skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the case at all. All this "gold standart" stuff and BTCs claim is to preserve wealth and poor people by definition don't have wealth.

Let me tell you how poor's life looks like when things are alright: You have a job that is good enough to cover your rent, your food, your bills and the instalments of your phone and computer and you might put aside a little bit that at some time in the future you might use to pay the downpayment of an apartment or a car.

When there's a steep inflation, be it anything from Turkey level to Venezuela level inflation, your salary gets adjusted to sustain your lifestyle and you put your money in Gold/USD/EUR/GBP/AnythingMoreStable or property.

That's it. Poor don't get any poorer just because of inflation. If anything, if the inflation has accelerated the disposable amount of your salary increases in real terms since your loan payments remain the same most of the time. The lender usually incorporates this into the rates but every now and then the inflation can be beyond the expected and you may end up paying much less in real terms.

When the things are not alright, the inflation is irrelevant to you. Whatever little you have, you are going to spend it before any meaningful impact due inflation. Next time you get money, you will get more to match the increase in the prices.

How do I know? I have been there. I've seen an inflation where you cannot predict the price of the bread tomorrow and I have seen a stable inflation where you simply incorporate it into your calculation and you are fine. I've lived in 2 two countries that dropped 0's from their currency, one dropped 000, the other dropped 000,000.

The inflation bites when it is unstable and unpredictable. Then businesses cannot incorporate the inflation into their cash flow and the economy slows down due to risk and difficulties of doing business. That's when the poor are impacted hard because that's when they loose jobs and switch to "things are not alright" mode.
Uh, mere growth in asset prices is not a strong indicator of a bubble. How much would property prices have to decline for this asset class to no longer have supernormal returns for the past 20 years? Do you actually think that that's going to happen?
That change log is HUGE and it’s the main reason we don’t use systemd. Creeping featurism isn’t good in your OS when you need things to be consistent and work the same every time. Systemd has a lot of state.
James Webb space telescope is scheduled in 6 months and it has a 6.5m segmented mirror.
A 2m telescope is pretty much useless, it doesn’t have enough angular resolution and it’s smaller than HST current mirror.
Finger pointing doesn't help. Whataboutism doesn't help. It doesn't matter who is guilty. There are obviously multiple actors with different (but seemingly aligned) interests acting in concert and causing the problem. What what matters is where you can efficiently intervene in the process.

Telling every customer to change their habits (or just feel guilty) sounds good, probably has some effect but it's not enough. Controlling e.g. the much smaller number of producers is a lot simpler. Also, taxing the product (the end product that the guilty consumers can buy) may also work. Most likely you need to apply multiple measures at multiple points in this process.

E.g. I think convincing the customers works best in the long run and more like for general purposes. I.e. understand that you should consume less, use a smaller footprint in general, as you mentioned. But that doesn't necessarily easily translate to "don't buy tuna and milk". It's easier to translate it into "vote for the guy who promises to handle this case even if it means tax raises". And then you can simply go to the store and expect that whatever you see there is OK to buy at that price. Yes, tuna will be say 10x more expensive and thus you'll buy it less frequently (and maybe not feed it to your cat).
Building an End-to-End Encrypted Alternative to Google Photos
Actually, almost all of our ancestors had been slaves longer or shorter in history regardless of race/country.
Well, what I think you're getting at is this kind of a tactic is inherently escalatory. But the truth is, if you want to get what you want, you need to be willing to play hardball and apply leverage. Of course, the most important part of that is BATNA, which coincides with what you said -- find another job.

Where I disagree with you is that it will ruin whatever relationship you have with various parts of the company. Going "above the chain of command" is actually pretty normal and institutionalized process at functional companies -- it's called the skip-level meeting, and it's a deliberate check/feedback mechanism on line managers over-extending on managing upwards rather than downwards.

I'd actually argue the opposite point, which is that organizations that fail to properly implement skip-level meetings are missing out on an important mechanism which ensures the chain of command is performant and rooting out structural rot. As a spot check, my observations on every org I've worked at basically vindicate this.
I think taking a balanced view is a good idea. That involves acknowledging that sometimes individual achievements matter. (On Napoleon's legacy, Scott Alexander has a nice post about a famous paper by Acemoglu and Robinson: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-ra...)
The Sleeping Giant: Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Reykjanes
> Morality is predicated on free will

Yes, and this is key, but it works both ways.

We have free will, for example I 100% chose to make this comment, but people don't grow up outside of a context, don't make their decision without being influenced by their local culture, education, and personal history. Ever wondered why social science is able to predict political allegiance, religions, life choices and outcome, etc... based on socioeconomic groups?

Check Sam Harris' lectures on free will for a counter argument. Here's an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzj1helboAE
It boils down to the same question why somebody would pay millions for a picture with a couple of squares on it (see e.g. piet mondrian)? I guess one aspect is, that rich people can show off for their rich friends what shit they can afford...
Right, just lot's of proprietary "modules" and firmware blobs would have been developed.
We did a 3 day lockdown in Brisbane to give our contact tracers time to track down a single case. It worked, too, which was neat.
Iconic photos: Photographers and the cameras that captured them
You are saying the magic word: prototypes. That explains the huge budgets, time and cost overruns. They certainly have an important place in science, because sciences often is about doing things the first time. But there is also a place for production runs. Because you are no longer just making prototypes but start to reuse the experiences and expenses.

Hubble is 30 years old, and there isn't any direct replacement in sight at all. At latest now, with cheap launches and much improved technology, it is more than time to replace it and as it is more or less a direct replacement, use the scale of production. Don't build one telescope for 3 billion, build 10 at like 100-200 million each. If one ore more of them fail, so what?
Missed an opportunity to call it "Governing the Technical Interview"

Wiktionary:

> From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “I steer, drive, govern”)
However, historical relativism really only makes sense when we live in a different moral world. At the risk of sounding cliched, our political-moral lens was largely crystallised by the French Revolution, where ideas of universal equality really emerged as a political force. We don’t criticise Julius Caesar for taking Gaulish slaves; but historians absolutely criticise Napoleon for attempting to reimpose slavery in Haiti.

Until something like that happens again, we will probably always look at Hitler as a historical bogeyman.

Also there’s the problem that Hitler didn’t revitalise the economy in as much as he gave the industrialists a temporary victory over social democratic labour unions. Germany was an economic juggernaut in the late 19th century; Hitler wasn’t even that important in ending the massive monetary imbalance caused by the treaty of Versailles, that was a process that was happening anyway. What Hitler did do was murder every remaining dissident trade unionist in the name of the Volk. Germany’s economy was going to grow anyway, Hitler just crushed the moderate socialists only to see all the gains of the 30s looted by Stalin.
> Perhaps we would do well to remember that words can have different meanings in different contexts.

I’m afraid this idea is rapidly becoming deprecated - now if a word has multiple meanings, we pick whichever one is most offensive and forget the others

(No judgement on whether that’s a good thing or not, I see pros and cons)
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Good points. And I actually did bring up discussion on "specifics". For two quarters, I was given specifics of the kind: "improve delivery" and "better something" etc. And I did them diligently.

I'm learning more and more that the "specifics" are really hand holding the manager into committing and holding them accountable. Which is SO CHILDISH. No wonder highly paid tech workers jump ship all the time.
Sounds like a flaw in your git client. It was always possible to change the default branch name, so hardcoding master was never right. You’re far from alone in making that assumption though! The good news is this makes everyone’s git tools more resilient.

> It’s not a huge pain, sure, but it isn’t nothing and I don’t get any benefit from it either

The entire notion here is accommodating people. It doesn’t benefit you personally but it does benefit others. And it’s not a huge pain. At a certain point we’re expending more energy debating doing this than if everyone just did it and moved on with their lives.
I've been told that OpenCL is in a whole different league than CUDA due to a worse API and much smaller ecosystem.

I have, however, seen attempts to use Vulkan for compute. Could that be a viable way forward?
This is the way. The messaging and positioning work to your favor here -- the skip level will be happy to see a high performer in their report chain attempting to grow, and clearly, your direct manager would only want to enable that, yes? It's only a fair and reasonable expectation.
Hmm, this looks very interesting! I've ended up preferring dplyr for it's expressiveness in spite of the speed difference, so this might be a nice compromise for when dplyr gets too slow.
Go does not forces you to do any of that: https://github.com/panjf2000/gnet ( and as you can see it's as fast as the fastest C++ lib )

Go provides go routines as a building block, it's up to you to use that or use something else ( reactor pattern, epoll ect ... )
> A normal household has to pay rent or make mortgage payments. To arbitrarily exclude the biggest expense to consumers from CPI is pretty misleading.

Housings costs are included as part of the CPI. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
JIRA would not just overkill but a bad fit for us, potentially requiring extensive configuration.

We're an academic research lab that also happens to do contractual work for other labs (mostly internal to the university), mostly designing and building mechanical prototypes and testbeds for other researchers.

It took like 5 minutes to set up an airtable base to track our WIP and all information we use for billing our "customers": hours, material purchased, internal budget reference, etc.
Local Denial of Service in Nissan Leaf EV (2018) Head Unit Display
> It is impossible to even get into Clubhouse... how in the hell can it be so popular that a private club app gets to win in that case.

Making their treatment of Hey even more bullshit.
The difference is that by late 1980s there were few true believers.

This was one of the striking things about the collapse of the USSR, former KGB, the supposed final bastion of defence of the Soviet system, became hyper-capitalist oligarchs overnight seemingly without skipping a beat. We see the same thing happening where the one-time stronghold of enlightenment and liberalism doesn't believe in it either.

What's also strange is that there are many people in the US with lived experience of the Soviet system, and they are sounding the alarm that what's happening now leads to some very dark places, and their voices are being completely ignored or even shouted down.
There's some really good explanation (and implementation) in the Caffeine library[1]. Ben Manes worked with Gil Einziger on the implementation and actually contributed to an updated version of the TinyLFU paper, IIRC. Gil has a ton of very relevant work[2][3] around cache admission, control, and information density.

Unfortunately cache admission is an understudied and woefully unimplemented area of CS & computer engineering as far as I can tell. There's some decent work around hardware layer problems, cache line insertion/eviction/etc, but not much in general purpose software caching. Gils research was definitely the most relevant and relatable when I was involved in this area a few years back.

[1] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Efficiency#window...
[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kWivlnsAAAAJ&hl=en
[3] https://github.com/gilga1983
I mean it’s not like the inter state borders in Australia aren’t absolutely huge, too...
Farm-level study shows rising temperatures hurt rice yields
> conniving, backstabbing and sheer incompetence of many people you get to work with

This social conflict aspect is probably the most common reason for workplace burnout/PTSD/etc. The work itself is rarely that stressful, it's being in a combative or political environment that takes the biggest toll.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this quote. In git world branch names have nothing to do with repositories. If anything, the "source of truth" repository is generally called "origin".
Even back with those self driving buses, things were on the side of extreme caution.

I remember the big problem with them were stray soda cans triggering stop.

I don't see how current technological advances can any improve the local environment awareness of the car until the actual cognition element is there.
Who is we? I use systemd on the operating systems I use (debian, centos and opensuse)
> Don't average people buy houses? It's a bit of an artificial distinction to exclude them.

When an average person buys a house and lives in it for a decade, they still have the house.

Inflation is defined by consumption expenditures. I buy food, eat it, and no longer have that food to sell. I pay the power bill, having consumed power that cannot be resold.

The consumed portion of housing is rent. And that is included in price indices; statistical agencies have to go to the trouble of modelling an owner-equivalent for owner-occupied housing.

If you're still concerned about the technical definitions of what goes into a consumer price index, then you have plenty of others to choose from. The GDP deflator (a price index based on everything produced in the economy) shows trends very similar to the consumer price index over the medium-term.

> Inflation is also defined as expansion of the money supply (monetary inflation),

And those two concepts are not in fact equivalent. Going from an observed change in the money supply to changes in prices requires more intricate assumptions about how the economy works. The same money-supply increase can cause an increase in price levels in one country (say Venezuela) rather than another (the United States) depending on beliefs about permanence and the background state of the economy.
You could argue that his legacy is still alive and kicking, interfaced in Northern Ireland.

Also:

* Hitler fixed the roads

* Communist Russia got the first Satellite into space
Georeferencing processes of various complexity in ArcGIS, PCI Geomatica, and ENVI.
Guns are most needed in African American neighborhoods. Banning them will criminalize more African Americans who need guns for their protection. If you can't provide quality public safety services, at least keep self defense legal.
I wonder if the difficulty finding solutions that he points out has something to do with how hard it is to make Bezier curves do what u want with a tool like Powerpoint or Illustrator?
I don't know why you've missed the obvious:

(3) "master" is a bit worse than "main" but changing it now is annoying.

It's like how electrons are negative or an inch isn't exactly 25mm or Pi is half of full turn instead of just a full turn, etc. They all could have defined better but changing them now would be more trouble than it's worth.

> the downside is virtually non-existent, who cares?

Because a) it isn't virtually non-existent. It means you have to configure another thing on all systems you use git on, it means pretty much all existing tutorials are now wrong, and it means all scripts that assume `master` (a pretty reasonable assumption!) are now broken.

And b) it's the principle of the thing! People don't want SJWs to win the argument.
I'm sorry, but tuna being farmed in international waters shouldn't be an obstacle. In all EU countries and UK there are quotas of what a fishing vessel can bring into port. So it doesn't matter where the fish was actually caught, if the country ran out of annual quota for tuna for instance, then no fishing vessel can bring any tuna to any port. It's not an insurmountable problem.
Pffft expensive private school. They have those in Texas but it’s curious why anybody would attend if the goals are elitism or competition. Texas has wealthy public schools that are absurdly competitive, such as Southlake and Katy. If you want a full ride for your child at one of the most prestigious universities in the country just attend one of those public schools and be a top performer in both academics and sports.
Gonum wraps the same code, from what i could tell fortran seem to have a neat way to handle more specialised number systems like dual numbers and hyperbolic numbers.
An armed society is a polite society.
Yeah, liquidity is really important. When liquidity runs out, you have people who are CAPABLE and WILLING to work being unable to find productive work. The way around it is to do odd jobs, DIY stuff they’re not good at because they have no choice, and barter (you see this increase during depressions), but this is way less efficient. So “printing money” (providing liquidity) actually increases productivity in the same way division of labor increases productivity. You can pay a plumber instead of taking 10 times longer and doing a poorer job, for instance.
Anyone who argues this is a conspiracy theorist making statements not based on actual evidence.
That particular link does not mention a vaccine.

Why don't any of the news stories say which vaccine he was given?

Or someone close to him deny he had had any vaccine?

https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2021/03/14/marvin-hagler-hea...

I'm sure the truth will come out in the following days, one way or the other.
You still have pathological disk io even with swap disabled because Linux will evict file-backed pages. More aggressive OOM killing is currently the only solution, which is not ideal, but losing one process beats losing all of them. I use earlyoom, and I assume systemd-oomd is something similar.
Entrepreneur Raised $50M to Create the First Mass Produced Solar Powered Car
Individual achievements that matter reflect good ideas worth noting.
Thanks for clearing up how the words are pronounced.
Yep, it is competing for research resources and media attention.

This opinion piece used the phrase "T Cells: Warriors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection", https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(2...

UK Science Museum 2-pager with diagrams (https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immu...) and UCB lecture slides (http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb150/Lecture15/Lecture15(6...)

Maybe vendors (e.g. https://www.rndsystems.com/research-area/t-cell-kits) would support a T-cell microsite, with dedicated sections for science journalists, academics and industry scientists. A vendor created this poster on T-cell subsets: https://docs.abcam.com/pdf/immunology/t_cells_the_usual_subs...

This 2018 effort looks useful, https://github.com/hammerlab/t-cell-guide

> We provide practical hints and tips on basic cellular and molecular techniques for handling primary human T cells. We hope that this guide will serve as a reference point to evaluate, discuss, and improve current practices in T cell culturing and manipulation.

Oh wow, there are T cell cartoons :)

https://cellcartoons.net/character/cd8tcell & https://cellcartoons.net/character/cd4tcell

And a manga/anime called Cells at Work! (https://mangarock.to/manga/1684/cells-at-work/first-chapter#...) whose final (June 2021) installment covers Covid-19. There's also a character called Killer T Cell, https://cellsatwork.fandom.com/wiki/Killer_T_Cell_(Squad_Lea...

> Killer T Cell is loud, obnoxious, and quick-tempered, resulting in rivalries with many cells. He also despises it when a non-white blood cell forms a friendship or relationship with one of his kind. As an immature thymocyte he went through training at Thymus school, where apprentice cells like himself learn to become Mature Thymocytes.

Season 1 is streaming: https://www.netflix.com/title/81028791

Possible seeds for a github-pages microsite..
> Remember that the inflation that we are talking about is that with regard to consumer prices, which is often related to wages.

Or we can use the traditional definition for inflation, the increase in monetary supply not an increase in price. Monetary inflation is very real in 2020 and 2021. A global increase in prices is a potential consequence of monetary inflation but it’s not mandatory. Monetary inflation is always bad from an economics perpective and always ends badly. We always try to forgo lessons from the past but this is very economy 101.
Economically speaking, increasing base money supply (giving money directly to people) does in fact increase inflation

Well, sure, if you give a bunch of people some money and they all decide to spend it on re-doing their homes at the same time then the prices charged by local tradesmen will probably go up, then correct themselves again when the peak demand passes. I'd argue that's not a bad thing in the sense that real work is being done, and the money is circulating in real goods and services - because if value is actually being created then there is something backing the new money.
But a BB gun specifically comes with a warning not to shoot people because it might cause harm, not to mention that regulations around fake and/or air guns are pretty hardcore already.

To maybe give another example - as a consumer I shouldn't care if a phone I'm buying was made using child labour or not - I expect the authorities in every country involved in its production to enforce laws against child labour.
An invitation to be curious explorers, not just problem-solvers
For browser, reduce the number of parallel processes in preferences and try to use Auto Tab Discard plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rHU38OnTE
Some random thoughts/questions (I am not in your target audience though):

* I like the about page

* I don't like the name

* Have you gotten much support from the coffee purchase button?

* What is your tech stack?
The only difference is that we call the former “inflation” and the latter “my stocks are doing well”. It’s all inflation in the end.
I wonder how pandas can both be at version 1.0 and have a an experimental feature for something so central. Honest question