skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence the good old phrase: "The Stock Market Has Predicted Nine Of The Past Five Recessions"
Whoa, sounds like that project will make a cool write up one day
> So you're saying if a region declares independence and gets foreign allies to provide effective military protection for X weeks/years, then the original country has lost any right to that land?

This is how the United States claims to exist, by the way.
Why would it be off-putting? I find it off-putting that people focus on a specific group of people because of their sex or some other irrelevant attribute.

Focus on people in general, not people who belong to the group G. Focusing on people in general is not an attempt to get the focus away from women, since women are humans, too. Focusing on women alone reeks of discrimination to me. You cannot "fight" discrimination by more discrimination.
Now also applies to the BBC, whose reputation for journalistic distance has been absolutely trashed over the last few years.

So - much as I have limited respect for Facebook etc, the idea that the Internet should be regulated while the sewer press is allowed to run riot is just a little bit of a reach.
Supply & demand plus transportation logistics, cross promotion, etc. Imagine Las Vegas has an agreement with airlines to subsidize airfair in return for a certain volume of inbound humans. The airline optimizes logistics, and finds that from your city to Vegas wouldn’t result in a full flight, but splitting travelers to higher volume hubs allows them to consolidate for a full flight, maximizing thier subisidy compared to their outlay.

They don’t care that the passenger is connecting in this case, they are not what is being optized for. However, if the passenger terminates their trip at the hub, the airline may lose the subsidy making the entire trip a loss for that passenger, despite using less resources on that one particular human.

I don’t know if those are the types of arrangmenta that exist, but it would be hard for me to imagine a scenario where cities that rely heavily on tourism aren’t spending money to encourage airlines to bring more people.

The other part of that is to the customer/passenger, there is a hidden shadow transaction on their flight with a third party. In other forms of logistics, this is common (last mile delivery by USPS, for example), but I don’t think most people like to think that they are thought of as cargo.
I think that it's probably better to start with a solid vimrc and then make changes from there. Ours is pretty standard and included with our standard dotfiles https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc

A HUGE problem with developers learning VIM is that they think they have to go from 0 - 100 immediately when you can adopt VIM gradually and still see noticeable efficiency increases.
That argument is both true and deceiving at the same time. The poorest countries are improving the most because they are so far behind everyone else that any improvement is spectacular when viewed as a percentage.

Take a homeless person who has a penny to his name. You give him $100 and his wealth skyrockets by 1000000% in a day. Compare that to bill gates whose wealth probably increases by a "measly" 10% per year. But if you look at the wealth increase by absolute numbers rather than percentages, the picture is quite different. Bill Gates' 10% probably gets him $10 billion while the homeless man's 1000000% gets him $100.

$10 billion vs $100.

10% vs 1000000%.

Whereas the mainstream media may be too pessimistic, rosling is even more optimistic. The idea that the poorest countries ( like CAR ) is going to lead the world is unrealistic barring some apocalyptic event in the US, Europe, East Asia, Middle East.
It does not actually provide memory safety in concurrent scenarios, only for purely sequential code. Given the predicted use-case scenarios for Go, that's pretty much a truck-sized hole in the language's purported guarantees, especially in comparison with Rust.
Does Reddit offer a version of their site that filters out non-paying users? This would be my ideal experience.
Feels like we've come full circle back to the early 2000's were apps like Trillian let you chat on MSN Messenger, AIM, IRC, ICQ and others.
How much code that is run by most user facing businesses Is the same code that was used 10 years ago no matter how good it is?

No matter how great my Perl code was running 15 years and 5 companies ago, I doubt they are still using it.

The code that runs Amazon.com, Google.com, etc. is nothing like what they ran 10 years ago.

Besides, we aren’t talking about feeding starving children here. We are talking about the death of a social media platform. But more generically, if yet another software as a service CRUD app dies, whose hurt besides the investors who expect most of their startups to fail and the developers who can walk down the street and get another job in a week?

As an individual, why am I going to fight the loosing battle of trying to implement great code quality and test coverage when I’m being incentivized by how many features my team can pump out as cheaply as possible by hiring a bunch of poorly paid developers overseas?

We call what we do “engineering” but there is a world of difference. If my program fails that is running a SAAS app, the user gets a 500 error. If a mechanical engineer rushes, people die.
It's really interesting how back in the 50s-70s, programming was considered boring, clerical women's work and the architecture side of things was considered men's work. The attitude at the time was that the men did the real work by writing flowcharts and the women were doing menial labour by turning those flowcharts into computer instructions. A lot of these women in the footnotes seem to be a footnote because of this consideration.

The Computer Girls is another interesting article about this attitude and how programming became masculised:

http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/ensmenger-gende...
> 3) lowest unemployment since 1969

What was the US's unemployment in 2007, before the crash? It was 5%.

https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2012/recession/pdf/recession_b...

Recessions CAUSE unemployment. You've got cause-and-effect backwards. First comes recession, THEN comes unemployment. Usually, unemployment happens as the recession recovers.

In 2009, unemployment was 10%. But guess what? The recession was over, and 2010 was one of the best recoveries of all time.

> 1) Record domestic manufacturing output

That's practically a tautology. When US GDP shrinks (and a large portion of GDP is manufacturing), you have the DEFINITION of a recession.

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You're looking at historical indicators of a Recession. IE: When everyone is unemployed and the factories are closed, we can look back and say "Yeah, a recession happened 6 months ago". But there's literally NO predictive power in those two attributes.

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> 2) Most energy security in history (US is now a net exporter of oil)

While this is likely good policy, it doesn't seem to be indicative of recessions or not. Case in point: we've grown incredibly in the 1950s when we were importing oil. The 80s and 90s were also built on top of foreign imports, but that didn't stop the economic boom times.
Yes, they should know it when they see it. And if they happen to make a mistake the government will helpfully tell them what to correct.
I guess it's just semantics, but if you can think of two ways you could do something and both are about the same in terms of time-to-implement, readability, complexity, etc., but one is probably faster... then I wouldn't call it an optimization. That's just writing good code in the first place.
Yes, this is just pretty simple Monty Hall/Bayes stuff, your example is on point.
I'm really curious about what they are using to connect to all those backends at the same time, I'd suspect seriously libpurple there again, but I'm not sure.
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You missed the UK based banks and financial institutions that were acting just as badly, such as RBS and others?
Unlike the meritocracy of the business world, clearly.
There's SIP and Keychain, but it does not prevent say Safari from accessing Mail or user memory in general. If macOS becomes an iOS port (instead of iOS being the derivative work of the barely used UNIX system called macOS) perhaps we'd see some of the iOS specific hardening. AFAIK that kind of sandboxing does not exist in macOS. How difficult would it be to port something like pledge or unveil to macOS?
Yes :) Open those networks, pin them, boom you have the same result!

*Also works on Firefox
The difference is that ammonia is expensive, you can sell the ammonia (or something produced with ammonia) to make fertilizers or explosives or something. There is a market for ammonia.

When you capture CO2, what you can make? Some liquid like oil or gas that can be burn. Some solid like coal that can be burn. Some rock like limestone or marble that is more expensive than the natural one. You can't sell the products.

A big chunk of the man made CO2 is in power plants. It's not a good idea to burn oil to produce energy and CO2, and then use a bigger amount of energy to transform the CO2 into something that is easy to store like oil.

Perhaps you can use less energy to transform the CO2 into something like coal instead of oil, but in this case it would more efficient to make a new type of power plant that transform oil into a coal like product.

(Essentially burn the Hydrogen in the oil and keep the Carbons alone. I'm not sure if this is thermodynamically posible, but IIRC the C-H bound has more energy that the C-C bound. And even if this is possible, there are the technological problems.)
It's a bit like asking why there isn't a Straight Pride Month, really. Men in science haven't really been categorically underrepresented/excluded from science the way women ever have.
said the 50 year old white WASP

how the fuck would you know what its like to grow up Asian American?

You don't, because you are not Asian American.

Your attitude is exactly why there is racism today. Maybe you should think about beating down the ignorant boy inside of you instead of writing violent shit on your profile, creepy af
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cool, thanks a lot for the links

yeah, I'd like to know if your article is done - a reply to this comment would do, thanks again
The article is substantially predicated on a recently published paper[1] which proposes a threshold lottery for university admissions. Among other things, this paper directly kicks off discussion of several basic criticisms that could be levied against lottery-based admission, such as (for example) the definition of fairness.

In particular, note that the definition used in this context is an admission lottery such that, for all applicants at or above an explicit baseline of qualification, each applicant is equi-probable of being admitted. It's also worth noting the author explictly states the system is pragmatic for distinguishing between qualified candidates of increasingly insignificant meritocratic differences; however, it may not be compatible with "general welfare."

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/670663?seq=1#page_scan_...
No reason to get excited folks - its YAEC (yet another electron component).

Me: Wouldn't it be great if we had a light-weight native chat app that was compatible with all of the many slow-resource intensive chat programs i am chained to?

Everyone else: We have solved your problem by creating a new standard resource intensive chat program that solves none of your problems! Also it has cool animations!
I don't see them dipping it in garlic butter though.
this isn't true, fwiw - there are about 30 matrix bridges, and only one of them (matrix-bifrost) uses libpurple, and only then as a fallback if there isn't a better stack available.

Edit: For instance, one of the best telegram bridges for Matrix is https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-telegram, which uses the 'telethon' Py3 library to connect to telegram.

Conversely, https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp is one of the best whatsapp bridges, which uses the go-whatsapp Go whatsapp library to connect. Libpurple is very much the last ditch resort where everything else has failed.
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The only human activity so far on a large enough scale to impact the biosphere as a whole is fossil fuel use. If you want to count that as "terraforming."

We could add nuclear weapons to that list, if we ever decided to use them.
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Absolutely - I first learned "vim" using a visual studio plugin. Since then I used it in 5 other editors, but I barely used vim itself.

The main downside is that you don't learn things like window managing, file exploration, etc - mostly because other editors are already good at that, and it's not something plugins focus on.
This letter is missing (willingly or unwillingly) the point of the original Pinker statement: Comparisons do exist and they indeed show us that we are better off, but are the comparisons numerically accurate? Probably not.
Fairer? Yes. Better? No.

The college application process screens for more than just measured ability, and forcing colleges to take on people who aren't a good culture fit changes the experience at that college for the worse.
That's because the amount of software affecting your real world ("meatspace") life is increasing exponentially without a corresponding decline in bugs-per-line.

This is a real problem, we have to adopt exponentially safer code generation methods or reduce the absolute amount of code in use, or both. (Or we can kiss our asses goodbye.)
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Well, this is the issue,
when my function exceeds the timeout configured in the function yml, lambda will respond with internal server error,
and will freeze the VM, if it decides to reuse the VM for another request, then the go-routines of the last call will resume (because i didn't call os.Exit).
Does using this get around Facebook's tracking? I'd like to chat with some people on Messenger, but I'm not about to allow a FB app on my devices.
It doesn't seem hopeful that you'll stop breaking the guidelines, so we've banned the account. If you'd like to start commenting civilly and substantively you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Imagine if more men decided to play "woman's advocate" even half the time they're compelled to play "devil's advocate".
Debit card transaction fees' are much lower.

Still, the solution to this problem would be to charge the client whatever Visa or Mastercard is charging as an extra. A practice I've encountered before in small shops in London, banned across the EU due to clients facing unexpected charges at the end of the process.
> It's much easier to just have a single point of responsibility (the doctor), as it makes the legal questions more simple.

The way it currently stands is even with dilution of authority the doctor is still the final point of liability. It’s a topic of heated anger in the physician community. If you don’t let midlevels work with nearly unlimited autonomy (so the hospital can use them to lax efficiency) you Will be replaced ... but you’re liable for them. The phlebotomy system fails to populate a blood gas order? Your fault for not micromanaging every element in the hospital operation, over which you have basically no authority, because you’re just another line worker (but thanks for carrying the liability.) Dics carry liability for everything as though we are in charge, and we are actually just highly specialized line workers taking orders from above.

It’d be nice if we were only held responsible for our own errors of medical judgment.
I've never used X and i've never missed it.
My then girlfriend and I went to Iceland in 2014. I proposed there, she said yes and then within a minute a huge amazing aurora lit up the sky including deep red colours and crazy waves. It was a memorable experience :)
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It's the same as when "Black Lives Matter" is shouted back at with "All Lives Matter". It doesn't actually help nor highlight the individual and unique plight of a particular group. It's just a shouting attempt to silence the problems of a particular group.

"All Lives Matter" is a truism. Of course they do. It doesn't even need mentioning, so why did you mention it? "Black Lives Matter" highlights an actual problem that needs to be addressed, so why are you shouting "All Lives Matter" back at it when you weren't saying anything before?

"All Lives Matter" is just a bland retort to try to get the spotlight away from "Black Lives Matter".

In the case of women, their sex is not irrelevant, because the demographics of people in science overwhelmingly show a skew in sex and gender. Highlighting how women were relegated to footnotes much more than men were is an interesting bit of information that shouldn't be shut down with "what about the men?"
It should count as breach of contract if it's against a provision in the contract. If there's a provision for it in the contract, the next question is if it is valid or not (e.g. compensation for late flights is defined by laws in many places, so airlines can't just not offer it), which is where a law (or a different interpretation of existing law) restricting this would start.
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There's a couple of dozen more around the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock#List_of_radio_time...

Back when I was into SWL, I used to get a station in South America. My memory tells me it was out of Peru, but it's not on the wikimopedia list.
I agree it's a different but good design, however the issue was our flights weren't even on the board, and when they were bag drop was already closed!
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The concurrent modules IO fix is the one I'm really looking forward to. This will massively speed my build times up, since I can start caching dependencies on my CI/CD server.
I grew up just a few miles from WWV. When I was a teenager I had an electronics lab, and the most reliable noise in the circuits I built was the WWV signal.

I could take a diode, a length of wire and a speaker and know the exact time, no tuning necessary :-)
Do you have examples of the bug/config/compat issues? I get those problems with an IDE, not Vim. IDE is always trying to lint, debug, run stuff... mix that with virtual environments and what a mess.

With vim being on every system, i don't really carry much baggage around. I have my vim settings file in cloud storage. And maybe one pluggin (NERDTree) on my main machine.
https://twitter.com/VFEmail/status/1095021927972909056

https://twitter.com/VFEmail/status/1095038701665746945
Typically business cycles of the us economy last about 38 months. So your "predictor" that comes two years early isn't predicting anything. An analogy would be saying that you can predict 50/100 Blackjack games with 90% accuracy. Sure- you can, but it's a meaningless prediction that has no correlation to any individual game.

Example: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/...
It can be tricky, but doesn't depend on the user being an engineer. It mainly requires the right mindset.

Some people find even an iPhone too complicated, others don't mind reading the manual for a minute. For some users Vim just makes sense, while certain people will struggle with saving files in Notepad because they think a specific button is at the wrong place and refuse to learn it any other way than they imagined.

> I still get frustrated setting up a new computer

Why is that? Setting up Vim is the easiest task for me, it's literally just a matter of copying some files.
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Note that the court didn't find that asking for money in this case was wrong, but that Lufthansa didn't justify the specific amount properly.
I haven't, to the best of my knowledge.
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Cable.

Regular internet is frequently more expensive than the same speed internet + basic cable.
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Are you searching for specific airlines?

Here's another option: https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/m/02_286./m/0156q.2019-0...
Having no more insects is needlessly alarmist? What would be worrying to you if not that? Yikes.
And yet not; those were native apps which reverse re-engineers or reimplemented the protocol.

My understanding is that Franz and such are just wrappers around the same websites/webapps that run the underlying service
Isn't remembering your QQ number similar to remembering your phone number? I think the author is being overly dramatic as to how hard it is to remember it.
50% is 50% better than 0%. If you knew there was a 50% chance you'd die on your way to work today, you'd probably call off work. If you know there's a 50% chance a recession is coming, as an investor, you take similar precautions.
It's against Slacks ToS to recreate the main app offering so I'll be curious to see how long they can offer Slack support. I'm pretty sure they even killed the slack terminal client someone created awhile back.
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I've learned vim in the standard vim editor at the time, so I can only guess but it should probably work. 99% of my work with vim is navigating and editing text. The rest is macros and substitute, all of which is available in IntelliJ. The things you miss out on are (I think) colorschemes and vim specific plugins (which you mostly don't need because you have a fully fledged IDE).
Ah, yes. I misread. Yours is fundamentally simpler (that is a compliment) and at face value it indeed seems like a good solution. Outliers distort data, after all.

The system I thought you suggested in my misreading seems complimentary to your solution though.
The thing about recessions is you don't when it started or ended until after the dust settles and you can collect data.
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What a marvelous project! Thank you to the author for creating it.

For anyone interested in the history and technology behind WWV/WWVH/WWVB, NIST has a great writeup from 2005:

https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1969.pdf

Fun fact: the WWV announcer is San Francisco talk show host Lee Rodgers.

You can also listen to WWV by phone. The number is in the PDF.
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"The U.S. Is Getting Closer to a Recession, Data Show"

Of course the U.S. is - every day we are one day closer to the next recession. It's that nobody knows when that day is. A lot can happen between now and "that day".
This presupposes that colleges truly want their admission process to be fair, which they absolutely don't. Then, how would they get to admit legacy students with wealthy parents?

Also, admitting that getting admitted is based on luck directly contradicts the narrative of meritocracy in college admissions, which would decrease the perceived prestige of the school. So yeah, no way would Harvard go for this.
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It may change the culture at some schools. Whether that would be better or worse remains an open question.
It runs beautifully on my Sony Xperia XZ1 compact. Firefox. Very nice.
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