skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but if I'm sitting in the chair as a regulator whose goal is to reduce the harm that financial products can cause to an average member of the general public while still allowing the market to work on its own as much as possible... I'm going to look at Netflix and think "well, we did what we could." Do you honestly think I should look at Bitcoin and think the same?
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”
It's beneficial to the political class that wedge issues not get resolved. It keeps the populace arguing with each other rather than arguing with the state. It's also beneficial to news organizations. How much total ad revenue do you think has been earned across all political outlets since Roe v Wade was decided? I couldn't even guess, but I assume the issue has earned in the 10s if not 100s of millions in ad revenue over the last 49 or so years.
Airbnb is closing its domestic business in China, sources say
AFAIK that's exactly how Tor Browser works.
>For instance you don't want the gun to blind, deafen or grabbed and used against you

Sounds like we need to make it easier to obtain suppressors so that the victim's guns do not blind or deafen them as much.
FWIW if you don't need Airflow to catch up and backfill missed tasks, you can either set catchup=False on the DAG or use a LatestOnlyOperator.
See? Regardless of the policy their currency cannot go to 0 because it has an intrinsic value backing it. The resources and the people of the Russian Federation.
Here's Reagan's press secretary laughing and joking about "the gay plague" when only a few hundred had died, you homophobic ghoul

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids
Audit them to find out.
Artillery just isn't sexy enough to capture the media's attention. The King Of Battle has knocked out far more vehicles in Ukraine than any ATGMs.
> Legalizing abortion implies asserting that life begins after some date.

I think you mean, "human life" not just "life". Because as far as we know life began about 4.2 billion years ago.

With that out of the way we must now talk about, "what makes human life special?" and "at what point does it become special?"
> not prediction based on anything statistical but based on one's understanding

It is still statistical. You still want to predict a distribution over expected next token.

However, the function needed to estimate the likely next tokens are not simple max over enumerated next tokens like in a language model. It's more like a transition model in reinforcement learning.
Autonomous research division is gone, right?
Who benefits from 'lockdowns'?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biggest-...

> 'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief plan known as PPP ... the theft of as much as $80 billion — or about 10 percent — of the $800 billion handed out in a Covid relief plan known as the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. That’s on top of the $90 billion to $400 billion believed to have been stolen from the $900 billion Covid unemployment relief program — at least half taken by international fraudsters ... And another $80 billion potentially pilfered from a separate Covid disaster relief program.
> A central bank can create infinite money out of thin air, but we never stop to think about that.

But central bankers think about it on a daily basis. Christine Lagarde has certainly paid a lot of attention to whether the amount of money the system demands is about right or whether an interest rate rise is needed to stop the economy overheating, whether there's enough liquidity and financial control the commercial banking system the central bank feeds into, what the change in the shape of a bond yield curve says about investors longer term expectations of for money, and what the side effects of all this money coming in is on the rest of the economy, and whether a particular downturn is better ameliorated by fiscal policy. Thinking about this is literally why her job exists.

People LOLing at "fiat" currency coming from nothing whilst rushing to buy the newest token invented from nothing (as a wealth generation exercise for its creators) that isn't supported by monetary policy (or redeemable as legal tender), not so much.
Smart contracts allow for guaranteed outcomes. Some commentary added by a random law firm does not mean that guaranteed outcomes == no need for litigation and courts.

Just think of non-smart contract parallels. If a bank had an ATM, the premise is that this ATM will execute a series of commands and allow you to withdraw/deposit/transfer funds. If a nefarious back actor found a series of user input that allowed them to withdraw millions of extra dollars, do you believe that the ATM provider will have no legal recourse? What about electronic slot machines?
> Is my freedom to infect those around me included?

Yes.
I would expect that, at the low end, a drone's maximum velocity and its range would be proportional to its size. Really small drones would be perfect for loitering (unless it's windy), but less good for getting to a denied location (unless it's downwind). That seems to me to really limit the usefulness of really small drones.
Bodily autonomy is still ignoring the pro-lifer position though, who would argue “what about the baby’s rights?”
Owning a home in CA but paying 0% income tax is possible by simply living in Texas and declaring it?
Thanks, was hoping someone would chime in on that :) I'll take a look at the database later, if I can hack it in I'll be happy, doesn't need to be pretty.
The Church of the Subgenius has a useful concept called the "Short Duration Personal Savior" (or ShorDurPerSav, the proper Tibetian term):

https://subgenius.fandom.com/wiki/ShorDurPerSav

>In the Church of the SubGenius, SubGenii often worship Short Duration Personal Saviors (ShorDurPerSavs). ShorDurPerSavs offer all of the features and services of regular personal saviors, but are disposable. Thanks to their planned obsolescence, no SubGenius worships the same ShorDurPerSav for very long before switching to another one. The most common ShorDurPerSav is J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, followed by Connie Dobbs and then The Fightin' Jesus. Other common ShorDurPerSavs include Jehovah 1, Francis E. Dec, Eris Discordia, Adolf Hitler, Emperor Norton, The Bleeding Head of Arnold Palmer, Robert Anton Wilson, L. Ron Hubbard, Alien Sex Goddesses, Satan, the number 23, Barack Obama, and Cthulhu.

>[...]

http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/goods/shordurpersavs/X0012_...

>From: Purple Kitty <pkitty@netcom.com>

>-= SHORT DURATION PERSONAL SAVIORS - A LESSON =-

>BEGINNER LEVEL - CLEARED FOR ALL BOBBIES - BEGINNER LEVEL - CLEARED FOR

>Shockingly, some Bobbies are still unclear as to what a Short Duration Personal Savior is. The concept of the Short Duration Personal Savior (or ShorDurPerSav, the proper Tibetian term) is a new one-- traditional religions tend to emphasize "unwavering servitude" over convenience. But is absolute devotion to one savior always best? Buddha is a wonderful role model for certain aspects of life, but when that po'bucker shoves you out of the way as he walks by, don't you wish that you worshipped George Foreman instead, if only for the next few minutes?

>Well, you can! The Church of the SubGenius heartily endorses the concept of disposable saviors, or ShorDurPerSavs. Choose your messiah to fit the situation. If peace and compassion are what you need right now, follow the teachings of Gandhi. Later, when you need to cut a business deal, emulate the wisdom of Sam Walton. When you need a witty remark on the spot, let Samuel Clemens into your heart to inspire you. And when you need Slack in your life, sell your soul to "Bob".

>"Bob" is the most frequently invoked of our infinitely varied Short Duration Personal Saviors, with good reason. He has Slack--he IS Slack. He symbolizes the "easy life", where one follows the Path of Least Resistance and gains Slack effortlessly. But no one is expected to worship "Bob" 24/7! If you're trying to get that PC to work, choosing "Bob" as your ShorDurPerSav will hinder you far more than helping you! "Bob" couldn't use a PC if he wanted to (though he sold more of them last year than IBM and Packard Bell put together)! Read through Stephen Levy's _Hackers_ and let the TMRC be your ShorDurPerSavs! There ARE no limits!

>[...]
Arguably, the myth is that markets are efficient. That is to say that the clearing price is the expression of all the information available to participants is a fiction.

This idea of the Turing completeness, or maybe complexity class of your transaction logic determining whether it is an endogenous logical arbitrage trade, or an exogenous manipulation scheme may have some really appealing features.

Hypothetically, if the steps of your transaction logic operate on or recurse over feedback into and from the market, you are in fact, "manipulating," it. I'd wonder how describing manipulation in terms of recursion limits and feedback would impact the definiton. Whereas, if you are precalculating or front running some periodic market function, you are arbitraging it with endogenous market information and that makes it "legit."

Where this guy might be vulnerable in that model is the question of how far upstream of his actual transaction did he get before the feedback loop he was operating over is not considered a part of that market - and whether his arbitrage was legit because it was between markets.
It's trivially easy to create a consistent belief system. Simply have no beliefs. The mutually exclusive properties are consistency and completeness (although these can be mutually satisfied in certain limited circumstances not likely to be relevant here).

You can have no belief at all about abortion. In that case, you are free to choose one as an axiom, although you are also free to not choose. If you choose a belief about abortion as an axiom and the result is that you end up believing both a thing and its negation, then you will need to abandon one of the necessary premises for that construction.
Many languages running on JVM boast of an FFI allowing use of much existing code already written in Java. Is such, or will such be, possible in Flix?

What is the overall status of the implementation, particularly for real world applications (features like talking to a network, file systems, databases and operating system, and/or FFIs for JVM or non-JVM languages)?
Hey everyone -- I'm a dev on AdaptiveCards and happy to (attempt to) answer any questions folks might have :)

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our monthly Community Calls. Feel free to join in! You can grab a .ics reminder here: https://aka.ms/adaptivecardscommunitycall
If you want an actually offline, working, Open Source voice assistant, I'd recommend

https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'm using it at home and it's working pretty well, I've written a few python extensions to cover all my use cases. Lmk if you have questions!
> Civility and decorum are what is missing today.

That's what got us Joe Biden, who mostly has the same policies as Donald Trump, is a democrat who has always been a lot like a pretty conservative republican, but says nice things and only sniffs girls' hair instead of grabbing by the _____. Downvote for that if you like but the lesser of two appalling characters is still appalling.

What's missing is a deeper understanding of issues, a willingness to understand not the other side but all sides of an issue, and a recognition that meeting in the middle is deciding not to decide. We need brains, backbones, and a willingness to avoid partisanship.
> Civility and decorum ... taught in our schools today

"Education" means "leading", think "as if hand in hand, in time": it is a matter (in this case) of transmission through /example/ - not of passing information. Then, you can bring awareness to it: and awareness raising passes through showing that one way is higher and the other is low.

You must live that example.

The rarer the example, the greater the evidence of a social crisis. Some noticed, the crisis in higher culture is surely a damage, but it is that in the common culture of pyramidal society (the brother, the teacher etc.) that is mining the texture.

> maybe... we could still have debates like this

Some people are getting warier, as if in the terms legendarily attributed to Mark Twain: "Don’t argue with a fool, or the listener will say there is a pair of you". To debate, you need adequate interlocutors - if Umberto Eco imagined discussing with a six years old (a "new modern possibility"), he wanted the different credentials to be patent.

But actually, the matter has never been that simple. I have recently seen the initial part of the "Gore Vidal vs William Buckley" movie, Best of Enemies (Gordon; Neville, 2015) and I found the first debate immediately embarrassing.
To paraphrase a former HN user, isn't quantum computing obvious bullshit?
Crypto has enabled me to play online poker in a country where its illegal.

Outside of enabling illegal activity, scams, money laundering, etc. crypto is useless.

But I will say, as a fan of poker I am grateful.
There's already a startup developing an electric passenger ground-effect seaplane, perhaps the design will scale?

https://www.regentcraft.com/
Too bad it’s your first exposure to this publication/author.
Can dbt run arbitrary code? If it can, it's not well advertised in the documentation. Every time I've looked into dbt, I found that it's mostly a scheduled SQL runner.

The primary reason we run Airflow is because it can execute Python code natively, or other programs via Bash. It's very rare that a DAG I write is entirely SQL-based.
> What is interesting to me is how it shines a light on the regulatory framework of the non-crypto economy. If you read up on edge cases, there is a lot of people deciding if something is "fair", and my notions of fair and a particular judges notions of fair are often at odds.

Yeah, that's by design. If your "notions of fair are often at odds" with someone else's notions of fair, and a judge needs to intervene to resolve the dispute, then things may not break your way.
Walrus operator…

I’m kidding of course but that seems like the camel who broke the bridge too far.
> It's very hard to rule over well-off, free people who have the ability to get together in groups and converse.

We don't need to physically congregate anymore to 'converse'. Exhibit A: what we are doing here. We are long past the time when this sort of measure would be effective to contain ideas.

> It is very easy to rule over isolated, poor, desperate people who can't communicate with each other without using the controlled platforms on which unapproved speech is impermissible.

That's not a slippery slope anymore, it's a inertialess elevator. Having the power to stop local transmission quickly before it gets out of control != turning people into isolated and poor communities.
Great list. As I can add anything here, I will say:

- Bitemporal support OOTB (storage would be more expensive, as temporal data needs more disk space)

- CoW capabilities OOTB, so it would be super easy (fast and cheap) to create ephemeral database for development purpose.

- Charge per request (ms of reads, ms of writes) - for the sake of being more specific about serverless.

- AI capabilities that detects the use of the database and suggests indexes or other tweaks to make the database as fast as possible (and cheap), even if schema changes, database size increases or query patterns change

- PostgreSQL support (and all its extensions... I know that's a hard one as PS is based on MySQL)

- OOTB capabilities for Masking and/or anonymizing of data (PCI, PII, etc)

Thanks
I find it incredibly hard to meal prep and bring meals to work too. So, I also often eat lunch out. As others have said, Berkeley is really quite expensive. Even if I go the "smoothie" route for lunch, I'm still looking at $7 with tax and tip and I'm definitely not full... Most days I was on campus I walked 5 miles in total up and down hills, so I often wanted a filling lunch.

I think I don't mind spending the money, but it is a significant change compared to working from home, or working in an office with food, or just making so much more money that you don't care. (Which is how it was when I was a SWE that worked in an office without free food.)
It was originally called GRIDS, and when it started the coverage was entirely focused on gay men. The media/government made an effort to contradict that 1) in order to protect straight people who thought it was impossible for them to catch, and 2) to counteract the public propensity for hate crimes against minorities when they are perceived as dangerous.
> numerous and economically precarious out-group.

Keeping a large group of people oppressed is incredibly dangerous; it's bound to blow up in your face. The Spartans did not last.

You're better off expanding the in-group.
That is interesting, an image search for "young bernie sanders" does bring up a distinctly different looking face. (one compares him to Jemaine Clement)

Thank you for point this out.

But, it still is an example of civil discourse. Another is Friedman arguing (civil, but a little more tense) with a young Michael Moore. (they do talk past each other a little)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7Fi8I-qOk (ignore inflammatory title/intro again)
Nobody knows how long it will take for the market to be founder-friendly again, but it could be a while.

Quite a while. Demographics meant an incredible amount of capital flow in the last two decades as the largest generation in American history, the boomers, reached the height of their careers and investments. That party is over. 2022 is the peak of the curve for boomer retirement. As they retire that money is leaving the market. Gen X is small and their capital peak won't be nearly as high. Millennials won't be reaching that level of earning for at least another decade if not longer.
I have resigned all my positions in ISO C++ in protest
This is like saying: Why Google need to hire so many engineers? It's just a single search field.
They are guilty of implementing a mechanism that was broken by design, and wasting customers' money. They hadn't been hacked or stolen from - the "attacker" didn't need to hack any particular security mechanism, he was just smarter at how their market worked than the owners.
i fail to see what your comment adds
Well, if they're actually independent, clearly those shouldn't be in the same repository...
>How would you like it if you invested in some new asset class and alongside serious accusations of enabling child porn support, people frequently made 'tongue-in-cheek' comments about you supporting (indirectly or otherwise) child porn with your investment?

But those are documented use cases for cryptocurrency. If you don't approve of such things, so be it. It doesn't invalidate other uses (hodling, etc.) for cryptocurrency (in this particular case, Bitcoin).

>I get it, this is just a deep thread with a one-off comment, not the biggest deal, but it's certainly annoying trying to attempt honest conversation about crypto with comments like this.

Now I'm confused. Firstly, this was (I thought) a thread about the (non)uses of Web3, not cryptocurrencies or blockchains in general.

I'm sorry my assessment of the consumer uses of Bitcoin rankles you. That said, Bitcoin is used for some "unsavory" stuff isn't news, nor is it (as you pointed out) specific to Bitcoin.

Please do carry on, as it's your best bet to counter my evil plot to destroy Crypto/blockchain with occasional HN comments, in my grand plan for world domination.

If those infrequent (primarily because this isn't a primary interest of mine) comments are so hurtful/dangerous to you, please go ahead and downvote me and/or ignore me.

At the same time, I'd prefer it if you didn't doxx/SWAT me or firebomb my house.

I have no control over what you (or anyone else, for that matter) think, do or say, nor am I interested in such control, so I hope you're rational enough not to do the latter, although the former is, IMHO, a normal and reasonable response to irritation/disagreement.

Good luck. I hope everything works out the way you want.
Even if true, it's still way less extreme than what kids can find in the Bible. But let me guess, Bible hasn't been banned, was it?
If you're bored, move forward in the material on your own. I can't remember a school ever trying to stop me from starting the next chapter. Go far enough and you may be moved up a year.
Well, she leaves the reader to question: which one of them is smarter, the mom or the son. She clearly (or officially) doesn't understand money and subjective value, which implies that her son is the smarter one.
Factually unsupported cynical take: Without the made up jobs there would be even less of a market for the type of non-STEM graduates public universities like to produce.

The regulations provide the justification for the jobs program needed to soak up the excess supply of non-trade graduates generated by overenthusiastic student loan policy.
Clearly both.

But the combat results do appear impressive, both on the video-watching public and on Russian invading forces and their leadership, for whom plans appear to have significantly changed.
The same place as the rest of the money: misc investments that are now worth a lot less than a few weeks ago. Or did you think that cash was sitting in some bank account happily inflating month on month? To make that cash available, they'd have to sell shares, bonds, options, etc. that that money is currently invested in at a loss. The better strategy is to wait for a recovery. That might take some time. Selling at a loss to make risky investments in startups is not a good plan.

The even better strategy is to invest whatever cash there is into those things more likely to recover quickly rather than sketchy startups as there are likely quite a few undervalued things in the market that could recover by a sweet 10-20% in the next month.

And since that money technically belongs not to the investors but rather conservative entities they represent (like pension funds) they are going to have to do conservative things in times like this. Hence the temporary lack of liquidity for startups.
Bolt (Taxify) built a similar service with a few hundred people and has now taken a significant market share in Europe. At least the people I talk to recommend taking bolt over uber since it is the same service but cheaper. It has a map and you can see where you are live etc, and it schedules rides intelligently so you can get a ride with a car that is full but is about to drop off near you, just like uber.

Not sure why Uber needs so many people in silicon valley when apparently you can build an equivalent service with a few hundred people in Estonia costing 1/10 per head.
The gating condition has been met several different places. California, Hawaii, and parts of the southwest. But the assured transition to energy storage has not happened, despite energy prices going negative on a regular basis. Why? Because storage remains nowhere near cost effective. Batteries and hydroelectric storage aren't cheap enough, and the former is actually getting more expensive as supply chains get clogged. Real world examples disprove your claim that storage will be built once a surplus of intermittent energy is produced. There is no solution. Only prototypes and wishful thinking, and hostility to those that point this out.
They sent their lender the exact sum of the loan. It's kind of a different case.
Starliner Plans Its Return to Earth
> I don't think the courts really care about some pure intentioned "code is law" argument, because they tend to think law is law.

"Code is law" is a mantra chanted by people in no position to make it so.
The fire wasn't the main safety issue of the story.