skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CPI is computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not the Federal Reserve. As for why labor, housing, and stock prices aren’t included in the CPI, I would guess because: labor is sticky and are only indirectly related to consumption via pricing, housing is a durable good (people don’t buy it week to week nor does rent change with such frequency), and stock prices don’t affect consumption.

You could make the argument that a better inflation indicator could take these into account, but it wouldn’t be the CPI then.
This blog by Mr It, Strangling.
reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/

Believe me, it's just what you're looking for.
I don't want to throw a wrench into your article but have you considered using terraform instead. I've found it allows me to write much more readable code than Cloudformation.
So trade those apps not working for immunity from JavaScript clipboard hijacking?

I'd be 110% fine with that trade and nothing of value to me would be lost.

Is it possible in Firefox? Anyone know?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great

> Steven D. Levitt noted that some of the companies selected as "great" have since gotten into serious trouble, such as Circuit City and Fannie Mae, while only Nucor had "dramatically outperformed the stock market" and "Abbott Labs and Wells Fargo have done okay". He further states that investing in the portfolio of the 11 companies covered by the book, in the year of 2001, would actually result in underperforming the S&P 500.[6] Levitt concludes that books like this are "mostly backward-looking" and can't offer a guide for the future.
Maybe they had it, but I'd say whenever I had to use a Cisco web/video conferencing product (or , to be fair, most other web conferencing products), I always felt I was battling someone trying to get everyone connected. With Zoom my experience really was a "it just works" kind of experience.
I just added Zapier and Automattic. I'll look into linking out to their job pages from HireRemotely. Thanks for checking it out!
But we have face tracking piles of poo now!
Satellites already have a nontrivial effort put into keeping their orbits from colliding with each other. Increasing that number by 50% is not going to be easy.
Yes, Mac apps have access to the clipboard; that's why they can paste. Is Windows or Linux different? Honest question.

Please do not give Apple ideas for a "App would like to access your clipboard" dialog.
I really care about security and lament that most people don't, but maybe they've the right idea and I'm just wasting my time. There are simply too many holes to plug :/
How much stock are they expecting though? The problem with a lot of ‘sweat equity’ models is that they’re often just a cost effective way to grab an outsize portion of a company on the back of a few hours a month of ‘Office Hours’ time.

I don’t see how you can both give enough stock to make it meaningful to the VC without vastly overestimating the contribution of the VC team.
A1) Your typical mega corp that is too big to be one thing and filled with geniuses around every corner. So some parts are a pit and some parts aren't. It depends.

A2)Probably don't have to worry about it.
I can already see my spam folder being made up of 100% extortions and threats of varying severity. A grizzly thought.
"He was treated with antibiotics and drugs typically used to treat HIV patients."

That's a great way to create antibiotic resistance in the wild.

If he had COVID-19, antibiotics won't help. It's just as likely that his own immune system made him recover than throwing random antivirals at it did.
If you really don't mind it will break some websites, then you really can disable it in Firefox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352929
I really appreciated the walkthrough of solving the installation of ZFS on the OS. It was so thorough and realistic, I almost got the headache as if it were I debugging the issue! I applaud the author's determination in getting it working.
Important tips I’ve learned for getting more traffic on your blog posts in 2020
Yeah, because no one can DDOS your CDN or hosting box /s
I think a Sun 2 is too old for that. You need a Sun 3, Sun 4 or early SPARCstation to run NeWS.
The cost for the highest level of support is about the same as the salary for a single Senior Software Engineer. It certainly would be a surprise if there were only 100 companies in the world that can afford to hire a single employee to provide them with the services they require.................................................
The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson
On the topic of Ray tracing books:

I'm currently at chapter 9 of The Ray Tracer Challenge and I have to say it's a wonderful book and the stellar reviews are well deserved.

It handholds you all the way and that is such a breath of fresh air for someone like me, who's not a math guy, nor do I instantly 'get' modern graphics APIs, since there is a lot of prerequisite knowledge encoded in those APIs.

I also like to understand things from first principles and it helps when those principles are explained in a straightforward, even somewhat humorous way and I get to see results right away.

Learning practical things would be so much easier if the other books on my shelf had the same approach.

It's already in the top 3 of my favorite books, along with Nature of Code.
Regarding #3, we still have so far to go to get to human-level intelligence that I think companies benefit more from open research than closing their doors. When a company publishes their research, others can find and publish improvements to their research. Then, the company can use the published improvements to improve their product.
If it looks as good in person as it looks on paper, that's a seriously attractive laptop.

Pity it seems to top out at 4 cores and 16GB RAM though. I might have to take a hard look at that series once it refreshes to i9...

How do you feel about the touchpad?
Compromised encryption machines gave CIA window into South America
I haven't come to a personal conclusion on how I feel about the morals of it all, but you have to marvel at the feat of engineering.
Colorful Dots Are for Your Health
As I also noted in a sibling comment, you don't even need JS to do that: https://jsfiddle.net/eaL153uz/
> The VC will benefit from all of the upside while literally taking none of the risk.

VCs provide 100% of the funding, so they're taking the risk, at least for that individual company. I understand VC return is amortized off all their investments. But to say that VCs have no skin in the game isn't entirely accurate.

If you accept stock and a paycheck from a startup, that's VC money.
(Not-so)-fun fact - the source of Markdeep is a single 5000 line long javascript file :( [1]
I wanted to integrate it with my Pelican[2] workflow but I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole.

Why javascript projects tend to be this way?

1 - https://github.com/morgan3d/markdeep/blob/master/1.09/markde...

2 - https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
I don't disagree that providing ML-features-as-a-service in a general way is much harder than a normal SaaS business. However, I don't necessarily believe those sorts of companies are the future of commercial ML. Rather, I believe practices like transfer learning and improved infrastructure (see the turnkey inference platforms mentioned previously) are enabling startups without armies of PhD's to build these ML-powered features themselves.
Anything that is function approximation is AI. This includes decision trees
It's the successor of tensor2tensor, so it's a high level library that implements different the algorithms. Unlike other libraries the code is very readable.
That's kind of hilarious actually.

This highlights the tension between the document-web and the app-web. What if the page is an image editor, word processor, spreadsheet? These app-web pages need custom logic for copy and paste. Unfortunately, bad actors (like what you found) ensure browsers cannot implement this stuff properly, because every feature is now a way to shove a new ad in.
Yeah, one possible explanation for a lot of this is that the US military has been scammed by a bunch of quacks and they lack personnel with sufficient scientific competence to evaluate what they are being sold.

I don't see how it could explain the 2004 Nimitz incident though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starlink Shows 302 Starlink satellites although only 240 are v1.0, next month with the Starlink 6 mission it will be moot :-)
And if you don't know who Brian Kernighan is, you're not informed enough to judge him.
The "Strangler" needs to copy the legacy interface at first, but after that you can add new interface feature to it.
I hate to be the one to say it, but vim and emacs are basically just programmable card punch machine emulators. Of course Emacs is obviously the best card punch machine emulator, by far, though. ;)
I don't agree that parsing is the hardest aspect in all of compilerdom. More like parsing is the least interesting part of what makes a compiler. Perhaps as you allude to, use Lisp or S-expressions as the frontend language and then build the compiler as you don't need much of a parser. Then you can get straight to the more interesting bits.
Less well known is "Rasterization in One Weekend"

https://tayfunkayhan.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/rasterization-...
Wow!! Looked like a lot of fun.. Hows the durability?
Seriously... I want to know the business/legal logic behind adding copyright messages to the clipboard when copying. This has happened for a long time with news sites, Apple Books, etc.

No user ever has ever wanted that.

So what lawyers, where, ever demanded it, and why? Short snippets fall under fair use anyways... and even if it didn't such a message doesn't prevent anything (you just delete it after pasting)... and it you were oblivious to how copyrights worked before, this isn't going to teach you.

So it's UX annoyance but why? Not only does it not provide an obvious legal benefit to any party, I don't even see how it's legally covering anyone's ass? Like, I know how under trademark law companies have to warn people against using their trademark generically or else they can lose it -- so as dumb as it is to get an e-mail from Adobe asking you not to use "Photoshop" as a verb in your press release, I get it. But copyright... doesn't work like that.

So how/why did this become a thing? I just don't understand the legal rationale here.
In my mind, Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most clear events that should raise questions about Bigelow's credibility. NIDSci very prominently purchased the ranch and initiated a research project there which they even invited some reporters to observe. Absolutely nothing came out of it besides a couple of books which provided essentially nothing other than recapping myths related to the site which are, themselves, of dubious origin (e.g. may have been fabricated much later than their supposed origin). See, e.g., Kelleher and Knapp's book.

Note that both Kelleher and Knapp are referenced by TFA - Bigelow is perhaps the central body orbited by a dozen or so paranormal enthusiasts repeatedly involved in various schemes. Take down a list of the researchers associated with AATIP/BAASS and you will see their names come up over and over for the last twenty years of paranormal phenomena - frequently associated with high-profile research projects that quietly die with no results.

After years of work at Skinwalker, NIDSci quietly closed up shop with nothing to show for the effort and, espeically in later years, very little apparent activity besides hiring a guard to keep everyone else out of the site.

So obviously this is an opinionated answer, but I would say that there is nothing about Skinwalker Ranch besides some strange stories coming from the Gormans (previous owners of the ranch) and then a tremendous amount of confirmation bias and intrigue, most of which was only even possible because NIDSci was so incredibly shady and non-transparent about their work there despite inviting people to write books.

To answer your question more directly, there is not necessarily any connection between Skinwalker Ranch and UFOs except to the extent that the greater community (and to some extent Bigelow and his friends) have drawn tenuous connections between Skinwalker Ranch and essentially every other paranormal phenomena ever proposed. For example, on of the phenomena said to surround Skinwalker Ranch is a rumbling or deep sound from the earth, which some suggest is evidence of ongoing construction work on a deep underground military base (DUMB). DUMBs are generally associated with interaction with alien races or work on extraterrestrial technology, mostly due to Bob Lazar.
If your shell has a function for copy and paste integration (like fish), just override it with a sed script to remove that crap. Same for vim’s clipboard integration.
> No more than usual

Is that true? Is there a similar period in history where the Senate simply didn't hear the bills being passed by the House?
I remember playing with those ansí box characters back in the late 1990s... shit norton , microsoft and every other "graphical" ui for DOS used it.
"The law, in its majestic equality, allows the rich as well as the poor to use their resources to bring a fraudulent CEO to justice"
If anyone in power actually gave a shit about that why do we still have lotteries and casinos?
&& doesn't mean "move here". It means, roughly speaking, "bind to things that are okay to implicitly move from, because they're going away anyway" (e.g. rvalues, or when you are returning a local).

std::move() is there to allow you to explicitly say, "this is okay to move from, even though it can still be accessed after the move".
Show HN: Building the basics of an impossibly large game
Fraud is already illegal, and if it's happening then the defrauded parties should take the swindlers to court and prove it, and the justice system should punish them.

The fact that some people might get swindled is not an argument for why I shouldn't be allowed to invest my money how I see fit. Just like the the fact that somebody might sell a defective toothbrush doesn't justify forcing me to get the approval of some bureaucrat in order to buy one.
XML (via svg) can potentially be great for that... it saves the "what" so we only need software that does something useful with it.
My experience with investor-provided talent has been very poor.

Historically, the problem is that VCs tend to send "subject matter expert" type consultants who give advice. Startups need someone to do the work more than they need someone to give the advice. The VC-provided talent usually generated more work than they solved with questionable returns for the company.

Unless Reid Hoffman has cracked the code of sending the right people to get work done, I'm suspicious.
This shifts allegiances in interesting ways. Key employees are no longer employees but contractors hired by the VC.

As stated, the contractors are not startup employees but gain any research knowledge are on patents. Do these partners still have non-compete contracts with the start up or can they freely leave with IP?

It seems like this system allows the VC to pull support easily. You can't force someone to continue to work for you. If the partners are time splitting how would you approach that situation? Can you fire them?

Seems much more complex than cold, hard cash.
Most founders will have no interest in this. (1) 90% of VCs add negative or zero value. Okay maybe you have a part time employee but how much equity are you really going to give up for that? (2) Top founders don’t need you. They can attract their own talent at market rates and they don’t want someone running their business. (3) Startups need to pay their people.
Under X11, Firefox sets the primary selection correctly and middle-click paste is unaffected. This site also renders fine with JS blocked. That is a useful default to prevent this kind of crap from interfering with you.

What is infuriating is CSS that prevents text selection in the first place. That insult to usability should have never been adopted by browsers.
Bonus points for understatement in title that caught me at just right time to lol.

Will skip reading comments because I know some k8 fan boy or some other type of religious enthusiast will insist all of it is solved.
Boy Van Amstel: Creating apps is what makes this entrepreneur happy
They seem most similar to kickstarter, with a theoretically higher imaginary upside.
Even the real locksmith businesses are pretty shady. CBC Marketplace recently had a story about fake locksmiths in the GTA.

Flowers are the same as you describe. It's depressing to see how easy it is to make money if you're a total scumbag.
Hint: Reader Mode [ enabled ]

This is a horrible presentation but reader mode makes it much better.
I'm not sure I get what your saying.

Are you asserting that GP is confused about what they are hearing, or are you saying that the ultrasound is creating some kind of unpleasant interference that is being perceived instead?

I've been able to hear in unusually high ranges my whole life into my mid-30s. Office, home, urban environments... distance measuring equipment, devices intended to repel birds and mosquitoes... things that are loud but "too high to hear" that wind up for me being "yes, that is indeed very loud and very high".
I would say the current wave of AI is just training and inference.

Training is getting computers to recognize a pattern by giving positive and negative examples. It uses huge compute and you get a model.

Inference is using that model to recognize that pattern in new data. It uses less resources, so it can process lots of data quickly or work on a small system.

So when I hear hand-wavy stuff, I just sort of mentally think - what pattern are they looking for, what is their source data and what data will they use it on.
According to the Navy pilot who went on the Rogan podcast, the object he encountered was actively jamming his radar and targeting systems, which he also said is considered an act of war. I'm not sure how any military could consider a craft that can fly circles around ours while jamming our targeting systems to be benign. Unless it's ours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIG-i2WCfg

https://podscribe.app/feeds/http-joeroganexpjoeroganlibsynpr...

"the way the system actually works is when you see something on the radar and you designate it as your primary target all the other sensors will look at that point so it's everything is kind of sink together so he picks up a hit on his radar and he goes to lock it up because I watched all the tapes he goes to lock it up and immediately the radar can tell it gets signals back that it's being jammed

► 00:20:44

so in technically jamming is an act of War it starts jamming the radar goes into a jam extrapolate a bunch of stuff happens on the scope"
React Context with TypeScript: Part 1 – Simple context with function components
The author sadly didn't touch on e.g. zero-width spaces (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space) to fingerprint anything copy pasted.
From the example in this video I’m not quite sure how you get anti-aliasing for free in sub-pixel sampling. I understand it in general, but in this example the light is being reflected on a diffuse surface. Assumedly where the diffused ray goes has a large random component, so sub-pixel sampling provides very little, if any, benefit. Is my take in this correct?
Sort of like lies, damn lies and spreadsheets?
This is quite fascinating. Trump and his cronies are now willing to burn his own house down, and burn everyone else’s house down, in order to not let anyone play.

Blocking TSMC from selling to Huawei, might very well kill TSMC. I don’t know the specifics, but TSMC rely on the sales from Huawei to sustain their R&D and manufacturing investments. This is why it is economical for Apple and Qualcomm to use a contract manufacturer, since only they (TSMC) can sustain the economy of scale. If TSMC falls apart, then where is Apple and Qualcomm going to manufacture their chips?

By doing this, Trump has now painted a target on every other Chinese company: DJI, One Plus, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Alibaba. Although I am sure they have already drafted up contingency plans.

At some point, if it hasn’t happened already, these companies are going to band together, and create their own platforms and technologies. The Chinese market is massive enough to sustain these companies internally, while they mature and build out their technology, for later export to the rest of the developing world.

The key tool here is the photolithography machines from ASML. Once China’s scientists builds a replacement, then there is no further dependence. So if Trump wants to get the maximum effect, then he should pull the trigger on this, right now.

Five years ago, a lot of pundits kept saying that Chinese tech companies were only competitive because they had the China government backing them up, and blocking the Chinese market from American domination by Google and Facebook. Well, today, that decision seems prescient. Nobody back then, ever thought that an American President would do such a thing, but today, here we are.
Attorney here! (Not legal advice; consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.)

I am skeptical that this is a copyright issue that raised an attorney's attention. It's far more likely IMO that this was a contractual obligation imposed by the publisher.

I have no insider knowledge as to whether this is actually true, but it's quite probable that in exchange for allowing Apple Books to republish their content, the publisher required Apple to append this attribution when copying content into the clipboard. In theory, preserving such an attribution might cause more copies to be sold.

Also, contrary to your assertion, not every short snippet qualifies for a Fair Use defense; there's a four-factor test that courts apply, and the length is just one of those factors. But again, I think this less to do with copyright and more to do with a business arrangement.
Yet another thing to kill with Chlorine Trifluoride. Large quantities.
Not lab engineered, it says.
30" Cinema Display is a joy. I used to have one but such a shame that it runs too hot. Living in the UK and working in an office with bad AC, it melted my face :) I let it go.

To anyone planning to use a 30" CinemaDisplay , you will probably need a special Mini DP to Double Dvi active powered adapter. They are not very common so they are a bit expensive. Search for: Tripp Lite Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter Cable with Dual-Link Active USB Power MDP to DVI-D, 6 in. (P137-06N-DVI-DL)
Start up desk memberships in Palo Alto
Unlikely - see my comment elsewhere in this post.
I guess there's a time premise to a painting. The artist is not necessarily asserting -- but I implicitly assume -- that the artist deems any given painting "a thing upon which to dwell." A stamp of good aesthetic housekeeping -- trust me, says the painter, your viewer's mind and soul can rest herewithin. I mean, the painter certainly did. Day upon day of slowly creating the thing in which their visual cortex swam, lived, breathed and had its being.

I am standing next to the artist. Seeing what she saw, imagining what it must be like to arrive from the other direction, without all the layers of preconception and intention that she baked in. And hopefully, from her direction and from mine, the good housekeeping seal, there is something "good" about this meeting of two perspectives.

Your project throws that good-housekeeping seal out the window. Which is not to say that a given image is bad. Rather, that the social contract between one viewer and one artist, is missing. My viewer's eye keeps assuming it exists, and my brain reminds me -- no, this is all fake, there is no humanity behind the curtain. There is nobody to connect to. Maybe it's still art, but not the kind I... emotionally expect from a thing that looks, at first glance, beautifully painted?

So, the infinite aspect definitely "helps" the experience. The exhaustion helps one feel viscerally how big is the problem space.
Very well said.

And thanks for the interview link.