skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, U-3 is not misleading. See the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17475481 The point of metrics is to make them comparable. Comparing apples to apples, the US unemployment rate is 3.9% vs the EU average at 7.1%. If you want to use U-6 instead, you can make an orange to orange comparison and get 7.4% for the US and roughly 14% for the EU.

Given that EU wages have increased much more than US wages we can conclude that unemployment has very little to do with wage increases. And since empirical evidence trumps conjectures, we throw the so called "law" of supply and demand into the garbage bin.
It must be an up-and-coming Internet trend/meme (a la what color is the dress?) in the health community. One of my coworkers just transitioned from a ketogenic diet to intermittent fasting.
At the time of sale sure, but try selling your five year old car for original sticker price.
1st movement of Moonlight needs 5-7 years from a cold start to play well. You can learn to pick out the notes in less, but it's harder to play smoothly than it looks.

The 3rd movement of Moonlight is a Diploma level (i.e. university, 10 years of playing at a bare minimum) piece.

Guitar is popular because it's the opposite of piano. You can get somewhere recognisable within six months or so. But many players plateau after that. Really good guitar isn't any easier than really good piano.
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This is the most apt and serious comment in the thread.
Unrestricted capitalism will never be a force for good. Left running without any regulation, the gap between rich and poor will increase adinfinitum.

This kind of philanthropy acts as a last ditch attempt to correct the negative affects the system produces .. but in my opinion, it's not an effective or elegant way of doing so. It's main purpose is an exercise in smoke and mirrors .. by trying to influence our perception and shape the conversation surrounding whether these excess profits are acceptable in modern society.
Have you considered what would happen if we added meth to the drinking water? People wouldn't sleep and could work twice as long!
Internet Explorer also still supports it. You can write a full, albeit basic, application in a text file, rename it as 'whatever.hta' and run it by double clicking on it. It launches in its own window using the IE html control as its form. The MSDN pages have a clone of Notepad.exe as a vbscript .hta as an example.

In some ways it's like the grandparent of Electron or React apps, just a decade too early.

The last .hta I wrote was several years ago - a [mostly] complete clone of 'Active Directory Users & Computers' that anyone could use.
Looks pretty awesome for cybersecurity professional. My primary device iOS.. Please let me know if there's anything for the iOS.
It’s bad if it gets so hot that defaults start happening and cascading through the system. Loans are given based on expected future revenue and costs, and if they start going varying too much from expectations, then defaults start happening, and if too many happen, then it can start cascading through the system.

Overall wages, especially at the low end, are typically last to increase because people don’t hop around jobs as much as they should and the social element makes it look bad if people ask for too many wage increases (e.g jobs) too quickly. Whereas prices for capital (land, commodities, equities, equipment), are allowed to rise and fall as quickly as the market allows so capital owners get to reap those gains while wage earners get “stretched”.
More specifically, they mean multirotors. Fixed wing aircraft can last much longer. 45 minutes is typical and hours is doable if you have the wingspan and the batteries.
This part of the code is primed for issues:

> or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

So in 2035 if someone submits a security patch and promotes eating steak, we're all in trouble.
Last time Linus took time off from kernel development the world got Git. I wonder what we will get this time?
I can't see anything wrong with the Code of Conduct. Some people call it "toxic" and they are afraid of the "SWJs" taking over. This is only a problem if you try to loose focus on the quality of the work.

Some argue that now that Linus realized how his communication is received sometimes, he will suddenly not be able anymore to tell people when shitty code is shitty. There are a billion ways to tell somebody their code is shitty with out attacking the person themselves, some of which might even make them realize that you are right. And Linus certainly didn't sound like he doesn't care about the kernel anymore.

IMO the Code of Conduct has nothing irrational or outrageous in it:

* don't be sexist (you can critique someones code without making it about their gender or gender identity)

* don't be racist (you can critique someones code without making it about their race or origin)

* don't be shitty to people who know less (you can critique someones code without making them about them beeing a noob, and help them getting better)

etc.

I don't see how having more harassment would aid code quality.
I was browsing through exactly for this.
I think you'll find that many famous tyrants were funded by taxes.
In defence of online ads: The 'net ain't free and you ain't paying
It won't last - how do you make money off a fasting diet? There's nothing to sell, unlike WeightWatchers, Shakes, Juice diets etc.

Unless someone sells fasting chewing gum or something.
Yes. The interests of humans are not the interests of capital, and the purpose of the economy is to maximize capital.
Yeah, I've got a A4-sized reader for scientific papers and other things that come in PDFs that are sized for a full page. But the vast majority of my paper books have pages closer to the size of a kindle screen than a A4 sheet of paper.

OCR is another solution.

I mean, I'm not arguing that these other solutions aren't way inferior to just buying the e-book direct from amazon; I was just trying to make the point that living in the amazon ecosystem is a much more expensive way to consume books than just buying used books.
I like your comment. This was a perceptive reframing:

the fact that Babbage became interested in mechanical computers was a happy accident: he was born at a time and in a place that enabled this interest. Were he to be born 1000 years prior, or half a continent away, he would have probably never have heard of such things as mechanical calculators

Usually people point out that Babbage was incredibly unlucky to have been born just before computers were made practical.
No, it wouldn't, under the United States Constitution and the American justice system with its roots in common law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation

But it does seem the modern American ethos seems to be one that is losing its courage and backbone, with more and more people preferring security theater to freedom on principle.
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Just reading their Google headline proves your point - looks more like CNN or Fox News:

TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
In particular, the problem is to find a path that minimises the worst case (ie, which path minimises the time to hit the forest border over all possible starting locations and orientations within the forest).
The shadowstats metric is an estimate based on "proprietary modeling". In other words, it's made up with no real methodological backing. The people running shadowstats are pushing a political agenda, not doing real economics.
Wow, 2000+ upvotes for one guy agreeing to not be a total prick... Humanity is doomed.
Well, I would say then that Asus after sale support is kinda bad... ^__^;

I think I've read that Dell send all their drivers patches upstream, so you aren't stuck with devices that use a kernel blob that stops to work next time you install a new kernel.

I've an Asus EeeBook (NetOne?) hidden somewhere, I bought it because I wanted to show demand for Linux supported HW but it had too little RAM for my taste and I also had to replace the "NVME" like SSD because it was unbearable slow.
iCloud has surveillance now? Interesting.
Saturo secures six-figure investment to fund new meal replacement drink category
I distinctly remember things being sorted by first name way back in the "you're still learning the alphabet" grades (probably 1st grade). Likely to avoid confusing us since we call each other by first name. Its possible your school didn't do it or its possible you don't remember.
Potentially costly signalling? I might just see this working...
Haha I didn't get any equity in the end.
50+ Startup Schemes by Government of India for Indian Entrepreneurs
Those are different though: Desert Bus is an intentionally boring game about a boring activity, while Papers, Please is a tense, exciting game about a boring activity (or certainly one typically seen as boring). Then there are the for-srs bus, truck and train simulators, which clearly don't set out to be a non-stop thrill ride but don't seek to be actively boring either. Aaand then of course there are the many games which are supposed to be about thrill-rides of fictional adventure but are full of grind gameplay.
And depending on the person can smell more and/or taste more and/or touch more and/or probably see more, and because of this sensory overload more.
APIs in the Shipping and Maritime Industry
Everybody who uses >= and <= implicitly uses ==.

That said, if you mix types between comparison operands or inside arrays then you probably have bigger problems than "==" semantics. :-)
> That post uses "SJW" as a slur for activists.

No, it's fitting, "SJW" are slacktivists, not activists. When James Kyles throws a tantrum and insults people working for Palantir or Microsoft on Github issue pages, he might win a few internet points and likes on twitter, but he is not making a difference in the real world.
I thought most people used wrappers. sort of like SQL in the '90s, and then you limited yourself to features that both of the providers used
I work 3 day weeks so I can ski the other 4 days/week.

My hours aren't strict so in theory it could be 7 days/week but having tried that before, it's a bit too much to try and fit work into it without any time to relax.
I'm a little unconvinced by that list.

Pat, for example, appears on both, that and Theo and are short versions of male and female names, rather than being names that have swung from female to male.

Jan and Jean could both be caused by migration, as they are both very long-standing male names in some countries and female names in others.

Toby is a very long-standing male name (Sir Toby Belch, not Dame Toby Belch).

Very few of the names on the female-male list have the same kind of significant swing present on the male-female list. None of them are like Allison, Beverly and Lauren.
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All these different supposed anti-aging molecules that our body already produces.. e.g. nad+ also

I would love if these could be used to slow or even halt aging but i would worry there is reason the body doesn't produce more of these. It's been said before but would we be leaving ourselves open to more cancer?
Those examples came later than Dave Winer's stewardship. Those were made by the RSS Board which is its own point of weirdness in RSS' history.
U-6 is following similar trend as other Unemployment indicators. It was relatively high in the last decade.

What is your point? It is relatively high but falling.
It has been occurring in (4) different companies.

It's interesting you mentioned it potentially being a cultural issue as I had a similar conversation with a coworker recently. I'm considering taking a project in a nearby city to see if that makes any difference.
it seems equality operator in javascript is good for nothing but being a source of confusion and a target of jokes.

does it not make sense to just remove it from the language completely? who is deciding that?
Here's a nice version to find a solution for, the half plane:

You're 1 km away from the (straight) edge of a forest (that extends infinitely in the other directions). What's the optimal path for you to walk to get out? (with the best worst case, ie the shortest path that is guaranteed to touch the edge.)

This was an interview question at investment banks back when brain teasers were still en vogue. There is a fairly evident solution, and then two improvements can be made.

EDIT to add: The solution was described by Isbell in 1957, and proved optimal by Joris in 1980. It's contained in the paper below, but don't deprive yourself of the pleasure of finding it yourself (and its length, if you're so inclined... :-)

https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/2...
Sometimes because they’ve had enough of it and want to do something else with their time - be that working on a new idea or changing careers or just working for someone else and no longer having to be the one who lies awake at night wondering whether revenue will cover salary this month.

Bootstrapped doesn’t by definition mean profitable. Some founders are using their own savings or bank loans or even credit cards as runway.

Also, even bootstrapped businesses that are doing better than breaking even may not be making enough of a profit that the founders are doing better than they would with a corporate salary.
“Let’s talk about Javascript!”

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
It's probably more cryptic than ambiguous, due to the decorative language. A lengthy terms and conditions is not ambiguous, yet it's very vexatious. This is neither ambiguous nor vexatious. Perhaps though, it's a little bit cryptic. A simple man must try a little harder. Spock would probably say the statement is intrinsically ambiguous due to the metaphor, however.
> bit of an asshole

I dont think the term "asshole" is fair. Linux lost it when people went against well known principles on which the kernel is built (for example don't break userland), so he always had good reasons to voice his disagreement.

I think we can say that he can be "rude", "apathetic", but he was nevertheless fair in his criticism and that's not what you usually say about assholes.
Who should I go to for business requirements? I've been in a setup where I have a 'team lead' but generally they're the more technical person, don't have a good picture of business priority.
While you're right about the 5%-or-less chance, it's still a 5% chance we're aiming for. If we end up with 40% over a large number of papers, something went wrong.

Not publishing the negative results shouldn't affect this number. They're not included in the 5% chance in the first place.
Real analysis: Francis Su

A subject laborious to penetrate by default, becomes easy. Quality is not so good, content and presentation is unique.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0E754696F72137EC#
This seems like a fancy name for a hunch that may or may not actually be true.

This could be a form of confirmation bias - like how it seems to rain when you havent got your umbrella, because confirmation bias makes you remember the times you got caught in the rain more strongly then the times you actually had your umbrella and stayed dry.

Similarly if someone is of the opinion that everything in the media is made-up, confirmation bias will mean they really notice articles that are wrong on areas that they know about. Whereas articles that are broadly correct in areas they know about will just pass by unremarkably.

Then then on top of that, you've got the premature extrapolation that because you've spotted one incorrect article by one journalist, all the other articles by all the other journalists must also be the same.

Not that I think the media are always right by any means.

Obviously the media I consume are carefully picked so that I know I'm getting a reasonable sketch of reality, whereas the stuff everyone else is consuming is clearly made up dangerous nonsense*

* probably biased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Hacker News is no alternative. Read any thread about any subject not related to programming, and chances are an expert in the field will show up and point out how wrong the assumptions being made about that field are. This seems to be most common in thread about subjects for which hacker culture holds traditional animosity - business, government and the military, and art or design.

That being the case, and given the contentiousness that tech-related threads also sometimes generate, it's likely most commenters' opinions on programming and CS are only slightly more informed as their opinions on everything else. I'll include myself in this set -- I've been corrected (sometimes harshly) on a number of things I assumed were true and insisted on in good faith.

Take HN with the same healthy dose of salt with which you should take all other media.
A summary of the draft EU directive that might abolish DST next year
The True Development Cost of Augmented Reality Apps
Knowing the Differences Between 32-Bit and 64-Bit Computing Architecture
I see these 'philanthropic' efforts as distractions from what is essentially a new Gilded Age and its robber barons.
I am still hoping that some day economy will find it's place where it belongs - next to astrology, numerology and alchemy.

This is with tongue in cheek but as a mathematician (financial math) I find economic equations and theorems laughable and it's scientific method just a thin veil over ideology.
True. In the long term, these alternate definitions don't correlate.

Long term "discouragement" is one that comes up relatively often because it can relate to political hot topics.

Even more interesting (to me) are some long term trends that are outside of most unemployment debates. Eg

(1) The long term implications are more about demography than economics, societal age structures and such.

(2)The biggest mover of the last couple of generations has been women's employment. The employee pool basically skyrocketed. Employment/unemployment rates have not been overly impacted by this rapid increase in labour supply. This is still happening. The pool of experienced, female 58 year old lawyers is impacted by the norms/trends if the 80s.

I think this shows how much flexibility the employment system has. Aggregating encourages us to think of demand for labour in macro (kind of Keynesian) terms. I think the truth is that demand for marginal labour (the difference between 4% and 8% in traditional/official unemployment measures) is different to the general demand.

In other words, some portion of the population (different individuals at different times) is harder to employ. That doesn't mean it will look struggle to employ a different pool. If we had another gender to liberate, I think the market could probably absorb it regardless of without impacting unemployment rates very much.
I don't think it is useful to know the behaviour of JS in such cases. In practice, you rarely compare strings with numbers, or objects with booleans.

I wrote tens of thousands of lines of JS (e.g. this library https://github.com/photopea/UPNG.js ), I never used "===" in my life :D
Aye, that's true. They miss the point: that he was the first to plant his flag in a vast, undiscovered country.

To be that person- I'd accept being born ten thousand years before my time and dying in complete obscurity.
> Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies? Just to push their political agenda? To support their political ambitions? To run for office? They obvious aren't doing it to make money.

So that Trump supporters can speculate on social networks that they're doing it for some nefarious reason and so that Trump-opponents can speculate that they're doing it for the sake of their egos? Maybe they're doing it to troll the ultra-rightwing Breitbart crowd into having a deep-state conspiracy-theory induced stroke?

Clearly it could not be that they understand business and money more than your average commenter on Reddit or Hacker News and see either an intrinsic value in the traditional free press, or have a vision for the long-term financial viability of the business itself? Nah. It must be a conspiracy.
Having over-leveraged institutions isn’t related to growth at all.

I think what you’re kinda getting around to saying in your second paragraph is that inflation hurts wage earners? If so, the Fed agrees with you, which is why it’s continually adjusting interest rates. In fact, that’s the entire focus of the OP article.
Headed to London this week and wouldn't mind meeting up for lunch.
If the trends continue over a period of several years, that may prove to be true.

Anecdotally, I am far from alone among my friends and family in perceiving that Amazon's quality, reliability and customer service have degraded sharply in recent years. It's not just the counterfeits issue. Their basic product organisation is terrible these days, and it's often difficult to figure out if I'm ordering the correct edition of something. They've also failed to deliver Christmas shopping by the guaranteed dates. They've sent many items out that were packaged in obviously absurd ways and arrived predictably damaged, and then had basic problems with their returns procedures causing customers a lot of hassle.

Perhaps more dangerous for Amazon, though, is that they are not always competitive on pricing with my local book and general stores any more. I can buy a new movie from Amazon and have it arrive tomorrow with perhaps a 5-10% chance that it's a bad copy and won't play. If I can buy the same movie for the same or less from my local store when I do my grocery shopping, and be guaranteed a proper UK product that I can see looks undamaged when I pick it off the shelf, which I can then enjoy watching this evening, what am I going to do? It's a similar story for buying books from a good local bookshop, and rumours of their demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Don't just look at first world countries. Even though the USSR had high taxes I doubt that their tax authority had good customer service.
> Clearly they have been better than the alternatives for customers - otherwise, they would not be successful.

Plenty of shitty companies are successful. They just need to. be more convenient than their competitors.

> Employees also have a choice - Amazon is not a monopoly.

Not yet.
Plus, it would depend on the probability measure over your initial position and orientation. It might seem obvious that you'd want it uniform over location and orientation, but you could argue that a more realistic measure would be obtained by eg picking a point on the boundary, then picking a direction, then looking for the next exit in that direction, and picking a point uniformly on that line (or exponentially with rejection if you end up outside), etc.
> I'm slightly less aware of what’s going on in the office and wider industry but in general more relaxed.

Do you think if you weren't the only one (I assume) doing 3-4 day weeks the lines of communication would be better defined and this problem would correct itself?
For those interested, here is the commit where the code of conduct was included: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8a104f8b5867c682d99...

"code of conflict" was rewritten to "code of conduct".
I don't even feel that I'm deliberately doing it. Every time before I fall asleep, my mind naturally wanders off to a daydreaming state before I know it. I only consciously realize this is happening whenever I'm disrupted by noise just before I totally drift off. I think this is basically how every sleep happens really. If you focus on it then you're likely accelerating this natural process.