skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> printing money so that the buggy whip makers didn’t notice that there was less demand for their product would have been a disservice

lol, printing money wouldn't have changed anything there. If they made a -5% real return with no printing, and there's a 2% inflation rate, they'd have made a -3% notional return, or, and I believe this is true, a -5% real return. Unless it was handed directly to them, in which case we call this a subsidy not inflation.

You keep conflating units with what they represent. It might make your headache dissipate if you think of dollars as "vintage" year in which they were issued. A 2020 dollar is not the same as 2021 dollar, even though they're convertible 1:1.

Just as a 2006 vintage Krug isn't the same as a 2010 vintage Krug, a 2006 vintage dollar isn't the same as a 2010 vintage dollar.
>"Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

That's exactly what the parent wrote, so he's totally fine with respect to the HN Guidelines.

To quote: "The author reviewed most prior art in TFA.".
Demographics, Destiny and Doom
...also known as an interpreter.
That is horse shit and we all know it. What bug takes 2k hours???? thats 250 work days. jesus christ, if I took that long to fix a bug, fire me. And yes, I'm also talking about time to test, write/fix unit tests, write/fix integration tests, releasing into production, and data conversion.
For every dollar there's a new cryptocurrency!!
sounds much more like budget politics against the incompetent
Isnt it safer compared to a bike?
Might be cheap in monitary terms but... not sure it's as energy efficient. What's the environmental impact?
> I think you mean I (bscphil) said that.

Oops, yes, you're right. Sorry for the mixup.
FWIW this is actually (mostly) the case for building codes. The standard in the USA is the International Building Code (and other related code by the International Code Council), which each jurisdiction adopts into law and amends as needed for local conditions or practices. And these codes in turn reference other international standards specific to the knowledge domain.
Did you even read the article? That's exactly what their code is doing. It's a giant LRU cache on a very hot path.
Here in France basically all hives are infected, and male bees are the main propagation vector, since they go and visit other hives.

For me he choice is between an intrusive apiculture - introducing poisonous chemicals into the hive, frequent interventions, essentially having a dependent, weak bee population - and a more gentle one where I keep intervention to a minimum, and instead focus on giving the bees a healthy, thriving habitat, a garden without pesticides, access to water, and lots of flowers.
>Doug not only explains the reason

Just because he had a reason to give doesn't mean it wasn't a bad reason. His stated reasoning failed with hindsight.

(a) People already do what he thought was preventing (custom parser behavior) by removing comments, (so his choice failed to prevent what he wanted to prevent)

(b) people have already created dozens of JSON parser variants that accept comments, because we really want those. And not just some niche devs - Microsoft and dozens of other big companies have tools that accept JSON + dangling commas + extra comments (so his choice was second-guessed and bypassed anyway, just in ad-hoc ways instead of a better universal one).

It wasn't his place to define whether we get comments or not based on some potential parser abuse. But he did it, and now we're stuck with that decision...
Saying Switch is a phone is like saying phone is a PC.

They use similar components, but designed very differently:

Switch has dedicated controller, phones don't, at least the vast majority of them.

Switch has lower resolution, targeting framerate instead.

Switch has active cooling for sustained performance, phones usually only work on short bursts.

Switch is cheap, comparing to premium phones.

Phones are ok for a lot of things, but good for nothing, while Switch is good at gaming, undeniably the 1st in the mobile gaming market.
> Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

Foo Fighters recently released another album.
What are the headwinds for interest rates to increase?
Ocean freight is extremely energy efficient isn't it? Much cheaper than overland trucking for the same distance and weight?
Cool thanks for sharing this -- it's come up multiple times in this thread and it seems I didn't weigh this point enough.

Maybe this is enough to really make GraphQL or a similar system worth it -- GraphQL and Falcor both existing as similar but separate technologies probably says something about just how problematic non-GrapQL-like patterns are at scale, and if your had a good experience at smaller scale as well then it's worth reconsidering.
>But, since comments are not supported in JSON, you can expect JSON from external sources to contain no comments whatsoever.

You can expect it, and then you'd be suprised when they do.

See people really want/need comments, and they're gonna implement them anyway in dozens of little parsers/libs, and you're gonna have to deal with files having them anyway...
I was pretty incredulous until a cousin poster started talking about auditing, testing, red tape, out of date systems, and security.

Seems plausible it could balloon.
Pandemic and response destroyed the economy.
We probably should write another blog post or two. We generally try to only post substantial content to the blog, our mailing list tends to have a bit more of the mundane, and of course, our GitHub issues/PRs. Many projects make blog posts for releases, but we generally do not.

For what it's worth, the "just four posts" constitute some major things:

1. Continuing Sandstorm as a community project

2. The 1.0 release of the main app packaging tool

3. Let's Encrypt support built-in

4. A major security improvement in disabling apps from making outgoing HTTP requests without permission
The reason is simple, I'm not exactly a full time java engineer, as a matter of fact, I write python 80% of my time, all of this project's prototype is written in python in another project. I'm slowly transfering some of the code to java, for now the tree construction part is still in python.
To be fair it's not a real Nobel prize. It's paid for by a bank and it was first issued in 1968. One of Nobel's descendants is on record speculating that Nobel would never have agreed to the award. It's very much about public relations for the field of economics. The field's effect on the world has been to undermine democratic governments through the establishment of treaties that people never voted for and organizations comprised of people who were never elected. Governments merely act as middle managers to the "market" and their role is to keep their people within the constraints of these supposed universal truths. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Science is a way for the field to convey prestige, expertise, and authority.

My personal take is that the field is stuck in an existential local minima and are self-conscious about it: similar to how astronomy was stuck on the model of concentric spheres. I think everybody who practices the field is unconsciously aware of it too which is why they lean on hand-waving charts and opaque math that anybody in a harder science would instinctively call bullshit on. How psychology got to be the poster boy for the replication crisis in the social sciences and not economics is baffling given the scope and depth of influence the field has had on the world.

But don't take my word for it...
https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/127/605/F236/50...

We investigate two critical dimensions of the credibility of empirical economics research: statistical power and bias. We survey 159 empirical economics literatures that draw upon 64,076 estimates of economic parameters reported in more than 6,700 empirical studies. Half of the research areas have nearly 90% of their results under‐powered. The median statistical power is 18%, or less. A simple weighted average of those reported results that are adequately powered (power ≥ 80%) reveals that nearly 80% of the reported effects in these empirical economics literatures are exaggerated; typically, by a factor of two and with one‐third inflated by a factor of four or more.
That’s because the only people posting are the ones that have issues.
Has Afrinic Ever Been Compromised – Leave No VM Behind
Angel Investments vs. Stocks
> 974.3PiB in size

...

> have compressed the image to 6.75TiB losslessly.

yeah, no.
Are you responding to the wrong post, here?

I don't recall denying that this lockdown has been disastrous for many businesses. You typed that out as if you were disagreeing or offering a counterpoint. Is anybody on Earth even denying the impact this has had on businesses?

I work in the restaurant industry, FWIW. Nobody needs to tell me how disastrous this has been for certain businesses.

More importantly than my post, though: I'm truly sorry your bar has been nailed by this while local strip clubs, of all things, have been allowed to operate. That is freaking absurd. I hope your bar can survive and prosper again soon. I have lost a business myself, prior to the pandemic. It's beyond heartbreaking.
"Low, stable inflation increases inequality" is not a statement that you could find much agreement on from economists.

Also, Krugman is just a pop-econ writer at this point. He is not a big deal in the economics profession. Yes, I am sure he understands how inflation and sticky wages interact. I am not so convinced that you understand it. Just going to repost my other comment for you to puzzle over:

"You are purposefully ignoring the normal explanation, which is this: because wages are sticky, firms that need to cut costs in a recession are more likely to lay off people than they are to give pay cuts. Inflation helps to weaken that rigidity so that job losses are not as large. Maybe you know that.

You claim that central banks depreciate the currency because they "think wages among the working class are too high." But rhetorically, you are doing more than just referring to the explanation I gave above. You are implying that central banks "think" working class wages are too high, and want to lower them to hurt working class people.

Which is the opposite of the standard explanation - the purpose of inflation in that instance is to implicitly reduce the downward rigidity of wages so that employment does not contract as much in a downturn.

Presumably you, champion of the working class, would rather more people be unemployed?"
>That wasn't the original goal of JSON.

That's neither here, nor there. The narrow vision many/most tools were created with is laughable compared to the actual creative uses people put them into.

Heck, the internet wasn't created for collaborating, socializing, shopping, reading, listening to music, etc., anyway, it was created to have a war-proof network for army use, yet here we are...
> I wonder if people really want a portable machine that they can stick steam on and play indie games?

Well it does not have Steam, but the Switch is full of indie games and it looks like there is a market for it.
I wholeheartedly agree with this idea. In case anyone wants a fast C++ parser for this, RapidJSON [1] has optional support for comments and trailing commas; I actually added trailing comma support to it.

I did this to support hand-writing game data in JSON (e.g. monster stats, campaign dialog scripts) and then converting it to MessagePack at build time [2]. This gives you very high simplicity (no schemas) and excellent performance.

[1] http://rapidjson.org/

[2] https://github.com/ludocode/msgpack-tools
> When assets go up relative to currency, fewer buyers can compete for those assets, leading to the wealthy owning more and the poor getting poorer.

Boy are you going to freak out when you learn about stock splits and fractional share investing.
> Electric passenger aircraft are not and will never be viable

Why not? "Never" is a very significant word, but if you have sound reasons for using the word here, I'm genuinely interested in your thoughts on the matter.
One of the commenters even made it look like a wikipedia page. See https://dump.cy.md/4042875593f06aa0cbe7722295831c10/Screensh...
switched to deezer too since spotify would not play through my DAC, their hifi tier is sweet, but deezer doesn't seem to have the more niche soundcloud stuff that spotify seems to have ripped early on
My idea is the free version has some drawbacks:
(1) people don't want to pay will stick with this free version
(2) it's like a sample pack for solver, you may download the free version and say "it's not so good after all". Bad for business
(3) it increase the probability of been hacked
The circuitry inside the 'handheld part' of the devkits is totally different from a retail unit, as indeed it doesn't contain any processing. So if you had, say, a 'phat' devkit, I don't think you'd be able to fit a Lite as the controller (unless you also had a Lite devkit and swapped the two controllers, I suppose).
> I'd argue the smartphone is irrelevant.

Access to information helps you obtain and maintain a roof over your head.

> I don't think we should be including basic necessities alongside improvements in entertainment in the same statistic, because it will just hide problems.

Agreed.
>You can optimize along increase-developer-productivity or along increase-potential-developer-population. We chose the former.

I have to ask. How could it be any different?

The vast majority (all?) of the languages are made by devs. Devs work harder and produce better code when they're working on something they want to use.

And the mainstream corporate-sponsored languages (Java, C#, Go) all seem to have started with groups of devs that really didn't want to use C++, which provides roughly the same incentives.

The kind of drive needed to develop and maintain a solid language (to say nothing about an easy to work with language) kind of has to be a passion project, and people aren't generally able to choose what they're passionate about.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/teslas-biggest-problem-is-cu...
Why not? Having volunteers drink saltier and saltier water while controlled for any organ function abnormalities doesn't sound too bad, Mars 500 was way worse.
I work in the restaurant industry. I definitely understand how disastrous this has been for particular sectors.

Do you think that I was somehow denying that?

When I called our "lockdowns" laughable, clearly I was referring to their effectiveness w.r.t. stopping the virus.

Clearly I was not referring to business impact. That was a point I didn't mention. Is anybody even disputing this has been rough on certain businesses?!?!
That makes sense. From my perspective, having worked in Brazil (and having been a student of the Portuguese language) for some years, I've come to understand there's actually a strong pride in the Portuguese language in Brazil and in being distinct from the Spanish-speaking countries around it, and this has resulted in Spanish being a tiny minority language in Brazil. The other contributing factor I think is that most Brazilians have little reason to actually learn Spanish because the languages are similar enough to enable simple interactions (at least on the surface -- they diverge significantly upon diving deeper). As a result, the presence of Spanish in Brazil is actually very small. Hence my original comment that it would be very unusual for Pirahã words to have the possibility of Spanish as an influence.

The French situation in Canada is a little different (speaking as a former Quebec resident). French is a co-official language in Canada spoken as an L1 by 20% of the population (and L1 speakers aren't only in Quebec, but also Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick). Also, internationalizing for French isn't just a good idea, it is the law. Retailers in the U.S. know that consumer products without French labeling cannot be sold commercially in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a... does have less traditional celebrities compared to the lists for other social media platforms
Wow. Thank you for your support

For now I still struggle to make it work in two player's preflop (take a ton of time and computation resources). In the future if a lot of people ask for multiplayer I think I will write the code~
That is not even a real Thomas Jefferson quote.
Most of the custom pen makers I've tried to contact lately had multiple year wait lists. A few years ago it seemed like you could get one made in a a few months. US makers charge $200-500 for fairly standard custom pens and for more specialized stuff the prices can get even higher. The wait lists are still long. Personally as a person with a collection of vintage pens worth several thousand dollars, I wouldn't pay much more than $500 for a new custom fountain pen unless it had a lot of gold or silver hardware / overlay.

I have a couple of custom pens. One was about $500, used a rare celluloid material no longer in production, and had sterling silver hardware and an 18k nib. The other one was just as well crafted, but only cost about $225 because it was from someone relatively new to the market and it had steel hardware.

I'm sure someone would pay more if the prices went up significantly, but I would either just buy a vintage pen that writes better anyways or I would stop collecting.

Also, so far there doesn't seem to be a secondary market for scalping people with custom pens.

I dabble in woodworking/woodcarving too though, and there's a lot of people flipping custom carving knives for 3-6x what the makers charge. Its a pretty obnoxious practice.
And it did also because the execution was horrible. Not sure thought if it would have been successful were it done better...
>Gaming and computer hardware is ruthlessly optimized to be as energy-efficient as possible

And yet gaming still wastes more energy than crypto. Poor argument.
If I were to bet, I'd wager that the Thylacine will be the first large mammal brought back from true extinction. There exist specimens that were preserved in alcohol (which is not as destructive to DNA as formalin is) that are only a century or so old, and there is some political will behind it, too. I personally hope that it does come to pass.
I'm not really surprised. In the US we've been trained to expect that what we will wind up paying will be higher than the posted or advertised price.
Show HN: Simple Twitter feed concept for extra vaccine availability
There is a lack of a simple and easily accessible protocol for extra SAR-CoV-2 vaccine ability. Rather than create a web application that silos that data, I created a public Twitter feed (@ExtraVaccine - currently US only) that accepts vaccine availability information in the following format: `ZIP | Street Address | Name | DoseCount`

The format of this feed is inspired by HN's Who's hiring thread and is easily digestible by humans, scrapers, and bots. The mission of this feed is to make sure no vaccine left behind due to canceled appointments and vaccine expiry. Just doing whatever small part to curb the natural history of this pandemic.

I know this mission it not unique but I want the data to be publicly available so it can be materialized by other software developers, bots, and data scientists.

I am not sure how to get this off the ground. Ideas appreciated. Otherwise, hopefully this inspires someone out there!

@ExtraVaccine
Like watching Metallica play corporate events and kick over stools.
So the 'cheating' isn't cheating, but simply lobbying to maintain power. None of the points you made are inherit to illegal or even immortal acts, rather it's an issue of regulators and politicians not update all of the existing laws to account for the internet.

- Facebook doesn't have to deal with defamation lawsuits because they're not the ones making those defaming claims - it's the users posting them. With the scale of the world it literally isn't possible to have an anyone-can-post site that has to screen what its users write for legally risky text. That's bad for commerce and why section 230 exists.

- Google doesn't have to worry about copyright because businesses love to be able to take down content ID-detected content without involving legal resources.

- Amazon built its business on evading sales tax because sales tax didn't affect internet businesses for some reason. Governments had years to change their laws and impose it on them.
> It decreases the value of the money use to pay for them

That is meaningless, though. Imagine last year you bought some asset, that someone else did not, and it appreciated 2% with the price level. You are not any better off. I see you are implying that the other person "couldn't afford" to invest and kept their money in cash instead, to argue that the other person is worse off. That is also wrong - the issue here is holding cash, not the wealth disparity. Don't hold cash if you are worried about inflation. Mutual funds have low minimums, and you can buy fractional ETF shares at this point. You have no argument here.
I've seen homeless people with a smartphone, and the phone seems pretty relevant to them
The regulations on "cars" apply if they drive on most streets.

We've regulated our way into being forced to buy $20,000+ vehicles weighing thousands of pounds, and somehow see this as normal and natural.
A lot of those students are using Chromebooks, which will get nothing but not cheaper. Video editors almost always want large monitors and top performance. Show me someone who works as a professional video editor who does it on a laptop screen.

The best argument you could make for the MacBook in this regard is for developers who might be working as nomads, and musicians who often lug their machines to their gigs.

But for someone doing heavy 3D, video, or gaming? I just don't see it. The M1 can't even run Tomb Raider above 30 fps. It's a 2 year old game, and isn't even that impressive. A GTX 1080 will yield 2x-3x that performance: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...

I'm just saying, they got a long way to go before that capture the hardcore gamer or 3D rendering market.