skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Applebaum tries to finger "elfin libertarian" Milton Friedman as "the most important figure". But the specific policies he attributes to Friedman don't seem so bad:

* end the draft, replace with well-paid all-volunteer military

* let international exchange rates vary

* evaluate regulations based on the cost-to-save-a-life

Does Applebaum want to bring back the draft? Put exchange rates back under direct political control (as is attempted in places like Venezuela & Argentina)? Have a purely "feel-it-in-our-guts" approach to regulation, without regard to whether the same $X million dollars in imposed costs could save 1 life in one case, or 100 lives somewhere else?
And, unless you're at the higher levels, politics doesn't pay especially well. In most states, serving in the state house of representatives isn't even a full-time position.
Response of the Amazon rainforest to late Pleistocene climate variability [pdf]
A DevOps Dishwasher (and why U-Curves should matter to you)
Blame no one. I sincerely doubt if humans truly understand economics. I mean we have the data for last 100 years. Maybe more. And everything we know today has been inferred from this data. But honestly, how do we know how economy is supposed to behave over a 20 year period in a world of high frequency trading, automated trading, disruptive technologies, globalization, ability to work remotely, a Continental currency and the list goes on. We don't know what we don't know. We just have to accept that.
The economists just say that higher productivity jobs like research and development are more productive than low productivity jobs in manufacturing, almost by definition. The wealth is just the outcome of productivity: the higher the productivity the richer we are. But apparently even this truism is hard to grasp for a newspaper journalist or hacker news commenters not well trained in economy.
That’s an interesting claim. I’d like to read more about it. Do you have a citation?
A new line of business for craft breweries: coffee
dwm is a great tiling window manager for developers. Easy to customize the source to do whatever you want and far better and more performant than i3.
> We need to build a world without exams

Tests are fine. If you can’t pass a written test, you’ll likely make a lousy lawyer. But a written test would filter poorly for a world-class designer or dancer or developer.

The solution isn’t in banning exams, but in ensuring they aren’t a single point of failure for a student’s prospects. Beyond being humane, it also improves the quality of the education system.
Years ago, I spent inordinate amount of time on that kind of thing. At some point I realised that while enjoyable no work gets done. Nowadays I don't have a work "flow". I just work which for me means reading and writing code or emails without interruptions. Any "flow" on top of that is a waste of time. My experince for whatever it's worth.
The "data" in this context is empirical data in support of the hypothesis that the man-month is mythical (aka adding people to a late project makes it later). You also need a control.

Similar for other hypotheses, such as a "programming product" and "programming systems" take three times longer than a "program" (written by e.g. a garage duo).

BTW Your "beyond me" was unnecessary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Programming should have a code of ethics.

There is one: https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics
Its Dutch it means 'stone' or 'rock'. Its often used as 'kei-goed' meaning very, very good. So in Dutch its actually great language name!
Yeah that's the thing about Linux that is both nice and awful.

It can pretty much do anything you want, given enough time and configuration... but when that configuration breaks: good luck.

Some people prefer "it just works" over losing some control.

Personally I dislike macOS's "virtual desktops" and much prefer being able to swap between different desktops in i3, and being able to send windows wherever, control tiling, etc.
There are reasons the draft can be a good idea.

When the military is only voluntary you get a military with specific ideas about foreign policy and how you see the enemy, whoever they are.

If you introduce the draft you have a more heterogenous military.
Blaming economists? I find it troubling that such an antisemitic article is on the front page of HN.
That's not really the point. If someone says "look how easy it is to do X," then I want to see them doing X from scratch, so I can get an idea how hard it would be to use the language for my unsolved problems. If it turns out they're just dragging in prewritten code, that's useless to me.
Economics as a discipline has been pretty relaxed about the need for state intervention in some cases and the idea that some government debt can be good - these aren't wacky, out-there ideas in the panoply of economic thought.

But they absolutely are when you turn on the TV and listen to the Koch brothers go on and on about taxes. So many people just learn the bit of economics that supports their world view and then repeat that ad nauseam. Then the discipline as a whole gets the blame, because no-one stops to think that the messenger is in fact a self-interested (surprise!!!) idiot.
Ask HN: How to Improve Typing Accuracy
I have been using a keyboard for a long time, but I struggle to type accurately. I am more a 'touch-typer' than a 'hunt-and-pecker' but my accuracy is poor. There are two particular times when I find this frustrating. I work on the command line quite a bit, and invariably I will make a mistake and the command doesn't work. Correct it, but make another mistake. Again it doesn't work. I could slow down, and that helps, but at times it is frustrating. Also, it makes using slack/irc/etc frustrating because most of the time my sentences contain some mistake that makes me sound like I am struggling with the language when I am a native speaker!

I know that it sounds like a should simple do more touch typing practice, and maybe that is the answer, but the problem is that when I do exercises online I actually have pretty good accuracy. That includes typing practice in code and not just English. I am hoping that some of you might have suggestions or ideas that I have not thought of.

(you have no idea how many times I hit backspace while writing this!)
In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria
Even in Nepal, many students committed suicide every year when they failed the SLC (School Leaving Certificate) exam. Since a few years ago the education board changed the grading system from percentage based to grade based. Previously the results would be published on a national daily, and only the symbol number of students who passed the exam would appear. AKA public humiliation of children of the age 14-17 mostly.

Now the system has changed; no student fails, they only obtain certain grade. If (s)he would like to increase their grades in certain subject they can re-appear the exam and increase their grades. This has been a successful change, saving probably hundreds of innocent lives.
That’s like saying that if there’s a bug in some missile targeting software and some some students die from playing in the park, the problem is the park that they chose to play in.
The structural racism that my family faces because of the fact that I am married to a non-citizen SE Asian is a big reason I don't relocate my family back to the US. And this is a bipartisan issue. The issues discussed in the article there or that I have experienced have very little to do with one party alone.

The US built its industrial base on the backs first of slaves then of the freed slaves, poor immigrants (particularly from China) and dispossessed Latinos whose land claims were not recognized post-annexation. Until we understand that racism in the US is a tool of classism and we address the underlying economic injustices, there will be no social justice. But there is no political party willing to take that on and no real hope for the foreseeable future.
Fun fact: i just found out that in Little Snitch, blocking a 'hostname' or 'domain', does NOT block the IP address this resolves to.
Very weird. This is done, apparently, because sometimes multiple domains are hosted on the same server/ip. This way you can block only 1 of those domains and not the entire server.

So, a good way for apps to circumvent common blocklists for trackers/ads, is to fall back/connect to a hard coded IP address if connecting to the domain doesn't work...

It would be good if Little Snitch would have an option to disable this behaviour for specific blocklists.
WTF

India is most racist nation in the world https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...

And India is also the most dangerous country for women https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/101269989323478630...

Now this...
One of the many wonders of policy based evidence is that if the policy goes tits up, you can still always blame whichever profession you cherry picked.
Fans of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy treasure the bit where a group of hyper-dimensional beings demand that a supercomputer tells them the secret to life, the universe and everything. The machine, which has been constructed specifically for this purpose, takes 7.5m years to compute the answer, which famously comes out as 42.
Just a mirror for the attention craving 24h breaking news cycle society where the biggest fear for most teenagers and adults is irrelevance and being normal.
A draft raises the cost of war, making war less likely.
You have ground truth on the result: one agent won the game.

With voice recognition, that's a lot more vague and human supervision is helpful.
F# is in the title, but it was changed after posting on HN
Money doesn't but happiness. But not having money tends to bring a lot of stresses sooner or later.
That command didn't work; and "reduce motion" from Accessibility still produces an annoying fade animation.
Well that is an odd analogy. ;-) But I know this strange desire of drawing parallels between natural languages and programming languages (or IT/CS) while learning. I wouldn't call it strong typing though since that would mean we only have 12 classes/types (4 cases 3 genders), not even considering some of these combinations map to the same article.

I think a better analogy would be error correction. It adds some redundancy to the information so it's easier to recover the message when transferred over a noisy channel, since at least for simple sentences you could even omit all articles in either language and still understand. For German that leads to trouble as soon as you make use of its rather flexible grammar (i.e. SVO vs OVS).

Speaking of weird CS analogies: you could say that tonal languages like Chinese use QAM for higher information density while we only use FM. :-)
Blame Economists/Scientists

Blame Law/Politicians

Blame News/Social Media

...

Blame anyone but yourself?

But blaming doesn't score much on HN, no?
What is your definition of “Western European” precisely?

https://aaron7roberts.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/roman_empi...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empi... also shows larger populations in the “Latin West” than in the “Greek East”.
From a quick skim, it looks like the only dependencies are the basic UI library Elmish, and a parser combinator lib that itself is only 129 lines.
At a glance, it seems like it could be a drop-in replacement for Spectacle, but with extra features.

Lets give it a try...
thx for the response.
It's a problem of numbers. Population. Competition.

From the article:
Vodnali Shivani, 16, woke up at the crack of dawn every morning to study. She wanted to be an engineer and she would often say to her father: "Wait for five years and our lives will change."
How to Send an Email – Database – 1984
I'd say the pathway to fluent reading is:

1. no concept of reading, context is not helpful

2. start to read, use context to cover any weaknesses and gaps

3. become fluent reader, no longer need context to cover weaknesses and gaps.

As an experienced educator, I would say there is no process of learning (anything) that doesn't follow this path, whether using context is formally taught or not.

It's an important part of teaching to understand where weaknesses are being papered over and support fixing that. It may be that one teaching method or another makes certain weaknesses easier to identify or fix, but in the end, enough dedicated practice is going to sort out these weaknesses either way.

The article presents this as though context is bad - but you need context to bridge from the start to the end of the process.

The article repeatedly says "poor reader" when it is really talking about a stage of learning to read (the anecdotes describe people stuck on this stage).

In my opinion:
This is a really dangerous way of representing the problem of educating people, which denies agency to learners.
One login to access multiple blockchains
All these things never have happened in SE Asia correct? I mean it’s not like the largest country in that region didn’t have a caste system with a huge population of untouchables with no mobility.
Solving the sliding max window challenge using a deque
That depends on how easy it is to get out if it.

If the influential always go to the coast guard or whatever, war is less meaningful for those in power.
I would argue that this is not really an issue;
99,9% of users are not trying to hide from the NSA... and i seriously doubt whether common websites use such a sophisticated fingerprinting technique to show you a relative ad.
Looks like in your last paragraph you came around to what I was going to say. I find that focusing on the FI half is pretty satisfying.

I'm not there yet, and I don't know what will happen when I get there, but I do know that I have a heck of a lot more savings than most of my peers, and it leads to me being a lot more relaxed at work when things start to get stressful (Or maybe I am just more relaxed by nature).

To me, it really comes down to the NN Taleb version of FIRE which is "Fuck You" money.
I recommend the chunkwm for tiling windows on macOS! It is super-fast and configurable.
It is actually the other way around. The original meaning by Petrarch was not about the lack of historical source material. He did mean "bad/ignorant times".
GP loves the Messages integration in macOS and misses it on Linux.
Android Messages is not a true competitor here, since iMessage naturally scales up to E2E encryption. (Not a concern for everyone, of course.)
If that was true, perhaps economists should put the "economics may be scientific, just not as reliable as you might expect" disclaimer in bolder letters.
Active Learning for Chinese Word Segmentation in Medical Text
Maybe look for something low power that can talk to SATA laptop drives and SD cards. Also, with AP mode wifi.
Backblaze is cheap, but if you're uploading millions og files, beware -- there is no way to just nuke/empty a bucket with a click of a button. If you're not keeping filename references in an external database, you are left to sequentially scan and remove files in batches of 1000 in a single thread.

Support could not help, and it took me months to empty a bucket that way.
Or autocorrect interfered
Good economists do it. What makes you think economics is scientific? To be honest it seems to me we’re at the alchemy level of economics - basically we barely understand what we’re doing
I get tired of 'blame economist' articles. They're almost always cheap and circumstantial. People often forget that Economics is considered a philosophy and not a science. Sure, its great for coming up with ideas and theories but with this perspective would never put your faith into it like you would STEM.
Apparently used electronic medical records from a hospital in England without proper permissions, which got DeepMind into hot water with the government.
Knowledge without understanding is, well just information.
Has i3 performance been an issue for you at some point? It’s always seemed perfectly fine to me, but that might be the environments I’ve used it in.
This is for 6 months so averages out to $8bn PA. Which seems to be the same order of magnitude to a days bitcoin turnover. So over a year you'd expect to lose one days worth of transactions, ish. (I'm not sure if turnover is a particularly good measure here for what's likely to be stolen)

I wonder what the equivalent is for established currencies? I'd expect it to be lower, I'd also expect to have more options regarding recovering the money.
Friedman also defended a negative income tax which essentially was a form of UBI.
Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins 2,650 Miles Sea Voyage
Absolutely, but politicians use it as if it was scientifically reliable
OOP – The Trillion Dollar Disaster
If you have the time and patience to listen to it I strongly recommend listening to Mark Blyth's 2016 lecture entitled "Global Trumpism" where as a political economist he discusses the implications of Keynsian economics, Neoliberalism and the class revolt we now see around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY
The BBC should probably meditate on their own article in this instance. You never know, they might become self-aware.
I really hope we have.

There was some clown a while back that tried to sell a clothing line and did basically no promotion, so her supplier cancelled because on launch day she didn't manage to put together 30 orders for shirts.

I think there need to be a lot more cases like that before this really goes by the board though, unfortunately.
What's the point of commenting that you're not personally interested in an article and didn't read it?
Another source, in addition to the one cited by Keysh, is Social Development by Ian Morris which goes into some more depth on the data he used in Why the West Rules--for Now.

http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~lyamane/ianmorris.pdf

Across a wide set of measures, there was a significant decline of the West after the fall of the Roman Empire.
He was killed in an error tho but lived in Roman Empire.

Many Greeks were part of Roman empire, what difference does it make?
I didn’t see much evidence in the article. However, from the sound of it he’s both dismissive and rude to others who are working on (from his perspective) less important work. There also appears to be a pattern of this behavior.

IMO makes sense to have a discussion, then if it continues a suspension, possibly required trainings.

This honestly sounds pretty mundane in terms of a story, as the standard steps are being followed. Also appears it’s just like an arrogant, abrasive boss, which most of us have unfortunately experienced.
This is a shame because if you search for leather goods online, you’ll find whole shops full of garbage quality leather called Premium Crafted Leather aka PU Leather. They take leather fibers and coat it in polyurethane to give it a “proper” finish.

It’s disappointing to see a race to the bottom with leather quality when it seems like there’s no need for that.
How are the fires encouraged? What does the different do exactly to promote them?
The US is probably the most accepting country in the world when it comes to interracial marriages - certainly depends on the area within you move to also.

What "helps" in such a situation is to move to a foreign country (rather then staying in your native environment) since there one doesn't understand all the little messages, cues and things people throw at you - so maybe that's what might actually explain part of what you experience.
Ironically, they even wrote essays glorifying pure mathematic's uselessness:

> > No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years. [1]

> Since then number theory was used to crack German enigma codes and much later, figure prominently in public-key cryptography. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician's_Apology

[1] Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology" http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~mss/misc/A%20Mathematician's%20... [pdf]
I think GoCentral already does this: autogenerated single page sites where the imagery & text are dynamically generated based on a small number of user-made choices at sign-up.
Isn't economics one of those disciplines where the more seriously a prediction is taken the less likely it is to be accurate. If people believe a prediction they alter their behavior and as a result the prediction fails.
It's down at the moment with an error about capacity, so presumably not behind a CDN.
Ditto here - this article captured my own reasons for moving from macOS to Linux. My Mac Pro tube (late 2013) now runs Pop!_OS (~Ubuntu) natively for my Web and cloud development. macOS isn't a bad OS per se, but it's designed for people who fear technology, not developers like me.
That is an extreme view. It means all types of advocacy are toxic.
I'm with you on this one. Back in college I used to spend an absurd amount of time tinkering with XMonad, rainmeter, custom themes, but now my requirements for a computer are:

- it has a basic window manager (half screen left/right, full screen)

- it has emacs

- it has Firefox

- it has tmux

- (if the computer is really fancy) it has a calendar application
Poverty in terms of insecurity in food, water, housing etc has been increasing as India has been liberalizing, and that's a problem.

I love how people come up with racist justifications for structural racism. Classy.....

My wife's country (Indonesia) also had a caste system and some parts still do, but even poor people have better security in access to food and shelter than poor people do in the US. The economic problems are not so deep.
> Markets are constructed by people, for purposes chosen by people — and people can change the rules.

Economic law is immutable. There is no changing the law of demand. Price caps will always create shortages and price floors gluts. Even Marx knew this and tried to paper over it with nonsense about historical determinism and the rise of the New Socialist Man.
But when it comes to marriages across national borders things have been pretty bad since 1996 in the eyes of the law.
On GNOME terminal you can remap the copy and paste commands to Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. If you do this, you can use Ctrl+Shift+C to stop a running command.

I think some other terminal emulators might also let you do this.
Let’s not let this fact lower how much we value information. You can have knowledge without understanding, but you cannot have understanding without knowledge.
Which individual or group calls themselves neoliberal?
Obituary: Steve Sawyer, Leader of Greenpeace, Died on July 31st
In this regard, he was referring to the transformations in policy away from full employment as a target towards zero inflation as a target. These policies began I think under Ford, but really took off under Reagan.
Most of the soil is kilometers away from the nearest tributary. And it wouldn't explain why it washes away everything except for the last 1 meter of soil. Or why the organic matter wouldn't re-enter the food chain once it reached the ocean, thereby recapturing the oxygen.

If 3kg of carbon sequestration per year per square meter were accumulating as soil, and the rainforest has existed at least 30 million years, the soil would be over 2,000,000 meters deep (with rich organic soil being about 9% carbon). If even 1% of the carbon captured through photosynthesis was sequestered in soil, we should still have much, much deeper soil.
I knew someone that worked in a Dental school (though not actually a dentist themselves) and when looking for their own new dentist looked for someone young and recently out of school because the techniques had moved on so quickly, but the people who had graduated earlier were unlikely to update what they were taught.

I guess they'd see consulting a textbook in a better light than most.