skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author provides no proof that asset prices are the result of inflation or that the 100k salary for a restaurant manager is. The latter is normally used as an example of how tight labor market right now not inflation.

I'm not surprised they don't show any statistics as the lack of inflation in the past decade has been quite a surprise to economists.
In addition to buying BTC, I also long shorted select QE-related IPOs, such as Pinterest. When the bottom falls off, these will fall with vengeance.
And here's another: https://clementmihailescu.github.io/Pathfinding-Visualizer/
More than just the crime rate, the rate at which crimes are successfully prosecuted and the resources exist to enable incarceration. Some countries that have a very high crime rate [1], but have a much lower rate of incarceration than the US [2]. In these cases, the US having a higher prison population is just a consequence of the US being wealthy.

1. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/crime-rate-by-cou...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
> Rules are a poor substitute for actual thought.

This should be the guiding principle of life!
Partly that's climate - going out shopping when it's cooler during the hot season makes sense - plus it's hard to do a viable year-round outdoor night market somewhere where they publish the wind chill numbers through part of the year.

In the west we do have movie theaters, cafes, but yeah, lots of bars
"But nobody reasonably expects a verbal accusation will kill anyone."

It was a foreseeable consequence of the officer's actions. Thus intent could be imputed. Therefore, it could reasonably be construed as an intentional homicide i.e. murder.
I really believe this premise. I really believed this premise 10 years ago and I believed it would be nearly impossible to continue 10 years further on our current path without facing serious consequences.

One thing I learned in the last 10 years is that reality doesn't care that much what you believe and markets can stay irrational vastly longer than you can stay solvent, if not indefinitely.

And that's the interesting takeaway to me. What if all of this is nonsensical insanity but it's nonsensical insanity that is capable of reaching some local equilibrium that is stable for an extended period of time.

Or what if these central bankers are geniuses manipulating the quantum mechanics of our economy in a way that will just always seem like nonsense to outsiders.

Both of those seem like poor premises to me but I can't disprove either of them.

I'm still proud to say I'm short the S&P because at the end of the day all you can do is look at the cards dealt and make your best call but I'm much more willing to believe that I go bust on that bet than I would have 10 years ago.
clearly these guys are trunking though, and when they have decided to go that way, its part of the trade-off. Has its pluses and minuses.
Sure but SMS 2FA is almost always SMS 1FA with a password that can skip the SMS on saved devices.

SMS 1FA isn’t stronger than a good password or a pw manager but I think it’s fair to say that it’s better than the typical password.
This is neat. As a data hoarder I thank/hate you for this.
ianal. to the best of my knowledge the project is clean from a legal perspective. ofc, you don't have to be doing something wrong to become a target of copyright trolling.
Is HN an incel forum now?
Non troll question: What about Pinterest is more QE dependant than other stocks?
The guiding principle... a rule, so to speak!
Definitely. Honestly, I'd be excited if hardware stopped progressing. Ever-better hardware and ever-shifting platforms cover up a multitude of organizational sins. There's much less incentive to write good code given the rate at which code gets thrown out, and given what people are willing to spend on their AWS bills before asking if something could perhaps be improved.
This is sad! I don’t buy groceries at the dollar store but any and every time I’m there, I will repeat to myself that whoever came up with this idea was a genius...there are so many useful products for sale at the dollar store that majority of the people don’t think about and instead buy at 200-500% markup at other retailers. I almost always buy all greeting cards, balloons and wrapping paper from the dollar store. Thank you for existing!
What Kind of Socks Are You?
What passed for shelter 500 years ago wouldn’t attract any tenants these days, even if it was legal. No heating, plumbing, sewage, not to mention the fire code violations.
A high crime rate is a telltale sign of a dysfunctional society, anyway. Something is rotten.
Who’s Behind Those Mystery Drone Swarms? An Investigation
We had platform agnostic discussions with no concrete plan or action by anyone to actually escape our platform.
I can see how that would be useful, but I also think it's a matter of priorities.

I'm basically saying I rarely have bugs in my tests because I verify them first. In fact I can't think of a single bug in my tests over the last 4 years (or even 10 years), but I can think of dozens of bugs in my code.

For example here are some pretty exhaustive tests I've written for shell, which have exposed dozens of bugs in bash and other shells (and my own shell Oil):

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.7.pre11/test/spec.wwz/osh...

I would rather spend time using the tests to improve the code than improving the tests themselves. But I don't doubt that technique could be useful for some projects (likely very old and mature ones)
The feudalism analogy applies here too, im the old times the lord in the castle (or somebody working for him) can banish you from his area, taking your possessions and severing your contacts with the community, ruining your business, and so on. And they don't even need a valid reason, and when you ask "Why?!?" the soldiers would dragging you would just ignore you..
Eiffel Tower in summer was fine, even when Paris was ridiculously hot.

It is so iconic that I think folks should do it.

Also, highly recommend waking up at dawn and visiting Trocadero. The views of the Eiffel Tower are just ridiculous amazing: https://www.danaberez.com/paris-instagram-spots/

Our family (8, 5, 5, myself and wife) had a very good time last summer as Paris tourists (with day trip to Versailles — grounds better than palace tour).

Paris also has Uber, so traveling around isn’t difficult even if you don’t speak French.
Would love to learn more about this. Any resources you can recommend?
A speeding ticket is a misdemeanor criminal conviction.

This beggars belief. Can you provide sources or citations. Quick googling finds no references to this absolutely implausible scenario.
> But because of blind obedience to the Rule of 3, there were many thousands of lines of code duplicated, both in the importer and in its downstream clients.

Well sure, blind obedience to anything at all can cause problems.
Why would you ever believe a giant corporation would choose not to monetize an insanely valuable asset just because they said so?
In my opinion this is just one symptom of the overall illness our society is suffering from. There's no unity among people. It's very much a materialistic society. Everyone thinks everything should be safe. The government has become the arbitrator for fucking every conflict which further prevents us from seeing the humanity in each other. And that's critical because there seems to be less humanity in us every year.

The Injustice system is just an outgrowth of this madness. People in this country don't think right and so you go to justice system that ain't right. But they don't care as long as they're not the ones in prison or jail. it's literally good that other people are in jail because that makes them better than other people. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if this country reverted to some form of slavery. Our society is sick. So our justice system is sick.
Does anybody on this thread know about Bayesian subjective probability? I have been fascinated by it for years, and have recently come to wonder if it represents something interesting in the way it factors expert knowledge with an easily explainable mathematical/probability based approach.

I love the idea of man and machine working together and wonder.
Society 5.0 Briefly Explained
QE is shorthand and not entirely accurate. OP likely meant dumb money chasing yield down the abyss that is unprofitable tech IPOs.
The thing is, jail also acts as a deterrent to the first murder. If it's common knowledge that everyone gets one "murder your abusive spouse" consequence free, a lot more people might commit murders in cases where a divorce might have worked out better and less deadly.
That's viable for sure, but one thing I'd like is regular backups of the photos from my phone (where most I take most of my photos). That's the nice thing about Google Photos with Google One - all my stuff is backed up to the cloud regularly. I understand, though, that this comes with some risk.
Same here. However I also notice that my writing has got better as my spelling has deteriorated. Perhaps the brain the moves up through higher abstraction levels as it ages.
The Illusion of Change (1998)
This essay makes a strong assumption that haters are haters and fanboys are fanboys. Always and constantly. I think both figures are myths. I have never met a person who always hates everyone or someone who fanboys everyone. I think we are all haters and fanboys to some extend. I have a big list of people that I admire and same goes to people I hate — like Donald Trump. I'm sure Paul Graham also hates someone occasionally. It's human.
It’s means the original players or the previously dominant people/organizations which laid out the foundation.
If A, B and C are patches, you are applying C last on the left side and A last on the right.
> This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.

Thats the quickest way to get me to close the tab.
Can We Fix the Air?
Very similar to the attitude I take with sports betting (legal in my country). You don't bet on who you think will win, you bet on who is paying odds that don't reflect your view on the event. I only bet relatively small sums and I don't bet very often (since I don't often find odds that seem poorly priced) but I've won way more than I've lost.
Negative interest rates basically mean: "We accept your money to store it safely, for a small fee".

Didn't banks do just that at the times when gold was the world currency? That continued for quite some centuries, e.g. during the explosive growth of the industrial revolution.
For those who don't know (I didn't), you can create and download archives of any of your data on Google by visiting https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
Pinterest is where you go to fantasise about major home improvement projects - suggesting when people are cash-poor they’ll spend more time there.

...but if you’re cash-rich and planning a project you’ll definitely start you’ll also have a Pinterest page for that too.

So I’m 50/50 on this.

Note that QE is not something that is directly felt by the general public - it’s definitely something for behind-the-curtain so this whole thread is bollocks.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S115813600...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19040622

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ss/2013-v59-n1-ss0746/10174...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2265....

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-014-0300-...

https://www.academia.edu/2236936/Trans_Mental_Health_Study_2...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A102408681436...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109....

https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equali...

Hmm maybe that will occupy you for a bit?

I also find it incredibly disingenuous that everyone asking for The Statistics are asking after a very awfully specific surgery and don't seem to care whatsoever about mutilation performed on intersex people, or of metoidioplasty, or reconstructive surgery, or many other procedures in the area that are performed for all kinds of reasons.

Geesh, I'm actually kind of mad about it... as someone that has given birth to a child and about due with another one, I would love for HN commenters to talk about pelvic pain, vulvodynia, 4th degree tears, incontinence, prolapse, and other incredibly common postpartum issues that might require surgical intervention to the same degree that gender affirming surgeries are being questioned.
Logistic Bifurcation Diagram in Detail
https://www.atlantaduilawyer.com/blog/is-a-speeding-ticket-a...
This still requires the selling side to guess the buying side's time commitments/availability and intentions. The escrow cuts through all the bullshit.

Clearly we will disagree with eachother here; but I am truly at a loss for how a 1 hour lunch is commensurate with a month+ of discovery effort.
It often seems the main target is the web, then Electron steps in to provide an “app”. Slack really comes to mind here.
I don’t think it’s a weather thing...it’s cultural. Same in places warm year round like LA.

Cafes aren’t typically open late at all. And sure movie theaters are open but not really what I’m thinking about when I think of nightlife...
As @hyperpallium said,

> Rules are a poor substitute for actual thought

There are many times "clean code" is a good goal to have. It depends on what you mean by "clean code" and what you mean by "deduplication". As with many things in software engineering, the best answer to whether you should strive for "clean code" is "it depends."

If you have a utility function that you are redefining in every file, literally copy/pasting it everywhere, then you might as well create a shared function and import it and use it everywhere instead. This is an example of a good goal.
> The Mississippi Department of Corrections, or MDOC, repeatedly declined our requests to visit the restitution centers and to discuss them with state officials. But in a statement issued in late December in response to our findings, the department noted that it follows state law when operating the restitution program.

If this program were one of integrity and justice, it should not have a problem exposing its complete workings to its citizens. Notwithstanding the possibility of unreported history here, this stinks.

>Darrell Bridges says he earned almost $2,000 working at Checkers during his stint in the Pascagoula Restitution Center in 2013. But the money was never applied to the $3,403 debt he owed from an attempted robbery when he was 17, records show.

>As a worker makes money, the corrections department takes the first cut in room and board, then usually holds the remaining earnings until there’s enough to pay the entire debt. When someone leaves the program, the corrections department sends their earnings to the court to cover its costs. It distributes the rest to victims, then to pay criminal fines.

Indefinite debt bondage is unjust in any form, but the state and its agents reserving for itself the lion share of this feast of blood and life is especially reprehensible.
I read this as 'pita' as in 'pita bread'. A clever reference to lunch time if that was the intention? Culturally different too as we don't often eat pita for lunch here, but I imagine it's common elsewhere.
Another approach with statically compiled language and good IDE might be to reduce duplication whenever you see it and inline back when you feel that this abstraction is no longer useful.
Hot Chips Symposium – Keynotes (2019) [video]
Neat!

One documentation nit: “Parenthesis” is singular; the plural is “parentheses”.
GPU Web 2019-12-09 Meeting Notes (discussing SPIR-V with the Khronos laison)
Providing a Reactive DataSource to the Material Data Table with Slice OStore
This is plain wrong and is misinformation.

https://theconversation.com/bushfires-bots-and-arson-claims-...
While it's theoretically possible that a hostile party could modify the package in-transit over HTTP/TCP, it seems far more likely that the hacked package would be placed on the "legit-looking" webserver (by hacking the webserver). In this case, looking to the SSL transport layer as any kind of credibility enhancement to the unsigned binary is worse than ignoring it.

Therefore, an unsigned binary is an unsigned binary, no matter the transport mechanism. I agree that distributing unsigned binaries is poor security practice, but I also think that it is dangerous to think that the transport of an unsigned binary over an SSL connection gives it any credibility.
Sadly the flutter team seems more focused on mobile and web than desktop.
This looks very neat, but why does the project have zero tags or releases? I also notice the GitLab instance isn't even accessible over https.
Paying restitution is one thing, being forced to stay in jail while paying it back is quite another. Normally these cases are handled with garnished wages.
Physician here (neuroradiologist) and after working at several hospitals in the US and abroad, let me be really clear about this:

1) I have never seen a health care organization ANYWHERE where the physicians determine the IT policy (including and especially the IT security policy).

2) Universally, healthcare organizations use the bloated garbage that gets passed off as EMRs and affiliated garbage software. None of this is up to physicians. It's up to the administrative and bureaucratic parasites that have infested healthcare at every level and based largely (I assume) on crony relationships, because it's certainly not based on competence.

3)Healthcare IT is the most abysmal software anyone anywhere has ever devised to perform any task. Systems like EPIC are bloated, barely functional trash that systems have wasted billions of dollars on. The various components of departmental IT do not co-ordinate with one another, crash on a daily basis, are not fit for purpose and would embarrass engineers in any other industry.

It comes as no surprise that security for these systems is piss-poor, just like everything else about these systems. Blaming doctors for this administrative mess, whilst not unexpected, is disingenuous at best (of course this is what healthcare administration excel at - making a mess and blaming physicians).
Always fun to find an escapee of the "Russian nail factory" of modern business management. Thank you for this simple, clear explanation.
The pun is that "fanboy" encapsulates "not a man" (boy). Of course the archetypal fanboy or hater is kind of a weakman (if not quite a strawman), but that's the point; it's a model. He's pointing out that in that model, the "boy" is very relevant and indicative.

If he were discussing the word "fangirl", he'd probably say "not a woman" instead, but I think that would result in more flak ("as a mam, who are you to judge if a woman is a real woman or not?").

I feel like a lot of the posts in this thread are missing what he's actually trying to say here.
Do not rely on a single drive or you'll end up in a situation like me where one day your external drive decides to stop working and 20gb of photos are gone.
"...deep learning folks don't give two shits about uncertainty intervals..." This is a failing of those folks for many applications.
There’s also the environmental factor nobody takes into account. Less CPU cycles means less emissions. When a piece of software is used by millions or even billions it must be significant.
I'd be interested to hear more. As I said in a sib comment, permaculture et. al. obviously works and (in many ways) is more desirable than conventional agriculture† yet integrating it with the existing economy seems challenging. The existing systems really do provide tremendous amounts of food at very low prices, and it's hard to compete. It seems like you have to work with the kitchen budget that would be saved by growing one's own veggies in the backyard.

†Farms turn forest into desert, while permaculture turns desert into forest!
I challenge you on "jail also acts as a deterrent to the first murder" as a cliched truism and again on "...a lot more people might commit murders..." - I mean really, you added the might because even you know you're just throwing BS against the proverbial wall.
The word "mint" really takes the meaning out of the word "mine". True though, minting is part of the economics included in mining.

Usually governments mint coins, but no government (or centralized entity) currently operates a legitimate network that matches up with the same properties as bitcoin.

I might have used an asterisk, maybe? :)
And if they weren't using 60 second TTLs everywhere, they might actually from the caching built into DNS!
Oh, that’s great news. Thanks for setting me straight. There are so few unambiguous wins when it comes to environmentalism.
While this is a rather crude way to describe the issue, the homeless are increasingly taking shelter in libraries during the day.

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/06/03/give-them-s...

It's certainly a problem, but it's one of the (many) that no one wants to address and instead continually ignore.
I think you're interpreting a ton of things which aren't remotely present in this essay or implied by it.
It's almost always better to immortalize the context sharing in writing. Decisions can be bucketed into categories, and those categories are revisited over and over with different constraints each time. Being able to easily recall arguments on both sides is very valuable to the company, less so the individuals, but very much the company.
Clean code is not a phase. That's an obnoxious thing said by non-programming amateurs who find themselves in positions of authority.
This is false. Housing is almost a third of the CPI.
Agreed, and I should of elaborated: sure we're worse in the case of incarceration, but our legal system is still way better than in other countries.
TypeScript/Flow
The US does not have the same class structure as most developed nations. We have 40 million black Americans who are descended from slaves and faced legal discrimination up until the mid-1960s. This population makes up a disproportionate share of our prison population. Since then, a second extremely large ethnic underclass had immigrated across the US’s southern border. This population also makes up a disproportionate share of our prison population. As far as I am aware, this is unique among developed western nations.
I'm not expressing an opinion, I'm just saying people who care about the environment would not be happy. It's not the moon.

Even deserts have ecosystems. See the section on flora and fauna in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atacama_Desert which in parts has been used for a stand-in for Mars.

The Qattara depression doesn't seem to be in the same league as the Atacama, as far as lifelessness goes. I mean, gazelles, cheetahs, vast wetlands?
I use Resilio Sync, and have tried SyncThing. Both work.

They both have an app you run in your phone, and a companion app you run on macOS, Windows, Linux, or your NAS, and it syncs (even through a NAT) whatever you've configured to backup on your phone to N servers.

If you're away from home, you can run it on your laptop next to you, so your phone is backed up quickly, and then throughout the day you laptop can sync with your home server while you're out exploring. It's nice.

I have two backups online, and an external drive I rsync to monthly then turn off.

Before you delete your originals in Google Photo, use Takeout to validate the files. Mine (at "original quality") were mangled.
There ended up being a real failure in the test. Fortunately, the failure occurred in the same system whose failsafe was being tested, giving the failsafe a real chance to shine. The Apollo program never ceases to amaze.
I just read it as "original"