skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this were true then the history of capitalism and free enterprise would be radically different. Many of the most valuable items bought and sold today simply would not exist. This is the myth of free enterprise in it's purest form: that the consumer is an infallible rational operator with perfect insight into his or her own self-interest.

The fact is that markets are based on our existing as fallible human beings in a completely poisoned information landscape that induces in people an endless stream of irrational wants which drive them into frenzied purchasing activity. And as soon as one want is satisfied, or turns out to be a big scam, another one is concocted. This applies equally well to IT purchasing choices in B2B sectors.
That happened way later... the rot started way before that.
That scene is heartbreaking to watch. Keoghan deserved the academy award for best supporting actor this year IMO (as for best screenplay, while I think Banshee's should've gotten it, it was pretty close and EEAAO would've been my second choice anyway),
> To be clear, I agree that you can’t raise reserve requirements now, but zero reserves was supposed to be a temporary Covid measure.

Anyone who thought anything about COVID was temporary was deluded. When was the last time any temporary measure actually expired and stayed that way?
Trick: Reinvest 1% of profits -> no profit cap.
I've used this recently to do some fuzzy matching of column names in datasets, I also added it to a small python one-liner library I've been making for practice. p.s. don't give me flack, I know this isn't an efficient way to do things.

jaccard = lambda A, B: len(set(A).intersection(set(B))) / len(set(A).union(set(B)))

https://github.com/b-mc2/MiniMath
I don’t see why “no counter-party risk” matters for a speculative asset with a volatile price. It seems like you’re distracted from the main risk?
Seven years later, what happened?
I don't disagree that traditional marriage works. Despite all attempts to reject tradition, we've ended up living a pretty traditional married life. We wouldn't have ended up here if it wasn't a stable equilibrium. But I think the following are equally valid explanations for the results:

> Marriage is good, actually.

> Society treats unmarried women poorly, so much so that it damages their health.

It would be interesting to see if the results replicate with a sample of men.
If I'm a casual user without any great motivation for learning the arcane ways of "The Fediverse"... someone just looking for someway to get into this Mastodon thing I keep hearing about: a normal, everyday user. I'm going to probably go to some search engine and type in "Mastodon" or "Mastodon social network". Using DuckDuckGo, many of the first links show up pointing to mastodon.social or server lookups operated from there (assiming joinmastodon.org is affiliated). The point is that someone that is relatively disinterested in "The Fediverse" or the technology per se and just wants to participate in social interactions... the fine tuning you're suggesting may be required is probably on the wrong side of the cost/benefit ratio.

But, wanting to give your point a chance... I went to the first 10 servers that were suggested by joinmastodon. There was very little difference just scrolling their landing pages in terms of content than that of mastodon.social. Not surprising: Federation is suppose to allow this sort of decentralized sharing of the exact same content across instances. Of those, only really the instance run by the makers of the Vivaldi Browser seems to be notably toned down on the political muck.. and they probably for business reasons.

Then I went different interest specific group servers and scrolled through their landing page content. And they were also very reflective of my mastodon.social experience... many of the same Toots. The kind of community didn't really matter so much for the most part (I'm guessing a fair amount of lazy configuration to be honest).

Here's an example: birds.town which bills itself as...

"A server primarily meant for people who like birds, birding and nature in general, but obviously everyone is equally welcome here! Have fun cawing about "

And I almost was happily surprised. The top Toots of the feed (or whatever it's called in Mastodon-land) were, in fact, about birding! Unfortunately I kept scrolling. Oh dear.

"I'd find conservatives attacks on “woke” funny if they weren't so dangerous.

Woke people fought and won the battle against slavery.

Woke people went to war and defeated fascism in WWII.

Woke people fought for and won equal rights for women and people of color.

Woke people battled for rights for workers like 40-hour workweeks and safety protections."

https://birds.town/@augieray@mastodon.social/110049850172355...

Yes, because that's what I want to know when participating in a social network focusing on bird watching.
> Of course it was all nonsense, Clinton and Bush were just listening to Wall Street interests

I'm not a fan of either Clinton or Bush, but this is unfair. There was far more going on.

At the time, there was a strong sense that democracy had won, and that it was inevitable. That empowering people economically would eventually, without fail, lead to democratic reform. Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" is one of the most influential books of the period.

But, Fukuyama and people like him (Reagan, necons, Bush, Clinton, etc.) turned out to be fatally wrong. They created an incredibly unequal world that has eroded democracy to the point where we can seriously discuss a US that isn't a democracy anymore in our lifetimes.

You should read the book. It's an interesting case of someone who originally set out to help people, but who created a hellscape instead.
The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.

There is no 100% certainty, no matter how much you test due to the state space.

Not deploying on Fridays and before holidays is acknowledging this and valuing your coworkers’ life outside of work.
I think you can only make the argument that this represents some fundamental failure if it didn't work. Obviously it hasn't all played out yet but thus far it's doing what it's intended to.

If you think reserve banking isn't stable then neither is capitalism or democracy. Human beings are not stable so any system that can flex without breaking is doing as well as anything we've ever come up with.
Well yes, going by the dictionary definitions that's true, and I commend you for adopting the immigrant term. I'm an immigrant too, and proud of it.

At the same time, it's also clear that the status of the country determines whether people call themselves immigrants or expats. In the US people are immigrants, in Japan they're expats, for example. US citizens in particular very rarely refer to themselves as immigrants in my experience.
> The authors plagiarized code from DiffusionBee, an AI art tool licensed under GPL.

I haven't really been following this closely, but according to that Twitter thread, supposedly that was fixed yesterday.

> The paper contains inflammatory and libelous language with no legal backing.

I don't think I can roll my eyes harder. Maybe go for RICO next, too.
They really shouldn't be in multiple houses. The subterranean ones are supposed to create mud tubes up from ground to the wooden part of the house. Those should be noticeable for most people. There is another type, but those require a water source. So you'd need a leak in the exterior or in a pipe. It's fairly unlikely these circumstances present themselves at the same time for multiple houses in the vicinity.
The big revelation is that deposits in a bank have two risks actually: A counter-party risk as you mentioned, but also a market risk. Inflation was/is in the double digit across the Euro and US economies. And that's for the government (CPI) numbers.

People never considered these risks before. A bank is a bank is a bank. And in the developed world, inflation is low. Now you have a situation where both narratives are being challenged. The system is under lots of strain.
I don't understand the sudden desire for conspiracy. The basis of all bank runs is the same: I want my money now.
>Their paper initially included the line that the "release of up to 50 gigatonnes of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". A release on this scale would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve,[62][63] equivalent in greenhouse effect to a doubling in the 2008 level of CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
Not an economist*

Also a problem is that the primary lever we seemingly have to impact the economy is the feds manipulation of interest rates, but what happened to taxes? The have been so politicized that all is left is the wide scatter shotgun effect of rate changes.
This is one of those rare threads on HN where I can’t understand a single thing people are talking about
No One Lives Forever (aka The Operative: No One Lives Forever) had a lot of these talks in NPC dialogues...
The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze
Interesting! I guess then my usage of Mastodon is making it the "zero toxic" thing it is for me.

- As said, I'm hosting my own instance, and I understood in the beginning that I don't just want to see the federated stuff (mostly weird sexualized anime images with way-too-young characters).

- So I manually searched through catalogs of instances listed at the website.

- I went through most of those instances, searched for users with followers and read their first couple of posts to see if they're human and interesting by any means (e.g. I happened to stumble upon a librarian instance and have learned so much about their day-to-day worklife and tools).

- Now I'm following like 900 people and have ~270 followers. That's more than enough to fill the no-algo timeline with interesting stuff.

- I'm only using the Home timeline and almost never the federated one, sometimes searching, hashtags etc.
The coop you've been waiting for
You’re fighting a straw man, nobody is arguing you need to do what Japan did verbatim. The only argument I’m making is when you allow supply and demand to meet prices stop going up. All the rest is narrative.

The answer to where is “up.”

Also the prices in Tokyo aren’t insane at all they’re super affordable by any standard.
Could it because pilots spend more time in the upper atmosphere than the general population, so they aren't as protected from cancer causing radiation as people at sea level? As for ground crews, they probably spend more time in the sun - again, potential cancer causing radiation. I wonder how the ground crews would compare to outdoor construction workers.
Which Freedom Index? There are a few.
Yes, the attitude is arrogant and demonstrates hubris IMO. Next up, no thought to how to back out changes. Even if your software works perfectly as intended, you can still need to back out because someone else was not prepared or could not adapt to the change quickly enough. Maybe they were your customers who no longer feel happy with paying you money. You are always only a part of the bigger picture, most of which you have no control over and only limited knowledge of.
I enjoy resolving the limitations of old systems and work related to pub/sub.
But I think whether this is a protection measure is undecided.
There is cynicism, naive optimism, and those who celebrate wins when we get them without declaring the job over.
This is nonsensical. The Baumol effect is just supply and demand for labor. The monetary system in use does not change whether or not supply and demand work this way.

You also appear to be conflating the notion of "hard" vs "soft" money and the notion that one should be paid based on the economic gain of your output to others. Those are orthogonal concepts. Their only commonality is that the economic consensus on both notions is that they are wrong.
No counter party risk but considerable self-party risk; its difficult to keep proper custody of your crypto.
What about CMS? Which CMS can you use with it?
That's true in their native language, but it's common for high status Europeans to use the term expat when speaking English as well. And in my experience, most European immigrants speak English to a conversational level.

It's likely not an intentional choice, but a learned one, since other westerners around them use that term.
Agreement among citizens is easy: just pick a country that doesn't use FPTP as the main voting system.
Yes, with a keylogger watching you you’re typically pretty f-ed. Though that’s also one of the reasons using a physical FIDO token as a second factor is a good idea, since the keylogger isn’t going to be able to steal your private key off the hardware token, unlike for TOTP.

Though that also begs the question, if I can get a keylogger onto your device, why wouldn’t I try to implant something slightly more capable?
> if >90% of your work can be replaced by a machine

My point is that the amount of work in a warehouse that can be replaced by a machine - even with perfect robotics - is far less than 90%.

> The actual differentiating factor between people who climb the socioeconomic ladder and those who do not is grit (not intelligence).

You forgot an "f" in "grit". The notion that success is simply a matter of hard work is a fairy tale told to us by people who've worked far less for their immense wealth than the rest of us worked for our pittances, specifically to trick the working class into accepting a shit deal.

The reality - that the richer you are, the easier it is to become even richer - should be entirely unsurprising to anyone who understands positive feedback loops - or, for that matter, to anyone who's ever played Monopoly. Wealth buys power, and power enables extracting more wealth; rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

Put differently:

> The people who make them earn them, mostly through sheer hard work.

There is not a single billionaire on this Earth whose wealth came about "mostly through sheer hard work". The vast majority of that wealth comes from having already had some wealth, which they then invested to produce more wealth, and so on indefinitely. That wealth gets passed down to their descendants, the same way it was passed down to them.

The starting point for "wealthy enough to enter the passive income feedback loop" is land - one's home often being one's first major investment. From there, the path is rather tried and true: buy another house, rent out the old one, rinse and repeat until you can afford apartment complexes and commercial properties, rinse and repeat that forever. For anyone who ain't a complete imbecile, private land ownership is an infinite money cheat - one for which the rest of us are paying through the nose.

> Our main dysfunction seems to be propping up organizations that ought to fail, for fear of the temporary instability caused by their failure.

That propping up is a direct result of the positive feedback loop at play. More wealth → more political power → more wealth → more political power → ∞. Of course the socioeconomic system effectively under the direct control of the rich and powerful is going to primarily serve said rich and powerful at the expense of literally everyone else; bailing themselves out is in their vested interest.

Meanwhile, what's their message to the ever-growing working class getting the short end of the stick? "Work harder." "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps." "It's all about grit." "Don't listen to anyone saying that privilege matters." Hopefully you can see why your argument doesn't really resonate with people who have been applying increased grit and only getting back decreased pay relative to
Even airplanes today always try to take off into the wind :-) An aircraft carrier will steam full blast into the wind when launching airplanes.

The Wright Flyer surely landed in less than 20 feet, too, as it just had a skid.
The article is completely wrong, this didn't change this week. If you look in the wayback machine, blockbuster.com has actually been like this for months.

As far back as August 2022 they've had this page.

They had a John Travolta meme at one point: https://web.archive.org/web/20221012144701/http://blockbuste...

And a Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park) reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20220817053845/https://blockbust...
This has little effects. Inflationary systems where promoted by governments so that they can inflate their debt away and print money as needed.

You can have a deflationary system and the effects will be the same. People will always be looking for a stable store of value and a yield with variable risk. Instead of increasing/decreasing the money supply through interest rate, the price of Bitcoin goes up and down.

Solving a stable store of value problem (through Bitcoin, completely decentralized) is a 100bn/1Trillion market. And also will be a legitimate use case for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
China fishing more aggressively than a lot of other countries - and yes sometimes illegally so - doesn't make his comment wrong.

The only way you can have some sort of international agreement on things in general(outside of fishing) is if its fair to everyone. It's absurd to assume that Europe and the US can just consume as they want and "the rest" need to fish more responsibly. It also disregards that a lot of fish is actually imported from those countries.

This is akin to when in the UK Boris Johnson went to have Covid parties while telling everyone to lock down. Or when Gavin Newsom went to the French Laundry during the height of the pandemic while telling everyone to stay at home.

You lose all credibility and nobody wants to listen to you. There's a reason why "Rules for thee and not for me" is a saying.
The ship came and went with translators: nobody cared. The people currently angry didn't care, they didn't even think about it.

The reality is there's a whole group of people right now who's real problem is they didn't see this coming. AI, as always, was meant to destroy people in minimum wage jobs first. Because they're unskilled right? That's why they're minimum wage? Right?

But art, creativity. Machines can't do that! It's a classic science fiction trope, how could it be wrong? The irreducible nature of the human spirit is represented in art, it's not paid well but it'll totally be safe from automation.

Bricklayers, electricians and plumbers are going to be making decent money putting up buildings while the white-collar specialists get downsized due to automation. Any job done from a sitting position in front of a computer should be keeping in mind just how replaceable you actually are.
Shell Genie is my favorite. It actually runs the commands if you want.

https://github.com/dylanjcastillo/shell-genie
If I am to take your reply seriously, you mean colonize the moon with ultra rich people and then turn it into an arc ship to settle a new world?

I mean, billionaires don’t strike me as the kind of people who would want to barely scrape by with limited access to air, water, food, sex, security, shelter until they finally perished cold and alone in the nothing.
Great job. These projects remain as cool as they are non commercial.
Can the exit tax, then, be considered as a partial collapse (or a hint of it)?
> He repeatedly talks about abandoning his plans to build a life in China.

No he doesn't. He says it once, in the tagline, and gives no details.
Dumb question: why not sign images headed to the web?
This assumes that the filter actually works in practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11v7sv9/ha...
Maybe they meant the gallery itself is minimal :)
Working class people get killed in China too.

My friend's wife's family completely disappeared because they said something bad about the local government on WeChat. Their house was empty when she went to check up on them (after COVID). Neighbors said the police came in and they haven't seen them since. She now blames herself for not bringing them to Canada.

The reason the surveys are so high is because they fear it's a trap. If someone asks you if you like the government, your answer better be an outstanding yes.
“Show me the money” (evidence of improved sea ecology)

I just don’t care about the latest agreement, good intention, or promise. I don’t care to find out where the loopholes are to make the just a showpiece.

I’m not going to celebrate politicians demonstrating some plan for how things are going to be, I’ll celebrate victories.

Too much these days is just celebrating and condemning appearances instead of actual results.
Telecoms do major changes on Thursday night, so that any issues can be handled by the staff on Friday.

And telecoms in general, have a higher level of reliability than a (squints) "agile-friendly implementation technology like microservices and incremental/evolutionary architecture " consultancy...
> they present significant counter-party risk for _depositors_

I’d say the risk is for _bearers_, not depositors, and even then the risk is (mostly) that of inflation, like you mention.

No one has lost their deposits in the current events. Even with the FDIC upper limits, I can’t think of many scenarios where a human person would need to hold more than $250k in liquid assets (other than in the short term), and if they did, they could split the sum over several banks.

Now, I’m not saying that the system is heading in the good direction, that the FDIC will make depositors whole in the face of systemic widespread bank failures, nor that such an event wouldn’t affect the economy in other negative ways. I’m saying, however, that the counterparty risk for the average and not-so-average person holding USD stems mostly from who controls the money supply (govt and the Fed).

The recent events show that the financial sector is a significant counterparty risk for participants in the economy, but I’m not persuaded that BTC would solve that because the problems come from institutions engaging in risky behaviour, which is independent from the currency being used to represent value. Case in point: the numerous crypto exchanges and totally-not-a-bank investing firms that crashed in the last 12 months.

Edit: Incidentally, you can self-custody USD just fine (it’s just not very practical for large amounts)
I see.

And even if you're technically not actually doing anything wrong according to the law or your personal code ethics, other people might still get hurt. And then they'll clutch at anything to try and stop you.
SVB and Signature banks both failed, their shareholders walked away with nothing. This does not encourage risk-taking on the part of the banks.
Yeah it's wildly off the wall how hard it is for enoromously valuable critical people doing amazing things to get support for themselves & their work.

That the direct-corporate-patronage/semi-employeeship model is so prevailing is a sign of brokenness. We need more, collectively, to have a health of our technical ecosystem.

Having these corps willing to hire great folk & have them keep hacking is still often a good option, often. "Create more vue than you capture" is easy to back/do when it's so clear who is out there creating mad value.
Ahhh, if only I were a Principal Prompt Engineer. I'd be able to do it then!
Any suggestions for a CMS? Sanity isn't doing it.
You can cut off the head of another screw and epoxy it to the head of a stripped screw. Then you remove as normal. Doesn't matter if you use an impact driver or drill.