skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not cash in form of paper money or coins, but rather silver coins, preferrably 80% pure. These are sold by bags by main silver sellers such as Monex.

The point being if economy goes to shit that beautiful $100 bill you can spend to feed your family with lobsters will be worth as much and only as much as the paper it was printed on (hint - close to zero). In such times we will revert back to hard currency - gold and coins. But don’t buy gold bullion - it will be hard to buy bread with a 15gr gold bullion bar and noone will care to give you change. Hence best are 80% silver bags as a form of daily purchasing power.
No. Those are auto-generated. Quite terrible. It really makes a world of difference when someone adds proper subtitles for the deaf/people without audio.

As a deaf person, the way the auto-generated captions are shown is so much harder to read than just your normal sync'd captions.
Besides for research projects or your own company, in my opinion this should always be the case. I see people literally screwing their employers by introducing ‘shiny X’ (usually seen in a frontpage post on HN...) saying it will be faster. It never is in the greater scheme of things and it always costs more because it will have issues.
When the right talk about toxic and destructive cultures and suggest policy to address it then that is racism and discrimination.

When the left talk about toxic and destructive masculinity and suggest policy to address it then that is using clear language and decisive action about a structural issue in society.

We could be making sensible policies based on each individuals own merit and it would be great. No more women vs men, immigrant vs nationalist, white vs black. It is the future I would like to have but what I am getting is the choice between two ideologies who each ascribing negative traits to their own set of races and gender, with policies to match.
Volkswagen to end Beetle production in 2019
Interviews. They are so disconnected from the day to day work that causes devs to 'prepare' for weeks/months to clear the interview only to get back to doing what they were doing before or something like that in the new job.
As an interpreted lang developer (Python), hate the small things that can cause major delays, for example, "permissions missing on folder", or "filename_1 not found" (it was actually filename1). Little things that could be automated could make life a lot easy.
Nope, the "Max" is just a larger version. The "Plus" phones, however, had other distinguishing features apart from the size, such as a better camera.
We can already do that: clone first and replaceChild afterwards.

It breaks already attached event handlers, undo buffers for input elements, and any existing references you have to DOM nodes.
Chemistry would suggest we've found all stable naturally occurring elements too.

BUT I will say that there is extremely good evidence that there are plenty of unknown elements (I'd argue that every chemist agrees). Well, more accurately, elements we haven't created. Feynman says the limit is 137, but others think it is higher (relativistic limits). The thing is most of these are unlikely to be stable, though there are some predictions for stability in the 120's.

But to be life, they would need to be stable. And it would be EXTREMELY odd for life to be made from non common and non naturally occurring elements. Even more odd to be from unstable ones.
The DOM isn't a buffer, it's a tree; doing a deep copy would be an expensive operation incurring lots of little allocations.
It's the government's requirements for filing 10-Ks and 10-Qs that generate this type of behavior. Plenty of examples out there where capital-raising efforts, and therefore investment decisions are stymied by markets that are driven by quarterly government reporting.

Some companies have been able to fight it off and really put long-term profitability into place (Apple seems like a reasonable example of this), but it is the exception, not the rule, and many times does not last long.
The issue with high frequency communication is the power needed to sustain it, since energy goes up as wavelength decreases.
I don't understand why the comparison even makes any sense:

Let's say debt is equivalent to the mortgage on your house.
You compare an individual exposure by their monthly repayment against their income, not income against mortgage amount! Why is it any different for this?

Usually in France, it's customary to allow this ratio to be 30%. With median income at 20k€, this leaves about 5k€/y, or 410€/month.
At current rates, mortgage size of 100k€, total cost of 150k€. The "debt to GDP" is thus 150/20=750%.

Apples to oranges?
This is a fair point, but I don't think it applies here: the article is not so much about blog publishing with Org, but rather about 1) good practices and 2) hackable systems. Hacking here does not mean "crazy setup code just to get it to work", it means that I can add or customize (optional) features to my very needs.

Those two points are, I believe, not in very widespread usage among blog writers. I believe that 2) is responsible for 1). Unflexible configurations are too widespread in my opinion and it goes very much against what a programmer / hacker could aspire for.

In the end, the time I've spent on this was very short. Compared to the previous systems I've tried, it now makes for a much smoother publishing experience for me. The ultimate point is that I can tailor it to my exact needs instead of being endlessly frustrated with a non-hackable publishing system.
If you want tips, I recommend the Granola Shotgun blog: https://granolashotgun.com/2018/05/08/the-mangiapocalypse/
https://granolashotgun.com/2018/07/08/little-experiments-on-...
This is one that managers don't get. They don't take into account how important it is to focus on writing code to be productive. They assign seats on some random process with no regard to keeping developers undisturbed.

I suspect that open offices cost more on productivity than they save.
Not a ditch, or a barbwire fence, or a telephone pole or a tree? I guess that may be tricky.
> no one is quite sure what happens when a global superpower like Japan reaches a debt-to-GDP ratio of 224 percent. The U.S., U.K. and France have all surpassed the 100 percent level

It sounds like the author is nervous about the rise of US debt as well.
The 5-day work week. If I could have a 3-day weekend every weekend, my quality of life would be so much better.
Do you have suggestions on books or other sources that would enlighten me on these details?
> how do we know our concept of an easily detected signal isn't merely a product of how our technology evolved?

Because 150 years of investigation very very very strongly implies that electromagnetism is one of the most powerful of a very short list of fundamental forces.
Hacker culture and the politics of process defense
Someone asked a similar question recently and I suggested an indirect option: use fast, energy- efficient languages and software.

It sounds ludicrous and you can decide for yourself if it is, but consider that there are millions of servers (and desktop and laptop computers) in operation daily. Can you imagine the sheer volume of energy consumed globally? The tech community cares not one iota for such matters - in stark contrast to other industries that have strived for reduced energy-consumption. No, it won't stop climate change, but such wasteful energy use is an important issue that deserves more attention.

Anyway, rather than repeat myself, here's my original comment from the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762466
Dollar-denominated debt in emerging markets is the big exception. If the dollar rises, those debts become more expensive to repay, regardless of the emerging market's underlying economy. That's why Ukraine, Argentina, Turkey and Brazil have seen the recent volatility.

The question is whether these problems are limited to those countries with high dollar debt or whether it could cause a regional capital outflow that reduces economic growth in neighboring countries or trade partners.
> But is hollywood entitled to the chinese market?

No, it isn't, but in my opinion Chinese people (not their government) should have the right to decide who to accept in their market or not. Currently, they do not.
Not the reforms themselves, but what followed. China's growth since then has led to the largest poverty reduction the world has ever seen, and that didn't happen because a bureaucrat flicked his pen, but because hundreds of millions of Chinese toiled for generations to make it happen.
Its also a bit optimistic to think the death and despair will even lead to something better. Romes fall was the Churches rise, the poor beheaded the monarchy in France to replace them with Emperor Napoleon.

I for one think that the systemic and intentional divisiveness separating peoples and pushing them to war with one another than their opressors will also spur any attempt at improvement in the aftermath of coming disasters. We won't unite for the better, we will tear ourselves apart with blame and ire.
non-identification with anything outside of sense perception. Identifying is a mind process creating the physical dimension of light and matter. After becoming aware of the vibrancy you can dilute time itself as a black hole body. There is consciousness in love.
SF has more unsheltered homeless people than the entire country of England according to these numbers. So even if SF's per-capita homeless rate is lower when you include some surrounding SF suburbs, it's still absolutely terrible and far worse than London.

And if you consider the whole Bay Area (which is closer to London in size), the homelessness rate remains very bad overall because homelessness is also very severe in Oakland and San Jose. Some of the smaller cities of course fair a lot better than others, but the total numbers of unsheltered homeless is very high across the whole Bay Area region.

Even Palo Alto has a high homelessness-per-capita rate when you count people living in vehicles as homeless. It's not nearly as bad as SF, but it's not good either.
Parent said "of their own citizens", referring to Chinese schools.
Couldn't agree more.

Outside of work on my own time I play with things I think might be useful or worth using a year or two from now, if they are fantastic, if not I learnt something and had fun.

At work it's PHP (I inherited that project sadly), C# and Java, On my radar in the next year are Kotlin and F# (Kotlin particularly since we have java applications in production on industrial handhelds and the codebase previous dev left on those is...worrying).

As for people screwing their employers by picking unproven new shiny, I think in the main part that's because of mismatched goals, Employer wants reliable software but doesn't understand what dev is doing and Employee wants a resume that will get them hired so skates to where the puck will be on the ooh shiny.

I've been programming since I was a kid in the 80's and the one thing I've learnt (often the hard way) that no language/framework/library is a substitute for thinking things out, that and everything is a trade off in some direction.

A 5mm square A4 pad and a pack of decent coloured pens has saved me thousands of hours over the years.
That was beautiful
Total bullshit. Post an excerpt and prove it. Otherwise you're a useless troll, probably from a competing CMS.
If you already have more billions of dollars that you could ever spend on, what difference does an additional billion of dollars make?

I suppose not knowing the answer to that questions makes me likely not to become a billionaire...
These are not easy questions.

Taking this to an absurd level: If the Aztecs still existed and were sacrificing humans with their volcanic rock blades. Should we sell them at least some steel blades, so their victims could die a little quicker and less painful death? Or should we absolutely abstain from selling any weapons to those murderous bastards?

I don't know.
The reverse is true as well. It would apparently kill people to admit that giving two billion dollars to something like this is an act of good faith because their judgment is so clouded by hate.
They're not as strong. But to echo that.

21 Strategies of war is good
the 51st law is not so great.
Mastery Is ok

The last I heard from Robert Greene was that he was working on a book about the motivations of people. However, I haven't heard of any progress.
Decide first whether your language will be case-sensitive or case-insensitive. Then regret your choice forever.
Very different scenarios. If you disliked the person cheating on a console you could smack them upside the head and stop being friends with them. The ramifications for cheating in games designed specifically for multiplayer with many strangers are entirely different.

It's kind of like saying "imagine being arrested for being naked in public omg I do that all the time ... at home". It's different degrees of freedom.
Users/PMs/Management either don't know what they want, or worse, they think they know what they want, but can't articulate it or tell you something else. Then after you do it, they tell you it should have been some other way.
Yes, but co-workers don't like it and then you become the antisocial hermit in their mind.

You have to let them know why you are doing it.
Its turtles all the way down. US debt isn't just money the US owes some guy sitting on a pile of money. The debtors owe debtors owe debtors - nobody has a Scrooge style money pit sitting around.

It is a house of cards, but it isn't one with a clear winner and loser. A loss of faith in international credit destroys all economies.
I totally agree that this is not a right/left issue per se. There are many competing strains:

traditionalists are skeptical of radical social change, but may also be skeptical of turning everything over the free market

libertarians just want to be left alone and don't want anyone telling them what to do

leftists may be communitarians or anarchists or even neoliberals who want to abolish national borders

And people may have different views on different scales -- e.g. I know a lot of Nimby's who oppose new people they don't like moving into their neighborhood and think they should have a right to keep them out, but at the same time support open borders for the nation as a whole.

And to be honest, I think there is something to recommend each of these views. Nobody is entirely the enemy. What bothers me is attempts to blacklist arguments/speech or to suppress open debate between these competing views. That really bothers me. It's like you can't just disagree with someone, you have to snuff them out, try to get them fired, and expel the enemy entirely from your view. It's a recipe for disaster.
- Lack of communication between design and development at the conceptual stage.

- Designers spending hours on particular pages with no consideration on how it affects other areas of the site.

- Need some tools but the process of justifying and convincing management that we need them leads to just buying them myself.

- Sharing common code snippets between team members

- Forced to stay online and be receptive on Slack while attempting to focus on code

- Open plan offices and the constant deluge of inspirational talks/events (I work in an "innovation space")

- No time between projects. One's done then it's another, and another.

- Crappy Jira tickets with little information.

- Jira

Apologies, this may have been mostly a rant. It's been that kinda morning.
I worked on a project that happened to have some spy satellite data as noise...

You can hide them. A common practice is to do an orbital maneuver when the satellite is directly between the Sun-Earth line-of-sight, where attempts to use instruments are pretty well saturated/destroyed.

With that said, it is still possible to see where the satellites go after such a boost if you are able to look really close to the limb of the sun with the right kind of equipment :)
Emerging and international developed markets performed extremely well last year. Part of the under-performance this year is from the US dollar rising.

On an enterprise value basis the US looks more expensive than both international and emerging markets[1].

[1] https://allocatesmartly.com/asset-allocation-roundup-2/?aff=...
Working with egotistic devs.
The pressure to deliver code that isn't of high quality and tested.

Requirements that are extremely unclear.
Did you even watch the hearing?

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-fo...
The current system is actually quite resilient, because it has the built-in capacity for parts of it to fail without bringing down the whole thing. The situation you should really be afraid of is when everything is fine, you're the envy of the world, the Supreme Leader has your back, right up until there's gunfire in the streets, people are scrambling across the border, there's no food in the supermarkets, there's suddenly a bloody coup in the capital, and enterprising oligarches have pilfered the country's coffers.

In practical terms, you should recognize that this feeling is fear and it is in fact a feeling, and you can choose to own it rather than let it own you. Stay away from the particular enterprises that everyone says are about to collapse, and double-down on whatever assets nobody is paying attention to. Life goes on, and people have to do something, so own the things that people will be interested in over the next few years. It's all a bubble, just do your best to ride it.

There were a few asset classes that were clearly looming bubbles in 2008: housing, CDOs, most hedge funds, Web 2.0 startups. If you were invested in them at the beginning of the year you probably lost your shirt. Meanwhile, if you invested in Bitcoin or mobile or sharing economy startups in 2009, you're likely a millionaire several times over. Housing itself started to become an attractive investment once the crash was over in 2010, with many landlords making 10%+ returns annually since then.
Increasing urbanization is a thing for a few centuries now, I don't see how this has anything to do with millenials?

Sure, at the extremes there are adverse effects. But Los Angeles has 1/6th the population density of Paris (a city with strict building height restrictions). It isn't crammed at all.
I interpreted "current" to mean what is currently available. To me "last generation" would be "latest" phones.

English is a messy language.
This isn't specific to development, but feeling burnt out at the end of the day, every day. I also struggle with getting enough sleep, getting enough physical activity, and finding time to just get other things done. If I could, I'd only work 25 hours/week. Maybe someday.
This is a function of having to work with different people with different personalities. Developer or not you have to deal with this if you want a job.
True. It's important to remember debt isn't a perfectly liquid asset because one or more countries may decide it's not worth repaying, then it becomes tantamount to a pyramid scheme of borrowing. If/when that happens, the power of the West may fall into slightly different hands of mafia-types as did the Soviet Union. Greece also comes to mind.
Before freaking out about CHINA IS DOOMED, look at the historic record.

From 1957 to 2017, per capita GDP in China grew from $68.24 to $8830.17. That's over a thousand times more productive. You can angst about faked numbers or whatever all you like, but the trends are plainly obvious here. China's economy has grown consistently at an extraordinary rate for a long time now, and there's no obvious evidence that a collapse is just around the corner.
I was wondering about this a few days ago when I was, again, stuffing a square peg in a round hole by doing work you would hope a db or orm should be able to handle.

Is there any research going on to solve this in a non OO environment? I worked with (expensive) OO databaes in the past and that was crap, nosql is not helping much either, although the idea (I say the idea as I hate the implementation) to have the language married with the datastore like Mongo is something. I have seen non OO environments where the company just extended sql to be a full generic programming language which also works but it all feels... Not quite there. Q/k on kdb+ I find pleasant as I find Mnesia with Erlang. That feels far more natural than the other choices, but I feel it can be better with research and more FP oriented.
For some clarity, the signals we have been broadcasting (mostly things like TV and radio) are MUCH weaker than the radio waves that the sun produces in the same spectrum. So our signals do get "washed out".
> That may fix prices, but doesn't fix the problem of giving a wide swath of a nation's population the opportunity to attend college.

No country has really figured out how to solve both of those problems simultaneously on a large scale.

The US has high prices, but also one of the highest rates of higher education in the developed world. In addition, it also has provided people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds not just with the theoretical opportunity to earn a degree, but with the tools needed to actually deliver on that in practice. For all the faults of the US educational system (especially at the primary and secondary level), it performs much better than its European counterparts on this criterion if you look at the actual rates of degrees granted.
Not perfect, but... get up and walk around! You have more than enough to think over for a short walk on a regular basis. If it doesn’t seem like it, maybe it should. In practice I only spend a few minutes a day actually typing code. Most of my time is spent trying to figure out WTF I should do.
Someone wrote an amazing write-your-own lisp using Python tutorial, I found it amazingly consumable and it only took a weekend:

https://github.com/kvalle/diy-lang
I've been fortunate to have the opportunity to work in the US, Canada and the UK as a programmer and I've personally never worked anywhere with 60 hour weeks. Assuming they're not coming in on the weekend, that's 12 hours a day, like 9 am to 9pm everyday. Just haven't seen it. Even if someone does it, they can't be working, it's just not possible, after 5-7 hours I am mentally exhausted. They may be in a seat but they're not being productive. I actually do happen to work 60 hour weeks but only 40 or so for the employer. A few hours break after work and then hitting the code again on personal projects, and on the weekend is possible while remaining motivated.
So you're dismissing Poulson's protest and views on racial grounds. I guess there's not much sense in arguing with that.
Writing tests first. Sometimes it's hard cause I am more flowy and designing interfaces and I'm just needing work here.

Also anxiety, and distractedness.
> Until it can't.

It already couldn't, thus monetary easing (aka, inflation, aka increasing the money supply). Governments always default on their debts through inflation. In the US it was called "QE"

Without QE, the treasury auctions would have yielded higher rates of borrowing for the feds. Instead, QE pushed the yields down and money rushed into risk assets (stock market). We're in uncharted economic territory. How do we unwind? Right now, they're slowly letting the balance sheet shrink, but not significantly.
It was a really short doc and I didn't see it answer this question at all. Where do you see it answering it?
Have you given much thought to how such an arrangement can be weaponized for malicious, or even just unintended, use? The problem with suggestions like "eliminate zoning" is that they assume a very sterile, idealized model of why zoning came about, what role it plays, and how that interacts with public policy.

I can immediately think of at least one way to use a lack of zoning to create large monopolies of land ownership by weaponizing non-optimal land use for a short to medium time period. Can you?