skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's holdings are large enough that will they be able to trigger an enormous inflationary spike by unloading US treasuries unlike pretty much every other holder.

The larger their holdings and the more the US is reliant upon their industrial output the larger the inflationary spike they can trigger just by flipping a switch.

Whether that spike is large enough to break confidence in the US dollar entirely and break its hegemony is another matter.

The longer China manages to maintain a trade surplus with a US and siphon US industry away the better their odds are though and the scarier them unloading is.

It's kind of like adage about how you owing the bank $1000 is 100% your problem and you owing the bank $10 mil is now the banks problem.
And that max level is specific to each individual based largely on things out of their control, like politics.

Edit: why downvote?
Very little, most of them run headless with no graphics

There are exceptions. For years you could only run Satisfactory servers by the server acting like a client - rendering and all
You are assuming wrong, this is Blazor’s JS support library. By “default” WebAssembly has nothing outside the WASM bytecode, not even memory/allocator. It’s up to the host environment to provide the WASM module a Memory and whatever “imports” it needs.
I don't feel that way. The limitations of the PSX do generate an aesthetic that does invoke strong nostalgia. This includes flaws like texture distortion, wobbly geometry, integer texture filtering and dithering. You may even see it reproduced in indie games, here and there.

I also disagree that there isn't "much to do", many popular games remain exclusives to the PSX and this is reflected in the prices they fetch:

https://www.pricecharting.com/console/playstation
> Along come NFTs, with potential permanent ownership... but gamers despise that idea, too.

Permanent ownership of what? If the game servers shut down or you get banned[1] for some reason your permanent ownership is meaningless. Also how are NFTs different than the existing systems like the Steam marketplace in terms of functionality?

[1] Oh yeah, NFTs require you to have an online account for the game. I would argue my unlocks in SSBM are much more permanent than any game NFT because there's no account for Nintendo to ban that could cause me to lose access to them.
I'm on a project where money doesn't seem to matter and it's obnoxious.
> If your computer gets infected by virus, all your passwords will be leaked.

Computers can get compromised, and physical keys can be stolen.
Can confirm, reverse engineering Android apps is decently easy if you aren't afraid of manually parsing Java bytecode (it's not that bad). I tried to reverse engineer the encryption/decryption mechanism for a digital book app (it was garbage, and I just wanted to read my books in a nice app :( ) and was almost successful.
Although I'd argue Muntz, becoming a verb, probably achieved what Crazy Eddie claimed to have done.
They look nothing alike.

Re: moonswatch; The hands are too short, the second hand is shaped incorrectly, the chronograph registers are in the wrong spot, the text is in the wrong spot, the case looks like chinese backyard forge pot metal, it’s on a cheap looking Velcro NATO instead of a bracelet, etc.

At a glance from 10’ away it might look like a speedy pro, but not up close.
Yes. Compensation is best measured as hourly rate: $/h. Working too hard just decreases that ratio because work hours increase while money stays constant.
However if you get hold on a single copy, you're not willing to publish it, as it will point to you as the source of the leak. You also can't get access to another copy, because the person that got that, has the same consideration.

So you need someone who has an access to two copies, or is trusted, by at least two people with copies, to remove hidden data.
Understanding Layout Algorithms in CSS
Well, here's this:

prostitution (noun):
1. ...
2. the unworthy or corrupt use of one's talents for personal or financial gain.
(credit: oxford dictionary of English)

I am somewhat surprised that someone did not think to look for an archaic or disused definition already...
Free listings and basically the same customers is hard to beat.
But I paid for a game that wasn't free-to-play
The word "erased" is undefined. Erased could be contiguous 0's, 1's, random data, or some pattern. And in every case, those are all information in and of themselves. The amount of information entropy does not matter. Even if one postulates that entropy and mass are inversely related, that makes no difference on a storage media. The underlying media itself has the same entropy from the standpoint of its baryonic mass regardless of the information state it hosts.

Even the concept of baryonic entropy contributing a mass component is rather ludicrous. This is akin to the idea that either the Higgs field, and/or the quark and gluon energy within a hadron respond to the specific arrangements of the hadrons to which they impart mass. I.e., that the mass of the particles changes in some proportion relative to their physical relationships to one another in spacetime. That's a rather extraordinary claim that is nowhere in the math.
I don't believe RL or other modern online games could survive with even a tenth of the player base if they didn't have decent matchmaking, and you can't have decent matchmaking if you depend on players finding each other outside the game and one of them running a server and sharing the IP address. It's way too much friction to expect most players to do that.
I think most engineers who always search for tasks and work long hours are dealing with some form of anxiety or imposter syndrome.

If management hasn’t brought up any performance issues and you’re anxious about your job you need to talk to someone. You’re on the road to burnout.
conda: "Adding a WebAssembly platform" https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7619

pyodide.loadPackage("numpy");

pyodide.loadPackage("https://foo/bar/numpy.js");

# import micropip

micropip.install('https://example.com/files/snowballstemmer-2.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl')

"Creating a Pyodide package" > "2. Creating the meta.yaml file"
https://pyodide.org/en/stable/development/new-packages.html#...

conda-forge: "WASM as a supported architecture"
https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/issues/...
> My guess is that his behaviour was a rational response to being brought up in a home where he was denied love and affection.

I wish this were always the case but statistically this would be a miracle. There is a non zero number of humans born that no matter what we do they will not work with the society that works for the rest of us.

That’s the root of this issue. How do you help the ones that can be helped, and what do you do with those that can’t be helped. I imagine we’ll need a much more sophisticated understanding of genetics before we can answer that.
TL;DR: 'fuschia' actually works better with English spelling than 'fuchsia'.

English actually has a set of spelling rules that make it generally possible to predict the pronunciation of most words, while fuchsia is one of the words that sits well outside the spelling rules. The most notorious bits of spelling come when, as here, insistence is made on preserving the spelling despite sound changes making it completely untenable.

The original pronunciation of fuchsia in the German should be something along the lines of "fook-see-a". In English, the 'sia' would naturally want to affricate in that position (the same process that makes -tion pronounced 'shun'), which would lead to "fook-sha". I guess somewhere along the line, the k phoneme dropped, but the u also changes into an English long u (as in, it becomes the 'u' in 'cute' or 'cuticle').

The end result is that to spell the English pronunciation correctly, you need 'f', long 'u', something to spell 'sh' phoneme, vowel to make 'u' long (usually 'e', but 'i' can do the job in a pinch), and then 'a'. 'Fuschia' would be a spelling that comports with the expected pronunciation--while 'sch' is not the most common way of spelling 'sh', it is a way of doing so. And if you have only a vague of memory of what the word should look like, it has all of the requisite letters, and it yields the expected pronunciation--where the 'correct' spelling doesn't.

I'm generally a pretty good speller in English, and I will freely admit that the only way I can remember how to spell fuchsia correctly is that it's the spelling that fucks up--replace k with h.
For balance Volodymyr Zelenskyy also gets a response.
Why the difference? Most places that talk about outcomes are really measuring outputs, just with more secret sauce in how it's measured (still based on the perception of the bosses).
Flutter uses Skia for text rendering and layout; the same rendering engine used by Chrome, Android, and others. I'm beyond confident it can handle all of those situations.

Flutter demos have a localization dropdown for selecting different locales, of which the gallery demo at least supports many, well beyond FIGS: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/

Note those demos have other problems that make me crazy, like the copious overuse of non-selectable text. Why the default "Text" widget is non-selectable is a total mystery to me: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html You have to instead use the "SelectableText" widget: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...

I have plenty of complaints about Flutter, but accessibility and localization aren't among them.
This is honestly a really big sickness within our industry and it seems to be everywhere.

I don't think I will ever work towards a promotion again.
Is anyone honestly shocked that this actually happens with Google? It does seem kind of strange that they would pick such a high profile as Donald Trump to do this with but this is simply an extension of basic marketing adage of "if you don't like what's being said you change the conversation."

When there's actual serious conversations about getting rid of public libraries in favor of private companies. When people have willfully given away their culture to effectively infinite copyright. When we have groups of people espousing the idea that the public cannot be trusted with information to make informed decisions on. This is the end result. We get a curated response from the technology overlords that we put in place and then wave our hands private company not beholding to free speech or free information.

What's surprising to me more than something like this is that there are people in the open source community that support this kind of closed information and curated disclosure. They have forgotten the core principles that knowledge and information should be free. If you can convince someone to willfully put the shackles on their mind and accept that the idea of thoughts can be owned or thoughts by themselves can be dangerous you have them convinced that person to give up their freedom and that person will thank you for it.
> consider how much economic work is still based on the utterly flawed concept that humans are rational in a classical sense

It is not. In its descriptive mode, economics captures animal spirits well. In its prescriptive mode, yes, this is assumed. But rationality is a simplifying assumption, with work then done to explain why the reality observed in the descriptive mode diverges from the predicted behaviour of rational actors. Put another way, the rationality assumption is part spherical cow, part “what would we do were we rational?”

Rejecting modern economics for the rationality assumption is rejecting modern physics for its use of frictionless environments.
> surgeons / plane pilots

All of whom have downtime and at least one (if not more) backup. Software developers typically don't (strict adherents to pair programming aside). They also spend company hours getting better at their craft, building professional ties. Just like the article suggests software developers do.
Quel surprise... how could Walmart have known about Canadian laws beforehand. :-D
From the article:

> Example 1 '156X-12-25'
> December 25 sometime during the 1560s

Such a historical use case comes with a huge caveat. ISO-8601 is based on the proleptic Gregorian calendar (which extends the Gregorian calendar backwards in time before its introdution), and it also includes a year zero (which is not necessarily included in every proleptic Gregorian calendar).

If we use such proleptic dates, we need to take into account that they differ from the Julian calender dates typically used for this time period. '156X-12-25' does not denote the first day of Christmas in the 1560s, but 10 days before Christmas in the 1560s. '156X-XX-XX' describes the interval from 22 Dec 1559 to 21 Dec 1569. And to denote the day of Caesar's death, 15 March 44 BC, we have to write: '-0043-03-13'.
Nuclear Expert Comment on Samotsvety Nuclear Risk Forecast
From my read, the title doesn't seem accurate at all.

>You should try and spend your time in ways that will benefit you and your employer.

The title says to do less work, but in reality seems you're still doing as much work but rather developing those other skills. Really just improving yourself.

My 2 previous jobs were MSP. Like all MSPs, you wont control your schedule. someone else decides that you only need 30 minutes of your time to work on ticket X. It doesn't matter if that ticket requires you to drive 45 minutes away and then 45 minutes back. You will get chewed out for not completing the work in the allotted time.

You will be required to do all the self-improvement on your own time and own dime.

My current job though is awesome. I have been afforded the time during work to work on open source python projects that are beneficial to the team.

For example, I had recommended we get solarwinds. less than a year later the solarwinds supply chain thing dropped. we dropped solarwinds. I decided screw it. I rebuilt the functionality we wanted in django. Prior to this job I didnt know python. Now I have multiple useful python projects.

I can certainly confirm that this approach has been much better.
A Google billionaire helped pay for Biden's science office
A theory I’ve heard is the value of dowsing might be that it is essentially random. If you ask a group of people to find something using their rational faculties, they’ll tend to restrict their search to certain areas... all of which other people will have already examined for similar reasons. Whereas the random nature of dowsing encourages people to search more broadly. Sometimes a random approach actually produces better results.
I'm a parent. I didn't use any approach; like every first-time parent, I had never done it before. You can read books and Wikipedia articles as much as you want, but you have to work out how to parent real kids in real life. And not all kids are the same; not all kids will respond the same way to a given discipline regime.

Both my kids sometimes exhibited "challenging" behaviour. As we all grew older together, I became increasingly sure that coercion isn't a helpful response to such behaviour.

I was brought up with coercion; I was sent to a boarding school where I was caned (yes - when I was a child, adults attacked me with sticks). My parents were of a generation where that kind of act was considered reasonable.

It took me time raising my own kids to realise that coercion isn't a solution, unless your child is literally a psychopath. Psychopathy is a pretty rare trait.
Defence in depth. Rust isn't completely immune to memory safety bugs, due to the need for unsafe code underlying many primitives in the language as well as soundness bugs in the compiler, it just makes them much rarer. It's well worth designing the system so it doesn't fall apart as soon as one such bug appears.
You decide as a team.

Concepts like story points and processes like agile sprints are intended to create a more realistic estimate of the work a team can deliver. The process comes with tradeoffs; it won’t work for everyone. So then it’s up to them to bring it up during retrospectives and decide to either change the process or… not.

It’s important to understand that working on a team means that you just don’t get to have all the nice things that you would working individually. You gotta approach it with that mindset.
Dreading the Endless Summer
This is either the most amazingly self-aware joke I've seen, or a completely tone-deaf unbelievably cynical response. I can't tell.
Make your portfolio look like Python, reusable CSS framework
Should be legal. At least by judging other similar active listings
Yawn. You've told us about your hate for Flatpak multiple times—we discussed it before. Good bait though.
There's more to it. The EME API is useless without the undocumented proprietary plug-in side (called CDM in the spec). It has no technical purpose. It's only to "standards-wash" an entirely closed DRM by Google (and everyone else's proprietary DRMs).

The spec contains diagrams and descriptions that have been acknowledged by its authors to be factually incorrect. EME pretends to be an in-browser thing, rather than hardware+kernel "hard" DRM. The spec proponents stated that they'll never use the scheme in the spec, and the "hard" DRM is the key feature they're after.

There have been a lot of process shenanigans: e.g. during likely the biggest disagreement in the history of W3C, the chair of the HTML WG announced that there is a consensus in the group about EME, and it can proceed further. Then the EME part has been moved out of public HTML WG to a closed-doors group.

So it wasn't merely Google+Netflix saying "we'll do it anyway". It was a subversion and corruption of the W3C itself.
My name is very, very common! But it starts with an American "a" sound and I'm not even sure there is an equal in Norwegian. Sometimes folks recognize it and pronounce it correctly, especially if they've spent time in the US.
Point Data Abstraction Library
Two challenges with making this work well. 1) Not destroying plastic and rubber components exposed to the light. 2) Ensuring whatever is passing through the light receives enough exposure. Often they're better at keeping evaporator coils clean than cleaning the air.
For me: when General Purpose Intelligence (GI) systems can build better GI systems.

Note that it's not proven that this is even possible: the only GI systems we know about (organic brains) so far have failed to do so, despite trying hard.

And I don't believe those organic brains are anywhere near to succeed, because I doubt seriously that the current approach (programs running on transistors) is capable of producing such a thing.
yeah I kinda hated the idea of the free to play model at first but since getting more into multiplayer games I think free to play model help keep them healthy and populated so it seems like a win-win to me. I'm glad not every game uses that model though.
Not all stores are 24 hours, moved to North Carolina and the Wal-Mart by us closes at 11pm I believe. That's weird to me since it seemed like all of them in California were 24 hours.
Tanks, Trains and TikToks
We might need something like Hanlown’s razor for this. Never attribute to a conspiracy that which is adequately explained by pettiness.
Man you’d be surprised at how bad in-house archiving can be. Especially if they’re working through freelancers.

They’ve probably got it somewhere
Thank you for such a complete answer. That makes it very clear.
Faker – What really happened with Aaron Swartz?
I agree, but there's a difference between "needing to be told" and "institutionalising your kid" because of it.
My system requires me to hold exactly one key, which is my master password. I don't even know the dozens of passwords I am using. When I require one, the pwd manager enters it for me.
The Role of Geospatial in Open Source Intelligence
Looks like I'm going to be begging as well soon. :)
What if technological problems we haven’t solved yet are exponentially hard and even rapidly self improving AI would still barely make a dent in them?

Then boom, no singularity.
Sounds like you need a vacation : )
And the worst part of this is that it winds up being a popularity contest. If your manager doesn't like you, they won't weigh your productivity the same way they weigh their favorite's.

Even if you are delivering as much or more than others, you also have to be liked.
Depending on what you consider core: also SVG, WebRTC, ServiceWorkers, Aria, Web Payments, WOFF, Web Audio…
> Fair criticism, but one that is only relevant in the first place because of freemium. Prior to that business model, there was no such thing as a company continuing to provide regular, ongoing support to a 7 year old game of the non-subscription variety.

Plenty of games get regular patches and updates (Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition being one I recently played) and back in the day, games would release paid expansions. No reason that Rocket League couldn't sell a map pack, for example. Sure, its a similar idea as freemium (pay for more content), but at least the expansions used to be sizable packs with lots of content. Old school expansions, as well as expansions like those of The Witcher 3 or the FROM Software games (which are often lauded as better than the base game), that cost about 1/4 the price of the base game for a decent content boost extend the life of the game, provide the developer with continued income and feel a lot less scammy than fremium games do.
Wow, that is outstanding if you are a shipper!
Your username is very appropriate.
Haha right, failure is part of parenting. Admit it! Even to your kids. You're a better parent for it, and it doesn't mean you're giving up. It just gives you a way to backtrack and avoid painting yourself into a corner.

And yes, if you already have a parenting style that works, stick with it. I mention Positive Discipline because it works for me and there are a lot of resources for it.
One reason may be that you have a lot of common friends who like those things or you like pages or are part of groups which has a lot of people who like those things.

Ad-targeting is not supposed to work 100% for each and every one. That would be counter-productive, because the algorithm will be too conservative and not explore enough potential targets.

You can improve ad-targeting for yourself by providing feedback to the model through the menu that comes after "Hide ad".
Looks fantastic, very clean. Thank you!
You don’t slaughter a chicken to get its eggs.

On a more serious note, why do ethical vegan proponents feel it is better for an animal to never live at all? To be devoid of purpose due to lack of existence?
The naturally-derived, accidentally leaked virus theory seems to get massive amounts of flak from everyone, even though it's highly plausible. I don't understand why...
I hope we get openness in lab research from this.

This being dual use technology makes this less desirable for some countries, but given the potential gigantic risks this research carries, this needs governance and should not be left to either pseudo military organizations nor organizations who otherwise have conflicts of interest in this kind of research.

Moreover, it should be default ‘no’ and it should overcome huge obstacles to get greenlit.
If they could only ad Sharepoint to this list, the world could start the healing process.
“Some people whose work I’ve drawn from for this article, from the past and present, include Carl Menger, Warren Mosler, Friedrich Hayek, Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Saifdean Ammous, Vijay Boyapati, Stephanie Kelton, Ibn Battuta, Emil Sandstedt, Robert Breedlove, Ray Dalio, Alex Gladstein, Elizabeth Stark, Barry Eichengreen, Ross Stevens, Luke Gromen, Anita Posch, Jeff Booth, and Thomas Gresham.”

Quite surprising to me to not include Nick Szabo in that list. This article alone should have qualified Szabo for inclusion:

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
If the look of early 3D doesn't appeal to you, sure. You probably would have had to experience it at the time.

That said, I do feel the mix of 2D sprites and basic 3D that many of the JRPGs (like Xenogears) went for did age well and works best at that resolution, without texture filtering.