skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are making a lot of assumptions here..

Yes, I am suggesting that fractional reserve banking is a good thing. You hold reserves for short-term convenience, so that in the normal course of business, you can redeem immediately on demand. You hold the rest of your balance sheet in different assets, so you can earn a return. (And you make contractual arrangements with your token holders that you have the option of taking your time to redeem, in return for a prohibitive interest rate. At least that's what happened historically in eg Scotland. This was called the 'option clause'.)

You are right that if your liabilities are in thing A, and your assets are in thing B, there's always a non-zero risks that the value of B might drop below the value of A. Even if at the moment, B is much more valuable than A.

You can make that risk pretty small. Small enough that it's comparable to eg the risk of all your computers being hacked, the risk of your CEO running away with bags of cash, the risk of the government just seizing your business, the risk of an asteroid impact hitting your cash vault, etc.

What makes you think this particular risk is special? It's just one of the risks holders of your liabilities take. I don't see how this particular risk should make banks more aggressive?

Btw, commercial banks (and other companies) in most countries are allowed to have liabilities in foreign currencies. Or liabilities in assets that are not currencies at all.

> If you choose to issue sovereign debt in your pegged currency, or support pension funds for your citizens, or anything like that, then ... don't peg your currency. Issue your own sovereign currency and get yourself some nuclear weapons.

Many countries get lower interest rates when issuing debt in a currency they don't control. The creditors weigh both default risk and inflation risk. It's not obvious to me why eliminating all default risk in favour of inflation risk would be an unambiguously good thing?

Before the USD became a full fiat currency (but was instead pegged to gold, silver or a combination of the two at various times), the US issued debt just fine.

Also keep in mind that even if a sovereign issues debt in a pegged currency or a foreign currency they don't control, they can just decide not to pay anyway. That's what Argentina did a few times.

Of course, your creditors won't like that. But they won't like excessive inflation either. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
also having a dedicated place for work is a bliss. Nearby the outlet.
Consumer devices hardly even have 10Gbit, and often don’t even have WiFi 6. Even if they did, my NAS running on spinning rust is not bottlenecked on network bandwidth even slightly, and affording the amount of switching fabric necessary to sustain 10Gbit across all my devices is not economical right now.

I mean, this might be different for fiber in some regards, but I doubt that is terribly economical either.
I can focus my eyes without glasses (20/15), and with glasses too. I can try on the glasses of a myopic person and still bring everything into focus, although it's an eye strain like I'm trying to focus on something 2 inches from my face. Astigmatism is tough though- either the horizontal is in focus, or the vertical, but not both at the same time.

One aspect of this that I haven't heard anyone talk about is the fact that you can get your eyes to focus more precisely if you practice. You can make out really fine details in something if you have bright enough light and you concentrate on one specific point and try really hard to make it as sharp as possible. You can focus on one ridge of the fingerprints on your hand and then look at the little imperfections on those. Or the individual fibers in a sweater. Likewise you can defocus your eyes just by relaxing them. Focusing is a skill and a muscle you can train. I wonder if many people habitually don't focus on things precisely, just leaving them a bit fuzzy, and this contributes to the problem?
Out of curiosity, what web3 services are there which aren't NFT e-commerce, or crypto exchanges, at the moment? It feels like we're at a stage where tools like this are preparing for a world which doesn't yet exist, but happy to be proved wrong. For now, if you're not interested in the former, the value isn't obvious.
While you might be right in that there has been a recent shift in emphasis in Russian domestic coverage, in general Ukraine was being branded (and/or perceived) as having mild "NATO/EU/CIA interference" since the mid-2000s when the first serious aspirations to align with the West emerged. This escalated in the 2012-2014 period, with the Maidan movement painted broadly as heavily "NATO/EU/CIA orchestrated". The war in Ukraine has been waged "against the USA and The West" for its entire history.
Sustained value for several years (yes volatile), descent liquidity and markets to buy and sell without restriction. Inherent deflationary and decentralized technology whose algorithms are open source and available for review. A speculative asset yes, but a scam? not really.
My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content.

To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better.

But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops.

I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size.

Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.
And when you update your kernel, you wont need to recompile the kernel modules every time.
Your second headline is straight out of a recent movie (rot13: "rirelguvat")
I'd not really call some of them concept cars since they are just stolen copies of Mercedes or Ferrari and other brands, does that qualify as concept?
a permissioned blockchain will distribute power to the politically connected. imagine rulesets on who has priority to transact during a market downturn.
> what addition steps had Ukraine taken to become a nato member?

Oh man... now it looks like I am a Russian defender when I have to remind people that Ukraine was constitutionally obliged to seek NATO membership, and announced at the Brussels Summit in 2021 [1] that it would become a member? And that this was the trigger for the Russian mobilisation near the Ukrainian border??

How can people forget basic stuff like that?!?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations
I had no idea that reddit consists to such a large extend of porn and related content.
> I feel like you are someone who would benefit greatly from income redistribution that was well-implemented.

In theory, but I also can't afford illusions, if it doesn't work out it will be way too destructive to me - and I can't see any reason whatsoever why it should work.

I disagree the problems are because of a lack of funding. Any western state has loads of money they could be using to help people. I'd be happy to add more if it just wasn't enough, but we're very far away from states making a good use of what they get now.

As it stands, I don't think any increased income from taxation would translate into more support for poor people or people like me. Not a single cent. I expect the opposite - the states would pour the money into enforcement, and people would get hurt more.
The starting point for temperature and humidity should be the thermal comfort zone on a psychometric chart [0]. Wind can be considered in this too (see the 'natural ventilation' section). Hours of sunshine and rainfall should be separately measured.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RABRuDIpRt8NxvGqB-Zu...
Tell her to not invest any money that she is not willing to lose.

From what you observed (feel free to cite articles) there are many cases of collapses and scams in crypto — with her being late to the game there is a real risk to lose a lot of money. There is of course also a chance to gain something, but she can't know.

The gist of it is that it is her decision, but that she has to weigh herself how much she is willing to risk to lose. You can only give her information on your perceived state of crypto, the risks involved etc. But in the end she decides. If she just wants risk she could as well just buy a thousand lottery tickets.

If she wants a safe investment this is something else. Crypto is not a safe investment.
The obvious markers to me is mistakes / skill level. The AI is making mistakes no human would and it’s perfecting advanced techniques only experts pull off.

For example the space ones have incredible style, texture and shading, but the basket ball lines are nonsensical. While the human ones are quite basic and artistically primitive but all of the easy things are flawless.

And then the bears have an eye on their forehead and missing half their mouth mixed with extremely good textures everywhere else.
It would use RT cores by default, but if they weren't available or in use (EG: running a game with Ray Tracing) it could fall back to the older CUDA

That's also why they split it out into two products now

"Nvidia Broadcast" is their "you bought an RTX GPU so here's a shiny toy"

And "RTX Voice" for people with GPU's dating back to the Geforce 400 series that only does it via CUDA
hah you're right, I don't know why I had that option in there, maybe snuck into my muscle memory from something else.

maybe it was in one of the older macs I had to use recently, or some combination with voiceover that I was running.
That's because the video is delayed as well, to match the audio latency. AirPods switch between Headset Profile HSP) (low latency, mono, best for voice) and Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) (high latency, stereo, good for music) to accommodate both use-cases.
What part of your comment is the quote? (Or is it the whole comment?)
As per my mum's fridge magnet:

"the older I get, the better I was"
Mine does this also. It's Erste Group https://www.erstegroup.com/. I also like they online banking. And if you register for a free developer account you get even API access for you bank accounts.
Someone really needs to send this to Adult Swim. Ksawery, wherever you are out in the world, this is stunning. Max, thanks for the music. Give the east coast some love. I might come to one of your shows!

Edit: for a fun bonus, watch the elements inspector try to keep up with the updates inside main > #container.
Wiyh reliable caching schemes you don't need "clean" builds. Bazel and co (used by Google, FB, Twitter, etc) all use distributed build machines w/ caches.

The idea that you can't trust your incremental build and so need to discard it occasionally is a deep failure of how most incremental builds are done (mtime) and not a fundamental flaw in caching.
A lot of people don’t know this, but Firefox uses the Chromium sandbox. I should know: I rubber-stamped the commit that first imported that code into the Gecko repo (it is regularly kept in sync with upstream).

That sandbox (and others, for that matter) more or less follow steps as outlined below:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/david_leblanc/2007/07/27/pr...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/david_leblanc/2007/07/30/pr...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/archive/blogs/david_leblanc...
> but this feels like a terrifying way to make your infrastructure entirely implicit

This exact problem is my main beef with an unfortunately common and popular style of functional programming : stuff so condensed, so abstracted and so focused on describing the problem all the while hiding the actual execution / implementation / solution layers it's quasi-impossible to reason about and understand what actually happens when the program runs.
>Cities with Nice Weather

>Doesn't include the city of Nice

disappointing
If you could 'subscribe' to a moderation service on Twitter, much like you used to subscribe to the editorial board of a newspaper, that might work.

It would make the right-wing less up-in-arms about censorship by unchosen companies. And create more space for various viewpoints.

At the same time, it would create even stronger bubbles.
For me, the DALL-E generated imagery looks better than what an average human can draw, but there is still a gap to the skill of a true artist. However, commissioning artists is expensive, DALL-E less so.

So there's definitely pressure on illustrators on upwork, fiverr etc.
Can we have this as a video game? This would be hysterical to do multiplayer. Maybe old style MarioKart balloons or something.
Mouse Cursor History [video]
If you have a stable community, there is a certain distribution of participants from recently-joined to oldtimers. The bulk will have experience with the community's unwritten rules due to experience; new folks constitute a tiny minority and and "infraction" of theirs can be gently corrected.

This no longer works when suddenly scaling up participants. Behaviour by inexperienced members goes uncorrected and drowns out the original behavior. Aspects that were frowned upon can become the new standard.
In short, the atmosphere changes - and no one genuinely controls the change's direction.
Not in Sweden.
How I see AI fitting in is being used as an effort multiplier. Imagine if a single person was able to produce an entire anime / cartoon tv series rather than the current situation of hundreds of people being involved. The single human could act as a creativity director ensuring consistent story and style while the AI does the heavy lifting of pumping out hundreds of thousands of frames.

Currently we have youtubers putting out crude AI voice generated videos with basic visuals, and its still funny and entertaining because the story is good. But imagine if anyone with a good idea could start producing studio quality works to accompany their meme video.
> In fact you should put filters to prevent neighbors from listening in using their own MoCA adapters.

Wow. Who knew that inbound cable internet has outbound data capability? Thanks for posting.

Is this a suitable filter (-70db)? https://www.amazon.com/GLP-1G70CWWS-Filter-Eliminate-Multi-R...
My next GPU will be AMD.
FPGAs can be low cost too. Another reason to use them is when you need a ton of IO, or my preferred application, real time control systems. In many cases I find it’s easier to get very precise, and predictable, timing in an FPGA.
Different user groups, different priorities. I had a colleague who was a seasoned C hacker and long-time Linux user (but not someone who'd be very interested in how a Linux distribution or package manager works). Their Ubuntu system indicated that there were updates. So, they started the update. However, it was taking too much time and they wanted to go home, so they shut down the machine during the update. Unfortunately, it left the system in a bad, (IIRC) unbootable state and the local sysadmin had to spend an hour to get the system in a consistent state again.

Is it reasonable to expect that you can just yank the chord during an upgrade? Maybe, maybe not. But users have the expectation that it is ok, there can be a power interruption after all.

This would never happen with a macOS update, which uses an immutable root file system and APFS containers to switch the root after an update. Or an OSTree system like Silverblue, Fedora IOT, or Fedore CoreOS. Traditional Linux packages fall flat on their face in such scenarios (unless you use a lot of band-aid like filesystem snapshots, set up GRUB to handle boot into the right snapshot, etc.)

I think it is uncharitable to assume that the people making macOS (or Windows) update are incompetent. They may just have a different set of requirements and constraints.
I have another problem with bluetooth - sharing. With a cable you always know the device is connected to you and you only. With bt, another person's device can overtake your audio even if they don't mean to. They were paired once and now simple notification sound can take over your bluetooth speaker. These invisible connections from multiple devices are hard to track and often cause problems.
> In times of turmoil however, they are often the first to suffer

In times of turmoil the rich buy first-class tickets out of there and head to one of their secondary mansions. Too late for a ticket? Bribes will still get the job done.

And anyway it's turmoil, so food-/shelter-/safety-insecure people always suffer earliest and most.
You sure know a lot about what a set of poorly defined future technologies will and will not do!
To be fair, you can be snarky, upfront, direct or kind about the topic and still get the same downvotes.
Cloudflare config staging and versioning with HTTP applications
>Lots

Same could be said for David Attenborough or Errol Morris, but that's not enough influence to be called "hypernormalization." Shining a light on how power functions is a gnatbite to, say, lawmakers banning abortion and homelessness, enforcing building codes, drafting a generation of males to war, engaging in armed combat against miners, etc. Even a documentarian with a mirrored ideology, say, Steve Bannon couldn't be said to be hypernormalizing- only communicating.

> citations

I re-watched some of "Century of Self" [0] to evaluate this statement. Much of it is primary sources: interviews.

[0] https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04
Because:

1. that's real (Italian) pizza and not some American bread with topping

2. more bread/dough, more likely you are cheated on weight of toppings
I've bought them 2 years ago including a few spares, haven't replaced them since (not sure what 'vacuum' means in this context).
> It was actually my understanding of the situation, I feel I gave a balanced view. Not everything bad, not everything good. Like most things: somewhere in the middle and everyone is too emotional to look..

In what way was it balanced? It completely misrepresented the findings of the NYAG in the best possible light for Tether. If you were acurately representating your understanding of the situation, you need to seriously re-asses your sources.

> It was new information to me that NYAG simply didn't investigate prior years at all, that's not the impression I got when I was reading that case.

I never said that. What I said is that not bringing charges isn't evidence that Tether wasn't lying about their backing during those years.

> You're grasping just because I'm not auto-admonishing them. That's not necessary. It mostly works because its mostly dollars, the western-retail trader fud is not matched by western institutional sentiment[0], and is definitely not matched by eastern retail or eastern institutional sentiment.

The concern isn't that the peg can't be held through large downturns, with the assets that Tether has, it would take an extremely large down turn to _force_ them to break their peg. What the question comes down to is trustworthiness because there is nothing stopping the people running Tether from walking away with all the backing assets if they don't think it is worth it to hold the peg anymore.

Thus I think it is extremely important to not whitewash Tether's previous shady behavior since their trustworthiness is the prime concern.
There's a pretty interesting phenomena in life that rates of loneliness tend to be vastly higher in urban areas than in rural. [1] It makes absolutely no sense on the surface. How can a town of 1000 people have a lower rate of loneliness than a city that has several orders of magnitude more people per area?

You're definitely right that as new members join a group, the mean interests of that group change. But you can't discount the average weakening of social ties. When there are 5 people in a group everybody is going to know each other extremely well. When there are 50,000 you'll have no clue who the vast majority are and respond accordingly. When you get into the millions everybody else may as well be a one-off chatbot. Unless you purposefully create a group within the group (which is really just starting the whole process over again), your odds of seeing the same individual twice approach zero.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012443/
I have a hard time buying this theory. I'm working behind a screen a lot, and my vision was mostly ok, but about 6-7 years ago I discovered I am no longer comfortable watching TV. I got glasses, which I wore only when watching TV (no more than an hour or two per day, and not every day - on average, would be around an hour a day or less). Recently, I had to take a vision test for driving, and I discovered that while I can still subjectively see OK, I can no longer legally drive without glasses. I went for an eye check and got a prescription which is slightly stronger than my old glasses, though not significantly: I can drive - and pass the eye exam - both with my old and new glasses.
Clearly, I have some myopia, and clearly, it got worse with time, though not drastically so. Also it sounds very unlikely that it was caused by short period I have been wearing glasses to watch TV. Moreover, since I've been going around for a while with no glasses, while my vision was somewhat myopic (I didn't have vision test for years and didn't feel the need to have one) - I have essentially been following the instructions in the article, without knowing it, as I understand. Yet, my vision didn't become better - in fact, it became worse, albeit slightly (which I totally expected with age, so I am not surprised here).
The answer is, of course, invariably, San Diego. That's the one city. That's it.
AppFolio chatbot operators aim to unionize
I think it happens even with out the growth in community size. Many companies perish, many groups of friends disband, rare bands last for decades.

People change and situation changes.
You can multiplex electrical signals too. This is how some cable companies provided both TV and internet in the past.
Really? That's surprising, I thought they already dropped the setuid requirement when they implemented the bpf sandbox.
If you had 10 kids a year after year, then you would need stay at home parent and that parent would need significant help. There is literally no way to deal with 10 kids and a job.

But also, the woman's body would likely break with that schedule of being pregnant.
Mechanized factories failed to kill humanity two hundreds ago and the Luddite movement against them seems comical today. What makes you think extinction is most likely?
And a physical keypad
Consumer NAS and laptops[1] do have it and with SSDs the story is different.

[1] Or more accurately, as laptops dropped builtin ethernet ports, the kind of ethernet you use got decoupled from the laptop model.
Large online repository of world newspapers