skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is like a game of telephone. The cited study finds that all corrosion of all types worldwide is a 2.5T problem. Shipping is a small fraction of that. Hard to trust the article after such a trivially false statement in the title.

Notably, the economic impact of the entire shipping industry is under 500B [1], which ought to cast doubt over the whole article.

[1] http://www.worldshipping.org/benefits-of-liner-shipping/glob...

Also @dang the article should link to the original at https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/r-d/news/mango-leaf-extr...
Thankfully I’ve not yet been subject to this new angst.

But; I can imagine this has whispers and perhaps the discomfort many experienced in middle and high school of not being the one left out or left hanging at the lunch table. The stepchild of the Corp.

Is life so certain and determined that we yet need some form of uncertainty in our lives and in particular at work?

We hear about and experience dark patterns in the digital realm. These things, hot dealing and open offices are an affront to humanity and are whispering below our conscious “You’re not really needed, as your desk and personal space are coyly violated, so is your presumed place in this company. You’re welcome here so long as we allow you to be welcome. We’re the boss of you.”
It's not a conspiracy, it's simply that centralization is highly efficient and thus extremely popular. It's the reason why engineers that want to run the business out of bare metal colos get laughed out of the room in favor of an AWS stack. Decentralization is more work.
There is. It’s called convenience.

Why do you think the mall destroyed the downtown? It’s not because people wanted a decentralized store owners. It’s because consumers want centralization.

Same thing happening in ecommerce. People want everything in one place.

But the trend is also already shifting. People are tired of the big stores so much like malls have started to die, so too ecomm is increasingly about personal relationships.
>it's still underdevelopment and does not work yet.

>https://github.com/muayyad-alsadi/podman-compose/issues/13

Hard to trust a repo like that for production.

Unless Red Hat provides an alternative I won't be able to use podman. IIRC they said it was too hard to keep up with K8S changes so even an abstraction for that would be too costly.
Interesting, the economic output per capita of Qatar, UAE and SA appears to come from oil resources rather than human capital.
Even PHP gets this right. It's not hard. It makes me wonder why npm hasn't already moved to namespaced package names.
Same thing keeps happening to software. When a platform first launches, its sponsor works overtime recruiting indie developers to launch their own apps on the platform. They know that users will only come to the platform if it has content/apps that they want.

Then at some point, the platform gains "critical mass." People stop buying the platform as a way to get a specific app, and start buying the platform for the platform, confident that it will provide whatever they need.

Soon thereafter, the platform sponsor begins either buying up apps on its platform or making its own competition for apps on its platform.

the independents are squeezed out because the platform no longer needs them to be successful.

Then another platform launches, and its sponsor screams "developers, developers, developers..."

And the cycle begins anew.
There's a third option: as you grow in your career as a developer, learn the ops stuff so you can make good choices from square one.
Unilaterally pushing up nominal interest rates is trivially achieved by rising inflation by devaluing currency by printing lots of it and spending it on pretty much anything. It would pretty much instantly hike up the nominal yields on pretty much everything USD-denominated to match the (now) higher inflation.

It doesn't mean that it's a good thing to do as it has all kinds of other effects, but in general the governments have the ability to do this should they choose to, it's just that they keep pinky-swearing that they won't do it, making legislation that makes it tricky to do without consensus (but they can repeal that if both parties agree that it's the way to go) etc.
Cutting higher education funding and scholarships won't help with brain drain.
This is why you have to do it every year. Which is exactly what a progressive taxation system does (or would do if it was a little more progressive than current systems)
Agree 100%! But in practice, it doesn’t work like that. In a world where the safe, conservative option, taken by responsible borrowers, is the fixed-rate, then the variable rate takers are dominated by the people who are trying to stretch their finances to the breaking point, and that’s why you should worry when you see variable rate mortgages becoming more common.
Seems like elastic here is a reference to the scaling and not to ElasticSearch. It searches by comparing vectors encoded by a neural net
They tried pulling this crap at my current org. We were supposed to reserve our desks for two week stretches and clean your place out every day to pristine. Luckily we had lockers. I never did, and luckily never got kicked out of my desk. After three months of this nonsense they finally started giving us assigned desks.

Apparently some employees at the last location were getting really cozy and kept really messy workspaces. Hot-desking was the solution.
Oh yeah, I editted in the fourth one after I wrote that. Glad you got some fun out of it. :)
This article was surprisingly OK.

About all it omits is that people at the bottom of the scale generally didn't even understand the questions they were asked, so their answers were really all over the place.

But the key takeaway -- the D-K effect is about you, much of the time, even if you are expert about some things -- is usually neglected. D-K is about everyone: The more certain you are, the less likely it is you have reason to be.
Any quote or source for this? I think companies get efficient when they have to compete and some of that stays when they become monopolies
How do you deal with simultaneous purchases of the final unit(s) of stock across channels that don’t support real-time stock checks?
As I understand it, housing is included as rent or "imputed rent". But, this is the price people actually pay for housing and home owners have it locked in whenever they bought, which could be decades ago. So, inflation lags the market rate for housing.

Or in other words, many people aren't paying market rate and it brings the average down. This isn't what you experience if you need a place now, or bought recently. Inflation is an average and most people aren't average. (Just like nobody has 2.2 kids or whatever.)
Going through old vids it seems some received spikes of attention.

...even spikes 4x the one created by this hn post.

12k subscribers...so clearly he's doing something right.
Fortunately it seems to be something that Entropic gets right:

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic

If it ends up supporting PGP signatures for packages (ideally created by developers using air-gapped machines) then so much the better:

https://github.com/entropic-dev/entropic/issues/86#issuecomm...
Thanks but that is not what the OP is claiming. That generates text from a seed, the OP is talking about an article that generates a summary of an article, but without using existing sentences.
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Mine was not a bad-faith interpretation, it was the only interpretation I could make of your argument. I literally can't see any other. If that was my failure then in turn please don't assume bad faith on my part; instead assume my stupidity instead, and please re-explain in a clearer/different way.
I run bird as part of an anycast service, but have used openbgp with great success via pfsense. Simple, clean configs. It just works, which is pretty much the best compliment you can pay for a product of the nature.
Sounds like a maintenance error and an application design error that led to a flood of traffic. Doesn't sound MongoDB specific.
Maybe there are better references, but, in January 2000, I wrote up a bunch of notes on the experience of building a PC from parts, as the various resellers and shoppers were still in the early stages of figuring things out: https://www.neilvandyke.org/cheap-pc-2000/
That meme you shared? It may soon cost you $15,000
You could use WCs for that stuff, but WCs aren't best for those purposes.

1) YouTube/Twitter widget: Use an iframe, because WCs don't render at all with JS disabled.

2) Interactive chart: You don't need WCs for this case; they make nothing easier and many things harder. Just use DOM APIs directly if your requirements lightweight, or use a popular framework if you need more support.

3) Standard library: That's the interop problem they're talking about up thread. That's literally the only thing WCs are good for, and even then, the fact that they don't render at all with JS disabled means that they're never going to be better/faster than rendering UI server side.
man... people are fussy nowadays... i had the same exact thought of an NES emulator. what's wrong with this generation of hacker news people?!
Vox is a conspiracy theory laden non-goverment propaganda outlet.
Can we just start with Ohio? Ohio has the population density of Spain and twice the GDP per capita, but it lacks passenger rail service almost entirely.
That would be cool! (And that's a yes for stripping your SSH key ;)
How do you mean? I was only clarifying that "the Fed" means the Federal Reserve Bank, when the person I responded to originally mistook it to mean "the Feds," which is a much more ambiguous term, but generally means some federal regulatory body or the political branches of the federal government as a whole.

You're obviously correct though that the real motivation for a city owned licensed bank is to move pension liabilities and maybe some other assorted boondoggles from the city's balance sheet to the bank's balance sheet with the intention of strong-arming the Fed into acting as a backstop just as it did for commercial banks during the financial crisis.
I think its driving people into riskier investments that still look like a traditional cash instrument from a bank - instead of looking at say equity / income funds.
Trys to mine while you read the article
Not sure if the green is original or added now to make the writings visible. To survive 2000 years that green, whatever it is, must be super-durable.

But in general, if you hit an iron rod with another pointy iron rod, you'll probably leave a mark. Do it many times, and you have an inscription. Probably took a lot of work though, so the guy who owned it probably was quite busy for some time... Maybe a long road from Rome to London :)
Initially, Web Components were put forth as a way to replace JS UI frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue. But it turned out that WCs don't solve the same problems as frameworks.

Frameworks solve three problems:

1) Encapsulation. The DOM APIs don't make it easy to encapsulate reusable UI components. WCs help here.

2) Efficient re-rendering. The DOM APIs don't make it easy to manage client-side state variables, re-rendering just the UI parts that need changing. Unfortunately, WCs don't solve this problem; Shadow DOM slots (sub-components) render eagerly, whether you like it or not. https://twitter.com/tomdale/status/1153309794226147330

3) Quirks. DOM APIs are quirky; they were developed organically by web standards committees. They have a bunch of (well documented) gotchas that you have to work around, making them inconsistent and clunky. WCs don't smoothe over any existing quirks; it just adds more of its own. https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

(My favorite WC quirk: WCs don't render at all if the user disables JS. [])

As a result, most WC advocates today recommend using a lightweight framework on top of WCs, e.g. Lit.

In fact, most modern frameworks do allow you to use WCs transparently. (React makes you jump through some hoops, but you can* do it.) https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/

Why bother using WCs if you're using a framework? Because WCs can allow you to use the same component code in multiple different frameworks. Despite triumphalist anti-framework rhetoric when WCs launched, now the claim is more modest: WCs solve the problem of interoperability between frameworks.

But if you're using exactly one framework, you don't need interop. Using multiple frameworks is an inherently unusual problem to have; big corps have this problem, but they're not proud of it, because each framework slows down the page.

In conclusion, WCs are less popular than frameworks because frameworks solve more problems than WCs, and the interop problem that WCs do solve is very rare.

[*] If the user disables JavaScript, WCs don't render at all. Traditional frameworks would render UI on the server side using plain old HTML and CSS, running JavaScript on the client-side to attach behavior after rendering. (Modern frameworks allow you to run the same UI code on the servere side and on the client side, re-running the UI code on the client to attach behavior.)

But encapsulated WCs with Shadow DOM fundamentally change the web platform. WCs allow you to have multiple elements on the same page with the same ID (inside encapsulated containers). They prevent external styles from cascading into your component, and prevent your component's selectors from leaking out into the rest of the document, and they can do this in a hierarchy of sub-components. Cool stuff, but none of it works at all without JS, and trying to transmogrify Shadow DOM elements into non-Shadow DOM elements simply can't be done 100% of the time. (If you're careful, you can get it to work on carefully written WCs, but now you have new gotchas.)
Not at all. Inflation expectations would soar. A few years ago and there talk was that keeping the overnight rate would lead to huge inflation issues. Now a strange narrative is appearing that nominal interest rates are simultaneously too and inflation going higher.

And there is no way they would be to keep that rate. They can say whatever they want, but that doesn't mean the overnight rate has to oblige them either. They only set a target, the actual rate is still determined in the bank to bank market and historically it does diverge, sometimes strongly.
Mnuchin is wrong: Amazon has done more good than bad for small business
Interesting, thanks. Can you expand on the link between government-issued bond interest rates going negative and the tendency for profits to decrease over time in a capitalist system?

Also, the ratio of theoretical to empirical content on that page is ridiculous given the topic is supposedly an empirical phenomenon requiring explanation. What is there is extremely weak as well. Is there better evidence this phenomenon exists?
It's truly mind-blowing how this @shinnn character chose to handle this. It's so petty that I would actually have more respect for them had they snuck in something more devastating, like scanning for bitcoin privkeys.
Another factor - there are probably a few billion people in Asia in rapidly growing economies who need a hedge against all their savings suddenly becoming worthless due to local instability.

Suppose you are planning your future, and you think there's a small but real (1-5%) chance that sometime over the next decade your local currency will become devalued to zero. Suppose also that you're expecting significant future costs: elder care for your parents, rising costs of living, etc. In those situations, you're likely to have a very high savings rate, and will tolerate guaranteed returns that are near zero (because factoring in the risk of local returns might make them closer to negative double digits).

I'm not a global economist, so I don't know how much this is driving things. But China as a 45% personal savings rate, India is in the 30s, compared to the 6-7% of the US, and anecdotally people have noted significant amounts of foreign investment in "safe" assets. Some of these areas have banks that offer double digit returns for investments, but only on paper - people were talking up the returns from Mongolian savings accounts a few years ago, but then the currency has eroded so quickly that 15-20% returns are actually negative.
Agreed a lot of well off people with money don't put in enough thought into this.
My experience is very different. The rudest people I've had to work with are generally incompetent to mediocre at best, often believe themselves to be far more competent than the evidence suggests, and end up significant drains on the company as people go to significant inefficiencies in order to avoid having to deal with aforementioned rude incompetents. The actual best performers tended to be quietly polite and unobtrusively competent, getting on with their work smoothly; given that being rude to people causes problems, being rude isn't just a sign of incompetence - it is incompetence.
"Those critics warned that the new requirement would especially hurt low-income, black and Latino students who are more likely to attend high schools that don’t offer the necessary courses". . .

Stop dumbing down our admissions based on so called "diversity". Everything should be merit based. If those poor schools don't offer the 4th year of math, let the students take it at their local community college.
I stopped shopping at B&H after this mess a few years ago: https://petapixel.com/2017/08/16/bh-pay-3-22m-settle-lawsuit...

I'm lucky to have some local stores I can still shop at though, and of course KEH for used equipment.
Before "tree shaking" I stored all npm modules in SCM and reviwed all updates as I had to commit after "npm update". I also put ton of files in .ignore as 90% of files in some packages are not required. I also used to include npm modules in distribution/deployment. So my request to npm is to add an option in the main package.json to disable tree shaking.
Yes, once you have products in the program you can't recall those specific products - this should be obvious, because Amazon may have already shipped some or all of the actual products you sent in for someone else's sales.

However, that does not mean Amazon hasn't been keeping track. They explicitly say that they keep track of which seller originally shipped each item.

See https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/200141480?...
So? Tesla is still changing the production mode code on their cars with forced updates and no oversight in addition to running code in "shadow mode"

They've used this capability to introduce regressions in the safety of autopilot before.

When a stinky old "traditional automaker" wants to update a safety critical component, they spend months developing and testing before slowly rolling out to dealers. They want to change as little as humanly possible to limit their liability if something goes wrong.

Now some of you think this attitude is a bad thing, and that safety critical systems should be something you can update on a whim like you update your web server and keep iterating on.

But knowing developers like I know developers, being one myself, slow-as-molasses processes for safety critical code is a feature, not a bug for me.
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From the article:

> In Facebook’s vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. These algorithms will be continually updated from a central cloud service, but will run locally on the user’s device, scanning each cleartext message before it is sent and each encrypted message after it is decrypted.

> The company even noted that when it detects violations it will need to quietly stream a copy of the formerly encrypted content back to its central servers to analyze further, even if the user objects, acting as true wiretapping service.

> Facebook’s model entirely bypasses the encryption debate by globalizing the current practice of compromising devices by building those encryption bypasses directly into the communications clients themselves and deploying what amounts to machine-based wiretaps to billions of users at once.

Seems like Facebook wants to live true to Life Invader. It doesn't matter that they use End to End Encryption from Signal / Open Whisper Systems (whatever they're called these days), there's no telling what they will flag through WhatsApp to be forwarded in plaintext.
This thinking is equivalent to "oh the ship is sinking, others aren't bailing as many buckets of water as me therefore I should do less." Unless your goal is actually to sink, your rational is missing the objective.
> It’s not because people wanted a decentralized store owners.

I'm going to use this
Negative interest rates on bonds show that investors are willing to get less return than the risk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20547731

But surely that it isn't money "looking" for risk, it is money that can't find less risky investments?
I make it a habit to read the terms and conditions of any agreement. To do otherwise is foolish.
Y. T.’s mom works in Fedland.

...

So Y.T.'s mom has clacked up the stairs in her black pumps and gone into her
office, actually a large room with computer workstations placed across it in a
grid. Used to be divided up by partitions, but the EBGOC boys didn't like it,
said what would happen if there had to be an evacuation? All those partitions
would impede the free flow of unhinged panic. So no more partitions. Just
workstations and chairs. Not even any desktops. Desktops encourage the use of
paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit. What is so special
about your work that you have to write it down on a piece of paper that only you
get to see? That you have to lock it away inside a desk? When you're working
for the Feds, everything you do is the property of the United States of America.
You do your work on the computer. The computer keeps a copy of everything, so
that if you get sick or something, it's all there where your co-workers and
supervisors can get access to it. If you want to write little notes or make
phone doodles, you're perfectly free to do that at home, in your spare time.
And there's the question of interchangeability. Fed workers, like military
people, are intended to be interchangeable parts. What happens if your
workstation should break down? You're going to sit there and twiddle your
thumbs until it gets fixed? No siree, you're going to move to a spare
workstation and get to work on that. And you don't have that flexibility if
you've got half a ton of personal stuff cached inside of a desk, strewn around a
desktop.

So there is no paper in a Fed office. All the workstations are the same. You
come in in the morning, pick one at random, sit down, and get to work. You
could try to favor a particular station, try to sit there every day, but it
would be noticed. Generally you pick the unoccupied workstation that's closest
to the door. That way, whoever came in earliest sits closest, whoever came in
latest is way in the back, for the rest of the day it's obvious at a glance
who's on the ball in this office and who is -- as they whisper to each other in
the bathrooms -- having problems.

(1993, and as prescient as always.)
No that's just the price it would cost you to rent it back to yourself. It's not the land price. So even if it tracked rent, by being marked to market, it still wouldn't reflect the additional money creation forcing land prices up.
Fun fact: the proof is formalised in TPTP (a standard benchmark library for automated theorem provers). It is considered of average difficulty.

http://www.tptp.org/cgi-bin/SeeTPTP?Category=Problems&Domain...
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Then there’s Michael Ian Black’s counterpoint: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/travel/cruises-are-awesom...