skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TBH, this system has been in production since 2016, and the stores essentially can't operate with any downtime... I dispatch updates that are auto-downloaded, and when one of them misfires and I have to spend an hour on remote access, that store's business comes to a halt causing a huge disruption as they transition to paper notes and whiteboards. (The software lets employees track and take ownership of the checkin/checkout and movement of dogs around 30k sqft petcare facilities, each with hundreds of dogs per day... so just the amount of barking when I'm on the phone with these places makes it hilariously difficult to guide people through tech support).

I looked a little bit at Tailscale but assumed it would be too complex for the store employees to manage and would require a lot of hands-on maintenance, and a store-by-store hand holding process which requires scheduling each of them weeks in advance. As it is, the system is secure (local wifi only accessible to employees) and runs even if the store's internet connection goes fully offline... so... I think I'll take your tip and look at it again... the plex model is essentially what I was going for... but I'd be reticent to add any other layers of complexity or anything that could cause downtime.
s:n?
This is a really weird article. It's 100% sourced from one "note" written by some guy at Eurizon, with no alternative perspectives given or seemingly even requested from anyone. (Especially weird given that economists love to talk!)

And the perspective being pushed isn't just the fact of the reserve decline, but specifically that is being driven by sanctions on Russia, which seems like a huge, huge reach to push without analysis or rebuttal.

This has the smell of a deliberate hit piece, basically.
agree.
for perspective, not much has changed:

https://www.schwab.com/learn/sites/g/files/eyrktu1246/files/...

or here

https://www.imf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/COTW-dollar-d...

The headline is technically correct just exaggerated
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Global_R...
Reminder: the NYPD's budget is approximately $475 million dollars per month.
That was a vestige of the business well before I was involved. I don't think there was anything nefarious. These are devices that get beaten up quite a bit and the idea was they were cheap enough that it made sense to replace annually.

We have now moved to either 3 year disposable units or replaceable batteries. 3 years feels like a reasonable lifespan. And, our plan is to give them away for free to Life360 members (which is probably a small portion of HN readers but a high percentage of traditional families)
And I'm reminded of the Motorola Atrix and its lapdock.
Good idea! I just shared this note with our marketing team
Did I predict this [0] a year ago?:

> More likely, the SWIFT sanctions will prove a mistake for "the West," when it realizes the downstream effects of cutting off Russia from the dominant payment network of the global reserve currency. Russian banks have already started offering accounts in yuan. This will lead to further balkanization (unfortunate pun notwithstanding) of world reserve currencies, which means increased decentralization and a reduced dependency on the dollar. Eventually the world will naturally diversify their reserve holdings to the point that the dollar loses its power as leverage in diplomatic negotiations.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30633595
I've got to say, "tune" is such a weird word to choose, it almost sounds like a bad translation.

Tuning is associated with musical notes (originally) and then with cars (optimizing performance) and engines more generally.

It's a weird metaphor to use for an icon that's usually been called "settings".

Because settings are not tuning, because engine/car tuning isn't about choosing your preferred settings, it's about small adjustments to maximize performance.

(The visual icon makes sense since it shows the popup to toggle settings for the site.)
I am convinced you are not reading the things you reply to.

That person specifically noted and gave you a reference to how those 3rd party tags use Apple's own network.
Yes. That is indeed a total rumour.
ignorance is a bliss and incompetence is worse than corruption

"keep calm and carry on"
Although there are no concrete implementations to review, the implication was that Mojo will/can be used standalone (similar to a Python implementation), so one is not necessarily locked onto the Modular platform. Was this a correct understanding?

Also, will the next version of the FastAI library be written in Mojo?
Countries aligning with Yuan just seem stupid, if there are actually countries doing that except Russia ( ain't going well for them either).

Except if you want no transparency and want to be bullied around.

None of china's neighbors even trust them, I sure of hell wouldn't ( perhaps Vietnam, who gets a lot of china's sanctioned businesses).

Note : I'm Belgian, not American.
Yes! Rest assured that there is no historical reason to fear "unintended consequences". The very idea is a reactionary dog-whistle.
Evidently, the best way to run a bank is a 0% cash reserve minimum (as was granted to US banks starting during COVID), so you can make money off of literally every last penny, and then discourage and prevent customers from taking their money out, then [externalizing all costs]/[socialize losses] onto government (taxpayer) via bailout or customer via bail-in, while privatizing all profits in the meantime. And charge poor people $30 every time they dip under $0 even by a penny.

Doesn't mean it's a good idea for the rest of us non-banks.
This is the best argument for defunding the police - their budgets have largely stayed flat or even gone up, and they aren't doing their jobs. Why are we paying for it?
Tons of people predicted this when sanctions hit.
Definitely already have that. It just has some nasty side effect or expense or something preventing them from using it
> Banks don't work that way any more because it's a really bad way to run a bank.

As compared to what we have now? With dubious financial instruments so opaque I'd have to spend 30 years lurking underneath desks on Wall Street eavesdropping on conversations just to have any clue at all how the fuck those work?

I'm almost comforted when there's a Bernie Madoff, because at least I can wrap my head around how a Ponzi scheme works (ignoring the ethics, obviously). I'm (irrationally?) worried that some of what's been going on the last few years actually makes plain Ponzi schemes look legitimate by comparison.

Not 25 years ago, we used to laugh about the stupid books with titles like "Dow Jones 100,000!" and whatnot, I think it was a Slashdot post way back when. And while we haven't quite reached that pinnacle of absurdity, it did hit 37,000 not so long ago.

None of us may be able to pick the queen of hearts, but some of us have caught on to the fact that it's three card monte. When it all falls down, should we console ourselves with "well at least the banks weren't small and local and vulnerable to economic shocks"?
Are there lessons to be brought forward to Mojo from the effort to bring autograd to Swift? (Apart from "python ftw", that is)
> If those "market prices" are not enough to pay for somebody's housing, then they are not truly "market prices".

Housing really is the unbalanced part of the equation. Yes, I agree that salaries should increase - a lot. But we can't turn a blind eye that there is a massive civilization-destroying crush of the population by the landed gentry, who demand that just about all surplus production of the continent becomes profit for them. Companies and labourers produce goods and services that benefit all, the rent seekers produce nothing and burdens all.
I think it's the best solution, will do it soon.
I created a comparison. [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/cuCcyf1.png
Banks can offer incentives for certain levels of deposits. Better interest rates, better cards, better loans. SVB offered perks to bank exclusively with them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/silicon-valley-bank-signed-e...

If you took that sort of agreement and bet on being bailed out in the event of a failure, you won your bet.
I'm not sure what 'entire history of war' you are reading. Did you only read 19th century history or something?
If large empires always had an advantage, then you would see endless snowballing, and only end up with mega-empire-blobs, and one-world-government.

That is not the case. You have period of imperial blobbing, and also period of intense fracturing. Europe fractured after Rome, because smaller polities were much easier to maintain, with fewer layers of bureaucracy to feed.
The small Frank kingdom (that only owned half of France) was able to fend off the great Jihad from the Umayyads that had crushed the Visigothic Spain. Whereas if you took out Rome, or the Chang-An of China, the rest of the empire would be paralyzed and unable to act.
You could invest in US weapons manufacturers, because the petrodollar is going to go down swinging.
Ahh, so it’s apparent you didn’t read the story. The company is building new houses near a given plant that they are offering to sell to employees at a below market rate because local older homes are purchased quick by cash buyers. There is other housing in the area, but this company wants to give an option for a lesser commute to the plant for their workers. A quick Zillow search shows quite a lot of affordable rental housing at the same price point of a monthly mortgage of the company offered homes within a 15-20 mile radius from the Plant’s town. This is not an uncommon commute distance for a rural area.

If the employee leaves the company, they still own the home. The only caveat (and it’s understandable and reasonable IMO) appears to be that if the homeowner decides to sell the home within 3 years, the company has right of first refusal to buy the home at the same cost they originally sold it for to the employee.

You are making assumptions about the company’s motives that are based on your own biases. You seem to feel that the employee is somehow being wage abused for being offered a house to own at a below market rate. How is it that a) this situation describes a “company” town in the historical sense. And b) the employee is somehow abused for choosing to purchase a home below market value?

Edit: hit send too soon.
Dang, its $100.
The low battery indicator doesn't work particularly well with recharchables.

With a standard non rechargeable alkaline the voltage drops gradually as the battery discharges, so the battery light coming on at a certain voltage gives the user enough time to save their game and replace the batteries.

Rechargeable AA batteries have a much flatter voltage curve - they basically give a stable 1.2V until they run out of juice and then drop rapidly.

Edit: not lithium, Ni-MH
Postgres convention is to have singular table names so that's violating those conventions (as well as a few more about column naming)
Weird part about this whole thing is, we have been repeatedly told that banks are good and they learned a lesson in 08. Now both tech and banking are in trouble again.
FDIC premiums are not payed by taxpayers. What we're visualizing here are bank failures assumed by FDIC. The too big to fail banks didn't technically fail, but to give an accurate picture of a financial crisis they should be on the graph.
And it was 85% in the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
The entire premise of "found" is a bit nuts as we are a public company and disclosed this regularly and consistently, including how we used the data. The coverage we got in the MarkUp was the most unethical I have seen in my life with reporters literally cutting/pasting parts of quotes to make a point.

We had a data platform for targeted ads. I realize that isn't popular, but we were always transparent. We exited the business because it wasn't worth the controversy.

Please go look at our public filings before you trust this article. We were so transparent about everything we did both to our users and the public.

I do think our record of zero instances of harm show we had good safeguards in place.
What's the Most Popular PhD Among Billionaires?
I never would have guessed that! Props to them for going with a name many Japanese people would struggle to pronounce.
People should familiarize themselves with Eurodollars:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8dbEmBimg&pp=ygUKRXVyb2RvbGx...

Effectively, banks not in the US denote debt in dollars. The “dollars” in circulation outside the US is massively larger than the domestic supply.

“de-dollarization” is not going to happen any time soon, really. They aren’t even true “dollars”, no money or assets move. They’re completely created outside the US.
It will also be always clear, in ecto, what the table name is.

In rails if there is a table name prefix involved, you will have no idea
People have been unaccountably good to me. I have no
enemies, and if certain persons have masqueraded as such,
they’ve been far too good-natured to have ever pained me.
Anytime I read something written against me, I not only
share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better
myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send
me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that
they will receive my every aid and support. I have even
secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless
tirade against myself. Ah, the unvarnished truths I harbor!

- from the autobiographical essay Gwern cites elsewhere
Gotta love it’s hosted on Vercel. So much for ‘convenience not worth it’.
On the other hand, if you as a legislator perceive a social evil, and your options are to pass a law or to get all the parents to take away their kids' phones and switch back to desktop computers (used only in a common area), which do you pick?
I can just imagine someone coming up with the infinity symbol, and arguing (as we are here) about whether a circle represents the idea. No, not quite; it needs something more... another circle should suffice, and connect them seamlessly. Yes, yes. This looks much more infinite than a mere circle.
First Republic falls. Is the banking crisis restarting?
I was hoping it would have a secondary function as an optical disc drive.
National governments should control their own money, scrap interest entirely. Let the market decide what each currency is worth for international trading.

The status quo international banking system is designed to enslave, and governments can't do anything about it because the banks are above them.

How anyone can defend the current system is beyond me. It's not remotely close to being the best we can do, it's a scam at every level, way more complicated that it needs to be, by design.
Additionally, it's not just the first-order expenditures that are of interest: it's also the second-order loss from genpop of otherwise economically productive people further depressing the gains we could make as a public (measured in GDP or whatever else) as well as the third-order issues around stable housing/families and the effects those arrangements have on future (our childrens') productivity.
I think GP knows this, but I also think you know that the graph is trying to paint a particular picture, and that picture is misleading because a lot of information is missing. We are not in the midst of a financial crisis that approaches 2008, and the graph is trying to make us think something different.
I can't read minds, so it's impossible to know intent of lawmakers.

It's the language of any law that should be evaluated. The language of these is problematic.
FDIC limit is 250k per bank, so if you have 1 million you'd need 4 banks. If you have 10 million you'd need 40 banks. Having money spread out like that doesn't seem easy to manage. Also having 10 million in one bank gives you better interest rates and service at that bank than if you only had 250k.
Looks like a run of the mill aluminum air insulated mug. What’s special about this brand?
I thought it was going to be a cd-rom drive
Also, is you’re looking for a simpler domain name - http://BigNews.today is available.

( I used ChatGPT to help me find it, via https://smartynames.com/ )
I thought that held the coaster AOL sent everyone in the mail.
My argument is that the US dollars that are on these reserves only exist because consumers have spent them. The argument that this does not have anything to do with consumer demand is almost not understanding where these dollars come from. These reserves can only come from excess consumption.

To have an alternative you need another country with the type of consumption the US has. So while your argument is correct about the rules and affect of sanctions it misses the point that the dollars are basically loans to America because the other country 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.

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. If you were to sell your US dollars for Chinese Yuan for example, that bag of US dollars is simply held by someone else (the person you bought the Yuan/Rupees from) - until it is finally consumed. The issue is they never tend to be consumed.

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.
> long as the elite still need other lower-class humans, e.g. chauffeurs, nannies and cooks, or security

Isn’t this the point of the fears of AI and automation? A truly sovereign individual, singular, against all others.
For anyone who actually read the article, a bit context.
2001 was around when the Euro began circulating as a real curreny.
Even better would be to direct the laptop's cooling fan exhaust towards the cup, then mine some bitcoin.
Ask HN: What Is Intelligence?
Defined in a sense that would be acceptable to use for both human and machine
I would say different people would have a different understanding of "Right to Repair for Software".

My personal take is mainly focused on more verbose diagnostic outputs(like for people stuck in "just a moment" screens alike) and more management tools(like some basic control and logging for BackgroundTasks of UWP apps).
Website says there's a layer of insulation between the vacuum walls.
The real death of HTTP isn't that HTTPS is being forced. That's good and bad but at least you can chose and it's HTTP underneath. The death of HTTP is "HTTP"/3 which is barely related to past HTTP protocols and doesn't even allow a choice. Eventually the megacorp browsers will drop real HTTP/1.1 support from their browsers for QUIC based transport. That will be the death of HTTP.
See neverssl.com.

It has been around for a long time and is useful for making sure you see Wifi terms pages.
who's to say.
His points about capital flows and that the US is always willing to run deficits to stabilize global markets are really underrated.

Also interesting: de-dollarization may benefit the US by increasing domestic growth and investment.
Yes! I do exactly that. In the early version I posted the original titles, but many were too clickbait-y and hard to read. I find the rewritten titles much easier to scan through.
A lot of countries don't trust the US either or like getting bullied by it.
There were winners and losers, but the government made money on TARP. That doesn't fit anyone's narrative very well, so you don't hear that much about it, but its a fact. So far not a public dollar has been lost in the current crisis. FDIC, like other insurance, is paid for by the insured. Every FDIC bank in the country is paying the cost of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
If we can't stop lying why would our golem stop lying ?
I get where you're coming from, but it's not strictly true. For instance if their model had given Hillary a 99.5% chance and Trump only 0.5%, then we could be pretty sure it wasn't a good model when Trump won.

You might say even then, how do we know the result didn't just fall into that 0.5% remaining chance? But polls can and do still give some useful idea of what the result might be.
I'll look into that. For now, I thought of adding a ChatGPT summary of an article, but being able to also read the source is important.
I dunno, is the law unlikely to work at its nominal goal and likely to, in practice, substantially burden adults in activities that they are and ought to be free to do, and also largely being advocated by people who fairly openly want to curtail adults practical access, but have been frustrated by Constitutional protections in their efforts in that direction?
Mojo Docs
Vietnam is one of the countries that trusts China the least -- despite both being communist countries.
And Pittsburgh is pronounced “Pittsberg”
That's Numberwang!

> Numberwang theme tune
captive.apple.com does the same trick with a smaller payload.
This is a bit of a copy/paste from a comment I made in another thread like three weeks ago[1]:

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I'm very much starting to distrust these huge companies with infinite product/feature lists and generic marketing-lingo websites.

"Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration."

Seriously?

I want serverless providers that tell me the 4-5 products they offer (Compute, maybe a KV store, maybe a database, maybe some pubsub, maybe a queue?), give me the pricing, and leave me the Hell alone.

I don't want to feel locked into a system promising end-to-end whatever, ones that heavily push a certain framework, and most importantly ones that look like the homepage was designed by a team of sales people instead of a team of engineers.

It's the difference between the Cloudflare Workers website and the Vercel website: Vercel looks like the new-age big-brother con artist, while Workers looks like a utility.

Sorry, what were we talking about? A runaway bill?

#######

This kind of stuff is exactly why I don't trust Vercel. They're selling some """experience""" on top of utilities. This works for Apple in the non-technical space, but for developer tools? Absolutely no chance.

I wasn't going to use Vercel before, but I'm certainly not going to now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508910
I'm using Tile Stickers the same way they're depicted on their website, as a TV remote finder. Is that wrong?
Not that I make a habit of correcting other's spelling and grammar, however:

ocassionally -> occasionally
Cryptocurrencies/tokens.
The ability to make inferences , anticipate things
Again, how do you know that somebody doesn't put something sensitive into the Google Search bar?
From Wikipedia:

> The "Roland" name was selected for export purposes, as Kakehashi was interested in a name that was easy to pronounce for his worldwide target markets. The name was found in a telephone directory, and Kakehashi was satisfied with the simple two-syllable word and its soft consonants. The letter "R" was chosen because it was not used by many other music equipment companies, so would stand out in trade-show directories and industry listings. Kakehashi did not learn of the French epic poem The Song of Roland until later.
Fwiw... I've heard the BASIC manual which came with the TIMEX/SINCLAIR 1000 was EXCELLENT. If there were any companies who documented their products any more, I would recommend they look at those old texts for inspiration.
Arguably, both cases are theft. We simply decide whether or not it is acceptable with the principle that force is only and always justified in response to force. See how easy it is to be consistent?
It's trash.
Sanction on Russia might have affected the dollar as a reserve currency. But, the author is using 2001 to compare the relative decline. Russian sanctions didn't begin until 2014 and didn't serious until last year.
Would be slightly more insightful if it was inflation adjusted. The circles on the right should be ~30% smaller.