skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A strong argument for independent central bankers.

It's a weird sort of thing. At one level it's easy, just elect politicians who respect independent central banks. But it's the politicians from whom the central banks are independent, so can they really be independent if their independence depends on the people who they're independent from?

Erdogan started his career with relatively independent central bankers, but since they made decisions he didn't like, he replaced them with cronies. Erdogan was also able to change the constitution to reflect his preferences, so it isn't an argument for entrenched independent central bankers either - a person who can get the constitution changed, but who doesn't get rid of the independence of the central bank is choosing that.

We can go back and say it's an argument for electing politicians who respect the independence of central banks, but it's something like an argument that says we should elect good economic managers: if you could reliably get good economic managers, it doesn't matter if you have independent central banks, and it doesn't matter if you have independent central banks if you have bad economic managers. And on the other hand, most voters just aren't going to consider the independence of central banks when voting.

With Erdogan, it doesn't matter how the economic management is structured: you're going to get low interest rates and high inflation rates and generally spook the market. Your goal has to be not to get Erdogan, over and above any argument for central bank independence.

Really, all we're left with is the political position that good economic management is better with central bank independence - a position Erdogan fundamentally disagrees with.

It's all the same with Pierre Poilievre in Canada (currently leader of the Conservative Party and the Official Opposition), who stated he wanted to fire the chair of the Bank of Canada because he didn't agree with their decisions. Once you do that, you don't have an independent central bank any more. So the only way for Canada to retain central bank independence is not to vote for Poilievre. But in Canada as in Turkiye, the central bank's independence from politicians would be dependent on politicians i.e. there wouldn't actually be central bank independence.

At the end of the day, "central bank independence" only exists if major political players in government and opposition agrees to it. Surely they should look at this lesson, and I think the lesson of recent weeks in the UK too. They both tell you that governments are up against limitations in what they can do and that the governments who respect those constraints will govern their countries better than the ones who don't, even when they make stupid decisions.

I think I would be greatly relieved if there was a different phrase, one that tells you what we mean, rather than something that is impossible at the time it is most needed.
The proper term is “differently abled”…
No book needed, just common sense:

* no alcohol
* no sugary drinks and sweets
* drink water
* eat fruits, mostly berries
* eat salad and vegetables
* eat less meat
* walk every day
* get enough sleep
> Their apparent addiction to hiring full time diversity officers on six figure salaries is a neuralgic one, not so much because of the scale of the waste (small) but because it's so obviously waste, so easy to fix and so obviously designed purge the NHS of anyone who isn't ideologically pliant, regardless of the political cost of provoking large numbers of taxpayers and voters.

Here's a member of staff, a black man, who was attacked by a patient. He defended himself. The patient made a complaint, and the staff member was disciplined and dismissed.

He took the case to employment tribunal, claiming that the original attack was racist, and that the complaint was racist, and that the following investigation did not account for that racism and so was itself racist.

He won, because there was clear evidence that what he said was true. He got a 7 figure pay out.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/nov/23/former-nhs-tru...

You've said that fewer people die under a privatised healthcare system - the US has worse outcomes, lower life expectancy, because of its private health care. You're simply wrong.

That guy could have got emergency health care - he could have walked into an MIU, or an ED, or he could have called 999.

> The sad thing is, cases like that one are increasingly not a mere outlier.

There's a million healthcare contacts per day. So far you've highlighted one where the patient got terrible care. It made national news because it's an outlier. Where are all the others?

> The NHS is not regulation of health care. Most countries have heavily regulated but private healthcare

You brought up de-regulation. Here's what you said:

> If done properly privatisation and deregulation could just save it.

There's no point continuing the discussion if you can't keep up with your own arguments.
The rationale for this is the belief that only humans have "souls" and that no animal has one. Suffering seems to be a requirement of Christianity (for an example, see Book of Job).
'Excited' faces of Russia elites while waiting for Putin's speech: https://t.me/faridailychat/2252
Nope, it ran on specific hardware and needed specific compilation. It definitely wasn't free to support.
"it's incredibly hard to identify an engineer's real ability levels in an interview process". It is more or less true (I would not use "incredibly hard", just "hard") with the qualifier "using a standardized, working-at-scale interview process".

If you had to choose one engineer among 100 candidates using whatever approach you want but within a time limit of 10 hours per candidate, I am pretty confident you would accurately gauge the "quality" of candidates.
There are Georges everywhere, and Id be surprised if that convo was much more complicated than posted
Sounds like to you, even the casting couch and sexual favours are an example of working free market.

Something along the lines of secretary that provides blowjobs for the CEO ensures they are always at the top of their game?
I had to take a class called Numerical Methods for my math minor. It was all about the various algorithms used in math like Bezier Curves and LaGrange polynomials. I asked for an exception from my computer science department to allow me to substitute this class for one of its other 400 level classes, hoping to use the class for requirements in computer science, too.

The department head refused, saying it's important to have a "well rounded" education, not one focused on math. Instead, I had to take bioinformatics to fulfill the requirement. Because that's, like, more related?

My point is, there was inflexibility in what the department was willing to accept, that seemed pretty arbitrary. Perhaps allowing a broader view of computer classes would lead to a better mix of student's learning.
Fandom is just rebranded wikia, for what it's worth
I heard on Reddit that those gamespot shares were red hot! Joking aside, I wonder what the end result of all that on their share price was years later

I do use metacritic and gamefaqs from time to time. I wonder what will happen to them
I was a heavy user of gamefaqs for many years but had almost forgot they existed. The YouTube let’s play completely replaced it for me and I’m guessing for most of their userbase as well.
>“At the current time there is no consensus on what reproducibility is or should be.”

This seems like an underrated part of it. The meaning of 70% is a bit unclear to me since the article didn't cite how many replication studies most have done. If most have done 10 replication studies and weren't able to replicate a component of it they would count towards the 70%.

Given the quality of research in the social sciences I would suspect the issue is much more significant than that - but nonetheless a distorting way to report the stats IMO.
Digital beanie babies
This is why all websites have big cookie consent modals that appear before you can view content now. Most people just accept all. (And even when doing that, things like Apple Tracking Transparency have broken fingerprinting for a lot of adtech.)
It's definitely a shame. GameSpot was one of the first gaming websites I found when I really started using the internet seriously in the late 90s. One of my fondest memories around gaming is Greg Kasavin replying to a question I submitted for a weekly Q&A he did where I asked about Baldur's Gate 2 and if I, as a newbie PC gamer jumping over from consoles, would be good to go starting there or if I needed to play the first one :)
ExactBuyer Search: Google for Prospecting Teams
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ExactBuyer Search lets you prospect the way you use Google and returns the perfect list of global companies or prospects.

Try something like:
"engineers at figma that know ruby or java"

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Google to Shut Down Stadia Video Game Streaming Service
Riding in an underground vacuumtube tunnel at uninterrupted superspeed is the better, safer way to go. Passengers can experience the illusion of the Jetson's family flying car with VVR (Vehicular Virtual Reality). You can see people handwaving to each other from car to car teleconferencing or doing the Zoom meeting whilst on the move. A young nerd called Zuck might even wear Apple's AR facemask inside the VVR bubble.
What security issues in E3?
Yes, I totally agree, but I was thinking that they would overcome these limitations with the advance of [VR/AR] hardware manufacturing, especially sensors. The problem was, as @PH01 noted, it was [all] fake, so nothing you can do to improve something that does not exist, similar to a startup/indie hacker idea that didn't find its Product/Market fit yet.
Seems to me you would not be able to adapt your aim to the wind to the level of precision required to hit a small target. You would be much better off trying to identify a working shot for an average wind condition and then trying to time your shot to match that condition.
User and resource management, I'd say.
> CNBC spoke to a former advertising executive who said that even though TikTok is a Chinese-owned business, it has a recruiting edge over Meta because it is viewed as having less of a “moral downside.”

I actually view the moral downside with TikTok as at least as bad as Meta. The PRC isn’t exactly some bastion of freedom and excellence. Neither is the US, but you’re fooling yourself if you think a highly influential company headquartered in China isn’t being manipulated by the CCP.
The twentieth century began with children making up ~20% of the workforce, which wasn't outlawed until 1938. I assume they weren't being taught Latin down in the coal mines.
This was the sentiment I was scrolling down hoping to find reflected in the discussion. I agree with you, but I was going to frame it a little differently: only you bring your own unique talent and lived experience to what you do. That makes the way you practice your music, visual art, craft (including programming), and its output, valuable. Even if—for the moment—you are the only person enjoying it.
Maybe they haven't filled it. Hiring is hard. There's another YC company who have been posting the same ad for hiring a founding engineer for a couple of months now.
You're not the only one. I see DEI and ESGs as a giant scam as well. More people are starting to see them this way as well. Here's a take I enjoyed listening to by Capitalisn't: [The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing with Tariq Fancy](https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-es...)

Episode Summary

> Environmental, social and governance investing, also know as ESG, has exploded in recent years. It promises to help us solve problems like climate change and inequality all while allowing investors to still turn a profit.

>

> But BlackRock’s former global chief investment office for sustainable investing, Tariq Fancy, says it isn't what's being advertised. Recently, he penned a blog post claiming that not only are ESGs not making societal problems better, they may actively be making them worse.
I think a insane fraction of google revenue comes from lawyers, insurance and car sales. But maybe you are talking about smaller companies that buy ads being overvalued.
How will your accounts be compromised if they are all different? A key is no good if you don't know which lock it leads to.
iOS works in the exact same principle as MV3.
Broadly - conversions that you can validate. It's kind of that simple. Depends on the channel, as well. For LI and FB/IG, have tight targeting, tighter tracking, and really really good creative. As long as I'm making more than I spend, there's something there. Every now and then we turn off our ads for a month or so and analyze traffic and sales to make sure those ads aren't capturing leads that would've come in organically. Advertising is work - you have to constantly investigate and experiment and optimize and refresh. Then do it all over again when that particular well runs dry.
I work in California, make more than 300k not at a FAANG doing work that people with half of my competence would be able to do (but they would not be hired for the job), and I am not taxed at nearly 50%.
Physical Silver prices soar 6% on fears of bank defaults, inventory shortages
If other professions had the option to pick up free toolboxes that aren't necessarily the best quality in the world, but are decent enough, then I'm sure many of them would be pretty damn happy about it.
It’s simpler than this, imo. Most users rely on Google Search and Google will Constantly nag the user to try Chrome.

Users, trusting the ad company that provides them free email, search, video, photos etc. will action on the suggestion and install Chrome.

More users gives google the market power to dictate web standards
Childhood is much more than logistics and administration. Your parents are there during your formative years, teaching you, often through example. Also, your emphasis on conversation seems strange. As much as I like a good conversation, this is not what defines the parent-child relationship. It is not what makes this relationship valuable above all else. Who would you rather have? A parent who sacrifices immensely for your good, or a good conversationalist who can't be bothered?
In my short time teaching so far, in 2.25 quarters, only one person has used office hours, and that was over zoom. I have 2 fixed office hours per week, and allow zoom office hours by appointment any time.

On the other hand, I help the students async and at odd hours on Discord every single day.

It seems the more a student should be asking for help, the less likely they are to do so. I spend a fair about of time during the quarter trying to break down that wall.
The AIM-54 Phoenix, and indeed the F-14 Tomcat, come from a background of needing a carrier-based aircraft that would be able to intercept the expected threat - massed Soviet bombers with cruise missiles - at maximum possible range.

Since that threat never occurred, it is difficult to say whether it worked out. The discontinuation of the platform has more to say about the change in the threat than it does in the merit of BVR missiles.
If the meeting is big enough that you can get up without missing anything or your absence being noticed (an all hands), you can probably just turn the video off.

If it's small enough that people will notice/care that your video is off but not that you're not interacting (and you won't miss anything valuable by being absent), then your company really needs to re-evaluate its approach to meetings.

The "because I can" argument is perfectly reasonable, though.
Why did you receive death threats?
Under GDPR, if you use a third-party tools, and those tools process user data (including just being loaded onto the page from a third-party server, because that requires processing IP Address), then your arrangement with that third party must describe the processing that they are going to perform. The description of processing is often a separate document from other contract stuff, called the Data Processing Agreement (DPA), but that's a convention and not a requirement.

Your responsibility is making sure that data processed under the terms of that agreement conforms to GDPR. Your primary responsibilities are the articles in Chapter 3 "Rights of the Data Subject" under GDPR, and making sure you can do that for data sent to the third-party.

Their responsibility is making sure that data is only processed how they describe it in the DPA. If they surreptitiously add Google Analytics, that's their violation.

If the contract is too vague to tell what processing is going on, then that is your violation for choosing to engage with them as a processor. In practice this might be your biggest risk.
What percentage of people uses these privacy solutions?
> For payment processing. Not for tracking.

Alas there are no payment processors that don't do tracking. As I understand it, VISA and Mastercard were some of the originators of this business model.
I think I made this one two years ago?
Why don’t Turks do something about it?
> Türkiye

Sorry but this is ridiculous. In any language, we have different names for places than in those places’ native languages, and that’s perfectly normal. “Türkiye” is impossible for a native English speaker to parse - it isn’t even written in our alphabet. Are we to start writing Sweden as “Sverige”, or Kazakhstan as “ Қазақстан”? Should we start pronouncing “Paris” “Pah-reee”? We don’t do either of those, because we understand that languages have their own names for places, and don’t want to insult native speakers by butchering the pronunciation.

Rant over.
> or up to 24,000 years.

On the one hand, it's a lot of radiation, but on the other hand, that's a very long time to live. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
> not providing context on what tauri is.

Their comment has a link to the Tauri GitHub repo.
These were not peripherals. We are talking devices that would be front line in an emergency room. Terrifying.
Tim Cook Believes People Do Not Understand What Metaverse Is
It’s going to be painful but it’s also necessary. The economy needs to be based on productive work, not imaginary money from house price inflation. House prices cannot rise faster than salaries as they have done. It is unsustainable.
Turkey is India in ten years, Argentina 15 years ago, with the advantage of being able to extract some fossil fuels.

They wasted demographic dividends, and they don't have enough natural resources to make up for it (but they have some). They didn't fucked up as much as Liban did, so they have that going for them.

The only non western country to succeed their demographic transitions without abundant natural resources is Cuba, but imho that was thanks to the USSR.
So your argument is, if your claim is true - and if it's true in all cases or not - that those excess, unnecessary suicides, will happen within the first "few weeks" - and then that's acceptable to you that more people kill themselves on SSRIs (etc)?

And there are other options - far better, far less harmful options do indeed exist - but the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex hasn't made them widely known or available because getting people dependant on (due to severe withdrawal in most cases, another thing they lied about; like how it was lied about the new opiates weren't addictive to get them mass prescribed) medications that are patented allows pharma to make an increasingly large recurring revenue stream; and who cares if X% of MORE people kill themselves than otherwise would have if you're now making many $ billions per month - and as a doctor all you need to do to "help" someone, and the only competency and knowledge you need, the most shallow complexity you need to understand, is to write a prescription for someone?

And then the other side of the coin is the increased homicide, and the responsibility that people they should take on if they want these medications available - on top of being in part responsible for the increased suicides - are all of the mass shooting deaths; let alone the increased ideology and antisocial behaviour we have in society could arguably be heavily influenced by these medications as well, and the widespread harm that causes to society.
Photo & video hosting for all of your major life events that delivers the content to all of your friends and family?
Skeptical of this data for the following reasons:

1. Ireland - has high GDP due to it being a tax haven, yet the light data is spot on.

2. Every developed country has correct light data, but none of the developing countries do. (doesn't matter how free)
Reminds me of this Kurtzgesagt video, which explains that if you're an adult, you've probably spent 99% of your total time with your parents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc
His argument is pretty poor. The fact that the average person couldn't define the metaverse doesn't mean they wouldn't enjoy it when it is offered. The average person couldn't define a model T before Ford started building them. He also seems to fall into the same VR/AR trap that Meta is in. I'd call VR/AR one potential why to interact with the metaverse but not a defining characteristic.

My personal view is that the metaverse will come and it will be an evolution from a popular game such as Roblox, Minecraft or Fortnite.
The name is unfortunate.

A muon is about 200 times heavier than an electron, not lighter.
How's it fair to uproot people from their communities, and their other children, at the twilight of their life to fulfill the material greediness of your kids?
I did always find auto-pricing for ads weird. Why would I trust the one entity that stands to gain from an increase to set my bid? The fact that it's impossible to verify the veracity of the system makes that a no-go for me, but clearly not for everyone.
I would tell you, but it's too big to fit in the margin.
1. Autoplay videos done by fandom editors who may not have read the source material or even their own wiki article inserted at the top of pages just so they have video to justify video ads

2. Large portions of the page dedicated to "engagement bait", e.g. related articles in a permanent sidebar (mixed with ads), piles of random forum discussions/elsewhere on fandom links at the end of the page.

3. Open a fandom page with your adblocker off. Video ads in the header, in a floating overlay, randomly mid article, etc.
It seems Wikipedia has the dollar amount some high-profile domains sold for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_...

Do we know how much pe.com sold for?