skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed can't directly influence real interest rates, only nominal. What exactly are you claiming interest rates are "artificially low" compared to?

The scenario you describe can't happen. If money is so easy that it's leading to high inflation above the target, then tightening money until no excess inflation happens won't cause a drop in employment. Think about it like this: either the extra money being printed is going to inflation and propping up prices, or it's enabling more jobs. If the marginal extra dollar is adding to inflation, then removing it won't hurt jobs.
Thanks, this is good to hear.
The real joke is that running this in DOSBox in JavaScript in Electron in a VM etc. etc. would probably still be an order of magnitude faster and more efficient for a trained user than half the [web] apps that would like to replace it.
> I never understood how someone who tells the American people/journalist's that their government is breaking the law is a bad thing.

The U.S.A. is now a country where laws like the "Patriot Act" have survived both parties being in control. There's really no going back.
No it is not. A woman's blood turning blue is the story. Being treated by doctors when your blood turns blue is expected and normal. Blood turning blue is not expected or normal.
He clearly used a generic phrase not aimed at you. What is it with deliberately taking things personally ?
>I don't understand coworkers who say silly things at the lunch table without a second thought (...) doing so seems to risk your upward mobility

Some people could not give less fucks about "upward mobility" (especially at the cost of some other things they value). They have what they want in life, and they'd rather be genuine...
Because comment sections are not good measures of opinion - they are places for discussion.

People make more effort to engage if they have strong positive opinions and minor negative opinions. Minor positive opinions, which (you hope) are the average in an audience, get unrepresented if the effort required to give feedback is great. That's why metrics measuring average opinion - like NPS - aim to require as little effort as possible.
Ask HN: How would you take on rentiers and middlemen?
Not specifically talking about landlords but rentiers in general. I see them everywhere - they don't provide a lot of value, but they are masters in crafting really shitty (for everyone else) contracts and sit in the middle collecting money. For example, my recruiter collects money every hour I bill. He did/does absolutely nothing other than arrange my interview with a few phone calls and some paperwork. I came to know some of the terms in the contract recently and was stunned at the one sided nature of these.

Another example is these Amazon FBA "entrepreneurs" all over the place - they do work, but it is arguable if they deserve the amount of profits they get (one guy was bragging about his margins - he gets items for $4.75 from China and sells them for $25). It would be great if they did quality check, support etc but many of them don't even see the products they sell after initial samples.

I don't begrudge these (except maybe my recruiter :P) people - they found holes in the system and are exploiting them, good for them. But it bothers me that the system is so unfair.
Wow I actually never remember enabling this and don’t think I ever did either
LOL in the Age of the Telegraph
What amount of debt would doom us, Mr. Fisher?
> Because debt-to-GDP is apples-to-nonsense.

No it's not. Debt is measured in dollars. GDP is dollars per year.

Debt/GDP is $/($/yr)=yr

This ratio converts debt, a number it's hard to have intuition for, to years. It tells us how many years of productivity we owe. For those of us who don't manage $30 billion in assets years of productivity probably carries more meaning than big numbers with 12 zeros.
The northbridge. my understanding is that they no longer sell the discrete cards to perform these tasks, and instead offload it to chips that come on the boards.
Thomas Cook: Other Opportunities
Nathan on Linkedin has created a quick spreadsheet on Google Docs which might help #thomascook employees as they navigate their way through the job search and identify relevant companies:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sShYUYzMY3RyH_MbYS0OwBJCLszCZvnfJnbaXLl5nNY/edit#gid=0

Here is Nathan profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanjefferson
> Yes, Ashley Madison, the "dating" site.

Not sure why you seem to be implying that the article is using a euphemism, as literally the next phrase in that sentence is "which caters to married people seeking affairs".
Yes, rather annoying. "We will track you, unless you log in, in which case we track you."
I agree with your overall perception of SV as an outsider myself. There are very smart people doing big things alongside starry-eyed naive people doing silly things. Sometimes it's a blurry line between the two and sometimes I can't help but facepalm at some of the stories I hear coming out of SV...
I took some package tours back in the day: you could get a good deal by not knowing where you would end up. Thomas Cook, or whoever, booked you in to a resort for a given price and put you in one of "their" hotels. Reputation of the individual hotels was not an issue, only of the travel company. Which is kinda how it should be -- why use a travel company and do all the legwork yourself, that would be like going to a restaurant and then checking the suppliers when choosing a dish off the menu.
>Most mathematicians, if asked, would say that in their work they are accessing some Platonic world of ideals that exists independently of our own. Some argue that math is a human construct, a product of our own minds, with which scientists model the apparent rules of reality.

Is anyone aware of a source for this? I always figured the majority were mathematical formalists (like me) and was surprised to see this statement.

I was also happy to see multi-colored chalk getting solid representation up there :D
The story is that her blood turned blue, not that she was treated by a doctor. _Of_course_ she was treated by a doctor! Her blood turned blue!
Given the level of sarcasm that goes on in my own household, I don't know if I'd be able to resist saying "Aye, Captain!" if someone habitually greeted me with obvious observations all the time. I'm used to saying that pretty regularly to my seven- and nine-year-old kids.
Nice app! I downloaded the app on iPhone 11 Pro Max. While recording the back video looks a bit choppy. However, the actual recorded video is smooth. Any idea why that is happening?

Also, will the branding annotation stay on the video?
What a clueless comment.

It's a tragedy for reasons MUCH beyond 'unnecessarily lost wealth'. I know you are trying to argue in good faith, but you're flat out wrong in the sense that doomsday despair is EXACTLY what we should all be feeling.

A world depleted of its glaciers, lacking in drinkable water, lacking in animal diversity, lacking in arable land, lacking in coral reefs, coastal cities with all their rich history and culture buried underwater and on, and on, is EXACTLY a hellish nightmare.

Who'd want to live on such a planet? Who'd give a fuck about 290% richer?
I still don't see the problem here. None of these sites actually make or sell anything besides maybe an ad-platform.

Any cachet they have is based on social viability or popularity... i.e. waning psychological value, not intrinsic hard tangibility
> much more insidious action

I'm missing something.

What exactly is the agenda?
It’s rare for things to go so disastrously wrong that legal sway is relevant. What’s much more common is an angry CTO looking for someone to be mad at, and Amazon doesn’t have any particular ability to deflect that.
I do like people and I'm fine with office chit-chat, but my major problem is I can't really steer conversations toward anything with any real depth in most situations unless I'm talking to people who like to debate or talk deeply about ideas.

And even then, I find myself sitting there learning about the intricacies of different automobile designs, which while better than small talk, can still be kind of boring.
It is widely believed that implementing useful quantum error correction (if possible at all) will be orders of magnitude more difficult than what was done so far. To my knowledge, there is no realistic proposal how to implement it on any of the current platforms.
> HN is usually a pretty good gauge for how the wider engineering community feels about a particular technology.

Source?
I like the idea in principle, though in practice i noticed that there are a bunch of similar lists and all of them tend to have only 6-7 sites (half of them being the same).

I think there needs to be a more automated way of finding and sharing these sites, perhaps some browser extension?
This is really disappointing to hear. I've been thinking of getting one. Thanks for documenting the issues.
Javascript in the browser is practically compiled binary software at this point. You can't realistically inspect or edit 99% of what you're running since it's fully minified and obfuscated. And that's even more the case with WASM.
But, at that same “certain size”, shareholder value for your company becomes something influenced mostly by making your value-chain upstream/downstream partners happy, not by making the eventual customers of your product/service happy.

Rather than thinking about GM’s perspective, think about Takata’s perspective: they screwed up making an airbag, but everything was fine because they outsourced their audit to GM, so indeed it was “GM’s responsibility.” On top of that, GM is still happy to treat them as a partner.

Now imagine that instead of some random third-party supplier, Takata was a division of GM, selling to a different division of GM. The same considerations still apply from the Takata-as-division’s perspective, even though nominally they’re part of a company of that “certain scale.”
you are right. that was kind of a cheap shot. my apologies.
Cool, just a little heads up that the print saying "Copyright © MapScaping.com -all rights reserrved - not for sale" contains a spelling error.

Unless you are a pirate, sailing the foldable paper globes, reserved is spelled with 1 r :-)
In my experience, that doesn't help. They don't know what their point is yet; they're just gratuitously holding conversational priority, so they can say what it is the instant they figure it out.

Once I detect stream-of-consciousness, I do a warning signal, like a frown or a yawn, then I make a visual cue that I'm exiting the conversation.

The Church of Interruption and Barker conversational style just doesn't work for me. I expect to be able to speak complete thoughts and listen to complete thoughts--thoughts that have a timely conclusion.
Why is this thread full of commentators attacking Snap for completely unrelated things? Strikes me as odd.

FB told IG influencers they might lose their verified status if they link to a SC profile? Seems like that was a mistake on their part, could they really not anticipate future antitrust action?
A quick search seems to indicate that yes, you might be responsible for linking to the altered content. As a website author you have - in principle - a duty to check what you are linking to. It is unclear what that means in practice. I would guess that it would involve a test if timely detection of alteres content on the linked site would have imposed an undue burden. The only part that is absolutely certain is that a website owner must react if they are notified that they are linking to illegal content. Other than that, it's seemingly a grey area.
The government can overrule the Fed, if it really wants to.
There's one online alcohol retailer that will actually give you 5% on any gift cards you buy -- and they never expire: https://www.masterofmalt.com/gift-vouchers/
You can't know before loading a page whether it'll load non-free code. Browsers don't have a mechanism for telling you what license governs the code, and figuring out what license blocked JavaScript uses is a fair bit of work, especially since most pages use multiple JavaScript files, and which flies are downloaded may change from page to page.

Even if nearly everyone uses GPL for their JavaScript, you still need to go through this process for every site that may use non-free software, which is a royal pain.

Perhaps a "better" solution is to fight to have browsers check the license of JavaScript before loading it (either prompt the user, or have a browser setting for acceptable licenses), but that's a much harder battle than promoting JavaScript-less web pages, especially since the user has control of blocking JavaScript today.
Odd that you demand a citation and then counter with 3rd party anecdotes.
Ways to Earn Money While Traveling Around the World
There are non-linear feedback cycles at play here, plus our emissions of greenhouse-causing gases are still increasing as well. The sea level rise is currently on track to continue increasing every year, with a total of a lot greater than a foot by end of century.
Dark web is the black market on internet
Just a small tip since this entire thread is about socializing effectively, referring to yourself as extremely smart and others as morons bothering you with their attempts at friendship will not earn you points.

In general if you think you are smart the best way to demonstrate that is not by telling people about it. To paraphrase Geto Boys: “real gangstas don’t flex nuts cause real gangstas know they got em”
This is a very clear explanation.
This has been true for a few decades, but it may not continue to be indefinitely.

Also, it’s worth asking wondering what percentage of users you need in order to make a huge impact even if most people continue to use free stuff.

My guess is that it could be as low as 1%.
Yesterday’s Man: The Fall of Richard Stallman
Freedom is a police state.
Yahoo Gets New Logo
What term fits better the mark where quantum computers become better than classical computers at something?
I've been blogging publicly and privately for 10 years and I think it has helped me immensely to get a more complete view of what drives me and how I make decisions. I think it has helped me become the person I want to be and the writing has helped me through some tough periods.
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I feel most of the hard problems from an organizational perspective just involve getting people on the same page.

The engineer who few people know or trust but is always "right" isn't going to effect change. The one who can talk to Jane in accounting and convince her that this change is going to be better for everyone, because they have a good work relationship and she trusts him, is going to be able to put their plans into action.
...actually, I think there may even be a positive effect on the way your customers perceive you if you use a POS that looks like it's from the IBM Mainframe / DOS era.

This is because they are seen among businesses which were early adopters of electronic POS systems (usually linked to electronic ERP) which, back in the day, would have been a huge chunk of cash that they would have needed to spend on something that wasn't a core function of their business. And they're still around today. So that has got to be a successful business by somebody's definition of success.

So, in a sneaky kind of way, you can pretend to be one of them by setting up a vintage- and corporate-looking system like that, even when you are a brand-new and unproven small business.
Wow, you are completely wrong on that. RMS was so blatantly wrong that even he had to back track on his views.
Kubernetes and wordpress is not that simple. Might be sexy, but not simple.

For me, the stopper is WP is thought to be used inside a server with _mutable_ access to everything; whilst k8s needs containers.

This looks good for day-to-day use until you realize your wp needs updating and needs to be done by the operator/editor and somehow propagated back to the system that builds the container.

Usually this is an air gap.
It's not NIMBY-ism when SV has been an established tech hub for 'like-minded' people for over 50 years. It's just you guys now. You don't get to use that excuse when you've pushed out everybody else because the only people still living there are tech employees making at least 200k year and all the millionaires and billionaires that have made their fortune from tech
It was founded by Henry Kaiser and named Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant after the Permanente Creek which flowed past it. It has since changed names. Kaiser Permanente the healthcare organization was named after the same creek. So calling it the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant is outdated, but it's not saying that the healthcare organization owns it.
On-disk state isn't what people mean when they say stateless. * They mean there is no memory state, which is true and which absolutely means serverless functions are easy to test.

* you could argue that 'stateless' should include no long term persistence, but you'd be fighting an uphill battle. Like saying 'serverless' isn't correct because there are servers.
Every day is filled with culturally-mandated scripts, though. You don’t belch in front of a date (unless you’re already super close). You say “please” and “thank you” to people. You make eye contact and nod occasionally when someone speaks to you. It’s impossible not to have norms like this (and if it weren’t these norms, it would be others). They might not make a lot of sense all the time, but that’s not their purpose.
The world needs an alternative to Selenium – so we built one
That's not how the world or journalism works. All of what the title says is the story, and there's no "of course" there.

She could have died before see could be seen by a doctor, for example ("Accident victim bleeds blue blood").

She could found out on her own and started a cult ("Woman starts a cult after her blood turned blue")

She could have hidden it, fearing some superstition ("Woman lived with blue-blood disease for decades")

And any other combination of events...
Can someone flag this ?
> No doubt. But if your capable employees aren't providing value outside of "keeping the servers humming"

But you would usually consider serverless to need less people to manage it. So, even if they all work hard, someone will be not that useful one day or another.
Anyway I really don't see all this fuss about doing more with less (or doing more with the same) going serverless if you are already using infra as code and have a 100% automated CD/CI pipeline.

A greenfield project? Totally! But in an established org with good practices? Dunno.
Yes we should all try to be as considerate to the needs as others as possible. Unfortunately, if you try to rely on others' consideration when they're not required to do so I think you're likely to be disappointed much of the time - the article is talking about the conflict people find when trying.

> and while you're at it try reading comprehension

You're just being personally abusive here - please don't do that.
Amazon puts emphasis on "certifying" solutions architects to turn them into marketing mouthpieces and AWS proponents.

Source: Seen it happen, am certified.
Most Enterprise are still married to java, they still write off node as "not a real language" most likely node is your best bet for the most efficient lambdas Java is a poor for for that.
You call it just like you call any other function. Your handler takes in either a JSON payload and a context object or a deserialized object depending on the language. You call it from a separate console app, your test harness etc.
Tests vs. Types – Rust Version
No surprise here. I took a year off to travel through central and south america and noticed:

America cost of living is really high, healthcare really expensive. You get a much better value on $ in Central or South America, and can collect SS or fly home to get medical - or get it locally for cheap. There are cities like san miguell de allende or san cristobal that are primarily expats in awesome climates.

If you don't have much savings, you can have a much higher quality of life in retirement in mexico or Colombia than europe/us.
Medication for fungus in the aquarium / aquaculture industry, for instance. Useful when shipping fish and for good hatch rates.
GNU Taler is not a product. It is a GNU project. You can use it full-features for free.
Autosave is a good feature, not only since mobile UIs. But not the way it is currently implemented that any change in the document is immediately committed to the original file if you didn't preemptively made a copy. Totally different to any version control system.

For example, we have a traveling expense document that is exported as pdf after people made their input. Since quite some time people can see what the last employee has been up to. Don't get me wrong, that can get quite funny. Possibly ad breach of confidential information, but meh...

We have no backend to publish to for these documents. It is just the boring file server.

There are certainly weaknesses in this particular workflow, but I would argue that it is quite common.
It's not all or nothing. I may like the guy I'm sitting next to and try to help him out where I can, but I'm not going to sacrifice my career if he makes a mistake that dooms him.

If a coworker I like suddenly passes I'm not going to mourn for weeks, I'm going to say "that's a bummer" and go on with my life. But that doesn't mean I am completely devoid of caring for them.
In the case of Ouigo, I believe it’s in part because the station and track owner charges less to use peripheral stations than for central stations, and in part for price discrimination, so less price-sensitive business travelers and wealthier travelers aren’t tempted to go for the cheaper option.
What would a modern-day evil genius have to do in order to take over the world?
I haven't tried this, but it seems like just incrementing the hue would mean colours would be difficult to distinguish when printed in black and white.
The question prefaces by giving you that choice.
If the witnesses are not to be believed, then he is not spreading lies.

Why are we blindly trusting witnesses who were on a billionaire's private island known (now and then) to be used as a sex club?

It's just as likely that the witnesses are lying as telling the truth.
Heroku is owned by salesforce? You learn something everyday.
Also, related: https://www.opensourceecology.org/

From their About page:

We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy. [...]

OSE (Open Source Ecology) is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. In the process of creating the GVCS, OSE intends to develop a modular, scalable platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – including blueprints for both physical artifacts and for related open enterprises.

The current practical implementation of the GVCS is a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating production tools for distributed production. The Set includes fabrication and automated machines that make other machines. Through the GVCS, OSE intends to build not individual machines – but machine construction systems that can be used to build any machine whatsoever. Because new machines can be built from existing machines, the GVCS is intended to be a kernel for building infrastructures of modern civilization.
It's gone slower than ideal but now it's hard to find mobile or fixed ip without v6 in a lot of places.