skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you consider your presence in this country impugning on an Americans desire to have a country of their own? Just like Bangladeshis do?

Of course! My presence changes the country, because I can’t help but bring my foreign values and beliefs with me. People who were already here; and maybe like things the way they were, are entitled to not like those changes.

People back in Bangladesh would certainly complain if my wife’s family headed over there and brought with them all their individualism, social liberalism, notions of gun rights, antipathy to social hierarchy, etc! Different societies around the world are different, and in particular the differences between immigrants and native born go much more than skin deep, because even the ones born here are typically raised and socialized by parents who come from a different culture.

Under international law, distinct peoples are entitled to say “I want a country for people who look like me and have my culture and speak my language.” My home country of Bangladesh exists because of that principle, as do many other countries. Why should I begrudge those Americans who feel the same way?

> Perhaps there is a more appropriate country on this planet that you should call as a country of your own.

As an ethnic Bangladeshi my kids and I have a right of return. I can obtain Bangladeshi citizenship any time I want.

> Why are you treating America as some kind of science experiment?

I try not to! My family was invited here by Americans on certain terms, and nobody has ever really complained. But I think they have every right to complain if they wanted.

> This clayton bigsby schtick is only funny the first time around.

I point out that I hold Americans to the same standard as people from my own country, and you respond by accusing me of self hatred? I hope you realize how incredibly racist that is.
Investing generally assumes a willingness to bear the risk that your calculations were wrong because reality turned out different. Perfectly willing to agree that venture capitalists and angels are better called speculators than investors.

The fact that the crypto speculation has sort of worked so far as much as it has is fascinating. Everything is only worth what someone is willing to pay for, crypto seems “speculative“ on that scale because the drivers of that willingness for any horizon are so unknown. Is that what you were referring to when you used “calculated”? “Speculative” as opposed to “calculative”?

I think part of what’s interesting about the whole crypto phenomenon is the degree to which the “investment vs speculation” semantic is so stripped away to the speculation essence, as there is no intrinsic to crypto beyond psychology. Unlike, say, a classic “invest” scenario in which a revenue-producing setup like a farm or bakery is upgraded to produce more profit- in those cases the intrinsic is the food being produced. Under the assumption that nutrition with desirable flavor has value. But if you invested in Swiss-style yogurt on certain calculations and the market swung in the meantime to Greek yogurt, well, maybe you can only give it away to prisons and schools.
You forgot Australia.
In an ideal world yes, but the west has much deeper ties with China than it does with Russia. That will take a lot of effort to unwind.
> The entire point of Tether is that you can absolutely trust them with $100K, $1M, $10M, or whatever. It's backed, it's robust, it's tethered, and they guarantee payout.

No, they don't. This is what Tether says in its ToS at https://tether.to/en/legal :

"Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves."

So, instead of redeeming your $1M in USD fiat, they can give you an equivalent amount of Dogecoin or Chinese commercial paper.

Furthermore, they say: "In order to cause Tether Tokens to be issued or redeemed directly by Tether, you must be a verified customer of Tether." You are not a "verified customer" of Tether if you exchanged USD for USDT at Coinbase or Binance.
Meta-Analysis of Statin Treatments
When you say "a few people in suits", you must be talking about the Bank of England and not Soros, right?

Because it's the Bank of England that was fixing the price. By breaking the peg, Soros introduced competition.
The part that isn't mentioned as much is that he doesn't have the power to veto this
> What about Croatia? Would the response be the same?

Yes, without a doubt. Perhaps a little slow, but ultimately the response would be the “same”[1]. The US and UK have existential interest in maintaining NATO.

Croatia and Hungary would be kicked out of NATO before Sweden and Finland would be prevented from joining. At the point of Finland announcing that they will apply, all of the negotiations and box checking are done beforehand. They don’t leave things like this to chance.

Some say “but there is no mechanism for kicking out a member”. It doesn’t matter. The primary NATO members will just have a vote and say you aren’t part of NATO anymore and that would be that.

[1] I’m using “same” here because an attack on the UK or Canada could never be treated as equivalent to an attack on Croatia given the circumstances needed to be attacking those countries and the kinship of the US with those countries. A better way of phrasing would be if Croatia was legitimately attacked and invoked Article 5 of NATO (the mutual defense clause) the U.S. and others would come to Croatia’s defense. There is absolutely no doubt about this.
"Crypto Andys" already know this, the crypto community has been deeply distrustful of Tether since its inception.
The problem of transferring currencies is that you are always buying through currency traders, who are attempting to make a profit on knowing current exchange rates and predicting near and long term exchange rates.

I was visiting Montreal from the US a couple decades ago, and I wanted to exchange some US dollars for Canadian, and in the financial center, I found five different exchanges with five different rates. I had to walk about six blocks total to hit them all, but the difference between the lowest and highest was significant.
> so bankers could have their fun

I don't think the Bank of England was having fun, they were under political pressure.

> This is so evil on so many levels, that few people in suits can have such an impact of whole country finances.

Absolutely, it's immoral for central banks to manipulate currency markets. It only strengthens the argument for central banks to have defined mandates and be free from political interference.

> We all believe in a dream that it’s competition and market prices that drive economy, and then this happens.

Well, the BoE tried to enforce its will on the market and predictably failed. Once the charade ended, inflation came down over the next years the British economy recovered from the recession it was in before the event.

Wait, you don't actually blame Soros for this, do you?
Discussion about the "NATO option" has been part of the Finnish foreign policy discourse for close to three decades already. How much more discussion do you think would have been needed? And what kind of change in circumstances would have been needed to switch from talking to doing if the current invasion of Ukraine isn't enough?
Very suspicious behaviour, which has been ongoing for some time. Hardly inspiring of trust.
Coming up on 5 years for my iphone soon so already is viable in some cases
> I actually hate people disavowing themselves of responsibility here.

It's easy to say "they should have known" better because in absolutist terms it's correct. But you're focusing on the 'what' and not the 'why'.

For example:
https://rollcall.com/2021/09/07/left-behind-by-financial-sys...

"Normal" investing is complicated, and stacked against regular people. Now we're asking people to understand blockchain and cryptography as well as investing. Yet it's sold as democratisation of investing. I mean, seriously.
There are exchanges that refuse to use USDT, with deribit and bitstamp at the top of my head
Could one get away with regular AWK using these combined with a streaming to/from CSV converter?
What does Wix do for your friend that you couldn’t do in Microsoft Word (which makes acceptable HTML static pages)?

(I’ve never used Wix myself, so it’s a real question.)
1) You almost certainly can charge more

2) No matter what business relationships you have with other companies, but they will always save them first

3) Being known for paying on time can do wonders when the going gets tough.

4) Get rid of toxic assholes asap no matter how valuable

5) You aren't aware of the tech that exists and can help your
business, do seeks for advise

6) Better service is only
possible when the entire company believes in it

7) Don't mix confident with competent

8) Not all things should be automated

9) Buy things you need not want
Most (all?) restrictions where imposed by the governments. Can you give us more details or some example on that “total control” the European Commission actually exercised.
WordPress plugins (and themes) are plagued by freemium versions. SEO has been gamed. Gone are the days of finding a non-freemium, single functionality plugin, that just works. You have to be a seasoned WP developer to wade thru all the crap that is the WP ecosystem, or if all else fails, write your own functionality via functions.php.
Funds are safe at Coinbase, just as they’ve always been
I’ve owned and rented. The lifestyle* of a renter can be far superior to that of an owner. The financial return of an owner can be far great than that of a renter (or far worse). Being able to buy but choosing to rent is where I am .

* lifestyle being defined as discretionary time made available by not having to do anything related to the purchase of, care of or sale of real estate.
Oh noes! Billionaires have less billions! Thoughts and prayers for their suffering.
That isn't true. Many of us worked with Ukrainians before the war, especially in the software industry, such as myself. There was no sudden perceptual change. I observed the fear and anxiety my Ukrainian coworkers experienced directly.

They are European and they did not deserve this invasion and as far as I'm concerned deserve all the help and compassion the rest of us can offer.
Last time I looked, Hugo + GitHub + Netlify is free and fast, within fairly generous limits.

Hugo is great… once you work out how it works.
Bayraktar: Turkish-built UAV (drone)
Zero initialization is a pretty fundamental concept in Go. I can see why people might not like it, but if you are trying to prevent a large number of types from being zero initialized then you are just going against the grain of the language. In most cases you can arrange to make the zero value valid.

To me it seems extremely weird to phrase this kind of criticism by saying that Go lacks proper support for newtypes, which simply isn’t true. If the author’s real complaint is with zero initialization then it would be a lot easier to understand their point if they made this explicit.

> But it's annoying to do. For every type you'd ever want to protect against zero-initialisation, you'd need to declare it private in some other package, and create a constructor.

How is this annoying? You’ll need a constructor anyway if you’re doing validation on the value. Apart from that you’re just complaining about having to make a package, but that’s really simple. I don’t see how Go would be improved by layering additional privacy mechanisms on top of the package system.
This has been going on for 15 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
The Digital Economy – Is Digitalization the Sixth Kondratieff Wave? (2021)
Even closing of bars and restaurands was not imposed by the EU because it does not have the legal powers required to do that.

Please read up on competences of institutions before directing blame, everyone.

The EU has exclusive power in customs, openness of the internal market, monetary policy, internal commercial policy and some selected international treaties.

Member states are furthermore prevented from interfering from EU regulation - if it exists - in some areas of agriculture, environment and consumer protection, transport and energy and meta directives in legal fairness and security.

There is no competency for regulating health, that is solely member state responsibility.

Regulation of digital markets needs to attach to these powers, and so is derived mostly from a need to protect competition and internal markets.
Would use RHEL variants if it wasn't for not supporting zfs as good as Ubuntu.

zfs is too good to miss out and Ubuntu makes it so easy to use it.

Ubuntu LTS is all that matters to me.
> Really? So "we" westerners do have Democracy?

Relative to Russia absolutely, though we can always be doing more to strengthen our democracies.
A $999 Macbook Air costs half as much and has all of the same production capabilities and then some.
Yes, I am pretty sure that you can re-apply every year. This would further increase your chances of winning.
The HN attitude on anything touching privacy with a ten foot pole is awkward at best. It's clearly a hard problem and increasingly so. Being dogmatic about privacy regulations without a solution for the abuse caused by those who are open to abusing others seems a little too internet-hippie to be taken seriously in 2022, and that's a little concerning when it's the echo chambers of those best qualified and responsible for coming up with workable solutions.

Edit: What a cacophony of indignation and polemic black/white responses. Absolutely shocking.
Live in the pod. Eat the bugs.
"... fuck it, I'm gonna work on WEB DEVELOPMENT. That bad."

I hear you!
Is Germany really held together by force? Was East Germany invaded by West German army?

Because that's where the difference comes from: Russia is held together purely by military - not by economy, or culture, or language. Without military force, Russia will fall apart - same way as it did 20 years ago, and for the same reason.
Regarding what you're talking about, general memory.

You can ensure the physical machinery of your brain is functioning well enough to operate at it's best. There's four keys to help here, first sleep enough to be well rested, second regularly exercise aerobically so your circulation pushes enough blood and nutrients around to feed your brain adequately, third and related take some ginko biloba but do not overdo this (make sure you research this) and finally drink enough water. If your brain was already 100% this will make no change, but for most people they can get significant to dramatic improvements to achieve their latent memory potential.

Then you can program your mind to consider what information is important and attach emotional significance to it, which will help you remember further and easily without repetition or memory palace techniques, though they will take you even further.
> All of this is, I think, quite straightforward and correct, except for Point 7, which is insane. If you overcome that — if you can find a way to make Luna worth some nonzero amount of money — then everything works fine. "

Their solution was to staple a HYIP scheme to the side of it-- a service where you can deposit coins and get a 20% annual return.

...
Signatures by what participants, and at what stage(s) of the software development lifecycle?
Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone
Sure, the central bank doesn't have to worry about attacks if it doesn't artificially manipulate the currency itself.
> You didn't answer the previous posters question.

That's how you troll. You reply to everything by pointing out something bad about NATO/USA/The West without answering anything.

Serious people assume good intentions on your part and waste their time with thoughtful replies only creating more opportunities for your drive-by replies.
It'll be defined in practice as wrongthink WRT political, economic, or religious belief.

It'll be sold to "save the children" but it'll likely never be used for that.
If not, somebody is feverishly writing an ERP now
I have a legitimate question. How big is "desktop" Linux to RHEL (or Ubuntu, etc.) bottom line?

I ran RHEL 7 and 8 workstation when I used to work in engineering / science (not development or comp sci.) and used specialty simulation software and did a lot of Windows emulation via Virtualbox and programming in Octave and Mathematica. I really did enjoy RHEL workstation, and GNOME was a good daily driver. Lot of packages for RHEL (especially with rpm fusion + fusion tainted), although some can be very old. I used it for my 9-5, and even ran a laptop with CentOS. Without the need for specialty simulators, I've converted to the Apple world, though.

Server subscriptions pays the bills for RHEL (governments, banks, large companies, etc.). Is there a real market for "workstation?" Do they development a graphical OS as a community project? Anyone know the future of it? Are there enough paying customers at Universities and defense contractors using workstation that justify development of GNOME, Evolution, graphical programs, etc.?

Would love to hear people's thoughts.
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Here's a broad overview of what the role is going to include:

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Based on your preference, you'll also get a chance to:

-Contribute to the development of AI and ML in production.
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It's called the Playdate.

https://play.date/dev/
Huh? CHFUSD is down from 1.07 to 1.0 in the last month.
Swimlanes for Trello
'So I deployed it on Vercel, bought a domain name and posted it on the brand twitter account we created a few days ago. Why am I not getting users?'
it's like keeping all your money in only a few stocks, called stock picking, and is not advisable

That's the other cause of the general fuckedness - algorithmic investment. No one has skin in the game any longer, long-term investment is no longer a possibility.
Isn't he already?
The word you are looking for is analogous, not equivalent.
As I understand it, NATO is not a cost-sharing arrangement. Everyone pays for their own defense forces.

Sure, that means if some country were to pay nothing for theirs -- i.e. don't have any -- then the others would have to do all the defending of that country, and so "pay indirectly"... If that country were attacked. That's why NATO agreed that members should spend at least two percent of their GDP on defense, and it is many of them not having got up to that level yet that the USA (especially under Trump) has been complaining about.

But still, that's all within each country's own budget. There are no monetary transfers to and from countries such as "membership fees" or "subsidies" within NATO. (At least not any significant ones that I know of. Maybe some smaller stuff like, Idunno, base rentals or port fees?)
The question was:

"do you think any of said war crimes would actually be committed against Russia directly?"

And the answer is YES, because NATO has already set a heinous precedent for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, with seeming impunity, for decades and shows no signs of stopping its criminal war regime.

So yes, I did answer the question. You maybe don't like the answer, though.

>NATO force Russia

NATO brought weapons of mass destruction to Russias borders. Unfortunately, this has now escalated into a war where, indeed, crimes against humanity are being committed. This is not unexpected, given the nature of war as a whole. It is inexcusable whether Russians or Americans are doing it, and that is entirely the point: the worlds' powers have already set a precedent, which Russia is clearly following.

Now here is a question for you: Why is it okay for Americans to support genocide in Yemen yet call for the end of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine?
The approach deno is taking is very interesting where all packages are sandboxed. I'd be interested to hear the author's thoughts on Deno's approach as a mitigation for supply chain attacks. I understand it won't stop all attacks but it would make them significantly harder.
ref: https://medium.com/deno-the-complete-reference/sandboxing-in...
The USA was not a superpower in 1913.
It's a minor detail: "through the hard work of OTHERS".
>Cars can kill people. Should we ban those?

I'm not sure if you meant it this way (I like to think you did) or not but the answers you will get to this question when asked on this website are going to providing a great example of how things like "scan everyone's phone" come to pass.

People with some extremist take on some issue that mostly nobody cares too much about, they get sympathetic politicians who become convinced it's worth the blowback. Repeat for hundreds of issues and you get 1984.
How do you get that to work? I've tried changing the settings to open new terminal windows using a different identity (runas), but they are then separate from the terminal app.

I basically would just like to be able to dock that new window in the existing terminal tabs, as otherwise, I might as well just launch a PoSH prompt.
Works fine in Dosbox
It’s not all pump and dump; there’s more to crypto than just that:

https://mobile.twitter.com/patdennis/status/1518637225789042...

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
"We’d like all customers to experience AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. That's why AlloyDB is available at no cost during the preview period. The no cost usage during preview is governed by fair usage limits, after which the full pricing shown on this page applies. Below are the monthly fair usage limits for each cost component:

Compute: $15,000 of usage, equivalent to at least 125 vCPUs and 1,000 GBs of RAM in us-central1

Storage: $650 of usage, equivalent to at least 2 TB in us-central1"

Hadn't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but looks like it's basically free for most use cases while it's in preview. The pricing otherwise does seem a bit excessive. For the absolute minimum compute/memory resources in an HA setup, you're looking at a minimum ~$120/month. Non-HA is half that. But that's exactly 1 vCPU and 8 GB RAM per instance. If you're curious, max cost per month based on the constraints of the VM's that run the service is about $15k/month in a minimum HA setup, not excluding storage and egress costs.

If you need a transactional DB that's fine, but idk that still seems kinda pricey to me. If you can get away with it, it still makes much more sense to try and use BigQuery, append mostly, and keep your queries efficient.