skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even when you control for method, men are more successful at suicide than women.

The ratio is just as lopsided with countries with strict gun control (e.g. Britain).

Alternative hypothesis: death is the goal for many men, while women often use suicide attempts as a cry for help.
In basic terms, inflation is the loss of purchasing power due to an increase of the monetary supply faster than economic growth. In plain English, this is where more currency is chasing the same number of goods and services.

This means your unit of currency buys less over time. What is 'wrong' with this is that inflation is a transfer of wealth—some people even go so far as calling it theft or a 'stealth tax.'

This is because the purchasing power that you had in your unit of currency isn't 'lost', it is actually transferred to the institutions creating the money. If you had $1 worth of pennies in your pocket, and inflation was 1%, it is like an invisible hand reaching into your pocket and stealing a penny. Do that a hundred times and you can 'create' $1, but by the time this is done, you will find that your $1 can only by 99 cents worth of goods and services now. In a fiat based, fractional reserve system that we have today in the West, the institutions that are reaching into your pocket (AKA creating money) are central banks and commercial banks.

For example, say the Fed (the central bank for the US) creates an initial $10m of reserve currency, this is then used by commercial banks to 'create' an additional $90m through loans from that $10m reserve. It is therefore commercial banks, not central banks, that predominantly create currency in society—and depending on growth and circulation (economists call this velocity) in the real economy, creates inflation. You see if the creation and circulation of money was perfectly in line with the growth of the economy than there would be no inflation. The real problem is that the growth in monetary supply has far outstripped the growth of Western economies. Indeed there is a compounding effect of inflation.

But yeah, I can understand that this material may seem unbelievable... I have included a URL to a YouTube video where a Bank of England (the central bank of the UK) representative actually says in no uncertain terms that commercial banks create most of the money in the economy.

The important passages are:

"...banks create additional broad money whenever they make a loan"

"Now, while this is nothing new, it's sometimes overlooked as the main way in which money is created and it runs contrary to the view sometimes put forward that banks can only lend out deposits that they already have."

"In fact, loans create deposits, not the other way around."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvRAqR2pAgw

I've tried my best to quickly find Fed resources but these facts seem to be obfuscated or not officially made available.

For further information see the following:

Werner, R.A. (2014). Can banks individually create money out of nothing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

McLeary, M., Radia, A., & Thomas, R. (2014). Money creation in the modern economy: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
That’s a really nice wig.
Not a story about my own ethics, but those of a start-up I worked for.

I quit a good job once to join a start-up and also foolishly didn't take time off in between the two jobs.

So Monday morning, bright-eyed, I flew to the company's main office for some meet & greets, getting my company laptop, etc.

Literally the first thing that happened to me upon arriving at the office was that I was marshaled into a conference room where the CEO, director of HR and director of Sales were all sitting. Lunch was on the table.

They proceeded to ask me what my religious views were, and mentioned how the three of them, along with various other staff all went to the same local house of worship, and that they all had kids of the same age who participating in a particular religious activity together.

I tried to rationalize it as just chatter, like someone talking about where their kids go to college or something. Not my cup of tea, but hey, maybe it's just 'getting to know you' sort of chatter.

Then the director of HR started listing off people I would meet later that day, what their religions were, times he had "had a good debate" with them about their chosen religion, while the other two just remained silent.

I quit that job about 3 months later. If I hadn't been a remote employee and would have been forced to work in close proximity to those people, I probably would have quit on the spot, regardless of not having a job lined up.

I remember in the meeting when it was happening, I was panicking inside and my mind was racing. I had done many interviews with them, asked every question under the sun, and had no idea this was going on. And I had just given up a reasonably good job because I was an expert on some of the software tools this particular start-up made and felt I could do a lot of good work there.

Really made my approach to job hunting change after that.
If Tiger/Leopard had real up to date web browsers, you could get what you needed from a PowerBook G4. I am typing this on a Tiger / PBG4 12" - but HN is one of the few sites that the old browser can load and work with perfectly... BTW the keys work great and are nearly silent and have good travel.
I read your blog post and some of the comments, and I don't see how you can justify this claim:

> As a result my site has had 100% uptime since its deployment years ago

Assuming your individual hosts did go down occasionally, how do you know how many of your visitors waited 2 or 3 minutes for the browser to try the alternative IP?
Depends on the kind of hotel. And after the market settles, hotel rates may not be as high.

A key aspect of hotel rates is that they fluctuate with demand. When you come into town for the big event, the rates may be 4 times higher than staying on a cold, boring night. A long-term stay will be much cheaper per-night than a nightly rate.
Since it wasn't mentioned in the article or in the comments, max 16GB of memory has been the main complaint among our engineers.

In the article, some of the gripes about macOS software is just filler. Safari runs very well on macOS and mac hardware. I know people who prefer the Mail client, Notes, and Reminders over alternatives. FaceTime is way better than Google Hangouts and Skype.
Looks good. Will invite friends to play
Wow... these two comics should really come on the same page. Great job pairing them!
They're awkward, and they often don't do what you expected or hoped.

I think millennials especially are used to getting things done themselves since they're so accustomed to UIs that walk them through getting tasks done. There's a sense of finer control in user interfaces that chatbots have a hard time solving for.
It may be that the effects we're having now were caused by that "man up" attitude that was going on back then.
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Whatever Trump is doing will only have an impact later. Right now he is taking credit for what Obama did while at the same claiming they were bad.
Sadly, I think there are plenty of people who see doing unethical things as a point of pride.
>That show has strayed even further from Roddenberry's vision

I don't think Discovery was darker than DS9 at all. I thought it was a fantastic attempt to explore how a highly progressive society deals with a culture who doesn't share their ideals.

They vast majority of the characters are huge believers in the highest ideals of the Federation. Throughout the series they struggle with sticking to those ideals, but at the end they manage to do it. I actually thought that the ending of Discovery was very similar thematically to Picard's decision with Hugh.
Most content on the internet is created for marketing purposes, unfortunately. I don't have much room to talk, as I do it myself. That doesn't mean that we don't enjoy creating the content, or sharing our knowledge with others, but it can definitely get old being the consumer of these pieces.
Really excited about scuttlebutt, will make a future post on it, thanks!
Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) – High Performance Message Codec
How to start with variable fonts on the web
I find cursing at the bot gets me to a human right away. It's also therapeutic.
I'll keep this thread bookmarked for when 2020 ends and nothing happens.
And, like red, green refactor, make sure the current sensor correctly detects current before you turn off the breaker. Then make sure it detects no current after you turn off the breaker.
I buy all my vpses via Tor, it takes some effort. But after a while I always manage to find a provider where I can complete the process. So, not all the providers all the time. Just some of them some of the time.
Haha. Meanwhile all the business people meet at conferences and get high on AI and blockchain... get the real easy stuff right first!!!
For static sites of a huge size and with lots of visitors maybe. But hey, if you publish a full RSS feeds then you don't even need to care.
Tres Sietes Tequila
Time tracking with promodoro technique
Agreed it's a bummer for people who are chill and looking to see another side of a place.
Of course it's only one small factor and not the most important by far. But all other things being equal....
My startup's monorepo has 2 root commits as well. When the company was first starting out, my co-founder and I created independent git repos. I was writing OCR type research-y code and he was doing more traditional CRUD REST webserver things.

When it came time to pull things together, we thought it'd be fun to try and maintain the histories. So I added his repo as a remote and simply merged his unrelated history into mine.

Fast forward and now we offer hoodies as swag to anyone who contributes to the repo. We personalize the hoodie with your git username, the truncated commit hash of your first commit, and the number of parent commits to your first commit.

Having 2 root commits means that both my cofounder and I have hoodies with a large 0 as number of parent commits. Just a nice way to commemorate this accident of history :)
>> the market worked very well before it

You mean during the recession?
The British just exported it to locales outside their own. See the Caribbean, the remote Pacific Islands (Australia, effectively British for practical purposes at that time, enslaved many Pacific Islanders to work in plantations), much of the Indian Subcontinent, Zimbabwe/Rhodesia... shall I go on?
Fwiw, I recently was forced to use a MBP at work after being full-on Linux for ~20 years. I find OSX to be irritating on a number of levels but coming from the opposite direction.

> My guess is that Linux developers don’t want to do boring stuff like fixing obscure bugs for certain peripherals, and they don’t want to listen to designers to create a polished unified experience.

I think OSX offering a Unix-like experience drew away a lot of open source developers to donate their free time and expertise towards a commercial company like Apple rather than the community. If this had not happened, it's possible the Linux desktop experience may have kept up with the times better.

Decade old coreutils is closer to traditional Unix than Ubuntu. Heck, OSX started with tcsh as the default shell. OSX without the magnanimous gift of Homebrew seems pretty garbage.
I'm curious for those that do consulting development work how many actually have the types of insurances discussed in the article?

Is there a threshold of revenue before considering insurance or should you have it regardless?

If you have an LLC formed, how much does the extra liability insurance help?

Total novice with regards to this stuff, any opinions are definitely welcomed.
I agree with you both. I wonder why the formula worked for Roddenberry and others left it. It doesn’t seem too hard to follow the general TNG formula.
During a particular run of the app, this is still true. However, the hash function uses a seed, which gets changed every time you run the app.
Well... the low interest rates mean that we can borrow large amounts and be able to afford the interest payments. "Large amounts", as in, more than we can comfortably pay back the principle on. But we're doing OK because the rates are low.

One day the rates will (probably) rise. At that point, it will be more painful even to pay the interest.
Haha, this is reminiscent of Chunk's confession in The Goonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5UG7ISJfP0
I disagree. I know a lot of hardcore mac fans, and only a few of them use the built in mac software, and when they do, they don't use many.

Every point the author made about hardware was 100% spot on though, and he made a lot more points than just about the keyboard and trackpad. Virtually every change that mac has done to the hardware has made it worse, with the exception of efficiency, and maybe a slight improvement in power. But the efficiency and power improvements are vastly outweighed by the hardware negatives.

And the author is right about the software. None of the software changes they have made over the last 3 years have made anything better. It just keeps getting bigger.
I don't see why not. Humans aren't perfectly moral, we've all done things we're ashamed of (or at least not proud of, hopefully) in order to get a leg up on the competition. Some honesty could lead to some interesting discussion, or at least some good warning stories.

Plus, HN is somewhat anonymous (if you're careful). It's not like you're incriminating yourself.
leverages the concepts of the Pomodoro Technique to help you to keep your focus with mind-refreshing breaks.
Reddit famously had its staff run hundreds of fake accounts to bootstrap discussions when there wasn't enough traffic yet.

This is far from unique, too. My understanding is that dating websites tend to get bootstrapped using purchased profiles from other dating websites.
Apple basically killed the "Pro" and turned it into a consumer-level concept laptop that is a downgrade in nearly every possible way that matters to actual pro users.

- The keyboard is horrible and unreliable. A piece of dust can render it inoperable and require an $800 repair? Give me a break.

- The Touch Bar is inconvenient, annoying, and ergonomically terrible. It is a problem looking for a solution but instead causes more problems.

- The lack of a hardware Escape key and function row is inconvenient, annoying, and hostile to pro users. I use my Escape key and FN keys multiple dozens of times per day.

- Losing MagSafe is a downgrade with no conceivable benefit

- USB-C is inconvenient and inconsistent

- Dongles required for everything possible is annoying and inconvenient

- 16GB RAM is comical in 2018 for a "pro" machine

If you want a good Mac laptop at the moment, you have to buy 3-6 year old hardware, usually refurbished or used on eBay/craigslist. Think about that for a minute. This sums it up well:

> "Apple has made many great laptops, but the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (2012–2015) is the epitome of usefulness, elegance, practicality, and power for an overall package that still hasn’t been (and may never be) surpassed."

https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever

My sincere hope is they actually fix the keyboard (and add the Escape and FN keys back), remove the Touch Bar, give it 32GB of RAM, and re-introduce MagSafe. Getting ports back is almost certainly too much to ask for, I don't think there has ever been a time where Apple removed ports and then brought them back again.
They made the Federation, and humans, more realistic.

The problem with a utopian ideal is that utopias are, by definition, inhumane. Humans are not perfect, so you either have to make them perfect, or force them to conform to a perfect ideal which ignores and suppresses human nature. We war, we hunger, we lust, we hate, we fear... those aspects of our psyche aren't just going to go away because someone invents replicators and warp drives.

Humans that are like us struggling (and often failing, in their imperfection) to live up to an ideal in an imperfect universe are far more relatable and, ironically, more optimistic than simply having them be perfect to begin with and skipping over the messy details of how to get there from here.

Also, in practical storytelling terms, Gene Roddenberry's ideal humans evolved beyond a lot of the pathos that makes for compelling drama. Look at Wesley Crusher, whose character was basically Gene Rodenberry's Ubermensch, on one end of the spectrum , versus someone like Barclay on the other - which character would be more interesting to watch?
You just can`t compare linux desktop on laptops with macbooks.. just can`t.
iMac Pro at MacStadium
Time to “Hello, World”: VMs vs. Containers vs. PaaS vs. FaaS
I'm really upset with how Apple's been treating the MBP considering my entire livelihood depends on using macOS to get work done. Sure, I could switch to another platform, but it wouldn't be the same. I'd be less efficient and I would have access to a lot of the tools I love and use.

To be limited to their crappy hardware they've been releasing lately is a shame. I'm ready for an upgrade from my 2013 Macbook Air, but none of Apple's notebooks are suitable upgrades—I refuse to buy any until they either 1) fix the keyboard and get rid of the dumb Touchbar on the MBP, or 2) allow me to buy a Macbook Air with 16GB of memory.
Oh? What is? Uber/Lyft seem like a great solution to me.
> But once you add a hypervisor and a scheduler

What I imagine is a giant machine with thousands of cores, running a unikernel scheduler, for horizontal-scaling apps.

That means hardware vendors can sell their produce directly to application developers, instead of being shoved behind scene by Cloud vendors.

That might means reinventing OS, which can be argued for K8s as well, which is also reinventing similar OS concepts (process management == job management, threading == sharding, ipc == SOA, kernel scheduling == container scheduling).

But the point is that it offers a produce that has technical superiority, and hardware vendors would have more expertise to build them, i.e., unikernel would have much more intimate relationship with baremetal than containers, where hardware vendors would naturally know better to optimize.
Name me a usage scenario, that AVX-512 is applicable to speed up in 80% of the market. I cant even think of one.

Intel's 10nm HVM isn't coming until 2019. That has been confirmed in an investor meeting when they were pushed to finally give an answer. So Intel has options? yes, lower Pricing, new SKU to muddle things up, more tricks like these Overclocking to damage AMD buyers expectation. Show unrealistic Cinebench that now totally flavours them. More Intel Inside tactics, changes of LLVM / GCC general code to force slower compile on AMD CPU, bundle their SSD with their CPU and force any vendor to get off AMD.

Oh yes, lots of options. None of them are technically superior though.

And btw, lots of the best Intel engineers are no longer with them. Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, Nvidia, Telsa are all hiring their talents out of Intel Campus. If TSMC had Fabs in US I would bet many Intel Fabs engineer would have joined TSMC as well.
“But still cast good-looking actors for the roles, because viewers care.”
"Subscribe to our newsletter to get the posts directly in your inbox."

No! Of course not!

I don't understand why every damn site add those annoying popup. I would love to know his many subscriptions sites receive from those popup.
I’ve been through many hells.
Yea but the parent post said they're bummed because the people you described ruined it for him/her.
It's not like it's the only factor, or even a primary one.
I was hoping that people might share a couple types of responses:

1: unethical things they've done that they're not proud of (and whether or not it worked)

2: unethical things they considered doing but didn't (and whether they later regretted it — perhaps as a result of hearing about other successful folks doing things that are at least as unethical)

3: unethical things that they considered doing but didn't, in favor of a more ethical strategy to accomplish the same goal.

The reason I'm interested in this is that I'm super risk-averse about stuff like this, and hearing stories about what other people have done has made me wonder whether I've been too conservative, to the detriment of my startup's growth.
While you are right that Apple isn't making machines specifically for the OP, the Pro was intended specifically for people like the OP. And the new MBP seems to have very different design goals than ealier MBPs. An obvious example is the ports. Older MBPs were renowned for the many different types of ports they supported.

The new MBP seems to be geared towards people who use Macs for Office work, but want the most expensive version of a mac portable they can find. Before writing this comment I was gonna add that Apple's definition of Pro seems to have reduced to people who deal with videos and photos, but if they were catering to that audience they would have left the SD card reader in.

The main difference between the old Apple portable lineup and the new one appears to me that in the old one, the Macbook, Air and the Pro all had overlapping but different design goals. Today's devices all seem to have the same primary design goals, with the differences existing so they can be slotted in different price brackets.
Plus, many of the integrated apps actually do support the platforms he's using - for example, Google syncing with the macOS Contacts, Calendar, and Reminders applications.

Additionally, the macOS Messages app is way more capable than most people realize. Of course it supports iMessage, but it also supports sending native SMSs when used with a paired iPhone, either via relay or through WiFi calling with a supported carrier. It also has Hangouts chat support AFAICT, and support for any other (standardized, decentralized) XMPP/Jabber server.

And the majority of the other applications come preinstalled, but can just be deleted.
Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016 [pdf]
I suspect most of the time the agents hate the systems like you describe as much as the callers. They are actually trying to make things work better and faster by asking for this info, so when you have to repeat it it's a failure rather than a deliberate design decision...
Show HN: Unyt – Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python
A fundamental issue with CDNs is that you have to trust them. Even for public content, who accesses what is valuable private information. I can imagine IPFS making this worse, when anyone who wants to observe what is accessed by whom need only mirror it.
Scalability Tip: Move business logic out of DB
How GPS tracking is changing soccer
The previous generation, Retina with MagSafe, without the new keyboard, the bigger trackpad, or the touch bar was the best MacBook Pro EVER (so far), I sincerly hope they will produce something as good in the future, but I'm starting to loose hope here...
Binary compatibility means a certain level of commitment to support that the Swift team seems to have avoided.
IIRC it is mostly so that the passenger's eyes adapt to the outside light level in case of an evacuation.
I still prefer MacOS, but I have a 5th gen X1 Carbon, dual booting win 10 and elementary OS (linux). A funny thing happened at a recent hotel stay. The audio wasn’t working while connected via hdmi to the tv, was booted into win10. Jumped over to Linux, using chrome, worked perfectly. I couldn’t believe Linux was easier to use than windows. Was definitely a Tom Hanks, I have made fire moment.
Wow! Where did these numbers come from? (This is what I love about HN.)

It's awesome you can see details like the distribution of RR vs. GE engines, just to pick one bit of interesting data out of that sheet.
So it sounds like what we need is a way for people to think they're really committing suicide, but in reality they're not, so they can go through the experience and realize they don't really want to do it after all.

This reminds me a bit of that movie "Strange Days" (where people relived others' experiences), or of course "The Matrix".