skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not mean it is humorous - I meant it as an illustration of the horrible context of slogans that are word-by-word positive: "work makes you free".

I found that people around me did not understand the BLM context, because there is no local context. "Roma lives matter" could be a local context, because there's a lot of discrimination against roma people.

I was not making a joke, I was angry at how commonplace the hatred was from people who might not have seen a single black person apart from the cinema screen.

The police brutality context is also kind of lost here, because while there are a bunch of dirty cops, physical brutality from them is practically unheard of.

The holocaust, on the other hand is a very real thing. People were deported to Auschwitz and other camps from the very _street_ I live in.

I just hoped people would realise how that certain good-sounding slogan is not much different from the contemporary good-sounding slogan.

Again, maybe I should have added an explanation, but I felt like it took away from contrast and I was very fed up with the amount of backlash towards what people overseas were standing up for.

Had conversations with friends about the (lack of) contrast between the two slogans and basically everyone understood the point. Facebook did not, but as I said, I'm aware that this was an edgy form for my point.

Regarding whether there's a difference between who is saying what: well of course there is, the context of this post was my posting history standing up for various sidelined groups and minorities and the audience of this post were my friends who very well know that I am as far from using either of the slogans in an agreeing manner as is Trump from a PhD in psychology.
You certainly could have linked to the actual official gitlab page of the project itself, instead of ESR's unofficial fundraising page on his own personal web site. You're the one who dragged ESR into it, when you should have pointed directly to the official project, not one person's fundraising page.

And yes, there actually are more words on that unofficial personal page you linked to about fundraising than about SCR itself, so what I said is not a mischaracterization. Go count them. I get 186 fundraising : 104 SCR, or 65% fundraising (not counting punctuation as white space, so a url counts as one word -- maybe I'm off by one or two, but it was a free and fair election). What do you count?

The official gitlab page you should have linked to doesn't have any fundraising appeals or links at all (0% fundraising, 100% SCR), but it does have the most recent version. Why would you point to an out-of-date snapshot of the project, instead of the live latest version?

It was originally a Gish Gallop when ESR said those words in the first place, because he says such things again and again, but it's only a Gish Gallop if it's not true.

But ESR's own words I quoted are all actual things he really said, as unbelievable as it may be to you. You baselessly accused me of lying about it, then repeatedly refused to prove I'm wrong, after confidently claiming without evidence that "I’m sure all your claims can be either explained as inconsequential or disproven as false".

There are a hell of a lot more vile ESR quotes that support my point, so many in fact that people have donated $100,000 to make Thomas Ptacek stop posting them, and you should be grateful I only posted a few. Literally quoting somebody's own words is not a "Gish Gallop", nor "canceling" them.

You're biting again and again, yet still failing to answer the simple questions that you're afraid will "trap" you into admitting something you obviously don't want to say. Do you still accuse me of lying about those ESR quotes and word counts, or not? Then prove it, or apologize for falsely calling me a liar.
There is a killer app for crypto: international money laundering and untraceable transfers.
There's also:

- Relay-swift: A port of Relay to Swift - https://relay-tools.github.io/Relay.swift/docs/

- Graphaello: Inspired by Relay, but deviates a bit more from the patterns than Relay-swift - https://github.com/nerdsupremacist/Graphaello
Interesting outlook. When those poor nations become wealthy nations soon afterward, would you wish death upon them instead? Or will they somehow be absolved of the guilt that wealth seems to imply?
It's at least 10 years too late for this conversation, probably 40 or 50. What's going to happen can't be stopped and the decisions were made long ago.
I am under the impression that most authors do not even publish functioning code when publishing ML/DL papers which I find to be absurd. The paper is describing software. Imo the code is more important than the written word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs
Why Many Smart Contract Use Cases Are Simply Impossible (2016)
Theoretically, inflation results from an increasing amount of money chasing the same amount of goods. But, as long as supply can rise with demand, inflation should not occur.

The Fed manages inflation. If it gets too high, they can decrease bond prices and raise interest rates. It’s actually hard for them to increase inflation, as they can’t increase government expenditures or give people money. Lowering rates doesn’t do much when rates are zero and banks aren’t lending.
What Germans have been the target of persecution, slavery, etc?

Isn’t part of the joke that Germans are being discriminated by an innkeeper? And it’s the innkeeper who is in the wrong.

Note of course German Jews and other subpopulations were horribly persecuted in the Holocaust. If this episode targeted those subpopulations then there is a real case.
So no one seems to answer this when I ask: what about the necessity for security services, to be able to implement and act, such as the Magnitsky Act allows for - punishing known bad actors financially to try to sway bad actors to behave, before perhaps having to escalate things to physical violence-destruction?
This is against the grain, but I am against inheritance. It seems most egalitarian for us all to start at the same level. I would of course like the "lower bound" to be much higher than the state currently provides, but that's a different issue.

In The History of Western Philosopy, Bertrand Russell made an observation (to which I'm parapharsing):

In modern society, we have come to expect, almost demand, and seem to inherently know it is best that no political power be transferred by heredity. Curiously, we have not made the same conclusion with economic power.
I once had a sales call with the CEO of a fairly large Swedish consulting company about a potential project - he was saying how great their company was and how they have offices all over the world and then adds "But not Denmark, obviously".
You can't really expect anything more insightful at this time, especially from a pop science article. It will likely take years, if not decades, before we truly understand covid-19 in-depth.
To expand on "money velocity": Inflation reaches high-priced assets and those which are largely bought by institutional investors first - Real estate and equity.

Cantillon's effect is the keyword: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cantillon#Monetary_the...
I was coming at this a little differently. Imagine that there's 75 jokes in the show. Muppets would maybe distribute them like:

- 25 for adults
- 25 for kids
- 25 site gags for toddlers

And media now is like: that should be 3 separate shows.
which is kinda interesting because the Vikings converted to Christianity before the end of the Viking Age. There were some interesting bits along the way, where being either pagan or christian could get you killed, but by 1100-ish everyone was converted (at least publicly).
Economists have correctly predicted 8 of the last 4 rrcessions.
I would also check if there is a correlation with mask usage, like you grab pictures from public places and count the mask wearing percentage, you could maybe(I could be wrong) the level of solidarity/cooperation (or insert your preferred term here ) and see if this variable correlates at all.
Another thing that drove me up the wall recently (semi-related to leaking goroutines) are libraries that doesn't use the context package or a done/quit channel and can get stuck in long-running operations that hug absurd amounts of CPU/memory.

As far as I'm aware, you simply cannot kill a goroutine from another goroutine, i.e. there is no terminate()/stop() construct, meaning you cannot implement a timeout on top of an existing library without actually modifying said library.
Wouldn't this follow the iPad Pro release date trend of Spring releases.

Will also be curious to see if these new MacBook Pro (M1X) will be the exactly same as what's used in the new iPad Pro.
Which country’s merchants use Shopify more?
Thanks!

It randomly searches against a mix of profanity and random expressions like "oops", "yolo" etc.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame Rescue Is Buttressed by Digital Wizardry
Malware running as a normal user can't put itself in a position where it's hidden from software running as root.

Preserving system integrity was my point.

The patch in the original article is about preserving system integrity in the face of a compromised root account and the only way of doing that is by limiting the capabilities of the root user.

It adds one more and hopefully final level of defense in order to guarantee system integrity.
I was not equating the two things.

I was illustrating how people come up with slogans that sound good for things that destroy lives.
What's the argument for housing not being included thats blizzare.
>"What's Ethereum's killer app?" we asked ourselves not long ago. Now we know. It's the world's best publicly-accessible settlement platform for financial transactions.

Hit the nail on the head - for now.

Yes, DeFi is what kicked things off last year and people can now trade their favourite altcoins, borrow crypto, and even leverage trade on decentralized exchanges. It's also true that what everyone is trading are mostly other coins and other projects that they're speculating on - and those projects are just newer forms of the same projects that exist now.

We've seen countless projects pop up that are all copies or trying to do similar things; increase throughput, connect blockchains, provide oracles, implement faster and cheaper smart contracts, etc.

So, it's easy to look at all this cynically, but I like to hope that eventually this will end up somewhere good - I mean, there is financial incentive, there is the 'new toy' angle, and there are countless talented people who are genuinely curious and trying to improve the various crypto ecosystems.

I guess we'll see where this all ends up in 5-10 years.
(I am not an epidemiologist)

(Edit: Please ignore below.

Checked the latest literature and cross-reactive antibodies have not demonstrated correlation with either preventing infection or hospitalization. [0] [1]

[0] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/10/do... [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.20227215v... (pending publishing in Cell, but linked ArXiv for availability) )

Because pre-existing coronavirus antibodies have been proven cross-reactive to SARS-CoV-2.

And different populations have different endemic coronaviruses circulating in them.

This isn't some great mystery. This is a normal Tuesday for how human immune systems are supposed to work, as a species.
> But otherwise I am super happy with writing Go code. All my pet peeves of something like modern Java or C# are gone.

I'm always confused by this. Why do people consistency cherry pick specific languages to compare then when those languages offer fundamentally different paradigms? I understand comparing C/C++ vs Go, but isn't obvious that C# is going to be fundamentally different than Go?
Is there a good prediction market for inflation? Or is that just gold or bitcoin?
The latest 13" x86 MacBook Pro released less than 1 year ago and is still for sale.
I am not sure if this is a serious question. Generally the idea of a common travel area makes sense if the countries at a similiar economic development (like the Schengen zone). This also means that the training skills of the people are not too differend; and this prevents all kind of social problem you would get otherwise.
OP complains that GO official tutorial is all about syntax. So what are the ressources to learn GO specific mindset ?
More generally, that was my concern back in the day with "The C programming language" which was only about how to write C code but not how to think in C. Which is quite different !

What are the best ressource online about how to think in a language (RUST/GO/C/C++/JAVA/JS/PYTHON/HASKELL/CAML...) ?
Not only limited on about to syntaxically write a correct program !
Youtube brought in 15 billion dollars in revenue last year. It is probably most important to the customers of youtube (the ad buyers) that their ads aren't shown on controversial videos.

Also, I'd be really interested to know how much the Youtube team payed to build this classifier and how that compares to paying human moderators.
Do you believe that the consequences of 2008 have been fully borne out? I think it's possible that one day we or someone else will look back on 2008-20?? and judge the consequences of "quantitative easing" which hasn't really stopped during this entire period. It seems to me that we've just been kicking the can further and further down the road.
> But I'm more confident that the CCP has placed better regulation on all the camps to prevent such incidents from happening again.

Regulations are not worth much without enforcement. Enforcement requires inspections to verify regulations are being followed and punishment if they're not. But if the regulations are not being followed, then cheating the inspections is another way to avoid punishment. It's much cheaper to put on a show for the inspectors than to make permanent improvements. So a lot of cheating is to be expected.
Climate Threats Could Mean Big Jumps in Insurance Costs This Year
That's the point of what I was saying: Yes, shitty jokes about Germans or Swedes are shitty.

But we Germans don't care or complain because we Germans haven't been the target of relentless, historical injustice. For persons of color, for Jews, for Sinti/Roma the situation is different - every time some "comedian" uses their plight for cheap laughs, it's yet another slap in the face.
You know what? That makes me think. So I applied for YC with a non-blockchain startup. In the application form, they asked whether I had another idea. So I answered a development tool for smart contracts / blockchain applications. A Jetbrain IDE but for smart contracts.

I already develop Mamba (https://mamba.black). It's like Truffle but for Python instead of JavaScript.

We'll see how it goes.
> I'm pretty sure that the calculus of constructions has dependent types, but wikipedia says that it is strongly normalizing, and I'm pretty sure that determining whether a program is valid in CoC is decidable?

If you write a program in Coq where termination is not trivially true, you need to do the work and write a manual proof of termination. Given a program and something you claim to be a termination proof it's decidable whether that program with that proof is terminating and hence valid in CoC. Given an arbitrary program but no termination proof, I don't see how it can be decidable whether a termination proof of that program exists. You can write a Turing machine simulator in CoC (but won't be able to write a general termination proof).
I guess you'll be first in line to sacrifice your life to end 'modern imperialism'?
It's not velocity - that's a red herring (complete misunderstanding of monetary behaviour by Rothbard et. al.)

There are a few things going on simultaneously, one is that a lot of the new money is going into the finance sector, so there is inflation, but it's in share prices which doesn´t get captured by the CPI measurement. The other thing is that banking regulation no longer depends on the reserve requirement, but on the capital reserve requirement which controls how much lending the banks can do (and through that the amount of money creation.) So the inflationary spiral is now, banks increase capital, which increases lending, which increases the money supply, which increases the value of existing capital, etc. It is fortunately a lot slower than what would have happened if the old asset reserve requirement was still all that controlled the system. You can see it starting to affect M2, but it will take a while to feed through.
Trite aphorisms don't matter, but I don't think that means nothing does.
Any UBI is not going to be "in addition to" whatever other money you might earn, but is more likely to look something like a minimum income, below which you cannot drop (even if you stop working).
By that reason my nation the Swedes should be as rich as the Swiss, or more, since we have minerals and export a lot of wood. Sweden too has been neutral for hundreds of years. The demographics (of native Swedes) are similar in intelligence, a highly inheritable trait, as the Swiss, so that is not the differentiation.

But instead Sweden chose the way of high tax on high income, high capital gains tax (which is zero in Switzerland), and a big “public sector” in order to make a large section of the people dependent on the state. The effect is fewer rich people who can invest in new companies, and more investment done via the state, which is inherently less efficient
> I've been in this spot a couple times, and one thing I found helpful was to ask if I could do the question in a language of my choosing

This is a great strategy and, as you say, if they say no you've learned something useful.

When we interview we always make it clear to the candidate that they can pick a language with which they're familiar. We tend to ask for "C-like" at the application stage but have some flexibility around imperative/OO languages. E.g., Python or Ruby might be OK, as might JavaScript.
MMT is pretty simple.

Run inflation higher than interest rates to push down the nominal value of debt.

Usual example is the UK after WWII.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIIUKA

You don't need hyper inflation to inflate away your debts, just enough monetization to bring indebtedness in line.

Now, does that mean the currency will retain value vs real assets, no it means the opposite.

Hence the move in stocks, real estate, bitcoin, gold, etc;
There Is No Free Lunch in Data Science
We can assert that any mac related news on HN is advertising (nowithstanding security alerts)
I've literally seen people use the term 'modest proposal' in a non-satirical way missing the point. Also see how Jean Carroll has been described as a misandrist when she invoked the same phrase.

And also see the difficulty that the 'abolish the police' movement have gotten into explaining that they don't literally mean abolish, especially since some of them do literally mean that, so you get really stuck trying to explain you were trying to make a point, but yes those other people other there who used exactly the same words as you did mean it literally but that wasn't quite what you meant you were using it for terseness... etc. Why give yourself this problem?

Seems a really bad tool to try to use for anything. Be straightforward with your communication. Don't give people an opening to attack you for no other reason than trying to be whimsical in your writing.
> At the same time, you need to consider that such a clean up is only realistically helpful for other people to check whether there are bugs in the original results, and not much else.

I assumed that most code published could be directly useful as an application or a library. Considering what you're saying, this might be only a minority of the code. In that case, I agree with your conclusion about smaller gains.
It changed with political correct investments. Some 15 years ago people became aware of companies investing in weapon industry, specifically cluster munition and landmines. A signal was sent by publicly shaming companies that shrugged their shoulders. That set a general trend to avoid negative publications and backfire by explicitly distancing from politically or humanitarian questionable practices. It has now escalated to fear-management and rewriting history.
It's not birth rate / current demographics, it's population growth, we have plenty of immigration upside if we're looking for economic juice.
Only the 777s that have PW4000 engines. The 777s with GE or Trent engines are fine.
There’s no reason to suspect this was an issue here, it doesn’t really have any connection to what’s happened or how airline maintenance works.
This is where it gets confusing. If Disney puts these preroll notices in front of lots of content, does it mean content without it has been reviewed by Disney and they haven’t found a problem?

This used to be crazy for me to think, but this article literally says Disney has hired people to review all content. Makes sense that they would review their recent blockbuster, Mulan, before Muppets episodes from decades ago.

So it seems Disney is pretty much saying the concentration camps in China are fine. Or at least are more fine than Petter Sellers dressing as a gypsy. In the spectrum of messed up stuff, I think making fun of gypsies is on there. Maybe 3/1000 on the butthurt-o-meter (with literal Nazis carrying out Holocaust being 1000/1000 and Triumph of the Will being like 600/1000).

So I would guess that just putting money into a region where people are rounded up, sterilized, retrained, etc must rate at least a 50/1000 right?
The FED strategy is to do enough to keep the recovery going, but not so much that it overheats. GDP growth will over time make the debt burden bearable as interest rates tick higher.

With 10 million unemployed and 44% of households being behind on mortgage/rent/bills the economy is not going to roar back to life. With demand depressed because the actual economy hurting badly inflation will be moderate and temporary and deflation will remain the top concern of the Fed.

Of course we do see prices in some areas going up. Houses for instance. But that makes sense when you think about it. Nobody wants to move to a smaller house/apartment during a pandemic, and millions are simply not paying their mortgage instead of downsizing. Meanwhile those with money are moving away from cities and buying bigger places. The implications for housing prices are obvious. But this asymmetry won't last because the relief programs are temporary.

Burry believes that rising prices and some inflation proves we are at the cusp of Weimar Germany style hyperinflation. That is, at least for now, not borne out by the data in the slightest.
I know that's the New Yorker's style, it's just not my cup of tee. My comment is completely subjective and my personal opinion, I only read it because I thought the title was interesting and I expected the question to be addressed with some new insights.
Have you any good resources beyond the link you gave?
No it wouldn't. "The modern imperialism" made kings of mere 200 years ago look poor in comparison with today's tradesmen in many respects such as transport, healthcare, heating and many more. Hundreds became billionaires, billions got out of mud huts.

Somewhat tangent, a virus killing even 20% of the West (and spare the rest) would spell unimaginable doom on said rest by second-order economic effects.
Going against legal abortion yields more illegal abortions.

Going against legal alcohol yields more illegal alcohol.

Going against legal X yields more illegal X.

Same concept, going against legal suicide (euthanasia) yields more suicides. Sure overall the number of suicides might go down, maybe even very noticeable, but the quality of care would suffer tremendously. I'm not arguing on suicide vs suicide, but on the quality of it.

I believe it's better if N people decide to end their lifes consciously, surrounded by loved ones in a medical facility painlessly than if M people commit suicide alone and ashamed at home.
Ah... I'm sorry to say, ihsw, but you've been shadowbanned.