skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bretton Woods system never fully ended in reality.
Bretton Woods just ensured that all foreign fiat currencies would be pegged to the US dollar which at the time was pegged to gold. It was intended as a mechanism to allow all global currencies to be indirectly pegged to gold via the USD.

When Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, the fiat currencies of all countries around the world were still pegged to the USD. This aspect of the Bretton Woods agreement remained in place... The USD started losing value but this did not cause the USD to hyperinflate relative to other currencies because all countries were still trying to maintain a stable exchange rate relative to the USD. It became currency manipulation on a global scale. Economies became increasingly detached from real value.

You should watch 'Hidden Secrets of Money' - One of the episodes does a really good job at explaining how this occurred.
Thanks for pointing this out: I got the mistaken impression that the OP had access to the previous owners files.
> Which other people would get those shares?

The offer is extended to existing shareholders.

So if you own 10 stocks you will be allowed to purchase 10 more stocks at a vastly reduced cost.

Something like that.

This way you can screw over the corporate raider without screwing over existing stock holders.
Explain yourself. I was, and am, very very serious. I spend time trying to produce quality posts, somebody comes, cannot grasp and calls this an AI?! That is a slur. Can you see how? Because, really - it's kind of costly and inadvisable to make the slur content explicit.

I am all for the insult when proper - though you can read the quite controlled expression in these pages -, on the expressed condition that it is deserved. No issue when you call red what is red and pink what is pink. But when one has full legitimacy in a post, and somebody comes and states that that must be the product of a machine, that is first an insult, and secondly a very gross fault - the here writing "non-machine" has all the qualifications. The insult cannot pass, here: we'd like this place to be civilized.

I expect that kind of approach to be censored with gravity, and I am surprised dang has not made an explicit note about it. I do fully expect any expression of such tendency to be corrected.
> On another note, I do not understand why all these banned subreddits that try to migrate to their own site always try to create their own software.

Not all. The admins of Ovarit [1] decided to use Throat [2] rather than roll their own from scratch. Their fork [3] has had various customizations added over time, but it largely follows the upstream. By all accounts, this arrangement is working very well for them.

[1] https://ovarit.com

[2] https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat

[3] https://gitlab.com/feminist-conspiracy/throat
Or, they didn't know that they should be riding in the street. Which is a problem of both planning and enforcement.

The road the sidewalk paralleled is great (for the area) cycling infrastructure. 25 MPH, low traffic, sharrows, signed Bicycle Route, and with wide paved shoulders.

What I mentioned above was more likely out of ignorance than fear.
The small city where I live managed to do the first scenario just fine. They did bring in several small ISPs (large ones deliberately excluded) to provide the actual routing to the internet, but the infrastructure is city-managed, and the project was completed on time and within budget.

It helps that our electorate is very progressive, and are not always pushing the City to cut expenses at all costs.
can be if they used that domain as an email address to log into things
Well, option 2 is cheaper at first. Then everything breaks down eventually and that is costly, but later.
Kind of like technical debt, but for a whole government.

Also, there will be hell from the public when the govt. makes a mistake. So, there's all sorts of bureaucracy, checklists etc, to keep that from happening or to at least have people accountable. Which also slows stuff down.
It's a little bit different.

Most of the ultra-wealthy live on debt. Here's the basic scheme:

- Let's say I own $10B in startup.com stock, but haven't sold it. My income tax burden is $0.

- If I sell the stock, and taxes are 40% in my country, I get $6B, and the government gets $4B.

- If I keep the stock, and borrow against it, I pay no taxes, but I do pay finance fees (e.g. interest). The finance fees work out to less than taxes.

The trick is to never realize gains or income. Debt lets you do that.

One more trick is that a lot of purchases are "investments." If I buy a mansion, yacht, and Picasso on debt I can use them. When I'm bored of them, I sell them, and pay off that debt. I've probably made money on the mansion and Picasso, and lost money on the yacht.

I've paid a little bit of interest and a little bit of tax, but much less than I would have otherwise.
I'd be fine with bringing back most of these banned accounts if the algorithm also died.

Without an engagement-maximizing algorithm that promotes the most divisive content, those accounts would just be preaching to their own choirs. Meanwhile other people could pop in and see just how unhinged and ridiculous they are.

Maximizing engagement means maximizing dishonest trolling, hate, fear, controversy for the sake of controversy, and catchy tabloid bullshit. The most engaging content is basically an adversarial attack on higher human cognition. It typically works by bypassing the rational mind and shooting for the amygdala.

Make it a simple timeline again. Nix recommendations in favor of search. Make it just a forum, not an inherently biased Skinner box that sucks out peoples' brains.

I'd support that regardless of who he lets back on the platform, because algorithmic social media is the real problem. Algorithmic social media is what got Donald Trump into the presidency, among many other things.
I don't know. After watching a lot of Adam Neely videos on YouTube, I get the impression that music theory has an incredibly rich language to describe music and does have a good understanding of why certain songs sound good, why certain arrangements sound better than others, especially regarding specific emotional cues they are trying to convey. That's one of the things I love about his videos, he does an excellent job of translating that language to a lay audience. But as with anything, full mastery of the field takes significant, prolonged effort, not in any small part due to competition driving the bar ever higher and higher.
Look into SETA, HQE, IPA, and SGE. I'm surely missing some.

* SETA: Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance contractor

* HQE: Highly Qualified Expert

* IPA: Intergovernment Personnel Act detail

* SGE: Special Government Employee
Hard disagree. Self care is important. Doesn’t solve all problems, but it solves many and helps others. One of the best ways you can cope with life.
There is nothing wrong with dangerous stunts entirely for self promotion. He just should have done it over private land with permission
Does gpg have non-interactive mode yet? I vaguely recall automating pass phrase entry being borderline impossible.
Elon canceled someones order because of what they said which I consider strong evidence he doesn't fully support others having free speech like he claims
It was somewhere in the interview where she mentioned about how careful she was at copying FB files because of her previous experience working in intelligence. I am sorry I don't feel like listening to the whole thing again to give you the specific time marker. https://youtu.be/_Lx5VmAdZSI
Quake supported cameras, as you put it. People made movies in the Quake engine with literal camera shaped models floating around. Also, Quake levels could be huge, much larger than Mario 64. Take a look at Ziggurat Vertigo [0][1], for example. Mario 64 was much more colorful, though, Quake had an intentionally limited color palette.

[0]: https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/E1M8:_Ziggurat_Vertigo
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72k_XBi2ls
I don't think China's doing it out of the good of their heart, or because they're less monopolistic. They strike me as being 1. smarter about it and 2. already having whatever control they want, through implicit means.

Somehow, I think that the CPC knows that the Chinese internet companies won't run without Alibaba, but I also think they know a lot of the Chinese engineers who work for Alibaba don't really have too many other places to go. So important players like Alibaba will probably stand regardless of the level of crackdowns they have taken. For the sake of competitiveness – and to keep Jack Ma erstwhiles in line – some random flogging may be in order. I think China is also concerned about the brain drain caused by having a tech sector that's too economically prosperous compared to the rest of the economy. (How they acted on that is another thing).

The U.S., meanwhile, evidently doesn't care very much about the long-term health of its tech economy.

I'm really uncomfortable about the situation that this presents. In the U.S., Apple has usually pushed against the establishment making it easier to crack their phones. And there are worse social networks than FB and Twitter. There are better ones too, but if I find myself wanting to defend Apple against the government (even though I'm sure they're taking their stance out of selfish reasons), then the overall situation seems like it is inherently balanced against U.S. competitiveness in tech.
Show HN: I made world's most visible workout timer/gadget
> When you deliberate misquote someone

Yeah, I'm done with this. I told you my objective was to summarize, you have decided I'm maliciously twisting someone's words. I'm not. I've told you as much. My misuse of quotation marks isn't proof in the pudding. I've explained multiple times, to you no less, my point but you've ignored it and have actually strawmanned it yourself. This is what you're doing right now actually by accusing me of random things.

I suggest you look into the "principal of charity". Its fine to disagree, but being hostile and accusatory isn't.

Read these while you're at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Without knowing what information they had at the time, I will say we now know that there was plenty of disinformation about it being manufactured and spread.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/hunter-biden-la...

Perhaps the most concerning thing is that a group of such blatantly unscrupulous people has actual political support in the US.

I feel the need to draw a parallel to Trump's refusal of military aid to Ukraine contingent upon them manufacturing an investigation of Hunter Biden, over which he was impeached.
Co-founder, by definition, usually is just equity. But they can often negotiate a very large chunk of it; having twice as much as the CEO is not uncommon. I oncegot someone to agree to a 49% share and a junior level minimal salary, but it still wasn't a good enough deal in the end.
is it ideological warfare though?

what’s the ideology that’s being “suppressed”?
It's already shipping in Safari 15.4!

Note this is a part of what the "Color Spaces and Functions" area of Interop 2022 (https://webkit.org/blog/12288/working-together-on-interop-20...) contains. See https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022?feature=interop-2022-color for the current status.
This is super interesting, especially his work on those foot pedals. I like to make music but only just know a tiny bit about playing. Maybe having foot pedals would help. I also created a random chord generator that you can run in your browser to get ideas for chord progressions.

https://chords.joeldare.com
How do you prove people are in a group of this nature?
Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey feels guilty about the Vine app's knockout
To me it's analogous to buying a house. If you buy a house over a certain age, especially one that's changed hands several times, there's a pretty fair chance someone died in it. You can either stress yourself out over that and walk away, or accept that that's just part of life and move on with things.

Last year I helped my best friend clean out his mom's condo after she passed away unexpectedly. Aside from a few sentimental items he kept and some things that were valuable either as gifts to the remaining family, for donations, or for or resale, the very very vast majority of the accumulated stuff went straight into the dumpster. A lifetime worth of things were cleaned out in two days and the condo was sold within a week.

Nothing in our lives is truly permanent and the only constant is change. Accepting that change is part of being human.
A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
The obligatory video is of course "Four Chords" by Axis of Awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

Rick Beato has kind of the opposite video about "the most complex song ever":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8

The song in question is Never Gonna Let You Go by Sergio Mendes; plenty of videos exist of it; here's one live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOPh3bTglak
> Why can't anyone do this?

Everyone can do this. Just call your bank and get commitment from them to issue you a $40B loan! Those "commitment letters" are contracts. It's a known bank with known assets saying it's promised to issue a loan in the stated amount for the stated purpose.

It's the same thing that happens when you make an offer on a house. You don't generally come to them with the money "out of pocket", you show them documentation from your bank that details your mortgage contract. But the mortgage doesn't actually exist yet because you don't own the home. It will execute at the same time as the purchase, generally through some kind of escrow process.

Things aren't any different, fundamentally, even five orders of magnitudes higher.
I'd consider a pension to be a pretty reasonable analog to equity.
At the end, where does he get money to pay interest?
You check to see if they are communicating.
For hand-tool woodworking specifically there are a number of youtube content creators that are good: James Wright, Paul Sellers, Rex Kreuger, etc. I pay James Wright a token sum each month via patreon, because his pedagogy is so good and comprehensive. I do the same for Rex Kreuger because his woodworking forum is extremely well run and full of people who'll take time to answer questions and offer support on projects.

One thing I wish I could have done was visit someone who already had tools. Getting started with hand-tools can be expensive, and I've both over- and under-spent on some of the bootstrapping gear. After getting some of the basic gear, a good first step is building a workbench, as it's impossible to do much of anything with handtools without.
yes, but fReE SpEeCh! /s
There was a relatively recent case of Bank of America deciding eight months later that it wasn't a fraud and clawing back their provisional refund. It turns out that the original card was intercepted in the mail and they simply issued a duplicate without preventing the use of the first, but it took the victim's attorneys to get the evidence from the bank, connect the dots and figure out this happened.
The Cloud and the Proverbial Boiling Frog
>... previous experience working in intelligence

Previous? But just moments ago you said...

>... she works for US intelligence.

And even still, the comment you reference is pretty innocuous if you have actual context. She has publicly stated that she worked alongside intelligence assets at a "threat intelligence unit" at Facebook[1].

[1]https://twitter.com/Rasha_Abdul/status/1496788958084280320
Likely this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-20/elon-c.... FWIW I believe you can read his content for free if you subscribe to his newsletter (or bloomberg's newsletter?).
It's dangerous if you can't defend your ideas based on their own merit. So it has to be done through authoritarian censorship and force.
Yep, the main argument for ads that they are for the population know about some new product is a classic case of the motte and bailey fallacy. Actually showing new products is the positive sum aspect of ads, and is indeed a good thing, but the vast majority of the ads out there are not those ads. The vast majority of ads are brand ads, and brand ads are nothing but zero sum prisoner's dilemma wastes of time and money that helps no one. If you could somehow outlaw brand ads, everyone except the service that hosts the ad would be better off.
> I've always had shitty handwriting, and when I was in first grade, my teacher told my mom, "Don't worry about it; when he grows up, he'll probably be typing everything anyway." Turns out that was far more accurate and generalizable than we knew.

My third grade teacher told my mom not to worry about my (awful) handwriting, "he'll have a secretary." Which probably makes me a bit older than you. I retroactively blame my 1st grade teacher who forbid me from writing my name in cursive; it was a 1/2/3 combo class, and she said she had a hard time figuring out if work was mine or the other person with my first name who was in second or third grade and expected to write in cursive. It might have been better for me to just write my last initial or full last name. Oh well.
The burden of proof is on the merchant. If they don’t have a signed receipt or video evidence they probably can’t win (so any online purchases are doomed). I’ve never failed a dispute in around 25 times, including several in the range of $2k+
Sadly, hobbyist-level of crystal growth almost always either involves hydrates or, unsurprisingly, water-soluble formations, leaving you with delicate structures of low Mohs hardness or pieces that require specific humidity ranges. It would be interesting if it were otherwise, because you could shape the growth of items that were amenable to handling, as well as embedding smaller items in them, perhaps making for things that were both attractive and functional.
Rich people generally get that way by learning how to effectively leverage other people’s money.
Wouldn't that be a violation of his fiduciary duty, at least in the same way that other people in this conversation have defined fiduciary duty when criticizing the board for adopting the poison pill?

Bringing back the accounts that spew stuff which pushes advertisers away will not make Twitter more financially successful than they are today.
Uh, I'v got similar calls.

Here you can watch video for taking down one of these call centers by police, not so long ago: https://www.delfi.lv/news/national/criminal/video-latvija-ai...
Probably instead of I-IV-V being the most common you would see the ii-V-I chords being the most common.
RTNeural – real-time neural network inferencing engine
Lots to unpack here. These are all medical officers. I hope I don't need to justify a physician making more than a developer. And if you look at the averages,[0] these folks are still making less than they would in the private sector.

What state PE teachers are making multi-million dollar salaries? I hope you're not conflating huge D1 coaching programs with "PE teacher."

[0] https://www.federalpay.org/employees/occupations/medical-off...
I was wondering about this - what's to stop him from creating 3 permanently sealed South Dakota trusts, acquiring 14% in each, and combined with his personal share calling a vote and immediately rejecting the poison pill and firing the board?
GUIDES FOR THE REBUILT, RECONDITIONED AND OTHER USED AUTOMOBILE PARTS INDUSTRY

So I looked it up and it’s not really universally relevant. This is why people ask for citations…
> VCs are a substantial part of the problem here with their decisions to use a power imbalance to get founders to take little to no salary for as long as possible to extend the runway of the company.

This might be true with some Accelerators or Angel Investors not VCs. When A16z or other VC's write a 10mm dollar check they don't pressure their founders to have poverty line wages... if anything they try to get the founders to go buy a Ferrari they can't afford.
Equity in what
> What's in it for the people banning these accounts?

Money. If your advertisers flee, meeting payroll gets exponentially more difficult.
That assumes the interviewer is ethical. In my experience, most people in SW do not have a strong cultural basis for ethical behavior of this sort.
I had this happen with various kind of storage - HDD, SSD (both SATA and NVMe)
Some of them tried and either failed miserably or built cesspools only other hate addicts want to visit.
It's EASY to counter Holocaust deniers because there is so much evidence that it happened. It's like debating flat earthers. No problem. Why be threatened by things that are easily debunked in day light?

It's not hard to defeat bad ideas with good ideas. Or you can just ignore it by turning off the channel. That's always an option.
If this happens, or they try to raise the price to be ad-free, I'll cancel and wait for the DVD to become available.
Heh, I just this afternoon listened to a radio show about the famously popular vi-IV-I-V/I-V-vi-IV chord progression [1]. If you haven't heard it before, the "4 Chords" medley by Axis of Awesome is a great demonstration of its ubiquity [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%9...

[2] https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ
You can. If you have a stock portfolio and your broker allows you to do margin loans you could just withdraw say $12k from your account as a loan without selling any shares and go buy a jet ski.

But if you don’t have sufficient collateral your broker will just tell you to get fucked.
Quite interesting how this is basically a slightly larger personal loan that anyone might take out to make a purchase.
Here's my take:

The author was born in the 90s, and was in elementary and middle school in the 2000s, when keyboarding was already seen as a primary skill. His take that "nobody writes cursive anymore" is true, given that for him, "everyone" is under the age of 30. Those of us who grew up prior to personal computers and phone touchscreens being ubiquitous can scream all we want "I learned cursive and I still write it!", but it doesn't change all that much. Some of us learned and it and can't do it any longer. Some of learned it and still do it, for whatever personal or professional reason.

Here's the hotter take:

Skills like handwriting are (hold on to your hankerchiefs graphologists!) pseudo-sciences. They are vestiges of elitist education systems, whereby a bunch of rich, but likely average-intelligence, students who paid for elite education, hired private instructors to help them become members of the "learned class". It doesn't take any special intelligence to teach or to learn, and can be used as a signal to others that you "belong" to the upper class.

Fast forward to the 90s, in rural North Carolina, to a grossly underfunded school system that can't afford specialized training for teachers or students. What do we get? Over insistence on out-dated markers of education: cursive, Cotillion, woodshop for boys and home ec for girls. What don't we get? Computer science, math beyond algebra and geometry, science beyond basic earth science, and US history that stops at WWII! 1600 students with excellent penmanship, who know how to waltz, but none of us is even aware that computers can be programmed or that people get paid money to do it.

And to the commenters claiming graphology is a thing or that it is in any way useful in sorting candidates for job opportunities (I'm looking at you France), you are just as wrong as the author who claims "I don't use cursive, so nobody uses it either".

NB: This is not an attack on the hobbyists, or on the aesthetics of cursive in general. Well-written cursive is marvelous. I just think we had too much emphasis on it it school, and likely it was due to our schools not having the wherewithall to teach us anything else of value.
Stupidly expensive and I have absolutely no need for it, but just look how beautiful it is.
The people Musk said he had funding secured from for taking Tesla private immediately denied it. To the point of saying they’d only had a single conversation with him, and never discussed price