skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mix of both. Sometimes they tell people "we don't have cash anymore", they close the doors and don't let anyone in. Or just close the bank altogether for a long time (sometimes for fear of their lives).

Other times they give the account holder only one option to take money (say to send to their child's to pay for college abroad). And that option always involves the holder losing 5X to 10X of the value of their money. Write a check for $1000, sell it for $100, to get a $100...

At the end of the day, scarcity creates conflict.

And with that conflict, some employees choose to keep treating people with dignity and politeness, but without helping them (because they're following their bosses' policies.) And some just don't give a shit, slide into their dark side, and enjoy the power trip...
> No they don't, but if they did, then they could use the money they have saved by rolling these out today to pay for some of them.

Wonderful, they spend $37 million on 1,000. Now they just need to use the savings from the $37 million to offset the next 130 trillion dollars needed for the next 299,000 installations.
TAI is also a kind of approximation, since time elapses differently depending on gravitational pull, due to relativistic effects. It is defined as the physical time elapsing on a geodesic, an imaginary surface covering the earth at roughly sea level with equal gravitational pull at all points.

In reality, physical time elapses at slightly different “rate” depending on where you’re located on the surface of the earth (or possibly not on the surface of the earth), also due to nonuniformities in the earth’s mantle affecting the gravitational field.

TAI is taken as the average between the 400-or-so contributing atomic clocks, adjusted for their relative height above sea level, and possibly other factors, and taking into account the signal propagation time between the clocks.

Compared to the time in the reference frame of the sun, for example, (which may be taken as a solar-system wide time-keeping standard) TAI wiggles around that solar time according to earth’s yearly cycle around the sun.

Of course, those variations are much smaller than DUT1 (at least close to earth’s reference frame).
Do you have sources or evidence that this linear payout system wont work?
I’m sure that far more cash transactions by volume are not money laundering compared to tornado cash. Tornado cash’s only real purpose is money laundering.
What centralized entity? Do you mean counterparty?
Nice, I hope it clicks for you!

I agree, you gotta really cut through the noise to find legitimate sources. I do think we’re at a turning point though. Climate change is now a dollar-and-cents issue and as such will be given a seat at the table by politicians and businesses alike.

I will say that if you’re interested in technology discussions only, you might have to pick and choose your episodes. Tech comes up in each, but there is a lot of policy and regulation talk
Hard not to see parallels with the end of the Roman empire. We know we could do better, we can't be bothered trying very hard and we'd rather moan about the good old days. All it needs is the more motivated (not very) barbarian hoarde to decide they'll do the social reconstruction we won't.

Edit: I actually place great faith on coming generations. The kids are alright.
Sounds a bit 1984.

Ultimately most CEOs are probably psychopaths. What would be useful is banning psychopaths from there positions as they lack empathy.

Not sure if we can reliably tell who is a psychopath but it’s always going to be an issue.
No juries, only judges. And most judges are heavily influenced politically.
I am a pragmatic minimalist. First I find a work around then I work on the root cause. Changing the policy or actions of a school district can take time. Installing a work around, assuming one exists, is a quick mitigation that parents can teach their kids. We might not agree but that is just how I operate.
> It's literally impossible to write concurrent and highly-available code without exceptions.

Do you have an example?
I almost got kicked out because I "looked like" someone who had vandalized something or other the day before. They pulled me out of class, called me names, made me sit in their little sad office (thus missing more class) and tried to get me to write a written confession. I refused and they said they would "prosecute me to the full extent of the law". The next day I was exonerated with no explanation given.

The two fully-grown adults who ran the security office were former police; judging by the 20+ department badges proudly displayed on their back wall, it looks like they'd been kicked out of every department. One wonders why!
Trusting a 'centralized' entity of your own choosing, rather than a limited choice of broken banks, for a short period of time for a single transaction is a big step up to having to trust a centralized bank of little of your own choosing in the midst of a banking crisis _for the entire duration of ownership of the money_.

This is Lebanon, not someplace like France. This could be a money changer with an AK at his side, a buyer with AK at his side, money and BTC changes hands and after the confirmations finish out on the BTC side they're on their way, simple as.
If Japan's law enforcement for this is anything like Germany's, this only applies if you're actually breaking traffic laws --- as in, the police will never stop you normally unless you cross a red or something, and only then they will fine you (for crossing a red + using a scooter without a license).
I'm done busting my ass, doing top tier work as the expectation, for shit pay. Pay me the bare minimum you can, don't expect me to work more or harder than then minimum _I_ can. Especially after years of nothing but stellar reviews, and a token 3% raise yearly. The goal isn't to end up in a worse place, but you also shouldn't let yourself be taken advantage of out of fear of the unknown.

I agree and identify strongly with this article.

> Turn up on time. Do your job. Do it right. Do whatever is asked of you provided it's lawful, reasonable. [...] Do not one thing more than that.
News flash, nearly everything is related to everything, and that’s interesting!
Another nitpick, they're Metabo HPT only in North America, in EU and Asia they're Hikoki. So at the end there is still separate Metabo, and there is also Metabo HPT/Hikoki. That's a very strange limbo since it'll be very hard to look for reviews.
One of the most inspiring people I ever met was a college friend's mom who was years into MS but had steeled herself to stay active and strong and so into her 50s ran marathons. In her 60s she was confined to a wheelchair but nevertheless became one of the top hand-cyclist marathoners. Incredible palpable energy and positivity in her presence.

I have no doubt had a vaccine existed she would have taken it and spared herself the suffering.

But absent suitable treatment she made herself a hero.
Fiat already has self custody, it's called storing banknotes under your mattress (this is sometimes done in countries with poor bank records btw). The trouble is that you need to cover yourself any risks, like losing the money to robbery or fires

Which incidentally is the same problem of cryptocurrencies: you need to have good security practices to not lose money to malware or simply forgetting the password

When you choose a bank you also have risks, but a different set of risks. It's more like systemic risks, that everyone else would also be affected
All in all, I think it was worth the try.

Only if their whatsapp account was unimportant. Chances that nobody reported it for group spam or abuse are 1/N.
To be honest the the HOWTO system was clearly starting to die even by the early 2000s, before blogs and "answer sites" (as distinct from web forums more generally) really took off as sources of Linux advice.
> The kids have a right to due process, and to privacy as they are, after all, human

The word "privacy" does not appear in the Constitution - you have no explicit right to privacy in the US
That's only in North America, in EU/Asia they're Hikoki. And in EU there is still Metabo.
The fiduciary duty is to sell at a price when offered, whether or not the buyers are hatchet men.
"Poland is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and yet it's being sacrificed to satisfy the greed of a few corporations."

Is that what's happened here?
I'm unsure about training but openAI on its site explicitly points out that anyone using the model/service must be in compliance with the GDPR and CCPA if those laws apply to them so at the very least it seems like people are legally on the hook if the models churn out some of your personal information.

https://openai.com/api/policies/terms/
> I absolutely don't blame my first girlfriend for leaving.

Good, it shouldn’t be about blame, neither her nor you, it just wasn’t meant to be. I get the sense that you’d benefit from talking to a therapist about this if you aren’t already and have the means. Basically everyone benefits from talking through matters like this with a professional. Good luck!
And yet it happened.

My theory is that I tripped some fraud detection software run by the advertisers, who would know their traffic was disappearing, who in turn notified comcast that my IP address was violating terms of service. All done by software, I doubt any human intervention took place. Not that they care that little old me doesn't see their ads, it's more bad actors trying to steal clicks or impressions or identifying information etc. Very hard to know the details unless you are a network engineer, it's not the kind of thing they want the public or the black hats to know.

But I'm sure it happened because I had the lowest tier comcast and a docsis 3.1 modem on fairly new cable plant. It was very solid. I could repeatably get my cable disabled just by turning on the pi-hole and waiting less than 15 minutes.

But I searched online and everyone else seems to be able to use them, so maybe it is me.
I mean it sounds as if you can't trust either one on an individualized basis, but it may be more pragmatic to diversify your hedge with different coins than diversify 20 different bank accounts which all suffer under a broken national framework.
Your description sounds like he robbed the bank to me.
> Stablecoins aren’t a zero-trust system. It’s a system where you need to trust both the underlying currency and the developer.

You can minimise and swap these risks for others. It all depends on what the threat model is.

The collateral can be asset backed diversified across multiple countries and not dependent on a single currency. Some of the newer and upcoming stablecoins use asset in crypto to back themselves to reduce any dependency on country backed currency reserves.

Developers can and do burn control of the contracts once its established that they are safe and not exploitable. Of course this is a risk where you cannot make any future change but protect against risk of developers rugging you.
How is this not a major international scandal?
Germany ranks slightly higher at #10. The US is down at #28.

Wikipedia has more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
Why would it be relevant whether euthanasia is or isn't allowed in other places?

We know exactly why it's not allowed in most places, and that reason has nothing to do with medical care.
It's possible they were reported for spam but this is a known neighbourhood grocer so it's more likely that people just exited the group and forgot about it.
I noticed some similarities in the source code to https://github.com/baskerville/plato/

Is there some common source for Kobo-compatable rust code that you both drew from, or was plato the original source?

EDIT: Nevermind, should have looked closer, you already called out that you drew from plato

> The code responsible for rendering to the eInk display is written by baskerville and taken from https://github.com/baskerville/plato
I know that Tanina Agosto‘s story is not the main content of the article, but it makes me incredibly angry.

The idea that someone lives in a supposedly developed country , has very worrying neurological symptomps and is not seen by a doctor for months is barbaric. The fact that she literally works in a hospital is an extra layer of insult on top of this.

How are people okay with this system?
Thank you for the encouraging words.

> Maybe you'll find that you can somewhat recondition yourself gradually.

That's the goal. I intend to be patient with myself on this task and work on it over the course of the next few years. I have no doubt that it will take years to effect any kind of substantive change.
Wait, ML crawlers are also web crawlers too right? They crawl the web for a different reason, but they still crawl the web, so why don’t they respect robots.txt?
Let me provide a common hypothetical:

- A student is being bullied. This bullying is happening using social media and or text messages. These messages are being sent at various times pseudo-anonymously but there's strong reason to know who it is.

Who, exactly, is the authority who we expect to look into this? Is it the police? Using what law/powers? Are social workers empowered? We're clearly not ok with the school doing it.

So is bullying that happens outside of school hours just a free-for-all? I'm genuinely asking. It is fine if everyone agrees that schools shouldn't and that it is authoritarian to do so, but then who exactly is the authority? If police are, then when the police slap handcuffs on a K-12 kid, everyone loses their mind about that too and asks "why is this a police matter?!" "Why are we criminalizing young people?!"

I'm not saying I have all the answers: Because I absolutely do not. But I am saying people need to think about the bigger picture about how this works and who is responsible for what.
But if you’re in a place where this sort of thing is necessary (keeping your money out of government or bank hands), you might be willing to take that risk. Because being able to get some money out of the country, is still far better than having no money. Imagine for a second you had to flee and claim asylum. I think it’s fair to say that this use case for crypto is undisputed.

The major problem with this is that these people have to use systems that’s full of scams and the value of their money is controlled by people in the first world with tons of cash to burn.
Very cool game! I'm into controls and would love to write a PID controller for it to stabilize it and have it auto-follow my mouse, as a controls demo.

I'm not sure how best to capture it's state though (position, xy velocity, angular velocity, etc.), Nor how to integrate mouse into it.
How does that work? For tail risk, you buy what you need. That’s why it’s tail risk.

Like, if I’m buying flood insurance, I don’t buy less insurance because I don’t think floods are likely in my area. I buy floor insurance to cover my house.
This is such a fascinating area of research. I think it's increasingly clear that there is a common thread tying together conditions like long-COVID, MS and chronic fatigue syndrome - a long-running and persistent viral infection leading to a chronic immuno-inflammatory response. Other seemingly unlikely diseases such as Alzheimers, depression and even schizophrenia may may have neuro-inflammatory origins too.

This article hints that the persistence of the Epstein-Barr virus might be causing the chronic inflammation. But I wonder if it could instead be due to some sort of non-linear process in the immune-response that causes our immune system to enter a positive feedback loop when it's activated for too long or in a certain way. And perhaps the therapy for this would be to suppress the immune system for some period of time to allow it to abort this feedback loop, perhaps something like this: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/patients-resorting-to...
Given that torture and gruesome executions still happen today all over the world, it would seem that your definition of "human beings" is simply not broad enough.
I agree in one respect because this content was not written in July of 2022 because I distinctly remember reading it quite awhile ago. But I’m not sure what the issue is with the actual content—do you know the information to be inaccurate in some way?
Observations on tragedy in a digital age
Use a Fortran compiler to compile the specific parts that you need, and link statically if that is what you want?
>can be useful in an emergency situation as shown here.

Clearly holding Lebanese currency in a bank may not be useful for holding emergency funds. But I do not believe that it's been shown that at point in time an asset which can drop 50% in value over two months, which is the type of acute timeline in which an emergency can occur, and requires transacting into LBP anyways in this scenario, is useful for holding emergency funds either.
On mobile, won't let me view till i put my email in a popover
In the USA it is called the IRS, here in Sweden we call it Skatteverket, in the Netherlands it would be 'de belastingdienst'.
I'm interested to know more here. I don't think of the book as a reference, but it was certainly fun to read and helped spark my interest in common lisp.
Yes but during a time when there is mass psycological depression and other chaos is difficult to believe this change is "just due to people becoming more comfortable with the idea".
For reference I'm in favour of MAID as a concept. But a 30% jump in the same year there is other chaos should set alarm bells ringing. The defence of this reached the same levels as a completely different society is somehow also doubly alarming to me...
The person buying a Tesla is likely not disposing of it now, but some years away.

Betting there will be recycling that doesn’t exist now isn’t ideal, but it seems likely. If the material is scare and valuable, it isn’t going to be wasted.

This really isn’t an “ICE is better, end discussion” type situation.
You aren't hurting the corporation.

You're hurting the people who will be fired if they don't pick up your slack.

I left an employer without notice not long ago where the prevailing attitude was more or less to do the minimum you could without being terminated and let the on-calls pick up the slack, after being "accidentally" placed on-call for roughly 7 weeks.

It literally destroyed my life in every possible way.

I'm not even open to working in that industry anymore.

The buck has to stop somewhere or the checks stop coming.

This is essentially open advocation for sociopathy.
No, I mean the local centralized entity that would need to have sufficient LBP available for exchange for BTC to solve this man's problem. He needs to pay a hospital, not trade crypto with an anonymous counterparty.
We could create a very lightweight "signature" for everything we create.

- User does not permit this post to be used for the training of AI/ML systems.
Someone should release a modified MIT license that adds a clause about limiting use in language models.

I don’t think it would be popular, but it’d start a discussion and like make HN front page.
Certainly a different kind of quirky, but Knuth's The TeXbook is a very fun read. I regret I don't have more experience with manuals, thanks to this one.
> Who, exactly, is the authority who we expect to look into this?

Parents, typically?

Police once it becomes harassment or assault (or threat of).
I'd love to see you add some settings we can change, such as gravity and moment of inertia parameters, engine thrust force, and custom control keys.
Please go And read the apnews article. It’s sent shivers down my spine. Doctors suggesting to disabled patients that it’s “selfish” to not consider euthanasia, then expanding it to kids now? It sounds quite nazi-Esque. Almost as if Canada has decided to just “kill the poor” so to speak instead of helping them out.

I’ve always heard that the beauracracy is one of Canadas biggest issues and now seeing this mix with disabled people being killed like ants sounds like the worst combination.
This is essentially the first option I listed, which is already supported by MAGICL by loading MAGICL/EXT-LAPACK [1]. Since MAGICL is a library and not a compiled application, using LAPACK in the way you suggest is still a foreign dependency (now a C compiler, Fortran compiler, Lisp compiler, and the transitive dependencies of the *GEEV Fortran functions), even if at the end of the day it's basically packaged up in an end-user's application binary.

(It's probably out of the scope of this thread to get into the weeds of how Common Lisp is compiled as a standard language, and how specific compiler implementations like SBCL work. It suffices to say though that it's almost always not a simple matter of "get .o files and link them to your compiled Lisp", in no small part due to the popularity of
image-based development.)

It's perfectly reasonable to consider different deployment strategies, but "statically link Fortran code (essentially into the Lisp runtime)", to a user of MAGICL, is not an ordinary thing to do.

[1] https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl#extensions
> If everyone has what they need, why would there be a price on anything?

Will everyone really always have what they need, or is that a theoretical state that is actually very unlikely to be achieved? Also, is it in human nature (in general, discounting outliers) to be entirely satisfied and not want more, especially in relation to the people around you?

> The farmer can grow whatever they want, but if it doesn't benefit the community then they are on their own.

What happens if more than just one farmer opts out of the anarchistic lifestyle, they embrace capitalism, and outcompete the anarchists? Could that ever reach a point where it would be necessary to stop them by force in order to preserve the anarchistic society?

Basically I’m curious how things would shake out in reality, compared to theoretic models that presupposes that everyone acts in the best interest of society as a whole (given that they can all agree on what that is), and not themselves in particular (which I think is more realistic, on average).
I also forgot to insert the Youtube ad.
Want to create one on sqwok.im? Right now it's mostly tech/hn users on the site (made it to front page twice)

I'm looking for people who want to help create new communities & experiment on there so let me know!
> How would self-custody of BTC allowed this man to pay for his father's medical bills? As far as I'm aware the hospital did not accept bitcoin payments.

Sell your BTC for cash, in person.

> There have also been several instances in time where BTC has lost 80% of its value (and many more instances of 50%+)

Better than the 90% inflation (or withdrawal "correction") in Lebanon.
Well even if you had BTC and can convert it to cash somehow, where do you put that cash? How does this guy pay the hospital? Turn up with $30k in a duffle bag?

Somewhere your money has to go into the countries financial systems. Which makes sense. Money isn’t just for trade. It’s to exert soft power.
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
I believe you when you say your internet ceased working. Everything else seems to be conspiratorial reasoning without any clear evidence. No one likes Comcast, so people aren't covering for them. It's easy to make a configuration mistake - this just doesn't pass the smell test.