skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't flash my credentials to win arguments online

I'll interpret that as "I don't have any relevant credentials."

Credentials often mean something. I see armchair lawyering all the time on HN, and as a actual attorney I find it both concerning and unsurprising how much ignorance exists of the actual law, enough for me to periodically step in and say something (and reveal my bona fides because I think it's relevant) when I think such a misunderstanding could be harmful to readers who may mistakenly rely on such assertions.

Your summary judgment of the mental health of the practitioners of the world's oldest profession is already unconvincing; the fact that you have no actual training or expertise in this area makes us trust you even less.
Interesting. So on which platform are you providing that service? What does your product look like (maybe share a link?)? And did you find a "solution" to your problem of finding a large enough audience?
This is not an argument against economics, but against specific ideas in economics holding true:

"Falling unemployment no longer drives up wages. Printing money does not cause inflation."

This is not fair.

A) Wages are the last thing to rise and tend only to do so when unemployment is low. We're just now reaching that level.

B) Inflation doesn't well account for surpluses: we're getting a lot of bang for our buck in digital services, something that's super hard for the BLS to measure. 'Consumer Surpluses' are like 'profits' to the consumer that are not really measured at all - the only place we do this is when the BLS measures the 'quality' of a basket of goods to figure out inflation: i.e. if the Tomato is getting nicer, redder, juicier, then part of the increased cost of said tomato goes to value, the rest to inflation. This is hard enough to do already, but nary impossible with new services coming online.

Case and point: Fortnite. It's free. I've played quite a number of hours of that last year and never spent a dime. Apex is a big game, not free. This is a new trend. The surpluses there are vast. Games have a measurable effect on time spent on other things as well.

In a nutshell: consumers lives are improving in ways not always appreciated.

C) "Printing money does not cause inflation" - generally, it absolutely does! It just depends where you measure said inflation: stocks, housing - massive inflation. We just don't put that into our version of inflation. But there's inflation for sure!

Consider point 1 and 2 together: if stocks are doing well, and CEO's are getting their rewards for strong returns, why are they incented to innovate, pay more etc? Screw that - in a game of 'stocks going up because free money' - the strategy is to 'do nothing' - just keep operating as per, and avoid risk. 'Push the button, collect reward'. Risk changes the nature of the operating environment, and who wants that if there's steady 'returns'?

D) The Fed is not 'printing money' really, it's not quite fair to say that in the sense usually implied: a government (or anyone else) 'printing money' to pay for stuff has an entirely different implication.

I'll state the article misses the most important things:

1) Printing money almost assuredly does cause inflation, even now.

2) All things equal wages will rise as unemployment lowers. It's just that 'all things are not equal'. Take a look at real surpluses. Take a look at debt-leveraging in homes. Take a look at bifurction of employment from 'tech workers' to 'powerless gig economy' people. Take a look at levels of migrants, their relative skill and their relative market power for wages (they have little power, and there are enough that it absolutely moves the needle).

'Economics' can be used to measure and address all of those things, you just have to start looking at the data, and if not, start measuring things we didn't before.

My bet is the answers are not actually that far off, and probably not very surprising if we could see 'all the data' otherwise ignored or unmeasured.
Me too, but when I think of 2/5, it is a little harder to picture. I don't know if that's just because I already let 4/10 get into my head though.
I used to feel very differently about this as a consumer, but when you see things from the other side as an ISV, it's obvious that a one-time fee isn't a sustainable business model - if you want the software to remain available, you need to pay for the duration.

A SaaS model works well for both sides, I think - consumers always have the latest version and their data is highly available and safe against local events (storage failure, fire, flood etc); the business has (relatively) reliay income stream.
Sex was bought and sold long before capitalism, though.

And I don't even mean prostitution, although that one is obvious. But in traditional patriarchal societies, brides are often effectively bought and sold, and sex is a part of that package. The difference is whether the benefactor is the woman herself, or somebody else.

In a very cynical sense, in a traditional society, women are "capital" of a very special kind - they are the "means of production" of heirs. And heirs are necessary for the family line to accumulate other kinds of capital over time.
I would write this author off, this is a rant and nothing more. "We now live in a different economic universe than we did before the crash. Falling unemployment no longer drives up wages..." Wages are certainly going up in places with low unemployment, its just not distributed as evenly as it was in prior history.
> "printing money does not cause inflation." How would that be possible?

I haven't read this particular article, but I've read elsewhere that traditional tools used by central banks to increase inflation are being observed to empirically no longer work. I understand many of these techniques are analogous to "printing money" in a controlled way. That points to failures in their models of the economy and of inflation.

I also think I've read that at least some of the reason for this may be higher than expected levels monopoly-type powers active in the economy that conspire to keep prices and wages, and therefore inflation, down. My recollection is hazier on this part.

Edit: this might be the article I was thinking of:

Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy?: The biggest companies may be influencing things like inflation and wage growth, possibly at the expense of central bankers’ power to do so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/upshot/big-corporations-i...

> Two of the most important economic facts of the last few decades are that more industries are being dominated by a handful of extraordinarily successful companies and that wages, inflation and growth have remained stubbornly low.

> Many of the world’s most powerful economic policymakers are now taking seriously the possibility that the first of those facts is a cause of the second — and that the growing concentration of corporate power has confounded the efforts of central banks to keep economies healthy.

> Mainstream economists are discussing questions like whether “monopsony” — the outsize power of a few consolidated employers — is part of the problem of low wage growth. They are looking at whether the “superstar firms” that dominate many leading industries are responsible for sluggish investment spending. And they’re exploring whether there is an “Amazon Effect” in which fast-changing pricing algorithms by the online retailer and its rivals mean bigger swings in inflation.
This article is utterly nonsensical (claiming the money supply is essentially unrelated to inflation) but the specifics of their argument say a lot about the field and why things I think are about to get worse.

Their argument goes

A) current economic regimes are built on shifting sand and border on useless for predicting macro crises (this is true more or less)

B) there are other schools of thought out there which are sometimes more predictive than the main stream

C) therefore get rid of economics

D) and replace it with a different version of economics, specifically one which agress with my politics.

The problem is that they are right, mainstream economics is junk, and so it becomes really hard to discredit other wacky ideas like mmt, or endless unmoderated fiscal stimulus because hey, couldn't be much worse than our system which seems to blow up and screw everyone over.
> I'm not sure what you're getting at

I'm sure what I'm not getting at, which is the proof. I'll think about it. Processing ...
> That probability is n_word/total_words the corpus.

In this case, wouldn't it actually be better to just drop the denominator, because it will be the same for both (spam & not spam).
> Gov ID would only work if you show it in person. A lot of people have a photocopy of ID.

Sounds reasonable. What's important is that you can securely recover the account at all, not that it's cheap.
Commonhold mostly tidies up the situation you describe, by writing it into the Law of the land rather than into individual leases and other paperwork. In the process it gets rid of the lease itself, since the freeholder exists only to further the goals of the Commonhold owners there's no need for finite leases which must be extended. So instead of paying some lawyer quite a lot of money for little more than a bit of photocopying and pasting stuff into forms every so often, that's all built in to a Commonhold out of the box.
I'm more concerned by the divide in status companies like Uber incur among workers than the comfort of the taxi clients, which by the way is a transportation mode only a select few can afford to use frequently.
On the lower level, Century Blvd has a sidewalk and crosswalks on the north side of the road. I walked it with my wife just two months ago, although not to catch an Uber, but instead to get our car from long term parking.
Yes, it is a derived work, automatic translation (or even any kind of translation) does not create a new work.
Gun companies can't advertise on Instagram, so they pay shills to do posts. In a world where social media ads are overall illegal, you'll see wild contortions to skirt the law.
Which would surely need to be GPL given it seems to be an auto-converted version of BusyBox, so I would have thought that makes it a derivative?
Nah, fuck them. If they're gonna be that hostile to users users should just leave.
Don't bring your dental fillings either.
It's really interesting to see the two responses to this, one "trad" and one socialist! I'll give my two cents as well.

I'm persuaded by the arguments of second-wave, sort-of "sex-negative" feminists like Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Modern feminism seems mostly to have moved towards supporting the idea that sex work can be empowering and freely chosen. And it's true that with the internet this can be much more of a reality. Still, most of what I've read, and documentaries such as Hot Girls Wanted, imply that the vast majority of women working in porn and sex work have concomitant drug and alcohol problems and/or mental illness, and the job takes a huge psychological toll. It's not conducive with happiness and a positive image of oneself and others.

I think it's probably good (not to mention unavoidable) that pornography exists in society, but it should be less abundant and more stigmatised.
How about this:
21 million primary keys are easily kept in memory. Sort them.

Then do "SELECT id FROM five_billion_rows ORDER BY id" and iterate over that with the CSV ids in lockstep.

Cursor management is pretty good in Oracle, this is likely much better than your own paging with 1k of IN values. I would assume that it would be IO bound regarding the index of the id column.

This also might be an interesting question for "Ask HN".
Sadness?
MH17 Investigators Release Phone Intercepts with Links to Russia
I think there are plenty of low level jobs that would allow that like waiters, cleaners, construction workers, warehouse workers or delivery drivers.

All jobs that are desperate for workers. It's constant shortage if you listen to the news, but when you see conditions it's more that people don't want to work there because the conditions and the pay are quite bad.
There is still no mention of any of the conspirators being charged with wiretapping and going to jail - aka the rule of law. I didn't think that after being caught, criminals could just pinky-swear to stop committing crime and be free to walk away. But apparently being on the DC-dole gives you that privilege. So there is no disincentive to just create a new illegal anti-American program that will take its own time to get through the courts.
I use javascript, especially with d3.js
Ask HN: Are SDETs at your company able to transition to dev?
I'm finding it very hard at my company and was wondering how it is elsewhere. Still early-career with CS degree and previous dev experience.
As someone who studied economics, I've always found the history of the subject itself to be more illuminating than much of the content of it. Both due to the content having this not-rigorous quality to it and because a lot of macroeconomics seems to be politics in disguise.

You're right about micro though.
> it's preposterous to assert that our current situation is entirely biological in nature

Careful on misframing the thought experiment: no such assertion was made. The assertion through this thought experiment was that biological nature has an effect, no more no less. The degree to which the effect matters is uncertain, but it is reasonable to expect it does play a role. The reason biological explanation is mentioned at all is because many seem determined to think that no such effect is possible, full-stop.

If you agree that biological differences has a non-zero effect on preference, then there shouldn't be anything to disagree with here.
If a GPL code is auto-translated to another language, shouldn't the fork have the same GPL license? Or does the new author get to put a new license?
> It also happens in the US marijuana industry.

That's because it is still federally illegal
Coop: A prototype programming language for programming with runners
Yes of course there will be exceptions. But the vast majority off Python code bases are not mercurial or dropbox or imgur. Just like the vast majority of software using companies are not google or facebook.

The average few hundred to few thousand loc app, which should be 98% of all production code-bases will almost certainly port with no issue.
I support this movement.
I am happy you like it :)
About (1) - (3): I will have a look at those features, but thanks a lot for the feedback.
About (4): we currently support pandas, but be basically want to offer many more backends in the future, therefore also making bamboolib interesting for companies that use clusters a lot.
Can second redux-first-router being fantastic.
'render' should render, because that's what the function name says. If you're using it for behavior then you're not using it for the intended purpose.
Django Rest Framework Rookie Mistakes
What are the rookie mistakes you have seen people make with DRF?
You can't expect them to keep updating old versions to work with new operating systems. I agree they should not turn off old versions, but thats not whats happening.
Rust + Wasm
> $90 million for Starliner and $55 million for Dragon

wow.
Interestingly, you're doing exactly what the article is criticizing.

The orthodoxy of "everything is supply and demand" has failed to predict many recent, important macroeconomic phenomenon. On the hand, the heterodox economists that draw from a variety of traditions and ideologies have had a reasonable success rate with predicting some of these important events; yet they are still treated as crackpots.

The reality is orthodox economics is just one theory of politics and the organization of society, which sometimes applies and sometimes doesn't. Treating everything as just "[the] definition of supply and demand" forgoes observing interesting and important phenomenon that seemingly work in opposition to or independent of supply and demand. Ignoring these phenomenon restricts your ability to understand and predict macroeconomic effects, and degrades your legitimacy as a 'science'.
I am using ECC memory with my 3900X on a Gigabyte Aorus X570 motherboard. Works great.
Is there a reason you don't use RMarkdown in RStudio? It's built precisely for this use case
Very cool! Is there a pattern in the sequence of m's? It feels as though there must be some bounds on the terms of the sequence on m's given that the probability of appearance of n as the first digits decreases with n, in the sequence of factorials.
>Of course it's a "cargo cult" when someone disagrees with you.

No, it's obviously "backwards thinking", right?

>*
"Just fine"... that explains why so many shops are dropping support for straight Javascript and switching to TypeScript or CoffeeScript before that.*

CoffeeScript was just adopted (and not that much in the first place) because it brought new syntax/features earlier. Now JS has been getting new syntax itself at a great pace and CoffeeScript just died off.

As for TypeScript, this is just Javascript + type annotations. Kinda like what Python is getting with 3.6 and mypy, but more useful and with actual tooling available. So not sure how "TypeScript or CoffeeScript" prove anything about JS not doing great.

>Likewise, Java development is slowly being superseded by Kotlin. Java is a mess, there are often 3-4 ways to do simple things and many of them are just terrible for performance.

Python has 10x+ worse performance, and more than 3-4 ways to do simple things (from package management to basic libs), most of which are just terrible for performance.

Compared to that, nobody has had any problem with Java performance for 15+ years...

And Kotlin is still insignificant except in the Android space where it's pushed, so there's that. Java sees an order of magnitude more usage.
Try a service like https://idbloc.co
Pictures of Sao Paolo before and after banning billboards leads me to support this idea.

Some examples (with a couple bonus pictures of London removing billboards): https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret....
In my experience: yes, this is true. I’m not going to speculate about why, but I suspect this will eventually happen to Go as well when/if it becomes a more mainstream language.
Anyone who complains wind-turbines being unsightly should be forced to live next to an oil-refinery :-(
> Yes, it's expensive to upgrade from Python 2 to Python 3, but it's also expensive for the Python project to maintain 2 versions of Python indefinitely.

No maintaining 2 versions of python is much cheaper, it's only being done in one place compared to the thousands and thousands of python 2 code bases you'd have to convert.

It also only needs bug fixes, there are plenty of people/organisations out there that would be perfectly happy for the language to be unchanging.
Well, judging from the Phoronix benchmarks, performance is worse than just outright disabling TSX in its entirety: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zombielo... (Though they show basically no performance benefit from TSX, so...)
I think the nursery construct described in that link looks a lot like par blocks in Occam, Handel-C and XMOS XC.
Fantastic. Thanks. This will be my next project.
Though I think inflation is definitely happening right now, just in other areas (stocks, housing) - I second this answer: as the economy expands, there is increased demand for money, ergo expanding the money supply keeps inflation in check and actually more 'normative'. (Also the Fed isn't really 'printing money' it's borderline unfair to say that).

Also - consider the alt-hypothesis: that if the Fed were not doing quant etc. that we might actually 'see' (or measure in our crude way) a kind of deflation, even if, at the very same time the quality of goods were the same, thereby meaning more 'consumer surplus' i.e. 'bang for the dollar'. Businesses, economists, the Fed might whine in fear when in reality all that could be happening in that scenario was 'increasing wage power' due to increased relative purchasing power! Wages are only one way that workers have power vis-a-vis businesses - the other obvious one is prices of goods. As they go down 'the regular guy wins'.
So what? We should ban all advertising, and then nuke corporations who flout the ban or try to find a loophole.

And don't tell me advertising is free speech. As far as I'm concerned, corporations are not people and have no rights. Like governments, a corporation's powers are defined by law.
No, the value does not increase. The price increases. Price and value are different in economic contexts, and you quite clearly were referring to "value" as economic value in your first comment, and are now using "value" to refer to price.
> Does e.g. Keepass provide this essential functionality without a Cloud integration of some kind?

For what it's worth, I use it with an ssh plugin, so I only store the database on one machine, and connect using ssh on desktop/Android.

It's also pretty straightforward to set up something like syncthing, making it easier for average person.
I wish the reviews that included gaming benchmarks would have included Monster Hunter World. Capcom's MT Framework game engine is extremely multi-threading capable.
What on Earth‽‽‽ How have I never heard of this before, and much more importantly - why is it true (I skimmed the wikipedia page and I didn't really see anything for 'why' but mostly for 'what')?

So it takes the data and draws it on a log scale to visualize it, but doesn't explain why the data naturally transposes to a log scale (we are talking about random data sets in nature). If I think of it as a village with 1,000 people is more likely than a village with 2,000 people is more likely than a village with 3,000 people (and this continues in both directions), the only real conclusion I can come to is that nature prefers smaller numbers of things. But that wouldn't extend to something like accounting books (or at least the jump is not immediately obvious to me).

EDIT: I guess I chose a bad example (although my point still is useful as a thought exercise), since this was used as an exception to the rule:

> Benford's law is violated by the populations of all places with population at least 2500 from five US states according to the 1960 and 1970 censuses, where only 19% began with digit 1 but 20% began with digit 2, for the simple reason that the truncation at 2500 introduces statistical bias.
Thank you very much for that honest feedback. It means a lot to me. Honestly, I will have to reflect on what you said, but I would like to get back to you on this later.
Your hex plots use squares, not hexagons, so they aren't actually hex plots.

I think you should be much more up front that this is a commercial product, because very few things based on Jupyter and Pandas are.
The Internet Archive (parent of the Wayback Machine, Top 300 website in the world) is doing a lot to help re-decentralize the web.

Check out this post for more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685682
Could you provide such a proof? (just general outline would suffice...) I can't figure out a "pretty easy" way to do it.
But Bitcoin won't solve deplatforming, because the existence of Bitcoin doesn't preclude a bank from deplatforming you.

Until Bitcoin is ubiquitous (doubtful this will occur in my life time) we are still vulnerable to deplatforming when we go to exchange btc for fiat.
> How VCs Make Money

A: They don't. VCs are an asset class that generally is loosing money (liquidity adjusted). So do not put your money into VC.

[] https://finnscave.com/2016/12/13/venture-capital-cash-return...
Javascript is a hugely popular language, as is Java.

Some hipsters hate "Java and Javascript". The world at large loves them.

At some point plain users hated Java applets and Java desktop apps, but those are not a thing much more. In the server space, very few that use it hate Java, and millions use it.
The government doesn't need tricks to ban something...
Why not, and the first part of our identity we should focus on is not losing our kids in custody court. Not just for our children but for society itself.