skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would the inflation be after 5-10 years of such policies?

5-10 years of a combination of #1 would have results that would make inflation the least of most people's concerns. (Also, somewhat implausible; even Trump has had problems with a same party Congress while he had it.)

> The deficit is increased to 2B/y, following the doctrines of most populists due to stimulus policies combined with reduced tax incomes.

The budget deficit for FY 2018 was $779B, or over $2B/day. It can't “increase to $2B/year”, that would be a ~99.75% reduction, not an increase.

> 5. Fed buys all treasuries, both the ones needed to cover the deficit and to roll over existing debt as well as rotten private sector debt.

So, populists supporting the radically insane President have taken over the Fed (enough to direct the FOMC consistently, even though that body consists of a mix of the Board of Governors—wih staggered 14-year terms) and a rotating subset of the Reserve Bank Presidents (who are elected by each Reserve Bank’s directors, who largely come from the banking industry?) as well as Congress?

This scenario is increasingly implausible.

> 8. The government caves in, and increases wages by decree to match the inflation.

What now? It can increase minimum wages by legislation, sure, but if it does so to match runaway price inflation not driven by output gains, it just kills employment, which breaks the cycle because no one is going to demand wage increases when they don't have a job.

It can directly employ people at whatever wages it chooses, of course, or try to force employers to retain employees while paying higher wages, but those each have their own plausibility problems.

> (Repeat steps 5-8 ad infinitum)

Yeah, that's not going to happen as infinitum. If you get through 8 once (which you won't), government collapse and/or civil war are imminent.
> As a final observation, you can split big repositories into smaller ones quite easily (in Git anyway) but sticking small repositories together into a bigger one is a lot harder. So start out with a monorepo and only split smaller repositories out when it's clear that it really makes sense.

If you only need to do this once, subtree will do the job, even retaining all your history if you want.

I'm not sure what the easier way to split big repos is.
In all honesty, as a Materials Engineering student at a "learn by doing school", I could easily have done without the expensive lab equipment, but not without the library. I've always thought industry should be supporting the labs and having students perform some relatively basic work for them, for a random example Scanning Electron Microscope sample prep and basic analysis

Edit: not a current student and graduated 10 years ago.
You really shouldn't be storing OTP tokens in your password manager. Yes it's better than nothing, but if your password manager vault gets compromised your 2FA does nothing to stop it.
If goods have the same value everywhere, it would be impossible to make money transporting it because transportation costs would make the product cost more than it was worth to the manufacturer and seller.
You're right. Doing encryption correctly can be incredibly difficult and complex. Enough so that people might miss important subtleties of the technologies at hand.

For instance, you may want the encryption of data-in-transit to be removed by the application, rather than by whatever is responsible for TLS termination. You may not want your load balancer to be capable of reading the most sensitive data of your request.
Ah ha! I've long thought that of the Garamonds as well, it just never seemed as extreme as with Courier.

The point you bring up with different proportional amounts of bleed at different sizes is also quite relevant.

OpenType fonts have so many options now... I almost wonder if it would make the most sense to have a bleed option built into the rasterizer that could have defaults set by the typeface designer, but also adjusted by the user (e.g. more bleed when using white-on-black). There are so many arcane options on macOS's OS-level typeface options palette, it seems pretty reasonable.
> I strongly believe that lower cost vocational education with group housing for 18-23 year olds is part of a solution to this problem.

In other words, the Army.
The old Unreal engine was based on portal rendering. The game itself didn't use too much in the ways of non-euclidian geometry, but there were plenty of custom maps and demos of it. Most, if not all, of the stuff in this video could probably be recreated in that old tech.

Not meant as a middlebrow dismissal, this is neat stuff and I wished it was explored more in games!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEVSUIECY9Y
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that's very much non ideal.
That's not what Dunning-Kruger is about, so, no. D-K doesn't say ignorant people consider themselves experts.
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This was also used in a part of the Stanley Parable. The narrator growing impatient at your insubordination draws a yellow line for you to follow but as it winds down a cluttered office corridor strange things happen.
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USB C != Thunderbolt 3 != Thunderbolt 3 < 1m, but all of them have the same port.

Things like charging your phone can be done with USB C.

Things like external hard drive are generally done with Thunderbolt

Things like External GPU's have to be done with a Thunderbolt cable that is less than 1m

All of that said, I am not 100% sure of all of that, because it is all so confusing.
You either have or borrow a pickup truck instead, because everyone has one or knows someone that has one.

In the OP's scenario, furniture, there are very few furniture stores in the United States that don't deliver. And if you happen to shop at one of those few, there are a number of ways to rent a truck for a day or by the hour: Home Depot, ZipCar, Enterprise, U-Haul, etc...
> they can't take the robot and move to a different caffe

taking on the risk of owning an expensive bit of capital equipment that moves, requires maintenance and is put into use at an employer's facility doesn't sound like a fiscally sound idea for someone who has difficulties leaving their home.
On the other hand, struggling all night to solve an un-solvable problem is a valuable learning experience, too. In the real world we struggle all the time with problems that don't have solutions.
He has permission from the authors and publishers. It is not that clear in this page but it used to be more explicit at the old site where he first started posting them.
Modeling it as two spheres, one 16 km across the other 12 km, with a density the same as water, its total mass would be about 3*10^15 kg. At a distance of 8 km from the center of mass, the escape velocity [0] would be about 7 meters/second or 16 miles/hour.

But the asymmetry of Ultima Thule means that its gravitational field would be weird. Not like a sphere at all. So the acceleration of gravity and escape velocity would vary a lot from place to place.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity
> 20% inflation is hardly a nightmare. The US hit 14% in '79.

Er, ’79 was widely regarded as a nightmare, and inflation was a huge part of the reason. ’79 was the center of the “night” implicitly referenced by Reagan's “Morning in America” reelection image that contrasted the time after his election to the time immediately preceding.

> The only thing that can take it back there is an external oil shock.

An economic shock, but no reason it would have to be an external oil shock (in fact, the US is more resistant to that particular kind of shock than it was in the 70s.)
Thanks for making this available under a Creative Commons license, which I also use for several of my books.
Isn't that the wrong direction? My concern is not so much that my phone will show up to an attacker as a storage device, which can generally be restricted or be set to require pairing - my concern is that the attacker will show up to my phone (or laptop) as an accessory, in particular as a keyboard and mouse and perhaps an external display, at which point they can click through any permission or pairing prompts the OS might try to show.
This is my story exactly... installed Scratch on my parent's computer and used the software all the way through version 2. Huge influence on the path I chose.
Popeye's relatively obese forearms would beg to differ.
Now John Bargh’s Famous Hot-Coffee Study Has Failed to Replicate
Is there much point in using weird geometries if you don't make confusing levels?

Surely the point of using weird geometries is to expose the player to weird effects that aren't achievable by simple euclidean planes and a bit of trickery with perspective or colours?
As far as we can tell, they are pretty common. But we haven't visited enough objects to have firm statistics.
Wow you got more than 4k stars in 11 days ? Is this a record on github or more common than I think ? Congratulations on that. In terms of monitizing, a lot of folks talk about sidekiq (a ruby project) that makes good money while being open source.
Everyone says "Google" to mean "do an internet search". It's still a registered trademark and you can't promote your own product using that name.

The term "IP address geolocation" is common and descriptive enough, and isn't trademarked. The mark "GeoIP" is MaxMind's trademark for their particular IP geolocation service, and isn't something you can use just because you're familiar with the term, regardless of if the application is free/open source/whatever.

While you likely mean well, MaxMind has a legal and practical obligation to defend their mark, which means issuing C&Ds for people who are using it without a license to do so.
Why Are People Religious? A Cognitive Perspective
While we may not see a big burst, it’s possible that a generation of defaulting borrowers will gain steam. As more and more people justify and publicize non-payment, it may become politically untenable to collect on those loans.

Imagine a collective movement of 9,000,000 all ceasing to pay their student loans at once. If I thought all my friends weren’t planning on repaying, I would be quick to join them. Is the government really going to dig thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of millions of people at once?
If I'm going prospecting, it's obvious I need jeans and pickaxes, and obvious that Levi can make more of those than he could use in prospecting himself. Levi isn't telling you you'll get rich from his jeans, he's just selling you what you know you need if you are prospecting. It's not obvious why I need your How to Mine for Gold and Riches book and why you can't use that information to get rich youdser, if it's good information.
I started my son on Scratch when he was 6. He is now 9 and runs a lunchtime coding club at his school teaching other kids to use Scratch. I have looked around for the next step for him to improve his skills and found that Lua Löve to be the best one.
To be fair, the people I'm talking about tend to be more on the folk / eclectic side of things — and are playing real physical instruments. I don't count laptop jockeys in that group.
Yes, see here [1], for example.

[1] http://crookedtimber.org/2013/08/14/humanities-science-is-no...
One could have a “good” engineer but the engineering team/dept/section will be lackluster. A strong engine without a rudder is meaningless and vice versa.

There is a reason why leadership of teams/section/department etc has the responsibilities and accordingly higher pay.
Not well! Your best bet is to

* Sync your (snowplow, segment, ...) data to a data warehouse
* Try to clean up your data with SQL
* Keep running GA so you can compare your numbers to GA
I essentially was doing this on my own when I had a Galaxy. Battery started dying faster so I would leave the battery saver mode on.

Apple is good about doing things so the user doesn’t have to think about it. The media just ran with that shit and made it out to be way worse than it was.
Computer makers are selling tools, not secrets. It's up to you to decide if you need a computer.
Will fix it, thanks a lot for the feedback !
Unfortunately there are no widely adopted open standards that seem suitable?

Using .PSD as the native format would be risky, its direction is set entirely by Adobe, there are dozens of different versions, and many Photoshop features which would be quite hard to support. And maybe some existing GIMP features would be hard in PSD too. For instance the non-destructive features in PS are mostly "adjustment layers", which might not be exactly the UI concept that GIMP wants to use for non-destructive editing.

But, GIMP does have a PSD file loader/saver. It is always in need of improvements, so any contributions would be very welcomed.
Hi, I was wondering if you'd like to shed light on a worry I have regarding breaking into robotics/autonomous machines industry.

I have a B.S. in Applied Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Currently I work do hardware and firmware design on high reliability security systems using FPGAs. On paper I think i'm a great applicant for a company like Velodyne but i want more experience with robotics. I was wondering if a company like Velodyne generally thinks highly about stuff like the Udacity Nanodegrees. I am taking the Robotics Nanodegree and although I'm learning a lot I feel like it's pretty cursory and companies like Velodyne want "real" experience with robotics versus some online course.

Thanks for taking the time!
Sex differences identified in deadly brain tumors
There is a big difference between the US and Norway and some other parts of Europe. In the US a car is almost a requirement for getting and holding down a job. Even the working poor need one.

In Norway if you don’t make decent money you wouldn’t get a car because they are very expensive (so much more a luxury item) and public transport is very good.

I think subsidies and taxes are probably both needed. Sweden added a budget-neutral measure where those who buy new cars get a tax penalty if the car isn’t environmentally friendly and that money is used for tax breaks for those that do get the greener cars.

Obviously the EVs are still more expensive and this measure raises the cost of the cheaper ICEs, but it’s marginal for small cars and more significant on larger luxury cars.
Ah sorry. Wasn’t considering the exchange rate. Thought that was a CA priced warby.
Didn't get the formatting right on the post; first time submitting something on HN. I'll add a tag next time.

I disagree with your point about how you're _always_ going to need to view the HTML/CSS. Sure, there's always a point at which it will become necessary, but when is it completely unnecessary? Do you really need to see the HTML for every button you put on the page? What about a header? A tabset?
https://xkcd.com/730/
Franz Is a Messaging App for WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Slack, Telegram and More
Check out "a slower speed of light", relativistic open source game demo made in unity: http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

Unfortunately the movement is rather hard on the eyes, relativistic motion is not what you are used to after all.
If intelligence exists then there can be some measure of it. Maybe current tests are not very good but that doesn't justify all the arguments in the article.
On a similar note, is there a way to package a container into an executable for all platforms (including for macOS, Windows).

Like Electron but for containers?
So, prison reform starts with life sentences, without parole, for all violent offenders? For juvenile offenders, too? (The United States is, afaik, the only country in the world that imposes this punishment on juveniles - of which ~2,500 are currently serving it)

That's certainly a consistent approach, but not a particularly popular one the world over. If the only thing you're doing is trying to minimize harm to non-convicts, that's one way to go about it, though. According to the stats for recidivism among persons convicted of homicide, though, you may be over-optimizing. [1] Or not. [2]

[1] http://www.newjersey.gov/corrections/pdf/REU/Recidivism_Amon... - In conclusion, none of the 336 homicide offenders committed another
murder. However, we found that the highest risk of recidivism for new violent or drug crimes were the felony homicide
group (slightly over one-third), followed by the altercation precipitated homicide offenders (27%), which was in sharp
contrast to the domestic violence homicide offenders with less than 10% recidivism due to a new violent or drug
offense, and the accidental homicides with 17% recidivism due to a new violent or drug offense.

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8689372 - A similar study in Finland had a higher recidivism rate for homicide - where people released after serving ~5 years of a homicide sentence were ~14 times more likely then the general population to commit another homicide. The difference could be explained by shorter sentencing. Someone convicted of a homicide at 21, released at 26, is far more likely to be a recidivist then someone convicted at 21, and released at 52.
I feel like Verily’s non-GMO approach of using a robotic system to sort out sterile males generated the old-fashioned (radioactive) way offers a compelling alternative.

I’m far from anti-GMO, but the fact that there could be an alternative and that Oxitec’s approach doesn’t offer compelling advantages over that would give me pause.

Oxitec uses tetracycline to supress expression of the self-limiting gene in the captive state. However, there will always be some genetic mutations and given a large enough population you will get mutants that inactivate the transgene and could potentially lead to those gene copies spreading in the wild

https://www.oxitec.com/our-technology/
I haven’t used a fossil kWh in years (Sweden) and I expect most people in Norway are in the same boat.
Or the seventh, since New Horizons imaged several satellites in the Pluto system, some at similar resolutions to the latest pictures.
OK... is is just a Mac-only Thunderbolt issue then, which I guess you could kind of say is a problem with Apple and not with USB-C itself?

If you ignore Thunderbolt, can you always rely on the latest USB-C cables Apple and Google sell working for everything? Or are there still issues?
AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis
Would you say that in countries like Germany, where there is no tuition fee and university is funded with tax money, schools are sub-par because of that?
They wouldn't exist if Apple was actually aggressive.

Repair shops have simply been victims of Apple's aggressive approach to security.
Sharing Data: Blog Traffic
2018 Data Share: Blog Traffic

I’ve been running my blog for close to ten years now, and I’ve always been curious how the traffic I receive compares to other tech bloggers. Google searches all seem supply the non-helpful answer of “it depends”.

In the interests of sharing, now that 2018 is over, I’m happy to share some data for the year. Perhaps others might like to do the same?

http://datagenetics.com/files/traffic2018.png

TL;DR – I finished 2018 with about 1.2 million PV (down slightly from last year; web traffic is very spikey.

A few other stats:

-Approx 48% of my traffic is now non-desktop so I’ve (finally) got around to changing my site to a responsive design that is more mobile/tablet friendly (yeah, yeah, I know what took me so long!)

-Browser breakdown: 57% Chrome, 25% Safari, 6% Firefox, 2% IE, the rest noise.

-Search provides the lions share of my referral traffic (67%), followed by direct traffic.

-97.7% of this search traffic comes from Google, 1.6% from Bing, the rest noise.
Wait until you discover Archive Team...
My mom used to be an executive director that found work and provided housing for developmentally disabled adults. I remember the challenge they had finding jobs they could excel at. They got a contract with Hitachi to pack boxes, once they worked with the factory to delegate the work, which involved color coding the boxes and determine the packing order, it became one of the favorite jobs for individuals with more individuals wanting the job then there where positions. It was great for the lower functioning individuals who were not in a position to engage with others. The other jobs that got filled quickly were custodial for the higher functioning individuals.
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The technology you build will help reach millions more. We are hiring multiple roles, including software engineers and engineering managers, in both San Francisco and Nairobi:

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I bought the $30 battery replacement because they stopped making small phones. My preferred plan would have been to spend ~$700 on an updated SE.

Similar story on the Mac side.
Robotics Showcase – meet awesome robots in SF
Two things that my son hated about the beta, and haven’t changed in the release, are they moved the playback pane from the left to the right, and the sound editor is less fully featured (e.g. can’t delete within sounds, only trim them).
DeepDream Creator Unveils Very First Images After Three Years
xiaomi phones are so good with the fraction of the price.

I like Apple stance on privacy, but the price of iPhone XR is not serious.
ALGOL (or rather, the various incarnations thereof) was a very different animal from any programming language we're familiar with nowadays. I'd say modern languages might owe just as much to COBOL - didn't the "record" or "struct" concept originate from there? As another data point, the verbose syntax of COBOL programs also allowed for the use of longer identifiers, quite similar to ones we'd write today even in a "low-level" language like C.
> I imagine it went something like this....

>- Apple heavily subsidizes battery replacements for everyone

> - Some people decide that they'll stick with their phone a bit longer than they otherwise would have, reducing iPhone sales.

> - Apple misses their earnings target

This is a gross misrepresentation of the report which clearly states "Greater China and other emerging markets accounted for the vast majority of the year-over-year iPhone revenue decline."

Battery replacements may have been notable, but it is incorrect to imply that they were the dominant factor.
That may be a helpful open source machine learning project for a self-hosted analytics system perhaps.