skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
only that those two are intimately related.
Countries don't hold US treasuries because they're great investments (..... obviously). They hold them BECAUSE they have liabilities in USD BECAUSE their international trade is in USD, and having to covert their local currency to USD not only introduces a currency risk.
The world financial system is also organized to make local currencies of poorer countries depreciate over time, more than the USD does. Just like inflation is a silent tax that robs wealth from the poorer stratums inside a country, faster inflation/depreciation in the global south than in the north does the same on a global scale; it's a means of exploitation. Holding USD treasuries protects against that, at least a little.
The fall in USD use in world trade doesn't immediately translate into an equivalent fall of reserve holdings because the trade isn't the only reason they hold them. The other big one is serving international debt, also in USD (for.. the same reasons as above, again an exploitation mechanism). So even if you stopped ALL trade in USD tomorrow, countries would have years' worth of USD denominated debt to pay off (which, of course, never pays off, because just like student loans, it accrues fees and interest and will never be paid down under "normal" circumstances, just rolled over).
So there's a second change to watch: the change in debt denominated in other countires' currencies. It's a slow moving train.
Anatomy of a Hounding: Fear and Factionalism in Scottish Poetry
>but not for modern steal-to-order gangs

Then get a second hand Shit-Box 2000 like I do. Nobody will ever steal it, as no self respecting thief will want to be seen driving that, and it costs me less to buy and own.

Win-win I'd say.

I'm struggling to understand why people who aren't Bezos wealthy buy expensive cars. The depreciation is insane and you're always anxious someone will steal it or ding it in a parking lot. But then if people weren't frivolous with their money, half of us wouldn't have jobs ;)
I guess the misunderstanding comes from the fact that you consider a garden "environment/nature".

And the parent commenter does not consider a garden "environment/nature".

Nature in general is important because it creates biodiversity and space to roam. Forests in particular are sequestering CO2 and are producing oxygen.

The average garden behind a detached house does approximately none of that.
Competition in the currency space is good just as it’s good for tech to have competition.

But what it means — if the dollar really is waning in influence — it means tough time for the soft power that the US and it’s banking system is able to exert on other nations without firing a single round.
> It's also a clear reminder of how so much European utopian aspects (free healthcare, education etc) is run on pure goodwill. Just look at the strike action in the UK with Nurses having seen 15% pay cut (being forced to accept a 5% pay "rise" after much negotiation) and doctors have seen a 21-26% paycut.

It's not run on pure goodwill, it's run on taxes. Taxing corporations has been against the zeitgeist of neoliberalism running since the 80s, the Third Way of social-democracy embedded itself with the neoliberal bullshit in the 90s, it's not a coincidence that since then there's been a steady decline in public services in Europe overall.

The absolutism of catering to business over the rest of society has eroded multiple layers of what holds a society together. Healthcare in the UK is just the latest and most visible stone to fall. Education and healthcare in Sweden has been slowly privatised since the early 2000s, with accompanying declining trends for quality of services (private schools are some of the worst performing, healthcare being public-private has made staff shortages worse), quality of employment (teachers are not so well paid, nurses either), and so on.

The extreme search for efficiency is creating holes that aren't easily priced, side-effects are delayed by years to decades from implementation of policies, it slowly degrades society.

Thatcher's "there is no such thing as society" and Reagan-economics bound us to this hellhole for the past 40 years, maybe some change is required for this bullshit to end.
RLHF: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
> Yuan will be the dominant currency...

No. Just No.

Yuan is not convertible and volatile. it's only 3% of global currency reserve, behind dollar (60%) and euro (20%) https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/88926. Even Russians don't want yuan, Russia has been selling renminbi since the beginning of this year https://asiatimes.com/2023/04/rmb-based-trade-hasnt-worked-o...

Also, China's economy is crashing hard. China is now entering its third year of its own Great Depression, with 30% unemployment rate, 90% unemployment rate for new grads (it's so bad, Guangzhou government just sent 300k youth to countryside for a program), 80% retail collapse (entirely empty malls in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen), 50% real estate price collapse. Guizhou is the first province to declare bankruptcy ever.

According to the office for national statistics in China, for jan/feb of 2023 http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/202303/27/t20230327_38464161..., car manufacturing profits is down 41%. non-metal products manufacturing profits is down 39%. chemicals manufacturing profits is down 56%. electronics manufacturing profits is down 71%!! In fact, all businesses have dropped 22% in profit. Not to mention the 1M+ SMB that failed in the last 2 years.

Apple, dell, hp, lg, Kyocera are all shifting manufacturing out of China. Apple by 50% by 2025, Dell by 2027. It is estimated that China's portion of worldwide phone production will drop from 90% to 50% by 2025, and worldwide laptop production 70% to 30% by 2027.

China's export is never recovering, when 83% of American, the world's biggest consumer segment, have negative views of China https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pew-china-enemy-04122...
Great idea and well executed - well done!

I actually created a site - https://detoxed.news - with a very similar philosophy a while back, though with a much simpler implementation. It periodically scrapes Wikipedia's Current Events Portal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) and presents that information in a nicer format.

I think there's definitely a sweet spot where you keep well-informed about current events and happenings in the world, without wasting your time on the 24 hours new cycle.
It's been the trend for the past decade or so to use as little of the available rendering power as possible.

32-bit color? Naw, we're going two tone: Black and white.

8k screen resolution? Naw, we can't waste precious screen real estate on such frivolous things like borders and shading.

240Hz screens? Naw, we can't waste precious processor cycles and power on frivolous animations.

As for fonts, I get the impression that designers behind it are all in their 20s, maybe even fresh out of their late 10s. One's eyesight is usually still top notch in that age range, I know mine was; and I too dabbled in font sizes for ants because they looked cooler.

But I'm in my 30s now, and I can't stand tiny fonts anymore. My eyes aren't what they used to be, and designers by either their ignorance or naivety can't seem to respect the fact that people fucking age. I don't entirely blame them, I was that ignorant and naive bastard too once upon a time; I've grown wiser with age.

Newer/younger designers really ought to be shown how their seniors use their designs, it'll be an eye opening (pun intended) learning moment for the ones who were just naive. The ignorant ones probably can't be helped, but who knows.
> They have sugar in them or chemicals.

Nitpick: everything is a chemical (even water itself).
I'm sorry - you actually think the movies with a lot of shooting is an advertisement for guns, and when someone chugs pills out of the bottle is an ad for big pharma?

if I may ask - and this is very much on topic - who won the 2020 election, and do covid vaccines contain nanobots?
Once AI learns how beer delicious is, there's no telling how brain damaged it might get.
It’s not a contrived example. It’s the canonical embedded hello world, written against two different libraries.

At any rate, the C++/Rust part can be a distraction, because the interesting point here is the technique of encoding program state in the type system.
> Food (prices are pretty much the same everywhere)

I can't believe this is true. Either you're shopping for food at a subsistence level, in which case you know exactly what you're missing and how much easier it would be if you could afford a bit more, or you indulge yourself a bit and you're wilfully ignoring that you could pay less.
See this list for more examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding
https://chipolo.net/en-us/products/category/chipolo-spot

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HQF72ZM/A/chipolo-card-sp...

I own one, and it works just like an airtag and appears in the find my app. It doesn't have precision feature but everything else works(like using the apple/iphone network to find it)
Running Fedora and doing web browsing + light coding, I get around 5 hours of battery. That doesn't feel great, but it's rarely an actual problem for my use patterns.

Besides that, I love the laptop.
Where is India in the generative AI race?
Outlook, and soon Teams links to open in Microsoft Edge by default
I would go further and include embargoes and sanctions as falling under the militarily involved banner. That already includes South Africa where I am atm. The world is playing nice with America because most countries individually are rounding errors. But collectively and once they reach a certain point, they won't play nice anymore.

Meanwhile, the US is faffing about with all sorts of internal initiatives that are detrimental and pointless on a grand scale. Every year they are poorer as a country, society and culture.

Just try and imagine how much collective brain-time is spent in the US discussing animal rights, DEI, free speech, activism, left/right politics, gun rights, drug legalization, etc.

That is brain time that could be spent feeding and uplifting the poor, building housing, mobilizing tech and military, building infrastructure and transport and and and.
Firefox now is chromium too. They switched some time ago.

So firefox now is.. a worse chrome reskin. I use both daily and firefox is just not that good.

Mozilla foundation is completely not interested in getting firefox fixed to have its competetive advantage back - and to be the customizable browser.

I guess they are just happy to spend money on travel and side projects -> they just boost their CV to jump ship somewhere else.
The new Apple benchmark will be their M1 / M2 laptops, I don't think anything tops that at this point.
> basic README

GitHub (plus the wide adoption of the incredibly-limited Markdown) is the reason we no longer see a a README but a RENDERME. Have you tried to read most README.md files now? They’re filled with so many images and HTML that make it no longer readable without first rendering it (one example: how does an _image_ of CI status and other badges help me at all when I open the plaintext? In many cases, a definition list would be better, but Markdown doesn’t support it). The problem is then further exacerbated by ‘GitHub-flavored Markdown’, a syntax fork that now makes your Markdown incompatible with other forges; in the case of trying to shoehorn in admonition (feature lacking from Markdown) Microsoft GitHub is overloading the blockquote element via `>` ruining not just compatibility/portability but also HTML semantics as it’s still rendered inside a <blockquote> element.

The READMEs of yore were usually ASCII-only docs akin to old GameFAQs guides that didn’t require a render step. They lacked accessibility that HTML can provide, but aside sick ASCII art banners, didn’t have all that cruft that should be in the project’s landing page not README.
For those wondering, this is a joke from the LTT WAN Show [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/live/CSOF8RFrihM?feature=share&t=982...
You could deduplicate based on vector similarity within a few days (7 days for big stories as their news cycle is longer, 24 or 48 hours for smaller stories).
Idea: The number of stories within a cluster weighted by credibility of the source could be another element of the rating.
The Powerful Duo of ChatGPT and WikiData
I believe that's the point! (Would probably be more user-friendly if it sent a RST instead of silently dropping the connection and letting it time out.)
Settings > General > Tabs > Open links in tabs instead of new windows

Is this what you're after?
Really? I can't sustain this website for long without some income, and I don't want to put ads, so this is great to hear.
AWS hasn't been passing on the savings per core for CPUs for years. At some point the cost of a machine with a lot of cores becomes so cheap compared to what AWS charges that co-hosting/self hosting becomes really viable again even taking into account the cost of maintenance and supporting services.

I don't think at any point AWS has ever outperformed native hardware, because its always used the low clockspeed CPUs. Its that you can get a cloud in a box for not a lot of cost now that is making this shift become more and more viable.

I keep thinking that the Hetzner's of the world should be forcing AWS price adjustment but its not happened yet.
China's Quest for AI Supremacy
"GPT-4 was used for the script, which sounds plenty plausible to me considering that it’s gibberish."

Since when is GPT-4 gibberish?

It can produce a coherent synopsis for a whole movie in perfect style and language and it will per default.

You really have to go out of your way to make it produce anything resembling bizarre or absurd like this.

That said i get why it's a fun aesthetic but the bullshit is annoying.
> One day the US will crash and burn, but I'm betting you a dollar it won't happen in this decade or the next.

I am willing to take you up on your bet. My answer to your point is quite simple really. Consumption is going to slow down massively in USA over the next two decades because of Demographics. By current statistics itself, there is a major decline in young population in 70% of the counties in USA [1]. The median age in USA is 38.1 years. So 2 decades from now, this median age is going to shift to 50-60 because birth rates are plummeting big time. Unless US can produce more babies it is going towards an ageing society (like what Japan is experiencing right now). So when consumption falls, economy gets sluggish and that would cause downturn again. I wouldn't be surprised if the next two decades ends up worse than the Great Depression of the early 1900s considering how badly managed the current recession is.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/06/fewer-younger...
> Filipe receives essentially nothing for what he has done

It's indeed amazing. Do you know him personally? What does he do to earn a living? Does he do consulting on the side...?

In my (limited) experience he responds to issues almost immediately, and seems to be full-time on this; incredible.
Creating a ‘Minimum Elements’ SBOM Document in 5 Minutes
Great idea. Is it Mac only though?
People wanted add-ons and customization, not the things you mentioned.

Firefox was "the" customizable browser with great ad-block.
How many Super Bowl commercials will start with "this ad was entirely created by AI" (even when it's not exactly true).
If these petrol stations weren't earning so much, they would close and sell the lot for re-development.

Which is what happened many times ... which is why the remaining ones can charge a bit more.

A petrol station is not a charity...

That being said, I agree that it seems unfair that people can just own a piece of land for generations and keep profiting off it. Which is true for real estate as well.

A land value tax might help resolve this unfairness.
It really didn’t though. Crypto is the never ending, infinite ponzi. It’s unshakable, unsinkable. The hype is real.

What Sam did was elevate things. Anyone can run a crypto scam. Literal kids do it. But to create art is something else. Something more human. Something timeless. SBF is perhaps the ultimate use case for crypto.

I had about $100 in FTX. Worth it. Totally worth it.

I’m stoked for the Coinbase collapse. My body is ready. Jesus, take the wheel!
also when people tend to have kids
In other words, blockchains make it easier to track what we are doing with our money, without the justice system being involved, and that’s somehow good.
This appears to be a bad rehash of the March 20 incident.

https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage

(Ironically it reads a bit like ChatGPT-generated blogspam.)
I feel we are entering seriously dangerous territory when someone is defending monopolistic practices because during the time of a monopoly consolidating itself the customers get a brief period of lowered prices that the monopolistic forces use to undercut all competitors.
Why are you blaming UK's health crisis on neoliberalism? The NHS is as "socialist" as you could get in Western society.
3. Definitely did co-sleeping with 2 at a time early on.
That's a great theory. Let's see how it plays out. Looks like it's down to 3.2% from 4.3% at the start of the year. [1]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi
Out of curiosity, could the expansion card slot bear the entire weight of the laptop if it were used to hold the laptop aloft?
At times, it's not the size that matters, but rather the quantity that makes a chain reaction
Is it really pro-human to want to live like factory-farmed cattle? Nobody ever seems to engage with the fact that the population shot up, what, 10+ times in the last 200 years.
Intel Emerald Rapids Backtracks on Chiplets – Design, Performance and Cost
Good luck sorting out the sources of "a blurry JPEG of the web".
> Adams, as the city did when announcing litigation against Kia and Hyundai on April 7, largely blamed the rise in car thefts on Kia and Hyundai, which he said are "leading the way" in stolen car brands.

Love this. NYC's response to crime: sue auto manufacturers rather than make the city safer.
Marketing is part of the product design. The decisions on what to do and what not to do when coding or designing a feature should be a result of a marketing interrogation because you're building the product to be used in some set of ways by some set of people.

Once you stop thinking about what they actually care about, you're drifting away from a successful execution.

This is from copy to code. From price to presentation to features and flow.

It's not a nice to have or something that's tacked on, it is the soul of the product in the prospects mind - the driving force for the whole effort from the first keystroke to the last signoff from QA, your product lives or dies by your market models and theories and how focused your execution of them were.

Doing this right is the difference between Creative Zen, Apple iPod and Sandisk Sansa or FirefoxOS, Android and MeeGo.

Technical competency is a necessary ingredient but it doesn't get you there alone.

If you want to build something that doesn't bomb, you need to study marketing, significantly and heavily.
GitLab is also open-core and publicly-traded. For now, I appreciate what they do and how the issue tracker is mostly public, but when the investors say “it’s time to turn this into a money printing machine so I can get my ROI”, I don’t know that I have a lot of confidence in it in the long run.
Dunno, I'm less and less interested in apple devices these days, I've got one on the shelf, I guess we can test it in a year or two
Wait, you mean that cop I asked lied to me? Huh.
>Free market economists are followers of a cult full of animistic creatures, like the "Free Market" and "Inflation", which have their own volition and just choose to "stick around" or "fairly distribute goods", without the need for absolutely no human to many any decision at all.

If you can't find a narrative of how "human decisions" caused inflation in 2021-2022 you aren't trying very hard.

I'd say that believing that there was an exogenous shock to greed during the pandemic is much more animistic than these explanations.
Firefox is not unique. It is a reskin of chrome now.
China doesn't hate labor regulations so much as rule of law simply isn't really a thing there, especially when you compare it to the west. Labor, conditions have dramatically improved in China, though it's motivated by a sense of Confucian noblesse oblige rather than regulation.
>"So if people could also do that in C/C++ they are apparently not doing it."

Maybe because they do not feel that it is worth doing. It maybe poor decision on their side but it has nothing to do with the implementation language. From a practical standpoint - I programmed enough microcontrollers and frankly initializing pin for particular mode before using it is hardwired into my brain. I do not remember ever having this type of error in my code. In the end if you do not like it you can always roll out your very own "safe" version. Just make sure your "safe" version does not have bugs either.
You'll get more shortages and higher inflation with your solution.
This sort of thing is something we abused about Rust quite some time ago to make safer interfaces to low-level hardware.

https://blog.auxon.io/2019/10/25/type-level-registers/
Inflation is measured from a change in purchasing power, it's not a function of supply - because what you do with the supply is what matters, not that it exists. These companies raising prices would be inflationary in and of itself.

Supply may or may not yield inflationary pressure, but a change in supply is just that - a change in supply. Inflation is measured from a change in prices. For instance, a 100% sales tax would be massively inflationary (at least initially) and wouldn't be reflected in supply of currency units.

ETH like BTC prices are just high-beta derivatives of US dollar liquidity in the global financial system. And that's pretty generous, assuming it's not just a rigged mob casino run by a small handful of insiders. It's not really comparable because it's not really a currency. In the sense that nothing is actually priced in ETH or BTC - it's an open loop system. Everything's priced in dollars and converted at the last second to a BTC/ETH price, and then those are usually immediately sold for dollars to pay suppliers, etc. There's at best a negligible closed loop BTC/ETH economy.
Remember people: despite your country being designed around cars, and food companies are more or less allowed to poison you, and companies being able to advertise whatever they like, and companies employing psychologists to trick you in to making bad decisions, it is up to /you/ to make good choices.

Walk that 6 miles to the grocery store. Don’t be lazy! At least 3 miles might have a side walk.

And when you get there and look at the 62 different loaves of bread, make sure to pick one which is healthy. Should be easy.

I do accept the role of personal responsibility but come on let’s not ignore all the other issues too.