skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True Names Limited Terminates Contract with Brantly Millegan
Banks don't make any money from your accounts. In fact your money in cash accounts is a liability to the banks. Banks also do not hold mortgages, they sell them as soon as the ink is dry. There's a lot of misunderstandings about the current banking system in this subthread with knowledge of what banking was decades ago. No banks would go out of business from this.
The first sentences lead me on to this article being a "Look, Bill told us this would happen, and we didn't listen, we're idiots"

And then it turned out to be "Look, it's kinda Bills fault that we ended up this way".. I'm not buying.
How does this compare to a Hynix p31 gold nvme?
The tools you mention are generally interesting & good, but I'd classify them as their own frontier outposts. This is a biased view, but in my mind, what's needed is more bridges between computing-as-it-is and the rest of the world. Systems like Huginn and Node-RED offer some good capable takes here. It's still it's own frontier world, but I expect that "tracing"/observability systems eventually help open the door to wider-understanding of computing. Projects like Open Telemetry lead the fore in this world, in helping computing describe itself, explain itself.
> It's also a favourite ploy of sociopathic but useless individual contributors, find someone to do your work for you, then repackage it as your own!

It seems like that could only work once or so per individual, unless there's some other kind of power dynamic in play. I know I wouldn't be put in that situation where someone takes credit for work I did more than once.
Most of the movies you mentioned were made after 1953. (The Hays code started in 1934.) You substantiated my point!

Just for fun, watch several movies 1930-32. Then watch some in 34-35. It's like the life got sucked out of them. Yes, I know there were exceptions. One is "Top Hat", 1935, which skirted the Code with double-talk and innuendo.

> When the Hays Office learned that several actors, who were known within the industry to be gay, had been cast in this film, they sent a terse warning to RKO Studios. Particularly, in regards to Erik Rhodes and Edward Everett Horton, they warned that they should "avoid any idea of actors being pansy in character."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027125/trivia?item=tr2614567

Nevertheless, Rhodes still got in his lines.
What are some you favorite games?
Huawei start buying huge amount of chips when there was rumor that US going to imposed sanctions on Huawei, and when the sanction hits, every major chips users in China start buying too, they were afraid that they will be next on sanction lists. They kept buying chips to build up safe inventory level during the early pandemic period when western firms were cutting orders.

Of course, when demands returned, Chinese companies were still on buying spree. The shrewd middleman everywhere, not just in China, saw shortage coming, and they stock piling chips too.

Yeah, most semi-industry people in Taiwan think that US sanctions and the threat to impose more sanctions definitely contribute to the current shortage.
Not for everyone, but some people would probably benefit from reading Clayton Christensen's books such as The Innovator's Dilemma, Competing Against Luck and How Will You Measure Your Life?

His explanation of Correlation vs Causation while likely obvious to some was eye-opening for me as well as his idea of looking at products from what Job they fulfill standpoint
You can help. Donate to your local food bank, rescue shelter, night shelter and other immediate forms of aid. These places make an immense difference in the lives of those who live near you.
“science deniers”

Like, say, Galileo?
> disintermediates the entire payment sector

Unfortunately, the recent proposal specifically reassures commercial banks that any US CBDC will be intermediated (right on page 2) [1]. Board of Governors can't risk jeopardizing their speaking fees.

Individual FedAccounts via USPS locations is the way to go for the underbanked [2]. But, disappointingly, this is not that.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-...
[2] https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3192162
Is there any way to reproduce a similar effect as a fun home science experiment?

I might’ve guessed something could be fabricated or 3-D printed and thrown in the freezer on a small scale, but I didn’t notice anything in a cursory Google search…
Chesterton’s fence is the axiom for understanding the why of the system before refactoring.
Just like "Crusade" in modern usage has little (if at all) to do with physically fighting a religious war.
Not the parent, but Wired has been terrible for the past 15-20 years. Previous commenters are correct that the quality took a dive in the 2000's. The real glory days for the publication were the 1990s before the Internet was a household word and technology was more obscure.
There’s a very different case history for “freedom of the press” than “freedom of speech.” Legally, they’re different.

“Freedom of the press” has focused on the need for an informed public and institutional autonomy of the press. It is a public, not private, right.

The freedom of the press also has a commercial element. It’s controversial to say “corporations have freedom of speech.” It uncontroversial and obvious that corporations have freedom of the press.

“Freedom of speech” has focused on individual speakers. There’s a public element, but private speech is still incredibly important.
what a g, maybe you can teach a class on operating systems now
It's very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off, in one way or another. Every single line extension, station change, is an entire political battle and story. A fractal of stories waiting to be discovered.

One extremely important detail for me when I hear about JNR (Now JR East/West etc) and privatization: during privatization, all the Shinkansen debt in particular was held onto by the public. Extremely expensive infrastructure (now a money printer, at least the Tokyo <-> Osaka segment), just handed to private investors.

Of course JR works well as a whole now and it's not like society is worse off, but it's always left a bit of a poor taste in my mouth.

(For people wanting some more interesting transportation content: here[0] is an excellent overview of IC cards and integration of all the systems in the 2000s)

[0]: https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr62/pdf/6-15_web.pdf
Is it called Java Applet? It's overkill.
> not stopping the organization you are part of from saying things.

I think nations are organizations. That term is, very vague.
You keep saying this every time the 737 Max comes up on HN. I don't know why you still can't understand that "can be" has a very different meaning from "must be", and the Ethiopian Airlines pilots followed the procedures as written. The Boeing airworthiness directive was incredibly poorly written, and Boeing is to blame for this, not the pilots who attempted to follow the directive as written.
I understand your frustration. But finding one bad apple does not mean all apples are bad. And this problem is not limited to TED/x.
If you're in software, read Peopleware. _Especially_ if you lead, or intend to lead, any kind of team.
I too know a guy who did TEDx talk. After he did this talk, he suddenly became self-proclaimed intellectual authority on everything from Quantum Mechanics to politics to religion to what not, on his Facebook page.

He couldn't write a 3 line Python program or solve a high school trigonometry problem or answer a basic history question.
You can't just hack into a website like that, that's illegal!
Its free registration, not a paywall.
Far from overwhelming. I thought so too, but that's largely from the correlation between poor quality households and use of severe physical abuse, as well as bucketing all corporal punishment from spanking to bashing them with closed fists.

Studies that separated measured corporal punishment from outright abuse found drastically different results.
You could try an isolation diet. Just pick one basic food, such as steak or baked potatoes only, with no toppings except for maybe salt. And eat just that thing for a week or so. Then see how you feel after your gut adjusts. Then gradually add things back into your diet or start with a different food from square one. Not the easiest plan to implement by any stretch, but it's very effective as you're limiting confounding variables for figuring it out.
No, western science hasn't "debunked" anything with studies. They started out without accepting anything from other cultures, simply because they are from other cultures. As time has passed, the cultural medicines from various cultures have been studied poorly and patented and sold to people, mostly as long-term treatments of symptoms, never as cures. In every country, multinatinational drug cartel has made it impossible for local doctors to evem exist let alone prescribe traditional medicine, unless approved by the cartel, patented by them and sold for a huge margin.

I believe the western medicine overall has created more health problems than it has solved, if you exclude treatment of acute trauma.
I drew a similar conclusion about people's observations, in general: the faster the conclusion the less knowledge about the topic - which is similar to Kahneman's system 1(intuition).
That only works for non-essentials. So this could mean that many essential products have come to depend on chips and so demand can only drop so far.
Getting More by Stuart Dimond is a good book on negotiating and building relationships.
Are you saying that a free market for currencies is anarchy?
Tanh belongs to a class of functions called "smooth steps" which I guess was being abbreviated as "step." Obviously the derivative of a step is zero everywhere it's defined so backprop wouldn't work.
Early crypto was an innovation in that certain aspects of the financial system were set to be controlled solely by code, and could not be influenced by any outside force. For example, no one can magically issue new bitcoins. The entire idea isn’t anarchy, but guaranteed constants separated from centralized authorities that could change parameters on a whim. It’s why you’ll occasionally hear people who have been in the crypto space for awhile say, “code is law.” Again, you really need to understand the criticisms of 2008 to understand Bitcoin.

Modern crypto? Well it’s changed a lot over the years. Sure a lot of it is about “innovations”, and there are some genuinely good ideas out there, but a lot of it feels like the transition from the early web to what we have now. That can be good or bad depending on your point of view.
I'm not sure how bumping them up a grade is any better. It's that not just a massive waste of time for everyone involved?
> The Texas law that requires you bring something like a bank or utility bill is considered voter suppression by opponents. [1] But this is just the same as the German requirement to bring a mailed voter notification.

It really isn't the same:

> An estimated 5.4 percent of U.S. households (approximately 7.1 million) were “unbanked” in 2019, meaning that no one in the household had a checking or savings account at a bank or credit union (i.e., bank).

From https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/household-survey/index.html

And that figure is only for entire households, there are more unbanked individuals, and it is very common for households to have adults that don't have any utilities in their name.

OTOH, a mailed notification only presupposes that an individual is on the rolls.
I remember that Beurer (https://www.beurer.com/web/de/produkte/active/sport-und-akti...) was once recommended because of offering a cloud-free tracker. It worked quite fine, but I eventually stopped using it. That was about five years ago, bear in mind.

I can only find a single tracker in their US store (https://www.shop-beurer.com/collections/active/products/beur...), but this is (an updated version of) the one I had.
I'm a big freedom of speech person, and actually I agree with the basics of your point.

Client based tools - that the client actually controls - are the best way to fight spam but not engage in censorship. Let people tune to their preferences.
Talebs Fooled by randomness.
Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives–But Why? (2020)
It's because the only people conflating the two are deliberately doing so in bad faith to score political points.
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

It is a book about turning beauty into ruin. About the stupidity and cruelty of man. And also about the authors love of humanity and finding joy and love in the fate we all share.

Vonnegut stared into the abyss and never lost his idealism.
The EAD indeed reads like it was edited by more than one person.

But if the EAD was not clear to a pilot, the pilot should request clarification. It's his job to understand it.

Note also that all three crews repeatedly were able to override MCAS and restore normal trim.
This whole debacle has made me think less of Rogan, not that he cares. IMO, he bent too far backwards to accommodate censors.
Abscense of proof is not proof of abscense.

Determining cause and effect in the interaction of complicated systems is no easy task.
This is a classic neo-con argument, maintain the status quo at the expense of your middle and working class people being priced out in their own country that them and their ancestors built. Why build anything when the largest monetary reward in society goes to some idiot in Goldman Sachs tweaking numbers in balance sheet or some tool in HR department. Enough said about the service sector.

> While the US could do well to onshore production of critical components

And how exactly is the US going to do that? The prices of raw material/oil is decade high and supply chain is completely broken. These things are going to cost even more money and going to need more money printing. It took China to build these things 30yrs even doing so at the record pace.

Reality is the largest buyer of US debt is now the Fed. Any attempt to control the inflation at the backdrop of 33 trillion debt with higher rates is going to seriously raise the possibility of sovereign default. So hyperinflation and devaluations is the only way out. And the resulting political and social unrest follows.
Here's the article I was thinking of, though I think it was originally either in seattletimes or WSJ.

http://airsoc.com/articles/view/id/5d5143c7c4263ce96fd616b6/...

Differen source.

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/software-fix-will-add...

The civillian trained test pilot lost it. The two military pilots did not.
> TRA stations are far more convenient, and the network is far more extensive, but Taiwan has a strong car culture. Despite an excellent rail system, many people will opt to sit bumper to bumper traffic on weekends and holidays.

I think "car culture" is usually a good explanation for big picture decisions for transportation -- where society invests, how the government develops transportation-related policies, what people will protest locally against -- but a poor explanation for why people make day to day transportation decisions.

Pretty much anytime you see people hardly using public transit (or biking or walking) in an area, you can zoom in and discover that, shocker of shockers, it really sucks in one or more ways. People are mostly pretty rational when it comes to those day-to-day decisions, I think. Yes, it may seem silly that people will drive their huge truck to their office job a mere mile and a half away, but if you zoom in, you find that even their residential neighborhood has huge, wide streets that people speed around in, making biking feel uncomfortable and dangerous. And when everyone else has huge trucks going fast, being in a huge truck does make you feel quite a bit safer.

Another example, my hometown of the South SF bay area has excellent weather for biking, and the more populated areas are largely flat*, but biking there is still uncommon, and if you try to do so yourself you quickly discover why.

It's largely unpleasant and very dangerous-feeling, with fragmented, quarter-assed infrastructure that often seems designed to try and kill you. Who the hell feels comfortable biking on painted bike lanes on Lawrence Expressway next to 50+ mph traffic, I'll never know. And what little infrastructure there is often randomly disappears, like bike lanes that just sort of curve into the sidewalk (and not even a sloped edge, so I'm not sure what they expect you to do there). I personally got hit twice by cars the last year before I moved to Munich, including once when my son was on my bike (police came out, but they didn't even bother ticketing the driver who t-boned by rear wheel, of course).

* Yes, obviously there are hills around the valley, but most of the people and stuff is in the flat parts
> Citation please. Please show your evidence that the risk of transmission

I did not ask for citation when you made the reverse statement. For me it's common sense, less exposure time, safer...

> we're not actually having a conversation about safety here, but rather about personality conflicts.

You keep trying to steer things towards that. Answer would be no, I still think its safer to wear a mask as long as reasonably possible.

Now, a yes answer would also be interesting at which point, why is it so hard to respect some rules even if it doesn't make sense for you and are not immediately obvious?

You seem to make an assumption over and over and don't seem to consider that maybe, the foundation for that is wrong... hence dig into your position.

For me, even if what you say is correct, conforming to a rule for a duration of a flight is no different then conforming to any other minor thing such as wearing a seatbelt. Sure, that'd also maybe stupid, but whatever, i have other things to do.

> That just makes you a mask-karen

Have you ever attempted to jump a queue in Britain?, would you call those people karens too?

If yes, the sure.

> On the other side there are rebellious personalities who become less likely to do something the moment someone tells them they should.

Not my problem to psychoanalize and don't care enough to manipulate, just make people aware of the rule, then let flight attendant know, no scolding either... perhaps you also misunderstood, there's a difference between polite remark and going full-karen.

> My wife and I are triple-vaccinated, my kids are vaccinated, and we observed masking and distancing guidelines when it was important

Great, me too, so what's the argument about then?

> Non-sensical rules and restrictions make us all stupider, and they divert energy from efforts that do actually make a difference, like vaccination.

What if they are not stupid?

> They also deepen political and cultural divides and create conflict unnecessarily,

Yes, people don't like to be made uncomfortable, I was curious of the internal machinations, I guess its clear now.

> arguing over how much of a nose is uncovered when there are other people nearby completely unmasked while they eat their peanuts.

Rule is if you eat take it off, when you're done, put it fully back on... Why is it so hard to comply?

> You are vaccinated right? Otherwise this whole conversation is just ridiculous.

Of course, I like living...
'The Book' by Alan Watts
the original TED talks I saw had people in the audience I felt were reasonably able to understand how much investment would be needed to achieve a particular idea.
The death of Superman (Graphic Novel)
The government has a pretty bad history of free speech.

My preference would be many small communities that have different support models. Let some communities be ad driven, others pay to subscribe, others yet donation based. These all have pros and cons.

The mistake is thinking there is a single solution.
> you hired (or did not fire) the wrong people

Right, what if I didn't hire them? Am I supposed to break the laws of my country and just shitcan people willy nilly?
I agree, I recently found out about Lex Fridman [0] podcast and I am very satisfied with the experts in their field expressing their history and opinions, kinda reminds me of old TED... :)

[0]: https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman
Can we actually do more than correlation yet on this very topic? I always see studies and articles that promise that gut health can solve depression. But I think this is bullshit. Depression is a protection mechanism from your brain and I would bet my ass that the causation is more depression => bad gut health. I would be very interested in your thoughts on that.
Ask HN: How to get your first 1000 DAU for a productivity app?
So I've been working on a productivity app, and I struggle to get new users. I don't want to buy ads because I'm not sure if it has reached PMF, and I've almost used all of my organic source. How did you get your first 1000 DAU as a consumer productivity/utility app?
Or the content was fine when published and cultural norms have changed...
I think we really need to have a “who controls the curriculum” conversation. When I was a teacher, we could chose from whatever the books the school had a ton of lying around. Not a good way to make a selection.

At the same time, people are freaking out when parents want a say I what books their children are evaluated on.

If it was up to me, we’d focus on the classics: Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, etc.
Starting Strength by Rippletoe

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
You are mourning your lost life. You are attached to a past vision of yourself that no longer exists. Killing yourself doesn't help anyone including you.

You can try to return to your former life by leaving the wife and kids and debt behind. You still would need to pay child support.

You could change your debt structure by selling an overpriced home which would allow you to leave your area for cheaper living and remote opportunities at more creative roles.

You could accept this is where you are now and things will slow down.
Use the time to dream up ideas of what you really want to be doing. When you get the chance you will just create pieces im short bursts and it will be satifying.
A sad day for the freedom of speech , when highly qualified phds and medical doctors are not allowed to challenge "the" science.
No it doesn't say that. This is what it says:

"Disengage autopilot and control airplane pitch attitude with control column and main electric trim as required. If relaxing the control column causes the trim to move, set stabilizer trim switches to CUTOUT. If runaway continues, hold the stabilizer trim wheel against rotation and trim the airplane manually."
Oniongrok: Onion Addresses for Anything
>every single dollar going into the pockets of banks /payment processors is going to go to consumers, or be returned to the public.

I doubt that. It would cut some costs and profit margins, but it wouldn’t be free to run the new system either. Someone needs to run the infrastructure, provide customer support, resolve conflicts, fight fraud, create apps and integrations, etc.

It seems unlikely that central banks will do all of it themselves. The payment processing industry won’t go away, but the system will be simpler and they will have some welcome competition in some areas, which should depress the fees in high fee countries such as the US. In Europe it wouldn’t change much in terms of cost I think.
Behind the times, man. Now all you need is an NFT of a beachfront property in Arizona.
Not for everyone, but those who it is for very much should read this - but not without understanding that it can be quite triggering at times. :

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
-Bessel van der Kolk

It's not an easy read for said people, but very worthwhile. Was introduced at a friends place and got a little ways in, waiting to pick up my own copy now.

Edit:

Also "The Art of War" is fun. It mostly boils down to common sense, but it's interesting to see application of first principles to ancient warfare.
I’m a bit confused. Is your wife from a more less equal/free place than America?
Accelerando - Charles Stross (actually Glass House as well)
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan