skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Settlement in a non reserve currency sets a precedence for other countries to follow the suit (for example Russia, China and India) to settle using their own currencies and therefore threatens USD monopoly. For example China is already doing the same thing with Iran outside the SWIFT system. Without foreigners buying US treasuries to fund the ever increasing US sovereign debt, the US treasury will increasingly have to rely on Federal Reserve monetizing their social security and other deficits and eventually prompting a collapse of USD as a reserve currency and runaway inflation since that will make USD worthless at its face value. I would argue this will happen someday regardless but this just makes it happen sooner. Especially at a time when debt is exploding, printer is still on, and GDP isn’t exactly growing.

I think Germany opposed the reality of Ukraine being in NATO because they understood the reality that this pisses off Russia, their large natural gas provider which benefits no one at this point especially in a world where US sphere of influence isn’t exactly as big as it used to be. Just look at how it all panned out in Afghanistan and Yemen.
There's a free tier of Wolfram Cloud. Mathematica is also bundled with the Raspberry Pi Raspbian distribution.
I definitely have decision fatigue. I decided to step down to get it off of my plate.
> It's an american company, with real people behind it. It's not some scammy thing in the Bahamas.

Oh yes I forgot Americans can't be scammers.
To a certain extent there's value in stopping individuals from giving away their entire networth though, whether they lose it through insecure crypto or to fraudsters calling about "an amazing investment opportunity". People whose lives are wiped out don't simply cease to exist, they very well can become a burden on other members of society.

A lot of decisions we make in the modern day have guardrails set up to protect the individual to a varying extent (which is often a topic of politics), so it may be we eventually get guardrails in the crypto space as well.
I honestly don't know how people use new Reddit. On my 2017 laptop with a quadcore i7, SSD, and 16GB RAM, using Ubuntu 16.04 and either Chrome or Firefox, and with a 100Mb/s fiber connection, it just loads glacially slow and causes my fans to come on at full speed. And that's just with a single tab - with Reddit I usually end up scrolling through and opening quite a few tabs.

If they kill off old Reddit, there's no way I'll be able to tolerate using the site. Surely I'm not alone in this, or perhaps 99% of the traffic is mobile users on recent phones?
> Shouldn't be that hard to solve

You’ve given us a proposal, but how do you implement it? Surely a proposal doesn’t solve anything, you have to implement it to actually solve something. So how do you implement your proposal?

Not so easy… first you need a bill to pass. It has to be put to a vote by Nancy Pelosi, who said she won’t support your solution. So you need to get rid of her: either she retires or loses reelection (unlikely) or you get a Republican speaker.

Would a Republican speaker put your bill to a vote? Certainly not after Nancy Pelosi cited “free market capitalism” as a reason for resisting restrictions. The Republican speaker can’t be portrayed as being to the left of Pelosi, who has been interchangeably labeled a “liberal communist socialist democrat leftist”.

And then there is the vote itself. Even if you get it to a vote, you are asking a group of people to take away a benefit to themselves. They are literally voting on whether to make themselves poorer. Is that going to be an easy vote to whip? Not likely.

And then if it does pass, then you have enforcement issues. There was just an issue of Congressman Collins getting convicted of insider trading for giving tips to his son. He was caught on tape. He pleaded guilty. 2 years he was sentenced. He should be serving his sentence right now. Instead he is a free man, the beneficiary of a Presidential Pardon for his crimes.

So even if you pass you pass the hurdle of the speaker; even if you pass the hurdle of the vote; even if you enforce the law on the books through the criminal justice system with courts, judges, evidence, and a sentence; EVEN THEN the powers that be will find a way to remain unconstrained by your solution. “Laws are for thee, not for me.”

So yea, we can throw out “easy solutions” all day that are really just proposals that will do nothing to solve this problem. Because this is a problem of the powerful self-dealing, and you don’t solve that through the system they use to deal themselves.
I do, regularly, and it takes a few dollars and a few days to arrive. That sucks. But this comes from following regulations, and fees for the useful service (e.g. protection).

Right now international cryptocurrency transfers are a legally gray area, and have the aforementioned lack of protections. So the expensive and slow, but legal and safe, international transfers are a service that cryptocurrencies don't offer at all. No reason to think it'll be faster and cheaper when it's offered.
Depending on your jurisdiction you might be able to successfully sue people who listen in on yo ur private conversations without you being aware.
I think this was a bug in the site, which appears to now been fixed.
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The cost of living in India is going to be pretty low compared to colder countries, so it shouldn't cost a lot to provide a decent lifestyle.

With accelerating automation, most people are going to have to depend on a much smaller set of people/industries. A shrinking population is not bad given we make plans for the future.
Seriously it takes Oracle thirty minutes to create a new database. Stuff that Postgres or MariaDB can do in seconds.

Also, why does the database have 5 GB of dependencies ? Postgres and MariaDB both have < 100 MB (maybe 10 MB) downloads from the repos.
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Even within the US, ACH settlement times are 3 business days. The settlement period for stock trades is 2 business days and there's a big push to reduce it to 1. Relative to that, bitcoin's 10 minute settlement time isn't so long.
If you work at an investment bank or hedge fund you typically have to apply for approval before trading personally (or someone connected to you like a spouse or partner). That applies for each and every trade you make. This is not an unfair request to make of your employees because it limits potential insider trading as well as conflict of interest trades. Not to mention the unfair advantage an employee could have by using expensive data feeds from the bank.
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I was recently driving a VW ID4 and I loved it.

It only has lane assist and distronic but its very well implemented and especially in heavy traffic its a godsent.

Basically it simply follows the car in front of you but even that is super relaxing, especially in morning taffic. In any major city rush hour traffic is always fun, but this makes it at least somewhat enjoyable.

We have come a long way with assisted driving and as a german I very much enjoy that because it means that I can still "become one with my machine" ;)

This is a clear step up and I believe that the future will lay in smart roads, even if its just a lane maker that your car can rely on.
What options are you talking about? I am only aware of vasectomies.
Light deflection happens in newtonian physics as well, assuming you use Newton's definition of light as a particle/corpuscule: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29837/does-newto...

It's just 2x the GR value. That's one reason why it took so long to verify as you needed to have pretty clean data to rule out the classical explanation.
Also for any of you non-lame-lurkers out there that never log in and insist on using old.reddit instead of setting prefs to use the old look, all the crap that is the default on the homepage of reddit, /r/popular etc whatever, you never have to see at all and can enjoy your niche subreddits without any exposure. I haven't looked at any of the main top level reddits/memes/incels/funny/pics in like 5 years
Start your own company together?
As an AI professor, I've always held that machines are NOT intelligent
(I am prepared to change my position on the day my computer asks me anything
surprising that I didn't program it to).

But this does not mean we cannot produce operational models of understanding,
for example we have models of propositional/logical semantics and discourse
such as Lambda Discourse Representation Theory and others, which can compute
a formal representation of the meaning structures for a piece of text. These
have been used e.g. for answering question, and working in this space has been
a lot of fun, and continues to do so. At the moment people talk a lot about
"deep" learning (neural networks with more than one hidden layer), but for
such models we need to do a lot more work into explainability, because it is
too dangerous to use black boxes in real life.

We still do not understand the human brain function in any substantial way, and it is perhaps a greater mystery of nature than even cosmology, where at least several competing theories have been posed that can explain parts of the evidence.

How are thoughts represented (if that is answerable, it turns out 'Where are thoughts represented?' has proven to be a meaningless question due to the distributed nature of human memory)? What is consciousness? What is a conscience? How do consciousness and intention emerge from materials that are not alive and that have neither consciousness nor intention? How to implement approximate models? (A lot of work to do!)
I Am Not A Programming Language Theorist (Theoretician?...)
Yeah. Living longer, but spending more of the time senile is... not exactly a win.
Should the US make the previously annexed Hawaii free and let it become The Hawaiian Kingdom again?
This is about 0.1% of fraud/scams overall[0], for comparison.

[0] https://www.crowe.com/global/news/fraud-costs-the-global-eco...
I wouldn't call it alpha testing. The autosteer in Tesla cars of today works at least as well as the stable releases that I've seen from other manufacturers.

You are right to say that one should always pay attention, though. The Tesla system is capable of handling relatively sharp curves, which has the side effect of making it capable of turning quickly in the face of weird road anomolies (eg, suddenly and recently repaired/damaged patches of asphalt).

My other car has the opposite problem... it won't jerk in a situation like that, but it will gladly fly off the road with barely a warning on a shallow curve.

We are in a really weird intermediate state right now.
But shaming victims is acceptable?
ding ding! If you keep it in exchange and it gets stolen, it's your fault for daring to trust your fellow human. If you keep it yourself and it gets stolen, it's your fault for not having a multisignature hardware wallet stored in 5 different countries with armed guards.

Ok i'm exaggerating of course, it just seems like some people are not willing to admit that cryptocurrency does not address certain things that people want out of a money/payments system.
/r/pics: Blatant political grandstanding mixed in with images meant to be evocative and establish mental association. Here's a smiling photo of Obama. Remember Obama? Picture of rednecks in pickup trucks with Trump flags, next to a photo of Taliban in trucks with flags.

/r/politics: wanton hyperbole, plain and simple.

"Screenshots of Tweets" Subreddits

/r/Antiwork: Literally every problem, shortcoming, or thing you don't like is ultimately because of capitalism.

/r/LateStageCapitalism: Same as above, but we need at least two subreddits about this to really hammer the point home.

/r/WhitePeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes du jour, as well as well-trodden reposts.

/r/BlackPeopleTwitter: Leftist hot-takes but posted by 'verified' reddit users.

/r/MurderedByWords: Tomi Lahren and Strawmen being mocked via tweet

/r/MurderedByAOC: Pretty much any AOC tweet posted by u/IrlOurPresident

/r/AOC: Just in case you haven't seen u/IrlOurPresident's post on the front page yet.
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I don't use cloud so I'll take your word there is no such information anywhere but the originally linked post is the author saying they don't think it's used in Cloud anyways.
Since when scamming is something we should be ok with?
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-happens-in-a-tl...
I like Swift, and it's the only thing worth considering for Apple development.

Sadly, Google continues spewing language-of-the-week and hasn't even standardized on Kotlin... the language of its own primary platform. It keeps sharting out languages like Dart, Go, whatever.

Swift is open-source. If you're not going to use C++ or Javascript, just use Swift and save us all a big pain in the ass.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

HEY, WHY DON'T YOU PISS OFF, HACKER NEWS? Why do you let users invoke a comment editor if they're "posting too fast," and only tell them when THEY'RE DONE? You DELIBERATELY WASTE USERS' TIME, assholes. WHY?

ANSWER THE QUESTION: WHY?
There's certainly better opportunities for well-trained professionals in developing countries, but there's still a large pay differential. On top of that, immigrants to wealthier Western countries seek the low levels of day-to-day corruption, well-maintained infrastructure, good air quality, safety from violent crimes and theft, and access to leading universities and companies, where cutting-edge research and product development is done. In the US at least, there's plenty of gloom for our decline, some relative and some absolute, in many of these categories. But there's still a clear and stark difference for someone coming from India or Brazil.
Yes, happened to Brazil. When you've squandered your demographic dividend without escaping poverty it's basically game over.
This is a great quote:

> When AI can’t determine what ‘it’ refers to in a sentence, it’s hard to believe that it will take over the world.
NATO is not a country. WTF are you talking about?

NATO is a defensive alliance. A country can join or leave NATO alliance. Nobody forces a country to join alliance. The higher threat RF creates for others, the more other countries are wanting to join an alliance to get protection from RF threats.

I highly suspect that your colleagues in Slovakia are invented.
I am looking into learning app development with no programming experience. Should I learn Node.js or Ruby on Rails? I hear opinions like Ruby on Rails is obsolete and then other people say it's better because it's more traditional. If it really is obsolete then how are people still using it? But then is Node.js easier and more useful?
I'm not able to parse your last sentence do you mean "why isn't"? Otherwise it seems in tension with the rest you wrote.

You'd have to use the search feature to see what gets submitted but doesn't reach an audience. Often times these discussions are flagged and if OP doesn't care to get it unflagged then it falls off the radar.
> Eventually these things will be codified.

Is there actually evidence for this? The 30 year arc of the industry to date that I am familiar with so far shows little sign of engineering standards in software codifying around anything.

If we are in the infancy stage in 2020, we are one very large infant. More likely to me is that in the future, software will change so much again that what we do today is unrecognisable; not because of codification but because of the inevitable tech churn between now and then.
What does one have to do with the other? Do you have valid reasons for thinking corruption of Senators or Representatives would be less with term limits? I think the level of corruption would not change with term limits and there are some negatives with term limits. I don't see how it would help.
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this rings true for me -- restrictions are placed on those that cannot defend themselves.. all of financial reporting is heading in the wrong direction, due in no small part to the operators of the system, not Mr and Miss Main Street
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'When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.'

Quote from Frederic Bastiat...
Socially acceptable. Because I am not going to acknowledge or respect a Turkish summons. Although I would expect a Turkish hit squad.

>You cannot legally rob a bank just because they left it unlocked and unmanned.

Exactly - because it isn't a bank, it is a bunch of cash on the street, if it was unlocked and unmanned.

And even if there was a clear Sticky Note with foreboding text, you would be in the clear to pocket a stack of cash sitting on the sidewalk, left unattended, guarded only with a sticky note.

The steelman and strawman are nearly identical - a bugged contract or implementation isn't a bank, it is a bunch of cash on the street. It stopped being a bank once a bug was found.
Is it just me or is the example they take for summarization actually bad?

"Allison is excited to meet with New Horizon Manufacturing to discuss their photovoltaic window system."

should be

"Allison is excited to meet with New Horizon Manufacturing to discuss OUR photovoltaic window system."
Because the manufacturer is less likely to get sued for a death in the low speed case. Also, there are fewer chances of needing a high speed avoidance maneuver rather than simply hitting the brakes.
Great anecdotes but situation varies from state to state. Fertility rates vary from 1.1 to 2.4 and 3.0. Why did I mention 2.4 AND 3.0 because these 2 states account for a quarter if not more of the Indian population.

This is not to say your anecdotes are wrong but there exist different Indias and some of them have not seen the modern light.
> lol sure if that helps you sleep at night about the decisions you've made in your life thus far.

Why was this necessary to say at all?
The problem is that we do not have effective third parties, because

* elections in the US require a fuckton of spending. AOC raised millions for a House district that wasn't even competitive, meanwhile the British Parliament has a 30,000GBP spending limit. It is a lot easier for upstart parties to raise tens of thousands of dollars rather than millions.

* third parties in the US have a habit of mostly trying to go for broke and failing. The general track record of successful ones elsewhere is that they usually cut their teeth in lower levels of government before they start competing well in national elections, and on top of that the lower level elections are generally easier to win (much lower voter count = much lower spending, thinner electoral margins, etc.)

* the US lacks regional parties, which is another source of third-partyism, but depending on your views this might be a good thing.
It’ll be the golden age of automation through software, electronics, and robotics. Self checkout machines are the perfect example. The cost has stayed flat if not gone down over time. Meanwhile labor costs have risen. This leads to the ROI for self checkout getting better each year. And now we have self checkout everywhere including fast food chains.

I expect this trend to continue with automation allowing us to consume more with less labor. Letting the capitalism growth to continue
Bingo!

There are <0.0001% of the population who understand transaction risk.

If I pay $Cash for Goods, In a trustless network, both side of the exchange have to be instantaneous. I can never pay cryptocurrency for any item that are not verifiable by the network itself, unless there is another trusted 3rd party (cough cough, Credit Card Processors/Banks).
I think there's a pretty big difference between buying a rapidly-growing platform and... whatever the hell was shown off in that vaporware announcement video
I would certainly bet on them going up in the short term. However, going public carries more scrutiny, and that means their two existing problems will be catapulted into the public eye at some point, just as they have been for Facebook:

- political extremism

- very flimsy segregation of NSFW material (and usernames are basically not censored)

I doubt they would be dumb enough to do a Tumblr, but it can't be ruled out entirely.
Goethe hated people setting his poetry to music, but endorsed the settings made by an obscure composer named Zelter. Musically, these settings aren't considered very interesting, but that's what Goethe preferred: the music shouldn't distract from the poetry.

On the other hand, consider the famous Lieder (or most librettos) -- the music is interesting and the text, less so (on its own). Exceptions abound, of course, but I've come to expect an inverse relationship between music and text in this way.
It would be as (if not more) fascinating to see an estimate of the true costs here, corrected for wash trading and market manipulation.

My outsider's perspective is that the entire thing seems like a shyster's market: scammers scamming scammers, with yet other scammers deciding how much each scammer has gained or lost with only loose ties to ingoing or outgoing money.
Under budget, but at the end of that week, having successfully pushed through this DRAMATIC CHANGE, I drove from Phila. to the Outer Banks (NC), crashed, rolled the car 3 times, totalled the car, broke my arm, could no longer get to work, decided to marry my first wife, and left to work for a company I could commute to with a broken arm. Small change, big ramifications :)
I do not think the OP meant that, OP could have meant that there is a motivated group speaking with a forked tongue.
In the best case Scenario, Apple A15 Single Core has access to 8.8 times the cache size compared to Cortex X-2. With a single node generation advantage. The cache size was likely a requirement for Apple's 8-wide decoder design. But ARM's design could have squeezed more performance with larger cache as well.
Thanks for the assessment, but I'm not "confused" at all. Maybe if the pro-vaccine-mandate crowd wasn't so snide and insufferable people might take you more seriously.
A market that allows insiders to profit from still-hidden information, inevitably at the expense of non-insiders, is not truly free. And legislators privy to non-public information from hearings are definitely insiders in any rational sense. The fact that they're not so in a legal sense is only a reflection of the fact that they write the laws and sometimes do so for their own benefit. As the saying goes...

There are two groups of people who laugh at the law: those who break it, and those who make it.
It's actually not. Any product making medical claims is regulated by the FTC under deceptive advertising. https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/statutes/federal-trade-commi...
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I think even mac mini will likely cost 5k given two chip config.
That disclaimer appears at the bottom of every project that Google doesn't feel like officially supporting. Even the tcmalloc project has that disclaimer at the bottom and it's used in every single process running in Google datacenters right now. I think you'd be hard pressed to really make the case that WUFFS is not funded by Google.