skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's little choice but to rationalize this state of affairs.

Continuing to inflat the money supply is the politically expedient option. Price inflation is a related phenomenon. The Fed is unable to decrease it's balance sheet in a meaningful way.

Some politicians are critical of central bank monetary policy. They are frequently maligned.
I may have beat that, the day before Jack Dorsey blew up the service I bid on the tweet of the CryptoKitties Genesis NFT.

So a NFT of a Tweet of an NFT.
Don’t try to time the market. Just put the money in a diversified portfolio at a roboadvisor.

The market is up 2% YTD, but down 4% from peak. It’s a reasonable time to buy (better than peak, at least).

If you must try to time the market, use time cost averaging to reduce volatility from getting a peak (or trough) price when you enter the market, but know that doing so reduces expected returns. The basic idea is to put 1/n of your money in over the next n weeks.
In practice, it serves the purpose of letting less academically accomplished students become physicians without resorting to Caribbean medical schools. This isn't a net negative to society because much of the overachievement in the pre-med set is overlearning the game, not genuine accomplishment.

Talking to people who have gone to osteopathic medical schools, it seems like the true believers there have enough clout that they're not transforming into normal medical schools any time soon. But OMM is such a small part of the curriculum, it's not a huge burden for the majority of students who think it's nonsense.
The linked papers provide context for the quoted passages by describing British sexual culture during which Orwell wrote 1984.

The party, or rather the government, does influence what's in TV shows and movies. See Carlin's "7 words you can't say on TV" https://youtu.be/kyBH5oNQOS0 and Family Guy's FCC song: https://youtu.be/Eeg4J8yNk4g.
The tweets have been made private, it seems. https://web.archive.org/web/20210227001627/https://twitter.c...

"In several cases, students were questioned IN INTERVIEWS about the quality of the computer science curriculum that they were receiving at their HBCU"

Dear god, it's almost like they're being interviewed for a tech job or something.
Most of the population lives in the flatter parts of Switzerland, which are of no real concern for invasions from the West and North. The linguistic border runs inside Switzerland because the geographic border does as well.
It's possible, but pair bonding is also common in other species such as Puffins where inheriting property is unlikely to be a factor.
i think its also worth noting that actors really exaggerate how hard is it to look good on camera and it ends up discouraging people from improving their diet and exercise.

you dont need a nutritionist, and a personal trainer, and to treat it like a full time jobs and get paid for it to look good.

you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent.
Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers
Forming that question presupposes that you know that KSA refers to a place, as opposed to e.g. an organisation or a division of alphabet
The article also discussed the fact that US prices are temporarily buffered by the supply chain but that big providers like GM are discussing price increases do to sustained cost increases. This is alongside existing practices like shrinkflation that make it harder for a CPI to accurately benchmark costs. It makes sense that articles and readers are looking for leading indicators.
> it's clear why she was fired

>she was "probably" acting unprofessionally

(emphasis mine)

Those two statements are not congruent. Her statements on twitter are her own, YOU have no idea how she acted professionally.

As for James Damore, he pushed phrenological ideas as to why the disparity between men and women in tech/software engineering was ok. By his own written ideas he was displaying "right biases" (disparities between men/women or whites/racial minorities are natural and just)

You post implies your biases very clearly.
I've read a lot of side channel papers like this one over the past few years. Here are some thoughts.

Firstly, this new technique is probably not exploitable against 'real' cryptographic software. A very common technique in these papers that I see all the time these days is they attack obsolete versions of libgcrypt, because old versions of this relatively obscure crypto library aren't using constant time code. All modern and patched crypto implementations that people actually use would not leak using this technique, as the paper admits at the end. And even libgcrypt was patched years ago. The version number cited in the papers never makes this clear - you have to look up the release history to realise this.

Secondly, this paper is a bit unusual in the sheer number of steps that are simulated or otherwise simplified by e.g. requiring root. It's got some work to do before it's usable outside of lab condition demonstrations.

OK, so the crypto attack is theoretical and wouldn't work in real life, but what about the ability to extract passwords from typing patterns? Well, if we read that part of the paper carefully we can see a rather massive caveat: all it takes is 2 threads doing stuff in the background and the signal is drowned in noise. 4 threads doing stuff cause the signal to be entirely lost. So there seems to be a simple mitigation and it's unclear that this would work at all on a server that's under even moderate load.

Moreover, whilst a casual reader may get the impression they can extract passwords, they don't actually demonstrate that. Rather, they demonstrate what they claim is "a very distinguishable pattern" in ring contention triggered by keystrokes, with "zero false positives and zero false negatives". That sounds impressive but no information is given on what they're comparing against: what were the other events that were being tested here? The obvious question in my mind is how much of the signal they're seeing came from the actual keystroke vs output being printed to a terminal emulator, in which case, I'd expect to see potential FPs caused by any printing to the terminal. Their victim program doesn't merely monitor keystrokes but they are also echoed to the terminal - which is not what happens during password input, where characters aren't visible. This mock victim program is not much like a real password input program as a consequence.

Overall it's a clever paper, but I find myself increasingly fatigued by this genre of research. They seem to have settled into a template:

• Attack Intel, ignore everything else.

• Make grand and scary sounding claims

• Only demonstrate them against deliberately crippled victim programs in very artificial conditions.

It's been a few years now and I don't think any Spectre attack has ever been spotted in the wild, mounted by real attackers. That's true despite a huge state-sponsored attack having just been detected, that Microsoft claim might have had over 1000 developers work on it. Uarch side channel attacks sound cool but it seems real attackers either can't make them work, or have easier ways to get what they want. I find myself losing interest as a consequence.
Thanks. From the link:

In 2016, the U.S. and Israeli governments signed their third 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on military aid,
covering FY2019 to FY2028. Under the terms of the MOU, the United States pledged to provide—subject to congressional
appropriation—$38 billion in military aid ($33 billion in Foreign Military Financing grants plus $5 billion in missile defense appropriations) to Israel. This MOU followed a previous $30 billion 10-year agreement, which ran through FY2018.
"That's an interesting zero sum game"

But its not a zero sum game, its a game that ecourages corruption
>The program you mentioned tit for tat is also mentioned in there as the optimal way to get what you want and why pure selfishness dosnt work.

I've never been a fan of this framing. Cooperation can be viewed selfishly when the cooperation occurs because of well informed and strategic parties in the cooperation. A great example of this in real life are cartels. Cartels are only cooperative to the point where it optimizes a stable level/equilibrium of selfishness. Most cartels would happily disband and pull all the gains but the participants realize their minimal cooperation results in the best outcomes for themselves.

I guess the main issue I have with this boils down to the underlying intent and framing of intent. Ultimately, the intent is still driven entirely by selfishness, it's just selfishness with strategy and realizing that sometimes taking everything you can from everyone won't always navigate you to your selfish goal-state.

Perhaps that's what you mean here by "pure" selfishness not working. I'd argue that pure selfishness is the intent to only do what's minimally required for others for self-gain. You can be strategic or instrategic about it.

Something like "altruistic" cooperation on the other hand creates cooperation for the sake of cooperation alone (building trust, social cohesion, stability for more people). There may be little or nothing to gain for the cooperation for some participants, perhaps even some lose by participating (knowingly or unknowingly), but the cooperation as whole benefits and those benefits are worth the costs to the participants. The cooperation may exist to help some other party with no expectation of reciprocation. I think of it like a potluck dinner: everyone brings a dish and everyone gets to eat and have a good time. Some may not bring a dish and that's fine, they still eat and gain and others know that's the case, meanwhile some may fix elaborate dishes, expensive in terms of preparation time/complexity and/or ingredients and they do so knowing they're going over and above and won't necessarily be rewarded (perhaps a compliment) but they do so anyways because they wish to share the dish or experience with others.
Have you considered including React Query in your overview?
http://archive.is/kI1sx
This shouldn't be at all surprising.

The CIA did a fake vaccination program to find Bin Laden. I'd probably look askance at offers of aid workers from a country I'm technically at war with.
That was not snarky "?"

that was just consideration :P
I think you're making some sweeping generalizations about "our society" to be honest, because pornography, sex work and instagram models are condemned just as hard by a lot of people, throughout generations.
The Challenger explosion is taught in engineering school as an example of how not to communicate safety concerns. If you go through the presentation, it's terrible: they basically presented raw data in chronological order using an irrelevant infographic when they should have been showing a trend between o-ring failure and temperature. While in hindsight we know that management should have been more cautious, I could not possibly blame them for being unconvinced by such a poorly communicated argument.
This is your own bias.

"Failed to see" and "Didn't realize" are both equivalent statements. The author simply didn't want to repeat the same words twice, because they know how to write.
No joke, back in 2011, a Fed executive insisted that iPad deflation was canceling out higher food prices. Not even that iPads were getting cheaper, just, new ones had faster CPUs, so their effective price was lower. (Which somehow frees up more money for food?)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUST...
You have to face reality at some point. Literally every single capitalist economy, any time, anywhere, with or without fiat money, at all practically possible levels of stimulus, and regulation, has gone through a boom/bust cycle.

If anything, they got better since the introduction of Keynesianism, not worse.

It's inherent to capitalism. Don't try to delude yourself.
Looking at my PS Plus library.

Read only 2064 memories

Amnesia Collection

Absolver

All three Bioshock games

Bloodborne

Cities: Skyline

Conan Exiles

Control

Day of the Tentacle

Dead by Daylight

Fall Guys

God of war 3

Guacamelee

Metal Gear Solid V

Nioh

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Soma

Uncharted 4

What remains of edith finch

Yakuza Kiwami

If I wasnt already conditioned to buy physical games i'd legit not need to buy one ever. It's not like they throw junk at you.
Ask HN: AdSense alternatives without cookie banner?
There was a thread in 2014 called "Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673680

Now that GDPR is in place as well as similar laws in different countries, I wonder what are the options / platforms that exist in order to enable a website to monetize its traffic via ads while respecting users privacy and avoiding cookie banners.
This assertion is making a lot of unwarranted assumptions about the software architecture of a monolith. You can have a monolith and total control over the resources at the scale of an entire machine. This can be extraordinarily resource efficient in a way microservices never are, and is often the default case when designing systems like databases or data infrastructure.

A monolith easily achieves 10x throughput of what microservices will do on the same hardware. Which is why people build monoliths, they can be extremely efficient. Microservices are usually about trading resource efficiency for organizational convenience.
A "move to saudi arabia" ultimatum would be treated as constructive dismissal at least in much of europe, so even more so the companies will need to pay out whatever they would be contractually or legally obliged to in case of a layoff, too.
Discovered the most distant radio emission ever known: 13B light-years away [pdf]
Google Developing Earbuds to Enhance Hearing Named Wolverine: Report
watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BozB0O0__Qg
The US also likes the live testbed for anti-insurgency tech.
"Google won't get back to the mojo that gave us search, gmail, and maps before the petro curse is cured."
- DHH

Search, email and maps are essentially all search products, just with different domains, that's why google invests in them.
> do you realize all the calculations use CPI?

Whose calculations? The Federal Reserve's calculations? The Federal Reserve has access to a variety of data sources, and while the CPI is the one that gets the press, they also use series like the chained CPI, the producer price index, bond yield curves, unemployment (and not just U3, but things like U6 and the labor force participation rate).

If all you hear about is vanilla CPI, well, that's because you're looking at a newspaper.

Anyway, as I said. You have a beef with the Federal Reserve.

> why are retail accounts in germany, netherland already negative rates?

Public policy, as effected by the European Central Bank. Perhaps you have a beef with them too.

> does that make sense to you?

I mean, it makes sense as in "I understand why they do it", not as in "I think this is a great thing".

> can banks make money that way?

I've read that low interest rates do, in fact, squeeze their profits, though with regards to Germany the "three-pillar" system is crufty and weird and squeezes profits too. For instance, here is this lovely article I saw a while back, whose subhead notes "Low interest rates and the three-pillar system squish profits": https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/03/02/c...

> danger of nationalization of banking?

I'm not sure what you're talking about any more. It seems very detached from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or European equivalent.
First, thank you for the tip. I'd tried this a while back and it didn't work; I didn't realize you needed the --user flag! That said, one nitpick:

> any app

I was not able to uninstall the Samsung Pay Framework (com.samsung.android.spayfw) with this method; it hangs forever. Trying to uninstall via the gui tells me that it cannot be uninstalled since it is required by the device administrator. Going to the device administrator screen shows nothing enabled, so I cannot disable whatever is preventing the uninstall.
Not predicting a downfall but just to give you some perspective: 80% of Google's revenue is from advertising. They only disclose net income for three very wide segments: Services, cloud and other bets. Only three services - that is search, youtube and google play - are profitable. GCP, maps, Chromebooks, Waymo, G Suite (that includes Gmail, Drive, etc) are a net loss.
Have you ever spent 10min of your life with a doctor in an interpersonal setting? These people are probably the most intelectually insecure group in our society. We put them on a pedestal non-stop, the average grades in their classes are all A+, super-high wages and status, etc. From my point of view, this behaviour fits my expectation of them.
Teaching neural networks to compress images
But all those things are just vectors for gathering personal data and serving ads.
Show HN: Figma SaaS Wireframe Kit purposed for complex, data-driven interfaces
> She says she didn't publish this model for glory, but she also named it after herself.

Aren't many Nobel Prizes in Economics done like that? Take some well-known math/physics formula, rename variables to make them represent some economic quantities, name the resulting formula after oneself, publish, get the prize?
Sure, but inflation should be viewed as individual vectors.

Each vector corresponding to a delta of price and time in a generalized location for a specific good.

Something like the CPI cannot be a hard science as it refuses to acknowledge that each and every person will experience inflation based on the inflationary vectors of goods and services multiplied by a persons relative use of said goods and services.

Every person experiences a unique inflation rate, and to try and average that in something as wholly simplistic as a basket of goods is pure chicanery aimed at making this topic intractable.
Calculus is not mandatory for high school graduation in many places, but I would shocked if it was not mandatory for university admission in any science based discipline.
My son only plays same 3 games but I have to get the Plus for the online features. I think you are lucky if you enjoy 20% of the games on the Plus offer that you do not already own.
If they really want my money each month then OK, fine but let me chose(put my money in the wallet and I buy what I want or put a giant list of games so I have some kind of choice).
Also for people that put their life savings as downpayment on an overpriced house.
Yes, I intend the site to have an entire "Data Fetching and Caching" section that would cover things like:

- Common tools for making AJAX calls (`fetch`, `axios`, self-written wrappers around `fetch`, and when to use any of those)

- Info on things like REST and GraphQL as common backend API types

- Libraries like React Query, SWR, Apollo, and Urql as common data fetching abstractions, and their use cases

Tanner Linsley, author of React Query, has already said that he's happy to write a page on when it makes sense to use React Query [0]

I suppose we'd probably want to end up having info on things like Firebase and Hasura too - maybe those would be better suited for a "Backends" section? Like I said in my sibling comment, right now I'm just trying to kickstart the idea of this site, get it off the ground, and get others in the community involved in making it a reality :)

[0] https://twitter.com/tannerlinsley/status/1368600315432468482
Youtube and chrome are still largely dominating their market. Can you expand on those?
The concept of inflation is an attempt to measure price increases that are due to general monetary factors, as opposed to price increases that are due to market forces in specific industries. It’s fair to try and measure the practical household budget of a typical family, and many governments do, but calling this measurement “inflation” tends to mislead people into thinking that any increase must be because there’s an oversupply of money.
Interesting write up. I've written zero Rust and only a few toy examples in Zig. I do write quite a bit of straight C on microcontrollers.

"...every time I use Rust on a new project, I run into some issue that forces me to confront a new corner of the language/ecosystem."

This was the tour de force comment for me. This is how I feel about web programming, Swift, growingly so about Kotlin. I figure you can use Rust as a mutable variable for many of the "new languages" for developers to use.

We didn't have time to write you a short language, so we wrote you a complex one instead. Reminds of laws in Congress these days.
I'm seeing it on the other side of the economic spectrum: rich people building vacation houses on green fields. Other than Texas, North America has a very dependable grid. But if your new house is more than a couple hundred meters from that grid an overkill solar solution will probably be cheaper than connection cost. So new vacation homes in the woods/mountains/coastline are installing solar for purely economic reasons.
Switzerland isn't a great example; they're on friendly enough terms with the EU their air force had 8-5 office hours until a few years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/feb/19/swis...

Israel is... not in a comparable "surrounded by friendly democracies" scenario.
It’s not better on a computer. Tiny grey text on a dark background, without padding (touching the edges of the browser’s window unless I make it wider).
AFAIK, it was Lisp that pioneered multiple dispatch

Cf. CommonLoops, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonLoops
Impressive agreement given the historical.. tensions between these nations.
People who think fossil fuels == making your personal automobile go vroom are willfully ignorant. Good luck growing food, transporting it to where you live, manufacturing pretty much anything or heating your home with an electric car.
Well certainly not, you don't have enough castles. (And where would you get the coconuts?)
I do not think this is the correct view. Google is an ad company and they are constantly improving that part of business. They are not standing still in that space. And, sadly for us, Gmail, Android, Chrome and YouTube are critical pieces for ads business.

Yeah, they spend some money to build random things but that is just that lay people have illusion that Google is not an ad company - ie they are inventing something.

In short, releasing these products is necessary so that there is a perception that Google is not an ad company.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the future.

Post-COVID, I can see a situation where this may be something with a demand:

1. remote work for people that live far outside big cities, but have clients/work in a city or in another suburb of a city (in the DC region, there is a lot of suburb-suburb commutes). Or people looking to rent a meeting room for a morning/day.

2. small, seasonal audience of parents with kids going to summer camps. Parents that may work for home may send kids into a city for unique summer camps. Parents may wish to rent an office rather than "camp out" at a Starbucks for ~6-7 hours a day. I don't know how big of a segment this is, or price point.
Why is it awesome? I don't think European countries should share energy grids with countries that does not respect human rights such as Israel and Russia.
In what concerns my use cases, Java and .NET languages can make use of the same GPGPU libraries just as well.

I follow Python and Julia more as language geek than anything else.

Specially since ecosystems like CUDA have been polyglot since the early days.
Yes, writing pre-1.0 Julia code was like balancing on a log in the water - the platform kept moving under you :D I'm glad it's gotten a lot stabler now.

And I agree about academics as a key user base. I think Julia's growth is far from over, there's a lot of organic spread yet to come. It may never replace Python in terms of global popularity, but then, why should it have to?
The Invention of the Test Tube