skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I tried to explain why here"

Well, you failed. Interest rates are historically low. We have seen a gigantic amount of liquidity injected over the last decades.

"The poor are much much more hurt by overly tight money."

What is the most expensive acquisition in their life for the majority of the people? Real Estate. Prices are through the roof thanks to the central banks. Young people are just getting priced out of the market.

Real helicopter money has not been tried yet.
I've been using this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MMKZ8XD

All 24 pins are connected, so video, data, and power all work as expected.
Donnie Darko’s release in October 2001 was very quiet after they pulled all advertising because a plane crash plays a prominent role in the plot.
It takes time to die. The patients in Wuhan have been sick for longer.
well I've certainly experienced my fair share of people on HN not understanding things, case in point you me now.

I thought it would be obvious what I said was a joke since it is absurd, but now I'm getting annoyed at the person who didn't understood my sense of humor.

However there are obviously also different ways you can write half a line of code, for example I can write half of any specific line of code you give me (allowing of course for rounding up or down when that line is an odd number of characters in length)

Finally there are actually different ways you can count lines of code, generally it is considered best to use logical lines of code http://codebetter.com/patricksmacchia/2007/10/03/how-do-you-... which it seems is not your definition, at any rate it is not necessarily the case that a single character counts as a line depending on what way you are counting lines.

Otherwise thank you for the education, I consider the hours I have spent on HN golden hours, and the lines

of com

ment

time well

spent.
You can have two pipelines, one for typical development / merge requests and another for pre-releases.
In fact, the US has some of the lowest class mobility in the industrialized world. It's the first and most basic fact that anyone who argues that US-style corporate capitalism is "meritocratic" should have to contend with.

Many European countries have far more class mobility, especially ones with strong social welfare systems like the Scandinavian ones

https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...
This is particularly amusing to me, after the “amateur radio is obsolete” sentiment expressed by the general public and FCC when a portion of the spectrum was scheduled to be reallocated to unlicensed commercial use last year.

Raw voice, or even morse code, will always have value in emergencies; but it’s easy to forget and ignore that when everything is calm.

EDIT: Clarified that the bands were not sold, but up for re-allocation for commercial use.
Texas: $2.10 for a tall (12 oz) cup of coffee. A double espresso with foam is about $2.30.
For a large part of history, negative real returns on stores of value were the norm. Before financial systems existed, almost all investments had negative returns if you didn’t put work and energy into them. To store value, you had to accumulate stuff, buildings or land. Most options either had high maintenance costs, were subject to risk of damage from natural causes and theft, were very volatile or required hard labor to get production out of.

The government creating paper assets that have an above market return, puts a gridlock in the private markets and destroys people's lives.
The problem is that the numbers we have are those published by the Communist Party of China. They're taking the outbreak seriously ... now ... but they were putting whistleblowers in jail at the start of the epidemic.
The author misunderstands people. Nobody is doing the math or spending effort to otherwise rationalize spending decisions this way. It's an emotional plea - and we're all dumb so it works. Same reason all retailers are always having a 'sale'. We really are that stupid.
I think it probably reaches more people with Facebook. Public services like the BBC usually try to have a presence wherever the audience is!
It seems the idea has been around for a while. Here's a video from 2013 that describes it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Q5dKQAN14

Also, last summer Turkey apparently sold some units to Pakistan, and there are other customers.

I wonder if the main difference, what makes it a first, is that it's being deployed on a submarine instead of a ship.
I got the quote from this brainpickings article: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/01/seneca-on-the-short...

...which uses: https://www.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Penguin-Great-Ideas/dp...
You are assuming that the data quality here isn't complete garbage.
Top Analyst Gives Why Ethereum Price Could Surge over 200%
I’ve come to think that the field of “psychedelic engineering” will emerge from this trend, and that it may be the tool we need to finally start grappling with the hard problem of consciousness.

Until we can run safe, targeted, empirical experiments around consciousness, we are stuck using noisy outlier cases (like those who have physical brain damage) to extrapolate from, with no control, defined variations, or iterative deductions possible.

Alternatively, if one could quickly design drugs to alter conscious experience in a targeted and safe way, not only would it open up the population of people who could partake in these kinds of experiments (legally of course) but also open the possibility of a new frontier of exploration, with tactical ‘expeditions’ set out by researchers, similar to the astronauts, where there was some risk but the artifact would be validated knowledge about the brain and mind.

In combination with other experimental techniques, one could imagine a whole host of hypotheses which could be rapidly tested in a replicatable way that presently are not possible to do so. For example, the question of if these experiences are completely self-created psychoses, or if the ‘entities’ seen during these experiences have some, if partial, external coupling (even if it is as benign as non-living, static environmental factors), could be readily tested if it were possible for repeated, controlled, experiments to try to falsify various claims.
This is equivalent to what Apple has done. For a while they had their own in-house repair service through the Genius Bar, and it coexisted with independent repair shops. Now they try to prevent this with software lockouts on repaired equipment and designs that are increasingly difficult or impossible to repair. It’s interesting to see similar patterns in other industries.
"you could also end up in a hellish, confused world of angst and terror for what seems like an eternity"

This is why it's incredibly important (especially for super powerful psychedelics) to prepare properly, take them in a safe place with an experienced person you like and trust, and integrate the experience afterwards in to your life.

That said, even difficult experiences might ultimately benefit you, if you try to learn from them and integrate them properly (perhaps with the aid of a therapist).

James Fadiman's Psychedelics Explorer's Guide[1] has a lot of great information on making the most of one's psychedelic experience, and doing so safely and constructively.

You could also maximize the chance the experience will be a good and constructive one by doing it in a therapeutic, shamanic, or sacred context.

But make sure to vet whoever you do it with thoroughly, as there have been some abuses by people in power in these contexts before (I'm particularly thinking of reports of rapes by shamen in Peru, and other reports of DMT facilitators shocking users with tazers or forcing water or tobacco snuff up their nose/mouth during the experience).

Be safe people!

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
I like this idea too, but bear in mind that the world of SMT in general (Z3 not an exception) seems to have a lot of cosmetically-similar formulations some of which are trivial and some of which will take forever to solve.

The honeymoon with SMT is often brief. You've gotten through the whole 'hooray, now I can nuke Sudoko and those "Mr Brown lives on the same street as the baker, who has a white house" problems' and surely all the world's problems will fall to my awesome new abilities. You then put some basic quantifier problems into Z3 or whatever and watch the prompt go away, apparently permanently.

I'd love it if there were more "intermediate" level documentation sets on SMT - aimed not at people who have just started using SMT, but also not aimed at people who are going to start doing SMT research.
These data are likely a product of garbage in / garbage out.

Hospitals are turning away patients - most patients aren't having samples sent for DNA verification - many patients are too afraid to go to the hospital - etc...

We likely will not have a clear picture of survivability for some time.
I have often been confident that software won't ship based on the current team and hit it right on the money. Tons of folks see a startup and just nope outta there because they can tell it's a wreck waiting to happen. I'm sure you are giving yourself less credit than you deserve. You can tell when things are bad in an area you have worked in for years.
All of long island has 7.5 million people, at 5,617 people per square mile.

The bay area average is 868 people/sq mile.

No, the bay area is not dense at all.
Even assuming the numbers are right and the virus does not evolve, survival may be that high for people who can benefit from intensive care. What happens when the healthcare system is overflowing with patients?
I've always assumed hydrogen would end up having a place as a spillover. Renewable + battery systems will need to be overbuilt for the worst parts of the year, so in the average case there's going to be an excess.

You have to do something with this power, and hydrogen allows you to store a lot of energy very cheaply at poor efficiency, perhaps for heating as gas is used today. In the summer, the excess could be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Dice.com works for the US.
Most of the jobs posted there are contract jobs that are last from a few months to up to a year.
That's not really what the article is about. Getting coffee is low risk. Apps are high risk. There are so many garbage apps that aren't worth a single cent and choosing the right one is very difficult.
Maybe it's vey niche, but I'd like an "avoid traffic lights" setting. On common routes for me you'd often be a lot faster by going 1 minute out of your way to prevent a potential 5 minute wait at a traffic light during rush hour.
Better question: how do I ensure that the mystery powder I bought is actually what I asked for? There's a good, user-friendly testing service in Vancouver. Do your homework, and your due diligence, or you can die. I wish this was an exaggeration.
> I find it amusing that we recognize grand masters in chess

What would you consider the chess of software development?

How would you rank the participants?
I got the same impresion.

It's impossible to know whether they expected to simply let those previous repo agreements expire or if they planned to renew them.
You can specialize in any area you wish to. Just find what you like and put your interest in it during your slow moments or after work hours.
Yes I remember when web directories where the only way to browse the internet
Sadly, my 2011 MacBook Pro won’t update to these later versions, so I just have to leave it running for months at a time.

Perhaps when the keyboard fails, someday, I’ll replace it, instead of just upgrading the RAM and drive.

Kidding aside, I would like to get a newer version someday with better screen resolution and size, but Apple seems to have many missteps to recover from the last 5 years or so.

I’m assuming an implied “/s” at the end of your comment.
Ask HN: For people who consider coding a hobby/passion
Assuming you live in a time where there is no computer, what would you do as your hobby? What sort of hobby that is closely related to coding but without computer that you would consider?
I've mostly given up on unprotected left turns onto huge streets (El Camino Real in my part of the Bay Area).

I'd rather turn right and then take the next U-turn to get back to where I want to go.

It reduces my social anxiety of people piling up behind me as I want to turn left, and it reduces my perception (right or wrong) of risk. When I turn left, I need to alternate looking left and right. When I turn right, I mostly only need to look to my left (unless there is a biker going opposite traffic, which has happened to me!).
Except someone spend labor to amass that capital.

If I considered saving no longer worthwhile, I wouldn’t consume more. I would work less and enjoy more free time. Of course this leads to over proportional less taxes for the state or ubi.

I don’t see why you couldn’t try ubi in small scale by the fans. The most obvious reason why it wouldn’t work on small scale and only on state or global level is because supporters want someone else to pay for it.
There is a Brad Paisley song about this - Time Well Wasted.

Like everything, the key is finding the right balance - between activity and rest, between production and consumption, between relationships and solitude. There is no easy answer to what the right ratios are, and they will vary by person and by the stage in life.
“Au jour d'aujourd'hui” is most definitely bad grammar, or at bad least style, and thus I'm pretty sure it's wrong in the eyes of linguists, the Académie Française, etc.

But I'm sure the French are not the only ones to elevate some bad grammar/style to a level of consensus. Proof that languages are living things!
Hi there. I have a search for spaced repetition running, which is how I discovered this :)

Looks nice to me! Spaced repetition is usually used for recall though, so actively trying to reproduce what you've learned. Any plans to incorporate that?
Wander, ramble, daydream, experiment.
In my opinion, product management roles are extremely difficult to land. I’m not sure that an MBA would provide the necessary skills. However, it might provide additional connections.
Crucially, this lists the confirmed cases, different from the actual cases.

P.S. for those who are clearly disagreeing with me here, I would love to hear what you have to say, rather than just having my text become slightly grey.
Insanely cool and they look very well designed. Might order from outside the UK..!
By publishing their copyrighted content exclusively on Facebook they are effectively "selling" their public to the private company. It's wrong on many levels, especially knowing how they are funded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

"funded principally by an annual television licence fee[12] which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up.[13] The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament,[14] and used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK."

I don't see that they publish the same content anywhere else. Even for Facebook they could have put only links to their own pages with the same content, had it existed. But it seems it doesn't.
Verlan is usually used by french people with North African origins (where Arabic is the official language)

I have always thought that these people were just reading French from right to left like you would read Arabic, giving birth to Verlan.

There are no vowels in arabic, so "bi" "ba" "bo" are just instances of the letter "b", which I thought explained why verlan reversed the words but kept the order for each "consonant+vowel" unit
Absolutely, a lot of those wind turbines in the north sea are still not connected to the power grid because of missing infrastructure. They need to be turned by diesel generators, to not corrode. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-offshore...
If they were connected there is still the problem of missing north-south transmission line.

So converting wind energy into hydrogen and using it for industry, in cars, or blending it into the natural gas pipelines is a "ok" idea.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f11/blending...
Making Beauty Amid the Ugliness of WWII Japanese American Camps (2019)
I miss those days. In theory we're supposed to separate presentation from content, but I've never seen anything non-trivial that doesn't have a lot of nested inexplicable divs to workaround some confusing behavior. Nested tables were an ugly hack, but it was at least clear how their layout worked (until you wanted height 100% of course).
I imagine from their prospective they have worked hard their whole life to build up these communities to which they maximize their own feeling of safety, enjoyment, belonging as well as many other sentiments I am sure. Perhaps it is their belief that the stand of trees preventing a skyscraper is much better served as a stand of timber for nature and other outdoor activities. My point is they have as much of a say in the world as the next guy. I wonder if what is happening is a bit of ageism where the younger generations think they know what decisions are best for a community while dismissing retired people’s desires. How we can compromise I do not know that answers.
Securing Rails Applications
Steam breaks its record for most concurrently online users
Great point. The Original Comment seems to have forgotten that journalists were getting locked up for spreading "rumors" less than 2 weeks ago during a vital time in the spread.
> This rampant prescriptivism

really threw me off when learning French.
I went
from the mostly benign and spelling-only prescriptivism of Spanish
to the complete and utter anarchy that is English
to this weird situation French is in where it's the worst of both worlds:
it has
all of the rules and all of the exceptions.

In some situations
following all of the rules
('course a pied' over 'running' type stuff)
will make you positively odd,
and in others
ignoring some specific rules makes you sound uncultured.
Is this about numbers? Or the fact that both countries did something horrific?

How about how many wars the Americans started? How many people killed, left without homes? How about the fact that Americans bombed the Japanese? Why can't people accept that bad is bad no matter who does it or how many times they do it.

This is not you vs. me, democrats vs. republicans, conservative vs. liberals, Russia vs. US, it's not the divide and conquer of the American propaganda.

I'm not defending the USSR, Europe or US. I'm saying all are bad and all of them have done horrifying things, the only thing we can do is to hope that we can become better. And this can only be done if we stop saying "oh but he did it worse/first, mom" but understand that we need to do better.
Medicare for All: An Integrated Analysis
In addition to recovery taking much longer, there are likely far more than 15k people who have been infected but haven't been to the hospital since the majority of cases aren't serious.
Show HN: How to stop the polarization/toxicity filling the web [video]
"Much difference is there between lying idle and lying buried!"

Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 82
A Test Drive of the Death-Trap Car Designed by Buckminster Fuller (2015)
Then we agree. Notice however that nuclear in France is able to provide up to 98% of power and follow very precisely the demand; only the slightest peaks and bumps require hydro.
This situation (lack of schematics) is powering the open source test instrument surge.

Test instruments are an interesting space in the technology center mostly because they are never "obsolete." If they are operating to their original specifications and tolerances, they do the job just as well in 2020 as they did in 1960. As a result, test equipment can really hold its value well.

I recently paid about $700 to have my HP Spectrum Analyzer from the early 90's[1] calibrated. I bought the instrument for $1,100 at auction, it's working range is 9kHz to 12GHz. So for $1,800 I have an instrument that, if I were to buy the current generation model, would cost me nearly $18,000 or 10x that price. Even a "cheap" Rigol that only goes to 6.5GHz would cost $10,000.

So what to do when your sales are "one and done" ? It is a hard problem from a business model perspective.

[1] EDIT: Turns out it is only 30+ years old, not 50+. Its an HP8596E "portable" (weighs quite a bit :-).
When these threads come up, it’s staggering to see how much mindshare Perl has lost. This particular case of code that grows too klunky for the Unix shell was a key motivator for the language’s invention and ought to be THE final outpost, but people barely seem aware of the option.
This is one reason that I don't buy Apple, so it comes with at least some consumer cost.
Ask HN: What would WordPress look like if it's written in 2020?
I'm seeing a lot of change in the web development recently: pushing everything to the edge, static site generators, AMP, etc.

I'm wondering if somebody would start writing WordPress nowadays, how it would be shaped?
I don't think so. In Argentina we have a similar thing called Vesre (re-ves).
Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/23/following...
> I don't know if au jour d'aujourd'hui sounds horribly redundant in French

To me it does, it's irritating, like "to go up upstairs" (“monter en haut”). But most people evidently don't care, journalists do it all the time now.

I think it comes down to familiarity with expressions (or acronyms), as you explain. The more you internalize what a conjugate thing is, the more it becomes its own — and grammar be damned on the way, as logic evidently isn't the only path to understanding/speaking (perhaps not even the most common).
>"All the screenshots were taken using a PC running emulators which ‘emulate’ the original system," Sam continues. "From here, we could play through the games and take multiple screenshots at key moments.

>[...]

>"We also worked with a guy who was an expert in ripping assets from games such as fonts, which were then used as the game titles where possible."

I'd like to have seen something about how they approached the companies for copyright permissions, what emulators the companies endorsed for them to run the games on, etc., whether the companies who owned the copyright currently had the assets but they weren't usable or didn't have the assets (kinda weird to own the copyright on something you don't even have a copy of yourself).

Seems like there's a few interesting bits (heh!) of information there.

Note that even for personal use these things are verbotten in UK copyright law.
Well performance is certainly the main factor, but it's really about the Big O's of a function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
Omg... I can't believe they have Wipeout!
This is interesting from them:

https://fraidyc.at

https://youtu.be/zgA4GzRsldI
Or, I know there is a faster way, but I want to go via this road.

The number of times I’ve patiently entered multiple points to force a certain route, only to have it ‘optimise’ it for me, on route, without a clear notification, is incredibly frustrating.

It’s not always about the destination, sometimes it’s about the journey. And no, I don’t care that it’s 7 minutes slower!!
Sure, but I'm driving. It'd be nice if it was configurable or automatic, is the point.
The submitted link is for an introductory video. The place to try it out is https://en.howtruthful.com/o/
I tried - it might work like that on iPhone, but on Android you have to enable some network-specific features that Google Fi doesn't currently support :(
Yes, I'm in the US. Left turns have to cross oncoming traffic so you have to monitor both directions. This is especially stressful if {both roads are busy, there's weather/dark, you don't know the roads}.
Maybe a naive question from someone with only passing familiarity, but does gender stay the same? Maybe not the best example, but does le metro stay le trome?