skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100 year old events allows us, to some extent, to sidestep some of the deep feelings monetary discussions tend to evoke. These things recur. Tricks from the Napoleonic wars are reused during WWI. WWI lessons form the basis of WWII's monetary systems, which lead pretty directly to modern monetary systems and theories.

This event is not at all unrelated to the new deal, allied WWII monetary policies, lend lease, the marshall plan, Keynesianism, New Keynesianism (eg Friedman/monetarism) and into the present day.

the Bank(ers) ... purchased the securities in their own names with the bonds then held by the Bank of England on its balance sheet. To hide the fact.. bonds were classified as holdings of 'Other Securities' in the Bank of England's balance sheet rather than as holdings of Government Securities."

The BoE prints £350m of bonds. The BoE sells £100m to the public. BoE declares/lies that they successfully sold all £350m. The BoE buys the outstanding £250m of bonds itself using a virtual credit line backed by BoE bonds. Once the final transaction is completed, £250m of new money exists in government accounts and can be used to fund the war.

This is exactly how UK/US/Etc government deficits work today. Bonds are created. Some are sold. The rest is bought (or kept) by the Fed/BoE itself. The "deception" allows order to remain in the banking world while also allowing governments to fight the war/depression/deficit.

These days, the outright lies are not strictly necessary. Instead, we rely on complexity of ritual, bureaucracy and bond market transactions to "cover our tracks." One thing that has changed in society (if not in central banks and treasuries) is that "what gives money value" has become a non-question. I think that was different 100 years ago.

The researchers write: "The long-held laissez-faire principles of the Liberal and Conservative parties were thus sacrificed to raise the capital upon which the War's outcome depended."

This is a cliche. During the great irish famine 70 years prior, both the King and Prime Minister were involved in almost identical schemes. There are lots of examples.

To me, the odd part is that we can't play it straight and admit that governments invent money... or that it's OK that they do. Every policy that relates to banking, central banking, money printing or such requires some sort of lie. Just like now, FDIC bails out ostensibly uninsured accounts/banks. This seemingly has to come with an assurance that it's not what it looks like... even though it obviously is.

IE, it's not weird that money works like this. It is weird that we have to pretend like it doesn't.
It literally only has been 1 hour since OP posted that thread.

I agree with all the points about having backups and/or using better service/self host etc., but IMO it's too early to conclude anything about this incident.
Support multi-currency:

TIAA Bank: Supports it. However charges $65 per outbound wire, crazy expensive.

SVB: Supports it. $100 / month maintenance fee. Future of SVB highly uncertain.

Unknown:

Wells Fargo: Unknown, spent lots of time being redirected between departments until I had to hang up because it took too long time. Will check again in the future.

No support:

First Republic: Only for larger customers that do not hold currency permanently, only if they continously convert to USD. Their customer support was really nice.

Citi: No support, only through sister company Citi International but not US based

Bank of America: No support multi-currency support for SME customers

Chase: No multi-currency support for SME customers

Bank of America: No multi-currency support for SME customers

PNC: No branch in several US states, therefore can only open accounts in certain states

US Bankcorp Business: Can't hold foreign currency

Wise.com: Not US based. Only for major 8 currencies. Not for smaller currencies such as Swedish SEK as they cannot provide an inbound IBAN.

XE.com: Not US based. No support
Is there an app/site where one can create/test their own linkages?
I found it fascinating to read those two books back-to-back. Really explained a lot to me about the mindset of people at the time. Importantly, he was an officer, while Remarque describes the experience of a "small man".
Agreed but this wouldn't be the Internet if it wasn't critical about something, so that's just how it goes.
What if a strong solar EMP wipe all storages on earth? you need redundancy on at least two other planets (I would suggest the moon but it's close to earth)
We are not the first species to trash the biosphere. When trees came up with lignin it took Earth life some millions of years to adapt to this new invention and still it was left with a layer of biological trash currently known as coal.

Another example is oxygen. Highly corrosive gas that early on in Earth's existance was rare, but some organisms excreted it as a wastproduct of their metabolism. It got so bad that high concentration of oxygen in atmosphere wiped nearly all life on earth until the life adapted.

And now came humans, who utilize the heaps and volumes of trash and waste left by other species. And produce their own that will stay on Earth for many millenia, long after humans in modern sense are gone.
the effect of having plastic merged with rocks is unknown, its bewildering to see comments romanticizing it, akin to those staring in awe of the green sky during chernobyl
> That description of how it functions is true, but it did fool a lot of people, and now we have to explain why.

I see your point, and I agree. Nevertheless, these misdirections seem to boil down to a broad temptation to succumb to appeals to authority. People might be falling for ChatGPT misfires just like they fall for fancy talking bullshit artists, but that's hardly a failing of clever auto text generators.
Demore was right though. Too bad that’s not what matters.
Sharing my family-photo-backup system:

- Synology NAS is accessible on LAN & phones sync photos when at home

- Nightly rsync from internal NAS storage to 1 external (non-raid) hard drive

The nightly rsync does not delete files, so the external hard drive is pretty close to an off-site backup even though it's still attached. The only better thing I've thought of doing is mounting it ro after backups + re-mounting before backups.

At the end of the day we get 3 copies of data: the photo on your phone, the photo on the shared NAS, and the photo on an external hard drive that spends 99% of its life spun down.
>They need to be huge to avoid being nauseating to be on at anything resembling sufficient "gravity",

We don't know if a full Earth gravity is necessary for human health in the long term, or if we could get away with something less, like half a gee. And we don't know how small the centrifugal force gradient has to be between the feet and the head for people to be comfortable. It might turn out that we could just get used to it, like how people get over space-sickness, so a spinhab with a relatively small radius might be fine. All we know for sure is that prolonged exposure to zero gravity causes a gradual decay in bone and muscular strength.

There was a plan for the ISS to have a spinning module to study these questions but it never happened. It's a shame, that kind of experiment would be far more valuable than whatever public relations crap they're doing up there. I actually find it astounding that we haven't even tested long term partial-gravity on animals yet.
Wow - this is really not great. Amazon support is usually pretty ok though this is a weird case - any luck getting in touch w anyone?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the "this is fine" comments here, but I am. Geological changes happen in geological time (outside of massive disruptive events). This change happened in 100 years. Also, comparing this to clay pots is simply not understanding the scale of modern production and waste. It's like saying a forest fire doesn't pose any problem to my house because I lit a match one time.
Society definitely needs those, but the incentives of the system most societies live under do not align to those needs. We are 100% into a society of wants, not needs, and the rewards are for those who sell stuff for these wants. Our needs went into the "cost center" of society's calculation, not an investment, and so it's been a race to the bottom for those professions.

While adtech, crypto and other bullshit gets massive funding because it can turn a profit.

The incentives to have a good society don't align with the incentives of financial capitalism.
And a follow-up will likely not make the front page.
FOSS photo software with face recognition (note that some of this is off-premise face recognition, sometimes requiring an API key you get on your own)

https://damselfly.info

https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos

https://photoview.github.io/

I may have missed some: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho...
Is the material that pottery is composed of dangerous? How many shipwrecks occurred where pots were lost compared to the amount of plastics we produce today that end up in the ocean?
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Aside from fire hazard probability, are there any studies done about whether plastics fused with rocks (cement) could be a good material for building houses that are resistant to earthquakes? (Not discarding the use of steel)
If you go into industry you’ll be given a chance to deploy these models and rush them into products. You’ll also make good money. If you go into academia (or research, whether it’s in academia or industry) you’ll be given the chance to try to understand what they’re doing. I can see the appeal of making money and rushing products out. But it wouldn’t even begin to compete with my curiosity. Makes me wish I was younger and could start my research career over.

ETA: And though it may take longer, people who understand these models will eventually be in possession of the most valuable skill there is. Perhaps one of the last valuable human skills, if things go a certain direction.
That is not how it works at all. You won't get hired if you don't have the academic pedigree in the first place. That means a completed Ph.D and good publications in good journals.
If MS4 is so breaking from MS3 they should have put the major version number into the package name.

Its not an apt problem, its a problem that the application is fundamentally a new product that needs a unique name.
> Hackers mainly hack on things that personally affect them and things they find personally gratifying to work on.

We're not talking about some rando hacker cranking out a cool Emacs module, these are projects backed by companies like Google and Microsoft and are being integrated into some of the most widely used tech products in the world like Google Search, Android, iOS, Facebook etc.
There were actually horses in the new world, it's just that the natives hunted them all to extinction well before the Europeans arrived. Likewise with most other "mega fuana" in North America. There's also theories that climate changes played a role in addition to over exploitation.
Isn’t it “self”, really? [1]

Assume your python program is fully static and well behaved from a compiler perspective. JIT compile it, and observe what it does, so that you can invalidate the compiled code and re-JIT it if it does something overly dynamic.

Incidentally, what JVM did. (I’m sure now it’s been tweaked beyond recognition)

[1] https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/pics.html
"knees bees" ... maybe I'm missing a joke, but I always said "bees knees" in this context as a play on "business"
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Nikon RAWs are more like 50 Mb on their current cameras. Amazon offers unlimited photo storage with Prime.

I agree they should also have their own physical backup if the photos are important, even at ~10x the storage requirements you estimate, but I'd also say any complaints about Amazon losing their photos are valid.
Not saying this is good news, but given the current amount of plastic floating around in the oceans, isn't aggregating as a big chunk better for the environment[1] than disintegrating into micro-plastics or small debris?

[1] excluding the "no plastics in the ocean" choice, of course
They weren't widely aware of its dangers (I know a few wrote about the dangers) and this is whataboutism
/Many times motivation isn't there, but that shouldn't be an excuse for not doing it./
Hook that up to a rPi and then install the Linux AirPrint drivers on the Pi and you've made it wireless.
I think education goal for people shifted. I teach my kids to be flexible and embrace the change. Invest in abilities that transfer well to various things you could be doing during your life. Be a problem solver.

In the future -- forget about cosy job you can be doing for the rest of your life. You no longer have any guarantees even if you own the business and even if you are farmer.

What you absolutely don't want is spend X years at uni learning something, and then 5-10 years into your "career" finding out it was obsoleted overnight and you now don't have plan B.
Nobody is blaming the victim, they're saying that you should have a backup outside of your cloud provider.

I don't think people care enough about SLAs to pay a premium, until something happens to their data. But by then it's too late. The bold warning is cute, but have you seen cigarette packaging in Europe lately?
I think so. Maybe Tardigrades will find some use for it..
It's hard to believe that there were people wearing these in public at one time.
I completely understand the "google kills products" meme.

I just think that "google doesn't reward maintenance" doesn't lead to "google kills products" except in very general examples. For the most part Google is maintaining products, that's most of what most people do.

The reasons for the killing of products are I think much more nuanced and numerous.
The most useful class I took in high school was Keyboarding (as they called it), which was done on Selectric typewriters. It was just a single-semester course, but it has done more and lasted longer than any other class.
I think Apple uses GCP as well. A photo is probably replicated twice across AWS and GCP by Apple, and AWS and GCP will then replicate it at least 5 times on their own side onto different racks or even AZ.
At least static binaries slip under the radar of vulnerability management tools so you don't have to go through the tedious patching treadmill as often
The worst part of this is we haven't produced intelligence. We've produced very good autocomplete. There's no motivating force governing what it spits out, or what inputs it takes in, short of the people prompting or training it.

That means it can only do as it's told, and not what is meant by what it's told, and that class of errors, when executed with high efficiency and sophistication, makes all sorts of bad things happen.
What does he said that makes you think he’s against civil rights?
What I found in my previous search is that either they're really good at managing large collections of photos, or they're really good at doing various AI/recognition, but none of what I've found have been good at both.

Hence my interest in DigiKam as their management features for large collections is second to none.
You should check out https://lobster.rs! It's like HN if it were dedicated to the middle of that content distribution you describe. Nothing too simple, but nothing too abstract either.
Thanks to environmentalists who have to fight tooth and nail against other people who put human progress above all else
I actually believe that if the exact same thing (intercept, harassment, and then collision, perhaps even with loss of life) happened to say a F-16 in international airspace, that US would not meaningfully escalate. The west has been quite clear in telegraphing that it does not want to escalate to direct war with Russia. Regardless of "legality", this effectively makes the bar for "act of war" (as in what would induce the US or the West to actually enter a shooting war with Russia) very high.

Russia is purposefully acting in this grey/sub-threshold space to be provocative, and to carve out what agency/space to maneuver it can. It is purposefully being provocative, and it's in the US' interest to not over react (remember, the end game of escalation, however remote is nukes).

In a sense, this is the logical outcome of the position that the west has taken, where it has gone ahead and done a bunch of things that are already very close to declaring war on Russia (exclusively materially aiding Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian troops to train on NATO soil, enforce economic sanctions on Russia), while also saying that we don't want to directly fight Russia -right now-.

Also, while the intercept and harassment is obviously purposeful, I feel the collision is still in question, particularly because of the risk to the Su-27. I wouldn't it put it past Russia to think that the risk was worth it, but I don't think we're in rock solid territory.
> Is that possible? As far as I know nothing consumes rocks and they've been around forever.

Can you burn rocks? No. Can you burn plastics? Generally yes. Therefor there is useful energy to be extracted from plastics.

NB, the quote was " part of their ecosystem" not "consumes". Molluscs, corals and diatoms construct out of rock-like materials, so making minerals part of their ecosystem is a thing.
> It shouldn't be concerned with implementation details

And then, when some poor programmer finally comes to writing an actual implementation, he finds out that it's literally impossible without magic.
They knew how it was done, they just make it more attention grabbing so they can have views and readers. They have already done a video and an article about it. If it get more views and attention they'll probably make a book about it too.
Without context, I doubt many native English speakers would know the meaning of "almonry".

From [1], they seem obsolete well before any colonization, so it's probably only British people with an interest in church history.

"Alms" is already fairly obscure, [2] puts it at word frequency 44625. Almonry is not in the top 333,333 words.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonry

[2] http://norvig.com/ngrams/
Seems not able to do it in Rust even after several rounds of feedback. The last result (not working) was

fn main() {
let s = "fn main() {{ let s = {:?}; print!({:?}, s); print!({{0}}, s) }}";
print!("{:?}", s);
print!("{}", s);
}
I started to smoke because it looked cool. Just like in the movies, in black and white. But in reality I did not look as good,
it was expensice and bad for my health and my teeth got yellow. So I thought the only way to solve this is to transport myself into those old movies somehow.
I could just be smoking away, looking great.
That makes no sense. If you have backups locally, why store them on the cloud?
Fixed it, thanks. Sometimes my mind to finger interface changes packets on the way. I guess my nervous system uses UDP.
Unlike rocks, plastic is high in energy (as evidenced by the fact that you can put it on fire).
This is why I use both Amazon Photos and Google Photos simultaneously on all my devices. If one of them screws up I've always got the other one.

What I need to do though is get them all copied to my home backup server (the HTPC) on the regular...
The problem is that "impact" is easy to establish for shiny new things, whereas for preventing problems – you know, maintaining things – the impact is how much better you have made the universe compared to what the universe would have been without your work. Of course, you have done your work, so we never get to observe that other, "counterfactual" universe that establishes your actual impact.

To estimate the impact, we need to run controlled experiments. And we have lots of A/B testing infrastructure to help us run those experiments when it comes to launching shiny new things. But when it comes to maintaining things, not so much.

So if there are two possible projects of equal difficulty and impact that you could take on, and one is to launch a shiny new thing and the other is to maintain an existing thing, you're always better off launching the shiny new thing because the cost of quantifying your impact will be low, whereas had you chosen the maintenance project, quantifying your impact would be prohibitively expensive.

And that's why building shiny new things dominates maintaining existing things: you get full credit for your work, not a small fraction.
Here are some of mine:

- https://kottke.org/

- https://lobste.rs/

- https://haxplore.com/ (I love this version of HN news to whip through with keyboard shortcuts)
Holy Cow. I don’t even know about most of those products!
This is why you should always synchronize you cloud with your other cloud, and the NAS in your closet, and floss after every meal, and take daily vitamins.
The old 3-2-1 backup rule is still relevant today.
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<$200 new or used? Do you recall the model?
Great! Any up-to-date guide to get the latest PyTorch running on Macs? Do we still have to use conda for example?
Can I forget about reactive programming now? Its been fashionable for the last 5+ years, I hate it. Kinda cool to play around with but just seems to double the complexity on everything.
When I moved to an English speaking country a few years ago, I wanted to get better at writing.

On a snowy day, I wrote an email to a guy who writes for The New Yorker and whose articles frequently appear on HN.

In that email, I asked for advice on how to become better at writing.

I thought he’d never reply but he actually did.

His reply had a bunch of good advice, and writing a lot was one of them.

The other recommendations I got were these books:

* A sense of style - Pinker
* Garner's Modern English Usage

Hope that helps someone else as much as it’s helped me.
...they literally posted a link to their question in an Amazon forum...

...which is listed as the first port of call for support.[0]

> For more help, try our Amazon Drive & Amazon Photos forum

But hey, maybe I missed the prominently displayed phone number somehow, so if you can help me find it, it'd be much appreciated.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
> What are people printing that doesn't require color?

Documents and forms.

I had a colour-laser printer for a few years, and dealing with all the different toner (CMYK) cartridges was annoying. At some point went with a B&W Borther laser (like in the article) and haven't missed colour.

If I'm going to do photos I'll 'outsource' it, and if I really need colour for a few pages I'll do it at work.
House fire? Theft?
Good ol' HP from that era: nice.

Today's DRM-maniac HP: nope.
A quote I heard recently that really resonated with me:

"Soon, asking a writer if they use AI will be like asking a photographer if they use Photoshop" – e.g., it's a foregone conclusion, and the best artists will generally adapt to using the best tools available
This happened to me with Lightroom, I’m still being charged £10 per month and they can’t find the account. I cannot get through to support either.
what are you going to do with all the precipitated oceans of sulphuric acid? and then there's the 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere ... that'll take a lot of carbon credits!
Do not waste $$ on NAT traffic when you read/write to S3
We were not aware that, even if incoming traffic to S3 is free, if you are sending data from an Ec2 in a VPC with a NAT, then you pay for the NAT traffic!!

The solution is to use a free Gateway endpoints for Amazon S3, and you can save a lot https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/vpc-endpoints-s3.html

(I wonder why it is not enabled by default)
"Bee's Knees" == absolutely the best
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Does your phone support band 71?
Seems logical wanting to avoid running on a hot day, whether you were unconsciously or consciously objecting to it.
So then Venus must have a magnetosphere, one step closer to terraforming it. Just add H2 and Sabetier will take care of the rest.