skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so much an error, to be frank, and more of a deliberate manipulation.

Everybody and their dog for quite some time "knew" that inflation is bad, because you get less for the same money when prices rise.

But, around the world, it's usually some government entity publishing inflation numbers... So it isn't a big surprise that the governments came up with ways to keep the inflation numbers as low as possible, at least on paper if they failed to keep the number low in the real world. One of the many ways to artificially "shrink" inflation numbers is Hedonic Quality Adjustment.

A government does that to avoid disgruntled citizens asking questions about why the inflation is so high, but you also does that to avoid disgruntled companies asking questions about why the inflation is so high and thus why their workforce keeps demanding wage raises to offset that high inflation. And then there are those rating agencies judging the risk of state bonds and consols also in part on the inflation numbers.

Another potential way to massage inflation numbers is the "inflation basket"[1]: E.g. the UK between the 2017 and 2018 basket the gov't slightly decreased the weight of all goods in that basket (such as "Food" and "Health") except for "Alcohol & tobacco" (steady at 3.3% weight) and "Housing & household services" (27.6% to 30.0% weight). Now I'm perfectly sure there is a real fine explanation why this happened other than to optimize for low inflation numbers on paper, just like I'm perfectly sure there is a real fine explanation why Hedonic Quality Adjustment just makes sense and it's absolutely necessary to use it in your calculations!!
Other countries do the same or similar things.

Governments got really good at mucking with numbers. E.g. in Germany they started massaging unemployment numbers by essentially redefining what "unemployment" means[2]: It used to refer to people seeking jobs but now it's those job seekers minus all those people who are enrolled in government "employment" programs (where e.g. they teach you how to write a good CV), working in shit jobs that don't pay a living wage (incl "1€ Jobs") and therefore still rely on the welfare state, etc. The most drastic "adjustment" they came up with in regards to unemployment numbers in Germany is that they simply do not count anymore unemployed job seekers older than 58 years as "unemployed" (retirement age by law is between 65 and 67 years old, depending on when you were born).
Other countries do the same or similar things.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti... and https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti...

[2] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/hg-arbeitslosenzahlen-1...
One thing to keep in mind is licensing. PyQt is GPL and commercial licensed. PySide is LGPL.
Why stop there? It was also the beginning of the new millenia.
I'm owed $8k by a startup – advice to get paid?
About 6 months ago a company (based out of Germany, with an office in SF) I was consulting for abruptly changed path and was in talks to get bought - along the way they definitely ran out of money. They deferred all invoices with countersigned contracts - I think with the intention that the deal would close by April and they'd have money. Now it is May and they have gone radio silent. Do I have any effective recourse to get paid the $8k they owe me or am I really just having to rely on them to pay the invoice?
If you have arrays why don't you implement a turing machine and compiler to turing machine so that you can have more variables without shelling out? Or some other model of computation.
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for comparison, write speed to RAM on DDR4-3200 is somewhere between 50000 to 60000MB/second on a fairly normal skylake workstation platform.
echo hello world >> file_in_notepad.txt

Although I'll admit that notepad's not as graceful about multiple programs editing files.
Yes, but didn't the computer manufacturing industry use up lots of investment to get there?
Don't worry, this exact thing happens on Android as well
Disney had TsumTsum in Japan. It was a HUGE hit here up there with Candy Crush Saga level of popularity.
What keeps 2 parties going? Money. If an independent or third party candidate had as much “fundraising” power as a major party candidate you’d see a lot more diversity.
My dog's collar. My car. My camping backpack.
I always liked this trick. Someone else made a version of JSFiddle using this and a few other bits as a code golf exercise that could be made into a bookmarklet, but I lost it.

Anyone know what I am talking about?
What you're left with is social inefficiencies instead of material or process inefficiencies. It's like trying to fix bad management at a company through engineering fixes: it just doesn't work. You have to solve the human problem. Also, the world is limited: you can't balloon out resource usage indefinitely to appease bad societal patterns. Eventually external factors will intervene such as resource exhaustion, ecosystem collapse, climate change, etc.
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I wouldn’t work in AAA games without a 30k raise.
I don't know but when I was reading your comment I just kept thinking that the weekly 1:1 that you're advocating is being done for your reports is really just being done for yourself.

I'm with the OP that 1:1 every 2 weeks is better.
Cambridge Analytica dismantled? Nope: It just changed its name to Emerdata
"So just take a bunch of probiotics with your steak n shake, and call it good?"

Are you taking the piss?

"And, you meant to say salad that hasn't ever been washed in chlorinated water is good for you."

You're the one putting words into my mouth. I never said that because I don't believe that. Salad that's fresh from a traditional farm using healthy soil, practices and cultivar is good for you.

If you're satisfied with nutritionally bankrupt, sterile food, fine. Good for you.
I agree. I think people miss your point that within their respective contexts Newton and Einstein were rejecting a form of an acausal theory. However, there is a significant philosophic difference in Newton's era vs Einstein's. Newton was honest in his writing essentially admitting defeat in solving how gravity could work instantaneously across space but nevertheless the math works. In contrast, today the physicists (and philosophers) claim not only does the math work but it proves that reality is fundamentally acausal, or probabilistic, etc. which are various forms of denying identity.

In my view, the crude circularity at the root of physics (which leads to multiple conundrums) is the assumption that the "speed" of light can be measured when measurement presupposes light (or its E/M equivalents).[1] Light is special in this regards.

[1] https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3104
On reflection, it’s pretty bizarre phrasing (no idea why I used it) but I’m glad it was enjoyable :)
It would take some effort - you'd need to transpile the original AS3 source -> Haxe and then recompile that.
It's a pity GNU doesn't use Common Lisp instead of Scheme — it has rich types, data structures & more. It's a language built for programming large systems, rather than teaching small examples.
But the article about "factories buckling from a demand surge" also mentions "hiring slowed". The wage inflation chart trended down over the entire period you link, as did labour force participation chart.

The only positive for employment growth in your sources is a government crackdown enforcing sane work hours in the trucking industry, which seems to have caused the transport industry some trouble. Your links are not at all inconsistent with what the grandparent post is saying.
That's highly unlikely.

First, I have significant trouble believing that the entire European Union would collude to attack international companies in favour of local companies. For a perfect example of this, do some research into the International Procurement Instrument. The IPI is an example of when the EU as a whole has bent over backwards to make sure that non-EU companies have fair access to EU public contracts, even if the playing fields are not level and EU companies don't have equivalent access to the non-EU markets. I assume that you're North American (I am too), so reading about the IPI will seem like comedy hour at Bizarro world, particularly when you see how difficult protectionism is in the EU.

Second, it's worth noting that your scenario as described gets uncomfortably close to a definition of passive corruption. Again, I have significant trouble believing that you could get so many people to agree to do something so potentially explosive.

And third, the EU currently has a very strong tool in its arsenal to enhance data security. The GDPR is very strong because it's ambiguous and people like you are scared of it. The moment that GDPR starts to face legal challenges, that ambiguity will get chipped away.
Is PCIe latency that much worse than main memory? I honestly don’t know; I was under the impression that both had latency in the 10s of nanoseconds.
The problem is when I don’t get to sell into the new wealthy neighborhood without partnering with the Chinese government, which is the case today.
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PCIe latency is probably the bigger issue.
While I agree with your sentiment I also acknowledge that implementing something properly and having enterprise customers is often unrelated.
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I think this is great. I did something similar, with a very simple IdeaStore webapp, where I can just throw an idea into words, have it get added to my ideabank, and I can reference it later. But the whole point is to not break my workflow from other projects.

Anyway, I know you said you don't like lots of different things, but you might actually find that you like BoostNote. I'd say give it a try, I think it's great.
This is not true.

https://www.kff.org/report-section/understanding-medicaid-ho...
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"According to our communication with the International Computer Science Institute's certificate notary, which observes on the order of 50 million TLS connections daily, 16.5% of TLS connections in June 2014 lacked SNI, which is enough to make it difficult for a censor to block SNI-less TLS outright."

Fifield et al. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2015(2):1-19 at 2.
I don’t buy it. You can lie with statistics and You can also lie with data. The fact that many many jobs moved to China coupled with the growth of their own manufacturing industry and it’s clear that globalization is an issue. The argument is that consumers pay cheaper prices but it doesn’t work that way with technology. Consumers have the money they are willing to spend and they’ll get the best item then can with that. Which is more important, my 65” HDTV or a 55” 1080p that comes with jobs and economic balance.
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Then there's a cycle of length > 50 and everyone loses.
Elected officials have a fiduciary duty to citizens of the US, not citizens of other countries. Think China cares about US citizens beyond what it can give China? No.
If you Google '204 EDI specification' you should find a lot of random specs in PDF out there for various companies. 214 will show you some of the status updates too. Stuff like this: http://www.shipfsp.com/media/pdf/it/EDI_214_X12_V4010.pdf

I've found this EDI notepad useful for parsing flat files: https://www.liaison.com/products/integrate/edi-notepad/

And this npm library actually parses EDIs pretty well too: https://www.npmjs.com/package/x12
Overtime I have gone back and forth on this. When I was much younger I liked to write my own versions of libraries and such to have more control.

I got older and realized I now had to maintain 8 different projects, including my in house versions of things. Giving up control of a project to another person made me realize I had to eventually trust someone else to implement things correctly.

Now a days I am back on implementing my own solutions since I am more worried about efficiency. It would be nice if the compiler could inline the library implementation WELL(it usually sucks at this with static linking even with -ffunction-sections, etc.). I think there is a need for a language level facility for controlling what aspects of a third party library wind up in your final binary. Or more modular type libraries.

I just wish design decisions made by others weren't so baked in, like datatypes used or tag bits and what not.
You should go tell walmart that their business model isn't working.
It’s theft if you use that information to create products from that data for which you didn’t have to pay R&D for. This is what IP theft is. Don’t muddy the waters with a technical description of the crime.
I disagree that automation was the main opposition narrative about why manufacturing jobs were declining. The dominant line among folks I knew was that Americans didn't want to put up with the lifestyle offered by, say, Foxconn China (which produced a suicides alongside iPhones). That's consistent with "losing jobs to foreign competition", but hardly and argument for moving that capacity back to the States.

Note: I personally think there is amazing innovation around production happening elsewhere in the world, besides low wages. That's something I would like to see happening more in the USA. But I doubt it is as significant as cheap labor in moving manufacturing abroad.
Always a puzzle - if they were profitable (as they say), why did they need capital on these terms?
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NVMe devices using battery-backed DRAM or MRAM offer about 5µs access time, and current Optane SSDs are under 10µs. (NAND flash based SSDs with RAM-based write caches also have write latency below 10µs.)
No. The hack that is better at advertising himself will get the higher paid consulting gigs.
> so you aren't one of those people who feel uncomfortable bringing things up to their boss. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

Not at all. I'm happy to complain all day long, but what good does it do week after week? 1:1s are not a make everyone happy and not an opportunity to retread the same old stories. We work in the same place, we see the same things. We don't work together that closely, you're too disconnected to understand and taking up time from my actual responsibilities. Weekly 1:1s aren't just a sign, but proof of bad management in any company.
Political tech star repeatedly assaults women & his bosses make excuses for him
An increase in the speed of computer was counted as an increase in manufacturing output.

Once you remove all of that the data looks radically different.
Seriously? It's hard enough to find talented people. Why do you expect them to research and understand your company along with 100 others they are applying to?

Smart people will grasp your product once they get going; I'm more interested in their intelligence, skills, and experience. If your product is sufficiently complicated that a solid engineer might not understand it's market appeal three weeks in good luck selling it.

Sounds to me like you like it when people who interview flatter you with their understanding of your amazing invention.
Thanks for this, the last time I read a straightforward language tutorial in this spirt was "A Gentle introduction to Haskell" around 2004-2005.
As noted in the article, the original analysis backed that up as a "good" option for the US and everyone else.

With the knowledge that the original analysis is wrong, I wonder if we'll see actual policy changes more broadly than Trump's campaign rhetoric?
I too was surprised to see Optane compared with Samsung EVO. It is not the correct comparison to make.
I can second this recommendation, if you are into backyard astronomy.
This line stood out for me ... This in turn is caused by not understanding the scope of what we're doing. Very often we just dig in, thinking it'll be a small change.

Many times I start where I think it will be a simple change but it turns out to involve much more than I realized.
Up to this point yes . Sorry I think I read your post too fast . Right now at this time you are right . I think I may be changing my concept of what will eventually happen. I thought it was a sure thing but now it’s something completely different .
> The presentation from Tom Stuart goes into much more detail.

What presentation are you talking about? I'd be interested in reading it.
I think most Americans (including me) would still put Article 83 in the "fuzzy standards of reasonableness" category. I agree that it probably works in practice, but I wouldn't see it as much of a constraint. Like, how closely would you expect the rulings of two independent judges each assessing a fine according to these guidelines to match? I wouldn't bet with even odds that they'd be closer than within a factor of ten. (Fines in typical situations would probably agree better, if there's precedent to follow; but that's the precedent working, not the statute, and in a situation like your LinkedIn breach there is likely no close precedent.) That level of unpredictability doesn't seem like law to me.

Also: Doesn't the extraterritoriality bother you? There are roughly 200 countries in the world. Do you really want to argue that each of them can impose a burden on a website operated outside its borders, just because its people might happen to visit it? That seems like an incredibly dangerous precedent to me. Can the UK enforce a super-injunction against all websites available to its nationals? What's the difference between the GDPR and that super-injunction? It can't just be that "one is good and the other bad"--what law determines that?
How can you harvest data from your own datacenter?
Restaurant accused of feeding criminals?
Except that a VPN endpoint is a public facing service, which might get exploited with a 0-day. And that "internal services" more often than not are reachable via HTML email or just web browsers on the inside, which might be used to exploit your "internal service" with a 0-day.
Cultural diffusion has increased immensely over the past few centuries, especially in the 20th century, as communication and transportation technologies advanced at incredible rates. The barriers that allowed so many different cultures to develop independently have been greatly reduced.

Entropically speaking, strong mixing is expected with the barriers gone. It's very interesting. I wonder how human culture will continue to evolve over the coming century.
Fluff.

It's very hard to find good people. If you're good at what you do you'll easily find an appealing position once you sort out culture. Stay away from the megalomaniacs deluded enough to think you have time (or reason) to do in depth research on their company along with the many others you are applying to.

This isn't an internship, you are already valuable.
I've been involved in 2 very different situations as a programmer.

When I'm working on some random problem that I don't care about it's going to be difficult to recover my original line of thought if I was "in the zone" at the time.

If it's a problem I care about and am involved in intimately it's not difficult to recover from interruptions.
For JS look at codeacademy or w3schools(they got a lot better).
> If I want to use Facebook to some extent but stop them from selling all my data to everyone

This is an unrealistic expectation. You signed a legal contract when you signed up for an account stating that you're a-okay with them using your data.
“We don't recognize these allegations as an accurate portrayal of activities in our buildings."

Did Amazon PR really “Fake News!” this report?
We started out using XRS. We run almost 100% independent contractors. Started out putting our own tablets in all the trucks. We discovered drivers can run up enormous data bills when they figure out how to circumvent the MDM... It apparently was also a pain to physically install XRS (I don't know the details of that). We also have nearly 50% turnover per year. The whole situation was really untenable.

We've since switched to GeoTab and a BYOD model. The GeoTab devices are a lot cheaper, so a contractor walking away with one isn't that big of an issue. Rollout was much smoother this time.
One nice thing is you can use this to find primes in arithmetic progression, which can be useful[1].

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1967477
The info described in this report is produced based on that kind of data collection (government statistics, etc). The problem is, nobody noticed a mistake in the analysis.

We should distinguish between our suspicions (hey, this looks weird) and investigation. Gut instinct and anecdotal reports are a good source of suspicion, but suspicion without investigation mostly just generates lots of online blather.

So, it's great that some economists were not only suspicious, but did something about it. Too bad it didn't happen sooner!

But maybe there are more mistakes?
I’m personally really disappointed neither of these individuals has a moat full of candy, or any edible castles. Either could plow $1M into a chocolate palace and make it back in interest within the month (or less). Where is the imagination?
I like the innovation of water with clay to form a marketable product LNC.
Or a system with faster RAM or faster swap device :-D
Let me add that low-salary that rises is still low.

My Japanese teacher 20 years ago bragged that Japanese CEOs don't make obscenely more money than their employees. I countered that western CEOs may make more but they also pay their employees far far more and generally don't making their employees work 10am to 11pm 5+ days a week.

I'm my particular field I halved my salary to come to Japan and tripled it going back to the USA. Even funnier I was working for a Japanese company in the USA. I worked for 2 large Japanese companies (one with 4000+ people. The other with 300,000+ people). Both had limits of ~$60k a year set by the HR department no matter how much experience. That's less than interns make at Google USA. A typical engineer out of school makes around $20k a year at a Japanese company.

Here's some data on average yearly salaries by job type in Japan

https://doda.jp/guide/heikin/gyousyu/

Here's a page from Sony's job info showing starting salary at $2.5k a month or $30k a year

https://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/Jobs/careers/info/detail.htm...

Random ad for C programmer for device drivers at Panasonic. $52k a year.

https://persol-hrpartners.co.jp/tech/SB070200/orderSearch?or...

In fact even more evidence, if you go to Indeed.jp (a job listing site) the settings for salary top out at $60k a year.

Add to that age discrimination (expected age is often in the job listing)
> Theorists have dozens of alternative gravity theories that could potentially explain dark matter and dark energy, Freire said. Some of these theories can’t make testable predictions, Archibald said, and many “have a parameter, a ‘knob’ you can turn to make them pass any test you like,” she said. But at some point, said Nicolas Yunes, a physicist at Montana State University, “this gets silly and Occam’s razor wins.”

That's very kind. Some would say that theories that can't make testable predictions, or are highly tunable, just aren't science.
Due to its crash tolerant nature the Erlang runtime system always seemed a little odd. I like this introduction though. I don't write much Erlang, but I have to run a lot of it.
Have you been able to get access to / test the server version of Optane? Looks like Facebook and Stanford did some research with it as a DRAM replacement in MyRocks DB:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3190524