skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if the countries moving off the dollar reserve are countries we would even want on the dollar. I get that Russia, China would try to diversify — not a surprise though.

(The article mentions the "Global South" - I had to look it up. That's a pretty broad region that includes all of South America, Mexico, all of Africa, South Asia.... it seems unlikely all these regions are moving off the dollar.)
I just did, by explaining in which cases belief can be said to exist, and you have no reply. You don't seem to be following very closely nor employing any modicum of what could be considered "reading comprehension skills".

TBH you write like a bot trained on debatebro teenagers.
Yeah, today is very economy-heavy day. But in the past issues there were more articles about health, science and environment.

Recent example: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
Sorry but 'human nature' doesn't preclude need for proof. Just because something seems plausible doesn't make it evidence that it happened.
I’m not sure about personal banking (since I’ve never had enough in a bank to worry about it!), but in commercial banking I imagine it’s routine. I work at a medium sized firm and I authorize multiple payments a week that are over the FDIC limit. I’m not sure how much juggling it would take to transact at volume and never have an account go over the limit, or for long.
ChatGPT Plugin Pioneers Event: Igniting the AI Revolution
I'd say, "Our few failures now, which we think of as plausibly just the leading edge, are already comparable in size to the _entire_ 2008 cascade."

Losing stuff now seems... premature, but not insane.
Lots of people have heard of them, but most of the people who have actually worked there speak Chinese.
My experience with seasonal resorts is that employees are housed at no charge.
> Traffic lights are a combination of color and position

There are some places in the US where the traditional 3-color traffic light is mounted sideways.

I don't remember if it's RYG or GYR. I would expect this to be confusing to a person with the right kind of color-blindness!
Ignorant european here:
if that's the case, is it a bad idea to keep a lot of money on S&P500 right now?
If you're not even digging deep enough to avoid naming your firm after a failed one, what else are you missing?
Police will take more notice if they get to charge someone with Grand Theft. Tracking down a thief for a low-mid dollar item is seen as a waste of time because they'll be back out on the street in no time.
signal:noise
A whole industry has sprung around charging front end developers for basic server management tasks. They will quite literally pay for anything that means they don't have to SSH into Ubuntu server. The irony is they are taking on a ton of overhead with multiple services instead of learning how to set up Nginx and sudo apt install Postgres.
A while back I tried to reproduce a Vercel enterprise invoice using logs generated by an external service. After multiple round-trips with their support team I concluded it is actually impossible to verify what was billed even remotely reflected actual usage. It's essentially an AWS reseller in the form of a random number generator attached to some horrific contemporary JS, that the brand is so popular speaks more to the state of the industry than it does the suitability of their product
If you’ve ever tried to practically use multiple banking institutions in the US, especially through the 80s-90s, you’d immediately relate to only using a single account regardless of what the statistical hazards are. It’s 2023 and my institution limits Zelle transfers to $2,500/mo. Want more, just as fast? Back to human wires and fax machines…
I'm really not sure there's much of an investor interest in helping Africans train their own AIs, your data center costs will be way higher in Africa. And the talent pool there to help with AI is still very small.

There will be a large interest in selling AI to Africans, GPT-4 today, lightly modified, can already radically improve African education. The vastly underpaid and overworked teachers no longer need to waste time in preparing lessons, they just need to control the classroom and perform assessments. Also GPT-4 probably dominates your average English tutor in Africa...

The problem is the cost, a GPT-4 subscription is far beyond the means of an average African. The bottleneck is with server-side inference costs, once that is solved, I expect a AI gold rush in Africa, where western companies compete to sell AI subscription services. Your average African already owns a cheap andrioid phone with 3g connection, which is good enough for an AI chatbot.
> And charge poor people $30 every time they dip under $0 even by a penny.

The list of large corporate banks that charge NSF fees and overdrafts is vanishingly small.

OTOH, I know of plenty of credit unions that still do both.
Fantastic results! Check out how GDP per capita is trending in those areas. It has doubled in Palestine and Haiti over the last couple of decades, and is way up for many sub-Saharan African countries.

Funny that you'd pick those areas and not Asia, where a billion people were lifted out of absolute poverty in the last 30 years! Pure chance, I'm sure.
Edit: I’m debating deleting this post. It doesn’t have any references to back it up, and I just realized that if the tracking network encrypts the location with the public key such that the private key is required to decrypt the location, it is indeed possible for Apple to not know where devices are because the decryption of the location might be done on your device rather than on Apple’s servers, if they wanted to.

Original post follows: I haven’t read any white papers on how this works, but I’m going to call “slight BS” anyway. Technically, Apple knows the location of the AirTag, that’s how their network works. The payload of airtag data might be encrypted, but Apple also keeps the keys for your AirTags so that you don’t have to associate new AirTags with each Apple device you want to use Find My on. While I don’t doubt that Apple strictly reduces what information they log or identify about AirTags to literally the bare minimum that keeps the service running, it’s a bit ingenuous to suggest Apple doesn’t know. What I mean by this is Apple isn’t lying when they say they don’t know the location of your AirTag (until you use their app to look for it) but it is true they know the location of all AirTags synced to their network, they just don’t know which one is yours until you go looking for it. Encryption probably plays a role in that asymmetric encryption would allow Apple to not know any AirTag details until your devices provide the decryption key. A handshake could be involved too so that your device can’t decrypt the location of the tag without proving they own the associated encryption key. But presumably Apple has a way of issuing or remotely authorizing against such keys. It is likely the case that your password for your phone protects Apple from gaining access to the keys thus justifying the position that Apple doesn’t have access because they don’t have your keys. Apple would have to act maliciously with their software into order to break this system, and it’s not worth it for them to do so. I’m not saying they’re lying but they are simplifying things a bit.
Yeah, let's keep it to stuff that's already widely known. First, Last, DOB. That's it.

Sure, there will be duplicates. John Miller, born on 10/10/1963 will happen a dozen times maybe. Will still be effective in destroying the SSN as a magic key.
That decision was to release WWW to public domain.

But I wonder how much this really altered the course of the connected world? It seemed that at some point both networks and personal computers were powerful enough that something had to appear. So if WWW would not take off, could (enhanced) Gopher take its place? Or some sort of enhanced telnet or a Minitel clone?
I use sites like this a fair bit while developing embedded network code.
The OpenAI API is a powerful tool that allows developers to generate natural language text, images, and more. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on building an API that generates images based on statements using Node.js and the OpenAI API.
This seems more like a company was providing a service to the cops. I assume the police departments had to buy the lojack receivers, but after that it probably doesn't cost them anything. No different than the cops buying any product or service that helps them do their job.
Looking at this, it seems even more odd that no tiny banks have failed along with these larger ones.
I agree. Also, that page looks very good, as do the ones where you have a banner image (https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/homeschooling.html)

Chapeau!
You can draw a similar parallel with cancer, including the whole "the more you have the more you get" feature of wealth.
That's not likely to get you a winning mug, if threads complaining any the fake reviews and fake products off Amazon. Better to buy direct if you want a mug that's actually made out of thick enough aluminum to resist breaking, and actually has a vacuum to insulate. Otherwise you'll get one insulated by dirty diapers.

https://www.yeti.com/ would be my preferred vendor for that sort of thing.
And how about relative to M1 money supply?
> improve their credit scores or save for a down payment.

That's really telling. The company who has hired them and are paying their salaries don't think that they are credit worthy. So they are literally admitting that they are underpaying their labour severely, or expect to do lay-offs.
Be careful what you wish for.

The majority of blue collar workers, as well as quite possibly the majority of people in many countries outside your own, might have very different views about things than you do.
Given that a sufficiently resourced computer ought to be able to run a subatomic-level simulation of an entire human brain, and while acknowledging the usual counterpoint vis a vis C. elegans/OpenWorm but deeming it irrelevant on longer timescales, your take seems quite arrogant. “Outside the scope of computation” is an awfully broad claim.
I suspect the disconnect lies more in the fact that a company is working to solve the problem than the government.
My take is that this has legs and please iterate on it to it's natural conclusion, whatever that looks like. It's executed well as is but seems sparse on features overall. Cool idea
There is very little use for gold in electronics. In jewellry, yes. But that's only because people in developing world see their jewellry as a form of savings. Those are the same contries where the people don't buy jewellry lower than 18k.

Nobody in North America or Europe knows how to get the fair value of gold in the crappy 14k necklaces.

USD is useful because it is a meaning unit of exchange.
An array in C is a pointer to a block of memory consisting of a contiguous sequence of memory chunks of the same type.

So in this context, it's pointing to a list of users, not just one.
> does she have nothing to gain in trying to convince her good friend Bob that he should stop binge-drinking?

The solitary activity of comment writing on Reddit is an unusual way to let Bob, a good friend, know about his binge drinking. I wonder if the context of Reddit got lost somewhere along the way? It could be that social interaction brings additional value potential that would justify sharing formed opinions in a social setting, but that is beyond the topic being discussed here.

> If you believe that a certain oppressive tyrant ought to be overthrown, then would you not try to convince other people of this, so that you can form a large enough conspiracy to carry out that goal?

There are numerous subreddits claiming millions of users who appear, based on comments, to share a common political goal that goes against a status quo. The numbers are there. The will alleges to be there. Why haven't they already risen up and done something about what they are supposedly rallying around? Perhaps it is because the opinions they express are only being explored?

And this speaks again to Reddit, and forum going in general, being a solitary activity. Realistically, there is little difference between Reddit and ChatGPT. You state your bit, maybe get a response back, and hope that response will contain some nuggets of wisdom from which you can derive some value. Possibly there are people on the other end writing those responses, but would it matter if there wasn't? The experience doesn't depend on it. If there are people, that's just an implementation detail.

If you are hard-lined "binge drinking is bad for one's health" and nothing is going to change your mind about that fact, are you going to tell ChatGPT that? If not, why would you tell Reddit? What are you going to gain from it? Why would you waste your time? Indeed, if you are unsure, only postulating the opinion of binge drinking being harmful as something to explore, then the responses provide a learning opportunity. That brings value and can make it worth your time.

> then is he really doing that for the sole purpose of probing for reasons why he shouldn't be voted into office?

A hypothetical can only take us so far, but presumably the candidate hypothesizes that they can win on certain qualities, but they don't know for sure and are throwing it out there to try and find out. Once the vote is done, the results are in, and the outcome is known I suspect continued sharing of that opinion diminishes. What additional value would be gained in continuing to share it at that point?
Mojo can actually create fully standalone binaries, so you don't even need a Mojo install to run them! Also the binaries are really small compared to languages that need a big runtime (e.g. a binary containing the matmul implementation is ~100kb).

I'm not sure how long it will take before there's enough ML/DL functionality to write something like fastai in Mojo. I think there will be at least one more major version of fastai in Python. And even when Mojo can support what fastai needs, I expect to continue to supporting fastai on python as well.
ByteDance’s ‘Sensitive Words’ Tool Monitors Discussion of China, Trump, Uyghurs
@chrislattner out of curiosity, can you share on which CPU the numbers in https://docs.modular.com/mojo/notebooks/Matmul.html are obtained and/or the fraction of peak performance on that machine? Speedups over naive Python feel kind of strawman. I can see a 3500x improvement over that with practically vanilla MLIR, similar schedule, and no autotuning.
Yeah, haha, I did. macOS autocorrect keeps changing one for the other out from under me. Thanks for catching it.
Inflows from weaker banks will cause larger banks to increase lending activity as they accumulate dry powder. Banks are in the business of lending and having deposits burns a hole in their pants.
I dont think this is the right argument to make. People do this not to avoid setting up nginx and Postgres, they do it to avoid needing to worry about scalability later down the line.

Yes, for hobby projects and proofs of concept you can easily get away with a VPS from DigitalOcean or Vultr (are they still around?), but for anything with super variable traffic? Planning to post a link to HackerNews or ProductHunt? Cloudflare Workers and Fauna keep your site online, the VPS crashes.
> Jeremy, who sometimes hangs out on HN, must have been dying to tell the world about this for a long while

Oh yes!
See, I don’t care about any of that, because the user experience on those other devices is so poor.
GPT knows fork all about Columbo, with so much certainty
Just interested because I like Graphene but don't want to use a Pixel. I'd love to run it on a FairPhone honestly. Looks like DivestOS is my best bet.
SVB and FRC did not “leverage themselves on risky speculation bets.” They made lots of very safe investments but did not adequately hedge against large and rapid rate increases. Also not good but it’s a big difference, IMO.
Mind that none of this is a technical problem. There is just no way of having a commonly agreed upon data source, especially, when it comes to short summarizing definitions, and there will be always errors involved, lack of understanding or expertise, contesting sources, coercing source using different terminology, varying world views, etc.

(E.g., ask any number of economists what caused the 2008 financial crises, and you'll get about the same number of non-matching answers, from laissez-fair to state intervention, subprime credits or public debt, whatever supports the particular narrative.)
How dare someone use the holy and sacred "Open" prefix for something that isn't blessed by the OSS mafia.
Recently I restarted to seed and download Torrents and I was frustrated with the various search engines, all the dodgy adds and banners, the clunkiness and the difficulty of sending the torrents to my home server.

So I created Torrent Hound https://federicocappelli.com/torrenthound.html a macOS app for searching torrents in 3 major search engines and with more advanced download options like multiple download and send to server.

After a bit my girlfriend and some friend started using it and gave me interesting feedbacks, so I made the app easier to use and with some features for helping less tech-savvy users.

The app is free and I'm happy to implement new features and add search engines if requested, any request or feedback can be done here: https://github.com/federicocappelli/TorrentHound/issues
I used to get ham delivered from mine.

https://youtu.be/RFV4pNuRA0w
> it misses the point that the dollars are basically loans to America because the other country did not save them

I did not understand this point. How does USD became a loan to America if say India did not save them?

> Since the US dollars do come from somewhere vs a central bank making them or out of thin air in some way that makes America strong.

Again, this has nothing to do with de-dollarization. What makes America economically strong is its consumption demand. Correct. However, we are talking about removing SWIFT and US Bank as an intermediary. Russia and India can decide to fix prices (Rubles <-> INR) bilaterally for international trade (unconnected to exchange rate fluctuations) and commit a certain sum of money in each others banks to establish that rate for a period of say 5 years. And then trade against that rate. There is no involvement of USD here anywhere. Neither is a middleman (US Bank) needed here.

> It is not as if Indian Rupees or Chinese Yuan can replace these as it would mean the consumption would need to originate from China/ or India in the first place

Again, you are fixated on consumption. Even if I take your point that USD is valuable and is the one currency which is sought after, it is purely on the basis of US Government's benevolence. It can be removed just as quickly if the US Government decides to sanction your country because you woke up from the wrong side of the bed. So de-dollarization has nothing to do with, say, bilateral trade between US and India. We will still trade in USD and INR. So USD won't lose its value vis-a-vis bilateral trade between US and countries it trades with. However, there is no requirement for Russia and India to trade in USD. We can always settle trade in our own currencies.

> If you were to sell your US dollars for Chinese Yuan for example, that bag of US dollars is simply held by someone else - until it is consumed.

Okay and what does it have to do with China and India trading with each other or Russia and India trading with each other? We don't need to trade using USD.

> The issue with it looking at it 'strategically' like you are is it forgets that these dollars come from somewhere and they are still there because they are not spent not because of rules but because of savings habits in the other country.

All of this makes no sense when US Government decides to sanction my country overnight. USG sanctioned India for conducting reciprocal nuclear tests (China conducted it first and we were forced to retaliate by conducting our own nuclear tests). Bill Clinton decided that communist China is more favourable to democratic India and decided to sanction us, while not sanctioning China, for the same effing tests. We were subjected to heavy sanctions and had a tough time trading with other countries who had no connection with the conflict whatsoever. And it is not like only India was sanctioned in the past. Almost every country that has gone against US's favour have been subjected to sanctions in some way or the other. No one is going to keep tolerating a bully.
It's a shaky rationale, because I highly doubt Google would be threatened or fined if the message was in favor of the proposal. Corporations have free speech or they don't, pick one.
I don't find your line of thinking to be consistent with a legislator.
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> The lawmakers pressed Fed Chair Jerome Powell to “avoid engineering a recession that destroys jobs and crushes small businesses.”

Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. The Fed doesn't have a lot of tools to slow inflation. If inflation keeps rising, there's going to be looting and violence when people can't afford rent, food, or gas to get to work. Jobs and small businesses won't like that either.

In the meantime, the politicians can pretend they're looking out for the little people.
Serious question: do big companies actually use Vercel? I never worked at a big/very big company but I don't see how these prices would scale for them
Hacker News occasionally still values hacking
Unclear why people are disagreeing with this. It's outlined in the DoJ "finding of fact":

> Recognizing the importance of Mac Office to Apple's survival, Microsoft threatened to cancel the product unless Apple compromised on a number of outstanding issues between the companies. One of these issues was the extent to which Apple distributed and promoted Internet Explorer, as opposed to Navigator, with the Mac OS.

> At the end of June 1997, the Microsoft executive in charge of Mac Office, Ben Waldman, sent a message to Gates and Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer, Greg Maffei. The message reflected Waldman's understanding that Microsoft was threatening to cancel Mac Office:

> The pace of our discussions with Apple as well as their recent unsatisfactory response have certainly frustrated a lot of people at Microsoft. The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to Apple immediately. I also believe that Apple is taking this threat pretty seriously

[snip]

> Gates then reported that he had already called Apple's CEO (who at the time was Gil Amelio) to ask "how we should announce the cancellation of Mac Office . . . ."

from https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... paragraph 345 onwards.

Jobs' deal with MS fixed this problem.
What percentage of projects ever need that scale? Is it not something crazy like 95% of startups fail? A lot of the successful ones will be in niche categories as well that just don't have scale problems like major social media and tech companies.
Really? You could always just go get a cashiers check and walk it over to another bank. Now I've got accounts at several banks with free online transfers between them (2-3 business days)... it was more of a process in the 90s, sure, but now you can open a checking account at any major bank, link it to another bank and fuel it in 5-10 minutes. Not with Zelle, just a normal domestic wire which is usually paid for by the receiving bank.
There are too many social implications and problematic issues of power relations wrapped up in the quantification or operationalization of intelligence. For example we cannot even define intelligence in a sense that would be acceptable to use in human genetics.