skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that there's any particular message I would substitute those with. I think I'd mostly just avoid setting unreasonable expectations. My guess is that the common phrases/sentiments echoed as a I was growing up were so prevalent because some ideas then vogue about how it would develop a child's drive/ambition, or prevent them from artificially limiting themselves (it's a nice idea). My personal view is that honesty is better and that sort of manipulation is a kind of 'technical debt' that will come back to bite later.

Another aspect of it I was reminded of today by a good twitter post (I went back looking for it but it has disappeared from my feed!) has to do with sources of value. It was basically theorizing that lot of people who end up running into issues with generalized anxiety and depression as (young) adults, do so because they place all their self-value in their work and accomplishments (socially defined). He was cautioning people against viewing themselves exclusively as creators of products (in a general sense), and only valuing themselves as such. It's a common trap for folks sort of over-embracing capitalist ethos.

Maybe just making it known that it's _okay_ if they are 'merely' an ordinary person. I bet a lot of this isn't even verbal, but just comes down to whether parents actually are or are not okay with their kids being less than extraordinary.

If you're aware of the issue you're probably already fine though--the rest will follow from that.

(Of course I'm not a professional of any kind on this matter, so, you know--generous grain of salt!)
I think the blog author is implying as much as he can, without directly accusing, that he believes that https://github.com/shinnn was responsible for the bad code, not a random hack.
> Exactly as in any other field of expertise. Through your practice, knowledge/experiences you gain from that practice.

But as you said, you're not quite there yet. How do you know that what you described is really achievable? What else can you do but take other people by their word? Some people claim that through meditation, they could literally levitate. What's to stop anyone from just claiming something that's impossible to prove wrong?

It's not that I doubt meditation can have profound effects on one's psyche and well-being, but at some point I just don't don't buy it, like when you speak of a "constant state of pleasure". I don't think that's physically possible, at some point the receptors in your brain will need time to recover.
> The PNW cities also are clustered like this but have difficult geography.

Not really. It's pretty flat here in the Willamette valley, where the majority of Oregon's population lives, and relatively flat going north into Washington to Seattle... But the best we've got for long distance trains is Amtrak which shares the tracks with commercial traffic, where Amtrak gets basically the lowest priority on the tracks.
Take a dataset, extract the features, send to model, design model, check if we match desired output. That’s the standard Data science workflow.

What we do is extract features in an unsupervised way and build a model to recreate the dataset from said feature. When the synthesized dataset is indistinguishable from the real thing. You should be able to build a model that gets you 90%-100% of the way there with synthetic data, then tune / retrain on the real data.

The model that does decisioning itself doesn’t matter. If you needed to adjust the synthetic dataset, you’d have to either build a new generative model OR otherwise weight the dataset.
Hmm.

I remember the thing we used to do before this always-on-internet-in-your-pocket epoch.

Vocal communication.

Both more spontaneous and edited by fewer humans (zero in fact), it was also unrecorded and subject to interpretation by both parties.

Perhaps hell is the surveillance system we live in where a small misstep can be broadcast endlessly, or even changed or quoted out of context.

What we need here is to take a step back.

We are all human.

We are all fallible.

We are all changing and learning.

Allow those around you to make mistakes, and for the sake of all of us, allow people to move on.

I edited this message about a dozen times and it's still not right. I don't care.
Another reminder of how annoying it is for a package system to have unqualified package names.

Having to ask someone to gift a `purescript` package shouldn't even be a thing. It should've been `@shinn/purescript` and the compiler developers just create their own `@whatever/purescript`.

This is something Elm and many others got right. https://package.elm-lang.org/ It's just infinitely, obviously better.

You see all sorts of problems because of this, like people "giving packages away" when they quit. Or buying package names. Or coming up with annoying name hacks because the obvious, best name is simply taken. Or people thinking/guessing that `npm install mysql` is the correct/best/canonical package because it's the simplest name, and anyone who publishes a better library has to name it mysql2 or better-mysql, etc. These just shouldn't even be things.
>But also, yes, I think it's not unreasonable to expect that people might show more outrage for murders than for property damage, even if they disagree with both.

I never mentioned property damage. Antifa's violence isn't "property damage". This is the kind of thing I'm talking about: bad faith straw manning to justify ignoring violence by leftists.
Protesters clash in Hong Kong as cycle of violence intensifies
In retrospect I think it will be very obvious that the right decision was to never board a flying piece of aluminium in the first place. It leads to nothing of value.
I think apple urgently needs them and should probably fund them.
And yet, as I walk down the street in an older neighborhood with air conditioners in the transoms, I am hit by blasts of superheated air.

I likewise also hear the noise (although in my lifetime air conditioners have gotten quieter, I suspect as a side-effect of air conditioners becoming more efficient).

I guess I'm trying to say that the expression "at someone else's expense" not just a question of the surface temperature.
I think their point is that one city (SF, not the entire US) took 20 years to get trains that Sweden had throughout their country 20 years ago. Their comparison is actually worse for the US than comparing the entire US train system (ha) to Sweden. That's really sad.
This is false. Amazon keeps them separate and knows which seller originally shipped in each unit.
> Increases in inequality and wealth concentration means there is more money to loan

Confiscate $3 trillion from the "rich", and give everyone in the US $10k dollars. What percent would end up back in the banking system after 1 year?
The fact that they are targeting this toward suit-wearers makes even more snake oil. This thing will be cooling a small patch on the back of your neck, while dumping far more heat into the air gap between your shirt and suit.
"The researchers used an HP all-in-one printer/fax machine, although the vulnerability is found in the fax protocol itself. Check Point worked with HP to make sure the product received a patch for the vulnerability, but other fax machines may still have the flaw." HP had the issue, which is apparently patched.
TLDR: MongoDB
I run a small online store, we focus on a particular niche tech, LoRaWAN. It's specific enough (at the moment) that there aren't many other folk in this area.

We started out with Shopify, but that's actually really limited in functionality unless you spend many $100s per month on apps to add basic stuff (like VAT handling). We switched to a self-hosted shop, which feels totally old skool but is working out pretty well. We're happily charging cards and shipping stuff all over the world.

Our thing is knowing the products and providing support, so I think that has some value. If you want a boxes shifted cheap then Amazon's your answer. Anything cleverer, then specialist retailers still have some real value.
That “connection” is more the sexual fitness aspect, which I’ll grant is a pretty primal drive - but what are children if not a legacy, someone to remember you?
There's no difference, except some people are on one side of the border and others are on the other side. This is not a legal concept. We merely use laws to express a concept that existed long before the laws. Groups of people controlling territory with defined boundaries, and enforcing those boundaries, is a concept that long predates law. Indeed, it's not even unique to humans--many animals, such as wolves and dogs also demarcate territory with defined boundaries and police those boundaries.
We Value Diversity, Inclusion and Equality More Than Character, Merit and Unity
This work was sponsored by ARM itself, though, so it is a bit surprising they didn't supply suitable hardware from one of their licensees (they must have some to do benchmarks themselves).
Good article with a good message. I hope lots of people hear and understand that we truly are 'More alike than different'.
I hope someone will (or has?) conducted a historical and geographical analysis of the concept of “burnout”. I’m curious about where precisely it emerges (hypothesis, predominantly America) and when (hypothesis, the 21st century).

It’s a peculiar concept in that it seems to capture the idea that we’ve reached a stage in human development in which we shouldn’t really have to work that much, but do so anyway. It a sort of paradoxical situation in which we’ve eliminated the conditions which necessitated or fostered overwork with material ends (must produce xyz units of consumable goods, food etc) for overwork with largely frivolous ends (the sustainment of online systems which don’t actually create any material value—only abstract or cultural value—not true in every case, of course) enter the “burnout” concept—the big boss no longer needs to forcibly push his workers to the edge, they’ll do it for him through some odd sense of pride or ridiculous notions of performance which are enforced not through punishment but through the allocation of “benefits” like respect, small bonuses, etc etc. —the workplace “culture” (though the social dynamics which emerge at workplaces are not worthy of the name) is an effective system for ensuring people overextend themselves.
> I think it's pretty intuitive that Zip Code and DOB are identifiers.

Sure, but what about job title? What about job title when someone's job title is "mayor" or "fire chief" and it's possible to deduce from other information what city they're in? Or someone's job title is just "Governor of the State of California"?

Any collection of random independent characteristics become uniquely identifying once you have enough of them. Then all the attackers need is another database with the same characteristics that also includes names or other identifiers, and you can associate the missing fields from one database with the other.

> Personally I think this stuff just poisons the well when it comes to discussions of privacy. I think the goal is to remove the expectation of anonymity by claiming that it's never possible.

It's not that it's never possible, it's that it's only possible if we don't feed these centralized databases enough information to uniquely identify people. So we need to stop doing that.
Anything related to electronics and photography and supplies I buy at BHPhoto.

Why - because BHPhoto:

- Has excellent support, refund and matching policies.

- Does not charge sales tax (imagine that!) if you use their Payboo card. Actually they officially charge sales tax but it gets immediately refunded so you don't pay it.

- Does not carry counterfeit junk or faked-up crap with fake reviews from shady sellers like Amazon or ebay does.

- Offer free shipping

Smaller e-tailer and retailers cannot compete with BHPhoto refund policies and cannot compete with sales tax compensation policies (thanks government for enforcing sales taxes all over).

Support and guarantee of quality products is more important to me that 2 days shipping.
That doesn't tell you anything for two reasons: missed profit by mismanagement and operating vs net profit. Especially those companies.

First one. I have friends that work at every retailer you named. Every one of them intentionally leaves stuff empty on the shelf to get workers to do side jobs, esp displays, reports, abd various meetings. Walmart and Target start throwing money away towards the afternoon after they're mostly stocked. Kroger starts leaving stuff empty in the morning to do scans or "walks" as employees describe them. None of these intentional losses are in their annual reports or the media. Latter being because they're big customers of media.

Second part. The percentages you quoted are whats left after all their big spending. For instance, both Walmart and Kroger in my area are doing million dollar remodels. Although some are welcome, many changes are just moving shit around. Customers wouldve kept shopping regardless. So, that easily couldve stayed in final profit. They often give executives raises in 6-7 digit range. They have way more managers in stores and offices than Publix which is more profitable. Also, local Kroger uninstalled some registers and added more self-checkouts despite their profit going up just before that. Obviously, the two weren't connected.

So, the operating profit vs justifiable expenses is what to look at along with management practices which you get surveying employees. When management is bullshitting, the employees are often more than happy to tell you about it if you seem sympathetic and esp have your own stories. Once I knew it was intentional, I almost entirely boycotted Walmart and Kroger with me going to companies like Costco, Aldi and Piggly Wiggly who still stock shelves. Piggly Wiggly and Trader Joe's also still have plenty of checkers/baggers despite "tough market conditions" others report. And that Piggly Wiggly is in one of most cut-throat areas price-wise. Talking $0.89-0.99 cent gallons of milk at all stores at times with Aldi dropping eggs to $0.28. Fresh Market straight-up canceled their store mid-construction seeing how rough it was.
So basically price alerts lagged the system.
The only reason anyone can get a 30-year fixed-rate is that the government makes it so, by guaranteeing and eventually taking over Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
Care to share some details about your side project? It sounds really interesting.

Funnily enough, my wife has a niche within a niche within a niche website selling German vintage items to Japan. The unexplained drop in traffic was quite sharp around oct-nov 2017 if I recall. She’s promoting things on Instagram and has some loyal followers, but it’s still quite a struggle.
It's childish and amounts to an indirect attempt at damaging the reputation of the compiler maintainers. It's playing fast and loose with everyone who needs an install up and working for reasons. I'd say there was a heap of malice and it reflects very badly on mister "someone gained access to my account".
US Treasuries may be the closest thing to 'risk-free' that there is, but isn't 100% risk-free. If the investor does not hold the bond to maturity, then he/she is open to interest rate risk (the risk that rates have changed, and so has the bond's value).

Even if the investor plans to hold the bond to maturity, then the investor is agreeing to lock up that money until maturity. This carries the risk that the investor won't be able to take advantage of an investment opportunity before then. Or, if he decides to sell at that moment, he must accept interest rate risk.

The investor should be compensated for these risks, however small they might be, and that - in my opinion - is why treasuries should yield more than inflation.
He also used a compiler, but real programmers never do that. Maybe he used an IDE like Visual Studio that does a lot of real-time checking to make sure the code is correct before the compiler runs. Don't even get me start on the fact that he used off an off-the-shelf von neumann machine. Basically, the ghost of Von Neumann did allllllllllll the actual work and this guy is taking all the credit.

If you aren't writing your own Turing machine code in a language you developed, proved that language is Turing complete on the system you built, by hand(no help needed right?), that simulates the Turing structure on a state machine, you are not a programmer. Then, of course, wrote the OS(what's the name of your OS? I trying to become a real programmer and needs some pointers on scheduling). Don't forget to come up with your own machine learning model that doesn't use any of Shannon's llllllllame theories, doesn't rely on SVMs, neutral networks, or those weird upside trees(yuck) that those total losers with no programming skill what-so-ever, use.

Oh wait, you're still not a real programmer then; I almost forgot that the CT thesis is TOTAL unproven BS. No real programmer would stand for that. They are so logical and perfect in their understanding. So, if you can spare a minute from all the real programming you are doing, you should probably come up with your own model of computation, just so no one calls you out for not being a real programmer. Which, of course, you are. Wolfram did it and _everybody_ loved his "original" work. Of course, you'll then prove that this model can solve the halting problem in O(1). Wait, wait, wait, while you are at that, the PH hierarchy is also total unproven BS(look at me being so forgetful, I'm just not a real programmer, yet). Can you even believe that all those idiot nonprogrammers ever proved was P < EXPTIME, duuuuuuuuuuuh. You'll need to come up with your own classification system that isn't so broken. You don't even need to do much(what is NP even? And who decide to call it Merlin-Arthur? Is that a joke? Real programmer never joke about code.) because all your real code will run in polynomial time and always be deterministic...

What a Charlatan, amirite?

Programmers/Data Scientists stand on the shoulders of giants so large it is a serious undertaking to fully realize just how high up one truly is.
A quick search turned up https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/how-to-prevent-com... suggesting products actually have been commingled and you need to replace stock with a different SKU label to opt out in the future.
> Usability

> Predictability

Interestingly as Amazon becomes the front of so many sellers, there is a lot of edge cases they are supporting that end up breaking these two.

For instance some products are listed and have a price, but only come from third party, non integrated vendors so you won’t know the shipping price or conditions until choosing a specific vendor.

Or they’ll list an item and contact you for adjustments after a purchase attempt (I had that for a business printer, and there was options for maintenance plans etc.)

Or there will be items that can only be shipped for free above some total amount, when that limit don’t exist for others.

Basically I think that by absorbing so much of the market, amazon also inherited the complexity to some point.
I’ve finished a BSCS sans one class and have had internships and knew people at a startup that was looking for people (and having a hard time finding them) with exactly the skill set I had. They still refused to consider me. My friends there said it was because I didn’t have a degree. There are exceptions to this but the way companies treat you with and without a degree are totally different, most of them really don’t care about anything else.
2FA would also make it much harder to use the "somebody hacked me" defense.
Well I guess it's good I didn't start using this after an article I saw yesterday about it.
Apple tends to dive head-first into these things and lets the community catch-up after the release in their own time. So it could come a day when MacBooks are suddenly only available with ARM architectures (with dynamic binary translation or something to support the transition, I'm sure, but if you're going for performance you wouldn't want that abstraction) so it's up to us to prepare if we don't want to be left out.
That doesn’t happen with every platform. Windows is backwards compatible for forever.
>There's either something not captured in inflation numbers

My pet theory is that real inflation is higher than the official one, and is around 4-5%. The cause of the inflation is a gradual loss of quality basically everywhere except high-tech.

When the official inflation rate is calculated the basic assumption is that each item (which price is compared YoY) is exactly the same as it was last year. In another words, it assumes that its quality remains constant.

However, it's not always true (I believe it rarely is). Sometimes quality goes up (e.g. due to the Moore's Law in high tech). Sometimes quality goes down (e.g. due to cheaper food ingredients). When quality goes down but price stays the same, the official inflation would be 0%, but the real inflation would be greater than 0%.

I'm not aware if there is any way to account the change of quality in the inflation calculations. I suspect it's just not possible and therefore any published price-based inflation rates are bogus.
What are Apple’s urgent needs?
> If I later discover that the crash was put there deliberately, I am going to call that malice, and malice that has directly impacted a functioning business and its customers.

Hey, it's open source party ! Where is your patch ? /s

edit: oh, bummer. Not really open source. Still: THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, etc.

How are we supposed to have code free of malice in the current javascript ecosystem ?
The project looks impressive, but it doesn't seem clear to me at a first glance what does it do or the advantage it has over other solutions.
To quote the article: "As far as we are aware, the only purpose of the malicious code was to sabotage the purescript npm installer to prevent it from running successfully... the purpose of this condition [in the code, hardcoded to include the word 'cli'] seems to be to ensure that the malicious code only runs when our installer is being used (and not @shinnn’s)."

:hmm:
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'stable'. Just eye-balling the data here shows there are historical swings of around ~4-5% on a per-year basis: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...

And of course the 2008 'financial crisis' didn't really result in 'stable inflation' in the US within the last 40 years.
And also, the more news you read, the higher the perception gap.

The problematic effects of education don't surprise me at all though. I've felt for a while that more education seemed to make people somehow less intelligent in some strange, hard to define way.

I think it's partly that people's defences are down - they think "I have a PhD so I couldn't possibly be manipulated or misled, unlike the plebs who left school at 16".

It may also be due to people with higher education being more willing to uncritically accept anything said by 'experts' (i.e. their academic peers), without being willing to double check it against common sense or man-on-the-street reasoning. I've noticed that people with less education - we probably shouldn't call it worse education, given these findings - are much more willing to reject statements by academics if they're counterintuitive or seem to contradict lived experience. Whereas people with doctorates almost never do, regardless of how bizarre or absurd the claims being made are. Journalists likewise seem to be more likely to fall for bad science than they once were and I wonder if that's due to journalists always having degrees, these days.

This is perhaps one of the problems leading to the replication crisis.
This is the market signaling that it no longer perceives any value in the maturity value of these bonds. They aren't being purchased for their maturity value; they're liquid assets, traded like any other in a market awash with ultra wealthy institutional investors between whom these securities flow like any other asset.