skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In something so long and meandering, that's not a surprise. I also stopped readng before it got any further; to be compelling it needs to be a lot shorter - there is not that much content in it!
If your cash position is a one-time thing that’s fine I guess, but if you’ve been saying that for a few years (most people in that position do, not saying it’s you) then you’ve been losing a lot.

I’ve been constantly invested in index funds for 10+ years, never sold a position, including before/after March 2020. Some positions I have are up more than 200%. A crash of 50% won’t do me too much damage, I’ll still be way, way far ahead of the many friends I have who have been in cash since 2015, repeating your same “a correction is likely, I’ll wait for the bottom to get in”.
This.

It's not hard. I got a copy of DEC VAX/VMS running inside SimH a decade ago, in one evening's work.
Is your argument that the ethnic conflict and genocide in several former Yugoslav republics in the 1990s was caused by an education system indoctrinating people with anti-racist attitudes?

I didn't grow up in Yugoslavia, so please elaborate a bit how that worked, because I don't understand.
Hint for commenters: Since Fortran 90, it's spelled Fortran, not FORTRAN. By using the latter you signal that your experience on the topic is from 30 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90
From reading through this seems like the answer is basically the same as why any investment plan runs into trouble -- poor returns and liquidity issues. Which must have been especially problematic as a pitch for raising new capital when literally every other part of the market is skyrocketing.

The question of how valid the standard VC model is is an interesting discussion and I'm interested in it. But it's not totally clear to what extent this model was able to really do a valid A/B test of an alternate approach.

It seems like they threw a lot of ideas in at the same time (alternate business models, alternate financing terms, etc) and I wonder if they might have been better off taking the standard VC approach and just tweaking one big thing to have a better shot at making things work.
And like in everything C, unlike Fortran, there is no way for the compiler to validate if restrict is being used properly.

Use it wrong, break the compiler assumptions and the bug hunting fun starts.
Sure. This dude isn't one of them though.

And as the cosplaying freedom fighters found out in January, reality is different from q-fantasy.
I studied NLP in Prague, and we tend to use "dependency grammars" more than "phrase structure grammars" of Chomsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_grammar

I didn't work in the field at all after finishing the studies, so I cannot really tell you any actual implications of the different grammar approach anymore.
Some people argue that too much liquidity can lead to greater boom-bust cycles.

Economics reminds me of Software Engineering a bit, where smart people on two sides can argue opposite cases and both sound reasonable!
I am on Arch + Gnome for 3 years now and tried Wayland again this year and experienced too many broken things (Screen.so screensharing, Fireshot screencapture, I think CopyQ clipboard manager too) and had to switch back to X11. This article shows it is still not ready for the masses, yet.
Hi everyone! This is a 3 year old project and I’m thrilled, that it got lots of traction today.

Unfortunately I had to take it offline, as the free tier of mapbox has exceeded and the API calls we need for the reverse geocoding are super expensive.

Any ideas for an alternative are very welcome!

Best
@fabfuel
I always find it odd how Europe is used as an example of gun control success. Especially when it comes to the issue of oppressive governments.

World War 2 happened less than a century ago. During Weimar and the 1930s, pretty strict gun laws were put in place.
Peripheral support is an issue too. I managed to fiddle around and get my g27 wheel working in most games, more or less, but my TrackIR was basically worthless (it could kind of emulate a mouse, but that just gives you the xy position, not proper head tracking).
Angry porn for wagey simps from garbage news sites. Next.
Why dont you find something real and systemic to get outraged at like hedgefunders, milotary industrial complex, or the fda.
Ah, I think I get it: The problem in advancing MOND is to come up with a proper theory of gravity that is compatible with all the evidence supporting GR and which gives rise to the dynamics as hypothesized in MOND to explain the observed anomalies?

If that's the point then I agree, but isn't MOND having some difficulty coming up with a single dynamics that works in all cases?

Meanwhile, dark matter is having some difficulty in finding a particle that works at all.
Is `2.days.ago` a beautiful way of expressing a relative date?
Not having training could be worse in many cases and you end up injuring yourself or loved ones in a situation thats not supposed to be dangerous, ex. Showing it off, cleaning, just having it where children are concerned, etc.
Comparing across generations is not valid as times and perceptions and social values change. What didn’t work in the past may work in the future.

I’m not ignoring the nature of the drug trade. I’m claiming that the drug trade and drug smuggling are not apt comparisons to illegal gun manufacturing and smuggling. I don’t have any other claims. The argument that making guns illegal can’t work because it didn’t work for drugs is a dumb one.
That's 4s could mean much safer highway merging. Especially from those on-ramps with stop light to control merge flow.
Grass-fed beef is advertised that way primarily for nutritional and taste claims and to support/explain the higher prices charged.
> To arbitrarily exclude the biggest expense to consumers from CPI is pretty misleading.

They are not excluded, why do people keep parroting this?
To paraphrase:

Every team, every project, every individual is different, and may need productivity measured in different ways. We've captured a bunch of different ways to measure into several paragraphs, and think you should use this information to capture all those different measures of productivity while accounting for each unique circumstance you have.

In my opinion:

OK, I'm not management. I'm a developer who wants to "get in flow" and be productive. To contribute while improving my skills. Some of us are "engineers" in mindset, that is, we seek efficiency and optimization. Humans are, of course, notoriously difficult to optimize for. As a team with a project, you should have meaningful goals - this project saves time/money, reduces mistakes/friction/churn, uses up valuable resources in less quantity than the other valuable resources it ends up generating. At some level you want to dig in and optimize; that is, make sure your team has the clarity, tools and ideally, motivation to accomplish the goals you set for your project. And as human resources manager, you might see developers as tiny ROI projects where you want to pinpoint how much Return that particular Investment is giving you. It's at this point that I might say "good luck." I mean, yes, having bad members on a team isn't great, so don't throw your hands in the air and do nothing.

On a sufficiently small team, where leadership understands enough about the work being done (productivity) and how the team works together and contributes, shouldn't it be reasonably apparent who is and who is not a solid contributor? As an individual contributor, I usually believe I end up with a pretty insightful view into who contributes well, and who blows smoke at each meeting while contributing poorly.

Of course, at small organizations, no one dares promote me beyond my level of competence, because my contributions are too valuable. At a larger organization, I would likely be promoted, and maybe for a brief moment, I'd retain my grasp on the contributions of the team I manage, but before long, I'd be swept away into an endless stream of meetings with basically everyone except my team, and I'd have lost my ability to see into that world quite so well. I'd start to hate it and only seek higher titles and compensation but I'd have lost the will to meaningfully contribute.

If I have any point in this, I think teams succeed when individuals succeed, and that happens when you remember they are humans, they want to succeed, and if you listen to their requests, make sure they know what they need to and are not resource-restrained to the point of being unable to succeed, they will probably be happy to contribute. You can always have bad seeds, but going into it with a mindset of measuring, managing and optimizing humans is probably setting yourself up for failure.
There’s more to life than fuel economy and emissions. One trip of a bulk freighter carrying wood chips to be made into toilet paper produces more emissions than hundreds of thousands of people driving their cars all year long. If you decide that you want increased fuel economy and better emissions, well that’s your choice. As for me I will purchase things I don’t have to throw away. New cars are actually pretty shitty compared to ones from a couple decades ago, this is common knowledge among auto enthusiasts.
> Shades of excuses #1, #2, and #3 from jwz's "nomo zilla" are pretty appropriate here as well.

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html

edit: JWZ doesn't like HN, copy and paste the link
I fear the eventual and inevitable cryptokitties integration.
> main implies that one branch is more important than the others. This could be offending to some.

What if one branch is actually more important than others? What about weighted graphs? Stochastic dominance? You can't blindly project social concepts on math/computing science, it's a blind alley.
Further, if guns were banned tomorrow, there are a significant number of people who would instantly become criminals.

It feels like many who advocate banning guns severely underestimate the importance of the issue to the other side.
The fact that gold and silver’s value is really just as arbitrarily assigned as the value of anything else is usually also overlooked.
if guns are illegal their cost will go up. the cost of the weapon itself, plus the fee for smuggling obvious contraband. It will also be much easier to spot and arrest people carrying guns, as there will be no legal concealed carry permits. There are hundreds of millions of guns in the US, people will always be able to get them. but illegalization will make it more of a pain in the ass

The overwhelming majority of Americans, I'd guess over 90%, do not live in places where they need firearms to protect them from wild animals. Why should hundreds die from gun violence in cities every year because of the off chance that someone in Alaska will encounter a bear?
The size of the cake is not constant. It grows over time. We are much richer now than we were in the past.
What do you mean by "SELinux on-demand tools"?
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> Seems like people aren't thinking very well these days.

They are thinking that they want to control all content online, that's all.

They just aren't going to tell you that.
Are you sure they’re the same people? A good number of leftists are advocates for gun ownership with training and also support legalization of drugs. Liberals generally don’t support drug legalization, but guns and drugs really aren’t the same thing and the reasons aren’t the same either.
A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand (2016)
I wonder how safe Tulsa skyscrapers are now with all of the earthquakes Oklahoma is experiencing.
When you have money backed by gold, those who have it benefit from its appreciation. Same is true of any deflationary currency.

Wealth tends to flow uphill. Even in Communism the politically connected realized that wealth in that system was political capital and learned to position themselves to accumulate it. There is a reason the USSR collapsed and gave way to one of the most aristocratic states in the world.

I don’t discount that site though. A lot more happened in or around the early 70s than just the collapse of Bretton Woods.

I also don’t dismiss your comment as untrue. A fair inflationary currency would almost literally drop money from helicopters, not issue it to banks and governments. Still I imagine over time people would learn how to chase the helicopters.

All systems will be gamed. No exceptions.
The ME is 32 bit x86. Linux support there is pretty weak these days. I don't know that Intel has a lot of good choices.
All money is backed by nothing. The idea that the gold standard was pegged to some eternal constant of nature is a fantasy.
Communists hate historical evidence that their theories are ruinous.
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re:ydotool. More than risks, I would say the author constantly changing things without testing and breaking the tool is what made me stop using it. I wrote my own version using evdev and never looked back.
> * Pushing for religious toleration.

Those who want to learn more about Cromwell's "push for religious toleration" might want to start by picking up God's Executioner by Micheal O Siochru. I won't spoil it. ahem
For all the first time clickers to the above website, you probably want to copy and paste the link rather than clicking.
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No - the post carefully lays out that client devices _also_ are dependent on anon page cache.

Additionally, TFA has massive impressively statistics for client-side devices, as a cousin comment notes.
I'm curious, which framework are you using?
The alternative possible explanation, which is never mentioned, is the advent of electronic automation, and out-sourcing of labour.
Yeah that is true. Maybe I'll just say that the size of the cake (economy) grows but is fairly independent of how you slice the cake. So printing money doesn't increase the size of the economy.
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Those numbers are, almost certainly, all within the US (or spun to include things other than gun violence in "crimes", perhaps?). Because the data globally points the other direction. The overwhelmingly largest factor, across every nation we have data for, in determining how many people get shot is how many guns there are, period. More guns means more shootings.

Again, I don't see how an argument that "crime change as a result of change to gun laws tend to be tiny" can be anything but laughable given data points like "Japan" or "Belgium".
The minimum wage is universally zero.

Government-mandated minimum wage is effective price control, which never works. It has the effect of taking people who are not qualified to produce enough value to justify the minimum wage out of the job market. It's a mechanism to keep poor people poor.

CPI barely reflects the actual inflation of the currency. Whatever it doesn't cover in its calculation tends to get overinflated. The government designs the CPI to be low in comparison to "real" monetary inflation so that it can get away with printing more money.
Windows app firewalls had similar problems, most common was to use explorer.exe
Thanks for the good points. I am actually not opposed to healthy discussion and clearly outlining goals. It's great to come to specifics where both parties agree on the goal.

What's childish is discussing "specifics" which turn out not to be and now I have to ask my manager, "Why did I kill myself to do what you asked?". This is reneging on goal itself and not the means.

Now, every 1:1 I have to hand hold this manager and make them say out loud how my work satisfies his own bullshit criteria and remind him of the goals.

I chuckle because this is how I've seen parents deal with 3 yr olds.
> Isn't ATRAC SP mode above 250 kbit/s?

It can go up to 352kbps as Sonic Stage tells me. Will transfer one album to my MD player to see how it converts it to ATRAC. SonicStage rips your CDs to ATRAC3 Advanced Lossless by default and re-converts them to appropriate format for your device during "burning" it to your MD player. I'll use the files transferred to MD for ABX test.

> How's your high end hearing? It tends to go once you're not a teen…

I assume it's not bad. Can hear pretty silent stuff pretty well, including very high pitched adapter noise (not the capacitor whine, but the switching noise of the adapter itself, the one supposedly bothers dogs).
Let's go easy on the teachers. They have to pretend to love these kids, despite having their lower-caste status rubbed in their faces all day long.
Well the reason that we would build the one 3 bn telescope, rather than 10 100-200 m telescopes, is because they can tell you fundamentally different things about the Universe.

In many ways, to move forward, we must go bigger with the tech, not wider. What you are essentially suggesting is a survey - we already have instruments and telescopes to do exactly that, with new ones coming online soon (see the LSST). Deep observations like Hubble was meant to do can actually be done better from the ground now (e.g. the VLT, ELT, etc.). As such, focus has shifted to those for optical observations.

The community at large, however, has decided where it would like to spend its budget. That was on Webb for the IR wavebands, to study so-called 'high redshift' objects that Hubble struggles to see, and leave the more detailed imaging to those ground based observatories.

Look, I would love another Hubble. That would be really useful! And that's why WFIRST exists. But an in-place replacement doesn't make sense. The tech on Hubble (not necessarily the mirror, but the _instruments_, the spectrographs, the interferometers) is really old. You can't take an off-the-shelf component, because it needs to be built to withstand space. So you need to create a one-off, 'prototype', space-hardened instrument. It is also not a case of worrying about them 'failing', but you also must worry about them slowly drifting out of a calibrated range. On the ground, you could fix the instrument, or re-calibrate it. That's not possible in space. That's not a 'random' style error, where we can get out of it by upping the number of them - they are systematic, so all 10 of your proposed telescopes would be ruined.
My initial reply was unconstructive because I couldn't think of coherent response at the moment so I threw absurdity at absurdity.

Here is a hopefully more constructive critique.

If piracy is theft. Then I have a linguistic problem.

If a thief steals my bike I lost my bike. If, in your view, it is also okay to say "a thief stole my content" then I suddenly lack the vocabulary to differentiate between the two.

Even though the consequences in the first case are physical, measurable, immediate. And in the latter they are hypothetical, not measurable, and spread out over an indeterminate amount of time.

So before a discussion can even take place, we need more words.
It isn't. Gold/Silver are tangible stores of value. The value is imaginary but humans like to see and touch things and decorate their houses with shiny, and you can't paper your walls with government IOUs.

Which is why we don't have a gold/silver economy, but we do have a property and land economy which has taken its place.

These "investments" are based on a pile of almost-free fiat government IOUs. They have been converted into equally imaginary tangible value. You happen to be able to live in this store of value if you choose to, but at the high end hardly anyone does.

It's a form of imaginative arbitrage for high end abstract markets, just like gold/silver, cowrie shells, and big round rocks are. (And BTC, in its own way.)

Which is why at the high end economics is almost entirely faith-based. Fundamental use value is swamped almost instantly by an imaginary tradable value. And that is based entirely on faith in the stability and potential of the investment of your choice.

The consumer market is different because prices - including rentals - have some relationship to scarcity and use value. But there's still a large element which is faith-driven and subject to an irrational boom/bust cycle as faith and hope waver - partly driven by central bank and government signalling about future outcomes.
a deterrent from what? it's true that just flashing a gun can stop crime, but that happens no more commonly than stopping a crime by firing one. And in the majority of cases where someone simply brandishes a weapon it's pointed at someone who is undesirable or different and not actually a threat
OK. So what are the limiting principles for money creation? When does it shift from being a good thing to too much of a good thing?

This seems to be completely absent from the public debate.
>like everyone else

Believe it or not stereo systems are still frequently purchased even in 2021.
that's because there's no correct answer, and has more to do with the person's political bias or leanings, than sound science.
Thanks for pointing it out, edited my reply.
This is a strange fantasy that many gun supporters share with you that having a gun makes you a warrior. It is even bigger fantasy that a persistent resistance can exist in an isolated urban setting when under the control of an overwhelming well-organized, well-supplied, highly technological armed force that has no restrictions to be civilized or respect individual rights such as is the situation in Hong Kong. It is very nice that you all have this gun fetish and it keeps you happy, but guns can't substitute for sound institutions, social cohesion, and rule of law.
If that were the case, then it wouldn't be absolutely verboten for Democrats to support gun ownership. Maybe some smaller groups of leftists or libertarians are different, but they have little actual political relevance.
This is true, but humans aren't stupid. People's fight or flight instinct will kick in... one shot through the neck is enough to stop a capital rush.
My belief on the topic of increasingly extreme left social ideology in unexpected places (and hopefully this doesn't get me blacklisted or something, posting under my real name) is that the institutions of power in the US see Progressivism as an actual threat. They are giving ground in some spaces and even getting ahead of the curve in others as an act of self-preservation.

A giant corporation is happy to add one non-man and one BIPOC (ideally as a two-for-one) if that allows the power of the rest of the board to be preserved. They'll put all their employees through sensitivity training, celebrate every holiday and tweet anything you want if it has even a chance of keeping the minimum wage from getting increased. Prep schools for the elite will teach radical ideology if it keeps a target off their backs during education reform.

For people trying to move America towards a more liberal and just society: these institutions are not your allies. Do not be fooled by their language, their tokenism, the sincere people they hire as mascots. They're taking half your message and saying it back to you twice as loud to drown you out.
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