jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The Great Depression was a deflationary spiral.

No, it wasn't.

> Bank failures...

Are a big topic, actually, but this one had nothing to do with a deflationary spiral. Hint: A one time deflationary event is not the same as deflationary spiral. Previous deflationary event of similar magnitude happened 1920-1921. The "Forgotten Depression", so to speak.

Of course the FR (fractional reserve) banks are inherently instable and that's a feature of the system. If you want the ability to inflate the money supply at bankers' will and whim, don't act surprised when it (the money supply) collapses to more a sustainable level.

> .. caused people to hoard currency.

Source? Genuinely curious.

> This hoarding led to decreased investment and economic activity.

There was decreased investment and economic activity. But because of hoarding? It's too self-serving argument as such. There were at least 3 other major causes as well, and I can name them.

> the decrease in the money supply greatly increased the value of debts

Sure. So it means that the creditors are wealthier and can afford themselves to spend and invest more. Not what I'd call an economic horror.

Anyway, the most vivid evocation of horrors of a deflationary event is not a example of a deflationary spiral, and that's exactly what I was asking for.

Sure, if for whatever reasons the amount of money in an economy decreases then the prices had to adjust and it can be painful but.. what are options? But what this has to do with a deflationary spiral?
I guess call me crazy, but I really enjoy chores. They aren't always pleasent, but they are a diversion. I can listen to NPR podcasts while grocery shopping. I catch up on the "Stuff you should know" podcast while cleaning and vacuuming my apartment. And I enjoy a walk around the area in the evenings when the weather is nice out. The diversions are where I can really think. I often have too many distractions at the computer, and can't focus on the really hard problems I am working on. I've found when I am doing something menial like chores, that is when I can really think and solve hard problems, especially when I am not trying to at all.

I would never outsource my chores. I just enjoy them too much.
I also include set -o pipefail (exit if ANY command in a pipeline fails). Had to get bitten and waste an hour before that became a habit.

set -e and set -o pipefail really should have been the default, rather than an opt-in.
We are talking timestamping here.

If any money was ever sent to the address generated by the hash of the doc, even if the current balance at that address is zero, proves that that document existed at the time money was sent.
Why care about ownership?
Awesome. I can almost visualize playing "Dragon Age" with my daughter while reading your comment.

Considers +2 "XML Mace", but requires level 15 Java Brute Force skills to wield. Reconsidering player "cast", selects +3 "RegEx Dagger", which better matches level 18 Perl Dexterity. Upon leveling up, considers how many XP to spend on "management persuasion" craft skills. :<>
> Unless you are trying to say that the environment is already running when the merge to master pipeline succeeds.

I read this as implying that there would be a "warm pool" of environments ready to go at any given time. This is an approach I've used in the past when environment construction was expensive (e.g. Windows servers), but there are certainly tradeoffs.
How can you tell if they own one or not and, if so, what their motives are?

Genuinely curious here how you were not only able to verify Samsung refrigerator ownership status for 100K people on Facebook but also that 99% of them were slandering Samsung's good name purely for racist/nationalist reasons.
You have no idea how much that means to me. Really. I'm literally tearing up. :')
Thank you deeply and kindly for the effort in your response. Appreciate it!
Krita also targets X11 and I find it to be a great tool for drawing. I use it in Windows as well.
Absolutely. At Basho, the company learned over time that developers needed help using a distributed key/value store correctly, and started building CRDTs into the server.
Yes, type1 is actually better than type2. Type2 is hyper-focus and is just blindly copying and pasting the incr portion as multi. Type1 actually is curious about the code base and wants to explore it a bit, to see how the locking is working and validate its correctness, to explore different approaches to see if incr can be used to implement multi. Type1 will end up learning a lot more about the codebase and do well in the long term.
Mr. Robot hands down
No, that's the problem, it has immense mass with no surface.

increasing surface area overcomes gravity of the overall mass

Basically you'd have to make it less dense to make it visible.

Maybe changing it from a sphere into a flat surface somehow like the difference between a golf ball and a sheet of paper.

The density of a pinhead area on a golf ball is higher than a pinhead of surface area on a sheet of paper, even if they theoretically were made to have the same mass overall.
Failed as in the hard drive can't be booted and can't be plugged in via USB drive.
When a loader itself takes about 80-90% of cpu time, i kill it and don't visit the page again.
You're right. I do that for all my most of my other projects, it's a long story why it ended up like this.

Thanks for the live CD tip, but the drive doesn't even show up when I plug it in via USB, so it's a bit worse than that.
> I'm not sure why monetarily-driven asset inflation would be an issue at all,

Its been one of the main causes in inequality and unaffordable house prices so is very important. It also makes the economy vulnerable to big drops in prices which could/will happen.
I think that fundamental rights not only specify what is legal, but also provide some default societal position on what is acceptable. Clearly, there are plenty of actions that are legal but are not socially acceptable, but it is on those who claim that the action is unacceptable to provide an argument against the default position. In this specific case, to argue why Scott Alexander 'deserves anonymity'.
Clickbait. All these normative comments sound similar. They don't call it work for nothing. Stellar scientists make breakthroughs regardless of obstacles. Just because you get a piled high and deep doesn't mean you are capable of breakthroughs. Not everyone is stellar.
The reason hard tab people dislike code editors which convert to spaces is that pressing backspaces during editing removes one space, not all auto-inserted spaces. This ends up being very frustrating (since you need to press backspace 4 times). Most “used” languages allow both. Accept tab as another white space character and life goes on. Compile errors for hard tabs is a stubborn decision.
Yes, it's a virus lab and existed for years. The accusation that Covid-19 came from there has no evidence besides "china bad" and "I've seen a lot of movies".

I guess I should have specifically said covid-19 rather than "the virus", but I thought that would be clear from context.
another vector here is the WSL
Curious to know more about your career journey, have you written about it somewhere before?

Currently discerning career path and am sure to face a number of the decisions you’ve navigated successfully
Ada, Erlang, maybe something like D. I'd probably find time to learn about all that category theory / lambda calculus stuff and use some more pure functional stuff.
Sulfites have been in use since the dawn of recorded history, so there are probably few significant secrets to discover there.

I'm hopeful we'll get somewhere with nitrites. The whole celery salt dodge feels like the first step of a slow process to find something better, or perhaps figure out how to counter the nitrosamines.
I've been absolutely bingeing on his blog since discovering the podcast[1] during the 2020 Christmas break. The measured pace seems to make it much easier for me to absorb it without cognitive overload, at least the less extremely technical pieces. The podcasters make a great job of summarizing visuals, and mentioning ahead of time if a post is particularly visual.

Scott is one of those rare bloggers who tries their damnedest to present a rational rather than emotional case, and the vast majority of the content is a breath of fresh air:

- He's willing to change his mind when presented with sufficiently powerful evidence, rather than always doubling down.

- He absolutely fries people faking scientific legitimacy, but only in particularly egregious cases.

- He uses cautious language when presenting interesting but inconclusive data, rather than trying to blow things up as much as possible.

[1] https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/
Communism does an even worse job of allocating resources.
> I did one interview at a random place I didn't care about just to get rid of jitters,

What a shitty thing to do.
I can totally relate. The amount of times I've spent scouring the docs for the "machine name" to put into TerraForm, or vice versa, to do through the UI...
I am citing an old paper from EASA. Again, how the true financials are is impossible to tell without SpaceX finances. Which we don't have. Except for really old leaks. And even with these numbers, we would have to account for Starlink launches.
Nothing keeps you from doing that, but Coinbase can easily detect that after the fact, and then ban you from using their service.
Nope. Jensen & Wirth, if I recall correctly. The only upgrade we had was separate compilation.
What makes you think I'm emotional? The post looks very sober and well thought out to me. It's a rational men's humble confessions that reason has it's limits and he accepts them stoic.
Well, that makes it an even stranger question. Why ask one thing if what you want to know is something else?
Whats the tactic?
So, uhh, where's the paper? The link in the readme isn't active.
Amara's law is almost a cognitive bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara#Amara's_law
I recently got into HAM radio a little bit. I like to believe that radio (aside from wifi and cell service) is still useful, but the use cases are getting pretty thin.

There are lots of ways to deliver news. I get the feeling that a lot of the appeal of using pirate radio is because it's illegal.

I know there are a few benefits, like tuning a car radio to the right frequency, and not requiring someone to know how to set up a streaming audio service. But it seems to be a declining use case.
This is not a ridiculous question. If you are just willing to suffer without exploring illegal alternatives, so be it. But it is not ridiculous to take a small risk to explore a compound that can alleviate suffering.
Normal as in there is very little difference between the lives of most people in first world nations. They go to a school for a decade and don't have to worry about sleeping out in the rain or going hungry. That is enough for kids to bloom. If you deny them any of those then there are problems, but that is not an issue even for poor people in the west.
Yeah, pull ups and dips are very 'heavy' bodyweight exercises and very slow to improve at first. For me it was effective to do easier progressions in order to work up to them.

With pull ups, for example, you won't see much improvement from just doing sets of one or two since it's not enough volume, so it's better to do something easier like negatives (where you just do the lowering down part slowly) or just hangs if negatives are too hard. You can also target some of the supporting muscles that may be "blockers" with dumbbells--for me it was the brachialis and brachioradialis especially (the forearm muscles on both sides of the elbow), and also grip strength. I started out with 2 lousy form pull ups, and it took me over 2 months to get up to 5 fairly clean ones this way, but in just the last couple weeks I've gone from 5 to 8, so it seems like progress accelerates once you pass that threshold, at least in my case.

For dips, I found that first focusing on normal push ups and then on diamond push ups, which heavily target the triceps, was very effective.
Reminds me of the story Manna.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Northeast U.S. outside of Philadelphia. We have lots of one-lane bridges in this area. They say "Yield to oncoming traffic." One could interpret that to mean - if cars in front of you are going, you can go, too, since the others will yield! But instead everyone interprets it as "wait for the next person to come across, then go."
You could think of this as a simple "he said she said", but what possible benefit does the whistleblower stand to gain from making this story up? Whereas the governor has a very obvious incentive to deny the whole thing happened.
The more I use Clojure at work, the more I tolerate the elisp side of things. I've written a couple little major modes (though not to any great standard of quality) and elisp is indeed pretty crap, but usually adequate. I think the ideal Emacs lisp successor would be a Clojure derivative, with the buffer represented as a persistent trie datastructure like other things are in Clojure. Maybe the buffers could be disjointed from the presentation a bit, and we could have strictly AST-driven major modes, rather than the (admittedly quite usable) hack that is paredit.
That's a good point. So it's not really static site generators vs HTML, it's code based static site generators vs WYSIWYG based static site generators.
I use mostly Windows, and I use Virtualbox, Shotcut, Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity, Geogebra, OBS, and perhaps a few more. (And LaTeX that has a weird license, but is almost "free".) (And Linux, Geany, Git Cola, in the virtual box.)

[In case you are wondering, I didn't send PR for them.]

There is a common part for contributing to any of them, that is cloning the repository and uploading the changes to Github, so any project is good for starting.

On the other hand, each project has it's weird quirks, like tab vs spaces, formatting rules, merges vs rebase, if the github repo is the main repo of a mirror, if the maintainer is a moron, ... so YMMV.
There is a difference between actual quality of mass produced items and "obtaining the sign". Either decision was made behind closed doors according to Party interests or limited series (tens of units if not less) were manufactured to get positive assessment.

Everything made in USSR was shit, unless manufactured on recently imported equipment.
I feel like living in another world when I am reading these. In what world were UI 10 years old better or good? Not that current are super great, but the past ones were neither looking better nor easier to figure out.
I still see a significant discount on AMD chips for the same level of performance. An i9 11900k will cost me about $620 for the same performance of obtained from a $450 Ryzen 7 5800x.
I really want a general purpose optimizing query tool that makes it very easy to add backends to the point where I can do it in the fly.

For example I want to ask questions like for the accounts listed in this file what ones committed the most lines of code across these three repos where that might involve cloning git repositories and scraping websites to merge accounts and ideally I would be able to specify some sort of cost model so for example it just looks up accounts as needed but would calculate all commit authors at once.

These data sources could be HTTP and JSON or regex extraction or shell scripts, and ideally I would be able to reuse the providers that I acrue over time.

This project looks nice but seems aimed at SaaS providers whereas I would like to also hook up things on my filesystem, custom services, and whatever other data sources I want.
Don’t forget that any time you send or receive payments in this cryptocurrency, you would have to track either the basis (when receiving) or capital gain/loss (when sending) assuming this ever comes to the US. It’s a mess.
I don't really get spam, but the ssh brute forcing bots all seemed to just stop a few days back. I've never seen that before.

[Edit] Scratch that, a few of them started back up today.
The problem is that in the early days of @Bitfinex'ed this was all a bit of a sideshow because there was genuinely large interest from retail and the outcome of crypto was far less certain.

However three years on, crypto still does not have a "killer app" and is 99.99% used for speculation. Bitcoin's narrative has had to morph from "digital currency" to "digital gold".

But in the depths of the March panic, Tether jumped the shark in order to backstop the entire crypto ecosystem, and they can never put that genie back in the bottle. Much like the Fed who cannot stop monetizing US deficits for fear of letting yields explode, the Tetheral Reserve must continue to print USDT in order to support prices. Exchanges cannot let this fail since the vast majority do not have access to the bonafide banking system and thus scrappy users must devise "fiat onramps".

There are many theories about why, the predominant one being that iFinex know they are screwed, and are making one last cash grab before presumably disappearing. This sounds fairly reasonable if the entire operation is indeed a sham, but it means there is effectively no upper bound to BTC prices because the denominator in 90% of the market (USDT) is effectively zero.

Tether has become too big to fail. Bitcoin now finds itself a high tech manifestation of the very thing that Satoshi sought to address.
The section "how does python compare to other solutions" is a bit lackluster, and heavily biased at the same time. It would be more useful if this section was written by proponents of each of the other "solutions".
> Well, I don't know where parent is located, but here in Brazil they are pretty much right. Everybody has WhatsApp... it's assumed that if you have a phone you have WhatsApp. A

Pretty much correct in some countries.

My family (not in Brazil, but also not in the same country as me) all have Whatsapp. So I have it to keep in contact with them. They have it because everyone there has it. It's circular, it's the "network effect" but it's true. I can't entirely switch unless they switch too, and they can't switch unless their friends and co-workers switch. etc.
That's one reason - there are also a few more minor technical places in the spec where the depth of the call stack is observable in semantics such as I think the security manager.

But I don't think it's unusual for a language to expose call stacks? Ruby, Python, C#, etc all do it.
Mostly it's a sign that companies nowadays - not apple specifically, but apple included - are too large, breaking the market in all kinds of bad ways. There should be much simpler and harder caps on business size (and/or other large-size discouragements such as tax rates on revenue or some other hard-to-fake metric for size). The extremely wimpy trust-busting rules currently assume no harm until proven otherwise, which is much too high a bar, and much too slow, and much to reliant on the inefficient judicial system to be able to steer a market economy.
I wasn't meaning to justify Facebook's use of data to customize ads just stating why.

You hit the nail on the head when you said "it's more money if it's customized".

If ads are 'better', they are cheaper to purchasers, will be more profitable and will give Facebook an advantage. Facebook may be big but it is competing with Google and other ad providers. It is in their interest to use every tool possible so they don't become the newspapers of tomorrow.

It will take external pressure or laws to stop them doing this.

That infographic just made me delete facebook and messenger (which I rarely use anyway), unfortunately I use WhatsApp for communicating with family.
The area is colonial in age, but has thousands of college students and thousands of highly paid professional workers. This means both the apartment and the housing markets have huge demand, and people simply pay, because the alternative is to commute through terrible traffic and extra 60 min daily.
Can someone please explain to me how Tether is "injected" into Bitcoin? The entire argument seems to hinge on this but it is not (as far as I can see) explained.

Are people accepting Tether in trade for BTC under the assumption that Tether will always be exchanged 1:1 for USD when this is not actually the case?

EDIT: The answer seems to be yes Tether is 1-to-1 with "I O U $1" and enough people are accepting these IOUs in exchange for BTC that the market is moving because of this.

That last part ("the market is moving because of this") seems so unbelievably stupid to me that I don't actually believe it.
This could be a possibility. On #1 I know he will say no to. Actually, I believe all your steps would come out just as you laid them out there.
the best way to partner with a developer is to do just that - actually partner

That was my takeaway as well. The article gives good advice on how to pick the best person on elance, but I challenge the notion that you want to look for your critical partner on elance in the first place.

I guess it's a semantics discussion: I believe in finding co-founder (http://fairsoftware.net), others believe in outsourcing their development. Both approaches are valid, they both have tradeoffs.

Outsourcing is easier to get started: you pay cash, you get someone, anyone. With co-founders, the dating could take 3 months, which sounds very frustrating at first, except it pays off for life. [insert dating analogy here]
If you want to stay with PHP (which is not a bad choice, contrary to what you might hear from the hip crowd) you might want to try symfony. It's just one of many PHP MVC Frameworks, but I think its one of the better ones.
You're correct about (corp tax + cap gains or corp tax + dividends).

What I'm pointing out is that this theoretical future $100m in value is being taxed once through capital gains tax for the person that created the value, then a second time via corporation tax when that value manifests itself as a profit, then a third time when someone tries to take that profit as a dividend. And possibly fourth when estate tax is paid. That's a lot of tax.
Yes, critically speaking, the author seemed on track to implementing an extensible pattern matching system based on macros, before stopping to end with the point that it wasn't the obvious, idiomatic, built-in thing to do.

And in this system, patterns are expressions. So "everything is an expression" isn't exactly wrong in this case.

In Scala, you are given full control over both how a name "applies" (i.e. what Foo(...) does when called as a sort of constructor or factory method) and how it matches, in the form of an "unapply" static method that you implement. It seems like a "match" macro in a LISP could desugar a pattern into a program that matches that pattern, the same way the Scala compiler generates code that calls "unapply".
C or C++. Has been for a long time. Never got around to it. Maybe OpenFrameworks will make things more interesting.
Microsoft isn't going in the opposite direction that it should be going on. Instead of integrating more, it needs to make more software for Android and iOS. If it weren't tying everything into Windows all the time Office and other Microsoft software would be dominating App Store and Google Play, ensuring its success for the next generation.

Instead it's tying everything back into Windows and Windows phone. Those things should stand on their own feet. Microsoft can create great versions of its software for all platforms, but instead it handicaps itself to no great effect. Limiting Office to just its own platform hasn't really made much of an impact.
Ever tried cracking open a hard disk drive? Same thing. The reflection clarity is pretty shocking.
Here are a few projects that use Ethereum to do things that have nothing to do with acquiring chemicals or crypto asset speculation.

https://www.nucypher.com
https://filecoin.io
https://alice.si
https://www.augur.net
Exactly! Right now it's impossible to tell if more people agree with you, or the person you are replying to. Frustrating.