skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain what’s the difference between this and when Telegram tried to introduce their coin?
The Great Rivalry: China vs. the U.S. in the 21st Century
So you're selling your coins for half the USD value, but you have to return the USD at some point anyway?

Why wouldn't you just sell your coins at full value instead of using this "loan"?
If we take Bernstein at his word (and there's no reason not to), basically all the US media has secretly cooperated with the CIA. Is there any reason to think this isn't going on right now? I mean, google "ken dilanian cia" for a good time. Then think: Dilanian is still a working journalist.

How is this congruent with a free press? Surely this willingness to cooperate with a spy agency that has done some very bad things over the years spills over to other areas. Am I supposed to believe that all these media cover current politics objectively, if they've enthusiastically cooperated with the CIA in the past?
I'm not a huge fan of the the current cryptocurrency scene, but I think it will remain very useful as a medium of exchange and store of value in unstable parts of the globe for years to come.
Huh? Money, currency -- these aren't market goods, they're exclusive mandates established by sovereign states. You don't get to decide which money you want to use, it's a function of the government of wherever you happen to be.

Bitcoin isn't a currency. NFTs aren't money.
Decentralized means renters of 1 to 3 landlords.
I'm an academic (applied math) and want to respond to this: academic papers are the way they are for lots of reasons, many of which (not so good) have been mentioned on HN. There are a couple that I do not see very often however:

(1) Many academics aren't aware non-academics read their papers at all: we work with other academics, go to conferences with other academics, and on the rare occasions we hear from readers, it's from other academics. Big exception: in some fields academia and industry have much more interaction, biomedical research (the subject of the linked article) being one of them. Extracting knowledge from that literature has a large number of practical and economic implications.

(2) There seems to be a perception that published papers are a repository of established or state-of-the-art knowledge. Perhaps they were meant to be that way, and perhaps more of them should be. But for many journals in many fields, publications are a form of moderated discussion. Reconstructing the state of knowledge from snippets of conversation is always going to be hard.

What can help make the literature more accessible? some of the forces are structural, some are due to current limitations of technology. But one thing that can help if you find the results of a paper interesting and are able to track down the authors, write them. People like hearing their work is noticed, and they like talking to people about things they're interested in.

Another is to make constructive suggestions (or even pitch in to improve code where it's open source & available). Between teaching, advising, committee work, etc (not to mention family), most of us have to prioritize, and as much as I'd like to clean up old code for release in the hopes someone finds it useful, it isn't going to get my grad students out the door with a degree or a job -- I'm generally spending more time on their research problems these days than my own. But if I know there's interest / use I might prioritize time a little differently.
I believe it's a generational thing. We, in our late thirties, didn't have so much video content, we studied from books, learned from written content. Younger generations adapted to use videos as a learning aid, sometimes as the main learning platform. We won't ever be able to understand how they work. Their brain just adapted to this kind of learning medium.

For me video talking about code is slow, unsearchable, unskimmable. I cannot easily go back to more difficult parts and reread (watch) them at my own pace. I cannot use them as a quick reference. Even my photographic memory doesn't work with videos, there's just something more powerful with black on white words and formulas.

Also completely agree about youtuber credibility. Being easy going, with good lighting, nice looks and neat surroundings makes them sound authoritative on the subject they talk about, especially to the newcomer ears, without any real backing.
> and it opens up competitive sports to more people.

The minor minor league levels will get zero audience and therefore zero money.
This is from 1977 "His 25,000-word cover story, published in Rolling Stone on October 20, 1977, is reprinted below."
So the recommendations are useless crap, but also the author keeps clicking on them? After the 10th time doing that didn't they learn better?
Why imminent cut-off? I mean, maybe Putin decides to invade Ukraine and maybe Biden decides to push for the promised cut-off, but why would Meta help them, and how would Meta be exempted from said cut-off?
Generally, anyone writing a paper about something that could benefit from bugfixes would love to accept them, but doesn't have the time or resources to actually do so - unless there's another paper in it. If they have somehow managed to find enough personal time to have a hobby project, then they probably do accept bugfixes - and you should get them in before that person burns out.
I shared this blog post on Facebook, and FB repeatedly takes it down as spam. What gives?
+1 for trying to avoid celery. Too much complexity for simple asynchronous tasks. You should use it however if you are instagram (I think they use a customized Django and Celery).
Rich people need free trillions, or otherwise the world's going to end. Sure. Ever notice how a political takeover follows a market crash? Or, more specifically, when win at all cost liberals loose, the world burns?

Here's what happened in "Great" Depression 1. Progressives pushed industrialists out. They sold dynamite and gunpowder to Serbia and Asia. A horrible war occurred. Win at all cost politicians promised everyone it was over and we have everything we need. The Allies knew the dark secrets of the continent. Asia had a completely different take on foreign policy. The progressives turned out to be stroke survivors, bootleggers, philanderers, grafts. The few people who tried to do good were naive and had no clue the lengths of political machines, which still exist today, would go.

Here's what happened in "the Big Short". Early nineties, marxism lost. We won. We embarrassed them. Little did we know the most zealous marxists were here, right in the USA. Selfish brutal pigs took it personal and turned the culture away from peace, mutuality, common welfare towards ugliness and amorality. A terrible war was fought. They ran away and hid under the bed. We thought we had it won. It went on for about two more decades. Liberals profiteered off the fight, took everything for themselves, and guess what, ran away.

Not too long ago, the world was to be China's. They were an open market and pragmatic and cared only about the job at hand. Then aggression, territorial expansion, corruption, brutal authoritarianism. Covid was the absolute last straw. It's indefensible. A modern day final solution. Xi ran and hid by the way at the height of the pandemic, and thought only about himself. That's what I call leadership. Now he dresses like Mao. Guess what? Money hates that.

An S&P at 100 which it was at 1982, a 99% off sale of it's present value, would be the greatest thing we could do. Everything that people hate would no longer be propped up. You can look at any time, whether full or low employment, and find rising death rates. They talk about zoo animals being eaten in the 1930s. We had an Aldi Horse Meat scandal of 2016. Was it the Great Depression then? Those numbers are all generational. When everyone is in their 50s, things are nice. When everyone is either 90 or 20, things are hell.
Sure, but not at all in this case.

My understanding is that emergency calls for any global locale are supposed to be an entirely separate band of communication from regular phone calls — e.g., they must work even without a SIM card, an account, etc.

So, emergency calls should be ENTIRELY OUT OF SCOPE FOR ANY APP software. Period.

It should be a low-level override/bypass, and NO app software software should ever be allowed to even touch emergency calls, let alone required to handle them.

Expecting all apps to handle life-critical emergency calls correctly is a profoundly stupid idea, guaranteed to produce a multiplicity of failures (and if that expectation did exist, Google must damn well announce it as a deadly serious requirement in bold, uppercase, red flashing letters to anyone wanting to use phone_call_handling permissions, but they don't, afaik).

So, we don't need to know anything about Teams or other app software in this case, only about the emergency calls side/back channel, and that any app, including Teams, will ZERO responsibility for handling emergency calls, or even ability to touch them.

So, it is Google that effed up big time here (regardless of Teams' other issues). Unless you make a solid case for the profoundly stupid idea that all phone-related app software should be responsible for handling life-critical emergency calls, your statement is plainly wrong.
>How can one participate in making profits during a "dollar short squeeze"?

If you believe OP, borrow as much foreign currency as you can and exchange it for USD. Back in 2007-2008, many Canadians emptied out their savings to buy USD at incredibly favorable exchange rates. Within a year or two they made over 30% as the CAD fell and the USD recovered.
This logic doesn't make sense. It's not the size that decides if something is a ponzi scheme or not. So it's perfectly possible for the smallest and the biggest crypto lending companies to be ponzi schemes while the middle is not.
> any better company is going to snatch them up

If this were the truth, there wouldn’t be so many job openings. The job openings can only be high because people do not fill any job at all, not one over another.
They bailed out people during the pandemic with cheques. Seems pretty straightforward.
Hard disagree. With a caveat -- I do acknowledge that for an important number of professional academics your statement may be true, and I have heard a former post-doc at ETH Zurich describe their papers as career points (so also a grain of truth at elite institutes).

But for most of the academics I have known and worked with, publications are taken quite seriously, and institutional knowledge is freely shared. There is an incentive to reduce the content in papers, but it is out of respect for the reader (a paper is not a textbook) and an honest attempt to limit the discussion to the core hypothesis of the work. You have 6 pages to
1) describe the content of 6*100 pages (the 100 other relevant papers on the topic),
2) present your addition to this body of knowledge,
3) discuss the insights your work brings, again referring to the content of 600 pages.

and those 600 pages you are summarizing are as information-dense as your work.
You obviously don't understand any of this. Is USD not a ponzi scheme? Is Quantitative Easing not a ponzi scheme? Is MMT not a ponzi scheme?
This is fundamentally a centralized system like PayPal. Most transactions never touch crypto. Meta/FB keeps some USDP at hand for those very few users who actually want to do crypto withdrawals.

Facebook has been trying to get payments into WhatsApp for a long time. This is just the latest experiment to try to find something that would be acceptable to local regulators while simultaneously extracting some value from the smoking ruins of the Libra/Diem/Calibra/Novi fiasco.
Nuance is where all the bullshit is. That's where soft power thrives.
You could do this with `-path:docs/` (or `NOT path:docs/`).
18880 to 21200 this year is a 12.78% increase. Last year 2020, it said M2 grew 25%.

It’s notable that the calculation for M2 changed.

“Before May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000)”

“Beginning May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000)”

Does that mean savings accounts and money market accounts are no longer included in M2?
> Not having an absolute view of free speech is what we would call a more nuanced view.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech. We know of the many nuances like "fighting words", incitement, libel, child pornography, slander, etc. I would like Universities and the ACLU to respect these exceptions to absolute free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Net negative for most, net positive for a few, good learning experience for all.
Good indicative piece in the article:

Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Tirne Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.

By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.
Sad to hear about this :( He brought so much joy into the hearts of small kids and big kids.

Maybe I'm biased, but I feel that Japanese video game developers don't enjoy the long life I think Japanese should enjoy. There are other examples. 78 is not bad but still far from good.
ElTorito doesn't include normal boot record on the CD-ROM. Placing MBR or similar is a hack used among other things to support the ability to "burn" image to disk drive that is not CD/DVD.

El-Torito specifies a bunch of different possible images, among them floppy images (used by Win9x boot CDs) and native images (used by most linux bootloaders and by later WinNT versions), and there's IIRC separate type for UEFI bootloader.

There's still space left in front of the CD allowing for bootsector tricks, which is also how hybrid HFS+ disks work at all (there's space to fit necessary volume header, and Mac booting uses HFS+ "blessed file" pointer to find boot image).
> Who on earth is spending $000,000s on a virtual ship?

Money laundering?
As long as there are no criminal charges for such behaviour this won't change. Licking ice cream in a store is a 'terrorist threat' [1]. DuPont dumping chemicals for years leads to nice profits and a few settlements here and there [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/coronavirus-terrorist-...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200402143157/https://www.nytim...
That depends on what part of the Eurozone you're talking about. Fixed rate, long-term mortgages in eg Spain are nowhere near 1% (closer to 3%).
Yeah, if a few people die to keep Teams working, it's a worthwhile sacrifice /s
How'd you figure that? Academics have been wrong about this from the start, I'd say. Their models are a byword for joke pseudo-science. But I guess your reference to "false balance" means we can infer what your beliefs are here. Groups never admit failure and one way they don't admit it, is by finding clever sounding excuses to not listen to those who were right.
As a crypto fund we're willing to borrow at pretty high rates but Celsius's offering of overcollateralized borrowing is not useful to us. They have disclosed that they offer undercollateralized borrowing to some crypto funds. I suppose it is not easy to get on that list.
"Why hire a senior person as a poster, if you're not willing to be challenged and listen to different ideas?"

Lots of people do this. I find the STARS framework a good way of assessing what's expected of me in a senior role: https://hbr.org/2009/01/picking-the-right-transition-strateg...

As senior people, we're usually pretty opinionated. There are different outcomes from sharing those opinions at different times, depending on the context (see the framework above).

If you are looking for a role that values strong opinions early on, then roles that require a start-up or turnaround approach, are the ones that will match this. They are also the roles where the org is most open to change.

Outside of these situations (I'm talking role types, not whether a company is a start-up or not), orgs are resistant to change, and unlikely to hire someone that challenges things before they are even through the door.

From what you've said, it sounds like these are not the roles you're looking for, in which case, the process is working. There are very few start-up or turnaround roles that go to unknown candidates. In my experience, these roles go to folks that have been personally recommended, as the price of failure is so high, and people want a known quantity. (Whether that is what they get is beyond the scope of this comment).

Network, get to know people and get known as someone who can bring these types of changes to an org, and one might come your way.

Of course, if this isn't the type of role you're looking it for, then you are simply rocking the boat way too early.While most places would benefit from some level of change, they will still resist it.

If you challenge things before you've started in a role, a hiring manager will probably speculate that if you are this much trouble before you've even started, you will be even more trouble once hired. And they will reach for the next candidate, because there's always the next candidate.
I've heard some positive reviews about gather.town[0] for virtual co-working, though I've never used it. The demos look cool though. It lacks the creative element of Minecraft though. I'm not sure to what extend the worlds are customizable. Curious if anyone has used it and has an opinion.

I've tried FocusMate, though that is along the "match-making" model, and I didn't get much out of a random pairing for 1 hour at a time.

[0] https://www.gather.town/
A lot of loans were restructured (both due to the government and because banks
themselves don't want people defaulting on loans either), but for a lot of the really bad loans the slight help from restructuring wouldn't have been enough. That's also why giving homeowners a loan wouldn't have helped, which is essentially just restructuring.

>Also you’d have to explain how bailing out banks that made poor quality loans and are on the risk of insolvency isn’t “rewarding bad quality loans”.

It is, to an extent, but a loan is much less of a reward than someone paying off your debt. That's also why new regulations were introduced so that future behavior likes this from banks wasn't incentivized.
... once legislation is brought in. The market itself has no way to curb excessive behaviour.

The problem is that cryptocurrency users exist precisely because they oppose all legislation on currency markets. So they will continue to be scammed over and over again, and be happy with it. It's just the cost of doing business, like drug dealers losing a few shipments to the feds.
Because it doesn't have any empirical backing, has poor predictability, poor reliability, poor reproducibility, etc. It's fundamentally not scientific and was made up by a pair of laypeople.

See this article for a summary of the criticisms: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...
> I believe proponents of Georgist Land Taxes generally believe that rents are already as high as they can be.

Rents are a function of supply and demand and demand may very well be near a point where there is not much more willingness to pay on the part of tenants.

That doesn't mean that arbitrary changes to supply will leave resulting rents unaffected. (If government makes rental property durably unattractive as an investment, we should expect the supply of that property to diminish.)
The (centralized) crypto lending space has been slowly imploding in the past year. Most companies give a promotional rate on the first coin(s), but will pay very little interest on any large amount.

A detailed analysis of the various players in the space: https://prohashing.com/guides/earning-interest-on-crypto
Happened all over the world in different systems. My friends from Ukraine recall living under the iron curtain when religious gatherings were banned and the communists trying to spread fear of neighbor (you could be ratted on) and the benefit those in power achieved when the citizens didn’t trust each other.

I think the powers that be benefit when citizens don’t trust each other in almost every hierarchical system because it’s a more stable condition (people aren’t banding together for the greater good).
The problem is one of those camps was relying on an equilibrium condition and pretending like it was on a clinically relevant time scale.
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PSA for all, you can go into your YouTube settings and disable Search History (and a bunch of other things? It's been a while), and surprisingly the algorithm more or less respects that. It completely neuters the algorithm, it won't target you worth a damn, and YouTube becomes a lot less engaging overall. Highly recommend for everyone.
When all the customers die off, the market will regulate itself.
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Even when better executed, this style of restaurant that's as much a theatre for performance art as a place to actually eat food is so odd to me. The few experiences I've had with it actually featured some delicious food, but everything else about it was so awkward and off-putting that I don't think I'd go back to the places even for a free meal.
The conspicuous absence of Assange is indeed very bad for the purported campaign for the release of journalists "in other countries". Such other countries can now rightfully point to the hypocrisy of this campaign.

What the CPJ is doing (omitting Assange in its list) is effectively harmful for the journalists jailed in other countries.
One thing they’re not mentioning is the queues being unstable - being kicked out of the queue by their 2002 errors. I’d love to see them address this beyond “it’s likely a client networking issue”. Once you’re in the game it’s rock solid, which leads me to question the “client networking issue” explanation.

The large and unstable queues are leading to the use of mouse jigglers and such, so people can log in in the morning just so they can play at night. An interesting, but not helpful, emergent behavior.
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