skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) is built in an environment where labor has too much power and human life is too highly valued to build anything complex or ornate. Lol.
If the entire manufacturing line is essential, why would a pandemic create gaps? It was only over a year or so of higher demands. Nothing dramatic. 5 years would be hard. 1 year just uses a bit of warehouse space for most consumer items. No one ever stopped making stuff, and they started shipping more where they could.

Most people who couldn't get what they wanted would have no way to prove that. Whereas people who got what they think they couldn't, would have that memory strongly planted and even shared.
That is the very different problem of willingness to punish "system-critical" money launderers, versus the ability to detect rogue money launderers. Failure on one problem does not invalidate efforts on the other.
The Neo-Andean architecture that has sprung up in Bolivia during Evo Morales’ Socialist presidency

The pictured room is an example of a building that's called a "cholet", a multi-use commercial/residential building built by members of the Aymara ethnic group. They're stores and event halls with residences on top. The event halls are frequently used for extravagant parties and closing business deals (often at the some time). The design, interior and exterior, is crazy-dramatic, but beautiful...and very deliberately a display of wealth and status. It's both capitalist as fuck and the result of a generation of Aymaras building their own city in El Alto.

The rest of this article has moments, but I just have trouble taking the writer seriously after reading that.

And the obligatory link in response to all the concept art: https://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-stop-drawing-...
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Woah, what are you honestly on about?

You can claim that the US is artificially raising natural gas prices, but the exact opposite is true. By chance of circumstance, we've historically underbuilt LNG processing facilities and that is isolating the US market from the rest of the world, so we have some of the lowest natural gas prices in the world right now.

Please take your uninformed takes and cringey political rallying elsewhere, it's not what this platform is designed for.
The Shah's Mosque (Masjid Shah), Isfahan, Iran.

This is part of the Naqshe'h Jahan ('The Design of the World') complex. Designed and built by Sufi Architects of Safavid Dynasty, the complex is a symbolic occult representation of 'the world'. The 'Shah' in question here is 'The King of the world', i.e. God. Opposite the mosque is 'The market'. Along the long axis of the square is 'The Palace' of the earthly king, and opposite of that is another (quite beautiful) "Royal Mosque" that was used by the king, God's vice-regent. In the center, the field was used for Polo, the game of kings, symbolic of the "quite serious" (per Rumi) cosmological 'game'.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shah+mosque+isfahan&t=ffab&iax=ima...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqsh-e_Jahan_Square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2Qsm4YfnY

[p.s. After the revolution, the regime rather ignorantly renamed the Shah's Mosque to Imam's Mosque, confusing the "Shah" in question with an earthly king.]
HSBC was fined $1.9 billion for processing (not profiting) $881 million + $660 million. Their profit was probably only a few percent of that. But even if they simply took all $1.5b as profit, they still were fined more than that.

You might say they probably laundered more money than that. You're probably right. But it ain't what you know, it's what you can prove.

Assuming the bank profits a few percent, a $1.9 billion fine wipes out the profit from 10s, maybe 100s of billions of laundered money.
This isn’t such a problem with high end brands. I have a specialized ebike and am fairly sure I’ll get 5-10 years out of it. Only concern is the motor.
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Submitted 17 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29148805
I assumed the C ABI, and thus the cobbled-up vtables. Where the author might have used C++ to advantage would be automating other, internal details of the code. There is nothing quite like bugs you don't have because you didn't need to write the code where they would have been, or because you could run code at compile time to generate or at least verify your cobbled-together apparatus.

The saving grace is that it can at any time be switched over to be built with a C++ compiler, and then start to be modernized incrementally.
What does kinda smart economy mean?

I don’t know where your first question comes from. Myself and this other parent are merely saying the stats say differently. Nothing about your first question.

I FaceTime with someone in Switzerland. It doesn’t mean much. I know Apple’s ecosystem isn’t big in Europe. However, when I interact with people across the ocean, they have a pretty easy time using Apples FaceTime if they are on iOS. Sometimes even if just iPad.

In this situation I’m the one pushing friendships more. Otherwise it would be douchey to have someone pull out an iPad just to FaceTime with you.

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Sorry if any of my messages seem confrontational. Sometimes I’m upset with my own life and don’t speak as nicely as I should.

A lot of my thoughts come from the small organic free virtual coworking community i cofounded (in my bio :o). Before that, my experience with talking to Europeans on a near daily basis had never been there.
I'm mostly and android user, but ios7+ flat design with translucency is way better than the old ways. Just remember, how ugly the stock buttons were! Whenever I see screenshots of old apple interfaces it makes me want to throw up.
If you are interested in how game theory might solve the tragedy of the commons, see Vitalik's article: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html

You should keep in mind. Public traceability is the default mode of Crypto. Public ledgering is the foundation of crypto protocols, after all. Only Monero has emerged as a viable anonymous product, and the one most traded on the dark net.
Surely they could use a disassembler and from that (and monitoring the i/o of a live system) infer a test suite from which they could rebuild the API. The new system could be tested to have the same outputs of the live system, and eventually swapped in, fixing bugs and making it more reliable in the process. But I guess that was more expensive than the FPGA emulator
I haven't mentioned IRC, and there are several, more modern, alternatives to IRC.

But actually, what is so wrong about IRC? I used to listen a popular webradio which had an IRC channel, people managed to join it no problem, including me as a child. Surely a developer is capable of joining and using IRC with ease?

IRC had this interesting property that chat logs were often provided publicly, making them searchable.
Edit: Step by step instructions.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-installs-integration...
That's not the point of the question.

I was just clarifying the GP comment

> I sometimes wonder to myself: what programming challenges would come up in something like the starship Enterprise (any of them) and what new language constructs (if any) would be required to address them?

The point of the question is to imagine that you are part of the team building this system. What sort of programming techniques would you be using? Is it going to be Python? Modern C++? Probably none of these things as they are incredibly inadequate for such a system.
What about love of Lisp? What label would you attach to that?
USDC only has half the market cap of Tether. In fact, Tether has a higher market cap than all the other stable coins combined! So everything I've said is still true even if some operators are not as shady as the market leader.

https://coinmarketcap.com/view/stablecoin/

However, even USDC is still doing fractional reserve banking because an unspecified amount of its reserves are tied up in securities that have maturities up to 90 days, so they are still susceptible to a bank run. Though, granted they seem to be running a much more respectable operation than Tether.

The third biggest stable coin BUSD, looks pretty shady as well. They release monthly audited accounts (good), but they're terse as hell. What liabilities do they have? Have these reserves been used as collateral in loans? Which banks are they in? What steps have the firm taken to audit these funds? No way to know, we're just get a terse list of aggregate numbers.

https://paxos.com/attestations
PSA: The best one volume collection of Orwell's essays is an excellent hardcover edition Essays published by Everyman's Library well worth reading and having.
Because I think the road is dangerous place to be. I think we all accept that drivers should understand the road rules, have a license to drive, and should be more than 16-17 to do it.

I think its weird that we would let children of any age, with no knowledge of road rules ride a bike around in traffic.

In my small city, it's legal for kids to ride bikes on the footpaths, but in most of Australia its is not. I think its backwards.
Don't need to be a superpower: https://spire.com/aviation/.
When you have government representatives that don't understand technology, it doesn't get funded.

It's no wonder everything is emulated/old/never-replaced.
In all probability, you’re selling to a crypto trader or bot who then uses those funds to make more crypto trades, so the money is in a sense trapped in crypto markets until someone withdraws it from the exchange. The extent to which this money is being absorbed by crypto can be seen by analyzing exchange flows.
“Cleared” is a bit of a red herring. In reality this means ploughed. You’re still riding on compacted snow with puncture-wielding stones on top. In the capital they do “clear” some major bike lanes but it’s rather limited.
-p:Property=Value (or /p: Property=Value) has existed in Ms build since the beginning. That's not a .NET 5 or 6 thing.
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> The next challenge was the choice of the operating system for the host platform. We choose Windows XP because the Proprietary Co-processor card at the heart of the system was especially adapted to run under Windows XP. This operating system is not the best ‘choice for real time applications’ therefore special attention was required in the method of integration. Running the Windows operating system in cut down mode by disabling unnecessary apps and keeping it free of all ‘gadgets’ (Office software etc.) increased the system stability sufficiently

> Due to the core software limitation (no source code available) we were compelled to integrate some original PDP-11 computer cards into the final product and this resulted in a hybrid PC platform. There are two very distinct hardware technologies in use in each complete system. The PC environment which is the host platform and the DEC environment which is the ‘legacy’ system. The connection is made using a proprietary Unibus adapter that links the Osprey co-processor to the short Unibus. This Unibus which is totally contained inside the special PC housing allows us to retain some key legacy DEC PDP-11 cards that in turn deceives the software ‘to think’ it is still running in a full DEC system in terms of timing. A marriage of ‘old’ and ‘new’ was borne

One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
This argument doesn't make sense to me, so I might make some terrible and unrelated points here. Bare with me please :)

Is the argument stating that criminality is on the rise because of cryptocurrency? Or is it stating that criminality has a lower barrier of entry because of cryptocurrency?

If it's neither, I'm curious to hear more, because both of those arguments are completely ludicrous.

1. Criminality is one of the oldest surviving professions. You will only unseat criminality with equality. Currency/Value controls don't work, period. See: HSBC and the Mexican Cartels trading avacados. Most criminal enterprises are smarter than legislators (because most legislators are idiots with a hyper focus on a small problem set).

2. I live in a developing nation. One of the most violent nations, in fact. Crypto doesn't even feature. They just move cash around.

"We don't use cash" okay, but the "you" here is a tiny fragment of a world population and is a completely meaningless sentiment. Lots of people use cash, that is in fact one of the largest barriers crypto has to overcome: the digital divide.

3. Some silly man in one of the replies here said it's hard to move fiat currency around and not get caught. No sir, it's hard to move US Dollar around in the US and not get caught. Other than that: Happens all the time. Case in point: The shitstains that are the Guptas [0]. See also: Apple, Amazon and other large multinations and the obvious one of HSBC. Despite being caught, multiple times, HSBC still continues to operate.

There's also a lot of bias happening here: Nobody is writing stories about legit crypto transactions. Just as they don't write stories about legit fiat transactions. Doesn't generate interest. We only hear about the negatives.

"But crypto encourages ransomware" no, ransomware is just the latest incarnation of corporate extortion and it's been happening for decades, looong before crypto came about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_family#Financial_transac...

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That comment about large multinationals is with regard to moving large sums of money around. That is how tax avoidance works, after all. It can also be moved to a country like mine, where you have all the financial freedom in the world because politicians and banking execs are very cheap here if you're paying in USD
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It’s more that most of the comments aren’t discussing the new logo and also contributing nothing new to industrial design discussions.

To answer your statement and question, this would actually be a poor cross-stitch due to the angles and intricate overlaps, but it’s a good seal. Understanding that it’s a seal, and not a logo, is key here—the logo is Sustainable Markets Initiative’s and follows the design principles you’re invoking in your comment.

The name on the seal, Terra Cotta, is presented clearly and memorably enough in large letters in the center of the seal, but the field of the seal is meant to look like a light or dark green disk at a glance and to reward more careful examination with details. The English and Latin arranged traditionally around the perimeter are mottos and not meant to be marketing keywords.

Interested in your take, given that. You can see it placed in context of the SMI brand here. https://www.sustainable-markets.org/terra-carta-seal/intro/
What shook me even more was seeing companies hire people for the sole purpose of crafting tweets. They call it "PR".
Adding a motor to a bike is like adding a GUI where previously you only had a command line interface. It increases the addressable market for bikes by at least 10X.
Probably was just easy to mentally conflate it with Decoded Stream Buffer. It compresses better if you just change Detector to Buffer :-)
Might be time to move to Matrix hey :D

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Eris addressed it here on Medium: https://medium.com/@erisblastar/guys-we-need-to-talk-about-w...
Wow, that's crazy there's still a sign! It's also crazy how far out the 216 area code used to extend...
There are edge cases to anything in biology. I would say you are an edge case. Love and sex are fundamental to humanity and our continued existence. You being a 0.001% outlier, who will likely not produce any offspring who would have a chance to inherit your asexual-ness, does not refute the parent comment whatsoever.
This argument is ridiculous:

Note: I have set aside for the purposes of this article the fact that our ugly buildings are all capitalistic megaprojects and thus we cannot change our design until we change our economic system.

There are plenty of beautiful buildings being built today. Just because the Pritzker Prize isn't awarded to them because the panel awarding this prize believes in hideous monstrosities doesn't mean that the only buildings being built are ugly.

Here are a few counter-examples, out of literally millions of new buildings being built around the world: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/buildings-redefine..., all of which happen to be "capitalistic megaprojects!"

Also, neither here nor there, but I wonder if Nathan's writing this article because he fired all of his writers after they tried to unionize: "Yes, we were fired by the editor-in-chief of a socialist magazine for trying to start a worker co-op."

https://www.gawker.com/media/the-current-affair-at-current-a...
I’m pretty sure a super 73 IS illegal to ride on bike paths. At least where I live you aren’t allowed to ride a bike that has a thumb throttle. If it only has pedal assist, it’s a bike. If it had a thumb throttle, it’s a motorcycle.
USA losing its status as the world leader might change that trend though. Before the pandemic it could be a few decades away, but now? Possibly within even just a few years, if that happens I wouldn't want to be among those having my savings in American stocks.
I used to use Yahoo Clubs/Groups but now they are all deleted. Had a lot of good developer talk in those groups. All you needed was an email address to subscribe to the newsletter.
Regarding higher airspeed, I'm not suggesting that they go any faster—only that they burn altitude to maintain airspeed instead of flying level on asymmetrical thrust.

Regarding sink rate, in the absence of a definitive source I don't really buy that a moderate sink rate (again, with the same low airspeed) is going to significantly increase the risk of somebody hitting the tailplane. In the absurd extreme of a vertical dive, I guess a skydiver would probably be outpaced by the aircraft due to their different terminal velocities, but a shallow dive is a very different picture.
>Both are valid views and both can be debated with nuance

No.

When it comes to Colonialism (and ideas of Superior/Inferior races) there is no two ways about it; it is untenable and unacceptable.
> It’s surprisingly difficult to move around large amounts of fiat money without being caught

For the average Joe maybe.

For corporates? What a joke. I work in fintech systems for ForEx and credit lending. Gets abused by banks allllll the time. And I don't mean some sketchy african or asian bank. I mean HSBC. They still trade, despite the billions in fraudulent transactions they've knowingly moved.

And HSBC are just retarded, I promise you ALL the large banks have moved fraudulent transactions. Not always intentionally, but banks consist of people and people are easily swayed with the right pressure points.

Does crypto make this easier to do? Yes, but the problem isn't the medium of value transfer. That's as untrue of crypto as it is of fiat.
I have to disagree on that model. That may work for dudes who aren't confident and can barely make a decent profile. But for guys who can, it would be extremely annoying that I have to pay to attempt to date someone I'm not really that interested in. Vice versa for the women as well. Now you're giving them another reason to not consider you because they have to pay money too.

The solution exists. It's natural selection. Unfortunately a lot of guys (especially in the midwest where I'm in) just do not understand how to game the system. I've been on enumerable dates. I am by all means a loser who peaked in high school then bounced back 9 years later and never even had a real relationship. So how was I successful?

Pictures. With friends, in public, signaling social intelligence, and showing hobbies that interest women. Most guys take just cringy pictures that scream "Not only am I a loser, but I'm so depressed I'm embarrassed to do things in front of other people." That is why no girls want to date them. Even the very low status ones.

Also, being confident and just being capable of holding a conversation is basically required.
There has been remarkably little English linguistic drift since the widespread adoption of the printing press.
Are there any updated guides you’re aware of that you could share?
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I don't think it's a bad thing persay, I just think we should not overplay the effectiveness of it.

I also take offence to OP's suggestion that reasoned arguments critiquing the practice be 'automatically' moved to the bottom of the thread. As though such arguments can never be made in good faith.

Yes, there are clearly some situations where it has worked in the past, which is a good thing. But, we shouldn't start a massive public awareness campaign and create courses on it in schools because its aggregate effect would likely be small relative to other possible interventions.

Now, you may argue that you never suggested such a thing and that'd be a fair retort. However, then what is the potential aggregate impact such a programme? I'd argue very small for the reasons I've outlined previously. So, it be better to raise awareness and lobby for interventions to kidnapping and human trafficking with proven efficacy.
8 Million people, which, while a small % of population, is huge compared to the c. 100mn cars that get sold globally per year.

And similar to the suburbs point, sure the suburbs existed before COVID, but they are becoming more heavily utilized (extra bedrooms turned to offices reduces the supply of housing) at the same time as an uptick in demand.
And nobody went to jail. Which is the point of the argument. HSBC are STILL trading and moving money today.

This was also not the first time HSBC was caught doing this.

Nothing has changed. They made the losses back. I know execs calculate fines as operational expenses because I've helped them do it (granted not HSBC but people aren't too disimilar from each other)
Pretty much all roads where I live have two sidewalks, two rows of parked cars and at least one lane for car traffic, usually two. Take away half the free parking and you have space for cyclists.