skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just me that thinks it’s weird that when they win they just get their money back?

How can that not create an incentive to abuse the trust placed in law enforcement officers?

Are there any missing checks and balances I’m missing on this that go unreported?
Depending on your definition of machine code, Lua may fit the bill.
Energy secretary defends tax credits for EVs made by unionized automakers
How does the best price you give for JPY->USD ($10 for $1,000 with Wise) compare with OANDA fxTrade?

I think their current posted fees are 1.4% spread-only ($14 for $1000) or 0.3% spread plus core fees. I can't quite tell from the rate sheet but looks like 550 JPY for a 100,000 JPY trade. I guess that would work out to about … $8.50 per $1000? Is that right?

If you have a local bank that allows foreign depositors to exchange at 0.3 JPY/1 USD, does that mean you pay about $2.50 to convert 1000 USD?
>The other issue is they all mention requiring early treatment, but tests and other ways to detect Covid early aren't readily available or cheap, so do you now take this giant cocktail of mixed drugs every time you have a cold in case it turns out to be early onset Covid? Do you just take them all on a regular basis as a preventative?

This is mostly a self imposed US problem. In many parts of Europe, you can get a rapid covid test in corner stores for 1-2 euros
Or, literally some kind of false paternity fraud - such a child would come with certain legal rights and privileges.
From where do you get that sql server does not support columnar? That is a wrong claim.
Truth Social Violated Mastodon’s ToS; Trump’s Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA
and yours seems to be an attitude of blaming only the individual. Obese? just a lazy fatso. Lung cancer? just a nicotine junkie. etc.

I think you are also being too simplistic and neglecting the complex interactions between personal responsibility and the dependency on the environment we as a culture inhabit and create.

The impact of large corporations optimising consumer behavior is not zero, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money on it. So those corporations also share partial accountability to the problems they helped create.

The product "facebook" being a tool does not preclude the company "facebook" from accountability.
I've been using Hashids (https://hashids.org/). It's been fine performance-wise and well supported across languages.
confirm from experience: 240V is no joking matter, but it's not _that_ dangerous either (otherwise it would be higher)
The author of this piece pointed out on his podcast that Zuckerberg, despite his baggage, is a founder and thus the only person who can sell such a huge change to employees and investors.

If building a metaverse is a good idea, and that is a large if, then it will have been good for him to stay.
I bought a Quest 2, three weeks ago. Tried to set it up. Already have a Rift S with an Oculus account. To use the Quest 2 required me to switch my Oculus account to FB. (Not gonna happen). I tried 8 times to create a new FB account, it failed the first 7 (no idea why, nothing about the data I entered was strange). When it finally worked the device would not pair with my iPhone6S+ (which I used as it's on a different Apple account than my FB and FB app). It failed to pair which was enough for me to just say "f this" and I took it back.

If they drop me having to associate my Quest usage with my FB account I'll be happy to go buy one again.
Those exist already really, especially something slick like Wix.

However, one big thing missing is like, free advertising, and communication.

With a website, people have to remember to come back. Or you can try email blasting them(annoying). With Facebook, you can just post your new wares and deals and followers see it in their feed.

Further, something I've noticed in other countries more than here, businesses will actually chat with you on Messenger. No need to email or call, just fire off a message and get a response.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like FB and don't have an account there, but I totally get why businesses do this, even if it costs them business from folks like me and you.
I think Zuck is aware that they are a dying company (with a lot of cash and a cash cow) and instead of being a sitting duck they are embracing the "move fast, break things" and picked an un-exploited market (that involves hardware - to own the whole stack) and run with it. They still have the nuclear option anyways, it fails, they revert and Zuck leaves and becomes part of the board, keeping soft control of whoever yes-man from the c-suite gets the CEO position.
IMHO, The financial innovation is not happening in the tradfi space. No charge checking accounts, yawn.

Tradfi is barely struggling to keep up with a rapidly inflating fiat. The tiny interest being paid is no incentive to keep funds with the traditional banks. We don't need banks to hold that dirty fiat, we need digital, tradable, state-intervention and censorship resistant assets we can custody and try hold on to some value.
>Tom Boger, Apple’s VP of Mac and iPad product marketing, said in the interview that “Touch ID is more convenient on a laptop since your hands are already on the keyboard.”

Will someone please tell Tom that, by the same token, your face is typically "already" in front of the laptop you're using.

I don't know what their end game is here, but there is almost certainly more to this decision than they are letting on. This is classic Apple.
Maybe the explanation is that they wanted to use their favorite doggy. Or maybe humility counsels looking deeper for flaws in the experiment.
> It would depend on the underlying event.

Agreed.

Would it be fair to say that there is some value, but the quantity is unknown?

> Creating an artificial prediction market is more like gambling where people are transferring risk for its own sake.

I suppose this is part of what is involved, but "transferring risk for its own sake" doesn't seem like a comprehensive description of what they are.

> Nothing wrong with that but I am not sure what the purpose would be.

I think it's useful to always consider that there may be more to see than what catches one's eye.

> As said, these markets are also unlikely to add any new information either because the kind of events being talked about some largely random.

If I rephrase this to:

>> Because [the kind of events being talked about are largely random] it logically follows that [these markets are unlikely to add any new information].

...it seems to me that this is an imperfect way of thinking about it. Perhaps I have mischaracterized your intended meaning?
Since 1995 everyone has a basic right to possess a free basic bank account in Germany (the EU?) including "partial citizens" (e.g. asylees), since it's so crucial to societal participation.

The fact the author sells this as innovation speaks volumes about the usual treatment of people deemed (near-term) useless to the (US) apparatus.
Neat, but what stops someone from publishing your PWA under their own dev account? Sure you still control the site and data, but they could publish with inappropriate icons, wording, etc. It seems like maybe there is some potential for abuse.
There's a related blog post: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2021/10/29/the-possibility-of...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29039900, but there's no real thread there)
> The fact that the word "woman" is etymologically derived from the root word "man" can be, and has been, scientifically validated.

But this doesn't disagree with anything I've said.
I don’t get the hype around metaverse. It’s between Zuck and Jensen. Sure those two guys can push a lot of eyes and start something but the products simply do not exist. It’s as if they’re living in this fantasy world to create…Habbo Hotel for 2025.
So it’s etherium?

It’s all wrapping my electrons in a database in firewall rules. The database outputs are pegged to one social meme or another?
* Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday defended the Biden administration’s proposal to give tax credits for electric vehicles made by unionized automakers.

* The proposal could exclude EVs from non-union Tesla.

* Elon Musk’s Tesla recently surpassed a $1 trillion stock market value, making it more valuable than GM, Ford, and several other global automakers combined.
"exactly where the supply comes from is probably a fascinating story never to be fully told."

Where it's made is one matter but I'd imagine its only significant precursor would be ergotamine tartrate (a la Hoffman), as ergotamine is a commonly available drug for migraine (although somewhat less so than some years back, as it's been largely superceded by sumatriptan).

The next alternative I'd imagine would be to get 'raw' ergot and process it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot although I'd guess that gathering and refining the fungus would be no mean feat for any backyard manufacturer.

It's hard to imagine there being any other major human-manufactured precursor due to the complexity of the molecule. Moreover, refined ergotamine for medical use is a mixture of various ergot
alkaloids. Presumably, this would complicate the synthesis but I've never bothered to think about how it would or to what extent.
At a company, my manager had this idea to add points...using jenkins API...for any commits and successful builds, tests and deduct when the builds failed. The idea was to promote frequent commits and releases.

People ended up manipulating the system to score more without adding much value to code but even then they were a little miserable. The manager tried to justify the system but the system was taken down after a year or so.
Cursing is pretty common on here. Just re-read the guidelines and there's no rules against inappropriate language like the "f-word"... Especially when considering such a benign usage as the parent comment, ie: just replacing the verb in "mess with" which is not targeting the language at anyone/anything.

It may not be as common as other platforms, but casual conversation does happen here which includes the occasional curse word.

Just trying to inform - I'm sorry you're sensitive to it.
I'm no expert in Capacitor, but from what I understand, different goals.

Capacitor aims to give expose native functionality via runtimes and plugins. A kind of mixed web/native hybrid.

PWABuilder's aim is more limited in scope: to make PWAs great on iOS. We are not so much concerned about exposing native functionality, and more concerned about making PWA functionality work everywhere.

We address some of this in our iOS FAQs: https://blog.pwabuilder.com/docs/ios-faq
It isn't and I've long given up on correcting people. Language evolves and sometimes it unfortunately evolves in ways that actually make communication more difficult (such as the over usage of literally). I've come to terms that if someone uses "begs the question" and then actually follows it with the question it's raising then it's fine. It's still annoying in the same way as using "utilize" instead of "use". It just sounds like someone trying to project themselves in a certain way and it coming across sort of stilted
Is it used only for counting? Mandarin and other East Asian language have a classifier for counting. English uses counting classifier sometimes. For example, "paper" without a classifier in English refers to an official document or essay. For example "I have to write a paper" or "Do you have your papers?" otherwise you have to use "a sheet of paper", "some paper", "a pack of paper" etc. It's not exactly the same as the counting words in Mandarin but play a similar role in grammer.
You get a loan with the idea that it will be paid off quickly by the end of a chain of transactions.
¿Por que no los dos? Fuck fossil fuel AND social media companies. They are toxic for different reasons, and social media companies deliberately fuel polarization which prevents us from making progress on climate or anything else.
Banks didn't lose money, their customers did. Mom, kids, families
And PWAs will never get that support because it's in Google and Apples best interest to block it. Some sad shit
I don't think you want to know what the current common meaning of the Italian word liquame (which derives from liquamen) has become, better call it "a type of fish sauce used by ancient mediterranean people".

Google translate:

https://translate.google.it/?hl=en&sl=it&tl=en&text=liquame&...
Slavic languages have both 3 classic genders and grammatical animacy for masculine. I.e. if you view an object as an inanimate object, it will have a slightly different declension in accusative compared to animate objects. But it only works for words of masculine gender.
>Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, said of the airstrike:

>It is precisely the presence of weapons, including RPGs, that goes a long distance toward explaining why cameramen for Reuters—pointing television cameras around corners in a battle zone—were readily mistaken by our gunships for insurgents. The video makes plain that in this incident, as in almost all military encounters in both Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers are up against forces that do not wear uniforms—a violation of international law precisely because it places innocent civilians in jeopardy. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. The Wikileaks videos also do not reveal the hundreds upon hundreds of cases in which American forces refrain from attacking targets precisely because civilians are in harm's way.

Hard to summarize it better
I saw the mention of that event on the museum homepage actually, and it links here: https://www.iridiummuseum.com/exhibits/building-a-sustainabl...
Fluoride works both topically and systemically to reduce tooth decay and is delivered through water, salt, milk, toothpaste, varnish, rinse depending on age, country of origin, income etc. For children ages 0-8 it is incorporated into the enamel of the teeth growing under the gums. After that, the mechanism is largely "topical" - however, that includes fluoride ions incorporated into the saliva and plaque in the process of ingesting it. Sipping water throughout the day bathes the teeth in fluoride each time and allows there to be a very small but impactful amount of fluoride in the mouth environment. This assists in the remineralizations of teeth enamel after acid attacks. The "topical vs. systemic" debate is a bit of a red herring. Its asking how does it work, not if it works. The evidence is clear that fluoridation does work to prevent tooth decay.https://fluorideexposed.org/fluoridescience/fluoride-mechani... additionally, a recent economic review of fluoridation found that the benefits in terms of reduced cavity rates and related dental costs outweigh the cost of implementing the strategy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171335/
But not always successfully. It helps to have a big warchest so you can try more than once or keep a money-losing business running while you figure it out (XBox, Bing).
Exactly. If salt is scarce, cutting it into a condiment is a great way to stretch it and use it.
This was such a great read. I am not a linguist, let alone a philologist, but I had this thought.

The modern use of "gender" to mean social aspects of sex (or sex) and the historical use of "gender" to mean sex are still actively used. In a very real sense, these are exclusive and oppositional categories, so any ambiguous use of "gender" in contemporary English should be interpreted as auto-antonymal use. That is, depending on what the speaker means, their meaning could be interpreted in exactly the opposite way.

Auto-antonyms are rare in English, but the obvious ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples) do not cause confusion. I would suggest that outside of specific professional settings—philosophy, biology, medicine, linguistics—"gender" is almost exclusively an auto-antonym. Perhaps this contributes to the nearly impossible discourse on the subject.
I worked for both, you're wrong.

The difference between fintech and traditional banks is that former treats tech as revenue driver and latter as cost center and it feels in literally every step.
> they can easily tackle the gaming space. They have all the right pieces to create $500B market cap

Sony had their best year ever for Playstation sales in 2020, which translated to $20B of revenue.
She is defending the indefensible. The reason for the credit is that unions tend to support Democrats. What if a Republican president proposed a tax credit for EVs only made by nonunion labor?
I worked on the Iridium website (via an agency I worked at) in 2001 -- it was quite the upgrade from their old site at the time, but still had the narrow, center aligned design of the 90's. Unfortunately that homepage remained their homepage for almost 6 years after that.
Sadly this is not specific.
If these “permutations” only exist inside of your own brain, that only proves something about you, not reality.

Really, none of the permutations exist. Very few women unironically care that the word “woman” has the word “man” inside it. You're making up things to be mad about.
>because the CPU is now approaching GPU memory bandwidths?

No. The single core CPU performance has zero relation to memory bandwidth.[0] i.e You do not gain or loss any performance going from M1 Pro 10 Core with ~200GB/s Memory bandwidth to M1 Max 10 Core with ~400GB/s bandwidth. The additional memory bandwidth are there only to support GPU performance.

The reason why CPU performance is fast is slightly complicated. But to over-simplify it to two point, Apple has access to all the common code path on their platform and can optimise of it. e.g NSObject release is 5 times faster than on x86. Second being Apple managed to do something the whole industry thought ( at the time ) was impossible, having a wide decode and kept them well fed. You can read more about it here [1] on HN.

> what it'll look like in a year or so with the M2/M2Pro/M2MAX then.

You can take a look at [2], which is a chart from Nuvia, started by ex-Apple CPU architects. Given the amount of lead time in CPU design ( 3-4 years ), you can pretty much bet Apple will follow the path as shown by Nuvia to reach a Geekbench Score of 2000 within next 2-3 years.

Hope this answer your questions.

[0] CPU Performance is always latency sensitive. Hence the amount of cache matter much more than memory bandwidth. And Apple's SoC has always had large amount of cache compared to rest of the industry, even when it is a Smartphone SoC compared to Desktop part.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15967/nuvia-phoenix-targets-5...
This is the post I was expecting under the HN article today with the title "Financial innovation is actually happening"
So, you can’t participate in commerce and criticize or attempt to reform anything about it. Seems ridiculous to me. It seems like using your power and position to attempt to affect change just realistic, rather than some imagined high minded idea that just closing up shop and wandering into the woods is the only way to participate in any system one deems to have unethical aspects of any kind at any level.
> Aren't there many (>60) published studies showing varying positive effects of early treatment with Ivermectin though? (Despite a couple having been retracted for obvious fraud).

There are a number of low-quality (low numbers, methodological issue) studies with varying results. The primary "evidence" that got people excited about Ivermectin was a meta-analysis of these studies, but the meta-analysis itself pointed out that the largest amount of data and strongest evidence in their dataset came from one very large study – the study that was later withdrawn for having faked its data.

Since then, there's been no real compelling evidence at all that Ivermectin has any real impact beyond placebo.

> Compared with the quality of data surrounding remdesivir, molnupiravir etc, there seems to be a significant bias towards novelty (and therefore $$$).

There's a bias towards using treatments for which: 1) there is a reasonable expectation, based on understood science, that the treatment should impact the course of the virus

(preferably) and

2) there is some non-fraudulent, non-obscure and tiny dataset, indicating an effect.

The lack of strong data in support of Ivermectin is coupled with the fact that there's no particular reason to expect Ivermectin should have any impact on any particular virus.

> Similarly, it's been known for decades that vitamin D deficiency increases susceptibility to respiratory diseases, and most people in Europe/North America are deficient in winter. Why not hand it out? Worst case, it doesn't work.

This is mistaking correlation with causation. We know that many people who suffer serious respiratory illnesses, and who die from COVID-19, have low vitamin D levels. This is not believed to imply that low vitamin D levels cause death from COVID-19; rather it's simply the natural outcome of many old people having low vitamin D levels and age being a significant factor in COVID-19 deaths. People who die of old age also have low vitamin D levels; would you argue we should hand out vitamin D in an attempt to cure aging?

The idea that because these things are relatively safe we might as well just do them seems, in whole, silly. Sugar pills and crystals have a great safety profile too, but we don't expect physicians to use those on the theory of "well there's no real downside" either.

Science, not superstition, is the goal here.
At least please don’t be seen by kids. They might believe it’s nothing.
I've seen the most innovation in this space happening for business checking accounts. We recently switched over to Mercury, which truly has no fees I'm aware of (even international wires are free); which is wild for us coming from PNC, which wanted monthly fees to send over $5k in ACH transfers (try running a business on that).

I'm still waiting to see an identically flexible account for personal use, not just business, though.
The metaverse they have a vision for won't exist, but social VR is on the rise, even if it won't take over everyday life. VRChat consistently has 25k players these days and that's not including the amount of people playing it on Quest devices.
Crypto is not financial innovation.
Web hosting is easy. But what Facebook offers is the local advertising. Local businesses really should do both.

Some try to get away without the web page. But even if they have it, they need to get people to visit it. People searching for, say, a coffee shop will find you. But that can't match being shoved into the feed of somebody who says, "Hey, new coffee shop. I should try it."

Facebook, operated properly, is actually a pretty decent way to advertise within your community. It knows where people are and has at least some inkling of who might want a coffee/beer/tattoo.

Facebook isn't operated properly, along dozens of different lines. But a large subset of its users do still use it for that basic way of connecting to other people, including things that they might want but don't yet know about.
There's a longstanding interest in the acadame in finding "clean" closed-form analytical explanations for all sorts of real-world problems, which mostly speaks to the historical lack of computing power to do a complete simulation leading to acceptance of bad approximations. Economics is also full of these kinds of equations, and many of the ones taught in undergrad are barely beyond a working hypothesis.