skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Financial repression[0], 0% interest rates and higher inflation, to inflate away trillions of $$ of national debt and drive up nominal GDP, is the order of the next decade.

We've reached the limits of what central banks can do, from here on out it's direct government intervention in the commercial credit sector, and driving up demand through fiscal policy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression
In Hillel's defense, maybe they're not opposed ideas... this article talks about problems with formal verification, but I think his thing is more formal modeling (with TLA+).
Besides this being unhelpful "misguided pedantry", there's also the issue that what the founders wanted to create and what exists today are not necessarily the same.
> An asteroid impact

I wonder whether this is more likely to happen on Mars (due to its relative proximity to the asteroid belt).
> I'm very confident a major crisis like this one will make key people finally realize that a mix of free global markets + welfare states focused on reducing inequality + democratic institutions will be the answer to many macroeconomics problems.

Like the Scandinavian countries, which also have the highest reported rates of happiness in the world. Why, at the government level, do we not look at best practices worldwide?
With the exception of the coronavirus protests, everything else has had years of consistent pressure behind it.

There have been riots and protests over police brutality and systemic racism for years. People have been protesting America's whitewashing of its history and romanticizing of the Confederacy for years. None of these issues are new. The CHAZ wasn't the result of "pre-election opportunism," read their list of demands. It's fueled by anger, yes, but also seeks redress for grievances the black community has been complaining about for years. "Biden 2020" isn't in there anywhere.
Interesting enough, I expected an email reply from @mozilla.com or its partners so it made it more confusing.

If you send an email to hcenquiries@parliament.uk you don't expect an answer from bob3218321798@whateverdomain because it may be someone who intercepted the email and may attempt stealing the identity.

Let me quickly quote what hey.com says about their emails:

"Can you read my emails? Technically, yes"

Your theory can be totally true and I may be wrong, however the fact that they dislike solo-founder companies stays in place.

Tumblr (acquired for $1Billion) started solo-founder, PoF (plenty of fish, acquired for $500+ M started solo-founder) and many more, check them on IndieHackers because there was recently a $1M ARR solo-founder organization documentary.

Nevertheless, every company is allowed to do whatever they want to do. We should also support minorities when it makes sense from an ethical point of view.
The paper says its a bidirectional association.
Modeling Analog Synthesizers with the Wolfram Language and System Modeler
A lot of pathways (most? incl. muscle movement) in the brain are inhibitory, not excitatory, so that makes sense. Your example of it occurring at a higher level is intriguing.
Going to run and drink beer with some friends and then prepare for the work week.
That was my point. This study tells us nothing. The problem is not with people or the doctors, it is with these idiotic studies.

From the study:
"People who showed more goal persistence and optimism during the first assessment in the mid-1990s had greater reductions in depression, anxiety and panic disorders across the 18 years, according to the authors.

And throughout those years, people who began with fewer mental health problems showed more increased perseverance toward life goals and were better at focusing on the positive side of unfortunate events, said Zainal."

and they conclude with your inverted causation:

"Our findings suggest that people can improve their mental health by raising or maintaining high levels of tenacity, resilience and optimism,” she said. “Aspiring toward personal and career goals can make people feel like their lives have meaning. On the other hand, disengaging from striving toward those aims or having a cynical attitude can have high mental health costs.”

So people who are not depressed do not easily get depressed. Really? That is the ground breaking work? Re read that part, again and again, and tell me where my logic is wrong. They are saying correlation is causal.
Theoretical CS toolkit – full course by Ryan O'Donnell
99 lectures and lecture notes.

YT link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3ZYpFLwwrlv...
i was also completely puzzled what the hell "yearny" (or something) meant until i saw мирный on the map

god, is it that hard to check up at least the approximate pronunciation of things and places when you are making a video like that?
Fucking thank you. I have no idea why I had to scroll so far to see this.

It’s Duke. They’re internationally known. Against some no-name state university. Of course they’ll try harder for the Duke students. It doesn’t matter if it’s Idaho State University, Oregon State University, or NC A&T, it’s not on the level of Duke.
If I find any cold showers with formal modeling, I will absolutely include those too. :D
Emotions are a byproduct of a myriad of endogenous and exogenous inputs, both chemical and circumstantial.

There is no such thing as owned real emotions.
8601's definition of a decade is somewhat different from common parlance. They're using it only to mean "the first digit of a two-digit year", and doesn't really apply it beyond that. If you stick to only that definition of a decade, you're going to have communication problems with human beings.
https://archive.is/j7xRa
> It only holds for Hispanic women, but not for non-Hispanic whites? How would a pregnancy differ between those groups?

If one population lives / works closer to flares than another, they could have greater exposure. If one population works outside more than another, they could have greater exposure. If one population is wealthier than the other, their homes may have more up to date air conditioning, including filtering, leading to lower exposure. If one population is wealthier than the other, women will have greater flexibility to stay home for the duration of their pregnancy

> The conclusion reads as if you need to prove your possible wokeness in your tenure track.

This reads as if you need to flex your anti-wokeness after ignoring significant environmental differences that white and Hispanic women experience.

Some factors I mentioned are confounded -- we've seen lower premature birth rates during the pandemic, and we may have a good opportunity to really understand why so many babies are born premature. This study is a piece of that puzzle.
Excellent point, shows you how much of an engineer I'm NOT. That's probably a big point too.

Surely there's some sort of chart they've made for all these parts and how fast they're allowed to decay, given some number of flight-hours?
Looks a whole lot like Sinclair's script for stations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI

I'm not convinced US media is all that different.
There's a lot of people who believe that to be true. My take on it is it is true, but there isn't any moral issue with doing it. I'm just a bit disappointed I can find a good doctor to give me drugs to make me happy.
It's technically both - theft by defrauding.
> From extremely conforming people originality is met with immediate hostility.

I'd submit a common case of that is someone with a new idea and being confronted with all the reasons it will never work.

And that really does seem like a function of personality. The people saying why it won't work aren't being close-minded; they're gaving the idea a listen and thinking about it critically. They're may not even being outwardly rude. It's simply an unconcious preference to critique and find flaws.
>makes several promises that may seem nice to a non-astronomer

Elon Musk's entire MO is appealing to non-experts to drive the narrative, whether he's talking about Full-Self-Driving cars, or underground car tunnels, or Hyperloops, or a brain implant curing dementia, or these satellites. It's scary.

Look at some of the replies in that Twitter thread, "He's literally bringing internet to under-served locations!" as if any of this project is even functioning today, or there is no other way to provide telecoms to these places.
Thanks, it has been a fun project to work on, and you are correct about variable fonts offering more range in fewer bytes!

Another thing worth considering in a “page bloat” debate is that while a very extensive variable font is maybe 300 kb, that size is fairly average for a JPEG, but you can do far more with a variable font.
I think not voting at all is the dumbest possible position.
lol i'm moving soon, which building?
Case in point: If you don’t want to discuss politics at work you must be a “jerk”.
A beloved classic. Thanks for trying it out, and thanks for the kind words!
Language nerds create Latin words for the 21st century
> Cambridge

"Our fair city!" -Tom Magliozzi
I feel that the "systemic racist" is overplayed, yes. And the graph is sourced.
Was on the phone and am not good with touch typing. But, I actually did what I mentioned above. Being stuck at home like the OP, I actually had a lot of time on hand. So, I started calling Coffee shops that had recently pivoted to Shopify model(that change is happening in a massive scale) to try and see if they would be interested in a subscription model for their coffee beans and grinds. The outcome is for a different day, but the moral is "Always try to Invalidate your idea". Your ideas are innately biased. And that's why Starting with a clearly defined pinpoint is way easier than to apply Lean Startup methodology to Your "ideas". Hope that helps. Cant recommend Ryan Fitzpatrick's Mom Test enough. Guy even has a YT channel where he expands on some of the things he talks about in his book.
> What, exactly, do you think my class of CS grads should do when recruiting?

Apply like regular people and pass the interviews.
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So I, a European citizen, wouldn't be allowed to see the Instagram posts of my American friends anymore? That doesn't seem practical.
I don't see how that is a response to the core of what I said. It's lamentable that change takes so long, and this is often used as an excuse to discourage progress. But I was making the point that when you force an indifferent person to pick a side, you're most likely creating more opposition to your cause.
I don't see how SAT scores would indicate the level of engineering talent at a school in any way. There in plenty of racial bias in standardized testing.

This statement is exactly the sort of attitude that needs to be thrown out the window if we want to make real progress addressing the racial gap in tech.
The stat you link appears to be for "IT" jobs across all of the UK. Restricting the search to "Software Engineer" and "London"[0] bumps the number up quite a bit to £72,500 as of when I checked.

[0]: https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-software-eng...
How would you judge what you could learn being close to a place for extended, uninterrupted periods of time? How would you get incentivised to invent something out of this world because you're in another one?

Unique experiences are something which you can't have otherwise. So you're missing them if you're not close. Why to have such a disadvantage, maybe not for everything, but for something?
I think the larger point is that it doesn't matter how easy it is to make works public if the consequences prevent you from doing so: if you can easily get fired, pushed out of a tenured position at a university, or otherwise lose your voice for making unpopular opinions public.
the tax is $4 of the bill, and i bet cable is a regulated monopoly in your city too. if you don't believe me, try starting an isp :p
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you missed two 0s for our postdocs annual net salary. But hey, generalization is so great.

And while I understand that in most parts of the world, it's paid a lot worse and you might have problems making ends met, I don't really get, how you want to solve these problems (interlinked with nowadays capitalism) by getting more kids (wow, just 30t of CO2/year more "output") and helping the 1% redistribute an even larger fraction of the wealth to themselves (which are imho the only really "richly"-paying jobs.)
Thanks, Nobody.
On a side note, my wife was asking me about bullying in the US, and then stopped and said "oh, but you would have been the smartest one in the class, so the bullies would have left you alone". Bless her heart, she figured American bullies worked like bullies in Asia.

If you're smart, went to a top school, and have a good job, most Asian cultures will tolerate a lot of nerdiness out of you.
> Treatments for MDD, GAD, and PD should attempt to enhance perseverance and optimism."

> A predictor isn't necessarily an actuator.

And moreover interventions can be harmful. Unless they know it's possible to correct such a deficit, identifying a deficit only does so much.

I think there's more awareness that treatments can be harmful in medicine, oddly.
> your theft

> you already

It was their friend, not them.
Advice to myself when starting out as a software developer
But there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t treat a similar-caliber school the exact same way as NC A&T. Pointing to race as the reason is a very bold conclusion
http://archive.is/q5hm4
Denmark has just under 6 million people, the Netherlands has ~17 million, and NZ has about 5 million.

By comparison, California has ~40 million people and would be the 9th largest economy in the world if it was an independent country. Ohio has around 11 million people, and the Greater New York City area has ~20 million people.

Aside from structural / legal differences in the US, there are just massive differences in scaling and wealth in the US vs. those countries. They don't have these problems because they just don't have that kind of money and population base.
Simple, black and white mental models of the world may lead a person to draw shockingly wrong conclusions about the world. The pay in non-profit absolutely sucks. It sucks for a number of reasons, not some simple econ 101 reason. It sucks because there just isn't much revenue in asking people for donations. It sucks because all the leaders making pay decision are making sacrifices and feel like everyone else should be as well. It sucks because there are always more young, idealistic people to replace the burned out, cynical ones. It sucks because most of the work is low skilled. It sucks because non-profits are somewhat divorced from competitive pressures and are not forced to pay for absolutely the most talented people. It sucks because the kind of people who take these jobs are happy to take pay cuts.
You are not addressing the point that the society at large has to continue to trust institutions to alleviate concerns of corruption by the institution. The mob is not formed in a vacuum. Democracy, rule of law, and government only have value when trust in those pillars of our society have not been eroded to the point where large swaths of people form a mob to carry out their own justice. It’s been made abundantly clear in the West that our systems are very vulnerable to bad faith actors from inside the system.

> Americans have fought and died to uphold these values, and now a pocket of their own citizenry wants to demolish them.

This is true for both ends of this spectrum and also never ending. The mob doesn’t see themselves as eroding those institutions just as our current government doesn’t see itself as obstructionists. What makes this difficult is two competing extremes. I don’t focus on cancel culture because I’m concerned more with the erosion of our voting rights and the dismantling of our institutions by our own citizens. It doesn’t invalidate your points what so ever but it makes them a blind spot for individuals with competing priorities.
Your post seems to imply that a bad product negates the respect earned by leading an industry, nay, multiple industries, for several decades.

Do you really truly think that just because the MAX is a POS, that everything that comes out of Boeing can be evaluated under that same lens? Surely you aren't so blind to the reality that engineers do occasionally produce quality work.

To your credit, I wouldn't fly myself or my family in a MAX, but I'm not uneasy about getting into a Boeing aircraft across the board, at the same time. That'd just be irrational.

Perhaps you could clarify your stance, as you may know more than your post reveals.
Right. But for HPC, loops (in Verilog) will be the norm, to squeeze out as much from each clock tick as possible. Running everything as discrete steps in a FSM would defeat the purpose.
The title here should have "737 NG, Classic" not "737 NG Classic". As in "Boeing 737 NG and Classic aircraft", not "Boeing 737 NG Classic aircraft".
> In a free market economy, this is an entirely false statement. People pay for the things they value. They more they value it, the more they pay.

Except this is an entirely false statement. In free market economy, there is no easy way for people to pay for many things they value, and know that they will receive the goods in return.

I may value a stable climate, clean air, a stable ecosystem, but the free market alone doesn't provide a way for me to pay what would be required and know that I will get a return, because unfortunately, such things require collective action.
Does being on HN not count? Feel like I see lots of news on HN. It's in the name after all.
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Time for another AMA. Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.

I'll be here for the next 5 hours. As usual, there are countless possible immigration-related topics and I'll try to respond to whatever questions you ask but as much as possible I'd like to focus on issues related to the pandemic and the corresponding travel and visa bans and suspensions, office closures, etc. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!
Except it isn't. JS has lexical closures, but that's not the only feature that makes Scheme what it is. JS got one thing right and about a dozen other things very badly wrong.

https://blog.kevinchisholm.com/javascript/javascript-wat/
>one big difference is that the Red Guards were created by Mao as a way to purge the party of his enemies...

No -- that's not the case, and that's precisely why I think the parallel to what is happening now is so strong.

The Red Guards started in 1966 as a student movement. They later developed a manifesto, which Mao thought he could leverage to his own advantage, so he endorsed its broadcast. This fanned the flames of the movement (being a kind of political endorsement), and from that point Red Guard cells sprung up organically across the country. From that point, things became chaotic and the leadership in Beijing made a series of sometimes opposing moves, some of which tried to restrain the movement to preserve the government and others which fanned the flames.
I don't think you can claim works without a stabilized positive economic trend, not an ever increasing and growing debt trend.
Maybe it's the style of the article but I'm not sure I get the point. Is the complaint that tech is "too white"? If so, that doesn't seem true. Look for example at Google's own internal reporting: Whites are only something like 55-60% of the workforce, with Asians at 35-40%. Once you account for population totals overall, Whites are underrepresented. And I'm sure the same is true at Microsoft.

Is the point then that there just aren't many Blacks? Are Asians in the tech industry not part of the "minority" in the context of this conversation? Sorry but I'm losing track too quickly of what is even being discussed.
> my take is that our societies values are out of whack: the more your job benefits your community and the planet the less you will get paid, and vice versa. It's even worse for social services.

There is no "what society values" at work here, only supply and demand. What you witness is the fact that jobs that have intrinsic meaning and are more fulfilling are paid less well, because employees are willing to make that compromise. You could say the increase in happiness is priced in. Same reason game devs have bad working conditions, people still wait in line to work on them.
Small type can lose definition on screen just as much as in print, so “inktraps” are really just there to help make things more crisp in text.

Of course, they are there just as much for aesthetics if the type is used at large sizes.
> I wish it would be possible to have better studies for that. I believe that static typing has huge benefits as software scales.

I also believe that, especially after it outscales what one person is able to (fully) overview. Static types are something a program can reason about so it allows so much more productivity boosting tooling to be created. This also goes way beyond simply catching type errors at compile time vs. runtime (a downside which can largely be mitigated by test coverage). Just look what an IDE for e.g. Java can do simply in helping you navigating a big codebase. Then throw in refactoring which is in many cases can even be a completely automated operation and in much more cases is at least greatly assisted by the tools. Tools for dynamic languages can often at most guess, making good guesses is hard so in practice you get mostly stuff which is pretty limited in its usefulness.
So what? Unlawful orders are unlawful. The reporter and camera operator were not obstructing anything. They were in a position to observe, which is what the public wants them to do. Police will disagree, but police have lied so much that no one believes them anymore.
What about the effects on branding / user perception of the message? While the first short email feels ok, the straight-shooter 'Hi, I can see you signed up, what do you want from us?' version feels awkwardly impolite.

I find it still obvious that it is an automated message and the attempt at 'being human' makes it even less appealing. This kind of metric chasing most likely results in dark patterns and subpar experiences.
You can federate services in ways that allow entities in different countries to control their own user data, while still allowing interactions between users in different countries.

Your private messages with other EU users might be stored only in Europe, with only Europeans able to access it. To the extent you message with people in another country, those controlling the federated service in that other country would have only the needed access. I don’t think this is groundbreaking technologically.
That's actually larger than the valve clearance specified for many automotive engines, which is commonly checked and adjusted by mechanics using feeler gauges or gap gauges. It's fairly straightforward.
Slot machines essentially reproduce that mice experiment on humans, as does pull-to-refresh.
The immaturity is not realizing that the tech company is reinventing the company store of the past. the salary and these cheap perks (compared to more salary) still net out to a win for the company. if it wasn't, they wouldn't do it. and that time you spend washing clothes at home can also be spent talking to other ppl at home, watching tv, reading a book...not working.

also, quite frankly as someone who has had a life that spans restaurant cooking and FANNG employment, that food will never be as good for you as food you make for yourself/ someone makes for you at hom.