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> Keynes « center piece » is not manipulation of money supply.

Yes, it is. Keynes said at one point that the government printing dollar bills and burying them for people to dig up would be a valid form of economic stimulus.

> This extreme monetarism you describe is... Friedman’s!!!

Milton Friedman did not advocate anything like the arbitrary manipulation of the money supply by the government that is practiced by the Federal Reserve. (He was in fact a consistent opponent of the Federal Reserve; he thought it should be abolished.) He advocated tying the growth rate of the money supply to the growth rate in real productivity, with no discretionary element at all.

> Ultra liberal economics lead to accumulation of wealth by few super riches

No, the government printing money and giving it to a few favored parties, which is exactly what the Federal Reserve does and always has done (the favored parties have almost always been financial institutions, no surprise given the background of most Fed members), leads to accumulation of wealth by a few super riches.

> This happens to be one of the reason the Roman Empire fell because all this money could not be spent on keeping the army in working conditions.

I don't know where you're getting your history from, but it's wrong. The reason the empire had trouble paying for a competent army was that it had debased the coinage so much that people were refusing to take Roman coins as payment. It even got so bad that the Roman government itself, knowing that its coins were worthless, stopped accepting them in payment of taxes and insisted on payment in kind instead.

The emperor Constantine managed to get hold of a large supply of gold bullion and used it to mint new gold coins, which were accepted in payment of taxes. That helped for a while as the empire could use these to pay the army and the civil servants; but many people could not afford to buy the new gold coins and therefore could not pay their taxes, so the improvement didn't last too long.

It also didn't help that the size of the army and civil service kept increasing, for no tangible reason, which just increased the tax burden.
It's mostly a technical curiosity to me. Although maybe they would if you're using it in a system backup/archive workflow?
None of this is as feasible as people think it is, because this is a deep problem.

What about new terms like kraken ?

In case of online content moderation think in terms of signal/noise and context.

The same thing is benign or malicious based on the context It finds itself in.

Your filter list assumes a static context - your particular imagining of context in this case.

Obviously What’s noise for you is signal/hurtful to someone else.

Run this over N sub groups of subscribers and you have an impossible problem.
Heh. I like that this thread reveals Zoom's true advantage: it scales like hell.
That has to do with concealed carry. Putting a firearm in your suitcase does not require a CPL, nor does it require concealed or even open carry. I'm sure it's still legal to transport a firearm in New York.

To be clear, this rule can be triggered by a flare gun or starting pistol. Traveling with those seems perfectly reasonable and I don't see why a CPL would be required.
That's a silly conspiracy theory. Why steal it when you can pay a poor a pittance?
Even within California it's mostly just a shift from urban areas to suburban and rural. For instance, leaving San Francisco and moving to Sacramento or Tahoe or Santa Cruz.
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Curious why you made the yes/no separate from the frequency tracker when under the hood I'm guessing you're storing a boolean anyway? You're likely also tracking a type already, so you could use 0/1 data and the type to change your graphs, then people could change the tracker type in the future if necessary.
Over the last few years, I've noticed an increasing prevalence of HN comments that skew alt-right-adjacent, especially on certain topics. I'm not sure what explains it, but it's been a clear trend.
What I mean is that as written, the demo doesn't need V to be comparable.
The "How" is missing, might be a title length restriction? You could always email hn@ycombinator.com to ask the mods...
> * the obesity crisis, and the related food deserts
> * specifically for the black community, the lack of academic achievement

Those are both related to a history of redlining. A huge factor in the wealth gap is due a lack of home ownership. Even now, real estate agents steer black customers away from the neighborhoods with good schools: https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-...

If someone's grandparents were forced to live in shitty housing and were never able to own their own home, that puts the next couple generations at a disadvantage. Most people who are able to afford a down payment on a home get financial assistance from their families. If one generation cannot help with that down payment, the next one sure as hell won't.

That point about the black academic gap is quite silly, because you're either ignoring or unaware of the fact that black students are punished more than white students for similar infractions in school: https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/at-school-it...

I could go on all day finding more examples of other discrepancies that are current.

> As an immigrant that landed in US post 2000 with $1000 to my name and a tenuous F1 situation, all this sounds like ancient history.

Yes, my family did that too. However, we are not black, and as a result, we didn't have to put up with banks refusing to give us a mortgage when we wanted to move to a wealthy suburb that had excellent public schools.

You came in on a student visa? That means you had a certain amount of social capital to rely on in your home country. How many people in your original country were too poor to apply for even an F1 visa and shoot for a richer life in America? Your experience is not remotely analogous to the continuing problems of racial discrimination faced by black Americans. You have absolutely not faced the same problems with building up intergenerational social capital that they have. My family made it out of China, but millions of Chinese peasants in the rural countryside, even if they are equally talented and hardworking as my family, will never have the chance. They're too far behind. That's why I chose to focus on the historical legislation. You may think that it doesn't matter, black people should've pulled themselves up by their bootstraps by now, but it doesn't matter if they lack the same headstart.
People have been living without "regular 2-bed apartments" for thousands of years. I would hardly call it an "essential necessity" for human life.
It is for processing payments, and for doing it in such a way that users are comfortable making payments.

It's for curating the marketplace and designing the OS to safeguard information, so that users can trust the apps they install.

It is for developing the features that serve as the backbone of the apps that developers create---cloud storage, augmented reality, machine learning, high performance graphics, cryptography, peer-to-peer networking.

Of course we can imagine different business models. This one certainly has negative tradeoffs. But I think developers get a great deal for the 30% tax, and the formula has undeniably been successful in producing a marketplace where users are more comfortable spending money---the App Store has nearly double the revenue of Google Play, with a fifth the market share.

(To me, the $99 developer fee seems more to do with anti-fraud than anything. With that you get two professional technical support incidents, almost guaranteed to cost Apple more than $99 in wages.)

Clearly, though, Apple's rules incentivized developers to handle payments outside the App Store, and now they're upset that they've created a situation where they're getting a 0% cut. And undoubtedly it hurts the user experience when you can't sign up on-device.
>It's my personal opinion that when we see such a discongreguity that we should perhaps choose other words.

Not really. Then we'd be changing terms established for centuries, that most people understand in their two contexts (geographical and cultural), with some new words we'd have to explain every time we use them -- so making things worse.
Twitter is a bubble. In the public at large, Trump still polls at a better than 40% approval rating and Joe Biden easily beat Twitter darlings like Warren and Sanders.
they are supposed to be in Vancouver.
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200617142119/https://www.nytim...
It's easy to say "it balances" if it's you who decide how much the stuff on the plates weigh
The coming elections will be very amusing as the Chinese and Iranian hackers will work to oust Trump from office, whilst the Russians will be hacking to keep him in office.
Lyft always says things like this. Part of their marketing strategy is to be the "good guy" vs Uber the "bad guy". I know people who always take Lyft over Uber because it has positioned itself as the rideshare beacon of corporate responsibility.
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HN has some filters to 'de clickbait' headlines, I suspect that removing a leading 'How' is one of those.
That's what I probably misunderstand about the technology - I don't understand how you can have lower latency than current WISP-based infrastructure (are they making these claims against ground-based infrastructure?) when there's satellite internet connections that fade out when a cloud goes by... Also, I would assume they'd have massive capacity issues if they're planning on over-subscribing (they'd have to if they want to sustain a viable profit model, unless they're surviving on government funding?)
The problem is that with current proposal Go severely lacks type inference, required for generics to look nice and clean.

A lot of the information is already in the definitions, there's no reason to repeat it, but Go chose to do that.

// Reduce reduces a []T1 to a single value using a reduction function.
func Reduce(type T1, T2)(s []T1, initializer T2, f func(T2, T1) T2) T2 {

s := []int{1, 2, 3}
sum := slices.Reduce(s, 0, func(i, j int) int { return i + j })

and the example from referenced article is even more outrageous

t1 := hashtable.New(string, int)(8, func(key string, m int) int {

We have function types literally at the same exression, but Go requires to repeat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noppera-b%C5%8D
At the chip gas pumps, I'm seeing paper signs left by the owner that say "Leave card inserted". I'm glad everyone is going the chip route but I still wish that pins would be required for credit cards. Just having a 4 digit pin is loads more secure than expecting some cashier to verify a signature on the back of the card (which never happens). I can still bypass the pin on my debit card in most situations by just entering in nothing unless I'm doing cash back. I'm not really sure how that's supposed to protect me, whats the point of a pin if you don't need to type it in? Card companies are quick to refund you for any fraud but it creates an inconvenience for the user that really just isn't necessary. I've been on vacation abroad when my credit card was used fraudulently which I had to cancel immediately. Luckily I had access to my corporate credit card I could use to pay my hotel bill since that was the only thing I couldn't afford with the cash I had on me but I very well could have been shit out of luck. I paid the charges off myself and wasn't in too much trouble after I explained the situation.
> Sure, but there's really no harm voting if you really are completely ignorant -- you and the people like you will just be noise in the final tally.

First of all, I don't think that forms a very good argument for the idea that "everyone should vote".

Second, that's the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that you are completely ignorant but harbor misconceptions that make you susceptible to useless or destructive populism, which creates an incentive for opportunist politicians to base their outward facing platforms on that, allowing them to not so clearly and visibly create real opportunities only for themselves.

> But most people aren't completely ignorant, and the return on going deeper in the political process isn't that great if all you're trying to do is decide how to fill out your ballot.

The problem of how to fill out your ballot is not removed from its consequences. If all you want to do is put a name on a ballot, again, please refrain from voting. If you are at all concerned with what your choice entails other than having filled out the ballot, I sincerely believe that you owe it to yourself and everyone else to be informed and to inform.

The idea that politics isn't for everyone (but that voting somehow is) scares me. That politics might not being your "thing" is only true of hermits that have effectively removed themselves from society. For everyone else, it is your thing. What might not be your thing is caring about it, which I think is sad for the same reason someone not caring about their health is.
I would strongly advocate for a 1440p 34" 21:9 ultra widescreen monitor.

The 21:9 aspect ratio is perfect for having the standard IDE + chrome tab arrangement. It doesn't have the issues brought in by having multiple monitors and 1440p is a good middle-ground resolution.
Basically, stay hydrated? :)
FWIW, switching between resolutions in my favorite desktop environment, Xfce, is two steps:

# This affects every GTK app.
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 144

The second step is going to about:config in Firefox, and setting layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to a higher value than 1.0. I really need to write an extension to do that in one click.

What is really tricky, though, it's having two monitors with different DPI. Win 10 does an acceptable job with it; no Linux tools I'm aware of can handle it reasonably well. Some xrandr incantations can offer partial solutions.
"Would you rather get a bullet to the head, or five to the chest and bleed to death?"

Deliver bad news. Straight and emotionless. We are professionals. After 5 years we've seen most things after 10 years.. you've seen just about anything. Folks need bad news in order to properly prepare for their future.
Recessions take a while to sink in. Your landlords are predicting a swift pickup after this "minor dip" and are acting accordingly.

My experience with large property management firms is that they aren't keen on handing out discounts to existing leasees.
Businesses don't like to be suddenly subject to some random localities laws, especially not if that means they're accidentally in violation (eg, not paying income tax to the correct authority, having employees perform work on the wrong visa or without a permit, etc).
Beautiful native Mac app to test APIs: Paw
Implications for recruiting plasma donors?
It's really more about being able to trace accounts to people period, as allowed through the Patriot Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Title_II:_Enhanced...

Child pornography gets held up to the public a lot because it's a crime nobody can defend and walk away the same they were, no matter what you say. If you publicly contest this move for privacy reasons, you're automatically defending the worst child molester someone's mind can come up with.
That hasn’t been my experience, but ok.
Quite interesting. Maass (senior author) has done some pioneering work on Liquid State Machines and Echo state networks (LSTMs/RNNs).

In this paper they define a formal system intended to model the computations underlying cognitive functions that is done via an "assembly", a set of excitatory neurons all belonging to the same brain area, and capable of near-simultaneous firing.

The main assumption in their model that I do not agree with is that of random synaptic wiring of the circuits. There is considerable research that argues that synaptic connectivity is not random but specific in several ways [0,1].

[0] Sporns O. (2011). The non-random brain: efficiency, economy, and complex dynamics. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 5:5 10.3389/fncom.2011.00005

[1] Motta et al. (2019) https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6469/eaay3134'
I’d say all is bad with MacOS and external monitors... It can’t manage text scaling like Windows, so you either have to downscale resolution and get everything blurry or keep the ridiculously high native resolution and have everything tiny :(
>Unfortunately “western” is now seen as the Abrahamic judeo-Christian capitalistic worldview, even though the west sprang out of pagan Greece and Rome.

The west "sprang out of pagan Greece and Rome" when they decided to become Christian. The actual pagans had been slowly abandoning paganism as a dead-end and turning more into esoteric religions and neo-planonism etc and the influence of Egyptian etc religions for several centuries before Christianism was a thing...
We just canceled our lease two weeks ago. We had a large apartment in one of the new high-rises in Downtown LA.

The last offer was 3 months free and 2 parking spaces free if we stay for 12 month lease, which comes to 34% discount on the rent including parking.

Other buildings are offering by default two months rent-free and they will pay the movers if you decide to move in.

DTLA is a special place as it has plenty of new supply, but I can imagine that it's not too different in other places across LA.
This may be my imagination, or maybe it’s just because the images are so small, but these seem to have fewer of the slightly disturbing artifacts you see in CNN generated images.
I think that is what it is saying! The hash type is AES-128 with SHA-1 hash stretching x100,000[0][1]. The Office 2010 hashmode is 9200[2].

At work, someone of importance wanted access to a password protected file from an employee that left. I ran it through several wordlists to demonstrate an attempt was made and shared the cost/time required for 100% recovery. Never solved it and the cost/time analysis was enough to make them say oh well!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_password_pr...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching
[2] https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes
> Always mentally translate "create a website that allows free speech" into "create a website that forces others to always pay for undesirable speech they don't agree with" -- and you will see that's a virtually impossible dream to accomplish. There is no broadcasting medium (including websites) in any country that doesn't have interference and pressure to remove/ban content via consumer boycotts, advertisers, subscribers, business judgement, or government officials.

> Websites have the hard reality of requiring cpu/disk/bandwidth and they all cost money and that's the lever used by others that keeps "absolute free speech" from getting realistically implemented.

There seems to be a blind spot here in the idea that "websites" have to be big monolithic platforms that give everyone a megaphone.

"Websites" where you can say whatever you want are and have been cheap, and there have been famous examples of this for decades (Timecube!).

But expecting to get access to someone else's megaphone is a very different question. Recently it's been mediated by "engagement" which is a socially terrible base metric, editorially - it encourages the most ridiculous, provocative thing. But this is still a choice, not just some technological inevitability or "correct" ideal state. Big platforms will always necessarily do some sort of curation.

Putting the government in charge of that curation seems silly, since the real cost of bypassing the platforms is so low. Yeah, you have to earn the eyeballs then, instead of piggybacking on other people's shit, but is that so bad?

It's like saying "people shouldn't make independent movies anymore, we're just gonna have the government review all the scripts the big studios take on and make them take some they normally wouldn't."
Waffle doesn't help, any non-commital answer he gave is either an affirmation or will be exposed as an obvious lie in hindsight.

That's a hard position to be in when you've been specifically told not to share news.
The Bay Area is a bit of a special case in that a lot of the big tech employers (especially) are in the 'burbs--which, sorry, is what SV is. Yet you don't really escape urban housing pricing anyway.

By contrast, the Boston area for example you can get to significantly cheaper (though not exactly cheap) housing out where a lot of the, especially local, tech employers are. Things have shifted more towards the city in recent years but a lot of tech is still 30-45 minutes outside the city.
I have a 49" curved monitor. It is effectively two 27" 1440p monitors stapled together (5120x1440). It is the best monitor I have ever had. 1440p has a very decent [higher than typical] pixel density but is not "retina". Fonts look pretty smooth, but you can still see pixels if you try really hard. Overall, I do think high density screens look amazing, but the software has not quite caught up to them. The benefits are on the softer side, and if I could just have magical mega-high-DPI displays with no side effects, sure why not? As it stands, 49" curved monitor is pretty fine. It fits four windows side by side at reasonable resolutions.

Primary apps go in the middle, such as code editor, etc.. Tertiary windows, such as documentation go on the outer edges. Still quite usable, but a little out of the way for extended reading.
1200 feels like a lot to spend on a monitor.
> Come on, the market wouldn't permit that to happen! They'd lose all their customers!

You scoff, but isn’t that exactly what we’re all doing to Zoom right now?
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> every single login involved rearranging my windows because MacOS moves them all to whatever display woke up first

Maybe we can get to the bottom of this. What is your use case?

I ask because as long as I plug them into the same ports it remembers how I arranged them previously (2018 macbook pro 15"). I haven't had to arrange them in over a year... even remembered when updating to latest operating system. Occasionally, I even plug in my LCD TV as a third external monitor and it remembers where that one should go in the arrangement too.
Negotiate. Tell the manager they've been great, but ultimately it comes down to dollar price for you. Let them know you're starting to look elsewhere unless they can lower the rate. When they reply, even if you like the rate, don't tell them that. Tell them it's not what you are looking for; that because of work and expenses, that rate isn't as affordable. Give them another chance to offer another lower rate or add a perk such as a free month or two.
> I promise you the Facebook PHP engineers who worked on HHVM and Hack know best practices and PHP really well.

I said "the average person working on PHP applications", that clearly does not fit the description of HHVM engineers at Facebook, people that certainly know what they're doing.

If PHP users are so great, let's take a quick look at what kind of discussions are they having in 2020:

"Why you should use asynchronous PHP", posted on February 2020:
https://www.zend.com/blog/why-you-should-use-asynchronous-ph...

Seriously? Communities for other languages already moved past this debate long ago. I do not have time to debate stubborn people trapped in 2004.

> PHP is a language. One that is as performant as it's peers, has a large presence on the internet, and is battle-tested.

PHP is not as performant as Java, C#, Go, Rust and many others. And it's battle tested in battles not worth having.