skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do those people analyze the airworthiness of an airplane before boarding it? And the credentials of the pilot? Or do they just trust the airline, and their country's regulator?

To push that analogy a little farther, consider how people would have reacted if, in 1905, months after the Wright Brother's successful flight tests, the United States had made air travel mandatory and suppressed discussion of its attendant risks.

I think the mRNA vaccines are a tremendous marvel and our best tool for defending ourselves from COVID. But they are not a panacea, and we cannot build trust in them by demanding it.
That's an absurd comparison. Tory may threaten BBC. There are still articles which stop just short of "here's how Boris lied" (https://www.bbc.com/news/60679290) On the other hand RT publishes what Kremlin wants it publish. There is no opposing view allowed. They'd simply not exist if they wanted to be independent.
The usual excuse is that they are optimizing for results that produce clicks on paid search, rather than optimizing for your satisfaction with the search results.
Such modular design is tricky. Some parts require close distance to specific components like clocks. OP did a good job by solving such problems.
You can attack artillery positions that are otherwise out of reach.
This post is kind of adorable.

You can’t blame someone for thinking this if they’re drinking from the media firehouse. For example a popular post on reddit right now: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tbmdke/r...
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Correct. So ultimately the conclusion to this thread that one might draw is that the professions vary in complexity and nuance, even within themselves, and that attempting to fashion a hierarchy among them with incomplete information (and a hint of arrogance from those who are so inclined) is more likely to establish a false paradigm than to produce anything reflecting the complexities of any of the professions.

In short, I think we're arguing the same thing and I agree with us.
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Those are a minority of all debts by total value. People won't refinacne to a higher rate, and those who get high rates plan to refinancing in a few years when rates improve (might not happen but that is the plan)

For a bit over half of Americans inflation is good for their situation over 10 years.
Time; the nature of time itself.

I know that time prevents all things happening at once... but what _is_ time? How does it work? How did it start? Mind-boggling...
What's frightening is it took several years for Germany. 2 weeks for the entirety of the Western world.
Eat whole food plant-based.
Yes, our company considered inflation every year (not just the years where the media talked about it). Ultimately, it was the role of those accountable for the budget to make the claim. It all started with the budget cycle and budget increases in a division would be scrutinized. Actual or projected inflation, along with actual or projected growth and other things could all be argued and as budget rolled up to the executive committees, we would generate consensus bands for what the next year looked like. The budget cycle preceded the merit increase cycle by a full quarter, but the budget cycle is what generated the guidance we needed.

The money to pay employee comes from budgets not from comp review. If your company isn't considering inflation they either don't have a proper budget process to gather the info or the accountable individual isn't doing their job to consider it.

It is also possible your division was not given the money to give raises or your director blew the money on growing the team wide in head count rather than tall with raises. At the level the budgets are made, they dont care if your division has 10 well paid people or 100 poorly paid people - your division is given $X to complete Y work packages, the executives don't give a shit how the director achieves it as long as it gets done.
Alexander Hamilton, famously wanted and got a central bank exactly for the purpose of issuing money. There’s a musical about it.

George Washington suppressed a rebellion that started at least in part because the federal government was interfering with the use of whiskey as a medium of exchange.

I’m fairly receptive to the Jeffersonian view that these were not good ideas for the federal government but claiming the founding fathers didn’t view them as federal powers just isn’t true.
How do you handle multiple readers and writers? Have you benchmarked performance? How is authentication and authorization handled?
I am floored by the design.

However, the most complex and costly part is the PCB and circuit design. The PCBs used in the blocks are absolutely awesome.

Thanks to 3D printers that are cheap, the casing and other plastic materials are easy to make.

All that being said, this has very low chance of becoming a real world product. Real world is messy, dirty, wet and an absolutely shitty place for snap on electronics.

What would work, is better connector technology. It is obvious that even with all this simplification, this will still be a hobbyist product, rather than a serious mass market product.
This is especially annoying for Portuguese people. Because most Portuguese speakers are Brazilian, sometimes websites default to Brazilian pages or trends.

Twitter is becoming almost unusable with their suggested topics - I know they're awful for most people, but for me they don't even get the country right...
>Or, perhaps, just the blissful America-centric ignorance

Ignorance, or arrogance?
Military drone likely flying from Ukraine crashes in Croatia
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> Netflix does way more than "streaming big binary blocks of data from a CDN".

Yes, but our point (or at least mine) is that it should not. Transcoding takes place once and for all when you first upload the video, then you can call it a day and let caching proxies distribute bits to people who want to download them.

Do users benefit from the machine learning algorithms and statistics collected by Netflix? No. Managers and shareholders benefit from it, and they're gonna let such big corporations destroy our entire planet if that's what it takes for their fame and profits. Just think about the ecological impact of what you're building, for humanity's sake.
OccamBSD is a new script cutting down FreeBSD to a minimum, the README has some links to other alternatives: https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd
overcome come perfectionism by doing more. important things will fall out of the cracks in the software. then you can focus on the issues that arise from the cracks. so simply put, if youre suffering from perfectionsim, youre not spreading yourself out enough, i.e. too narrow minded. this forces you to make mistakes and mistakes are sometimes good.
My personal papercut is with YouTube.

It doesn’t care that:

- my browser is in English

- that I’m logged in and with English as my language

- that my region is set to the U.S.

- that I only used English keywords on the search box

It still gives me Portuguese results as my geo ip is in Brazil.

It’s infuriating.
> Or, perhaps just the blissful America-centric ignorance about how there are regions in the world where there are multiple official languages

As a brit, I am always irked that most of what I browse is locked to US English, as if it's the same thing as British English. At least if your main language is a popular non-English language you get the option to switch to it.

This is compounded by those location drop-downs, Where United States is always in the special top slot, and below that is everywhere else on the planet, like second rate-citizens. It's especially egregious on global sites, that serve global content.
It's as though OP takes joy in dumping on the currency 150 million people, mostly poor, use for their livelihood.

We will look back on this period as a time of mob-think hysteria against Russians. One of those times where even if you say something decent about Russians, you may feel compelled to preface with "I'm no fan of Putin, but..."
Food and Books.

[does money have other relevant purposes?]
What do you do outside of the 40 hour job?
I think there's a way to skip that with a URL parameter, I just unfortunately can't remember what it is -- something like /about?welcome=false or whatever. (I realise that's a hacky workaround and only solves part of the problem, but at least you can save some readers from the welcome screen)
Not a sailor and was going to add square knot until I looked up reef knot! Learning to tie a one handed bowline is a good skill, too. (Same knot, just technique to tie it around yourself in emergency. Don't want to be following the bunny out of the hole, around the tree, and back in the hole when you are on a sketchy cliff!)
You can only settle certain debts by using the RUB which will then be exchanged back into USD/YEN/GBP/EUR.

When all the debt obligations are settled and no new debt can be allocated, you will see a free fall.
This is extremely annoying and wrong in so many ways. Especially in countries that use multiple, say, conflicting languages, and Google's choices come off as culturally very insensitive, even offensive. It is so infuriating.
The US government still spends more on healthcare as a total amount per person (about $1.4T, or $3,880 per person, just for medicare+medicaid), compared with the UK (about $3,300 per person)

The US as a whole in 2019 spent 16% of its GDP on Health, 4% on Military

The UK meanwhile spent 10% on Health and 3% on Military
Everytime they mess with my feed, I get closer to closing my account; especially as they exert more and more control.

all I want is to follow specific people and see their tweets in chronological order. I don't want it shuffled, i don't care what they've liked, I don't care what who follows them is tweeting (if I did, i would be following them).

Also, it's creepy there is no "disable" or "stop" functionality. Everything is "See less often". No, I don't want to see it EVER.
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It would insane for Europe (Germany) to stop getting those gas (especially in the middle of winter). For many Europeans Russian is part of Europe.
> note: I also have no smart doorbells, cloud connected security cameras, ...

If you want a CCTV camera you can still get 'old school' commercial grade IP cameras from eBay. Mercifully free of cloud attachment, but with ftp, email and http notification. Probably will have dynamic DNS, but that can be useful.
C++ adds a few time-consuming stuff, like templates, however my belief was that what uses the most time is optimization passes, which won't be much faster for C. The actual benchmarks should be done however.
Police may be enforcing laws that you consider immoral. There's lots of current laws I would consider immoral. (requests like "Confirm whether this person searched for abortion clinics")

On the other hand if any business exists as a legal, registered entity, of course they will comply with local LE requests. Not sure who expects otherwise.
A protest isnt a protest unless its illegal and disruptive, that is the point. You are protesting as last resort against laws that need disruption.
Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
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While like you, I am not convinced that writers tend to end their careers earlier than painters (the three greatest living American novelists, DeLillo, Pynchon and McCarthy, all well in their 80s, have all published relatively recently), I have to say that Chateaubriand represents a special case. A large portion of his memoir was written well before his death and he relied on notes which he wrote in his youth. From Rosen's "Romantic poets, critics, and other madmen":

>Chateaubriand alone of these writers was able to continue to produce work in later years comparable to his first masterpieces. His case is exemplary: what he did was to continue to publish and develop his earliest work. He returned from America aged twenty-four carrying an enormous manuscript (he claimed improbably that it later saved his life during the wars against the young revolutionary government of France by stopping a bullet). He extracted one book after another from this, starting with the Essay on Revolutions, The Genius of Christianity, and The Voyage to America.

>The late autobiographical work, however, retains much of his youthful power: considerable portions had been written much earlier, and the title. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, is revealing—Chateaubriand wrote as if already dead and he had less need to compromise.
In Germany there's already discussions about lifting the sanctions because without cheap Russian gas, people might freeze. If that turns out to be the case, then whoever bought Rubles now at half their regular value is going to make a huge profit on buying gas/oil from that and selling it for Euros.
They passed a law that made ordinary people convert all their currency holdings to at least 80% RUB, therefore artificially creating demand for RUB.
Very similar. Only difference is 10% gold instead of crypto.
U.S., G7 allies may strip Russia of 'most favored nation' status
the EU is planning to cut their Russian gas demand by 2/3rds by the end of 2022
As a Spaniard I am really tired of American companies that think that Mexican localisation for apps or websites is acceptable.

Not to mention as you said many sites such as Twitter think I care about what happens in South America because I speak the same language.
China locks-down a City of 9Mil amid a new-spike in Covid-19 cases
It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s probably why it’s not being shown
> Generally interest rates negotiated between lender and borrower take expected (or even actual) inflation into account, so that only works when inflation runs well above expectations, or interest rates are artificially suppressed through subsidized lending.

Hold up. You are correct in that demurrage does not affect the spread between loan rates and the "risk free rates. But that does not mean the absolute rates of interest are neutral!

Consider, if money halves annually, but the loan obligation is 55% (-45% interest), I cannot just sit on my loan and get richer. But I can run a very unprofitable business and still pay back my loan!

From a financial standpoint, you might say "no you hold up, what's 'profitable' mean now?" And financially, yes, one would wonder. But there still is intended to be price stability, which means roughly that a steady state business should still be running roughly break-even. (You could still do a the Sraffa or Leontief input-output stuff too.)

From a quantity of money standpoint, less money ==> no price stability, so the above is a contradiction! But money should be increasingly injected into the system too.

Basically at the end of the day, this is a surplus recycling mechanism to try to create a financial steady state corresponding to a real world steady state, so leverage is only needed for actual societal-self-modification.

I wish I could explain/understand better. Hopefully I will end up taking a class with these things.

> This is also questionable, because making money a hot potato drives people into hoarding other things like gold and then bartering with them (defeating the purpose of money), and investing in highly speculative assets like, err, Evergrande.

Yes, that ways Keynes's critique in the end. The question is whether the state is strong enough to just enforce that debts must be payable in the demurring currency. For Keynes the answer is no, but he probably would have said the same thing about pure Fiat currency. Looking at the Russia sanctions, Chinese social credit system, etc. I think it's easy to argue "yes" today.
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If you're going to be doing it manually regardless (if not automated), then as far as I'm concerned, you could definitely just use a "normal clicking speed" rate - so a second or two between clicks is probably just fine and non-parallel requests. Usually if it's likely to overload the server, it's probably slower to return, too, so the server itself will slow the requests down naturally if you're not using parallel requests.

Usually you're automating these things not to get the job done that much faster, but instead just to do it without all the tedium, so a slow but asynchronous scrape is fine.
> Are we saying the exchange value of the ruble is being propped up by Russians who have dollar- or euro-denominated accounts purchasing rubles to run to the store to get eggs? That seems absurd.

Except they passed a law that made ordinary Russians to convert their currency holdings to at least 80% RUB

Here's a source that mentions "exporters", but recently they extended this to cover absolutely everyone. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/09/business/ruble-russia-cen...
Creating a throwaway as I have a controversial take on this (maybe even the minority opinion here):

In my opinion, Ruble will become stable in few months (once the dust has settled that is). The sanctions are only imposed by the West (many Asian countries abstained from voting in UNSC). Russia will use Chinese Unionpay in-lieu of Mastercard/Visa and might integrate with Chinese CIPS (alternative to SWIFT). Probably even Indian Rupay in the future. It also has its own homegrown Mir Payment System. The sanctions jolt is going to be temporary. Ultimately SWIFT is going to not be dominant anymore. This is some hard reality that the West has to come to terms with. If anything, these sanctions have fast-tracked establishment of a multi-polar World and rejig of alliances.

Don't forget that other countries, who supported sanctions against Russia (due to coercion or tight coupling with the Western World), are also watching what is unfolding. They are seeing the disparity between how NATO invaded Libya and none of the NATO countries faced any sanctions, while Russia invades Ukraine and faces massive sanctions. Libya hadn't threatened any NATO country nor had it invaded any non-NATO country. It was going through an internal civil war. Yet it was leveled and Gaddafi was dethroned, and lynched in public. So anyone who says NATO is a defensive alliance is just bullshitting.

They'll all have a rethink on what it means to be allied with the West and follow a "Rules based order" that only applies to countries excluding the West. It naturally follows that they will want to balance out their National interests and not place all their eggs in one basket.

One thing is for sure. These circumstances will only boost alternative forms of currency/payment systems. Imagine having the entire payment infrastructure controlled by handful of countries who can act with impunity. For whom, the so called "rules" don't apply but do apply for everyone else.
Former FX trader here. A 50% collapse is huge, especially over such a short time. It's not like some WSB stock that represents just one little company, this is a whole economy.

Now I'm not familiar with what exactly is allowed and now allowed now that they've been disconnected from SWIFT, so that's something someone at a bank might want to answer.

One thing to look at that this might be temporary. If the sanctions work and Putin gets deposed, or if he wins and the West decide to just go back to normal and buy his natural gas, then you kinda want to have bought a bunch of Rubles cheaply that you can use in the post-war Russian economy. Those Rubles will suddenly become worth a lot more, which speculators will be thinking about. It's a bit of a question whether you can collect interest on your carry trade, but if you can and rates stay high you might think it a worthwhile investment.
After the revolution was won, the bolsheviks shut down the constituent assembly after they lost the election, and disbanded the rival socialist parties. During the revolution, they killed anarchists, most notably in the Kronstadt rebellion. They also invaded the Ukrainian free territory, an anarchist stateless territory, to bring them under the Soviet heel. The bolsheviks were against any revolution that wasn't in their own totalitarian control. They were also actively anti-democratic, which flies in the face of core socialist principles.
> Banning encryption is such an attack on privacy that it's closer to banning clothes and easing concerns by making looking at naked people illegal.

This is completely missing the point of why one needs privacy. Lack of it harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.
How did you do that with the stock exchange still closed?
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"The luxury space communism idea" usually has an expressed or implied removal of scarcity as an issue. If there's unlimited supply of goods and services, then there is no need for money.

On the other hand, most sci-fi of this nature also has semi-military structures and the military is the ultimate form of communism.
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Cuba and similar countries are almost completely irrelevant for USD-RUB exchange rate. RUB keeps part of its value mostly because west still buys fossil fuels from Russia.
> How about we just stop electing people who are going to use power against their own citizens?

Well sure, but for that you've got quite a road. Elections were precisely designed to extract power from the citizens into the hands of the few. If you truly want freedom and equality then you need to build power from the bottom up and never let anyone "represent" an entire population... because noone ever can represent millions of people faithfully.

I mean, you could take the 500 brightest and nicest people on Earth and put them in a parliament and you would still get widespread injustice and misery. We need to abolish the Nation States and empower people and communities to organize (anarchism).
This is an apartheid regime. Plain and simple.
> Tell me of one person who wants to read unsolicited viagra offers and all that stuff.

The people who buy viagra from those unsolicited offers. Spammers have been offering that product for decades because it works. People buy it.

"Spam" is mostly just stuff you don't want to read.

> I think it would be better to engage with that stuff and separate the half-truths from the lies instead of simply hiding everything away.

It's not gone, it's just no longer near the top of a query for "what happened yesterday in Ukraine?" If you're looking for one answer to that question, Sputnik or RT is definitely not the best source.
Whenever I'm traveling abroad I set my phone & laptop default search engine to DuckDuckGo. The worse search results (sorry, but yes) are at least in English...
How does building closed source products fight open source? They’re not at odds with each other.
Google goes further than that. If you go for a holiday in Thailand, you'll get all your search results dated with the Buddhist calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

Nice work, world's best and brightest.