skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Famous last words ;)

I've been exactly where you are until very recently... It might be a general cynicism towards the world at large recently, but I've found myself finally honestly considering that Google might do some actual evil, and if they really wanted to it could get ugly... Removing "don't do evil" from their company motto may have been a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Let’s not forget medical care.
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I have found that I can close the tab and then click on the link again to open another tab. It usually doesn't take more than three tries.
Then nobody would do it.

It isn't bad to have moderated spaces as long as they're actually run by individual communities and not amalgamated general purpose platforms imposing one party's views on everybody else.

As soon as you impose liability you go from moderation as a mechanism to weed out malice to essentially an editorial board that has to pre-approve everything as officially sanctioned by the platform. It excludes an important middle ground.
Aye, there's the rub. Inflation has more to do with its measurement than it does with the economy. Measure it a different way and you can tell a different story.
BTW can somebody share a link to where can I download historical data on the interest rates of all the major countries central banks (FED, BOE, ECB, BOJ, RBA, SNB etc)? BOE is the easiest, FED is not hard but for the majority of the rest finding the historical rate datasheets seems not really easy.
This is how I feel also. Businesses will always weigh the potential costs of a breach vs cost for proper security methods. Until you can quantify that with hard numbers for a breach, they will not take it seriously.
From the tone of articles like these sometimes I feel like I must be the only person left in the world without an internet connected refrigerator or robot vacuum cleaner.
>For example: following verbal or gestured instructions from a police officer or construction worker. We don't even have _theories_ on how to build intelligence like that, yet.

The main problem with having humans take over control in situations the car can't deal with is if the switch needs to happen at speed. If you're crawling along near some accident getting input from someone directing traffic, it doesn't seem like it should be a problem to get the human's input with voice commands, or touch on a dash-mounted tablet, as to what to do next.
Even at zero percent, there is always the helicopter drop, as non-conventional as that is.
Maybe the newspapers entire value is tied to a fraction of the staff and they wonder why we are all collectively disinterested in funding their worthless printing presses, managers, secretaries, and buildings?
We used to think that Presidents can't unilaterally enact new trade policy. That also turned out to be wrong.

What's more, the active term is "for cause," which is an exceedingly low bar.
The cynical side of me wonders how long DDG will continue before they sell out. You can only live so long off of angel investors and random grants. Some organizations have been able to survive (wikipedia) this way, but it's definitely not easy.
It looks like the US population is expected to increase [0]. If the boomers are dying, it looks like we're going to have people to replace them.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183481/united-states-pop...
No, the debt I’m talking about is the Fed’s own. They leant fictitious money to themselves (quantitive easing). It’s included in the public debt, but it’s not a literal debt of the U.S. government, which a is separate, massive debt.
I believe car leasing will become more popular than buying as automobiles become more technology than machine. Who wants a gadget car with 3 year old technology? People can't even keep phones that long.
> unless sooner removed for cause by the President

In labor law, requiring termination "for cause" is the opposite of permitting termination "at will".
Because a huge number of the voters that demand lower taxes are on the dole.
Being a Staff Engineer vs just Senior gives you more leeway for negotiation with prospective employers.
Well, guess they changed it. Maybe anyone careful enough to turn on Tracking Protection already knows enough to never whitelist, no exceptions. Whitelist just Google and Facebook and you're basically back to where you were without it.
As has been noted elsewhere on HN, helicopter money isn’t actually that non-conventional: tax breaks/rebates are a pretty standard way to goose the economy, but you’re right in that anything past that is sort of terra incognita in the US.
Just looked it up. Apparently it's due to the Purkinje Effect, i.e. "The tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the color spectrum at low illumination levels."
It won't happen within a few years. Boomers are still relatively healthy thanks to improved health care. If you count on that, then you should expect at least decades more.
>> " knocking the legs out from under the strongest bull cycle we’ve ever seen ..."

What was the last bull cycle that delivered life changing jobs to those who were low/mis-matched skilled and how sustainable was that? The tail end of most expansionary cycles I've seen are just speculative blow-offs.

Also where's the inflation ? Equity Markets are up over 130% since 2010, while earnings are up ~ 50%. These are some of the most expensive markets we have seen (barring the dot-com boom which was more large cap centric)

QE and the various central bank interventions I'd argue have elevated equity market prices (asset inflation) while increasing income disparity and delivering disproportionate gains to those invested in stock markets -- (not saying there were better alternatives in the years following the 2008 crash, but here we are).
A corollary to this is the theory that the bull cycle may actually be what causes the bear cycle. Irrational exuberance and all that. Best to pour water on the flames, not gasoline.
The question is the point where rates start to cause serious valuation deflation. Is that very near? Is it 3%, 4%, 5%, etc? There is a lot of money sloshing around looking for somewhere to go. There's a rather epic pile of cash sitting on the sidelines at this point.

I doubt that breaking point is as high as it was in the late 1990s, both because of the debt load in the economy being higher and markets being a lot more sensitive to rate hikes after nearly a decade of exceptionally low rates.

More broadly, mortgage rates just hit a seven year high. That's going to start to slam the brakes on some economic activity as people re-adjust to more expensive borrowing costs. It'll soon climb well over a 5% average for the 30 year fixed at the rate the Fed is hiking. That's cheap vs the 1980s, however consumers have been spoiled. On the affordability upside, it'll start restraining house price increases.

Corporations are fairly well loaded up with debt. That's all going to start getting more expensive. The increase in interest costs over time will to a modest degree eat into some of the profitability gains the corporate tax cut delivered. Fortunately for US corporations, their profitability is also at an all-time high, if they're smart about it at all they can trim back debt as it gets more expensive (we'll see, I'd expect a mixed bag of behavior).
Am I the only one that finds that the DDG’s bang commands actually make DuckDuckGo more useable than google, even for googles own products? E.g. it’s faster to type in a location and append !gm after (which will cause DuckDuckGo to redirect immediately to searching within google maps itself) than it is to click around on google to bring the maps up? (Likewise for google express !ge google images !gi and especially YouTube !yt)

My only wish would be some way to customize them and add new ones as they almost make web browsing into using a command line (and what that would be like with aliases and adding scripts to PATH).
Deficits implies spending, as a deficit occurs when spending is greater than receipts.
It's not a mystery. Inflation is everywhere, but the government isn't measuring it. Clinton moved the goalposts by saying that people would downgrade the quality of their purchases as the price increased. So for example, instead of buying authentic Levi's jeans, they claimed that people would buy cheaper Chinese-made jeans.

As well, have you noticed that the size of food products has been cut by 10% or more? A "pint" of ice cream is actually 14 oz now. That's a decrease of 12.5%, but same price. Same goes for orange juice, packages of bacon are 375g instead of 500g, etc.

Gas has been at multi-year lows (until recently) and yet in CA the price of gas was still almost $4. Now, as oil rises, gas will rush towards $5/gallon and we are like the boiled frog because it happened so slowly we didn't notice.
a start: https://www.global-rates.com/interest-rates/central-banks/ce...
Slack is a cancer, I said it publicly in multiple avenues and I still believe it's fundamentally true. I hate it and I hope it went away. At this point it's the digital equivalent of open spaces.
> e.g. in major cities where it's almost impossible to build.

If you define a major city as > 1mil, then nearly 10% of the US population falls into that category. That doesn't include cities, like Portland OR, which are notorious for artificially capping housing. So it's likely to be closer to 20-25% (or more) of the US population.

1. http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/
In terms of Fed policy it means they are neither focusing on restraining inflation (and thus economic growth) with high rates nor promoting growth (and thus inflation) with low rates. Equilibrium means that they don't need to intervene for either problem right now - and both have proven to be problems to be avoided.
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Maybe so, but this discussion usually conflates four sentiments:

1. I do/don't think the content is worth the subscription.

2. I do/don't think advertising should be used to support the business.

3. I have issues with the privacy implications of advertising.

4. I don't want to pay but I also don't want to deal with ads.

Though maybe you're expressing a fifth? "I don't see why they need to spend this much money to make this content."
As far as I'm aware, there's no single central, authoritative specification like an RFC, but the OSDev Wiki lists links to several resources, SCO's included:

https://wiki.osdev.org/ELF

Better yet, `man elf` is essentially a roff port of the main SCO spec. For the architecture-specific stuff, I've gotten the most mileage out of just perusing `/usr/include/elf.h`.
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> It makes me sad to think people feel the need to maintain private repos just to avoid potential conflict with project maintainers because of toxic environments - but I understand that is a reality.

So you get sad for me because I am tired, burned out and want to get stuff done without the inevitable drama so many people feel they have to inject in everything?

Thank you for being sympathetic. ;)

This was half-sarcastic / half-serious.

---

On a totally serious note, you cannot at all blame anyone for wanting less -- or zero -- emotional baggage added to what should be a professional exchange of code and conversation points. I seriously cannot and will not care if somebody has a shitty life and spouts poison at me because I try to be helpful and they have nobody else to vent at the moment. I refuse to participate in a free therapy / rage unloading session with them.

As we get wiser, we start to get economical with our energy expenditures. Even more conservatively so with emotional expenditures. That one can feel like total crap after even one hour of drama is a harsh reality -- and the fact that many of us choose to avoid ruining our day is absolutely our right.

Nothing for you to feel sad about.
lol was curious about that too. Looks gorgeous!
Yet another capitalist scheme to make workers work longer hours. I read about it on BuzzFeed.
Speak for yourself. I am not overpaid. I get paid exactly what the market for my skills is willing to pay.

$15 per hour for a teenager to sweep floors — now that’s being overpaid.

If you think you are undertaxed, there is a solution:
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm

In 2018, just over $700,000 has been donated. So clearly all of us “overpaid” people don’t really care.

I pay taxes for public transit I don’t use, public schools my kids don’t attend, healthcare I don’t consume, wars I didn’t ask for, bridges in places I’ll never go. I subsidize food for people I’ll never meet, housing, universal service fees; I pay sales taxes on everything, excise taxes created to pay for a war almost 100 years before I was born, subsidies to farmers, oil, green energy — we pay for all of this stuff. I am on with paying taxes, but dammit, I pay enough already. Over half of everything I earn goes to pay for government. I even had to pay US taxes when I didn’t even live in the US.

I understand taxes are necessary; but it’s not fair that I work 1 day for the government for every 1 day I work for myself. It doesn’t matter how much I get paid, what matters is that half of everything I do goes to taxes.

I worked very hard to get to where I am — that ought not result in being punished for it.

I consume just as much “government” as the guy standing next to me; why should I have to pay more than him?
The problem seems inherent in large engineering projects (> 2 terms worth of work) and the ephemeral nature of politicians.

I feel like there's probably a "law" using a constant that states "As a project's ETA approaches T, the actual delivery date approaches infinity."

Where T is ~10 years.
> evacuations cause an increase in fatalities

Compared to what, not evacuating and having hundreds of thousands (or millions) weather out a major hurricane? That seems doubtful..
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You’re not alone! I had to go with the monoprice Sous Vide cooker, since it was the only one that could be operated without a smart phone.

It was also cheaper, which is nice.
All you need to do is look back a little over 100 years to a time before we had the Federal Reserve. It didn't look good. There was no equilibrium, but rather a boom and bust cycle, banks going under and people losing their life savings, and so on.

One of the Fed's purposes is to moderate that cycle. And clearly it does not always succeed, but there is no reason to believe that the economy would reach some kind of equilibrium or neutral rate without it, because we know that didn't happen before the Fed existed.
The general economic principle in play is that the government should act counter-cyclically. That is, it should tax high and spend low during good years, then tax low and spend high during bad years. What the government spends the money on is not particuarly relevent [0]. Hiring an army to fill in ditches that your other army digs would serve this purpose just fine. If you are able to spend this money doing productive work, that is a plus; but not particularly relevant to the core economics.

Of course, the problem with this economic philosophy is that it can be difficult to implement given political constraints. During bad years, there is a sense that the government needs to tighten its bootstraps, and during good years there is a sense that the government has the money to invest. While this is a good philosophy for household budgeting, it just turns the government into a pro-cyclic actor, which is the opposite of what we want.

[0] As long as the money makes it throughout the economy that is.
False. https://mises.org/library/good-ol-days-when-tax-rates-were-9...
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I'm a systems engineer in Seattle. Thanks to my student loans I can't afford a house, I can't afford to have a child with my wife - thankfully my employer is kind enough to provide health insurance or else I'd probably be screwed there, too. Anyone who thinks this economy is booming is kidding themselves.
I don't agree at all that more critical systems are online. What I see instead is a greater recognition of the variety of critical systems that are and always have been exposed, leading in turn to better security for those systems. And we're kidding ourselves if we think that the attackers we're facing today weren't active 10 years ago.

20 years ago, owning up someone's voice mail was a funny joke (teenagers were literally owning up switching systems.) Today, we're all carrying HSMs in our pockets. Things are better, not worse.
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Not downplaying the severity of whatever else you have mentioned, but assassinating a journalist in a NATO member state is a very different situation.
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Money from Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-majority countries are well integrated into the world's Banking system.
I doubt you can just carve out Saudi money out.

Building such filters now, would be quite a challenge technically, and obviously, our politicians think that that would destabilize the region, or move the 'seems-like-our-allies' towards Russia/China.

Plus it would affect dramatically London's real-estate prices (it will drop, by quite a bit) that could trigger some sort of short-term British pound crisis.

Most of the leading European Banks offer what is known as 'Islamic Finance' products, as well (that's in addition to other integration methods).

See (2015)

"...
There are currently six Islamic banks in Britain, while another 20 lenders currently offer Islamic financial products and services, more than any other Western country.

Chancellor George Osborne has said promoting the Islamic finance industry, which is worth nearly $2 trillion, would help make Britain “the undisputed centre of the global financial system".

Mr Ellwood also celebrated notable sharia-compliant investments that have been used to fund some of the capital’s largest developments, including The Shard and the Olympic Village.
…"

So VC money backed by Saudis is just one more, of many many vehicles employed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfin...
Were you not able to request to delete individual comments?
Not to mention who owns so much of Twitter...
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I like how he cut him off when it became clear he could actually describe Wahhabism very well.
> why quantitively easing was used to get demand into the economy

QE was about getting liquidity back into the essentially frozen banking sector, not getting demand into the economy. You can make an argument for causality (in either direction!) between the two, but the proximate problem being addressed was a specific crisis and not a macroeconomic goal.
> People can’t seem to figure out why inflation is so low with employment so high.

It's all the debt. Wages are going to paying interest instead of driving price growth. And as the Fed raises rates, the amount of cash going to pay interest increases in proportion to the outstanding debt, which means a little increase currently goes a long way against inflation. Especially because it's a double effect -- as interest rates increase, money goes from buying things to paying interest, but it also encourages people to take money they would have bought something with and use it to pay down principal to avoid paying the higher interest rates.

This is a good thing in the right amount -- it should encourage a reduction in the total outstanding debt -- but they need to go slow because of the proportionally large effect of a small interest rate hike against the unusually large amount of existing debt.
There is a major moral hazard in just canceling student debt. Unless it comes along with serious reform of higher education financing, the problem is just going to come back much worse because, not only did we not resolve the original cause of the problem, but now borrowers think that their debt will be erased if they wait long enough.
Friend skipped college and joined the electricians union during the 2007-8 crash. Started his own business three years ago and is already charging essentially whatever he wants as most electricians are old and retiring. He barely knows any electricians our age.
Those that enjoy this, might also get a kick out of Brain Raiter's series on manually writing on ELF and making it as small as possible:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
Why are different organizations taking such an affront to Firefox's tracking protection? I don't have this problem at WaPo with uBlock + uMatrix. As far as I understand it only takes effect by default in private browsing mode.

I think it's more crucial than ever that everyone use adblockers and refuse to support sites that retaliate with anti-social behavior. Yes, news orgs need funding, but there's no requirement that they use the web's current ad model to get it.
Fair enough.

For those of you who have other mindless things you would prefer to spend hours on in your life and have no interest outside of wanting a quick fix: ~17,000,000 million disappeared[0] from the numerator since there is a lot of flexibility in ("People are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work."). People are fooling themselves if they think the employment rate is relevant signal anymore for determining the strength of the economy, it hasn't been in 10 years.

[0] https://www.alhambrapartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/...
I wouldn't think so. If your cancelling signal is half a period out, you'll double the volume instead of cancelling it. That suggests the required latency is on the order of microseconds, not milliseconds.
Makes me wonder how quickly someone will either create an addin or Mozilla will make it superobvious how they are doing their tracking.
> But in a system that emphasizes Federal power (which our system has been trending towards) this indifference is less likely because citizens are forced to live under whichever policy won at the Federal level

This system has been in place in the US for well over 200 years. The US has a long history of states vs federal government, don't believe the folks who tell you that today is any different in that respect.
Absolutely agreed: cost plus contracts are a cancer.

And in response to the inevitable "safety" -- let's be honest, we're strapping humans to a giant bomb that hopefully explodes in a controlled way.

Astronauts are some of the bravest people in the world, but the end goal is to explore and colonize space.