skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made me chuckle too. In Montreal or Frankfurt the question would be "Why would you have lunch without your favourite beverage"?

The Puritans influence seems to have a long reach. (?)
https://www.youtube.com/user/t05742hh/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/PPPeter1/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/pervognsen/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj_2_t-iugOjrhv4XUwVFYg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWbqlDAyJh2n8DN5X6NZyg/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/MindvalleyTalks/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYzVCmNxrshH4_bPO_-Y-A/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/user/videoinfluencers/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKgpamMlm872zkGDcBJHYDg/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/BeInspiredChannel/videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vfts4VzfNiI1BsIK5u7...

https://www.youtube.com/c/cnethowto/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/SuccessinTech/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/fobia405/videos
Instagram is killing my start up
1 month ago our business was sound. We had an Instagram with over 37.000 people that was driving over 100.000USD/y revenues to our website.

Then we used a program to analyze our followers (https://www.instagramhelpertools.com/).

Before using this service we checked reviews and all looked good.

Our surprise was that after using this service Instagram blocked our account arguing that we were a bot.

We contacted them and followed their procedure to demonstrate we are human beings, nobody answered.

We tried for over a month, and finally they told us our account had been permanently deleted.

Instagram cancelled our account because they thought we were a bot, but paradoxically we could never talk with a human from their side to explain the situation.

End result: we have lost our main sales channel from one day to the other.

This is the power of the big guys.
You pay less with plus for most of the games. Like I paid $60 for the PS4 Final Fantasy 7 remake, when I could have waited and paid what works out to be $2. They threw it on PS plus. Like I literally at one point got 6 games a month from it, since they gave them away for ps3, ps4, and ps vita. You literally pay the cost of one AAA game to get access to 24 for a year or more.

If you think it's not a value, you're mistaken.
Now the question is, is he wrong? Or are you proving his point? If he is indeed correct your post could still be true seen with your eyes.
Education and healthcare have pathological cost growth in large part because they aren’t subject to ordinary market pressures (the consumers are either over a barrel and can’t say no or aren’t paying in the first place). We need to fix them but it would be a mistake to let those pathologies drive monetary policy.
There’s more too bootstrap so the IDE is slower. Plus setting the project up properly and so on. It’s not as simple as typing ‘$ code <dir>‘ and starting to write as the editor pops up instantly. People’s definition of fast and instant are different. There’s absolutely no way an IDE can start faster than a text editor, otherwise text editors wouldn’t exist.
The idea that large numbers of opposite sex are available for casual sex is a modern idea. Not hard to see how that leads to lots of unwanted and harmful sexual attention.
Pretty sure (couldn’t read most of the article, paywall) this is talking about worldwide though. (First word of the article is “Global”)
How did you acquire your first customers?
Apples and oranges. It's been 2200 years since Jews and Greeks last fought, and both sides aim to keep it that way.

Israel has 0 island-hopping capabilities compared to Greece's ability to patrol its Aegean waters.
And decades of progressive values in action that argue why it is not in fact bullshit.
As a DC interconnect, does this mean their respective grids will not be synchronized?
> to the inability to do otherwise trivial stuff in python

Like what?

> or the huge bottleneck of unpacking (star operator in python)

In what sense is unpacking a bottleneck?
See also, a post from mid-2020 that does something similar with a "softened" Life: http://hardmath123.github.io/conways-gradient.html
The further back you go the more good games. When you see destiny as game of the year you think man that must have been a shitty year
Not peak, since someone will eventually buy the NFT for this HN comment.
Israel also needs to make peace with Lebanon, a country they have invaded 5 times.
HVDC cables are very efficient physically. Haven't dived into this cable's details yet, but you can push 1.5GW over two conductors roughly 5" in diameter each.
The platform would not then pay a % fee on loans it issues. They would only pay the subscription fees and any fees for using services through the API.
>> Food prices are usually few percent (6-18% in the western countries) of total household expenses.

Maybe for rich people. If you have an income of 2000/month, with the first 1000 or so going to rent, food is likely your second largest expense.
The US gov definetely hasn't been hacking everyone in the world until right now, we only do it in retaliation. /s
Saltwater specifically, or just in practice?
Your complaint about the Fed was right in the last decade.

But something seems to have changed for the better when they changed to average inflation targeting recently.
I read your whole comment and am very interested in seeing a source for how Bezos earned $60 billion last year as private taxable income. The fact that amazon (not even Bezos) re-invests a large part of the corporate income has nothing to do with distorting the US GDP per capita, as you claim. I would like to see a more solid argument.
The first statement is, sadly, no longer true today. Far too many times after a redesign, RSS feeds that were useful and functional just disappear. Sometimes they're redirected to a new feed location that doesn't have all the content the old feed did, or just has headlines instead of headlines and teasers.

And many new sites never test RSS functionality, so if there is a feed, it just shows posts tagged 'feed' or something like that.
I don't want to get into the rest of your argument, but just wanted to say that based on my reading of history, pretty much all of the borders on Earth "were a colonization project from the start".
OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes
Would it not be fair to say that different subpopulations experience different effective inflation rates because they buy different things?

Seriously, would it? I’m not an economist. I am aware of RPI/CPI, and inflation is measured independently in different countries within the Eurozone, so it’s not like we can’t have multiple measures for different purposes or populations.
The food inflation number was isolated in the article to be around 3%.

Much of that increase can be traced back to increased shipping costs during COVID lockdown.

Monetary policy isn’t the only or even the primary driver of inflation. In this case, the inflation comes from increases demand on a portion of the food supply chain (shipping services).

The alarmism in the comment section largely comes from people misreading the headline. The article is about soaring food costs in developing nations, but the comment section is treating the headline as if it’s about US food prices.
TaaS – Team as a Service
I think it goes far beyond that. It also seem to make person look more interesting and intelligent. Making up two characters and talking simultaneously as one person and two hands is like a strike of genius. Or craziness. Either way it will attract attention
I'd love to find a "bottom up" description of a language like TLA+. Start from the appropriate primitive (SAT solver? SMT solver?), show how to encode an example model directly, add layers of syntax etc as necessary for more complex examples.

I've watched all of Lamport's lectures but it really leaves me wondering what's happening under the hood: what are the primitives and how are TLA+ models mapped onto them.

(Lamport likes to say that TLA+ is just mathematics and imply that the engine underneath is not relevant but c'mon.)
$MSTR is one.
Much the same could be said about America, Australia or New Zealand - or in older days the expansion of the First Calpihate - but time and humanity blithely blunders on regardless of critics' mores.
Or an Element chat? I would not sign up with that service because of their sketchy privacy setup.
Julia has its own notebook that solves the issues you mention with Jupyter: https://lwn.net/Articles/835930/.

With Pluto there is no hidden global state, everything is deterministic, and the notebooks are Julia files, so version control is as natural as when writing straight jl programs.
From my own point of view, I've entirely abandoned and forgotten about the existence of 3 podcasts that went Spotify only. The app on both iOS and windows is a terrible implementation of podcasts, appears broken and is lacking tons of features.

I have a podcast app (Overcast) which I use for everything, and nothing that I can't subscribe to in that will ever get my ears.
I think destiny is probably an outlier
1.8% (housing) and 3% (food) are dramatic increases to you?

You would not have liked the 80s.
Not yet, although the UK is coming up soon for Lendflow. EU will be a bit later but is on the way as well.
Okay this brings us to an interesting point. Let's say someone committed a crime. And we take another innocent person, we swap their bodies from the neck. Which one would you punish?
I love building desktop applications but they come with their own set of complications related to installation and DLL-hell.
Open Product Recipe
Israel has a navy, and nuclear-fitted subs allegedly.
Wow! I read "Malala's Magic Pencil" to my kids and it's kind of crazy (in an awesome way) to think about that leap from the child in the book to this.
1) If the expectation is there it's because the expected value of the utilities for a probability distribution over outcomes allows for an ordering of the available choices which is consistent with the preferences over outcomes. Is that true for any other among that infinity of ways of producing a summary?

3) Ok. Some people seem to think that EE disproves EUT somehow, though. That's the context of the comment your reply to.
Why? The very fact that they are engaging in usurious loans is a sign of incompetence. Who ends up paying for it? The hard working people trying to save money.
What is a PED? You mean performance-enhancing drugs?

I wanted to read the article you linked to, but seems like they have a region lock for EU countries. Its been what, nearly three years since GDPR took effect?

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
> CPI is absurd, it only perpetuates consumerism and punishes savers.

Okay okay back up.

The consumer price index is a series of numbers designed to help people understand what dollar-denominated figures mean to ordinary people going about their lives, spending those dollars. If that's "consumerism," well yes, it's a portrait of consumerism.

Many economists, mind you, believe CPI doesn't correct quite enough, and suspect that it overstates the inflation it hopes to measure by around 1%. This is because it tracks the actual prices of a certain "market basket" of goods with specific products in it, and that basket gets out of date, as people substitute products.

But if someone's "punishing savers" and "perpetuating consumerism", it's not the index, and it's not the people compiling the index, and it's not the people trying to make the index more accurate by adjusting for quality. Assign the blame where it's due. You have a beef with the Federal Reserve, and possibly with other agencies or laws which refer to the CPI to make policy.
If a society punishes people for blowing the whistle, then perhaps that society should reassess priorities and realities. Why should I blame any person for choosing their own lives in a society that would see them punished for doing otherwise? People respond to incentives and as a consequence of this the blame should be placed on the cause of those incentives.
Maybe that's where the almost comes from.
Lubos Lenco the author behind this is something of a one man army. They also write Armory 3D a game engine that integrates with Blender
https://armory3d.org/

Fun fact, ArmorPaint is written in haxe which is still a relatively niche language but well worth a look into for building cross-platform apps
It's a combination of interest as well as printing money. Interest keeps the deficit growing, forcing the government to print money. If we switch to a non-inflationary currency not at the control of a single entity, these wouldn't happen.
It's extremely context-dependent in other ways as well. For example, I get this with my brother and used to get it with my mother on the phone but not otherwise. They just hate to hang up. And yes, it became truly comical on calls between the two of them. I get a similar thing in online chats with most people. I get it with my wife, in person, on certain topics but not otherwise. If she starts talking about COVID statistics, I know I'm stuck for at least ten minutes unless I'm willing to have her pissed at me the rest of the day for cutting it short. Topic, medium, relationship, and even external context all affect this.

The question I would ask here is: why would we expect people to want to end a conversation at the same time? The article presents this as some sort of failed communication, but maybe an exact match is just naturally unlikely.
Editor War (Vim vs. Emacs)
Is this a viewpoint special for Israel or does it also cover other countries with, let's say, complicated politics? Without comparing Russia, China, North Korea, Syria comes to mind.
The HEALPix Primer
Next year on the blockchain!
Unlike the situation with paid media and adblocking, for games, the big boys were usually profitable aside from the occasional flop which was mostly related to bad games or aggressive monetisation. There are probably more examples of games killed by aggressive financial models in the recent past than by piracy.

Consequently there's a lot less sympathy for "We're not making enough money" verus "We're losing money".
of course Mr. Selgin is influenced by Hayek, probably worth a read. thanks for sharing
There isn't generally a common problem with people being coerced into programming or into serving coffee against their will. There is a common problem with people being coerced into sex.
Well, yes, but if you need a citation for Gaussian elimination, the problem is yours, not anyone else's.
Oh hey, I literally just wrote this page yesterday :)

For background, I've had to repeatedly spend time answering questions all over that really boil down to people not knowing what problems specific tools solve and when it _might_ make sense to use those tools (like, say, "Redux vs Context" [0]).

The React team has kept the React docs and their advice focused on just using React itself, and avoided making recommendations or documenting tools and practices in the ecosystem. While they are in the middle of rewriting the React docs from scratch [1], as far as I know the new React docs still won't try to address things like "here's common tools in the ecosystem".

So, I decided it was time to do something about this [2]. My goal is that this would be a moderately opinionated and curated site where people can see a list of tools and practices in various categories like "state management", "styling", "build tools", and so on, and read descriptions of "what is this tool, what problems does it solve, and when should I consider using it". I _don't_ want to turn it into arguments over "TOOL X IS BETTER THAN TOOL Y!". I _do_ want to get experts from the community involved in writing these pages, like having the maintainers of libraries like Mobx and XState write pages on when their own libraries should be used, as well as when it makes sense to use React component state instead.

Yesterday I sat down for a few hours and hammered out a quick draft of the first couple pages for the site - this "State Management Overview" page, and a description of Redux and its use cases [3].

This is absolutely a first draft, and I hope to get the rest of the community involved in building this out! I just wanted to get _something_ written and live as a starting point for discussion and to kickstart the project.

*edit*

Okay, seriously, let me reiterate:

THIS IS A FIRST DRAFT THAT I JUST THREW TOGETHER IN A FEW HOURS.

I haven't even had a chance to go back and add more material to this "State Management Overview" page, like some of the info and resources I dug up yesterday [4].

That said, I _do_ want to get the React community involved in fleshing out the categories and material on this site!

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2021/01/context-redux-diff...

[1] https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/3308

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-community-tools-practic...

[3] https://react-community-tools-practices-cheatsheet.netlify.a...

[4] https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1368716112469299200
This is not related to taxes as far as I understand. I's just that for legacy magnetic stripe payments, there is no dynamic element to the transaction data, which in practice allows the customer to swipe while the cashier is still ringing up items.

Accordingly, this is what customers have become used to, and this assumption has been further baked into POS software.

Rather than forcing all POS vendors and customers to change this habit, the EMV standard was relaxed for the US (and a few other markets where this is common) to not necessarily include the final transaction amount in the payment data signed by the chip.
I don't think emotions or feelings define identity. You could cut your leg off and be in immense pain, doesn't mean your identity changed.

The brain is still the same old brain just responding to changed input with appropriate output.
Those weren't Intel fails - no CPU manufacturer had any kind of generic rule against that sort of microarchitectural optimisation and it's hard to imagine what sort of rule would have blocked such optimisations by policy which wouldn't also rule out all speculative execution. The only reason AMD wasn't hit by Meltdown too is their cores are/were less optimised.
Looks nice but does the "pay what you want" model actually work?

I just can see a lot of people not paying at all because people usually don't care enough.
Your Market Place reference is about "the biggest tech companies." There is work outside of FAANG, and, in my experience, a fair bit of it. As you point out, the work isn't "sexy," but, truth be told, many of us don't do "sexy work" day in and day out.

You are also assuming that every entry level software development position is grueling and low paying. I understand that some companies treat younger employees are disposable (even my own employer, who hires younger/less experienced devs as operations support, which assumes lots of crappy work), but I don't think that's the case in every entry level position.
That would involve confronting the end of the podcast, which is the sort of emotional thing that people typically procrastinate on.

It's hard for us to visualize since having such an audience sounds like a responsibility we'd take seriously. But to Grey it's just a small income stream on the side. He doesn't have an actual relationship with the members of the audience, even if the audience might believe otherwise.

I'm not saying you're wrong, just that considering the change of perspective is an interesting exercise.
Important to remember but not quite the same as colonizing a region in the 20th century. This isn’t the distant past, it’s actively happening.
"But TVs are cheaper!"

I guess my TV is a good emergency snack for when I can't afford food.
Not just you, but for me it happened when I tried to read the conclusion. Also Firefox.
Non-Keynesian economists, like the neo-classicals for example or the market monetarists or even the more serious of the Austrians, don't disagree here.
Have a look at https://www.gog.com/. I only buy new games from them. You can download the whole package to store offline and play in a few years without needing to "login" or being online
I think people love to look at the products they've discontinued, and they have discontinued a lot, but they fail to point out all the products that have stuck around. I think it's likely a result of a company trying a lot of things rather than a company that can't focus like the author implies. People don't talk about Facebooks failed products like email, dating, phone, beacon, portal etc.
The cables are extremely relevant: it is far harder to protect hundreds of kilometres of underwater cable, of which any part can be cut by a difficult to detect submarine, than it is to protect power plants.
> What would this language have that Rust doesn't? I don't know Julia.

Multiple dispatch, homoiconicity (well... more specifically, the ability to generate dependently typed functions at runtime, which is useful for custom matrix routines)

> Garbage collection is great and not even "slow" (see OCaml)

I did HPC work in Julia, and garbage collection was quite a pain. Most of my debugging time was spent figuring out where tiny memory allocations were occurring in for loops. IMO, Julia is as fast or faster than C/C++ provided you don't unintentionally allocate memory in performance critical parts of your code. I ended up eventually just passing preallocated chunks of memory into functions, but then I had to keep track of all that.
You open the ZIM file as if it was an eBook, then you can use the search feature within it.

Example: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=276219
> writing a shell script in C and calling GCC on every invocation. You can't expect good performance from that

Of course you can. Have you ever used the "-run" option of the TCC compiler? It's blazingly fast. With gcc it's a bit slower, but still orders of magnitude faster than julia. You can use pre-compiled libraries and the linking to your freshly compiled code is extremely fast. The fact is that compiling and linking C code is much faster that just launching the Julia environment with some packages. There's no fundamental reason for that enormous disparity in running time. I agree that it is a completely irrelevant nuisance for most people; but still, for some workflows not blessed by the Julia developers, it is the main point of friction.

EDIT: if you want to try it yourself, write the following text into a .c file, chmod +x it, and you can run it like a C script on most unix systems:

//usr/bin/gcc -O0 "$0" -lpng && exec ./a.out "$@"
#include <png.h>
int main(int c, char *v[])
{
// do stuff with png images
return 0;
}
Well, tell that to World of Science, or Scopus, or the h-index.
So, if this article actually showed me how writing modular testable code slowed down their application, and how they fixed it, that would be really interesting.
Turkey should not invade foreign countries, then they can talk about peace.
Another example of dehydrating for shirtless shots - Henry Cavill talks about doing just that for The Witcher in an interview on the Graham Norton Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne5xD5XrzOc
Those things can be optimized, but the payoff for that optimization is pretty low.