skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not even a US/UK/EU citizen.

Is there any way I can contribute?

Or do I just sit and watch the world burn as policymakers elsewhere indirectly make policies that might inadvertently affect people far far away as well?
I wrote about it on my blog. It's not the same. What countries want is currency that can be programmed.

Right now, all the programming bits is handled by banks and merchants. For example, if a bank wants you to purchase something from amazon - they will give you a cashback on transaction. Similarly, amazon gives vouchers for you to spend only on their site.

If countries could directly program money so no matter where you move it, you cannot spend it on things they don't like or expire it - it gives central banks way more leverage.

There will be no need for welfare vouchers when you can give money that is only spendable on grocery and not reedemable to cash or transfer.

Countries could add complex TDS (taxation at source) rules to their programmable currency any time to influence the economy and spending.

They could control supply which isn't easy today with all the parties involved.

The tools central banks have today are too blunt.
I thought transmissions in newer vehicles were sealed shut now and didn’t need fluid top ups?
> By default, the client already expects the server to fulfill a gatekeeping role in filtering (censoring!) spam.

This is how a lot of email clients currently work, but it is not a fundamental law of the universe. Back in the day, you could run programs on your computer that would filter spam automatically based on criteria and examples you specified. For example, see https://daringfireball.net/2003/09/interview_michael_tsai

The fact that people would pay money for such a program highlights the difference between spam filtering and censorship: spam filtering hides things that I don't want to see, while censorship hides things that other people don't want me to see.
> Right now, a government agency would need to ask a bank to take your money.

And those questions will generally be “How much do you want to take? And how do you want us to give it to you?”

Oh, they’ll probably make sure the correct paperwork is filled out and procedure is followed, but substantive, as opposed to procedural, due process isn't something banks are or want to be guarantors of.
There is practically zero chance it will be a blockchain.
Have they redesigned the rear end yet? I drove Hondas for over 20 years but went with a VW Golf because no one over 30 should be driving the Civic with how it looks(ed) in 2018.
Depending on what you eat you could still be well below the average environmental impact of a resident of an industrial nation. If you're vegan/vegetarian then 4000 calories a day from beans would be far less impactful than a 2000 calorie diet of meat.

Fit people need to eat more. Muscle takes calories to maintain. You can't maintain muscles without exercise. Your body expects that you're running down prey on a periodic basis. If you don't meet those expectations not everything will work as it should.
I’ve been using Brave and quite like it. Every now and then I find myself missing some features from Chrome, but nothing I miss enough to remember what it is. The idea of earning crypto for surfing the web is also interesting, but it’s mostly a gimmick to me and I ignore it.
I am also very interested in this. I’m only aware of TabNet but I am not sure if it is SotA.
I no longer respect "principled stands" in anything infrastructure related (e.g. payments, dns, hosting, search). I want the algorithms that dictate our lives to be as free of politics as possible. If we are going to survive, politics has to be the sole domain of the people, and not companies or algorithms.

I am starting to think that internet utility companies is going to be a thing.
I did competitive powerlifting for a while and am still an avid stength trainer. I didn't go full vegan, but my wife did, and there for a time my diet mostly aligned to hers because she was doing the shopping while I was working. Overtime I started to get a lot of minor injuries out of nowhere. I tried doing a vegetarian diet and tried my damndest to get all the nutrients without meat. But after some time I always felt full but malnourished. It is hard to describe. I broke eventually and spent about 3 weeks eating some red meat every day until I felt like my normal self again. I still try to minimize my meat consumption, but I've definitely learned to notice a threshold where I need to supplement my doet with meat on occasion.

I fear that often the vegan community insists that these lifestyle changes are universally easy. It probably doesn't help that many of the vegan activists make a part of their living by being vegan activists, which gives them flexibility to micromanage their diet. But for the gentleman at the lumber yard, it isn't so easy.

I'm excited to see cultured meat make some headway and hope the ventures in this space are successful. I've been watching for some time.
> That doesn't make them stupid.

But more often than not their reaction to questioning bad information they have shared is "I'm not stupid! I though someone smart like you would get it. It's not rocket science" ..
Only GPLv3 (due to the TiVoization clause), right? Or did they come up with some arbitrary reason to forbid GPLv2?
> inflation comes from energy shocks

The disproof of that is straightforward. Have we ever had deflation from gluts? There have been several oil gluts since the 70's. No deflation.
99.98% of all "programming" is CRUD and line of business _applications_ (the clue is in the name).

It is not realistic to turn a CRUD job into a low level / "challenging" systems engineering job. If you want a job doing those things, you need to be qualified, apply for, and be hired for such a job, and CRUD experience won't get you very far.

No amount of flight attendant experience will get you a pilot job. No amount of nursing experience will get you a doctor job. Same thing applies here, even if companies doing CRUD work like to interview as if and otherwise pretend that their jobs are a stepping stone to such things.
Banks are not in the business of giving you services. Banks are in the business of selling you money. And they like charging as much as possible for the money they sell you.
I was alive and watching the news back then, and this is bullshit. NYT didn't admit their screw-up until over a year after the war began. [0] I'm not sure CNN ever admitted it. Even worse, every time the previous ridiculous theory of war was exposed as nonsense, they were eager to transfer to the next ridiculous theory: WMDs, Saddam supposedly harboring aQ, fostering democracy, saving the Shiites, saving the women, saving the Kurds, saving the Yazidis, the surge, opposing MaS, opposing ISIS, opposing Iran, opposing corruption, stealing their oil, etc, blah, blah, blah.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...
So now we can petition calls for violence against people who do some people some sort of harm...

Next time we, the US, for good or bad reasons invade some place, can now those affected use FB to call for violence against us? What about allowing us to make calls for violence against them, if we think them so bad we must invade them, let's say North Korea? Or, why not? Can Uighurs call for violence against Chinese? We can come up with lots of examples, People in the Tigray against Ethiopians?

It's not just allowing calls for violence against Putin or his generals and conscripts...

It's BS.
Sure - you are right. But one more layer of lawyers asking questions on such a request is, imo, extremely valuable. Especially when the extra lawyers are being paid by a private entity who is more answerable to shareholders and customers than the central bank (or whoever asks them).
Would like to talk about an extended warranty for your car? Or end of life care for your 78yo family member? Or super awesome student loans for your 16yo family members?

That is just low hanging fruit.

Imagine cross referencing other data sources to get more complete images of everyone in 52m responder households.
Were those actually tested to prove they are a flu virus? Because typically, people say they have the flu when in actual they have a really bad cold.
Finnair Noticing GPS Abnormalities Near the Russian Border
We can agree to disagree. I don't buy for one second that any of the large US banks does that. Especially Chase. Jamie Dimon doesn't hide his... extreme frustration (/hatred?) of government entities.
My company did a 5% across the board raise late last year to make-up for inflation, since before then raises were ~2%, roughly keeping up with inflation from previous years(in Canada). This raise was on-top of the additional raise we will be getting this year in March, so it does seem like my company currently cares about ensuring we at least keep up with inflation. The expectation from talking with some coworkers is that they will continue this trend and at least give us a raise that's keeping up with inflation, although I have no proof of this. I do think you're getting screwed over here, getting a sub-inflation raise when you're exceeding expectations sounds awful. Maybe compensation works differently when you're higher up (maybe because you have far more equity/bonuses), but it couldn't hurt entertaining other offers to see what's out there.
> [Biden] won with fewer electoral votes [than] Trump over in 2016.

That's both not true and trivially checkable.
Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area
On behalf of one of those countries, I’m sorry.
The Canadian government just mandated the freezing of bank accounts for protestors associated with the freedom convoy. Let’s not pretend like the government can’t decide to reclassify what it thinks is legal based on what coloured shirt it’s wearing.
> If you were certain an NFT you were buying was not fraudulent and was created by the artist would you still think it's a shit way of supporting them?

Yes.

> Is it bad that they have an additional way to make money on top of commissions, Patreon, and merch?

No.
> But the marginal cheeseburger being sold is at a higher cost to produce (otherwise it would have been produced to fulfill the original demand).

This may have been true at the time of Keynes but this statement of your hasn’t been true for a very long time. Because of Accelerating Automation “Economies of Scale” (i.e. the marginal cost of a cheeseburger goes down as more are made).

The reality today is that the extra cheeseburgers are made because of a risk calculation on upfront capital investment and opportunity costs. I.e. a low inflation environment makes individuals more likely to save (play it safe) but also makes companies more likely to play it safe and not over allocate capital for supply.

With higher inflation it also incentivizes companies to play less safe and buy more supply chain. Best example, as wage inflation occurs it incentivizes companies to invest and buy robots to make more parts of their burgers. But this is true for all input costs to making burgers. If tomatoes go up, buy tomato farms to reduce their costs.

Here is an example of this from Costco: https://youtu.be/MSvCK_xH84s

I don’t think this alleviates all of your concerns (and I’m not trying to, I agree with a bunch of them) but just do take into account Accelerating Automation in your calculations about the economy.
China just realized it's not worth betting on a losing horse. Not only Russia will lose the war that they started in Ukraine, but it will lose it catastrophically. Every day that passes, the Russian invasion force becomes weaker, and the Ukrainian forces become stronger. Today is the first day that the Russian forces started being pushed back. In the coming days we'll see this more and more. Probably in about a week or two we will see their total collapse. Ukraine will find themselves with more than 100k prisoners.

China does not mind at all giving support to a dictator. But not to a losing one.
I'm pretty sure any government that wants to will take your regular bitcoin too. Just put you in jail til you hand it over. If you make any transaction it'll be easy for them to see your wallet.
You can have matrices of anything including rings, quaternions, octonions, dual numbers, matrices, vectors, bras, kets, etc etc, as long as you can multiply and add those objects. If you prefer real numbers, use the corresponding wavelength of the light, or voltage values in a photosensor, it doesn't matter. It still is a matrix.

Why do you mention things like data structures, enums and labels? This is math, not C++.

Anyway, the point is, any arbitrary 2D arrangement of numbers can be a valid matrix, whatever those numbers may represent.
I am curious what happens if you modify the transponder to send something other than 1,2,3?
But are you locked into needing a Russian military certified technician to repair them?
Money exists because of debt. Until you can lend money to regular people who often wont pay back you can't replace banks.
It's calls for violence only against the military. They chose to join the military, and they are literally paid to kill Ukrainians.
In a market-republic society, initiatives such as private automobile technology create a formidable alliance of interests which mass behind the concept of "car > rail":

- Automobile manufacturers: they can sell more cars.

- Fuel industry: Petroleum exploration, extraction, refining, transportation, distribution, and retail sales.

- Independent automobile dealers and repair facilities: sales & services.

- Auto suppliers: Support industry based around the manufacturing and repair.

- Construction companies: Road and highway construction and maintenance.

- Travel and tourism: Auto travel and auto-based tourism ("road trip", car rentals associated with other transport, etc.) emerge.

- Real estate. Automobiles promote suburban sprawl real estate and development. This brings in construction, development, finance, brokers, title insurance, and more.

- Media: Auto advertising becomes a major component of print, broadcast, and cable media.

- Training and instruction: Drivers' training and related services.

- Licencing: Government infrastructure around vehicle and driver certification and registration.

- Sport: Auto racing creates its own fandom and dynamics.

- Popular culture: Various fandoms, tribes, and allegiances based around specific brands, concepts, and activities.

It would be difficult to intentionally devise a more effective self-sustaining, self-perpetuating market-political consortium. I don't believe that the automobile-support-industrial-complex was intentionally conceived --- it is an emergent concept. But once emerged it's phenomenally resilient.

We've seen a few related sectors. The military-industrial complex identified by Eisenhower is one. I'd argue that the healthcare-industrial complex is another. The food and ag sector likely a third.
Some of the comments in the page mention Zig. While Zig has iterators for slices, the simple "for" loop (that actually uses the while keyword) makes you define the variable outside the loop:

var i: usize = 0;
while (i < 10): (i += 1) {
//use i
}

I hope they fix this before 1.0.
I mean NFTs currently are an environmental nightmare. The common response to this is "but that will change with Proof of Stake" and I'll believe it when it happens.
Nicotine gum isn’t “chewed” like regular gum (unless you have a huge tolerance for nicotine or want a tummy ache) —- usually you just chew it intermittently to release more nicotine and then keep it in your mouth. So while it won’t cause damage to the mouth, I can’t imagine it will have the same effect as chewing Orbitz
> Its kinda amusing how those concerns are rarely brought up for Apple products.

It's always brought up with regards to Apple products. Any justified or unjustified controversy surrounding Apple is magnified because of how divisive they are as a company. You're making this remark in a thread dedicated to discussion surrounding this controversy.
> Without it the criminals WILL have access to your systems and data

Replacing criminals and state overreach with foreign adversaries may be more salient.

Our encryption debate came of age after the Cold War. The boogeymen of that era have been surpassed. We have new ones, and they're more sinister than thieves and more tangible than a your government turning on you.
Are you suggesting that there's lots of time that a driver passes me over a double yellow line, flips me off, and I never see them again? Absolutely. TBH, I never think about them, because they don't affect me. Neither do the ones that I pull up behind, but those make me laugh and feel good.
If I have physical cash in my pocket, I can go just about anywhere in the world and spend it however I please. You give that freedom up with a CBDC. I much prefer a world where every criminal has the freedom that cash affords to a world where a handful of criminals control all the cash.
> Central Bank Accounts for All is a good policy.

Not according to the central banks themselves, who fear the degree of disintermediation it will cause will be bad for the economy.

This was proeminently featured in the report that came a few weeks before the executive order.
Aligning on Your API Design Using Jobs to Be Done
Securely Yours, Love Password Managers (2021)
The definition of "communities" and "ecosystems", and what role they will play in the development of open source projects feels very vague to me.

Are they seeking to create a new Apache Foundation? I can see a case for "Apache Foundation for X" type communities. But I'm of the opinion that what we really need at the moment is greater incentives for existing researchers who are already working on their projects to make their code modular, well-documented, and readable.

Larger communities such as Apache-for-X can be a second-order effect, but to make it the primary goal seems to me like putting the horse before the cart.
Worse than that, you can get set with OKRs set by people with no context and then judged because you didn’t meet them. Then your expertise is discounted.
Random Marvel Quotes API
Yea, my question may have been too vague and poorly worded. I agree with your statement, I was wondering if there was any steps I can take right now to transition into a more technically challenging role.

>It is not realistic to turn a CRUD job into a low level / "challenging" systems engineering job.

Are you implying that this goal is not realistic, and I should just stick to the current work? Appreciate your response!
Would much prefer if they just displayed a big warning on results that they have flagged as shit.
Devil's advocate: encryption is also what's stopping users with locked-down devices (increasingly common and hard to avoid) from having freedom to run and/or modify the software they use.

It's a tough situation. Encryption can be used for good or bad (and even the definition of what's "good" or "bad" encryption varies depending on who you ask). Unfortunately, I see it increasingly being used to oppress users, in the form of DRM and other "security" features.

Perhaps classifying encryption as munitions makes the most sense, if you support 2A rights.

On the other hand, it's just maths. Maths which anyone can theoretically do.

I don't know if there is a good solution to this problem.
https://community.intercoin.org/t/just-say-no-to-cbdcs-says-...
Meanwhile, try doing this with the Saudis and Qataris, that have been bombing the hell out of Yemen - I got a 30-day ban of just pointing out the hypocrisy of the West!
My non-central bank’s non-digital currency is already a central bank digital currency.
Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Content Restrictions is an example of a nested settings labyrinth that is somewhat hard to navigate for parents just trying to keep their kids from seeing bad stuff, esp. as it interacts with individual app behaviors. Ex: set TV restrictions to 9+ and the Netflix app entirely vanishes, instead of just filtering its content. Scalable trustworthy content filtering delegation for families seems unsolved.
That's an incredibly strong claim considering the ease with which counterexamples can be found.
The XY Problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Please go after the NY Times next, its impossible to cancel with them
In my backwards East European country, most people outside of cities use cars for utility purposes. As such, they keep very old cars, and if they need to change, they buy some second-hand ones from Germany and so on. With the new environmental regulations, they are no longer allowed to do that, so they are forced to buy better (for the environment, also maybe features and finishes) second hand cars.

It doesn't really feel like a choice driven by the desire for new features, moreso a choice majorly pushed by new safety and emission standards.
There's a lot there to care about: gas mileage, the maintenance schedule and reliability, the interior feel, and most of all, the feel of driving it.

The exterior appearance is the least consequential, least differentiated and most boring aspect of a car. So it's also not crazy to think that, perhaps, people shouldn't care so much about it. And really, they don't -- from my observation, what people care most about is the brand of the hood ornament, with various post-hoc justifications about appearance after that fact.
"ozy and millie" was another favourite of mine from the userfriendly era
True, and definitely a good thing.
Are you trying to allude to some kind of Gates-led conspiracy to... rid the world of some of its deadliest diseases?
Thanks, I really like these stats.

I wonder if inflation=7% and the absolute productivity through automation at 7% (9.2% - 2.1%) is a coincidence, just correlated or causal.

My guess based on a lot of armchair speculation is that inflation pegged to absolute productivity would result in the best possible economy. Maybe with a bit of a buffer just to be safe.
> You constantly have to convince previous customers to repurchase.

This is a good thing. It forces businesses to earn their revenue, not just rent seek.

> I think in the end the user probably gets a better deal as well since the software ends up being much better and they always have the latest features.

Completely disagree. Rent-seekers have no reason to improve their products because their users have to pay even if they do nothing.
Things broadcasting on WiFi can drain an iPad. I have some WiFi light bulbs and they are pretty noisy. I had to put my iPads on a separate vlan to keep them from draining in a few days of standby.

My Mac laptops don’t have this issue. I think it’s because they are configured to not awake up on standby unless plugged in.
While I'm sure that one could find plenty of counter-examples if they tried, I did indeed flip through my (quite few) two-starred books on GoodReads, read their opening sentences, and found that each one was a clunker. So I think you make a good point.

Actually, I wonder if I could accurately guess my own ratings by how much I liked the first line.
Searx is interesting for replacing DDG.
I don't think this is as egregious as this person seems to think. A 1 year commitment paid in monthly installments, is exactly how a lease works.
"Fringe" and "extremist" are relative terms.

By definition whoever wins the most votes is mainstream, not a fringe extremist.
The sanctions don't directly threaten the lives of Russian citizens and soldiers (arguably they may indirectly threaten lives in some cases, though); whereas a no-fly zone that is actively enforced by NATO would almost certainly lead to war with Russia (you can't expect to shoot down Russian planes without military retaliation from them). IMHO, Putin doesn't want a war with NATO any more than NATO members want a war with Russia, so the distinction between perceived direct and indirect threats is important.
This is fantastic, and makes Cloudflare Stream a great replacement for services like Haivision Connect or Restream.io... (although I wish there was an option to enable or disable stream output to a source without removing it entirely).