they go to actual prison for tax evasion. I'm looking forward to those people replacing weed smokers in prison - that would be effective public policy.
The appearance of the pages -- filling all empty space -- reminds me of the style known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui.
I spoke with a recruiter from Amazon the other day. They are planning to go back into the office in early 2022.
Yes he has an attitude of "I've got mine, now nobody else should be able to have the kind of financial success I have." He and Reid Hoffman are two of the most politically active CEOs (and with the same political viewpoints).
Users aren't aware that the only way to install apps on an iPhone officially is through the App Store?
No, it's useless for me too.
Did they misread "third (brain-related research partnership)" as "(third brain)-related research partnership". That's funny.
Ok, I hear you. The positive way to deal with this would be to submit better (for HN) articles about it, i.e. ones that provide a good basis for substantive, thoughtful discussion. Then we at least have a chance to moderate the threads. With hellish flamewars there's little we can do.

You seem to be making up a story, though, about who's flagging those articles. How do you know that it's Big Tech employees? I haven't seen such a pattern. No doubt some are, but whether they're anything close to the majority is a different question.

In my experience, it's important not to jump to the mind's preferred narrative about what/who are producing the phenomena you don't like on HN (and maybe elsewhere too). It's a huge Rohrschach diagram—people see what they read into it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Of course we all do this kind of thing, these biases are built into how the mind operates, but it's important to get more conscious about it, because it's not harmless - it fuels polarization, for one thing, and even paranoia. For example when you write this:

> And they will flame as much as necessary until you learn to treat anything they want to silence as "flamebait". They have endless techniques for limiting the distribution of information that doesn't support them.

... I think you've entered the wilderness of mirrors, at least in an HN context. I haven't seen evidence of this.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Laws only have to be applied fairly.

Any "insider trading" law is about insider disclosure __BEFORE__ you purchase and/or sell your stock options.

The idea is: if (Insert CEO here) sells $50-million worth of stocks, we give the retail investors a chance to sell _BEFORE_ the big guy does. The CEO has to announce _far_ in advance, so that we have a chance to think "Wait, maybe this CEO is full of crap. Maybe I should sell too." (or not: maybe the CEO just wants a new party yacht. But giving people the information and opportunity to decide for themselves is what the insider trading laws are all about).

It doesn't matter if Congressmen disclose 1-day or 1-month after-the-fact. They've already benefited from the insider trade and its too late for the retail investor to benefit. Any investor who purchases after-the-fact just pumps up the stock price (making the Congressmen richer). And on the flip side: the Congressmen sells at a higher price than retailers who get "in late" to the game.

For insider trading laws to have teeth, we must push for disclosure ahead of time. But what stocks "count" as a Congressman's insider trade? Maybe any and all stocks count.

--------

At which point: our goal should be to push for 3-month disclosures from all Congressmen, for all publicly traded securities (stocks, commodities, etc. etc.). You see? This proposal has teeth. This has practical effect. Ex: no Congressman can ever buy, or sell, a security, without filing a disclosure at least 3 months ahead of the buy and/or sell date.

This "disclose sooner" idea does nothing. You gotta think about what you want out of a law before you start writing it.

Note: This is also a horribly "non-free" law. We force Congressmen to act by different rules than the rest of us. That's fine and good. Its an acknowledgement that they have more money, knowledge, and power than us. Its an acknowledgement that we need to level the playing field against them... even if we have to use non-free / highly selective laws that "discriminate against Congressmen".
dpreview.com is still very much alive.
> If an external source - say the Twitter account of an artist - can authenticate that the holder of the NFT is who the creator of the art work wants to be recognized as the owner, then social consensus will lead to widespread value assignment to that NFT.

In other words, you don't need the blockchain because the actual value comes from a different system. The only thing it's adding is overhead and unreliability.
Understanding Startup Offers
His beef:

> "All telecommunication containing immoral content must be stopped. This includes cursing, the transmission of pornography, and all manner of indecent communication."
Bitcoin outlawed in China as country bans all cryptocurrency transactions
I can counter quote:
https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogr...
The graph of illegal immigrants to crime is crazy too!
Engineers are developing new ways to convert greenhouse gases to fuel
Good morning, that's a nice tnettenba.
An Emotion-Lack Keynote
Tangential point but Germany's parliament has a 5% public vote threshold for parties to enter parliament (some exceptions apply).

According to current polls, that means between of 6%-9% of votes (for minor parties) will end up without parliamentary representation (5% at the last federal election).

NB: The number of not represented people is of course much higher, even discounting non-voters and underage citizens, since most(all?) foreign residents don't have the right to vote in federal elections.
No, but they intended to limit the Presidents ability to create new regulations that could put legislators in jail.
Not all submarine cables cross oceans.
Can Improbable get its metaverse ambitions back on track with its new project?
Fair enough, I think we are thinking of futures slightly differently. I was thinking primarily about the deferred action to get a result (in which case channels and goroutines are equivalent with a select to handle, perhaps, an error result). You're also thinking of the other capabilities around task management and monitoring which I was not.
This one includes flags as an easy hint.
Wait till they learn about how shops operate!
iPhone 13 Pro Max Gets Nearly 10 Hours of Battery Life in Continuous Usage Test
End-to-end test suites do not excel in continuous integration workflows.

They excel as part of your metrics, monitoring and alerting system running continuously for as long as the service they exercise lives.

Perhaps it wouldn't be as painful if they took this approach instead.
Also have small kids, also shoot a (high end) DSLR. On the one hand I am all-in on the "always have it with you" side of phones. On the other hand, I've noticed in a collage of 4x6's, the best shots are all from the DSLR. The difference is dramatic.
This source[1] puts bitcoin-related electricity consumption at around 165 TWh/year, which is larger than the annual consumption of all but the 23 largest countries[2].

Much of that electricity is not going to be from renewables, hydro, or nuclear, so generating CO2 and other GHG.

However, I suspect what makes it be perceived as particularly environmentally unfriendly is that there is no inherent societal value in the effort.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
> Defunding the police is about taking away their military grade equipment, nothing to do with your everyday murder.

You're mixing up defunding the police with demilitarizing the police.

Two different topics.
> used in text which was classified as offensive

Yes, and determining if a text is offensive is a very socially and culturally determined. Who determines the offensiveness of the context, and how? To shift gears a bit, how many rap song lyrics were filtered out from the corpus, for example? Does use of the n-word make an entire text de facto offensive? What about references to the common name of the moth Lymantria dispar dispar? What about the football team from Washington, D.C.?

A lot of this just feels like a repeat of the Net Nanny internet filter days, when keywords were idiotically filtered out.
IIRC someone mentioned something about it running apps with waydroid or anbox (can't remember) a few days ago in a related thread right? Have you tested it?
When a central authority is in charge of adding transactions to the blockchain, ie: DMV issuing licences, what's the advantage of blockchain over a standard database?
So, local governments publish their budgets, so I can see that the increases happened. But they don't publish their reasoning for the increases, thus, I can only guess on the intent.
Did you just stop reading the comment at that phrase? You are paying through the data collected, regardless of whether you engage with the adverts or not.
translation "I demand this random HN user show me how it is this is done because I am not going to use a search engine to find it out for myself."
Let's zoom in on this most recent case[0] where it was the treasury came down. We can see that there is a point where the 30 year was not only below the upper bound of the target rate, not only below the effective rate, but below the lower bound. We can see that the effective rate almost always stays within the bounds, and only moves outside of the bounds right before the Fed is about to move rates. As they give dot plots signalling that they are about to move rates, this makes sense. The market is simply smoothening out the transition.

Let's look at more yields[1]. You want to get a feel for how they work with each other. An easy way to understand it is through a dog-leash analogy. The Fed funds rate has no leash. When they move it, it moves. When they move it the 30 year does what it wants, it's a very long leash. The 3 month? It's got a short leash and therefore mostly tracks against the Fed funds rate. The 10 year is, as you can see, mostly in between those two extremes.

> There's no decent explanatory theory for any of the yield curve inversions causing a recession.

I agree with you here, that there is no economics research papers directly showing A -> B. But there was also no science showing that smoking causes cancer until decades later, and still very little science that proves that sugar causes weight gain. I'm not saying we can't trust research, but we should look at what research is being funded and by whom. Is the sugar studies funded by Kellog's and Nestle? At the very least this is a large enough topic that there should be significant negative papers being released, but I have not seen any. If you could link them, I would appreciate it.

We know what happens when the Fed brings rates up too high. We know that by not reacting during the Great Depression they made it worse. I don't think it's an unbelievable stretch to question that Fed funds above 30 year treasury causes recessions.

I'm a programmer and spend a great deal of my time trying to understand systems. I have a feel of how chaos occurs when one fundamental thing is wrong, it causes many small issues that is often very tricky to point it back to that one thing. My intuition is tingling. To me it's obvious that the Fed caused the 2008 recession by raising rates in 2006 causing the adjustable rate mortgages to default, and the housing market was simply the biggest naked swimmers, just as the S&L crisis was the biggest naked swimmers in 87. We've got naked swimmers today, and they'll be blamed once again, but it was always the Fed.

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=H36U

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=H37v
The "flaky" argument against end-to-end tests does not fill me with confidence in your system.
So your equating prison in the US to the camps in Xinjiang?
Secure boot is not that useful anyway. I'm kind of security freak, but I decided that security boot is not worth it. My disk is encrypted to protect from stolen laptop. My BIOS and grub have password to protect from someone using keyboard. Scenario with someone meddling with my boot partition and replacing my kernel with modified one is just not realistic for my life. So just disable it and enjoy proper hibernation, that's my opinion.
Linkerd uses iptables to transparently route Kubernetes traffic
There is no way to sort in gmail satisfactorily that I know? Like sort by subject, sender, etc... I can search, but I cant SORT.

Am I missing something obvious?
Sweet. Thanks for that.
I'm well aware how the site works, so no. Those 14,000 people are whose fate Tegnell is in big part responsible for. This is a complete disaster.

About a million people have been sick with corona in that country.

The numbers are not in yet but it's possible a hundreds thousand are long covid sufferers.

It should not be branded as anything else for political or face saving reason.
Someone who needs CNY, that can then buy real goods and export them.
22.8 non-trivial answers per day. I'm pretty fast with SQL and no way I could do that, let alone 3000+ days in a row.
Apple is researching ways their health features and machine learning implementations can detect health conditions. Who would have thought.
NASA seeks a new ride for astronauts to the Artemis launch pad
Only during updates, IME.
I personally used a semaphore for that. You create a semaphore with an initial count of MAX_REQS_PER_SECOND, create WORKER_COUNT of looping "worker" tasks that each call WaitAsync() on that semaphore before doing request (and don't call Release() after request is done), plus a separate task that does either

Sleep(100);
Release(MAX_REQS_PER_SECOND / 10);

or

Sleep(1000 * WORKER_COUNT / MAX_REQS_PER_SECOND);
Release(WORKER_COUNT);

in a loop, depending on what numbers make more sense.
Honestly, this should be handled at the browser level. You select in your browser what cookies and information you are willing to share with companies and they can only take what you give them.

Then they can offer incentives to you to justify you giving them more. That would be non-invasive, privacy centered & make the web a better place.
Another charitable interpretation of a statement like that is, "When I eat so little food that I lose weight, I am not eating enough to nourish myself. I'm too hungry too much of the time, I have no energy, and I'm not even sure that I am getting what my body needs nutritionally."
One suggestion would be to use a better globe. I want to see where in US the entrypoints are, for example, but it just become a blurry mess when zoomed in.
>"does SEC even have jurisdiction here?"

In a Machiavellian way, I've come to realize that the Standard Operating Procedure for government/bureaus is that when faced with ambiguity about jurisdiction it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission. In practical terms, who's stopping them?
You claim you're tired of insisting you don't know anythig, yet you beleive you have no democratic say in BTC monetary policy. You don't know what you don't know.
Oh, good grief, do you really need to get that pedantic? Apple made computers (devices) that ran those operating systems, and that combination mostly Just Worked (at least it did for me).
OP probably meant to link here [0]. (taken from EForEndeavour's comment)

[0] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/400506/congratulati...
Reminds me of the R/V explosion near the AT&T building last December. Seems like weird fringe guys who haven't found a way to connect to each other yet.
I am not the typical guy who is going to preach e2e testing when I am in big tech companies. But let's not confuse what e2e tests (or I'd like to call it, integration tests) can do.

I love property-based testing, especially with these new frameworks now does coverage-guided fuzzing too. However, it only guarantees the "contract" (or "interface") at that level. For property-based testing (or contract testing this article calls) today, it is still very much to only validate the property holds true, not to exhaust all the edge cases. To give an example, a property-based testing validates function: "add(x, y) == add(y, x), given x in Int32 range", it doesn't validate edges cases what if you call "add" twice, 3 times, from different threads etc.

At the end of the day, it would be hard for the property-based testing to validate your component satisfy Liskov substitution principle.

Integration testing on the other hand, makes sure your system worked at integrated level. It doesn't enforce Liskov substitution principle too. However, if you have downstream components depend on your implementations (for example, there is an earlier callsite called a function before, second call must be cached), update the upstream and run integration testing makes that implicit assumption apparent.

So, that's where I am arriving at. Without a powerful language that can encode all contract at programming level, relying on property-based testing only at components level cannot maintain substitution invariant. Integration testing is required.
> Under that definition, are stablecoins even securities? You buy it at $1 and the best you can hope for it is that the value remains at $1. There's no expectation of profits.

True, as far as I know, but this is not the case for Bitcoin. If, as has been alleged, Tether has been used to fraudulently manipulate Bitcoin prices, the question becomes one of whether Bitcoin falls under the remit of the SEC.
Your body does an amazingly good job at extracting those calories.

But you're still onto something else that varies with exercise, changes in diet, etc. It's called NEAT, which the article briefly mentions. It's why increasing your cardio won't linearly increase your fat loss. See a basic overview here: https://builtwithscience.com/non-exercise-activity-thermogen...
Nobody said the grocery store would take crypto.

But you'd park your capital in places that are safe havens and convert out as late as possible to the (increasingly worthless) dollars. Arguably we're already at a place where keeping any non-emergency funds in USD is a terrible idea.

My point is exactly what you said: that you'd see a flight of capital to hard assets like gold and bitcoin to shield it from inflationary forces and their contagion. In that scenario, bitcoin is no more a "ponzi" than gold.
Without getting into abstract legal philosophy, I think we can agree that this is effectively about insider trading (literally we're talking about trading on inside information) and insider trading is notoriously difficult to prosecute. Personally I think it's worth creating a law like our insider trading laws, with big punitive sentences to dissuade congresspeople from taking the risk. But I don't expect it to significantly outperform extant insider trading legislation.
Windows 8 and later enable “fast boot” by default which, on shutdown, logs the user out of the current session and then hibernates the logged out state of the OS by writing the RAM contents to disk.

“Full” hibernation is still there, it’s just disabled by default in the UI but not on the OS level.

There’s also this “hybrid sleep” concept introduced since Vista where an OS would go from Sleep state to Hibernate automatically after 180 minutes of Sleep (IIRC, also can be overridden by the OEM) to save the laptop battery further since after the laptop hibernates it’s effectively off.

It’s really confusing and a hell to troubleshoot if something goes wrong. I think Microsoft was trying to apply smart decisions on the OS level _for_ the user but there’s no real indication of what’s actually happening with the system. The naming doesn’t help either, especially after “Modern Sleep” has been introduced.

EDIT: I decided to check myself because I wasn’t sure and it turns out I was indeed wrong. “Hybrid Sleep” is actually about a device going to Sleep and Hibernate simultaneously - it’s so that you can still resume from the hibernated image on the disk in case battery dies while in Sleep. At the same time, you can resume from Sleep right away even before parallel hibernation is finished. I think the intention is that you kinda get the best of both worlds here.

The behavior of going to sleep to hibernate after some time which I’ve described originally is actually something that was there since at least Windows XP.
Show HN: 99avatars.com – Avatars for Humans and Computers
> you can't say end-to-end tests are not worth it

Or, from another perspective - you are doing end-to-end testing, the question is whether you're doing it before production or if your customers are doing it for you...
And on a Mac it works either way, as you will get almost all of your context back even if you shut down rather than sleep. Windows still seems to start up as a blank slate, unless I’m missing a setting somewhere.
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Great article.

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Honestly this is a pretty poor article that keeps trying to push click-bait links with the phone scanning dust up.
Time Travel in Computer Applications
When an insider wants to sell stock, they are required to file a form announcing their intentions ahead of time, giving the market a chance to front-run them and/or react to their sales.

Since Congresspeople are the ultimate insiders, they should be required to file the same forms, so that the American public can analyze and front-run them.

Not just Congresspeople, but anyone who works in the Government with access to secret information, especially secret financial reports.
There's a silver lining: a few decades ago, we mostly knew about the psychology of college students. After this, we knew about the psychology of Mechanical Turk workers. Now we also know the psychology of 21 years old female TikTok users. That's what I call progress! In a few centuries we might know about actual human psychology.
The first one would know that you are talking to the second VPN. The second VPN would know that VPN1 User is talking to facebook.com. In principle, neither of them has the full picture. In practice, you may leak enough information that both of them could get the full picture.