skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cory Doctorow is always interesting to read.

>"Capitalist apologetics" makes an argument that billionaires provide social utility, first, by motivating others through appeals to their greed: "If you strive and strive, you might someday become a billionaire and wield power, too."

How many people want to be a millionaire? It's easy to do. Walk around your downtown city, find 2 quarters(50 cents) and you can become a Venezuelan millionaire. Eventually inflation will make everyone billionaires but it won't mean anything. Yet most people cant become a millionaire in a western currency. They REALLY want to but dont.

The people who become millionaires have done something that benefited society to the point they were well rewarded. Perhaps they are a radiologist earning $400,000/year helping people. Perhaps they had a great idea and entrepreneured. Most people never have that idea or effort for education and execution to get that reward.

By extension, a billionaire right now is someone who had a REALLY GOOD idea and became a entrepreneur. They risked everything. Then worked with a ton of other people and made them all millionaires along the way.

So if you're arguing to end the possibility of being a billionaire. So perhaps you start going after wealth and not profit... or you bring in a progressive tax that caps you are earning 1 million a year maximum, 100% tax beyond that. Which is proposed by many politicians who havent seen how destructive this is.

You will end up with a diverging incentive system. You will in fact end up with a situation where nobody takes risks. Nobody tries to make their idea work. Everyone will just be a wage slave producing nothing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...

Afterall eventually the currency inflates to the point that even a mcjob is a billionaire and then you can't earn enough money. But it's not there where it's a problem, the problem happens much much sooner. If you look at the washington post, it's been on the decline for ages. There has been nothing to change this. It means projections have this collapse at about now. The progressive tax already has this damaging factor.
so he's not?
This is exactly what Perl devs said… Or is your comment sarcasm?
I don't see where your ability to spread out work is affected at all. Taxes are usually done annually, so how spread or concentrated work is over a year wouldn't affect the level of taxation. And it's already the case that this can't (easily - I suspect there are ways) be spread over multiple years. That wouldn't be a change.

I would also point out that those with lower salaries also suffer from mental health issues. I see no reason why yours specifically should take precedence.
Can you give some EU specific examples that can be considered representative and not huge outliers?

Shit happens everywhere but where am I in Europe if anything there's a lack of law enforcement in the sense that prison terms always seem to be considered too low, people with sentences under X months don't actually go to jail because of overcrowding, police is constantly frustrated that people they pick off the street are immediately released again by judges etc.
I think this is a clear case where war is just very messy. It is easy to come up will all kinds of legal frameworks during peace time. And then a war situation will not be what you expect.
I have a HN request where someone out there will know the answer as relates to your comment.

Somewhere, in the past, there's a "popular science" level essay on modern string theory that casually discusses the volume of radius ball and similar geometric implications as regards modern string theory in 10 or 11 dimensions as opposed to bosonic 26 dimensional theory and of course normal human scale 3-D. For example, if, hypothetically, in a very thought experiment manner, you wanted to squirt ping pong ball shaped "things" between packed protons in 3D, the gap would max out at X length whereas in 11D you could squoosh a somewhat larger ping pong ball between the packed gaps or was it actually a denser pack, whatever. Yeah I'm well aware the physics doesn't work that way but it was more of an imaginative geometrical essay.

Sounds like the kind of thing you'd find in an 80s or older "mathematical recreations" column in Scientific American magazine, but its not, or I didn't find it in an index. Which doesn't necessarily mean my inability to find it proves its not there, LOL. But that comparison does accurately relate the general level of casualness and length of the essay and being of general interest to the general educated scientific public.

It was just a fun read, a decade or three ago, and I would merely enjoy reading it again if its free on the net.

Its a typical search problem, searching for terms like "string theory essay" is going to return too much whereas overly specific searches return nothing. So there's some magic middle level of search term complexity that would find it; no idea what those search terms would be, mildly curious HOW anyone finds the article as much as I'm curious about re-reading it.

If nothing else this would be an entertaining 2020's physics blog poster topic or maybe a future xkcd comic LOL.
Which country and which stablecoin do you have in mind, if I may ask; just curious.

A big difference with banks is that in most countries with well regulated banking the government will step in to bail out the account holder in a registered bank if that bank goes under. While most government officials will sing and dance if a stablecoin (which complicates their monetary decisions and, if big enough, can even arbitrage those away) fails.

Government support is not the only thing that matters, but it is an important thing to consider when comparing a stablecoin vs fiat.
It is not just the people in government today that you need to worry about. It is anyone in the potential future also that may abuse these initiatives.
Yes, I would say the “just ship the Therac-25 with the Therac-20 firmware” to be a few degrees sadder.
Wikipedia informs me that the first papers used a laser (https://www.nature.com/articles/318162a0 - "graphite has been vaporized by laser irradiation, producing a remarkably stable cluster consisting of 60 carbon atoms") (1985) and the arc welding approach was a few year later. The paper "Solid C60: a new form of carbon" (1990) paper describes using benzene to dissolve the soot to extract the C60 (https://heyokatc.com/pdfs/MISC/Solid_C60-_a_new_form_of_carb...).
Culture fair IQ tests were first developed in 1936.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matric...

> All of the questions on the Raven's progressives consist of visual geometric design with a missing piece. The test taker is given six to eight choices to pick from and fill in the missing piece.
No, I say there are some specific parts that I find easy to disagree with. I strongly agree with the majority of his points, and on I think all the important stuff.

Ha, yes, his impromptu "PhD research project" went quite well.
It's funny because in this regard, The Netherlands is actually trying to do better and change the laws to allow mutually consenting teens to do this stuff (still tentative) and punish blackmail, prostitution (edit: of minors), minor-adult sexual interaction etc.

Our general mentality also seems to be a lot more lax and supportive of kids being victims of their own mistakes rather than going "yeah, that's illegal, let's throw a fine on top". Almost as if we acknowledge teens are going to experiment.
And they defeated Germany and dismantled the Austro-Hungarian empire. So it worked.
> having an EC2 based cluster where you have the resources provisioned ahead of time.

That means keeping unused or partially used EC2s up which means $$$.
I don't see how it will be different this time. The past decade has seen a bunch of failed projects that used algorithms to do the heavy lifting, and justice and redress for those involved has not even been served in all cases.

The Dutch Toeslagenaffaire¹ was a massive failure of using discriminating algorithms to judge if tax payers were defrauding the state (most of those marked as fraudsters were innocent and many lost jobs, housing, and hundreds even had their children placed into foster care (!) due to the cascading effects caused by being on this list).

The British Post Office scandal² is another famous case that will be familiar to those from the UK.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31013994

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
If the wider "crypto community" has been so distrustful of Tether, why have they allowed it to become such a systemically important pillar of the whole market?
> Consider that being "nakedly" unbacked (no underlying assets) in any meaningful capacity would qualify Tether's leadership for a quick trip to prison — as they've repeatedly said they were fully backed.

They said on their website they were regularly audited, too, and never completed one. There’s years worth of clear lies from Tether.
Man that's smart !
No, that's not how you should be thinking. You say nothing, you give no access, and you demand a lawyer and a search warrant. You do not need to cooperate. You cannot trust any police or investigators. This isn't about whether you are guilty of anything or not, this is about basic human rights, the right to privacy, and due process of law.
Yep, Deluge is the one and only desert island groovebox IMO.
> How can a chess playing nation think so badly. Just bomb others to surrender … Mongolian blood?

Yeah, pretty much. The Russian army in Ukraine apparently consists disproportionately of recruits from Dagestan, Tatarstan, Tuva, etc, etc. Ethnic Russians are under-represented.
When we get spied it's for our own good and when they get spied it's an issue of national security. Because they make the nation and we're just resources they monitor.
IF MESSAGE_SENT INCLUDES "A/S/L"

AND MESSAGE_REPLY.A < 18

THEN DIAL 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Extended Video of RocketLab Catching Their Booster
“Was… According to Zillow”. At some point, something said it was worth… please let’s not just post random tweets here.
> assuming people are at an employer's mercy is not a great place to start

I don't assume that. It's just a matter of who has the most power under what circumstances. Employees usually only have any power at all if there are alternative jobs they can take.

So when there is lots of unemployment, people are at an employer's mercy.

Neoliberalism has this covered though and maintains a certain degree of unemployment through monetary policy. Look up "Non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment" (NAIRU).
1) The challenges of one business can lead to opportunities for an additional (and different) business.

2) Diversifying business is nice, but diversifying businesses is nicer.
Because NATO has the initiative here. The guarantees, unofficial or not, now function as a deterrent for possible Russian aggression. A promise/threat to join a hypothetical future conflict is very different from joining an existing conflict. One is a deterrent, the other is escalation.

Besides, Finland has been a close NATO ally for a long time, shares NATO values, our military is already 100% NATO compatible, and we are strategically and geopolitically a pretty important piece of the puzzle.
My only comment here is you got to have thick skin if you want to follow this advice. Once you ship it, you will get a hundred compliments, and thousands of critiques (mostly from the jealous people).

When you don't have thick skin, you don't ship. Ever.
The past is never dead.
It's not even past.
-- William Faulkner

The future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed.
-- William Gibson

The empire never ended.
-- Phillip K. Dick
Taxes can have negative consequences but a single anecdote of negative consequence doesn’t prove that overall tax is net negative.

Every household that moves out of a neighbourhood is replaced by the household moving into a neighbourhood. A society where the most valuable neighbourhoods for working families aren’t disproportionately occupied by retirees paying a tiny fraction of the true cost of living there has benefits. Some households in the Bay Area are being undercharged in property tax by over $50,000/year at current rates. That’s $50,000 a year less for schools and services. It also means other, newer home owners have to pay a disproportionate amount more since if property taxes were based on market rates the percentage rate of the tax would go down.
And even then, weaknesses are built into encryption, long-term it may be broken with advances in computing (I mean who knows what the NSA and co are working on at the moment), etc.

It's better to not do or have anything illegal. Make it so you can say "I have nothing to hide", but don't give them access voluntarily because of that.
Don't mistake of thinking that the educated or political elite in Saint Petersburg or Moscow are not mostly in favor Russian supremacy over Ukraine. A lot of them truly do think that Ukraine is just a part of Russia and killing anyone there who thinks othewise is just fine. A lot of them look back at the Soviet or imperial times with rose tinted glasses and say "this was when Russia was at its best".
The Revelation of Saint John the Divine (Generated with Python)
Just because it is most efficient, does not mean it is enjoyable or that the life in such a hive isn't missing some qualities.
I learned some hungarian in my 20s. Tough language, but so beautiful.

I'd say there are some very weird things about the language. I had to wait until my second semester to be able to say "I have X". There's no such verb as "having" in hungarian, but you use possessive + being to indicate you have something. And we only learnt possessive suffixes in 2nd semester.

I'd say that something that helped a lot was that in early 2000s there wasn't that much people speaking English in Budapest. So, no cheating.

But also, trying to speak Hungarian would get people smiling at you for trying. People would say "But Hungarian is the most difficult language in the world!" (maybe not true, but I'd hear that a lot).

After a year and a half, I could communicate with my Mother in law, with some mistakes, but enough to get around and get complimented on my skills.

Couldn't continue living in Budapest, had to return to my home country in Latin America. But later in life, got the opportunity to move to Berlin. I thought "Well, I learnt Hungarian, I can learn German". How wrong I was.

Being able to cheat (Everybody speaks English) and trying to do this in your 30's is much harder.

Not only that, I guess what what made everything just not worthy was Germans giving you shit every time you make a mistake, or your 5-vowel mother language makes it hard to pronounce things. Not only that, but then if you make mistakes you get judged immediately as somebody that "didn't want to integrate". People would generalize and now, after 10 years. With 2 half-german daughters I don't want to learn the language.
There's an important difference between banks and central banks.
[insert 'select all squares with finnish snipers' meme]

Anyway, Putin says a lot of things. He doesn't see a friend in anyone, never has, never will. An enemy is just a small downgrade from status quo.

> I guess, the russians are finnished.

Da.
Also, a lot of banks wouldn't work with crypto companies to provide them liquidity. So, stablecoins came in and said: "we'll be your liquidity!"

It only works if the stablecoins can get you your USD back at the end of the day though, which is what's being tested right now.
Sending pictures to me via WhatsApp is not 'publishing things online'. It is meant as a private communication channel. The current proposal wants to listen in on those channels.

And obviously, I personally, can instruct anyone handling my child to not do that when such laws come into effect, but that doesn't change the fact that for many people such actions are completely normal (as it should be).
This is how free speech ends. If the parent doesn’t think the image is inappropriate or would damage the child, they should be free to share what they want. Full stop.
BTW, the assumption that Tether would not go substantially above $1 is incorrect. Tether has occasionally traded as high as $1.32 — of course these were only brief glitches, but sufficient to completely wipe out short traders.

Any suggestion that such glitches could have been engineered by the exchanges who are closely connected to Tether is, of course, nothing but malicious slander.
So when I talked about these proposals few years ago, I was told I am a conspiracy theorist and the EU wouldn't have done such a thing.
People blindly believe that the EU is this source of universal greatness and there is nothing sinister going on behind the scenes.
Unfortunately this effort goes beyond the EU - other countries, mainly those ran by WEF people, develop similar changes.
How are they going to determine your social credit score, without knowing your thoughts and who you talk to?
7 & 8 are excellent points!
The EU is clearly becoming a dystopian surveillance state, not that much different from China. And we still think we live are somehow better than that, and we live in democracy and freedom?

That being said, what are the realistic alternatives? Self compiled Signal? Matrix running on own server? Something else, like these Sky app supposedly used by criminals and drug dealers?
If USDC is truly backed 100% as stated then it shouldn't be a problem. In fact it might help them gain market share if coins with less backing de-pegged. Though I guess it could also lead to a general loss of faith in stable coins and folks as a whole would shy away from them.

Either way, most stable coins are built on some form of trust, and I'm much more inclined to trust Coinbase than most others. (Disclaimer: I have no dog in this hunt, I don't own any crypto whatsoever.)
There are some nice improvements, but also:

> ERGONOMIC POWER SWITCH

> NEW METRONOME SOUND

> NEW PACKAGING

> INCREASED TOMBOLA SIMULATION ACCURACY

It's nice to have a company that doesn't take themselves too seriously. How are people paying 2k for that though, I do not know.
When Russia's perception is out of whack with the actual facts of the world, it seems smarter to adapt Russia's perception to the actual facts.

Russia chose to try the other way. Sooner or later it will end up with them having to adjust their perception anyway.
Parametric Rolling: What it is and How to Avoid it?
Also, a pilot seat view (short) - https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1521339043803385856

They ultimately had to release the catch this time -

Incredible catch by the recovery team, can’t begin to
explain how hard that catch was and that the pilots
got it. They did release it after hook up as they were
not happy with the way it was flying, but no big deal,
the rocket splashed down safely and the ship is loading
it now.

[1] https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1521279458140823552
The starting comment gave you an example to start off with. The Netherlands, Toeslagenaffaire.

You can't go telling "yeah we really care about innocent people" when you let an algorithm wreak havoc producing false positives and then take ages to fix it while the families are still dealing with the aftermath. That's the opposite, caring for true positives despite the potential false positives produced.

I'd also ask you to take a few trips down some ideologies. If you believe "EU is so nice it can do no wrong", you'll probably be cured of it soon when you realize extremists are spread all around the world, and have no qualms exercising their sense of justice even if it hurts innocent people.
yeah OP why ain't you letting fear and unjust laws control your whole life? \s
This is not about parent control, it's about people doing horrible porn with toddlers and then distributing it to other adults.
The reason upstreaming it is considered extremely good really doesn’t have to do with unit testing or really exactly with testing at all. The issue, as stated eloquently by the parent of your post, is that without it being upstreamed, it’s Nvidia’s problem to fix any issues caused by one of their dependencies in the kernel changing, where as if it’s upstreamed, it’s only maybe partially their responsibility (main burden is on whoever changed the dependency).
The US really is mostly empty and zoning is the way it is because the infrastructure needs to be upgraded first.
Good sales people are critical to success. Most sales people aren't good, pick them with care.
Looks like it's sold out, which is a pity, I enjoy the design. You have a typo on the front page, 'eletronig' for 'electronic'.
Cloud run has been nice, but I really wish I could get a shell in a container in the same environment as my app. The “jobs” feature they’re launching seem like it will help for some use cases of this but having a shell for debugging is something I miss.
Both examples are (were) recent and in the EU.

Edit: sorry, I thought this was in reply to my sibling comment. See the two examples mentioned there.
No stable coin yet, the legislation is completely new so nobody has caught on yet - but it'd be weird if nobody did. The country is Czech Republic.

I really don't think anybody here would dance or sing. The politicians here are positive about Bitcoin, as well as the central bankers.
Chomsky starts from the position that the general population is ignorant of history and politics and can be programmed by the elites to what ever worldview.

He does not start from the position that an individual voter would have skin in the game, or understand the consequences of political and economic actions.

Ukrainians feel in their guts their country is being invaded by an genocidal adversary. They are not driven from their homes by US capitalist fed propaganda, but by russain missiles and tanks, they take up arms not because the conscription service ran it's ad targeting the poor and the unemployed, but because their home is invaded.

Chomsky simply does not comprehend a situation where he himself would wake up one morning, take his rifle and go defend his country with the local banker, the baker and the taxi driver.

I.e. he does not understand when masses actually act out of their own volition to do something. Political events to him seem always to be a "nefarious game programmed by US capitalists to oppress the ploretariat" unless it's something directly hurting US corporate interests and then it's always universally good.

In US this view is likely more correct than not as the financial oligarchy is pretty savvy there and does play it's own game. The world and the rules can be quite different outside US.
The Farmer's Fable: Free as in Lunch
From wikipedia [0]: "The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity and equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
I was hoping the “math” might be a Euclidean analysis of how … concave? … or dumbbell-shaped? … a district boundary is. I don’t see how a district that narrows to 100 yards wide in the middle could be fair.
There was no such thing from the EU; travel restrictions were imposed by individual countries first and foremost.

You call it "fold over", but if you think of a positive thing, it's cooperation. Because we have open borders - which, if you look at Brexit, is a huge advantage for trade and the like - it doesn't make sense to allow firearms in one country but ban them in another. It's a give and take situation. The UK decided they didn't want any part in it and... it decimated their economy, their imports and exports, their properties owned abroad, and any companies operating under an .eu domain name; it's caused an economic shift in Ireland which may very well be on the way to unification now, and it may trigger Scotland to leave the Commonwealth and join the EU.