skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But at least the bubble popping would make it easier for the middle class newcommers enter the market.

Just inflating the bubble further, as every European bank and government is doing, to make existing property owners richer on paper and get their votes, is not a viable long term solution.

IMHO, it can't pop sooner. Houses should be for living, not for speculation and hoarding wealth. The younger generations have been screwed enough by the old established wealth hoarders.
You're right, you would say tomato based soup and not tomato-y based soup. ...but english is not that rigorous and names stick.
Today, many companies already do this in some form to better understand their business's health. Without it, a business is just spinning its wheels. Today, there are OKR solutions that try to measure and analyze every employee, which can have the inverse effect turn into micromanagement. Commonality intentionally avoids this by focusing on the team and department level. The goal is to build a better culture, not ruin an existing one.
Yes and no. Content blockers have a limited number of rules and you’re fundamentally limited by the expressiveness of the filtering language.

But:

* The filtering language is basically just ABP rules.

* There is only a cap per “extension” so apps with lots of rules just expose many extensions.
That's not really an explanation, though. The web interface works today and will continue to work through April 3. So, if Google wanted it to continue, it would.
Not just international standards. In some US states the codes (part of the law by inclusion) are the proprietary property of private companies and are only available under non disclosure.

For example the building codes in Texas. It’s how cartels are protected by government.
Move fast and break things _absolutely_ implies unsafe. It doesn't guarantee unsafe, but it most definitely implies it.

The word "break" is in the phrase...
> Perhaps necessity will force the eastern Mediterranean to re-emerge as an economic powerhouse

As a half Croat: sorry, won't happen. Croatia's economy is tourism dominated and will stay that way. There is a bit of agriculture and industry (especially shipbuilding), but nowhere enough to compete with heavyweights such as Germany.

For those out of the loop: the Balkans have historically suffered from brain drain - first during the Yugoslavia era where many fled/emigrated from realcommunism, then during the wars for obvious reasons, and now simply because Germany and other EU nations pay way better and those who don't find work in tourism find it elsewhere in Europe instead. Good luck finding a nurse on the Balkans... Germany has to recruit from the Philippines meanwhile.

The fact that Croatian (and other Balkan countries') politics are extremely corrupt doesn't help much either, it's really sad.

Regarding Southern Italy: similar situation re/ brain drain, plus the added complexity of having to deal with the Mafiya.

Regarding Turkey: Turkey already is an economic powerhorse and a regional hard-power leader - the early Erdogan years showed what Turkey is capable of. Unfortunately Erdogan turned into Erdolf and investors are pretty much shying away from Turkey as a result of the instability, not to mention that Turkey is directly adjacent to the Syria cluster-fuck.
One of the biggest goals of the many undersea cable projects around the world is to enable much higher dependence on unreliable renewable power. They may not be critical yet. But they will be.
It's easier than ever to make any game and Netflix is known for miniseries. What this means is it's easier than ever to push a commercial product.

My response is, well, how much money do game devs expect to make in non-original games anyway? Perhaps they should lower their revenue expectancies.
Also see: https://recoiljs.org/
> rename variables to make them represent some economic quantities

You cannot trivialize this step. Most people's job in data analysis is basically this. Figuring out what quantity fits where in the formula _is_ the research.

edit: To make it clear, it would have been fine if here model explained something using trapezoidal formula. But she seems to be claiming the formula, not a model.
> .NET - so fast you can't do dependency injection
I don't think that being a loving person requires you to be polyamorous.

I think you can be sexually open and loving to one partner at a time, but accept that each individual partner may have an unknown time limit.

This understanding that your relationships won't necessarily last forever doesn't require you to give up on emotions, nor to cheapen sex.
I once heard an executive react with glee to the news that a senior compliance officer’s wife was pregnant: “Well now he’s going to have to play nice!”

The employee had a reputation for being... particular... before he was willing to sign off on certain things.
The grid is already in trouble in places where it makes little economic sense to keep it reliable (rural regions, especially California/West Coast).

The ex-Texas US grid is reliable because of economic reasons (especially industrial) and the Texas grid is not that reliable for economic reasons!

If you leave the interstate system and drive the state and national highways, especially east of the Mississippi River, you'll see industrial facilities all over the place in small towns and cities, etc. They consume a lot of electricity, so it is in the national interest to have a good grid. West of the Mississippi: go read the Bershire Hathaway annual report from a few weeks ago. Warren Buffett spends quite a bit of space writing about how and why they are spending billions on the future of the grid.
Turkey has a history of claiming an EEZ way to the south of Cyprus (and also claiming an EEZ even past Crete in the Aegean), not wanting to work together and then accusing Greece of not working with them when Greece signs treaties to pass undersea cables in areas that Turkey claims as Turkish EEZ.

It's all a bit of a clusterfuck, I'm not even entirely clear on what areas Turkey claims and what areas Greece claims. Turkey also refuses to go to the ICJ to resolve this, which would have been a good solution, in my opinion.
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Doesn’t the need arise from the constrained supply of MDs?
Because no one goes to your site to subscribe to a newsletter or read a pop-up advertisement. They just want the article they were promised by the link.

Quickly closing pop-ups and cookie notices is the cost of browsing the internet in 2021.
Scientists make particularly bad software engineers. You'll get all kinds of problems, and nearly no good code, in any discipline you care to look.

Take the same people and put them for a year in a more predictable environment, and they start to write much better code. (And yeah, this natural experiment happens all the time.)
Assets are items that generate cash flow. If you live in it, it's a liability and not an asset. Just because its value increases in relation to funny money doesn't mean it's generating cash flow. How much bitcoin do you need to buy a house?
> As for James Damore, he pushed phrenological ideas as to why the disparity between men and women in tech/software engineering was ok.

Damore's writings were based on peer reviewed scientific literature. Quite the opposite of "phrenology".

The anti-science sentiments rising in society from anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, and disregard for biology (like the comment above) is somewhat frightening.
> 10 years ago I'd have said Eastern European spirit may turn the ship around. But today I'm not so sure. It feels like too many people got comfy enough and sign off on Western's idea.

Is this code for calling West Europe lazy? I surely can't make much sense of what you mean with this phrasing.
No idea but probably not. I'm not saying Malala was deliberately chasing a payday or anything. More that it's a shame that public media can't put together a show like this so it ends up with the world's biggest corporation. Not anyone's fault in particular, just an unfortunate state of affairs.
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In the past two decades Israel has given back complete control of Gaza to the Palestinians. They had one election 15 years ago. Hamas won on a campaign of abolishing Israel (“from the river to the sea...”). They proceeded to shoot thousands of rockets into major Israeli population centers - rockets that couldn’t have reached had Israel not given back Gaza.

While I don’t at all agree with the settlements, the truth is that’s a lightening rod point and the actual amount of land is a drop in the bucket. Israel has always been willing to trade land for peace. But both parties must want peace.
I got it free for a year when I got a new iPhone - took me a while to get into it but started watching "For All Mankind" recently and really enjoying it.

Edit: I've only watched about 5 episodes on Season 1 but one small thing that is pretty neat if it is intentional (and I haven't made a mistake) is the more rapid development of technology in their timeline due to money being spent at NASA rather than keeping the Vietnam War going.

Edit2: For someone in their 50s like me, "For All Mankind" is basically wish fulfilment for the future we had in the past.
They are if the National Labor Relations ACT is being properly enforced as any sorts of Company Anti-Union propaganda is not allowed the way Amazon's going about it!
Nope. At least not in an explicit way, because we saw those concepts in free fall problems and similar ones in physics as "instantaneous" quantities. Same with areas, but not that much.

My teacher tried to show us limits in one class, but she didnt had more time to do so.

At least here in Chile (South America), only the rich or with custom curriculum see those concepts at HS. Unless you go to pre-U paid schools or to bachillerato, calculus is only teached in Unis.
In the category "how can I contribute the most to the global climate change problem", we have a contender.
If this was true, a paper should have been cited. Like all the other people did for their letters
Y'all broke my server. :)

Lots of great comments here. I don't do much Hacker News-based polemics, so I have extended the original post on my website with some summary responses to a bunch of really thoughtful comments here. Thanks all!
Except that there are millions of scientists being ignored every day in just about every field you could imagine. Being ignored doesn't make you wrong or right. It's part of being a scientist. It's in the noise.

I would bet good money that every disaster movie could also be tied to a Nostradamus prediction. It doesn't make it relevant.
Yes, I like your definition. We don't have certifications yet, but the team has done the biggest ones before we are keeping everything ready to get them. We should start the processes in the next couple of months. That being said, not all certifications require all software you use to also have the certifications. I understand this is critical for PCI, where anything with access to the data is also scope, but for SOC2 this is not the case. Most of our customers today are fintech, we are very transparent about our architecture and how we do things with our customers, that is where the trust come from. We the best solutions available to deal with things like storing credentials and sensitive data. That being said, you can always opt for the self-hosted enterprise version.
Safari content blockers are significantly limited compared to ublock origin. You're limited to domain allow/deny rules, and a quite small amount of those per app (less than a couple hundred thousand I think) and IIRC can't inject cosmetic filters either. These are critical drawbacks.
> Avg income in my neighborhood is ~49k but a 2 bed condo here are selling for 450K and getting outbid by 75k over the asking price. Its insane.

Sure, and your point about housing prices mattering is a good one (see my other comment on this story). But, this describes maybe a few dozen housing markets. Probably only a couple dozen if you cut out resort/ski towns. It's a regional problem, not systemic problem with the national economy.
To be fair, Android and Chrome basically only make sense in the context of propping up their search monopoly. I'm not aware of any substantial income from either, directly.

My understanding is that the underpinnings of Google Cloud were built to support their own technology needs supporting their ad empire. It's also worth noting that Google Cloud indirectly supports their ad-based ventures. It gives them access to a higher economy of scale which makes serving ads cheaper, and customers are subsidizing development costs for things Google uses as well.

They're complaining that Google is built on data-mining and selling that to advertisers, not specifically about search. Anything that fails to compete with the crazy profit margins of targeted advertising gets killed, which is pretty much everything at the moment.

Google Cloud is somewhat of an outlier, I don't know why it's still around. They're still losing money on it, aren't they? I have a hard time believing the tangential benefits to their other products are enough to offset that, but I could be wrong.
Allowing third parties to collect user data without their knowledge is not "user empowering." Users agreed to Instagram having access to that data, not OP's company to collect it through instagram using a tool that collects who knows what and sends it who knows where.
This is beautiful and satisfying.
The comment above is saying that Google can't invest for the long-term and requires runaway success in a product or two.

Your argument (that Google currently has a portfolio of products that are a net loss) shows that they at least try. In particular, GCP and Waymo are really long-term and strategic investments.
Food and Beverages make up 15% of the US CPI basket. Some other major components are Housing (42%) and Transport (15%).

Here's the full list, which make up the "general price level": https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm If you believe food is underweighted, then what category do you believe is overweighted?
Valve seems to be a good example of this.
Yes, (calories absorbed - calories burned) will always be true.
[dupe] further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364569
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AppleTV+ is such a failure on so many levels.

Firstly, everyone thinks AppleTV is an Apple-branded TV. I have had to explain to people how it’s an Apple Roku.

Then adding the + to designate their content offering instead of an enhanced AppleTV was equally terrible. I have no idea how they came to such a terrible decision.

Thirdly, the content is beyond terrible. I don’t know what they were thinking, but they spent so much time marketing AppleTV+ but they refused to spend money to acquire things that people want to watch.

It’s deeply akin to their strategy on spending money on marketing hype but being deeply superficial on quality of content. They are the worlds richest company but their software is extremely poor. They can afford to pay for the best software engineers, and they don’t. Their software is terrible.

The same goes with their TV shows. I watched The Morning Show which was okay but I haven’t turned it on since. There is nothing compelling to watch on AppleTV+. And Apple has all the money to buy content and they do a really bad job. They need to overspend on a hallmark show to get the traction they need.
I think that lack of explanation is bigger than the Stadia executives think: when you’re asking people to take a gamble on a completely proprietary platform both prospective developers and buyers are going to be worried about the prospect of things randomly going away.

This is especially true given Google’s poor reputation for support even with paid products. Right now would be a key moment for a post mortem response detailing what they’ve done to ensure that developers don’t have to worry about being locked out and customers don’t have to worry about losing access to their purchases. This is an unproven service and anyone who is at all worried has multiple safer options available so trust is especially critical.
> When food also starts outpacing the average (historically it has paralleled wages in the USA), you really have to ask what inflation is measuring.

inflation is measuring the value of a currency. CPI is a way to infer inflation from the nominal price of consumer goods; but it is not the definition of inflation. put another way, if an apple costs twice as much as it did last year, that fact is not enough to say whether the currency inflated.
I was just under the impression that Google would utilize their existing infrastructure as Amazon did initially. If you have to build the whole thing upfront, it becomes a huge investment. The difference between AWS and GCP was contrasted pretty well by the Economist last week: Each year Google loses more money on GCP than Amazon has ever lost.

If that's true, then Google can't really compete with AWS.
you forgot:

Amazon, 1,528
Oh I see. That makes sense. But I always thought DC was a pretty poor option for long distance transmission of power?
I pressed Pete on what he actually meant by that in the replies [0]. Eventually he listed some specific concerns:

- The React ecosystem has fragmentation because there's many ways to do things, and he feels someone needs to start narrowing down suggestions to reduce confusion.

- There was an article going around on "Why I'll Never Use React for Enterprise Apps Again", and half of the problems listed in the article were about Redux and React ecosystem related issues instead of React itself, so Pete's upset about that

- Pete feels opinionated data fetching tools and explicit state machines solve some use cases better

- Pete thinks it's too hard to dynamically code-split Redux logic

So, those are valid technical points that can be discussed in detail. But those are also a very far cry from "NEVER EVER USE REDUX!", and I'm really not sure how you jump from "one article said they had trouble migrating their code from `connect` to hooks and they aren't happy with Redux-Saga" to "NEVER USE REDUX" either.

I actually pointed out that we have a new upcoming "RTK Query" API that's in alpha right now [2] that drastically simplifies data fetching and caching for Redux, and Pete said later in that thread he thought it looked impressive. He also said he appreciates the work put into Redux Toolkit and our docs updates.

So yeah, Pete said that, but as usual there's a lot more nuance in the later discussion that should be highlighted rather than the clickbait-y initial tweet.

[0] https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1365824897210064897

[1] https://betterprogramming.pub/i-almost-got-fired-for-choosin...

[2] https://rtk-query-docs.netlify.app
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You have got to be kidding me. You think lack of peace with Palestinians is because of Israel?

Do you have any idea how mean peace treaties Israel offered the Palestinians, and Palestinians rejected every single one?

If there's anyone you should be pressuring it's Palestinians, but no, instead you are painting Israel with some false apartheid label, and imagining it's Israel that's bad over here.

Israel is signing peace treaties with Arab countries right and left, and Palestinians can't even make peace between Hamas and Fatah.

Your boycott is very misdirected.
I got the free year and then got hooked on Ted Lasso and For All Mankind, both of which would fit into the upper tier of Netflix’s programming. Some of their nature shows are also great. TV plus, News, Fitness, and Arcade ended up being an extra $7 CAD when part of the Apple One bundle on top of what I was already paying for iCloud storage and Apple Music on the family plans.

The bundle strategy is an old one, and it works especially well in family plans where one person might be a big user of one service and a minor user of another. It’s also a good fit given the regular practice of adults passing their old phones on to kids or vice versa.

Anyway, Apple TV is actually on chromecast now.

https://www.whathifi.com/news/the-apple-tv-app-is-now-availa...
There is a lot of confusion here. Israel is 25% Arab (mostly Palestinian). All those Palestinians have full medical care just like any other citizen of Israel.

Israel has now begun to vaccinate Palestinian workers that commute from Gaza and the West Bank, and has also donated vaccines (despite the Palestinian government stating repeatedly they don’t want help from Israel) to Palestine.
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...due to TEMPORARY restrictions, such as border closures, that will be lifted once the pandemic is history.

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On a related topic, quite a few commenters here have made uninformed or intentionally misleading comments about the relationship between inflation indexes and food/energy prices. Let me quote this explanation posted 10 years ago by a PhD student of economics at MIT:

"Food and energy are not excluded from the Consumer Price Index. The standard CPI, which is used to make cost of living adjustments to Social Security (among other things), reflects a full consumption basket, including food and energy.

The index that excludes food and energy is the core CPI, which is used for a very different purpose -- namely, the U.S. Federal Reserve's decisions about U.S. Monetary Policy.

A few observers seem to believe that excluding food and energy from the core CPI reflects either deep ignorance or conspiratorial neglect on the part of monetary authorities. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, core CPI (along with some alternatives like mean-trimmed price indices) is a very sensible reaction to the dilemmas facing monetary policymakers.

Suppose that the Federal Reserve had a mandate to stabilize the full Consumer Price Index, and that food prices suddenly doubled. To keep the CPI at a stable level, other prices would need to decrease. The problem, however, is that many prices are sticky, meaning that they do not instantaneously respond to changes in monetary and macroeconomic conditions. This is especially true in the service industry (which comprises the bulk of both Gross Domestic Product and the CPI).

To create these compensating price changes within a relatively short timespan, the Fed would have to impose extremely tight monetary policy, with sky-high nominal interest rates. And as we saw in the early 1980s, a large increase in nominal interest rates is extremely destructive to the real economy, leading to a massive increase in unemployment. Given our already weak economic conditions, such a policy would be even more damaging today.

Core CPI is a way to prevent this kind of needless suffering and unemployment. By targeting a stabler set of prices, the Fed avoids the wild swings in monetary policy that would inevitably arise from targeting an index that includes commodity prices. In other words, the demagogues who assail core CPI have it all wrong: the average American would be much, much worse off if the Fed targeted a volatile measure like headline CPI."

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-food-and-energy-costs-excluded...
[dupe]

further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364569
Yes and they were considering shutting down GCP, can't make this shit up
Worse as in larger losses, that is the consequence of more conductivity, so yeah, you can read it that way too.
> Android and Chrome basically only make sense in the context of propping up their search monopoly

Android and Chrome make sense in terms of defending all of their web-based offerings from a hostile mobile OS or browser monopoly.

Their advertising dominance obviously is the only reason they had the money to throw at those problems, but a “search monopoly” isn't the only reason it made sense.
What about something like zustand?
https://zustand.surge.sh/