skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wise used to be a great option to transact in, 2-3 years ago. The main challenge with Wise however was the exchange rate used to convert USD received to the local fiat currency. In Nigeria there are two exchange rates - the first at an official rate used by banks, & the second a parallel rate used by the black market (including Bureau de Change operators).

Today if you Google the ‘official’ exchange rate for the dollar to Naira, you’ll see a ~445 Naira to 1 USD. As an individual there isn’t anywhere I can buy dollar at this rate, because it is exclusive to banks, select licensed money operators & politically connected high-net worth individuals. However money services like Wise convert my dollar at this official rate. Considering that the parallel market rate today is 745 naira to 1USD, I will be losing a huge amount of money by receiving money with Wise. The only workaround will be to get a virtual account on Wise & send USD to a local money merchant, who then exchanged at this parallel rate. But such virtual accounts aren’t accessible to people in Nigeria, due to regulation. [1] For context, the Central bank of Nigeria released a circular a while back explicitly stating Wise as a non-licensed entity.

There are other options apart from Wise. But the trade off is loss of money, as compared to what’s available on the parallel/black market.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-money-idAFL1N2IX1BM
> We can already pipe oil from texas to Canada with ease, we can do the same from Canada to Arizona with water. Or wherever else. The economics and viability of it is obvious and clear.

Oil and gas are far more value dense than water. Pipeline transport adds somewhere around $5-20 per barrel of oil, or $0.03/L. Some quick googling suggests Phoenix residents pay around $0.00022/L. That's a factor of 142x.
There are lots and lots of existing
providers of karaoke tracks:
these invest (depending on quality)
between several dollars and several
hundreds of dollars to record "soundalike"
tracks

Commercial karaoke establishments will still need to pay for the licensed versions if they want to be legal. That doesn't change.

People who don't want to do that already had tons of options - Adobe Audition and tons of other software can remove/reduce vocals.

So I don't feel like this changes the commercial picture too much? I feel like this will mainly affect at-home singalongs.
I'm guessing they aren't.
Clearly designers have gotten influenced by the clay modeling process used to prototype cars and now expect the real cars to look similar. (half-kidding)
You can't civilly sue the gun maker for the actions of their users:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
What happens if User B moves his cursor to position 0 at the same time that User A types at position 0?

Depending on the order that those events arrive, and how ordering is disambiguated, it's possible that different peers could see User B's cursor at different positions.

I believe that the system you're describing is akin to an OT system, but where the "operations" to transform are the "cursor move" actions that occur simultaneously with insertions and deletions. Most OT systems, on the other hand, are trying to transform inserts and deletes against one another.

Edit: Yes, in fact this is equivalent to OT if you replace every OT insert or delete with a tuple [move cursor, ins/del] in your system.
I think the short answer would be that the surrounding cities are often better+faster at permitting but they may have slightly less permissive zoning than Vancouver. For example “single-family” zoning in Vancouver actually allows for a secondary suite and a laneway house, and a lot of the suburbs are still dragging their heels on laneway houses.
Or just using a jailbreak? (unless Apple Music uses some hardware DRM)
Sleepless nights in the summer heat in Vancouver? Was this during a heatwave? Because average highs in July-August in Vancouver are just 22.2c: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Climate
These are good things to be concerned about. There's a second client and a second validator in the works, there's some stats on datacenter decentralisation in the youtube link above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NDs3Il2J3Q&t=303s - 230 datacenters, 9% in a single data center. But yes lots of work to be done - I don't want to pretend there isn't - but also don't want to pretend that a network with far less activity has has already done it.
The questionnaire is about "student life, academics, and athletics".
Which is hilarious, because one of Marxism's core tenets is that new technologies and industrialization lead to the deskilling of workers, resulting in the need for fewer of them.

Probably why PG deleted his original tweet and rewrote it.
They aren't dismissing the argument. They're saying pretty plainly that both things can be bad, and therefore both can be addressed simultaneously. Taking the stance that animal welfare activists can't care about anything else until the insanely divisive issue of factory farming is solved, on the other hand, is being dismissive of the issue at hand. It's whataboutism. Moreover, someone might take issue with animals being sacrificed for Neuralink while being okay with animals suffering for human consumption. Such a take would be nuanced, not hypocritical.
me:
rewrite this text to make it less obvious that it was written by chatgpt

chatgpt:
It is unclear whether Google should be specifically concerned with ChatGPT, as it is a relatively new and unknown player in the field of natural language processing and conversational AI. However, as a leading player in the field of AI and technology, Google is always looking to stay competitive and may be closely monitoring advancements in the conversational AI space.

In terms of potential competition with ChatGPT, Google has its own conversational AI technology in the form of Google Assistant. Google Assistant is a widely used and highly advanced virtual assistant that is available on a variety of devices and platforms. It is likely that Google will continue to invest in and improve their own technology to maintain their competitive advantage in the market.

Overall, while it is difficult to predict whether Google should be specifically concerned with ChatGPT, the company is likely keeping an eye on developments in the conversational AI space and working to maintain its position as a leader in the field.

I went a few more rounds with it, trying to shorten it down and making it more and more casual. Ended up with

> It's tough to say whether Google should be worried about ChatGPT, it's new and unknown in the world of natural language processing and conversational AI. But, Google is always looking to stay competitive and might be keeping tabs on what's going on in the conversational AI space. They have their own AI tech in Google Assistant. It's likely that Google will continue to improve their tech to keep their edge in the market. Overall, it's tough to say for sure whether Google should be specifically concerned with ChatGPT, but they're probably keeping an eye on what's going on in the conversational AI space.
Some populations of religious people (Mormons in Utah, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish people in Israel) seem to have more children than average.
Real World Assets over crypto are not the same as crypto. Not at all.

https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/at-the-turning...
Some 70 years later, the West has an answer for OPEC
I completely agree. I just posted that comment because it seems like there's this weird idea that certain companies get passes on responsibility vs others. Wanted to see what people thought about these use cases and different categories.
So. I made a deal with my kids that they could have a phone if they made an app. There's enough youtube tutorials and they're old enough to follow them. I could have helped them more over the summer, but we didn't get it done.

Now ChatGPT will generate the flutter code for an app in seconds, as well as guide you with 'show me how to install flutter'. It's crazy that all the code is written for you. I tried one of their timer/todo list ideas and it generated the code, I just need to install flutter and run it today. So a summer long project of learning to code has been reduced to copy-paste instructions from an AI chat bot. Crazy times.
Former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin
> Regarding "scam their friends"

The person who ordered the caviar, lobster and cocktails ALWAYS suggests just splitting the bill evenly. The person who just got a starter and a glass of water then has to be the "cheap" one and push back (and they probably ordered like that because they didnt want to spend $200 on dinner).

Eventually we just stopped inviting the guy who orders a $500 bottle of wine for "the table" aka themselves then insists on splitting the bill evenly.
The criticism is that there’s no evidence that the undue suffering is actually contributing to faster production. Not euthanizing animals when the trial is over, instead making them vomit until the stomach acid ate their esophagus for a week. Incorrect implantation (so experiment flawed from the get go). Things like this.

We should be extremely cautious that this kind of sloppy science doesn’t worsen he quality of life of already vulnerable people through botched science. We recently had a case with experimental windpipe implantation that could promise literally giving people their voices back and it liquified their necks!
It's pretty hard for a software engineer to get bankrupted by the US healthcare system. As long as you maintain your insurance coverage, your biggest worry is the annual "out of pocket maximum", which is the most you can pay in a year, and is usually very low end of 5 digits. There are gotchas with this with uncovered services (i.e., rescue helicopters) but in general, this whole bankruptcy concept is overblown, especially in our privileged market segment.
Power management is a lot of work.

Adding one new station machine can result in you having to redesign the whole plan of your power distribution network.

Want to make those cool atmo suits? The noob trap is refining metal with the crusher and running out of easily accessible copper and iron.

The more long-term sustainable way is using the electric refinery.

It wasn't the only piece of infrastructure that led to it, but in my last base I had to redesign the whole power grid to have segregated electric networks of high-voltage wire leading to various power regulators that acted as substations delivering power to separate lower-voltage networks.

It was a cute puzzle but I didn't feel like I accomplished something from all that work, damn. I guess it's an analogue as to how it works in the real world, but I don't know enough about how it works in the real world as to tell how simplified and fake the game version is, what did I learn really?

And now you have to deal with all the heat dissipation from all this, time to learn the mock version of another infrastructure-related profession.
Microsoft Considering Building All-in-One App for Search, Shopping, Messaging
Who makes those expensive machines? Are they made in-house by companies like TSMC? Or are they purchased from others? And whats the geopolitics of that part of the supply chain (made in taiwan? made in china? made elsewhere?)
Why do people ask serious questions like this predicated upon some judgment of the guy's character. It's like a spooky kind of hero worship. As if only one of them could be right or wrong
True that, and I am pretty sure that humble, modest and good-intentioned guys working on a project that attracts the biggest sharks in the business can certainly fight against trillion dollar assets of the latter with their bare scientific rigor and austerity to defend their work from any possible overtake.

I hope everyone else also shares this belief, this is how we create belief systems that outlive their subjects and may go on to float freely among platonic solids and spherical cows in vacuum, forever.
New Shopify App Store design updates are LIVE
Probably close enough and potentially closer just sending out one request.
I too love remembering to file a 8949 for all my coffee purchases
> My basic point is -- it's too goddamned early to draw any conclusions about Twitter.

Come on, you said:

> Seems to be working ...
You're conflating two very different meanings for the word "valuable" - one that means "to have monetary value", and another that means "has use for society", and so your comment doesn't make sense.
While Cronje may be a good developer, he is also close to SBF level of scam (and he's more clever).
He also knowingly associated with Omar Dhanani / 0xSifu / Michael Patryn, who is another scammer who served time in US prison
The only success I've had is playing closely alongside a guide which is basically telling you every large scale and medium scale decision you should be making for years of in game time. Reminds me of Minecraft mods that get so complex that you need an entire questbook mod included just to teach players how to progress.
Exactly! Route B turns into a tower-defense game, and for that reason I try to play by A for more enjoyment.

The raids compensate for their dumb AI with sheer size. A smarter AI could be more challenging but use fewer soldier. And maybe the AI could adapt its tactics...like once they learn there is a big wall outside your fortress, then maybe they should park themselves outside and call sappers for support or air droppers to arrive first. Maybe the game could introduce cannons to counter wall building. And to prevent cave dwelling, maybe there could be some crucial supplies that spoil such that it is essential to have some trade, and so enemy armies instead of doing a dumb assault could instead do proper siege warfare to conquer you by depriving you of crucial supplies until you die of starvation, thrist, disease, like was done for most of human warfare history.
They had a pretty impressive hurricane that gave it a go. The state's built on limestone, so "under water" might end up "down in the hole" one building at a time. And "under water" also means that everybody's mortgage > equity. Maybe Gore anticipated the insurance businesses leaving Florida and everybody assumed ocean?
The main thing people claim Tether does is:

1. pretend to have customers

2. pretend those customers have deposits

3. issue Tether to front those deposits

4. pump up their favorite coins with their newly minted Tethers

My first suspicion would be that FTX was more fraudulent to its investors than people claim.

It pretended to have a lot more customers & deposits than it actually did to pump up FTT, to get real money from investors looking for a real business rather than crypto BS.

Mainstream institutional money is gigantic, and it's mainly refusing to invest in coins. However, it's not afraid to invest in companies selling shovels to the gold rush.

You can get a lot more money by defrauding institutional money than you can by defrauding retail.

Is there hard evidence this isn't what happened?

All I see is that the records were so bad they have no idea who's owed what.

That seems like a really convenient way to cover up you didn't actually have customers in the first place and everything was a fraud.
I disagree. We have scholarships, which force the geniuses to make use of their cognitive abilities in specific ways.

UBI can be used for anything, including staying at home, accumulating wealth by investing the money without giving back anything to society, etc.

Not all "intelligent" people are industrious.
How to build the 'A team' in mortgage lending
Some "karaoke versions" of songs you can find are literally the same recording with the audio unmixed. Carefully listening can pick up some of the vocals from the other microphones.
We could eventually replace (parts of) the workforce if we were happy with the current standards of living (and prevented a small group from hoarding all the wealth). If we were satisfied with a 1850s standard of living, only a small portion of the modern workforce would need to work. What automation enables is greater productivity with the same amount of human effort/time. But because we seek to improve out living standards, we need to keep the same portion of people employed and productive. So I say, once we bring everyone to a decent standard of life, we can just stop and gradually liberate people from the shackles of work until society runs on a bunch of robots and a small core of maintainers.
Talking about physical media like magazines, borrowing might not be an option and buying might be easier and safer than stealing.

When I was under 18, more porn magazines were found and salvaged than bought at a newsstand. Quality over quantity.
There was a satirical post a while back of a stereotypical HN thread. I think it needs edited to add a comment generated by ChatGPT now. Probably around the third top level comment.
It's actually disillusioned me quite a bit when it comes to tech.

I feel like software developers are some of the most empowered people on the planet, and yet we continue to push and enable the dumbest crap and make the most overhyped predictions about it. I don't understand how we can be so self-deluded to look at a chatbot that has mastered the art of bullshitting and act like this is some consequential, state-of-the-art thing. To make such ridiculous predictions about the future based on the ability of this thing to sound convincing.

I genuinely hope our delusions and complete ignorance of the wider world completely destroys the illusion we've built in the public imagination. I hope this is the end of "tech" as it's widely perceived. I hope the rest of the world sees our "world" as the joke it really is. Hell, I think it's already started.
All that chip stacking. How do you cool it? What's the yield? This is packaging, not higher density transistors.
No, that only happened in socialist countries. Nothing like that here.
Facebook threatens to ban news in the US over journalism bill
Judging by the pictures, TSMC is building a lot of expensive-looking stuff out in Arizona. I know they're both Taiwanese companies but this project seems a bit different.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-to...
They've never been advertised as such, it's never been about stollen items
What's the license, are you allowed to distribute? Anyway, we already started using this in production, we expect some free support. /s
If they pay $0.00022/L then its really not that scarce after all huh?

True scarcity would drive prices up and increase cost viability of transport, obviously. The reason its not done right now is because its not an imminent problem
I don't know why this is so hard to understand. They are of course suing because $$$$.
I disagree, the answer ought to be whatever was planned in advance (before they saw the initial data). Once they've peeked at the data, it's not good to change the experimental procedure as is being suggested here.

The plan should have included some accommodation for non-response (like a reminder email, a suitable reward, etc), but if it didn't it's too late now. They should analyze the data they collected and apply lessons learned to the next survey.

A single reminder email is probably not a big source of bias, but something like increased rewards really could be. To make it ridiculous, if the school emailed the 30 non-responders and offered them $100,000 cash to fill out the survey, then asked "how do you feel about your school?" they will get very different responses than they got from the students who were offered a $5 bookstore gift card.
Oh My Golly, guys - it was the announcement of the Coming of chatGPT!
"Universal". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The OP is more of a Genius Tax Credit... where I imagine a world where congress passes it with the stipulation that it's only for those making greater than $400K income.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmBdKoqq1o
One individual did not make poor defense spending decisions - that took the efforts of 400+ Congress members. SBF's lackadaisical attitude was more akin to carelessly dropping your wallet while you are in the can.
1) makes the same mistake as the author.

Yes, after 600 years you can hold it in your hand for a brief moment without dying. You have to swallow, or be in contact 24/7.

But if you live in an area with contaminated air or water, you're going to swallow, and on a daily basis.

The difficulty of nuclear storage is not guarding highly radioactive stuff the first 100 years. It's the medium and low radioactive stuff that you need to keep out of the water and air the next 10,000.

Also, even if you don't drop dead straight away, if your life is shortened by 10 years, that sort of sucks too.

Of course, that means you need to concern yourself with the people will live then. And since we are already having great difficulty keeping our place in the universe habitable for our children...
In many ways, ASML:

https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems
Where Does Data Come From?
I don't think people understand the monumental changes coming to software
It’s just marketing copy. They’re reminding everybody that there’s a new Apple TV 4K, not that this feature won’t work on the old one.
That sounds a lot more like the SAT. That was also supposed to have anti-cheating measures and be resistant to the practice effect. Yet, students who take SAT prep often end up scoring higher (but dramatically higher) than those that did not take such prep courses.

It seems perfectly plausible that repeatedly taking IQ tests would likely result in a higher score due to practice and familiarity. Especially if there is a significant financial incentive involved and someone is on the border of qualifying for it.
I’d guess it’s more probable that lots of songs simply have no lyrics at all, so the claim „all songs in the Apple Music catalog“ would be factually wrong.
You raise some good points. There are definitely some benefits to having a diversity of different trust anchors rather than just one. The problem though is that the way things are currently set up that diversity is somewhat of an illusion; DNS is still a central point of failure for all CAs (e.g. via the ACME DNS challenge), and each individual CA is also a single point of failure unto itself (a CA can issue certs for any domain, not just those of its customers).

I also think you may be underestimating the amount of leverage browser developers have over DNS, should they choose to exercise it. If Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla all agreed tomorrow that they wanted to migrate the web to a new set of DNS root servers they could probably do it. (Though yes, it would be a huge ordeal for everyone involved.) The real reason we haven't gotten DANE transparency (or anything similar) is simply because it hasn't been a priority for browsers. (Why pressure DNS roots to improve a system that you aren't even using in the first place?)

Still, I can't deny what you're saying. The CA system is probably a lot more flexible than a naively designed DNS-based system would be. I'll have to think about that a bit more. Maybe it would make sense to have something like SCTs in the certificate transparency system, where a number of different independently operated organizations all have to sign off on the validity of each cert _in addition_ to the DNS operator that actually issued the certificate. That way you'd get the benefits of diversified trust anchors without the downside of having hundreds of distributed single points of failure.
Because the US government has been captured by Organized Crime. Look up the documentary Everything is a Rich Man's Trick. Then look into all the connections between the mafia and the presidents of the USA.
Tesla Short Sellers Profited Nearly $12B in 2022
See:

> more space, more freedom for the kids to move around, more trees for them to climb and places to explore

Or „nowhere“ as in doing commercialized trendy stuff? Of course, when pop culture is pushing that lifestyle and people are glued to the screens, it ends up as a sad state of affairs.