skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US gains some minor benefits by providing the reserve currency used for most international oil trades. However that's only a small fraction of worldwide dollar use. Even if everyone switched to trading oil in euros tomorrow that wouldn't cause a dollar crash.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/07/debunking-the-dumping-t...
Downside, when the company gives you a voucher for £20 to order food (that ought to be enough for anyone!).

Turns out the delivery app automatically adds £10 in delivery/service fee, and there's hardly any food you can pick for the remaining £10. Had to buy out of my own pocket.
It’s a measure of how broken our political system and citizenry is that so many young people look to the giant companies they work for the rights and privileges and space for self-expression properly secured by government.
Run scikit-learn models as transformers pipelines
It's impact is that it keeps them alive.
"no matter where they are"

Do they know a decent pizza place in Hyderabad that can deliver at 2:00am local time? Because I sure don't.
It is not both. Only a fallacy. A straw man is an attribute of an argument which is completely independent from the language used to convey it.
Take them behind the shed
Want to hear something worse? If you keep scrolling, the page mentions other types of events your team can hire including a “stand up comedian”, which sounds like my personal hell. Social Zoom meetings are already awkward for the reasons you mentioned, then on top imagine having to laugh politely at some C-rate comedian (you know they’re not getting headliners) doing material that needs to be clean enough to be appropriate at a work event. Just an astoundingly bad idea.
Surface devices, and LG gram come to mind.
My gf's uncle is a well know baker. Workaholic. Works all night, sleeps a little during the day. It's hard physical work that requires a lot of skills and experience. If it is your passion, make it your career. Don't do the same mistake as I did and make your hobby your career. God luck!
> It has no fantastic democratizing magic which will make all people rich. It is. It building new things.

If you prefer to hold bitcoin instead of fiat and are willing to spend a little bit effort on that and digest some transaction costs, I think it is very likely you will become wealthier.

However the promise to get rich is something entirely different. Not many people in the world can be rich. You have to take out-of-normal type of risk. The more common bitcoins gets, the more normal it is and less riskier. The later you get into btc, the less likely it is that you will get risk. However it still makes sense financially.
Queenships are awfully despotic.
I'd like a few pounds of goodwill please
Are you saying that an institution has to market itself to potential customers in order to exist and has to follow them to where they are?

The aim here is to develop interoperability so users have the option of thousands of networks without lock in.
So far as I've been able to tell, the only people who actually live that way are the wealthy.
backlit keyboard *IMPORTANT*
I'm sorry, but channel chat certainly is not like IRC. Threads and reactions, and to a lesser degree multimedia, make a drastic change on the experience.
Those three features allow conveying a lot more information in a smaller cognitive space.

Threads allow smaller groups of participants to carry on with a conversation for a long while without hogging the chat and without making it any less public.
Reactions allow showing support or many other kinds of sentiments to someone's statement with a tiny bit of vertical screen state for huge swaths of people, doing the same on IRC is wholly impractical.

Multimedia is an obvious convenience. Having to rely on external or ad-hoc services to support it is annoying at best, anti-user at worst, meaning people often just don't share anything at all because most don't think of the medium as multimedia capable.

I do think that desktop chat applications should not be the bloated abominations they are, but any less than the experience that software like Slack or Discord provide would be a worse alternative to the overwhelming majority of people who today use and enjoy either, no matter how optimized.
The master/replica setup is interesting because we did something similar at Shopify, but I don't believe this is conventional for redis cluster. Can you expand on that a bit? eg: Looks like master/replica are together on a host, wouldn't you want them spread out?

You are including proxies for clients and server? How do they compare to envoy? eg: Are you doing anything clever to handle failovers transparently for clients?

Is the metadata storage just using redis?
I have a weekly meeting with ~10 friends by Zoom. During the lockdown it's impossible to meet IRL, and we are distributed in ~4 countries, so we are even meeting more than before.
I'm curious as I see this thrown around a lot; how does the slowdown in production and labor not factor into inflation, too? It seems to me like those are much stronger contributions, as the CPI items that are up the most are directly tied to those:
- Chip slowdown leading to more used car purchases
- Travel backpressure leading to more rental cars
- Labor shortage leading to food shortages

None of these seem to be directly tied to "printing tens of trillions of dollars" in my mind.
Apparently they also offer group yoga.

I'm totally sure downward dogging over a group video call is not going to be as awkward as hell, and will definitely realign my chakras... ...to point towards other career opportunities.
Unpopular (for HN) take, but you know what's been great for my mental health and productivity and made me feel more connected to my team?

Going into the office a few days a week again. It's been wonderful. Including eating real lunch with real people from my team. Gold.
You are right, but I think it applies in smaller increments.

To get back to bread, selling fancy cakes for 10$ and not 4$ might not seem a big deal, but it can be enough to upgrade all the ingredients while staying in your comfort zone skill wise.

The competition gets smaller, and while you’re now priced the same as some superstar shops, you clients will still be happy if it’s clearly better than the 4$ cakes next door.

In a way NBA is a regulated market, most markets don’t behave that way.
>the coin which provides the most liquidity in the market is an obvious scam.

But what does that actually imply? What's the scam?

This isn't a black and white thing. Tether might not have sufficient assets to be able to redeem any USDT for USD, or Tether might actually have sufficient assets and willingness to redeem all USDT and then some... or anything in between.

Tether being dishonest is one thing, Tether not being able to maintain the USD peg is another.
I rather like this section if the byline:
“He is not an economist, which is probably why he's been able to develop a working model of the global monetary system. His research is unique and informative in ways an economist would never consider.”

I’d like to learn more about the context behind that.
> the debt is relatively small compared to regular college,

Unfortunately the pay is also relatively small when compared with the kind of jobs a college graduate might apply for. It's not bad once you get your own kitchen, but I've known some very skilled cooks who started at $10 an hour at their restaurants. Culinary degree and all
Ah, sorry yes I think I did misread your comment. Thanks for explaining!! I wasn't offended or anything, I just didn't see a path forward in the conversation.

Anyhoo, I'm not saying we need to abandon looking at how external agents influence behavior, all I'm saying is that personal responsibility is critical in informing how we look at behavior. Without that lens, it would almost impossible to implement a fair justice system. We can all work towards structural changes while still adopting a punitive stance when it comes to egregious violations of criminal and civil law.
Not really.

If it’s voluntary perhaps, but mandatory crap like this sucks.

If people want this, they are welcome to join but don’t force social community at work.
> Both Nomad and Vault need Consul for Enterprise set ups, of which Vault needs 2 Consul clusters for Enterprise setups. So now you have 3 separate Consul clusters, a Vault cluster, and a Nomad cluster.

This is incorrect. You don’t need consul for enterprise. Vault doesn’t need two consul clusters (it doesn’t need consul at all, if you don’t want it)
Exactly it should be something like marathon with 2 week splits.

The fact that management loves the term "sprint" tells you something about the motivations of management-induced agile: artificial urgency.
There are three very interesting threads in your comment, as I see them:

1. Tether influencing solvency of other stablecoins.

2. (Tightly related to point 1) Inflation of Tether as it becomes an intermediary.

3. That it is logically inconsistent to view Tether as a scam while also viewing cryptocurrency as a store of value.

Point 3: There is a difference between a store of value and a store of value that is stable with respect to some specific other value.

Consider Bitcoin and Ethereum. The rules by which these blockchains operate are quite transparent. The software is free (as in freedom). Anybody in the world with the means can run a node and participate in these blockchains. Thousands of people are doing so right now. These currencies are open in a sense that no other currency has been open in the entire history of the human race.

Tether on the other hand is completely opaque about its operations. In fact, the people at Tether actively spread misinformation about how Tether operates. It has repeatedly dodged and attempted to fabricates audits of its reserves.

Given all of this, I do not see any logical inconsistency between thinking of Bitcoin and Ethereum as stores of value which is largely orthogonal to the value of the fiat that you hold while simultaneously thinking of Tether as a scam stablecoin whose value is pegged to that of a fiat currency.

Point 1: I agree with you that the existence of Tether improves the solvency of other stablecoins. It reduces the pressure on anyone backing another stablecoin by offering an alternative means of a holder of that stablecoin to realize the dollar value of their stablecoin holdings (albeit with a slight overhead in transaction costs).

I think this is more significant of a factor for centralized stablecoins like USDC than it is for decentralized stablecoins like DAI, although I suspect the existence of USDT puts less pressure on collateralized DAI positions as well.

This is not a compelling reason to encourage or even tolerate the existence of Tether. A true stable coin would not experience any significant difficulties even if Tether became insolvent. I believe that decentralized stablecoins like DAI would only experience negligible effects from Tether's insolvency.

Point 2: This is a very good point and I don't understand it well enough theoretically to confidently make predictions about how it would play out on the market.

My intuition tells me that the most powerful factor against inflating prices of USDC in your scenario is that Coinbase (and the USDC consortium) will stick to their position and always offer $1 in exchange for 1 USDC.

The other factor is that there are many more legitimate stablecoins that could partly fill in the vacuum that Tether would create if it imploded. So not all attention would be focused on USDC. If people really needed a stablecoin, then they would not want to purchase an asset whose value was increasing.

There are a lot of parameters involved, though, and I find this very hard to reason about. Would love any input here.
I'm a not out on the road a lot, need mostly just good CPU performance to compile one or two big projects and some "normal" things. I don't play games usually. But:

1. IPS, 1080p at least (and I think I prefer 1080p or may be the 4:3/3:2 variants)

2. Good keyboard with trackpoint. If the keys must have low key travel, no mushy keys at all. Prefer the security of knowing liquids can drain out if something were to happen.

3. Touchpad just needs to work without odd skips or pauses, which I have seen on a couple.

3. Linux supported hardware.

4. Good case, not fond of aluminum, particularly after seeing the shape of one really good macbook pro from a former colleague.

5. Good hinges with good support. No screws in plastic at all.

6. Matte screen. No touchscreen. My laptop is not a phone.

7. Good range of ports to not have to worry about ports. 2 USB, 2 HDMI, at least one USB-C to get new things and dedicated power.

8. Just enough power to take it from my desks for a few hours. I am always near a plug though.

9. I can use it for the next 10 years or more after getting it (writing this on my x220, and despite the screen, everything else is OK to me for a 10 year old computer). That means it must be repairable and have part supply for a long time.

10. SSD (250 GB is more than enough), 16 GB RAM

These things pretty much describe my t430s now (except a small points). I hope that framework can be that replacement.
If investors demand 10% ROI they will just sell under performing stocks and buy better performing stocks.

You're confusing ROI with interest. When lenders demand 10% interest you can bet that the interest payments are being passed onto consumers.
Full marks for submitter’s HN name!

I skimmed the article briefly and didn’t see this mentioned, but it was pivotal in the advancement of architectural acoustic design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Clement_Sabine

Sabine tackled the problem by trying to determine what made the Fogg Lecture Hall different from other, acoustically acceptable facilities. In particular, the Sanders Theater was considered acoustically excellent. For the next several years, Sabine and his assistants spent each night moving materials between the two lecture halls and testing the acoustics. On some nights they would borrow hundreds of seat cushions from the Sanders Theater. Using an organ pipe and a stopwatch, Sabine performed thousands of careful measurements (though inaccurate by present standards) of the time required for different frequencies of sounds to decay to inaudibility in the presence of the different materials. He tested reverberation time with several different types of Oriental rugs inside Fogg Lecture Hall, and with various numbers of people occupying its seats, and found that the body of an average person decreased reverberation time by about as much as six seat cushions. Once the measurements were taken and before morning arrived, everything was quickly replaced in both lecture halls, in order to be ready for classes the next day.
I never used a mac until my current job starting three years ago. I don’t think I could go back to random problems requiring me to reinstall driver or futz around with registry keys (never mind recompile the kernel). I have better things to do with my time at this point in my life.
"Not everyone follows laws, so why bother having them" is a pretty bad argument. You're right that pretty much no law can be 100% effective, but if you want to reduce gun violence, reducing the number of legal firearms is certainly one of the ways to go about it.
Ugh, how many more of these businesses can start up? Don’t the founders want to do something more interesting?
Something I was thinking about is that this year alone Tether received almost 50 billions of new US dollars for printing the same amount of their coin, reaching the staggering Market cap of 68B.

Even if they started as a scam and were a few billions out of parity, 2021 gave them a lot of additional runway, allowing them to recompose their reative parity to the USD.

For instance, they could be 80% backed at the start of the year, and after 2021 cash inflows so far they could have gone up to 93% backed by simply doing nothing.
Those criticisms are definitely common these days: lots of Sipser-style material is not very relevant or pedagogically compelling. I think push-down automata are a great example that many people would be happy to skip.

On the other hand, that choice of topics is pretty idiosyncratic. There are a lot of big concepts, some pretty tangential, that are covered very briefly and could easily be skipped. So I don't think that exact course is a good outline for a new canon. But I agree with the premise for sure.
I'm quite fond of Dragonfly BSD. It's a pleasure to use, well documented and hammerfs seems pretty decent.
I disagree that this is a fashion -- logo design over the last 100+ years has consistantly shifted this way, while the media they are communicated in has engendered lower and lower attention span, vastly faster exposure rates per day, massive audiences.

The information in the logo is being reduced for specific reasons. I agree that this is de-facto loss of diversity and culture for delivery, somewhat analagous to factory methods of goods production.
> This is just false.

No it isn’t.

> I've run Vault in an Enterprise

At this point I am starting to doubt that claim.
"capturing and storing the carbon dioxide offsite" - ah yes, the oil companies saying 'trust us' because how do we ensure this doesn't escape? Or not simply released quietly along the way? Oh, the "regulators" will keep them honest? This is the oil industry. They have a playbook for this that is literally 100 years old or more.

"capture the hydrogen for a clean fuel" - I forget... Is this grey H2? Green H2? Oh, how about Teal? Everyone likes Teal.

"Whenever oil prices get really high" - I have a wonderful solution for this. Impose a huge pollution tax on any oil/crude removed from the ground. 30$/barrel, increasing by 10$ per year until we get to 100$/barrel. Oh that would be too shocking and expensive you think? Every climate scientist in a dozen fields is saying "we need to change course very soon very quickly", and that is probably still conservative and compromised from what we should be doing.

The Alberta tar sands are an abomination, the apex of capitalistic dollar over rationality, a putrid monument to the failures of economics to properly convey reality, science, forethought, and basic decency to the marketplace numbers of supply and demand. Fracking is basically the same, it just hides the problem a lot better.

Modern economics, be it the theory, the people practicing it, the political structures that influence policy, is a massive failure because of itss utter inability to not just consider 5 or 10 or 20 years into the future.

At the core of the problem is the hubris that economics thinks it can compute reality. Mathematics and the theory of computation prove that impossible. At least the climate models and science admit their uncertainties and difficulties with large scale nonlinear chaotic systems.

I suppose they are trying. But is it simply PR? Usually is.
I'm pretty sure capping a CC at 5k would not do much.

This is a bit old info but the one I found:

Experian data shows that, as of December 2016, the average credit limit of a consumer with a Deep SubPrime credit score was $1,834. For consumers with SubPrime credit scores, the average credit limit was $2,645. Consumers with NonPrime credit had an average credit limit of $4,674. Those who have Prime credit scores had an average credit limit of $7,593. And consumers lucky enough to have SuperPrime credit scores had an average credit limit of $11,357.

$5k @~19% and the 4% min payment, you pay ~$200 for a total of over $8k over 137 months.

That's a _lot_ of months that you're going without being able to put anything else on your CC, since you're only doing the minimum payments.

What do people do then? Get yet another credit card. According to some quick Googling, the average American has about 4 credit cards.
Damn, so not a good idea… and I was thinking of getting pizzayogaonline.com ! :)
>When prices go up, people get poorer. This lesson has played out in history innumerable times.

Your hypothesis doesn't make any sense when looking at the entire history of the dollar. Most of the economic growth happened during years of moderate 3-5% inflation and people have gotten richer over the last two centuries.
The Golden Age of Shareware CDs
LinkedIn Kowtows to Communist China by Creating Spin-Off That Will Stifle Speech
Sorry but I view this kind of playfulness as an unnecessary distraction and regard it as unprofessional. Did you ever see a medical or engineering text (outside of software engineering) or mathematical text aimed at professionals with such graphics?
Bonhoeffer on Stupidity
Strong evidence, perhaps dispositive evidence, for the Simulation Hypothesis.
How is this any worse than the current situation?

Just because someone in a wheelchair can’t drive a Ferrari doesn’t mean a Ferrari isn’t fun for huge base.

The expression “don’t let great be the enemy of good” comes to mind. Whether this is good or not is besides the point, that it’s not good for everyone and therefore not allowed to exist is the problem.
Not a baker but very close to one.

Bakery is learned as apprenticeship in my home, i.e. 50% school with other young bakers and the other half in the bakery which took you in. This is a very classical education type for trades called "Ausbildung". It takes 3 years and afterwards you can work or become a master/"Meister" which takes two more years. A Meister extends his knowledge and some years ago it was mandatory by law to have finished your Meister to open your own business.
Personally this is a very good way to learn professional crafts and you even get payed for it - even when in school.

The job market is not so nice as there are mainly bakery chains which don't even hire bakers by education primarily due to higher labor costs.

However, there are some bakers who create their own small shops where they do everything by hand in contrast to the prefabricated and highly optimized bakery chains.
The small shops make traditional bread, and you can taste it. Your stomach and digestive system will probably like it, too.

Yes, it is a good career if you dare and risk opening your own store. You will attract people by the quality of your product who will, in exchange, not only become loyal customers but being the supplier for bread in Germany is a highly valued profession - an institution.

Good people get help by other good people. This is basic human law. I feel having a platonic relationship with the baker I know and he never has IT problems for long. :)
Study Warns Android Phones from Samsung, Xiaomi and Others Are Spying on Users
If it was so short, why you just skimmed through it?

You are seeing a few parts (titles, maybe a paragraph or two, a sample of the diagrams and pictures) and you are not seeing the system behind it. You have to read it whole to properly understand its point.

And as that system is not isolated from the world, after you understanding it you will get a good hint of the outer system, things that are happening in the real world outside of it.
TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab
I wish we could play some kind of video game instead that provides proximity chat to players, like Minecraft or something else with a low barrier to entry. Do away with the video entirely and just let me talk to people and maybe do something fun besides.
Linear Method: Practices for Building
Lockdowns are fascism
My company has done this and I hate it because 20+ people all ordering some fast(ish) food for individual delivery through a disintermediary service has so many things wrong with.

I can't reconcile trying to discourage wasteful, race-to-the-bottom, lowest-price-first lifestyles and yet clueless acts like food delivery apps.
Oh, didn't realise they had renamed themselves until I saw this post. Reading the article on why, the reason makes sense, though I never made that connection until reading the article. They could have picked a less generic new name though, feels a bit like the naming equivalent of the flat logos which currently have an article on the front page too.