skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking debt to pay back debt does not automatically lead to hyperinflation. The US federal government currently takes debt every year to pay off debt. That's sustainable so long as these payments stay a relatively small percentage of the total revenue. Unfortunately, as debt to GDP ratio continues to rise, if inflation drives interest rates to rise, things can get messy pretty quickly.
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They had no Chinese markets to begin with. Joint ventures majority owned by Chinese entity was another story, those worked great, until they didnt because Chinese partner learned all he needed and decided to branch out/strike on his own.
> White people will NEVER understand how it feels to be a black man in this country

Personally, I'd prefer to change things so that "how it feels to be black in this country" is no longer a thing that needs to be understood. Yeah, I know this isn't going to happen in my lifetime, but even a white boy can dream.
Thanks! I really hope to see this kind of project in other areas where releasing designs could really do some good. This collection is terribly unfocused because I just design and release parts or apps as I need them, but a more engineering-focused hobby or industry could probably put together open repositories of parts and specs that would lower the point of entry others.
> At some point you have to actually point out the issues productively, rather than the boring character assassination, or just randomly saying "the software's broken it sucks!"

But that's not the real problem here! Free Software was always about the freedom of choice. With systemd millions of users worldwide were forced to switch just because the architecture was designed in this way. Among these users were sysadmins who have to deal with many different machines and hardware/software problems. Before the systemd era diagnosing and fixing them was easier. We had survived quite a few revolutions in the past and it's not like we are unable to learn new tools, but this time the change made certain things unnecessarily complicated and gave users no choice.
I’ve read the piece on your blog - you write well. I can relate to your life experiences and the outlook.

Yet you don’t really answer my question - how would this work? Is this app intended strictly for digital nomads? Are there many girls interested in dating them?

Ultimately it all comes down to the quantity and quality of people you can get onto your app. You must provide a better selection than what’s available in a bar/night club, because that’s still #1 place where single people go to meet other single people.

To be honest I don’t see how you can compete with the big guys [1] but hey, maybe you’re on to something! :)

[1] https://www.toptenreviews.com/best-online-dating-sites
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is so wonderful, I highly second this recommendation.
Wait you DON'T want to invest your money into a black box crypto trading bot system with guaranteed returns?

For a community that prides itself on its critical thinking, HN is quick to laud a post with barely any substance when it confirms their preconceptions.
Why isn't the PIN pad on a touch screen? Wouldn't that be more secure? Are people's hands just too filthy in the aggregate? I know those buttons feel pretty grimy.

They have been giving away paper towels and glass cleaner since the dawn of time. Why not hand out screen cleaners too, and let people wipe down the touchscreen if it needs it? People could also use them on their phones and would be delighted.

Or why not allow people to place their orders from their own screens?

There is no competition for this equipment around UX because there is little competition at all in this space. Its a remarkably regulated product, from weights and measures to EPA checks. UX only has to be good enough for the seller to close the order, and they go in 2500 locations. People buy gas on price and location, not UX, so the theory goes.

Who wants to disrupt gas pumps?
Some of the Australian jurisdictions in which mobile drug testing has been implemented don't see this as a problem: as well as driving while impaired, there is a separate offence for having illicit drugs in your system which is designed for cases where the user may not actually be impaired [1] [2].

[1]: https://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/publications/factsheets-and-...

[2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-06/nsw-announces-drug-dr...
Will it hurt the college? I suppose it's too early for statistics to show any trends, but since there's a (seemingly) large "SJW customer base" this does appeal to, it's not obvious (to me at least) that their enrollment numbers will plummet. The same goes for donations: their main donors are likely not conservative but very liberal, and again, they aren't positioning themselves against them.
The word you are looking for is non-partisan. Bi-partisan means it currently has broad support in both parties. You can't say a bill is bi-partisan if it doesn't actually have that support. Saying you have a goal of bi-partisan support doesn't make the bill bi-partisan. Otherwise, bill proponent could claim the goal of any bill is to be bi-partisan which makes every bill bi-partisan.
I too am autistic and had an experience similar to yours, although I'm not sure if the effect on productivity was nearly as much, but still definitely there and it was a form of escapism.

Still, I had plenty of time to reflect and mature while not really getting very high due to very high tolerance, although I also had anxiety problems almost like psychosis. Still managed to get out, sort of interview although probably much worse than sober, and barely work on some code. Eh, been a few weeks now and I still barely code. Only did what was required for school after burning out, before becoming addicted.

Almost got CHS after dabbing plenty of CBD (which can also cause CHS, although rare) as well as hash oil. Thankfully I only puked until my stomach was empty, didn't last long and wasn't painful, but I had most of the pre-CHS symptoms. Sometimes I think I could just do a tiny amount as a reward here and there... that it wasn't that hard to quit... maybe I'm fooling myself.
I've never understood this argument. How long does a territory need to be occupied for before the natives of that area can call it "their country."

Every country has a starting point, the USA's is just more recent.
Ftpsearch.ntnu.no was the one I used to use
Lambda calculus is a lot simpler than Python. It bares a striking similarity to Gentzens natural deduction rules and is essentially isomorphic to it. It is also very well studied and its properties are well known. Hence it makes an excellent basis for a programming language. The idea that Lambda calculus was discovered and not invented was recently entertained by Phil Wadler. Given his academic credentials, I think we can assume he knows what he is talking about.
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I would argue that it's not really increasing the vocabulary. The fact that one word has (say) seven meanings doesn't mean the vocabulary you must learn is one word. It's still seven words, which happen to be spelt and pronounced the same way.
server.getStuff(gotStuff)
server.getMoreStuff(gotMoreStuff)

Just using functions is more simple and also more powerful.
A function being async usually means stuff will happen, things can go wrong, and you might want to do different things depending on the response or whether it failed.

Where await is useful though is in serial execution of async functions that really should be sync, but them being async is an optimization in order to not block the thread.

It is really unfortunately that so much extra crud had to be introduced
to JS (corutines, async, promises) in order to be able to await.
Reading complex Promise based code is very unplesent, with async functions pretending to be pure, without any error handling, full of side effects, and omitted returns.

With callbacks we had inexperienced programmers writing pyramids of callbacks and if logic. But it was not that bad, as the complexity was in your face, and not hidden under layers of leaky abstraction.
I think you are a quick study; typically it takes me a week to figure out the detail of what's being done in a paper. Getting the data and testing would take longer. Charitably he/she has a framework with all the data required sitting ready to go and is just writing wrappers to the models. But even downloading frameworks from Github and getting them working takes a couple of days - for me. For example I've been playing with the Graph-network code from deepmind for a few weeks - I had to learn how the graphs were represented, how to build them and access them and how the models were made and put together. Just working that out was a solid three day job. Now I can build things and test out what's going on in the examples and get a feel for the framework, probably (if there was a problem) I would be in a reasonable position to say "this doesn't work like they think it does" (it does, but no surprise) but unless you've done that leg work I think you can't really. I think a proper replication effort is really 1 man month of expert time - or really you're just throwing stones.
Worried about a `sudo rm -rf /` kinda thing?
Yes, everything 'steals time,' but the biggest time stealers are those things which chemically alter your brain, such as alcohol, cannabis or other drugs. They alter the organs of perception in ways that reading a book or walking a dog do not.

Of course this is the fun of them. But also the downside.
> Easier said than done

It's real easy to do. It is not the case that you are dependent on Google search. You're imposing artificial limits on yourself. Break free of this limiting mindset.
> crypto scam medium post

Could you expand on that? I've only skimmed the article, but I don't see any "crypto scams" pushed in the article. The article is just about something the author seems to know about (algorithmic trading), applied to the cryptocurrency market. It does promote the authors project (why else would you write a Medium post), but in the worst case, that would be a normal scam and not a crypto scam.
Being less bad than a bomb is not a very high bar to jump over.

I can think of many more productive uses for that money than over-farming, which causes a host of environmental issues.
>Nothing useful came up,

Except plenty useful came up. "Literally every single paper was either p-hacked, overfit, or a subsample of favourable data was selected" out of 130+ is a significant result. The media would jump on this, and they just might even without any proof of work.
Edit: I stand corrected. I've seen examples when people used "light years" to express time, but this seems not to be that case.

I'm always puzzled about picky people who make trivial mistakes, like using "light years" to express time.
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And the author has shown none.
Too many network hops!
Imagine if an account has an account with 3 folders and want to synchronize all of them.
Then need at least to select each folder examine is there something new and fetch needed data. This is at least 6 network calls.
You can do that with just one call in JMAP.

Some server support only basic IMAP and do not offer QResync and Condstore extensions. So to detect deleted move email you need to select entire email UIDs to see is it still there. A lo of unneeded network call just to fully synchronize client state.

I even do not want to start that some providers like Outlook don't offer UTF8 extension, so the cannot implement a good search for different languages.
I don't think the government is really intentionally trying to keep meat prices down. I think it's a side effect of subsidizing crops.

I've heard two reasons for subsidizing crops.

1. The government wants the country to be somewhat self-sufficient for food. If, let's say, there was another world war and imports were cut-off, they want to avoid mass starvation.

2. Crop output from a farm will vary from year to year due to weather and other factors. Without subsidies, during a streak of good crop years, production of that crop will exceed demand and the price will drop. This will cause some farms to go bankrupt (the number of farms will decrease until supply matches demand again). If a bad crop year then follows, you'll have shortages. Subsidies can smooth out these inefficiencies cause by weather by keeping farms alive during the good years so we have enough crops during the bad years.
It’s functional, but definitely not optimal.

Even as a non-native reader, reading 100% kana makes my eyes bleed — I wouldn’t wish that on anyone who actually knows kanji.
Let's be real here, its not just the memory requirements, because context switching and the associated nuking of cpu caches are not free. You can go very far with it nowadays, but you can go much farther with async code, if you really need to.
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You could restructure all externalities taxes to pay a dividend back out of what they raise, but you could instead skip a step and use the money to reduce the amount you need to raise via other taxes. Presumably your general-purpose tax is structured some way that's more efficient than having everyone to pay an equal share, so this is a more efficient option.

But if externalities taxes + dividends are politically expedient then so be it. It sure beats never regulating externalities.
This is still far from ideal. "git switch" and "git checkout" should not be able to create a new branch. It clearly should be the "git branch" subcommand's responsibility, because "You want to do something with a branch". It would be two commands to create and checkout a new branch, but less confusion. You can use your git alias anyway. But a shortcut for "git branch -c" would be better if you want to keep the "create and switch" shortcut IMO.
Facebook owns the communication end points and can do whatever they want with the message contents before they're sent encrypted.

Given their history, I would be surprised if they don't do some on-device metadata analysis.
> Not all parts of the world have yet had that kind of progress, and are still happily multiplying in an unsustainable way. Unless we manage to export this kind of progress, I fear we will not be able to avoid all overpopulation issues.

This is simply not true. Not even close.

I recommend watching:

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/will-saving-poor-children-l...

or, if you can spend more time,

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-...

or any of Hans Rosling's TED talks. And you'll find that your statement I quoted above is simply wrong.
Call it what you’d like.
What is the point of talking about hypotheticals?

People in the US die because they cannot afford medical costs, the US is perfectly happy with that.
Depending on the complexity of the model it would take me at least a month for a single paper. What makes it fully unbelievable to me is the claim of detecting p-value hacking in many of these 130 papers while doing 3 papers every 2 days.

To make that claim for a single paper I would 1. have to be able to reproduce their p-value, and 2. spend enough time with the model to understand how/what assumptions were unfairly tweaked to get to that p-value.

Just running your own implementation of a model on your own dataset and getting an insignificant or different p-value is not enough. You might just have implemented the model wrongly.
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I'm pretty damned sure that the tombstone advice means "Don't try ... do!" (As I recall, that was a line in a popular movie. Taking poets literally is risky.) IOW, 'go all the way' is not like a new-year's resolution.

Bukowski spent most of his life being Bukowski. Better results than the post-office position. Beats the great, grey middle all to hell.
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No, it won‘t.

1) You‘d still get a risk premium, because only known information can be priced into the stock. Unkown information is risk.

2) Capital is rare. There is no unlimited supply, so it‘s distributed between assets as well as available information allows. But there is still unsatisfied capital needs where the money can be employed more efficient than holding it cash.
Disclaimer: Opinions are my own etc..

I personally think a better way to sell YouTube Premium wouldn't be to focus on just the ads, yes that should be a part of it, but consumers have shown they want certain things in particular (via Patreon):

1. A way to support their favourite creators (adblock whitelisting proves people care more about creators than the downsides of ads - I do for sure)

2. A way to get exclusive content in return, or maybe just a shoutout.

Super Chat is one of the best things YouTube has ever done in this regard. It's amazing how much money flows through to creators when they do live-streams & premiere events.

A lesson can be learned from Steam's fight with piracy wrt ad-free versions. You've either got to:

1. Make it an easier sell to purchase YouTube Premium than to get AdBlock (not-likely)

2. Make a significant value-add for the premium offering "be a better service than piracy".

The problem is that YouTube's not been doing too well with option two, and they're simultaneously making their advertising products a worse sell for business customers.

I'm very interested to see how they adapt to the changing market though.
The counterpoint is that if you are fluent in spoken Japanese you can get by with a fairly minimal number of kanji (and complete understanding of the kana as well, obviously).

Which is the trend with native Japanese people too.
If you're native or an advanced learner, you probably have a good guess at the pronunciation too, so you can just type it phonetically and have your phone/computer convert for you.
Obviously he means the American culture and by our he means Americans. There's no denying that if immigration is high enough, and assimilation poor enough, culture will change very quickly. Not saying its the case in the US but it's simple to understand what he meant.
Maybe a sidetrack, but I do think CS majors will find it extremely useful to use deductive proofs when creating libraries.

Think of the implications of when you are checking for sorting libraries you have one that includes a proof that it’s working and maybe even a proof of runtime cost. As a developer you don’t need to write proofs at all as you will not deem it worthwhile. My guess is that this whole popularity contest when checking for a library will lessen considerably (how many stars does this repo have? When was it last updated?)

I’m excited for the future both as a computer scientist and developer.
why picture books are so important

Any references on this? Interesting.
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German broadcaster ZDF made pretty fun loosely based TV series 'Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot'/'Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot' out of it. You can find couple episodes on YT with eng. subtitles.
I don't have sources for this, but I am quite sure that 90% coverage of kanji occurrences will give you >98% comprehension coverage.

(Here I make the assumption that you'd know all the readings and all but obscure or archaic words for a kanji to count)
>Can you provide some actual arguments as to what's wrong with JSON?

It's a wasteful, textual format derived from a programming language vomited forth in under a week. It has asinine integer characteristics for no good reason; it's not a random-access format; validating it is even more work; hash table keys that appear multiple times, instead of being in error, instead overwrite each other, defeating most any kind of optimization; it is thus wildly inefficient to manipulate, as manipulating it correctly in all cases requires full and comprehensive parsing with checking. It is an asinine ''format''.

>It's a text format that can be inspected by humans, unlike binary formats.

Even then, there are much better textual formats that could be used, but I'm of the opinion that numerical (binary) formats are strictly superior, especially as they're used increasingly often. It's better to have good tools that will provide a human-readable representation, rather than pretend a single, inefficient representation for both man and machine is somehow the best option.

>(Maybe IMAP is a text format too, so this isn't an advantage inherently) And JMAP may have better semantics than IMAP, and there's nothing inherently wrong with JSON (other than edge cases).

Computer programs written by anyone competent are built around edge cases; that's much of what any reliable program is, accounting for edge cases. To disregarded edge cases, of which there are many in JSON, speaks to me that you have little concern for writing software correctly, but I imagine you'd deny this, as who doesn't want to write correct software? Simply understand that using a format with so many edge cases and other defects as JSON is foolhardy for much of anything.
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You mean when the article says "it has a user interface light years better than your gas pumps". That's not expressing time, it's expressing distance. Not sure if it's a common expression where you're from, but it's the same as saying something like "we're miles ahead of the competition." Distance ahead. So light years works as a substitute for miles.
I think I have a good enough reason. I’d like to pursue a remote job as a backend engineer. Most interesting job listings are for rails or go. I’m not particularly fond of go, so I’m trying out rails. Who knows - maybe I’ll hate it.
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Wow, I just briefly looked over that linked wikipedia page, about a wide range of environmental stuff, not 'just' global warming. Absolutely horrifying and unbelievable! (For personal reasons I've been largely out of the news loop this decade, am not in USA.) How is it that all that has been allowed to happen? People in the USA (a majority, or close to it) wanted all those changes?!

Edit: I am getting downvoted for saying that...and really don't know why. If downvoters could explain, I'll be much obliged. Thanks.
See the sibling comment by jdietrich.
And if you are still not convinced, this short video: https://www.gapminder.org/answers/how-reliable-is-the-world-... and, if you're interested more on why the forecast is so flat, I highly recommend taking the test at gapminder.org then watching Hans' TED talks.
“miles ahead”, no?
Soon you'll have the option to choose the currency of choice for your savings account (Cryptocurrencies included)