skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably whatever happened when someone borrowed books and died before they decided to remove late fees.

I'm assuming your account is closed and the books should be returned. As a kid, I was told you can drop local library books into the mail and they'd be sent back to the library.
You have no idea what you are talking about lol

There is no inflation
Inflation is transitory
Inflation is actually good

That was priced in? How about in other countries? Where the next day the currency devaluates 50%?
Problem is, some people barely afford important things, while others easily affords unimportant things. Taxing everything at the same level will either:
1. Push millions of people into extreme poverty.
2. Or, be so low impact that it is ineffective for reducing carbon emissions.

What's the solution?
We should not tax all things equal.

In a perfect market, a global carbon tax would be excellent. Unfortunately we do not live in (anything resembling) a perfect market.
Facebook has what, almost three billions users across its platforms? 70M is ~2% of that, so a small percentage. While I too doubt that 70M figure, WhatsApp is the de facto communications application in a lot of countries, with many businesses highly reliant on it. In a pinch, you download something, anything to try to continue messaging.
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Then you'd still multiply those scalars. In your example you just replace 1 and -1 with the product of the vectors length.
no they can't
> A major economy defaulting is possible (I put no limits on the ability of Congress to bungle things)

Arguably, even maximal Congressional bungling (at least, absent positive action to force a default, which doesn't seem politically possible) won't make a default necessary, as there are several no-default courses possible without Cobgressional action (“mint the coin”, ignore debt limit due to conflict with mandated fiscal actions, ignore debt limit as unconstitutional)
Nor just because one says them. Two things everyone should keep in mind
Thanks for providing evidence of a capitol rioter carrying a firearm. No True Scotsman I guess.

Most of the rioters were armed. There are a couple videos of the riot if you don't believe me. You're moving the goals posts so that beating a cop with a flagpole until he's dead, throwing fire extinguishers, swinging axes, or planting pipe bombs counts as being "unarmed". Christopher Alberts was caught inside with a loaded handgun.

"DC is no guns," wrote an Oath Keepers member on Facebook, "so mace and gas masks, some batons." They had to remind them to only bring certain weapons to their peaceful protest.

Officer Mike Fanone claims Trump supporters reached for his weapon shouting "kill him with his own gun." He must be exaggerating!

> There hasn't been a single conviction related to insurrection or anything more sinister than rioting or trespassing to date.

Oh wow, you really didn't know. Jon Schaffer plead guilty to entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon. Why didn't you remind him he was unarmed before he plead guilty?!

> given the lack of firearms and damage

Damage estimates range from $1.5 to $30 million. Do you read the news?
> I'd much rather my sensitive digital information be stored with FB (knowing how much they spend on cyber security) than the CA DMV.

I know what you mean and also my information is stored at the DMV if I want a drivers' liscence - we have no choice in the matter. I think we must improve public systems.
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The exact same way proof of purchase of massive bespoke mining rigs doesn't cause the rich to grow richer.

The people making significant money from mining cryptocurrencies are the ones with multiple warehouse-scale operations filled with custom hardware. These people aren't getting rich, they were already rich. Moving to PoS just removes some middlemen, not changes the fundamental economics.
> Nothing stops you from checking out the max number of books and never coming back.

Except for some dystopian societies where warrants are taken out for not returning two books [0].

[0]: https://www.wilx.com/content/news/Charlotte-woman-gets-warra...
So, do you like ML?
>countries will have to return to a gold standard and when they do

Every single one of the 200+ countries left the gold standard since the evidence on how bad economies fared tied to the rate you can dig up gold became irrefutable. Hopefully no major countries get dumb enough to revisit that fiasco.

For example, read the academic work showing that trying to stay on the gold gold standard during the great depression lengthened and deepened the depression with solid data across over 100 countries.

There is no question now that tying your economy to digging up rocks is a bad idea.
Turning atmospheric CO2 into plastic probably isn't as feasible as turning CO2 into some other stable form directly. Diverting petroleum production into plastic and them making sure it ends up in landfills rather than the sea[1] does seem like a good thing to the extent that plastic production funges against fuel production, I'm not sure to what extent these rely on separating different parts of the oil that comes out of the ground in the refinery for different uses rather than having one common pool that could be used for either. But plastic buried in landfills does seem to remain out of the biosphere for long enough to be a useful repository of carbon.

[1] Remember, throw plastic away don't try to recycle it or it'll mostly end up in the middle of the Pacific https://hwfo.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-plastic-...
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Imho there is some misconseption here, how the sixel protocol works for the colors part. It is not about any bit-depth of an image, as it is paletted. But other than most standard paletted formats, it can redefine its colors on-the-fly, which basically makes it supporting an infinite amount colors (it is still limited to 101³ colors in RGB space).

Now the actually tricky parts: The spec states (DEC STD 070), that the palette should be of size 256 at least on decoder side, and an encoder should not create more than 256 colors, and any higher palette index gets mapped back (not specced out, but mostly done with modulo). Older devices (old DEC printers or VTs) were even more limited in palette regards, from monochrome like VT240 to 16 colors on a VT340 for screen output. Thats what xterm does with `-ti 340` and it is totally right about it - it emulates what a VT340 was capable to do.
What mlterm started to do (and others followed) - well it did not care for strict VT340 emulation, and increased the palette to 256 colors. Furthermore it applied "printer-behavior" (note - sixel was developed as printer protocol) deviating from DECs VT behavior by immediately applying colors to pixels. While DEC's sixel capable VTs always were bound to the fixed palette. That terminal vs printer behavior distinction is important, as it opens sixel to actually use more colors than the palette has room for by redefining color slots on the fly.

Hope this helps to get some details straight.
I tend to think of "educated" as meaning "having done this before", while do-er is someone who will maintain motivation.

Someone who thrives on novelty will be an uneducated-doer at the start of a project, then convert to an educated-apathetic after completing it. They won't be inspired to do the same thing again because it's not novel. But while it is novel, you can bet they will dedicate a lot of time to it.

Someone who thrives are familiarity will start as an uneducated-apathetic. They will get frozen due to not knowing what to do. But with guidance they can be taught what to do, then will go on to be an educated-doer. These people are happy to keep doing the same projects over and over again. They like what they know.

Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. But I'm sure most of us have worked with both types: the hyper-focused person who works 80 hours a week to get some cool PoC out the door; and the "stick to the process we have in place, please" type. Both are valuable in certain situations, and a liability in others. Carmack and Torvalds appear to be the first kind of person -- granted, I've never met them -- but they do seem to like to build amazing things, then hand them over to someone else to maintain.

I know lots of successful devs who are the latter. They crank out the same kind of code for clients project after project, and will happily work with tools like Wordpress because that's what they know and it makes them money.
What’s stopping the phone companies from offering that? The point is that they’ve chosen to not innovate.
> But only because a general global rejection didn't happen before.

The “only” part is speculative, but even if that is entirely true, it is still sufficient to show that “this has all happened before” is false.
It's a net positive as far as actually getting books back. Late fees weren't stopping the kind of people who are gonna steal books, they aren't gonna check them out in the first place if theft is their intention they'll just walk out and ignore the alarms, I doubt the librarians are gonna chase after them. This is for people who would otherwise have returned the books in the first place but are discouraged by the late fees.
Yeah expanding the money supply by 50% causes no inflation.

Just like in every country where the printing press has been abused. Literally 0 precedent right?
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I would have clicked the original article but this is pretty bad headline abuse. In fact, I might have missed the article with it's click-baited name.
> It only plays one game at a time, so you may need to wait a little bit

Why this limitation? Is it fairly computationally expensive to run?
great, now you can go to the library, take out rare books and sell them on eBay.
C teaches you how PDP11 memory management works. Modern PC/server hardware doesn't work like this, neither do modern applications that use accelerators, and while the system works hard to present this virtual address space to your runtime, you don't need to think about it in many languages, from LISP to Swift. Most devs write Javascript.

I say this as a person who loves C and taught it lovingly to undergrads for many years.

Embedded system programming is a lovely niche, but we don't need to design CS curricula around it.
I agree with this to some extent, but at the same time it seems like so long as there exists carbon in the volatile format of fossil fuels, someone or something will eventually find it expedient to burn it.

Hell, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that certain superpowers (namely Russia) decide that climate change is actually in their long term interest, as it devastates regions near the equator and opens up currently difficult to tap resources in their own.

Slowing down carbon emission is definitely worth pursuing as much as possible, if for no other reason than it buys us time to solve the problem. But I doubt we'll ever get to a safe steady state until all the fossil fuel has been converted into a format that can't be burned.
> Assuming you can't also choose to move yourself and your assets to another country offering better terms.

Better terms are always very appealing, but the "terms" are about governance as a whole, not just paying taxes. That's what attracts assets from outside. Taxes are just a predictable cost of doing business, but bad governance can easily be a showstopper.
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This argument is brought up a lot, but it seems the lack of regulation hadn't really stopped FB and Google from monopolizing their markets anyway (or, oligopolizing if we think they're in the same market).
It's complicated. The port of X11 that the article talks about is the one that's on the old Bell Labs web site[0], and it never really worked all that well for me.

Linuxemu is something of a research project, and I don't recall it working all that well either.

You can get a Unix-alike (e.g., OpenBSD) running under 9front's vmx(1), and that will get you access to X11, albeit not running natively atop a Plan 9 kernel, which is likely not what you're after.

0: http://9p.io/plan9/addons.html
Depends on the book. If the book is less valuable then membership costs yes, else people might make a business out of selling overdue books.
My local library ended all late fees a little over two years ago and they haven't reverted back yet, so it seems it's working out okay for them.

Their policy works like this (just looked):

14 days overdue: library card blocked

28 days overdue: library card blocked, billed replacement cost of overdue items

42 days overdue: your account sent to collection agency + $10 collections fee, the latter of which must be paid to unblock your card.

You can also extend how long you're checking out the items online by a decent amount, like 2 or 3 extensions I think. You can hang end up hanging on to what you've checked out for several months before it has to go back, as long as you're staying on top of it.
This really doesn't change anything in that regard. A person whose intention it is to rip off their library and never return could do that just as easily before. Libraries budget for shrink and replacement costs, which are still going to be charged to patrons who don't return materials in 30 days.
>Remember that the "general global rejection" only started with the Nixon Shock in the US in 1971

Nope - most countries already rejected it. The mismatch allowed them to extract gold at under market prices from the US, since we tried to claim we were on it, and when it became clear that the US was being taken advantage of, we dropped the pretense.

The US has not held enough gold to back it's money for well over 100 years. Holding the pretense till 1971 was to lessen gold bugs from freaking out.
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There are free packages in R (such as quantmod) and Python (and I assume other languages) to get data from Yahoo Finance.
I think Steve was a product guy and Cook is more likely a business guy. I'm not making a value judgement either way, but I do see a lack of product vision/innovation under Cook, and I believe product vision/innovation is what excites me most about consumer electronics. I think the fact that Steve released several "once in a lifetime" level of success products in such a short time span is evidence enough for this.

Something that Steve jobs did well was understanding that building great products and successful business metrics aren't necessarily always aligned, especially in a product's nascent period.
They are addressing the testimony provided, not the documents which have not been provided.

Generally after hacking a company, the documents are provided in a ZIP for everyone to download. Information wants to be free, but we are only being provided with her summary of the documents rather than the evidence itself.
Not sure how you want to combine automated daily rsyncs with hardware keys. You can use OpenPGP for ssh authentication, and set it up so it prompts you when rsync starts automatically. However, do you really want your automated jobs to depend on having a human to answer prompts or at least having a key inserted when it's scheduled to run? It sounds like there could be a better setup.
Anecdotally, all of the people I know who are addicted to FB (and they were before COVID) are also all anti-vax.
That's true, and why the real answer is to depose the owners and have common democratic ownership.
How are they relevant?
So? If someone can't pay me, it doesn't matter how much I want my value back, I'm not going to get it. That's what happens with bad investments - you lose your money.

And if a country can't pay me in fiat currency, how in the world are they going to be able to pay me in gold?
Let's not. Even if you could make this work, sort of, plastics have all sorts of other nasty environmental and biological effects that we should try to avoid - they tend to break into pieces tiny enough to get everywhere in an organism, and then mimic other signaling chemicals well enough to fool systems. There's plenty of writing on microplastics you can dig into if you want to learn more.

Making less out of plastic would be a good step. Making more out of plastic isn't a good idea.
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You are to the point and precise. This is exactly the problem.

Each individual PoP did the right thing by dropping out of the anycast, but because they all did it, it was the wrong thing.

Somehow I feel the design is flawed because if abuses DNS server status a bit. I mean DNS server down and BGP withdrawal for the DNS server is a perfect combination, however connectivity between DNS and backend server down, DNS up and BGP withdrawal for DNS server is not. DNS did not fail and DNS should just fall back to some other operational DNS perhaps a regional/global default one.
'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo'
A fixed quantity only means that the supply is inelastic, it doesn't —by any stretch of the imagination— mean that the price will always increase. The only thing that is guaranteed to increase in price, assuming a positive rate of inflation, is a large basket of goods and services. Anything else is a gamble.
Interesting, but I'm amused by the writing style. I'm assuming it won't be submitted to a journal because the style reads like a blogpost.
So the 15" M1 laptop will let you custom boot if you manage to decipher its undocumented internals, but the 10" M1 tablet will actively shut down attempts on the next update. Great.
$200 is a totally unattainable sum of money for many, many people, often and especially for those to whom the library offers the most benefit -- those who need help finding education, internet access, and a safe/dry place to exist.
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If they really wanted to steal, why not just take the books and leave, even _with_ the fine system? Just like Walmart, a librarian isn't going to chase you after the alarm goes off. The alarms are there to remind honest people to check out their books in case they forgot.
That would preclude the significant majority of use of public libraries; a $200 deposit is absolutely crippling to someone living in poverty, and unattainable for almost all children and students.
Academia seems to be increasingly turning into a sweatshop-like suicide factory, just as grad students face diminishing job prospects.
Wait, what? Blockbuster did end late fees, and it was widely regarded as a disaster, because then people took their sweet time returning rentals (above and beyond the lost revenue):

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39332696

>Blockbuster tried dropping its late fees a few years ago, but that didn't work out well because it kept the most popular DVDs out of its stores for long stretches.
> Keep your politics out of my computing and open source, please.

Open source started as a political movement.

Are you gonna ask me to keep the government out of your Medicare next? :)

(no, that's not an invitation to debate broader politics, it's just the first example that springs to mind)
You do know it is possible for people to be vaccinated and still be against vaccination mandates?

Anyway as you insist on calling people stupid and just want to force your opinion on others I’m through discussing you.
Yes, each bot uses a v3-8 Cloud TPU VM, and tries to be constantly playing a game. The search tree is also very memory-hungry. And right now it's also using the Python API for TensorFlow, which is likely wasting a lot of potential.

Lots of room for improvement!
The underlying metric (books returned) is massively improve though.
Is there a practical method to achieve sub-atmospheric CO2 concentrations indoors?

If taking CO2 of the atmosphere may take a long time then at least keeping our indoor environments at low levels will prevent the cognitive & health issues.
> I think the best system would be something like a $200 fully refundable deposit, plus late fees (deducted from your deposit account). Account must not drop below $180 due to accrued late fees, or use of library is suspended.

One of the most blinkered views I've seen on HN. Who exactly do you think benefits from libraries the most? It sure isn't people who have a lazy $200 sitting around.
It's quite common to scan IDs in California to verify age (I assume to guard against fakes). I believe it's also common in other parts of the US.
> just borrow 10 books and never come back

Similar but slightly different: what stops you from borrowing a few books and then keeping them, not for forever, but for an unreasonably long time?

Physical books are a limited resource, and others might like access to them. (It's the same reasoning as for parking meters and 2-hour parking: make sure someone else gets a turn.)

Without any time limit on books, the only thing motivating you to return a book is that you need some other book, which might happen weeks later or maybe 6 months later.
I don’t think I believe that they actually feel powerless, though. The right-wing and centrist press spin that narrative, because it’s the only way to justify their actions, but it doesn’t square with reality: people who feel powerless do not violently threaten the workings of government, believing that they will succeed and avoid any negative consequences if they fail. Those are the actions of people who are used to getting their way all day every day, who cannot believe that they won’t get their way again.
> else people might make a business out of selling overdue books

How many books can you sign out at once? Like five or something? You think people are going to make a business out of selling five books on a street corner? How much do you think they’ll fetch given they’re already free at the library?

Lunacy.
The coin is used to offset bonds. It's not increasing the money supply.

The money supply is increased by government spending.

The US economy grows by approximately $700B per year. (23T * 3%). Therefore as a first approximation the money supply needs to grow at approximately $700B per year. If the government deficit is less than that, it acts as a brake on the economy.

When the government spends money, it buys stuff with that money. Whether that is inflationary depends on how rivalrous the spending is -- IOW if it's competing with private money for that stuff or it's buying stuff that nobody else would ever want to buy.