skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what the fuss is all about. I've only been developing for < 2 years, and I used to add detailed MERGE commit messages, but I realized that it's just duplication of information (which can be read from the INDIVIDUAL commit messages). I've left MERGE commit messages empty since then
>> pointless massacre

You’re implying as if wars happen because people are all angry and if they just happened to be kinder then all of that would be resolved immediately.

It’s discounting a bunch of pragmatic reasons a lot of which have nothing to do with philosophy or human condition.
Uhlig as a recent example, Rowling which is raised in the article. This is trivial to name more examples.
My rough understanding of some key mechanics:

- Treasury makes bonds and sells them into the market. The market impact of this tends to increase interest rates (cost of bonds relative to dollars) a bit.

- The government uses the money raised to buy goods and services. This causes the price of goods and services (relative to dollars) to go up a bit.

- The Fed makes dollars and buys bonds. This pushes interest rates down and is roughly the inverse of step 1.

Netting the Fed and Treasury actions (which people never do, mostly because they vary independently according to independent policy), the effect of recent fiscal and monetary policy is "the government" making cash and buying things with it (as well as giving it out to people who need it.)

I guess it's the Fed's job to worry about price stability, but the above does make me think that the fiscal policy is just as relevant to inflation -- if govt spending as a proportion of the economy changes, it gets easier/harder for others to buy things. I guess interest rates mostly change behaviour, and have a less direct (though maybe no less real?) impact on scarcity.
Ask HN: where is the innovation in online conferences?
Has anything emerged as the definitive best solution for running online conferences?

What are the contenders?

A really great solution for online conferences seems to be desperately needed but where are they?

Online conferences seem to offer rich opportunity for innovation, but does it really just come down to watching a bunch of zoom videos? Aren't there better ideas than that, better ways to involve and connect the attendees?
Bilinguals perceive time differently, study finds
This site is gives extremely detailed information on many aspects of naturalisation in Japan.

https://www.turning-japanese.info/
More accurately, a lot of credit card debt was being used to initially finance emergencies and then (after they’re in debt) to finance required purchases. A lot of middle class families are bogged down by a very costly mortgage or apartment rent and likely an expensive student loan (or two), then have an emergency of some kind - for example a medical bill or losing a job. They don’t have the spare savings to pay for the gap, and they have to make up the difference with a loan of some kind, likely a credit card but perhaps a personal loan or a payday loan or a second mortgage. They’re suddenly in more debt but otherwise the same situation as before. They thus have less cash flow, leading to increased exposure to risk leading to the cycle repeating.
Example: my life. My sister is woke: I can't really say what I think around her. Lots of my "friends" are woke: can't really talk to them.

And mind you, my opinions aren't like of that guy who worked at Google and wrote "if women weren't bad at math, wouldn't they be working with computers?" or whatever that guy wrote. That's not my style of thinking.

But my style of thinking is definitely not "woke" and therefore many of my thoughts would easily be categorized as hate speech or something by woke people.

My vibe is the people who keep saying free speech these days isn't a problem are the same people who demand you only speak their orthodoxy. Always has, always will be.
Actually, he blames reimbursement and has this to say "Because the federal government sets that reimbursement system."

That is not an accurate statement. Yes, the government sets reimbursement for Medicare and Medicaid, but not for private insurance which is ~60% of Americans.
I'm on a project and it's the opposite. Full releases every... 2 months give or take, but every... week or two, there's a round up of 'critical' issues, and you're expected to take just those issues from 'develop' (or somewhere) and get them over in to a 'release' branch of the current released code. I now tend to keep local branches of anything I worked on for months, because 4-6 weeks after it was approved/merged (and deleted) in to 'develop', I may have to also do a 'hot patch' on to a release branch, and cherry picking is the proscribed way of doing it.
You may find https://github.com/reubano/csv2ofx useful. It coverts csv files to qif and ofx. It has built in support for numerous banks, and can be easily customized to parse unsupported csv formats.
The exemptions are for types of apps, not for individual apps.

The idea that different rules might be written for different types of apps makes sense in the abstract.

There are certainly arguments that can be made that Apple should change its rules to add more types of apps to the exemption. But they aren’t violating the rules they currently have, and also, as I said, making a rule that would require individual review of such content is impractical for apple - it would be the equivalent of banning those types of apps from the store.

> 3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase.

The rule apple is asking microsoft to follow isn’t impossible, just inconvenient. There is already another game subscription service on iOS, “GameClub”, which follows the rules by submitting each game individually.
Economics recognizes two types of inflation: cost-push inflation and demand-pull inflation. Demand-pull inflation follows the process you described, namely prices rise because too much money is pursuing too few goods.

The other type of inflation, cost-push, happens when the cost of goods rises independent of demand. Abuse of monopoly power can cause cost-push inflation (hello, business software pricing) but so can increased costs of labor.

On balance, cost-push inflation is a more probable outcome of the pandemic. It's physically harder to Do Stuff because workers need to stay further apart and because many will get sick and be unable to work. This will drive up prices to an extent, but price rises will be constrained by slack demand caused by reduced employment.
The FED is not government. And if it’s slow it’s because of the big impact it would have if they messed up, and because it’s already hard for them to hold a positive reputation without messing up.
as an expat living in SE Asia (KL) I think it is because masculinity is not defined by ones clothing here. I mean, you are a masculine he-man if you have a good business, if you have big family, but the clothes you wear are no more about your masculinity than your phone wallpaper is.

This is probably also because so many clothes are made here, its demystified.
No because it's racist if white people do it
> about 36 hours

> while the power is out, for each time the door is opened for five seconds, subtract 7 minutes
I would expect the last mile to generally be one of the larger contributors to latency unless you're traversing very long distances (i.e. cross country, undersea cables, etc.). For example, just looking now I get 23ms to a close speedtest server on my LTE and 3ms to the same server on my work's fibre connection. Going a larger distance (~1000km to the next large capital city) it's 43ms vs 18ms on the fibre. That's quite a significant difference, but not as bad as it used to be (3G could have hundreds of milliseconds of latency from device to tower).
This week in Seattle, a popular weatherman on local NPR radio was fired for a post on his personal blog, where he criticized violent rioters and compared the chilling effects of their targeted property damage to historical examples, such as Kristallnacht.

He has no record of "hateful views of women, LGBTQIAA2S+, and minorities" and the post itself did not contain such either.

The blog post in question: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-...
Your link says anticholinergic use later in life has been linked to cognitive decline, not that use by young people results in cognitive decline later in life.
So you do think you know more than Eisenhower. Fascinating belief.

The strategic bombing survey of 1946, subject to no objections about Eisenhower’s relative objectivity compared to your own, concludes that the Japanese government was well into the process of determining how to surrender, with predictable resistance from the military but endorsement by the Emperor as they were in the process of determining how to stand down. It also points out that the majority of the populace had already lost hope for the war effort, which is now the bomb’s justification.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/united-...
The main purpose of E2EE communication between willing participants is that the content of the communication is not checked, inspected, scanned, questioned, sampled, matched, filtered, modified, blocked, altered, or otherwise interfered with in any way whatsoever except that which is explicitly configured and consented to by a party to the conversation. (eg. anti-virus, anti-spam, group membership, etc)

That means no control of communication by the endpoint software either directly or indirectly between willing senders and recipients regardless of justification, and especially on the basis of whether or not data send from a willing sender to a willing receipient represents the "truth". The endpoint software vendor has no standing to judge that unless it's an opt-in anti-spam type feature.
Your point (1) definitely. Humans are far more alike than they are different so you will be very well served by learning from the experiences of others instead of insisting on making all the mistakes for yourself, not least because some mistakes are fatal.

Take US healthcare. There are a lot of models for how you can deliver universal healthcare to all your country's residents. They're all different. They all have problems. They're all better than the current US situation. They're all cheaper for a start, most of them have better outcomes by some measures, often by almost all measures.

There was plenty of room for two political parties to have ideological disagreements about how to deliver universal healthcare to Americans as a result. Which examples to follow and which to reject.

But the Republicans didn't do that. They decided the hill they wanted to die on (or at least, for some of their voters to die on) was the ideological rejection of universal healthcare as a goal. They would literally tell people it can't be done, despite the fact that every comparable country already did it.
You have the right to witch hunt in the same way that Karens have a right to not wear a mask in lots of places around the country.

It's legally allowed but bad for society and you're a bad person for participating.
"As someone who has built your life on science and logic, I'm curious what you think when you see so many people signing onto this anti-science view of the world.

Well, strangely, I'm involved in almost everything that anti-science is fighting. I'm involved with climate change, GMOs, and vaccines. The IRONY [emphasis added] is that it's DIGITAL [emphasis added] social media that allows this kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation of, "OK, there's just an evil person, and that explains all of this."

Well, you're friends with Mark Zuckerberg. Have you talked to him about this?

After I said this publicly, he sent me mail. I like Mark, I think he's got very good values, but he and I do disagree on the trade-offs involved there. The lies are so titillating you have to be able to see them and at least slow them down."

Gates has a reason to be against the spreading of information on social media because recently he became a target of conspiracy theories spread on social media.

If encryption is an imediment to stoping people from spreading theories about him, then he obviously has a reason to be against encryption when used to spread these theories.

Maybe what is more interesting is when he uses the word irony right before he states he is against encryption.

What does he mean?

What is ironic about the fact that it is "digital social media" that allows "oversimplistic explanation[s]"?

HN readers can probably make better guesses than me. Disgreement with the guesses I make is expected.

For example, perhaps it is ironic because:

He has been such a strong proponent of using computers for anything and everything.

Gates was initially a skeptic of the internet, but later believed Microsoft's "internet strategy" was of primary importance. This led to projects like Internet Explorer and MSN. The company is now preparing to spend billions to acquire a social media company.

In amassing the fortune that allows him to pursue these philanthropic causes he and his company presented countless titillating, oversimplistic explanations of the value of using computers for seemingly anything. He wanted us to believe that the computer (running Windows of course) was the great enabler.

I have no idea what he meant and I am grasping at straws.
In the same thread Scott Adams says all of us will be dead from climate change in 10 years. Scott Adams likes to pull Twitter pranks so I would take these tweets with grain of salts without knowing the larger context.
Terry Crews is the most popular example that comes to mind.

Larry Summers is more controversial but same result.
Shipments of nearly 20k fake driver's licenses from China seized at Chicago
I do a ton of that locally (or, sometimes, in a remote branch that I 100% own and no-one else will be touching), but clean it up before pushing or merging.
Didn't say killing someone, said free speech. Girl was killed by blm because she said all lives matter. That is her right to say you don't get to decide what's right or wrong, hence free speech
I have tested different doses quite a bit. 5mg makes me feel groggy the next day. <0.5mg seems to do morning. ~1mg seems like the sweet spot for me.
I think the mindset that "one off-color joke on social media leads to condemning a person entirely", as in the article, is the same mindset as "one off-color reference to a definition makes an article lose all credibility", and is toxic in either case. I see comments like this all the time on HN and it seems so unfair: the article says a lot of things that aren't affected in the slightest by whether she linked to PragerU.
Thank you - I am motivated to want what I want - so solve the wanting of the motivation / willpower.
In practice, I've see access controls typically as being too loose creating risk in areas such as admin access or with wild cards as in the Capital One breach. The alternative is often too tight in which case developers struggle with ops to manage the things they need access to. Just in time access controls (and change logs) and isolating resources through the concept of a project or tenant is one approach, and, if you will pardon the plug, the approach we’ve chosen with our no code, infrastructure as code platform www.duplocloud.com.
> "if women weren't bad at math, wouldn't they be working with computers?"

That is not what he said. Read the memo. That said I agree with the rest of your points.
If you can restock the freezer with ice, you can keep it cold for several days easily. Spoken from experience, thanks PG&E.
Does graalvm work with openjdk or any java VM alternative? And does Graalvm have the weird Oracle no business use license that Oracle Java has?
> Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life.

From an evolutionary perspective, what could possibly be the reason for this?
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Money is not created out of "thin air", all that is happening is that the present generation is borrowing from the future generation and generations that are yet to be born. The young and unborn subsidize the old.

The way this kind of borrowing shows up in society is in low marriage rates and smaller families and eventually lower birth rates as people cannot find the stability or financial ability to start families or even to establish stable relationships, which eventually leads to low consumption as your demographic basis simply needs less of everything.

As long as you have political will you can keep kicking the can down the road at the cost of a declining population. In liberal western societies this is partially made up by immigration from developing countries, but that creates another host of issues and tensions between recent arrivals and natives.
Does it not depend on what is in the freezer?

Like, if it is half-filled with icepacks versus frozen beef?
The absolutism you espouse wrapped up in guilt by association exemplifies the problem - if that was your intent, bravo.
I have heard it described that -ed is used more often when the speaker is conceptualising the time it took, but -t is used as a default.

That would mean “it burned” brings to mind images more like “it was burning” and “I burnt it” brings to mind images of having something that is burnt.

Neither of your examples are passive btw.
René Carmille – The first ethical hacker
>I mean it was created before internet/computers but sure.

My point was that the creation rate of illegal porn exploded because of computers. Your above statement seems dismissive of that.

>we can and do scan media to combat that creation, without nuking the internet. Without the ability to scan, the battle seems seriously kneecapped.

It isn't and hasn't been. Large tech companies intercept and report billions of images to LEO regularly, which are largely captured before and after transport.

Meanwhile, actual police work is what leads police to people who harm children - the importance of which is being increasingly eclipsed by the obsession with safe encryption.
This is like trying to point out hypocrisy when someone calls for a restriction on falsely yelling fire in a crowded building. Some speech acts are incompatible with the ideal of free speech, and should be called out as such.
sure you can. its never that hard.

https://a.suitsupplycdn.com/image/upload/b_rgb:efefef,bo_100...
The file browser to support iCloud and third party apps like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and on device storage has been around for awhile. UsB Drive and file shares came out last year.
This isn't the worst outcome for consumers, but it is pretty bad for established utilities.

One interesting case study is Puerto Rico, which now has a lot of microgrids post-Maria because PREPA is not trusted and suffering from mismanagement.
It would be interesting to see the effect of adding insulation like blankets, or foam would have.
The article addresses thermal mass, although not into the level of detail of X% ice packs and Y% food.
Whether others' behavior is 'right' or not is one moral question, but how you react to it is an independent one, and there's no good outcome from vitriol. Among other things is drives those on the other side of it to 'raise arms' in response, leading to an all-out culture war, and I'm pretty sure it's what got Trump selected.

There's some relief in the knowledge that it's way more prevalent on the internet than in real life, and most people just don't care that much. But the people most vocal on social media are also those most polarized so it _seems_ way more common than it is, which in turn sucks more people into it because they don't know otherwise.
I found the hey.com landing page to be compelling. minimal graphics and mostly copy writing. the longer i read the more i wanted to pull out my wallet.

i think it just proves if you write about a problem well, the reader is going to assume you have some authority to provide a solution or know the best the market has to offer.
Those dependent on federal gov biz cannot afford to openly oppose fed talking points (MS, SpaceX, telecoms).
You'll generally find the rest of the (first) world did 1.0 too. But they invest in public infrastructure, so also did 2.0 and 3.0.

The USA is a very strange mix of hyper-first-world and second/third-world, and a lot of it has to do with how taxes are raised and spent.
If an ethnic Chinese Singaporean marries a Malaysian Malay, the Singaporean government will cite every rule in the book about income requirements and "suitability".

But if we're talking Malaysian Chinese....

People need to stop worshipping Singapore like they are a fantasy land of perfection. They have specific flaws of their own, plus flaws similar to other countries.
There are ways to design underground spaces to avoid flooding, yes.

Basically, you put them on a hill :) Now you have an underground farm at high ASL. Problem fixed.
Russia will do whatever it needs to do to prevent Belarus from affiliating itself militarily or economically with the West. Whether it's being BFFs with Lukashenko, or "supporting opposition", or partitioning Belarus, or taking it whole - all of those options are on the table. Which one will be chosen will depend on the situation. Fundamentally Russia would like to have Belarus as a part of some union (cultural affinity is very strong between the two countries, and Belarussian and Russian people consider themselves to be ethnically very close; to a Russian eye Belarussian language looks like Russian with deliberate and funny grammatical mistakes), but if it can't, it's quite happy to have it as a buffer state. What it can't have are NATO bases in Belarus. Same as it can't have NATO bases in Ukraine or NATO bases in Crimea. If you'd like to understand why, just take a look at the map with population density overlaid.
Open Source Lightning Web Components by SalesForce
> The target launch date for the service remains 2023 or 2024

Does anyone in fin tech know why it takes so long?

My understanding is this achieves the same goal as wire transfer, which already exists today, but is for whatever reason super expensive. Why is wire transfer so expensive?
> I was a Democrat for most of my life. I’m socially liberal, and that’s always been a key part of my values and my identity. I’m pro choice, pro LGBTQ rights, pro environmental issues, pro free speech, and anti-racism.

To be more clear, she's a millennial Republican.

She was born at a time where these social liberal points she tries to claim as her beliefs deserving acclaim were already long resolved in the mainstream and she seems to have no interest in working for further social justice beyond what was already fought and won before she became politically aware.

For the apparent contradictions she highlights and questions she asks there are of course reasonable answers, but she doesn't seem to have the curiosity to dig into the issues behind what the posters on twitter are referencing. Instead simply being distraught at the discourse that she doesn't understand.
Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Australian asking for a pint of beer is asking for a measure of beer, although a pint is just the name of a size of glass (like a schooner or pot).