skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is openpix? And why is all about it? Is openpix the backend for pix? Because I can see how pix impacted credit card companies in Brazil.
I'll write some tests for this.
I've tried very hard these past few decades to understand what fractional reserve banking is without spiraling into becoming some whackjob conspiracy theorist. Can someone tell me if this is substantially wrong?

Through some combination of poorly chosen policies in centuries past, social inertia, and perhaps even a little ignorance even on the part of the experts, we now have a society that has normalized the idea that banks get to authorize people (and companies) to receive resources they don't currently have enough cash to purchase outright. When they authorize this, they pay the seller with imaginary money that they say they have (but don't really have). Thus the seller is (most of the time) made whole.

In return for this authorization, the borrowers pay the bank that principal back, along with interest.

In some more conservative ways of thinking, interest is the idea that when a lender risks his or her money loaning it to you, they should receive compensation for that risk.

But the bank didn't have the money to loan to them either. Whether this means the bank is taking less risk, or more risk, I can't even properly process at this point... but regardless of any hypothetical risk that it might be taking, what the interest really is for is nothing more than the fee for them authorizing that the person/company receive those resources. On that point I'm quite certain, the interest pays that "fee".

I do not believe this is a particularly biased take on the matter. I don't believe I've injected much politics into it. I think this system (such as it is) has arisen organically, and without much in the way of design or any group steering it to this.

It seems quite insane to me. Beyond the bounds of mere lunacy. Lovecraft never spoke of eldritch abominations so horrifying that they might cause a madness as profound as this.

Why are we allowing banks to do this? I get it that society needs someone to do this function. But...

1. Why are banks and their staff the most qualified to undertake the function?

2. How did legislatures and even monarchs ever allow this particular power to slip away from them, without even so much as a debate about why they couldn't be trusted to do it?

3. Even if we need this functionality, how do we know how often it should happen (and for whom), and why would this system both keep it from happening not enough and from happening too much? Especially since banks are incentivized to lend as much as possible in many (maybe even all) circumstances? Isn't this sort of like putting the crackhead in charge of the medicine locker key?

4. Why is no one talking about it in this way? Maybe I'm just fucked in the head, but I've never heard it explained like this, and it makes me wonder if I've got it all wrong. But none of the extant explanations are less crazy-sounding, not that I've ever found.
No it's not normal, they are talking a bit out of their ass. Based on their dates, I'm significantly younger than them and yet I was able to afford a house in one of the more desirable neighbourhoods with only me being the one working in tech.

I'm not targeting the person you are replying to with any malice, but since almost all of the major financial and business institutions in Canada are headquartered here there is an overabundance of people that would claim they work in "tech" when in reality they are making a respectable but decidedly non-tech salaries at places like TD Bank or Thompson Reuters as examples.

The range of possible salaries for devs in Toronto is quite large.

Also as an additional anecdote, every single one of my classmates who went to the USA and decided they would like to start a family, came back to Canada to start that family.

That is not to say it is all rosy here. There is an overabundance of poor or terrible talent that's been shipped in to cover the exodus of Canadian educated people chasing better salaries in the USA while business leaders and purse string holders are content to celebrate their mediocrity while being confused why productivity is so low.
I don't know them.
It’s easy if you’re selling them hardware. Even pirates are fine with paying for something you can actually touch.
Like I say its akin to blaming Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or whoever for every problem you have with computers today.

He was there as they were and found ways to move things forward. Have we gotten better since? Of course. Did they also make some claims that seem silly in retrospect? You betcha

You want to live in a world of pantomime villains its your choice but reality and history is much more nuanced. This article actually gives a very good summary of that if you care to get through it

When you say his influence is detrimental I think you need to understand who else might have been more influential if Corbusier didnt exist. The answer is not some proto-Jane Jacobs itd be someone like Gideon, Häring or Moser. People who equally didnt understand urban life (its taken us a century since to progress even as meagrely as we have) but also wouldnt have been able to articulate where modern construction and cities were moving to like Corbusier did.
> think you have it backwards. I think anybody who is remotely interested in this topic would love for proof of aliens to come out. It's just such an extraordinary claim, that their skepticism demands extraordinary proof. Eyewitness reports and low-res grainy videos are just never going to be enough, no matter who they come from. And that's how it should be. If there is real proof of aliens, it will be on the front page of every newspaper in the world, because it would be the most important discovery of all human history. It will be corroborated with physical evidence that has been examined by multiple experts and professionals. Until that happens, most people are going to be skeptical, and rightly so.

Exactly. I firmly believe that extraterrestrial life exists. My belief comes from the abundance of CHON (Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen) in the universe, combined with extremely long time scales and basic chemistry.

Simple/single-celled (or some analog) extraterrestrial life seems almost inevitable based on our understanding of how the universe works.

That said, such a belief doesn't include intelligent extraterrestrial life with technological civilizations that might create interstellar spacecraft which regularly visit our little corner of the galaxy. For me to believe that, I'd need a "Klaatu barads nicto"[0] moment.

I could be wrong, but there's no compelling evidence that I am. To channel Carl Sagan: "Claims require evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still
> Compare to entirely random global ids, like UUIDv4, that generally suffer from poor database locality.

What does this mean in more words?
I do both - have it on my NAS exposed as SMB shares but also Jellyfin both on the internet without vpn/tailscale and of course with.

Sometimes I want to use a local media player, sometimes, when I am unsure what to watch I browse the media gallery and just watch from the browser.

I don't trust Plex. I don't like its media server, all of the dark patterns, the subscription, unknown telemetry (although firewalled.) I liked that it was available as an app on my TV but I solved that a different way.
>People who peddle opiates need a shotgun shoved in their mouths, and so do the users.

What the actual fuck? Take your fascist ass to some authoritarian country and see how that works out for you.
IMO they should have focused on building paid addons. Their life-time license thing is well worth it, but it's bad for building a sustainable business around. Hell, I'd pay extra for a nice mobile music client. I'd pay extra for a better Python API. I'd pay extra for access to high-quality metadata, etc.
Their installation script is open source and is acknowledged as such.

upvpn is not related to them.
I think this quirk is easier to wrap your head around if you think of the consequences of doing it. Modern economics have baffled me at times, but I’d fully expect our currency to be extremely devalued if they did that. Currency holders would end up paying for it as they couldn’t purchase as much.
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers
I've been really happy with Infuse as a jellyfin client (ios, tvos, macos).
The fundamental problem with all these companies is that shareholders demand growth. Not just steady business growth but like real fast quarter over quarter growth.

So execs now are only interested in milking money to keep share prices high, even if it hurts the business long term. By the time customers really NOP out, primary shareholders and execs will have exited their positions.

The bagholders will be the remaining shareholders and the folks who got a 30 year mortgage counting on this Airbnb income forever.
And the AIs will be multiplying matrices.
>...the school of economics that says money is magical and debt never has to be paid back

Well...debt generally has to be paid back, but unlike people countries don't get old and retire.

Countries have an unending supply of new taxpayers being born every year.

There's no hard limit to how much a country can renew and restructure its debts.

Only the market's belief in a country's future economic prospects affect the price of rolling the debts forward, through the issuing of new state-backed bonds.
I thought this was the ERP company

https://www.plex.com/
Many of the loans made to itself are wrapped up in pension funds, SSI, lots of future expenses to cover, etc...so just forgiving the loans wouldn't help much unless you want a bunch of angry old people rioting on the street.

Another way of thinking about it is the US deficit is high because savings needs are also high. It isn't just a "we need to spend more money", it is also a "we need to borrow more money" (due to lots of savings demand). The problem is that we aren't using those savings needs productively enough, so we are still going to get hit in the future.

China also has a similar problem, but one could argue that they are leveraging savings needs effectively through lots of infrastructure and other capital projects. BUT Japan went that route as well, and it didn't work out too well for them.
Considering that California imports around 30% of its power now, that may be a ways off.
“Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”
That’s why I choose to use Infuse as my Apple TV client. Plus it does local transcoding, taking that load off your server.
There's no such thing as "publicly held debt" in USA. USA borrows immense amounts of money from foreign economies (China and others) with no intention whatsoever to ever pay the principal back. Happy to just pay the interest for all of eternity. On and on in perpetuity forever.

USA spends a huge portion of the money that it borrows on its military. If those countries ever want to "call" their money back then they will face USA's military if the negotiations deteriorate to that level.
To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology
I love it! Impressive use of 4 metal layers!
You can’t avoid that with the indicator either. Closing windows by accident or due to a crash happens. Consider using window.onclose and saving to local storage to avoid data loss.

That said, you could use a separate mode for users with bad network. That mode may require more changing and distracting UI elements. I am not prepared to say whether it is a good solution though.
Classic HN interaction
There's more to digestion and metabolism than basic thermo. I mean sure, supply your body with inadequate calories and it will make up the difference by pulling by storage. But that's like saying the steam train and diesel turbine train work the same way: just heat up a fluid to move some metal to turn a crankshaft.

The food labels on your food packages are determined by calorimetry. But your body digests some food more readily than other foods, also affected by what else you eat with it, how you prepare it, etc. Also your body encourages you to eat certain things to get various nutrients: you rarely eat those nutrients alone; typically they come along with a bunch of other stuff. Then peoples' feedback systems are heavily influenced by all sorts of things: signals from your gut biome, your emotions and response to social signals and learning, various kinds of signalling reflecting what you eat (and those signals are empirically hacked by food engineers), and random brain bugs, among others.

Exercise is hardly scientifically measurable either. It's not like that "calories burned" reading on your bike, is comparable to a bike from a different manufacturer, much less a different kind of exercise.
I’ve heard before immigrants take quite negative stances on “illegal”/“undocumented”/“irregular” immigration, saying “I had to jump through all these hoops to come here, I have no sympathy for people who break the rules instead”. Is that xenophobia?

Years ago, I went on a business trip to the US, and while there an Indian-American colleague said some very Islamophobic things to me. I guess he probably brought some of that with him from India, although certainly there would have been things in the US to reinforce it. Also, he was a 9/11 survivor and this was only a few years later, so that was likely a factor too. There is some obvious overlap between Islamophobia and xenophobia - although not all Muslims have an immigrant background (converts), and there are billions of non-Muslim foreigners
This seems to be a great opportunity to recommend the short story “on patrol” by Stanislaw Lem [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Pirx_the_Pilot
Thanks for the advice and good energy.
> Then they hand it to you and expect a miracle in 5 mins. Sorry this is the first time I have every seen something like this it may take me a few mins to figure out what is wrong before I can even begin to fix it.

Oh yeah, like when I have to fix the smartphones of people who have been using them for years while I do not own or use a smartphone. I will fix it, but I've got to learn how to launch/exit an application first ;-)

Many people (hi mum!) are surprised that you may take a few minutes to calmly observe, probe, assess, read and think a bit before engaging in the actual fixing. It never occurred to them that one may do something else than clicking, more or less randomly and as fast as possible, when something shows up. And do not worry about your example altering their future behaviour, it will unshakeably go on as it always went :-)
I just realized why this is bullshit. If such crafts existed, they wouldn't only seem to appear in the USA, and somebody in some backwater somewhere on earth would have leaked proof about them by now.

But there's never clear pictures or videos or physical evidence provided. This is just another scam.
And the design & manufacturing capability to make the machines used for making breakfast cereals (the mills) in-house.
Hold on. We know the program exists (until very recently, it was a barely funded side hustle for a small group of enthusiasts inside the DoD). We know the DoD is investigating "unexplained aerial phenomenon" (a name they had to come up with because as soon as you use the term "UFO", everybody loses their shit and stops doing engineering and science, including scientists).

The claims being made here go far beyond the existence of these programs: they claim the US is in possession of technological artifacts of non-human origin (TAONHOs, must credit me for this coinage). That is a huge leap from "the DoD has records of an uptick of weird things that happened on cameras that just happens to correspond with a massive increase in the amount of video telemetry we collect".

People like Kean are counting on their audience to read the acknowledgement of these DoD groups as shocking admissions, which is then leveraged to add credibility to the claims of people like Grusch.
Isn’t it the opposite? Autists love structure
Haven't yet found an MMTer who is anti taxation and pro inflation.
Red Team and Blue Team both pearl clutch about the national debt when it is politically expedient for them to do so. Remember all the hullabaloo about the national debt clock back when it needed an extra digit around 2008?
Are those supposed to be user- facing though?
It's similar. London's charge is £15 = $19, although only from 7-18h.
I suspect smaller tanks get relatively larger reserves, I had an old MR2 with a 40L tank and its fuel light came on after 30L too.
Your minimum purchase is 5

Your discord is full of people complaining that the service is down, that they haven't received the proxies or that you aren't responding to support tickets.
I've been using Jellyfin on Android TV and it works just as well as Plex did!
Yes, but what makes it so weird is it's one pie.

Like, imagine you made up "hacker dollars", which you can make more of whenever you want. They're sticky notes with a number written on them.

Then you lent "hacker dollars" to yourself, at a 4% interest. So borrower you creates new "hacker dollars" to pay the lender you interest.

If you wanted, you could just say that you forgive the loan you made to yourself, and pay the "hacker dollars" directly.

If anything, it seems like a complex accounting system more than anything related to credit card debt or mortgages.
I got solar + a battery on my house after all the power shenanigans during the 2021 winter storm. I’m off the grid completely pretty much the entire peak period atm (~11am to 7pm)

Makes me feel a little less guilty having the AC running all day ;P
I assume the reason you found out the hard way is that you in fact intuitively expected it to work that way.
I wouldn't want a 28.5 gallon tank of fuel between my legs
> We have tests for the base32 encoding which is the most complicated part of the implementation

I didn’t look into it much but it seems like a great encoding even outside of this project. Predictable length, reasonable density, “double clickable” etc. I’ve been annoyed with both hex and base64 for a while so it’s pretty cool just by itself.

> Re: prefix, is the concern that I haven't defined the allowed character set as part of the spec?

Yeah, the worry is almost entirely “subtle deviations across stacks”, which is usually due to ambiguous specs. It’s so annoying when there’s minor differences, compatibility options etc (like base64 which has another “URL-friendly” encoding - ugh).
Most UFO movies take place in the US, ergo most UFOs must be visiting the US. (/s)
> Can someone tell me if this is substantially wrong?

Yes it is wrong in its almost entirety. I don't even know where to start. The fundamental assumption that "Banks don't have your money" is already wrong on the surface level, as all banks have to prove to the Government (FDIC in particular) that their assets are greater than their liabilities.

That is: if a bank owes $5 Billion to its customers, it needs to prove to the FDIC that it has at least $5 Billion hanging around somewhere.

Does the $5 Billion have to be cash? No. It can be a bond, it could be a mortgage, etc. etc. The risk-on/risk-off of lending that asset to others to make further profits is the entire damn point of a bank.

But banks cannot print money, except for the Fed and Treasury in collaboration with each other.
I'm sure there's a very nice UX convention for this waiting to be discovered through some creative prototyping and user testing.

Spitballing bad ideas somewhere in the ball park of what could be prototyped:
- Editing locked by default and locked whenever a clear non editing action occurs. Editing unlocked by right swipe, double click, enter key or something similar. Editing unlocked by looking at the text cursor.
If (big if) authorities agree.
I too fail to see a problem. There is a certain degree of trickiness in all walks of life. Sometimes there is a decent hack that simplifies things and sometimes there is a notion that is just as complex to deploy as the current state of the art and hence isn't worth pursuing.

Pi has a definition for a good reason. Sometimes a discipline has to put up with perceived oddities until the real, deep problem is surfaced, grappled with and kicked in the nuts until it gives up and allows a paper or two to emerge without ridicule. With luck it might really show some ankle and a Nobel heaves into view 8)

This isn't it for (n)Pi n Phy Sci.
Seems a very small if to me. Do you have any more context about being something the authorities would not like?
> This luxury is not available for most of the countries.

And it's increasingly likely that it won't be available to the US for much longer.

The fact that the US weaponized their currency during the Ukraine / Russia war has not gone unnoticed by most non-western economies.

The first couple of chinks in the US armor are:

- BRICS countries setting up an alternative payment system to SWIFT

- China offering to buy oil directly in yuan and guaranteeing that any excessive yuan balance would be settle in actual gold - a deal that has been accepted by Saudi Arabia.

- China negotiating with ASEAN countries to trade goods directly for yuan, with the same excessive balance guaranteed to be paid in gold.

- Many countries are starting to diversify they foreign exchange reserve away from the USD, incorporating Yuans, Euros, and - yes - rubles (which can be used to purchase all kinds of useful raw materials from Russia, the largest landmass country on earth)
Nice. I didn't realize that some companies don't pay out PTO.
So then is the public debt in a large part just a complex accounting system the government uses to manage its business? At least in the case of the US where most of it is held by the US? Genuinely curious, every time I think about this it feels like turtles all the way down.
> MMT is simply a way to get rid of progressive income tax and wealth taxes (property).

No, its not. MMT proponents tend to support progressive income tax and wealth taxes more than currently exists. The MMT observation that the only real constraint on fiscal policy is the monetary impacts, not fiscal balance, also means that fiscal policy tools are appropriate responses to the traditional triggers for monetary action. Need to suck money out of the economy to kill inflation: instead of raising interest rates, add supplemental high-end income taxes (without added spending.) Need to pump money into the economy because of sluggish activity? Adopt immediate low-end benefits (without additional taxes).

> But if you think you can just magically fund the government on unicorns because the market is dumb

That’s not what MMT believes.

MMT believes that the response of the market (monetary effects) are the only constraint on government tax and spending balance, that the idea of a fixed purse (the “fisc” in “fiscal”) that must be filled by taxes or borrowing is only true with commodity, not fiat, money, and that cosplaying commodity money when you are working with fiat just results in an inaccurate view of the policy landscape.
That is something, but it's a shame they didn't extend it to there v1 devices.
If you're an indie dev working during your free time, then trying to produce a game with tools you don't find interesting will just result in you making a bad game, or never finishing it.

You'll learn a lot from writing things from scratch, and likely come out of that a much better programmer. This experience can lead you to making a more interesting game.

The difficulty of writing a custom engine is also overblown, you don't need to (or should) implement a general purpose engine. Just implement exactly what you need for your game.

Anyways there are plenty of recent examples of very successful indie games using custom engines, often from a single dev or small team. Sure you may be able to get your game finished faster with Unity, but there are thousands of garbage Unity games on Steam, you can always add one more to the pile.