skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world buys dollars because it needs them to fulfill oil and other commodity contracts, that are priced in dollars, which are then typically reinvested in US Treasuries by commodity exporters (because why not?).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untol...

If a country wanted to not buy dollars, here's how that would go.

No Dollars: "Hi, we'd like some oil."

Oil Producer: "Great, here's how much that contract is in dollars."

No Dollars: "How much would it be in my local currency?"

Oil Producer: "Well, you see, we don't really quote in other currencies..."

No Dollars: "Fine, I'll find someone who will."

Middle Person: "I heard you're looking to buy oil with Pentali Marcograms?"

No Dollars: "Sure am, what price will you give me?"

Middle Person: "10% over the exchange rate between Pentali Marcograms and US dollars. You know oil producers trade in dollars, right?"
I know nothing about bun, but it is a common pattern when you have a vision for how to build a complicated piece of software that will end up being open source to start with it closed off until you've got enough of everything in place that you're comfortable showing it off to everyone. When it's open, people will expect to be able to send PRs, ask questions, etc, and at the start, that can be a distraction from the task at hand of getting the initial system built.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to ruin someone's life by texting them images of your cat, except they get flagged by this algorithm.
"...it becomes profitable to write loans to borrowers that you know are going to default, because you can take the house and enjoy the asset appreciation while getting a nice stream of cash flows in the process."

Not the way it works, for two main reasons. First, people who owe less than the house is worth are generally not foreclosed on - in the worst case they just sell and keep whatever equity they get away with. Second, legally the bank can't keep any surplus. If they foreclose on your house, they have to sell it at auction and keep only up to the amount you owed. They would have to give you any excess. At least for houses, banks aren't allowed to profit from foreclosures.
Does the Norton suite not have website/URLbase filtering? Weak sauce.
this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Graphics_Metafile

you poor, lost soul. tell us where it hurt you.
And don't forget that you'd wind up having to charge more than the other transport companies in the area, because your costs are higher. And then you'd wind up getting sued, because you're charging disabled customers more than your competitors are charging other people (and people love to sue over stuff like this, even if the result is "oh well, now you get NOTHING").
As always, "if you don't like it just move across the world right now" is not a viable argument.
FWIW, IPFS does all of that by default (maybe outside of the continuous reading part).
2G isn’t a frequency. This is nuts.
We used JAMF at my last place of business, and it would occasionally kill apps with a 15 minute warning. Normally this was fine, but it really sucked to get JAMFed (as it came to be called) in the middle of a presentation.

At my current company, we use something that destroys CPU and battery (unused 2019 high end MBP hangs sporadically for tens of seconds on any file system syscall, computer gets uncomfortably hot, battery lasts ~1hour on a full charge—happens to everyone I’ve talked to). Not sure what it’s called, but this falcond process always seems to be the culprit. I know nothing about MDM, but I would love it if Apple Business Essentials would be a viable alternative (hard to imagine Apple shipping such miserable software, anyway).
Why do you need you change the "trolling dynamic" for people that aren't affected by it / don't care?

And how does this really even address the issue at hand, won't they just move to the comments?
China and the US announce plan to work together on cutting emissions
Btc hit a new ath today along with eth…
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It is hard for any government even not democratically elected ones like CCP to be able to spend $300B tax payer money to bail out creditors of a single private company.

Evergrande is hardly unique or even the largest real estate company in China. There are a lot of large companies in serious debt trouble there now, it will cost the government lot more than $300B to bail out the sector.
I've been more delibrate lately looking at how some services I am familiar with deal with the app store. It seems there are many businesses that make the app 'free' in the app store but require a login once installed. One example is Agworld. The login is only available if they are subscribed through the website. Clearly Apple have been allowing this for a while. I guess you just can't have a link for payment in the free app but its ok to ask people to login with some external credentials?
Not to mention Okta, etc. Though for Apple's target market Azure was probably the best initial integration.
The entire value of the currency is based on supply and demand, whether the gp is correct in their prediction, increased demand relative to supply is the defining mechanism of how a currency's value would increase.
Shouldn't the price be way down as electric bikes gain popularity?
The person I was replying to was talking about dislikes on the YouTube of a 'particular political party'. That's what I was referring to
I bought TSLA stock back when the Model S was announced. At that time, people didn't know if TSLA would be able to make it.

Their market cap was less than $5 billion. There were less than 100 million shares outstanding. Buying some shares was a big risk - it was either going to 0 or going to the moon. But when you bought shares, you weren't super diluted. It seemed like a reasonable bet for a small amount of my portfolio.

At >$100B market cap, I am having a hard time making that same value judgement on Rivian. Their factory has a capacity of 150,000 vehicles; they say it can be increased to 200,000 and in less than 10 years they can be running at 1 million vehicles per year. If they make it, they will be a very valuable company!!! Is it worth taking that bet, right now? Wouldn't I be better off waiting for more confirmation?
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did you model how an alcubierre drive would look like on the waveform? (only half joking ;))
> Thankfully, Stevens said his daughter had honored the gold rule regarding incoming phone calls about fraud: When In Doubt, Hang up, Look up, and Call Back.

Such a great rule. Only it doesn't work with a lot of organizations.

One of these huge organizations sent me a message that was worrying. I called; they put me on hold for more than 45 minutes before I had to hang up and get other things done.

I decided to try their online messaging tools, which look like a webmail interface. Even then, I couldn't get a direct response, and I decided that rather than wait any longer I'd ignore the whole issue and see if anything bad happened. Nothing bad happened in that case.

Another organization got back to me with a link to a policy which said they might get in touch for any number of reasons. But they wouldn't confirm or deny that the communication I linked was from them. Organizations like this will encourage you to use their app for the best messaging experience, but they won't tell you "no" if you ask whether some odd comms from them will still happen via SMS.

Customer service wasn't great in either one of these organizations (wish I had a choice).

So I'd guess that phishing operatives who really want to exploit other people with these pretexts would put in some basic work to find an organization that has terrible customer service, and imitate them.

If the customer service is bad enough, no customer will really be able to check on what you're doing, or alert the organization itself to these issues.

So the organization will turn into a de facto shielding and authentication layer for phishing activity. Then, even some number of the group of people who tried to check on what you're doing will still click through in the end--because the rule above didn't work, and they are worried.
By the same token it recharges when going downhill.
Uber is a marketplace not an employer. They're like an Ebay but for car rides. Does Ebay owe you money if you wasted your time listing an item that didn't sell?
You're right about the "attack" thing, but it would be no loss to remove the "Dislike" entirely.

I've seen random harmless videos (bit of classical music for instance) with many dislikes.

Same with Facebook btw. They should never have added anything over a mere "Like".
I hope it's changed; you're not supposed to do that.(TM) But the military operates in its own little world in some respects.
I live in Argentina, we breathe high inflation.. it's not nice, but good companies will compete on how to handle this, currently:

- Some companies pay part of the salary in a stronger currency (USD) - I get this is probably not viable for your current scenario, and it a perk I don't actually get, but my wife does.

- Some companies have quarterly or bi-monthly inflation rate adjustments, this is semi-automatic, we subscribe to an independent party that measures inflation and whatever number they come with goes, this is because Argentina has a history of fudging the numbers to make the government look good.

It will still require adjustments from the individuals, even if you have a cooperating employer, for example you probably want to buy stuff as soon as you get paid, otherwise you are losing money.
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Now they can successfully release this youtube rewind video that everyone disliked!
As someone fortunate enough to participate in the GSoC twice, I think this is fantastic news. I had such a great experience and learned a lot. It’s wonderful that this change allows even more people the opportunity to be compensated for open source dev.
Just like commercial aerospace, and hence why Boeing gets the special treatment it does. Doesn’t make it stink less though, in my opinion.
It's funny how differently people react to things. I look at this and think "there is nothing about Youtube that I find more useless than the dislike count, and I think this probably - on balance - a Good Thing." Everybody else seems to think it's an attack on the fundamental essence of all that is Right, Good, and Just in our universe. Weird... I never would have expected so much consternation about a dislike count.
For a list of similar JavaScript tools that are written in other languages:

https://github.com/RobinCsl/awesome-js-tooling-not-in-js/
For the viewers (us), this is the opposite of what they should do. For us, they should be showing the up/down count ratio on the video preview link itself so we could easily identify the garbage videos without even having to click on them.

Of course this would reduce the amount of ads and pages they would serve to users, so it's in their interest to do everything they can to prevent users from being warned of time-wasting content.
There are 10 women. 4 in the private sample and 6 in the public sample.
When I looked ag https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher was more featureful than ripgrep yet it's always ripgrep that is mentioned. :/
Because people haven't really explained the specific mechanisms:

You can think of a material as a bunch of simple harmonic oscillators, which are driven by an applied field (electric or magnetic). These oscillators have different natural frequencies, and so couple to different wavelengths. For instance, if you play a loud note next to a piano, you can see the corresponding piano string start to vibrate, but the others may not.

The interaction between these oscillators and the wave are what lead to the dielectric constant (and therefore the slowing of waves), as well as absorption (which can be thought of as the imaginary component of the dielectric constant).

In a real material, these "oscillators" are really any method of energy storage that can couple to the motion of charges (i.e. current). These include, but are not limited to:
- rotations (in a gas or liquid)
- vibrations (in any state)
- electronic transitions
- electronic movement (in the case of a metal)
- displacement (in any state)

In a single molecule, many of these mechanisms would have discrete natural frequencies. But in a solid or liquid, interactions lead to a continuous band structure (especially for things like vibrations).

For water specifically, the below visible range is quickly absorbed by vibrational and rotational energy modes, while the high end of the UV range is absorbed by electronic transitions. Other materials have similar sweet spots for transmission, but at different frequencies. For instance, materials like indium tin oxide (ITO) are designed to be conductive, but not at the high frequencies of visible light, making them transparent. As another example, metals are reflective below their plasma frequency (related to the speed the 'electron sea' can move at), and transparent above (X-rays operate in this region of transparency).

If you want more information, I can recommend "Optical Properties of Solids" by Mark Fox.
For whatever reason, I see a large majority down voting a video. I can then use my own judgement to speculate on the reasoning.

What's the "game"?
>> It's outrageous to suggest that private businesses have to be bribed so that they follow the law.

> It's not about "bribing". It's about using positive incentive-based economic policy instead of outright bans if certain regulations aren't met.

And, to be very clear, this is done constantly. If you leave your home to go anywhere but a nature walk, I guarantee you you pass within close range of at least entity that is getting/generating some sort of rebate or similar for following a regular. Energy rebates alone are everywhere you look.
The deceptive part is when they tell you they need your money today "to defend Wikipedia's independence" when in actual reality they need money today so they can increase their annual budget by $42 million (that's the increase from 2020/21 to 2021/22).

Year goal 20/21: $108M
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWikim...

Year goal 21/22: $150M
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
Even worse: the existence of this feature (now merged) can be used to justify writing crappy code, because this is the "security" mechanism (as opposed to the proper way: not sending the answers to the client).

The existence of badly-written apps that rely on this crutch become justification for keeping this stupid feature in.

Lazy admins will use `view-source: *` rather than blocking specific sites.

So frustrating: Everyone doing bad/lazy things 'wins', and the users suffer because now these devices basically can't be used to learn or do web development.
Thank you! That's the first time I get it explained in the way I understood. Short. Without words, I often have just an abstract idea or concept what they really mean for. So it was always like lenders can't pay back the bank and have to move out with bank selling the house. Lenders still can't pay back and bank can't sell, because too much are sold at that moment.
Most probably gave up on the hex listings if there were typos, but I never typed that in - it was all ASM or BASIC.

I think it's important to realize that there was a golden age of early personal computing, but for most people it wasn't the first couple of years of toggle switches, very limited RAM and hex.

Unlike Raspberry Pi's, the early PC was a standalone device that needed a usable UI before it had widespread appeal.
Tar does do compression, via the standard -z flag. Every tar I have ever downloaded used some form of compression, so its hardly an optional part of the format.
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Deciding which content to promote and which to bury is censorship however you do it. There's more content than human attention, if you promote one piece of content, whether you choose to do it chronologically or with updoots or Google bosses deciding what's true, you're "censoring" something else by crowding it out.
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Wait, I thought all the Gen Z's were living with their parents, unemployed, and desperate for an income to pay off their student loans.
It's style over function. With Apple, everyone already knows what it does. I would concentrate on explaining what it does.

You're targeting devs, we hate this stuff :). What I like is markdown based, VSCode based, open source, alternative to Confluence for tech teams. Make that clear.
Galileo's telescope and HST all work on electromagnetic energy. LIGO work on gravitational wave. LIGO is the beginning of a completely different class of instruments.
And in the bedroom
Which is a huge hurdle compared to just clicking a button with zero possible consequences.
Wow, what a beautiful piece of writing. The sayings from that period, the weaving of "recipes", and the little girl's mindset add a lot of color to this piece.
Monetary base is irrelevant without looking at velocity (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V)

The Fed has been much more on point this time around than it was in 2008.
"trolling dynamic" is not really meaningful
For a private OSINT investigator, sure. But a state-level actor (ie: the sort of groups that the CIA is supposed to butts heads with) could easily maintain their own mirrors.

Hell, if you have a few dozen terabytes of disk space you can download the entire plaintext archive of Reddit comments from Pushshift, regardless of if they've been deleted or not. And that's something a private citizen can do spending a couple grand on hardware. Do we really think that the Chinese Ministry of State Security or Russian GRU aren't keeping archives of Twitter and public Facebook posts for use as blackmail material down the line?
Economic migrants sure, but the chain to crushing poverty starts with climate change. Persistent high heat and violent tropical weather patterns have made areas of Central America near the equator effectively unfarmable. Those farmers pack up and move to the cities, where they live in poverty and at the mercy of organized crime as they are largely uneducated and lack job skills.

The cities are overcrowded and these countries have little industry outside agriculture, which is increasingly difficult and expensive thanks to climate change. So of course they flee north; and Mexico has many of the same problems with collusion between police and organized crime — particularly when targeting migrant populations.
> Evergrande, the world's most indebted developer … grapples with more than $300 billion in liabilities, $19 billion of which are international market bonds.

Sounds like this is mostly domestic debt, so they cant make this go away by saying they wont support international debt holders. Seems like the CCP in a tough spot here.
The problem is people also use it as a propaganda tool to bury videos they don’t politically agree with. Normies have much lowered like/dislike button engagement so it’s a disservice to the vast majority.
No - they'd still need to get their profit margin to be ~25% instead of ~10%.

Tesla can definitely sell more vehicles OR increase margin - but it will be substantially more challenging to do both at the same time over a short horizon (10 years).
Dumb comment.
> Do everything perfectly, and a U-Boat could still land some Nazi commandos on the tiny island

Reminds me a bit of the coastwatchers (but warmer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastwatchers
https://www.nzhistory.govt.nz/page/nz-coastwatchers-executed...
It is in the english language.

> the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.

Regardless the parent was talking about someone sharing more detailed criticism.
This entire article reads like a paid advert, it's so hilarious

"Though you’d think a person accustomed to being super-active on the group chat would struggle with being separated from their phone all day, this analyst assured me, “The mission is so dynamic that you’ll rarely, if ever, be bored, and the longing for your phone and social media sort of dissipates.”"

ya... sure... if we ignore all the time waiting for meetings to start in a concrete box with no windows and nothing to do, or sitting in front of your computer for hours answering emails/dealing with paperwork.
Seems like we should stop treating SSN user id like a password
Depends on how they are going to be selecting participants (blogpost doesn’t mention that). If that opens up a floodgate for yesterday’s freelancers to suddenly be interested in open source (but really just to make a quick buck) then i can see projects pulling out bc it repurposes the program from purely mentorship/education-focused to commercial and the end result will be worse for everyone.
Yeah, I saw and am amazed by his work, which made me wonder whether chip manufacturing could get as streamlined, compact and mainstream as 3d printing is today!
> Either way, society eventually shoulders the costs. It just comes down to which members shoulder it more.

Right. In this case, the question is: should Uber riders as a whole shoulder the cost of accommodations for disabled people (presumably Uber could make the price of every ride slightly more expensive in order to compensate for the added cost for disabled riders), or should society as a whole bear this cost (via taxes and subsidies), including people who don't use Uber?

I think a reasonable argument could be made for either, honestly.
It had been several days since they were deleted. By the time the problem has filtered through the layers of support it was too late.
If anything, the quotes you cite make it seem like the misleading slant of the headline is the speculation about possible default based entirely on an unknown. Two out of three bonds being paid is normal, and the third being unknown is not evidence of much.

Furthermore, it seems to me that saying a company has defaulted is a pretty serious statement that would constitute libel if not appropriately checked. And so even with a few unofficial reports of bond holders not getting paid, it would be irresponsible to prematurely declare a default.

The facts that have been reported certainly don't look good, but it's also the press's modus operandi to sensationalize.