skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not correct - "Consider what the logic of the Eurodollar system implies. Global financial markets and the global economy rely on the common standard of the USD for pricing, accounting, trading, and deal making. Imagine a world with a hundred different currencies – or even a dozen: it would be hugely problematic to manage, and would not allow anywhere near the level of integration we currently enjoy"

1. It is common to use USD because it is convenient, but it is not a standard. There is no structure that forces it.

2. The world does have dozens of liquid currencies already. Banks do offer rates on them. And banks do trade in them without the USD being in play.

3. It is simply not true that the current system of floating exchange rates would fail to function without the USD.

The author moves on to talking about it being a privilege to be a reserve currency. It is not a privilege to be the reserve currency - countries generally go out of their way to avoid it happening - the Swiss central bank headed it off within the last ten years. Patrick Boyle's recent video /The Weaponization Of The Dollar/ touches on this in the last few minutes.

I stopped reading here.

The concept of Eurodollars (US-denominated debt outside the reach of US foreign policy) has been effectively obsolete in the developed world for decades.

Any bank who has a balance sheet large enough to be involved in significant trading operations (e.g. operating as a top-level general clearing member at a clearing house, or acting as a prime broker for foreign exchange transfers) is also able to qualify for an account with the US central bank. This gives them access to cheap lending (free money).

When you take on this membership, you sign up to align with aspects of US foreign policy. And not just for stuff you do that is denominated in USD - it applies to all your business globally.

A recent example of this - Deutsche Bank got fined for money laundering done by Danske's Estonian Branch. Danske were operating on DB's balance sheet, which means that DB had failed to ensure that their balance sheet use aligned with US standards on money laundering, so DB got fined in the US even though they had no direct hand in the wrong-doing.

It is these arrangements that allow the US to be so effective in launching sanctions against other countries. Consider how Trump decided to go after Iran even though European countries wanted to stick by the Obama-era deal, and how thorough those sanctions have been.

Is it possible to have a top-tier western bank who choses not to have a relationship with the US central bank? Hypothetically, yes, but who would do such a thing? Such a bank would lose access to cheap lending in the world's largest economy and would lose economies of scale.

It is not the USD that is powerful, it is the US. The US is a vast economy with a strong rule of law tradition. Common use of USD is a side-effect of that.
I agree that they may have no control. However they also flatly deny any information on what may have gone wrong - and bank wires hardly ever fail silently. So they definitely have some info, but have no desire to cooperate.
You're simply using a completely different concept of gender to this person. I'd argue that not only do you both have reasonable points of view, your assertions don't actually conflict! You can both be correct.

I don't think it is reasonable for you to hold that your definition of gender is the only correct one.
To add a little more context, from what I've read they definitely had a large (actual) Nazi element in 2014, but that has been less and less true over the intervening years. The more extreme political leaders were kicked out and they grew in size significantly based on their military success rather than their ideological leanings.
The LaTeX compiler tries to correct many parse errors.
This seems like a super aggressive move, giving up lots of performance & complexity for some pretty com ppl lex consistency checking.

Is tbis in production build too?
But way more knowledge of what kann be done.
It's also not really correct. That's just the Acela. There are about the same number of regional trains (which are almost as fast; I generally don't even take the Acela unless someone else is paying). For people to the south of the Boston metro, there's also the option of taking Metro North from New Haven.

The Northeast Corridor service is very popular. In fact, I believe Amtrak has plans to expand it given that it's pretty much the only place in the country Amtrak doesn't lose money.
At that point, they didn't even believe the volcanism hypothesis, the bias toward gradualism was so profound.
Amtrak, like the post office, is given impossible tasks by congress and then yelled at when they fail to complete them.

In the areas where Amtrak is separated from freight traffic or owns the rails, it performs well enough, if not great. The "late trains get later" problem kills the major interstate routes, leaving them as land cruise ships for vacationers.
Just like comments, documentation is a code smell. Too much documentation is an indication that your codebase is in need of a major overhaul.
Not all lithography is Deep/Xtreme UV even in the newest fabs, because the equipment is so expensive and relatively slow. A lot of lithography is done the old way and is sensitive to UV from any lights. Box to box processing is almost complete, but there are times when a box may need to be opened or exposed to ambient light.

So there are some pretty good reasons to not to increase uncontrolled UV light exposure.
This means you have to pull your backup key out of storage every time you register for a new service. And that rules out a lot of safe places to keep it at.
But I do decide how I view people and what kind of identities I construct for them in my mind.
The federal government ate the cost. FDR passed the Rural Electrification Act in 1935 as a part of the New Deal, which gave large loans to fund electrifying rural parts of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Utilities_Service
'is streaming' is a bit generous or premature; at present Amtrak have only posted 3 videos, 30-60 seconds each, all 4 days ago.
I think you can often tell when musk is tweeting while high or not.
I use a setup like yours, with one nvim pane and many terminal panes. But I prefer to stay in vim land rather than typing directly into the terminal. So I edit my commands in nvim and use vim-slime to send them to the appropriate pane. I don't really have a need for tmux.nvim.
But why are you associating that with Excel? Every analytics tool features charts front and center regardless of how it is delivered, web, BI, dashboard, Jupyter, etc, and no matter what language it is written in (R: ggplot, Py: matplotlib, JS: highcharts etc.).

The guy's spreadsheet seems to work. He's delivering what his bosses want to see. You might have an issue with the final output but they apparently don't. What exactly is the problem you think you can fix?
Has that ever happened? What is the point of this hypothetical?
No, this is document as only occurring in development mode.
But we desperately need more anarchists. :-)

Perhaps people should read David Graeber and Cory Doctorow more?

The whole culture wars thing is a prime example of complementary schismogenesis in action, which was rather nicely presented in the Dawn of Everything from Graeber on couple thousand years old tribes.
Note that if you actually read the wikipedia article you linked, more recent studies found that the effects of previous studies are not supported by evidence, and found this with an extremely high P-value.

You're also more likely to get the parasite from handling raw pork than cats, and indoor cats are entirely unaffected.
It is the infinite regress of orthodoxy that puts the essay’s rhetoric in jeopardy. I think the essay is internally consistent. American culture has built up an unsolvable Zeno’s paradox that no one seems interested in thinking through because barbarians prefer to live in a state of supernatural ignorance. “All conversation about this topic is flawed, therefore the original idea and the response is unable to influence my priors.”
Agreed. About 20 years ago, I used the Emacs w3m support to let me browse HTML programming language books while coding on a 48 MB RAM laptop.

https://www.neilvandyke.org/w3mnav/

https://www.neilvandyke.org/quack/

https://www.neilvandyke.org/linux-thinkpad-560e/

Getting docs into an efficient "IDE" is still nice. Just yesterday, I was using nov.el to occasionally reference Blandy et al.'s Rust book in Emacs, faster than I could the PDF or in a dedicated ebook reader program.
> If you are in my lab and I've spent time and money training you, what's my recourse if you just quit on me to join another lab?

None. Every employer the entire world over deals with this. The fact that this makes you feel entitled to continued labor by "your" students is the entire problem.
Thank you for very clearly demonstrating his point, that the people who point out these tactics are often accused of being heretics themselves.
You are expressing a literally racist opinion. “Only race y can express idea x.”

Unlike others, I don’t want to cancel you for being racist, though you clearly are, by your own admission.

This tolerance I show towards others allows dialog and thus enables human progress. Cancelling racists does the opposite. I support your right to think out load and bless the sacredness of your inner spirit even though you think racistically about free speech which imo is not really “free” speech.
It's a troll who ignores the mass graves, the rapes, the killing of civilians. How sick do you have to be to look for "winks" here.
The government should build its own line. Its no joke to delay a cargo shipment, there are tons of penalties built into those contracts. As a railroad, you have a very specific timing on when your train needs to arrive, and the people doing the loading need to have it loaded in a set time period. Frankly, given diesel prices, cargo is much more important than people at this point.

Perhaps the government will be looking to add some tracks or dedicated bus lines the next time it funds a highway project. This demonizing of cargo when its absolutely needed in the US is just stupid.
> I'm really wondering why this is a problem.

To take an example from my own experience, if I automatically tuned out anyone who said something bad about the requirement to make things accessible for blind people, I would deny myself the opportunity to learn how they think and become more effective in my advocacy or, possibly, revise my position.
Also, "I'm not friends with someone anymore after arguing with them" has historically not been called "cancel culture".

Certainly I wouldn't hang around with someone constantly reminding me which of my views they currently think aren't falsifiable.
I feel like in the last 10 years there's been a (mostly unconscious) swing from "document" or "resource" oriented modeling in APIs back to RPC type "command" APIs; due in large part to the new popularity and ubiquity of distributed RPC systems like gRPC (or Thrift, etc.)

The "REST" trend crested, and RPC came back with a vengeance. Or people just abused RESTful appearances but pasted command and remote-call semantics in overtop of it.

I still think that extensive use of RPC on the Internet has the problem of (deliberately) giving the application developer the illusion that the world of the remote and the local are in the same "system", thereby hiding the intrinsic problems of reliability and latency with communicating over a socket. I feel like this is maybe why a lot of systems that should "know better" fall down when they lose good network connectivity (looking right at you, Android Auto): the developer has not been forced to think about failure conditions because the framework fooled them into thinking that accessing the remote resource was semantically the same as accessing a local resource.

That's my rant about this topic, anyways.
“But nobody is going to jail for their heretical opinions.”

This is not true. You don’t have to look hard for examples of people being jailed in the US for holding unorthodox positions.

Defining heresy as “a position they damages trust,” implies that an accused heretic is at fault for believing something that “damages trust.” That is entirely subjective relative to the one whose trust was damaged.

Society has claimed heresy to suppress political and religious opponents since the beginning of human history. We have also shown a track record of being very wrong with regard to how we define heresy in the past.

Why should we believe that we are any better than our ancestors on this front?
Are we witnessing the beginning of de-dollarization?
You can't put a jew and a nazi into a room and say "have a free thought discourse". Or a (american) white supermarics and (american) person of color. Or a homophobe and a gay person.

There can be no discourse when one side wants just to be left alone and the other wants to exterminate them.

You might want to rethink that 20th century lesson.
Because nobody, not even fancy techies, really cares about security, they care about "good enough" and all the usability they can get.
One million percent /zeen/ (from someone who has been making and trading zines for almost 30 years). Just a few https://bobdoto.computer/ZINES-1
Lots of people have studied the question of why women aren’t running Fortune 500 companies, and unsurprisingly the answers have a lot to do with sexism.

The average age of a Fortune 500 CEI is 58. Talk to any female executive of that age and they’ll have many examples of opportunities they missed out on because of their gender.

My mum was told explicitly that she wouldn’t have got the job she was in if they had known she had a baby at home, because it was a “high-pressure job”. They offered to reassign her, she refused, and she didn’t tell her colleagues about her husband or kids for another year, for fear of having similar opportunities denied.
Mega S4 Object storage is coming
This is pretty fascinating!!
As a society we had a much higher tolerance for risk when the electrical grid was being built. We were perfectly fine with the idea some people would die building it and some people would get electrocuted using it. The world we live in now has much lower tolerance for risk. You can't even screw a wall mount bracket in without carrying liability insurance.
Many of the examples make this article hard to take seriously. For example:

> Your landlord is telling you what colors can be used for paint inside your apartment (if you live in a rent-controlled apartment): You should be able to do what you want with your property.

If you have a landlord, it is by definition NOT your property. Also, what difference does it make if its rent-controlled or not?

> Being required to get an ID card when getting on an airplane: People shouldn’t treat innocent individuals like criminals simply because they want peace of mind.

"Being required to get an ID" does not equal "being treated like a criminal."

I also would have expected to see some mention of civil asset forfeiture.
Society deems it so? If you were of the opinion you were a cat the diagnosis would be that you are delusional.

Still, if there is no other negative effects, then accepting them as a different gender seems like a simple way to ‘heal’ the condition. Certainly in the absence of a way to fix it in the other direction.

I don’t think a lot of people would be well served by accepting that someone is a cat.
Linear is awesome. It gets out of your way and let’s you focus on creating tickets really quickly. The integration with GitHub means engineers rarely need to update the board since tickets sync with your pull request. The keyboard shortcuts are amazing and so is the performance. I’d highly recommend it.
The Blockchain Trilemma
Climate scientists' message to the financial world: dig deeper
> I say I cannot understand trans people at all

Seems like a weird thing to say. I don't understand FORTRAN at all and as such I stay away from people discussing it.

Why do you want to tell trans people that you don't understand them? Wouldn't it be easier to read some literature so you can gain a basic understanding?
This isn't being distributed on npm.
The apk is available through GitHub Releases.
what they ended up like, or how they got there? because I’d rather note and correct the trend /before/ we start torturing and killing people in public display.
"Implicitly sexist" does not mean "sexist by default". "Implicitly" is a reasonable qualifier here. You would essentially have to be a robot to make this statement without purposefully implying that women are less capable of running a Fortune 500 company. In English, "very few" implies "very much fewer than the alternative", but in strict logical construction, it does not, hence the parent's point and my remark about being a robot.
No, it's a deposit which you can withdraw at any time. Although some people argue that a bank deposit is technically a loan—from a legal perspective they might be characterised as a loan in some jurisdictions, from an economic perspective a deposit is cash and not a loan.
Nuclear Wargaming in the Cold War: Proud Prophet ‘83
My 2nd CS course at college was (I'm showing my age here) PL1 programming. The Watfiv compiler would correct obvious parse errors. Often, this would lead to much more insidious and not-so-obvious bugs down the line.
Ask HN: Re: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
Time has passed since the original post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794292)

New tools have emerged, but data silos still suck.
TBL's Solid seems like a great future solution.

In the meantime, I am thinking of building my personal RDF based knowledge graph and sync it with other cloud services.
How do you solve this?
> If "US training" is such a big deal, what the hell happened in Afghanistan?

I’m not sure who is claiming that US training has substantial influence on e.g. the FAMa; the French are (correctly) viewed as the imperialist bogeyman. Hopefully illusions about the Russians will wear off shortly, although given how long it took for public sentiment against France to have any effect I am not optimistic.

> When it comes to problems in the developing world, I think we neglect to highlight Islam's role.

Some generalisation is inevitable but this is really so general as to be useless, and makes no attempt to engage with the situation in the states in question.

> It supplants local cultures and religions and Muslim-dominated countries tend to be caught in a stalemate between popular Islamist regimes and military dictatorship. Egypt is a prime example. Pakistan is looking more and more like a failed state.

It’s not like commentators ignore clearly identifiable problems relating to Islam in the region. One major commonality is the presence of Islamist insurgencies, and that’s hardly neglected by domain experts, local newspapers, or area studies journals. If you were to flesh out this claim more and provide more specifics, you will almost certainly find that commentators do not in fact neglect the factor you identify.

Moreover it’s not like there’s an enormous explanatory lacuna demanding Islam as the explicans. Is it surprising that countries with (several of) a long history of coups, poorly developed constitutional and institutional norms, extreme poverty, rampant violence, poorly developed civilian bureaucracies, and quiescent courts would experience coups? I hardly think so. Islam is not exactly a pre-requisite here.

The countries in question are often governed by régimes other than military dictatorships and populist Islamist régimes. Consider that Sankara was a Burkinabé—or, moving beyond those countries with recent military coups to Nigeria, Buhari or Jonathan. The previous governments in Mali, Gabon and Burkina Faso were not exactly particularly Islamist. They hardly distinguished themselves as particularly populist, and certainly weren’t ‘popular’.

I’m not sure who in Egyptian history you’d classify as a non-military populist Islamist dictatorship apart from Morsi who was in power for a very brief period. Egypt’s situation seems to require an analytic specificity beyond generalisations about the ‘developing world’.

As for Pakistan, it’s far from clear that it looks more like a failed state than previously. The economy is not in a particularly disastrous state (especially compared to e.g. Sri Lanka), Khan barely trampled on the constitution compared to Musharraf (since he didn’t have the chance), and the all-Pakistan services seem to function (insofar as that is the right word) in broadly the same fashion today as they did ten years ago.
This is the problem of this “free speech”. They think it is “free speechl to call one “he” even if that one prefers being called “she”.

Anyway, maybe GP is talking about other “heresies”.
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Your ideas would be political suicide, and cost a bajillion dollars too. Port of Oakland is a pretty major port, your would disrupt service there for years, for what?

And how would surface Amtrak trains be better than BART? BART's pretty solid as regional transport. BART moves more people per year than the SFO airport!
I think you’re injecting a lot into my comment that wasn’t there. I never talked about cancelling anyone. I talked about whether speakers are always equally qualified to make the same statement.

Here’s an example: There are words that have historically been used as slurs that have been reclaimed by the people they were used against.

If you are not a member of that group, your use of the word invokes the history of its use, and is likely x-ist. As a member, you are likely able to use it.
The biggest benefit I’ve received in order are from these 3 apps:

Way of Life (habit tracker). Since using it I’ve been much more consistent with important habits like working out, flossing, gratitude.

5 minute journal - I use this primarily as a gratitude journal. We train our brains to look for errors (debugging software, sending out VC rejection letters, lawyers looking for mistakes etc) and this forces you to search for and find good things. It’s helped tremendously in my marriage.

Waking Up - meditation app already discussed in this thread.

Easy enough to find free replacements for the first two if needed. Waking Up is great for learning - the content Sam provides is like nothing else I’ve found.
I would like to know if iOS notes has reasonable export/interoperability features these days, because last time I looked it certainly didn’t, unless you fancied doing PDF exports for every note manually.
IMO once you’re into countervalue strikes you’ve unleashed something you can’t really control, so I’m skeptical of the game theorists who think you could kill everyone in Boston or St. Petersburg and still have a diplomatic conversation that isn’t fueled by bloodthirsty revenge. As one US wargame AAR mordantly put it after accidentally killing off a few billion civilians, nuclear weapons are not the best way to communicate intent, even in a tabletop exercise.

Unnervingly, Russian (and Soviet) policy has always assumed a smooth ramp from conventional to nuclear war and back, while US policy since Kennedy has seen nuclear escalation as an irrevocable step change in warfare (more reassuringly, China is, like the US, also unlikely to add nukes into a conventional conflict).

Russian doctrine therefore encompasses using a limited demonstration strike to compel an end to conventional hostilities on Moscow’s terms. It’s hard to imagine NATO not responding, though, because the obvious effect of not responding is Europe living under Russian control enforced by the constant threat of nuclear destruction. What that response would look like is uncertain, though warplans certainly exist, but it would absolutely set us up on an escalatory spiral.
> If you're more than 8 miles from the city that gets nuked

Even if you're less than that distance, you've a fairly decent chance depending on local geography and the building you're in. The inverse square law helps a lot.
Ryan Breslow: How Sequoia Murdered Instacart’s Founder in Cold Blood