skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the central bank lends money at positive interest rates, the interest profits or “seigniorage” are distributed to everyone like dividends (they would in the real world go to the government which would spend or distribute them). If seigniorage was not distributed, at the end of each loan, the money supply would shrink a little bit as the central bank would be gradually absorbing money from the economy as interest. Seigniorage serves to neutralize this.

Could you elaborate on this? Is this really what happens in the real world - interest on central bank loans going to the government? I was very much under the impression that this interest goes to the central bank (and is thus destroyed), and the fact that this would appear to contract the money supply seemed like it just increased the need for the central bank to increase the money supply in other ways. To be honest, I am still not clear on how the money supply is increased permanently by a central bank - all textbook examples of money supply changes appear to only do so temporarily.
I thought OCaml was dropping support for 32-bit ARM. I wouldn't call that a weird architecture to want to run on.
Most of the replies here are the people who need to read Jef Raskin - they're convinced it's "faster" to not have animations, like people think it's "faster" to type emacs key combos instead of using a mouse, when it turns out it's not faster and people are just poor at counting subjective time.
So many opportunities to become a billionaire I missed!

America is not only the land of opportunity, it's the land of blind fools.
See also this thread posted by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785199
You refuted my question ⁉
It would have been better if you had just insulted me and called me a troll.
No mention so far of any weekly newsmagazines. TIME is from the old school and not very good for actual news these days, but decades ago it was much better.

Also, The Week is a well-edited digest of the best of U.S and international news sources, albeit with a U.S. liberal slant at times. And no ads, except maybe inside front & back covers.
Tether obviously, but this paragraph in particular was a wild ride:

"Even by crypto’s often-surreal standards, Tether has a peculiar history. The company was founded in 2014 by Brock Pierce, a cryptocurrency evangelist who, as a child actor, starred in the “Mighty Ducks” movies. He and his partner, Reeve Collins, later handed control of the firm to a former plastic surgeon named Giancarlo Devasini, who has stored some of Tether’s assets in a bank in the Bahamas run by one of the creators of the “Inspector Gadget” cartoon."
Nothing you claim is actually supported by evidence. The low carb diet is the most researched diet in history. I recommend the “low carb down under” YouTube channel and especially Paul Mason for facts based on research. I have gained a lot of muscle and have had no “keto flue” on a low carb diet. My cholesterol and blood pressure has improved and I have lost 9cm around my waist. My doctor is telling me to “keep doing what I am doing” because my blood results are “superb”. However if you do low carb wrong/unhealthily (not enough vitamins/electrolytes for example) then you will get keto flue, cramps etc. The same way that any other diet done unhealthily will be bad for you. Low carb or not. You can do Vegan and high carb really badly and end up sick/unhealthy. A bad high carb diet is the reason why we have an explosion in Type 2 diabetics for example. However that is of course not evidence against those diets. Just a confirmation that anything done incorrectly won’t work as intended.
Your last paragraph is spot on. The right know that government intervention is what holds them back from consolidating power over the less fortunate in society, so it has been a central plank of their strategy to present the government as indeed being 'aliens from outer space', and so to neuter its reach.
It’s really difficult, especially in the bass region. Things like double acoustically isolated walls that are really expensive.
Literally any clear and well defined UI API in 'Go' would be 'modern' relative to the arcane, byzantine messes that are out there.

Even QT, a C++ standard is quite complicated. Android/Java is a bit bloated though workable. Flutter is 'modern' but quite opinionated and quite complex for what it needs to be.
I lowered interest rates to 0 slowly and then to -.5 when I realized it could go down.

Ended up in the same neighborhood 400somethingK

Honestly expected inflation to go up at some point
“Alex's Anniversary”, a Corollary of the Birthday Paradox?
100 percent real GDP growth over 100 years would be an absolute disaster in todays world.
The prison part is the slavery, the digging the whole is the labor. As you have pointed out, there's an odd pearl clutching among a lot of people on the matter. I think those who argue of the negative incentives it creates are right, but too many appeals to emotion over the term slavery. The reason the 13th amendment included the crime provision is so that we can continue to imprison people, any work they do or don't do is secondary to the loss of rights.
Uh,the profitability will go to zero when they switch to proof of stake anyway - that's part of the plan
If the app implements VoiceOver and other accessibility options then it's fine to look like whatever you want without them.
HP 16500A Logic Analyzer Teardown
Paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspa.202...

Their graphs are from 20kHz to 160kHz (at a quick skim), so this doesn’t appear to be an immediately useful breakthrough. Some graphs show the scales are mostly tuned to a frequency, not wideband, so even more limited. Very cool science though.
The drop shadow treating the mouse cursor as the light source on the Work page is really cool.
I read your edit wrong. Turns out I was the one who couldn't read. I apologize sincerely.

To your points, stop inserting words into my mouth. Having those issues with musk is in no way an issue with his money. I happen to have both by the way, so this is a possibility as well.

I don't hate him for being rich, nor do the others whose salient points you so succinctly boiled down incorrectly again to 'bcuz rich'.

He has had many issues, and continues to do so. You can pretend it's simply because of his money but for myself I can at least assure you, that is the very least of the issues I have with Musk.

Pointing to poor people and saying there are poorer people in 3rd world countries is a poor argument.

I reiterate Musk has tons of money, sure. And that much wealth consolidation is an issue, to be sure. But that has no bearing on the many, many issues all over this thread people have with him.

Edit to add- your ninja edit and the reason I read your initial response wrong is because you removed the line about him being rich, and added right-wing- not cool.
Just following up on this, in case anyone's still reading. This is the response Triplebyte sent me yesterday:

> As mentioned on HackerNews, we cannot locate any emails from you before today. After getting in touch with the product team, I realized I had made a mistake. Upon doing a bit of digging on the back end, you set your profile set to be visible in 2019 prior to the 2020 events.

I guess I can't concretely disprove this story, but I have a really hard time buying it. I don't remember even being given the option to make my profile public when I tried out Triplebyte in 2019. To back up my recollection, the messages that they sent out about the "public profiles" feature in 2020 described it pretty unequivocally as a new feature that hadn't existed previously. Archived versions of Triplebyte's FAQ from 2019/2020 make no mention of it; they only talk about the ability to be matched with companies after completing a full interview with Triplebyte (which I never did).

And if the person who initially responded to me truly did just make a mistake, that would certainly be no big deal -- but it seems like an oddly specific and convenient mistake to make.

I responded about 24 hours ago saying why I found these explanations unconvincing, and haven't heard back. I'm posting here not to try to pressure Triplebyte into a response, but because (a) I don't know how much longer this thread will stay open to new comments, and (b) I don't really think it's likely that I'll get any further closure about this issue, so I don't plan to spend any more of my time and energy on it. People are welcome to read the discussion and judge for themselves.
Reading the article, this sounds _very_ similar to what we do at Replay ( https://replay.io ), which is time-travel debugging for web apps.

I'm a front-end dev, so I'm not nearly as familiar with the magic happening on the backend, but this looks like it matches what I know about how we manage jumping to specific points in time: many forks of the browser process, run from the beginning up to various pause points.
CERN will end cooperation with Russia in 2024 – Space
YouTube Deleted a January 6th Committee Video
Any advice on where to begin if interested in this?
Lmao. This is nothing more than ridiculous propaganda. They basically take an extremely complex problem - calculating the energy expenditure of humankind and our civilization - and cherrypick and add so many variables that they come out with a number: 56x. They're adding in ridiculous stuff like the electricity of a bank's offices and the energy of employees commuting to work. Wholly useless model and conclusion that is tailor made for some clickbait headline.
Spent a solid minute trying to toggle the slider for "Toolkit" until I scrolled doen and realized it's just an icon
Building Mem X
The Fed didn’t have any ability to effect money supply until 1932 when the US went off the gold standard.
Certainly regulations are essential, but individual actions to protect privacy, when taken en masse, can reduce the profitability of data harvesting. Moreover, by influencing social mores, it can build solidarity and inertia against potential future mass-surveillance laws.
Haha, thanks for the kind words!

I was going through another box of my dad's papers today, and found a DECWriter listing of probably my first non-trivial program circa 1976, an expansion of the old BASIC HAMMURABI game. I had thought that was long lost.

I lost nearly all of my early code because I put it on a magtape which turned out to be unreadable.
How is QE or low rates not money printing?

Low rates causes higher private lending, borrowing creates money (fractional reserve banking). QE also creates money by Federal Reserve buying Treasury's bonds with printed dollars.

Both of these are temporary, but we have had QE and low rates for over a decade now. QE was supposed to be unwound in 2018, but covid pushed it to new peaks.
What we really need is for these big companies to be split up. I'm not sure if the EU has jurisdiction to do that.
The WSJ deserves its own special place in hell. Once upon a time 20ish+ years ago, it was solid business and economic news. Then they decided to do a redesign to be more general news, and then Murdoch came along and turned them into the comics.

I don't give The Economist a pass either. I started reading it in high school decades ago. Over time, they've moved away from deep journalism towards more of a weekly recap. If I want to know what happened this week, frankly I can get that from Twitter or Apple News for free. What is lacking is the kind of forward, somewhat out there perspective. There are still little bits of this with The Economist, but its a shell of its former self. I'd also remark that they have an angle on the world that I find at time ethically questionable.
Same. I encourage the project to get some UI / graphic designers on board, and do what they say.

I mean, even just looking at the web site the spacing is odd, the animations are a bit all over the place, and it just looks slapped together. That kind of thing is totally cool for a cli tech product, but for something specifically supposed to be UI based…

And the product screen shots have similar issues.

Doing this stuff is very difficult so no shade intended - I’d love a de facto, nice looking, non cgo Go widget library. I wish them great success.
I'd take a UI uglier than this and customize it rather than electron.js any day
I'm glad someone else thought of that and finally implemented it.
I interviewed with an embedded tools company in the 90s and independently came up with the idea for this during the interview to try to impress them. It didn't work. I immediately forgot about the idea until now.

My thinking was that if you were simulating an embedded device you could record all state changes, and then be able to step forwards AND backwards (or jump to any earlier point).
Ottawa announces suspension of vaccine mandates for domestic travel
People ask why should they care?

Unfortunately the average person tends to be less concerned about invasions of privacy they cannot see. Like when you go through a scanner at the airport which let's someone in another room basically see through your clothes, vs. the way you feel if someone standing in front of you says to strip naked.
>I generally end up taking "The Road Most Traveled By": https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
Lots of Fred’s fantastic TV shows can be easily found on YouTube.

Is there a modern equivalent of those shows? Nothing comparable comes to mind.
More communists than Nazis although we've forgotten about that unfortunately.
Steel... just like via ferrata. These chimneys aren't more than like 150 years old max.
Leaked transcript: Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees
The OP is specifically about the USA, and that's the context in which my suggestion was offered.
I did something like this before redbean. You can set it up so double clicking the app icon launches the server and opens the UI in a PWA window, not a browser tab. Then you can set it up so that the server exits when all application windows are closed.
I do literally nothing and the amount of produced apples increases all by itself. There is no need to do anything at all.
lol not nearly 36%. most ivy league admittees are upper middle class.
I have gained muscle on a low carb diet so I suspect you might be doing it wrong. I recommend the “low carb down under” YouTube channel and especially Paul Mason as a good guide to how you do it right. Another good source is Prof. Ben Bikman who is at the learning edge of low carb diet research. He also has a number of good talks on YouTube.
Prefix for function, infix in expressions, and postfix if you use forth
I guess my point was these are all uncomfortable issues that can pop up literally any time, or be hidden fairly well. All of them.

It just makes no sense to me, maybe it did in the cold war era.
The extent can mean doing basic things like installing and AD blocker, using a password manager, surfing in isolated sessions (incognito mode) to stop cookie tracking and to leave no forensic artefact on your device, always posting with pseudonyms, using privacy-aware operating systems like Linux, etc

Then you have the extreme options available like Tor, using Qubes, GrapheneOS on your phone, changing your legal name, using burner phones, Faraday sleeves, VPNs for public Wi-Fi, network segmentation for IOT devices, disabling Intel Management Engine. Having multiple operating systems for compartmentation purposes, etc

There is a privacy rabbit-hole to get lost in. Luckily I’ve found a reasonable middle ground and am not one of those LARPer types who take it all too seriously.
If you think you're not being manipulated, you're deluded. Advertising works. It worked before the Internet and there's even more of it now. We do still have individual agency but don't you want a cool refreshing Coca-Cola right about now?
Right, for pure spam, yes. I want to know about my hotel or air reservation but not get their junk email. So I can't go scorched earth on them, but I can't unsub from the junk either due to my tracker dns blackhole.
They'll start to lobby the government to bring in temporary foreign workers before they'll raise wages and improve working conditions.
Of course the manufacturer will never tell you how to feed your pet bacteria, because they want them to die within a month so they can sell you more.
>the paper authors found that US research productivity has declined more than 40 times since the 1930s.

>Some from the progress community point to sclerotic funding bureaucracies, which eat nearly half of researcher time and create perverse incentives.

This is 100% believable to me. I don't think people quite understand how bad it is until they actually see academia from the inside, but the game researchers are playing is not "let's have a crack at some new idea and see if it works", but "let's put a slight twist on the existing paradigm that we know won't yield anything useful, because otherwise we won't get funding".

_Everything_ has to be "rationally" justified within the context of the existing paradigms (which are generally speaking, wrong), and every single force within the academy is acting to prevent researchers from actually doing what they believe will lead to new technology.

I'm convinced that the only progress actually comes from scientists with the skills to make the the grants board think they're being a "rational researcher", while a decent chunk of their time is actually doing whatever the hell they want.
I think the settlement story for bitcoin is actually superior than with USD/EUR. Yes you have to wait 10min x a few blocks, but that is final, irreversible settlement.
The vast majority of symphonies in the US aren't full time, like most performing artist jobs in the US. There are well more than 1,000 symphonies in the US and only something like a couple dozen that are full time; San Antonio was notable in that it was. The free market supports many symphonies that pay 4 digit "salaries" (often they're paid per-service) per year. But they're only working a few days per month. San Antonio was trying to cut back, but negotiation didn't work out. This wasn't a free market decision to disappear, it was a labor negotiations decision.
I'm referring to li ion cylindrical cells in the 18650, 20700 and 21700 formats which are commercially available right now. Which I can buy online in 5 minutes with my visa card from a battery wholesaler.

If you can find me the pdf datasheet for one that's above that I'd love to see it!

And even better a vendor link.

Note I am also referring to something like the actual usable watt hours from a battery before you discharge it below "permanently damaged" state, in the range starting from 100% SOC standard full voltage and manufacturer's do-not-exceed floor voltage. Such as on the NCR18650GA.

I don't doubt there are specialty rare "ask us for a price" low volume 300Wh/kg in circulation if you have the right contacts.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
Did the powdered baking chocolate add anything more than flavour?
FWiW Greg Egan has had a good run - 40 years online, 10+ novels, many short stories, Hugo and Campbell awards (and others) . . . and yet:

No verified images nor any evidence that is indeed his real name.
It's a bit hard for me to understand what's being argued for here. For many people in publicly visible positions, it's not practical to avoid having an online identity under your real name. This is not even exclusively a white collar issue for someone who speaks at conferences etc., how about a contractor who needs an online presence to find clients?

Certainly there are steps someone can take to be make themselves invisible online but it severely limits career and other options.
> OP had in fact enabled visibility manually some time ago.

You're welcome to state your side of the story, but I take exception to you calling this a "fact". It's a theory that you've asserted, but not shown any evidence of (publicly or privately). And I've already explained why I think this theory doesn't make sense.
In my experience it's newer buildings that tend to have paper thin walls. In my current apartment(late 70s) I very rarely hear my neighbors.

At my last apartment I could literally hear my neighbors cough. Absolutely miserable. I wish there were some sort of measurable standard rating for noise transmittance through walls that landlords are obligated to disclose to potential renters.
> Could you elaborate on your last paragraph?

A successful technology does not need to show theoretical supremacy. Its proponents can simply show the useful services and products it makes.

> Proof of concepts that can not solve "useful" problems seem like an incredibly important milestones to me?

Sure, just don't claim supremacy until you can back it up with an actually reasonable definition of computation.

> Or is your frustration that they are occasionally presented by overly enthusiastic engineers as more than "useless" technology demonstrators (with this frustration I would agree).

It is hard to find any news about quantum computing that is not way over exaggerated.

> The second half of the article I shared covers the parametrization question you raised.

His argument may apply to the teapot example, but for, say, a test flight to fine tune the auto pilot behavior, there are plenty of inputs that can be set. I'd argue the aerodynamic computer supremacy example still stands.
Can we scam little people with crypto using central bank scapegoating as well ?
Thanks I'm going to look up what Upshot is about.
It's the Democratic party, there is no such thing as the democrat party.

I take it you're not at all familiar with Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it's embrace of the Dixiecrats, or actually quite a lot of relevant American political history

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
That dialog box gives horrible advice.
This sort of idea has a long history of catastrophic failures resulting in species extinctions.
Another surreal connection: Brock Pierce is now running for US Senator from Vermont (he owns a $3.4 million home there; it's unclear if he's even legally able to declare Vermont residency, especially without giving up some big tax breaks in Puerto Rico [0]). It's a political move allegedly assisted behind the scenes by Steve Bannon.[1]

[0]: https://vtdigger.org/2022/06/06/does-brock-pierce-live-in-ve...

[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/bannon-is-helping-a...
> Do people still really believe that is what he said?

Why would time change people's opinions?

Anyone who wanted to read it for themselves had plenty of opportunity almost immediately. Anyone who didn't but instead had sources they trust, knew what those sources' opinions were almost immediately. Anyone who wanted to specifically seek out opinions that didn't match their own, could have done so more easily while it was all still fresh and it would have taken what maybe a couple hours.

It's not like this is an area of ongoing archaeological research where people keep discovering and translating new fragments that change how the fragments we already have seem to fit together.
There is no retrocausality exactly because there is time resolution: causality with sort itself out whatever the cost, is what the quantum erasure experiment showed.
It also leads to manipulation. People don't want to hear that - they think, as imagine many people reading this are thinking, that they aren't manipulated.

People are manipulated on a large scale. States, advertisers, political movements, and others are investing a lot of money in it. They are getting something for their money.

That is the most important issue; that is the power in our society. Propaganda was effective before the Internet. Now, with incredible amounts of information about your behavior, interests, needs, situation, etc., and with expertise and A/B testing, it's certainly possible to move the needle. Yes, for you and me too.
Ok then, so who should the ideal be?
Crawford response to some of the criticisms https://rootsofprogress.org/bbc-future-covers-progress-studi...