skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also a stock audio sound for police radio chatter that is the same as the one in SimCity 2000. Every time I hear that (which is too often) I can’t help but think “well, you cheaped out on sound design"
I've been a long time subscriber to SN for all the reasons stated above.
So, i agree with some of the MMT observation, but not the main tenet (so i might have missed something tbh). To me, like for MMT, hyperinflation is not caused by money printing (this "theory" is really not supported by the facts), but against MMT, to me that does not mean that not printing money doesn't cause inflation. But money printing is not the main inflation lever.

Also, to me, taxes have nothing to do with inflation control. Or maybe it helps, but it is also not the main lever. From what i've tested anyway.

Production deficit is creating inflation. Every single country that went through hyperinflation saw a deficit in production the years prior and wasn't self-sufficient in food and/or basic amenities. And normal inflation is close to the same. Inflation comes when the production is strained: it was the case in the 30s, it was the case from the 50s until the 70s, it is still the case in China.

This can be caused by a positive effect (people are hopeful and want to consume more than what is actually produced and/or sold) or a negative one (drop in production, or in price of an asset/ressource that a country exploit heavily and use to buy food and amenities).

I don't think money supply have a huge impact on inflation, except maybe on asset inflation? Anyway this will be the MMT crash test.
I am a user, and programmer, informed about both the commercial app store models and package repositories. I am perfectly fine with commercial app stores - there's absolutely nothing wrong with the concept.

Are Google and Apple's implementations of the concept bad? Yes. But it's not very difficult to separate out the traits of the implementations with the traits of the idea. Steam seems to be doing very well, and as a user of that platform, they are executing it pretty well.
You mean like Boeing/ULA, agriculture, mining, forestry, ad infinitum?
Wow, if that's what interns get what do the lawyers get?
USA has some of the lowest cost of energy / electricity in the world and one of the best rail-freight systems in the world.

Our passenger rail sucks and our people are expensive. But significant manufacturing remains in the USA (yes, we manufacture more today than ever before, despite the hoopla about outsourcing). There's a reason for that: USA has some pretty good advantages if you know what to look for.
You’re exaggerating. I’ve seen plenty of valid and serious coverage of this from big outlets (NPR, Economist) explaining the plausibility of the scenario, not “disproving” in any manner. Which “the media” are you referring to?

I’ve also seen plenty of valid conversations about this on various web forums where it didn’t come to name calling.

I’ve also seen plenty of aggressive and disingenuous arguments by angry people, who proclaim their suspicions are true facts instead of probability assessments, and then perch their discussions on the assumed truth of those suspicions.
Debian ponders vote as an organisation on backing Stallman's ouster
I went to a doctor for this, he told me that caffeine slows down how fast a part of your esophagus responds that is responsible for keeping the acid in your stomach.
Hmm, tea isn't strong enough for me. Perhaps I could replace coffee with methamphetamine, if it comes down to it. Sticking with coffee — for now.
If I could offload a portion of my utility bills, property taxes and so on onto my employer, proportionate to how much time I spend WFH I would be a very happy camper.
Ask HN: Tool to map business processes to data fields?
Is there a tool that maps Businesses Processes to their database objects/fields? Don't need automated discovery. But should be a collaborative system, where different users can run reports and see potential conflicts. For example, a field used by one process may be overwritten by another process. The tool should list business process, business process owner, field, field owner(s). I can make a homegrown system but was wondering if there is cheap tool already made for this.
It's one thing to do that * gasp * 10 times in 5 years, and to do that * daily *.
For me, it's less trouble to just use other tools that suck less.
You should read the accounts of the few people that spoke up about working for or with the FSF despite their overreaching NDA. They have nothing good to say about Stallman as a leader. His reputation alone makes him ineffective as a person to rally behind for a lot of people, despite the fact they contribute to FOSS and share more of the ideals of the free software movement than the open source movement.

You can stop Stallman, and you should, lest his ideals and the FSF drop further into irrelevance.
>To an extent I can find one at sci-fi, anime and furry conventions are mostly safe spaces for people like me

Is it a safe space when what you say can be video taped and then used against you by all the other areas of life?
"Oh, ye immortal gods! what is theogony?
Oh, thou too, mortal man! what is philanthropy?
Oh, world! which was and is, what is cosmogony?
Some people have accused me of misanthropy;
And yet I know no more than the mahogany
That forms this desk, of what they mean; Lykanthropy
I comprehend, for without transformation
Men become wolves on any slight occasion."

Byron, Don Juan, Canto XX
Salon Socialism?
Did she really replace AGD or anogenital distance, with Taint and Gooch? My goodness, I laughed like a 12 year old when I read that!
What do you mean? Honestly interested
Closes IDE and feels relieved to have dodged that bullet.
Python has safer defaults. If you want lexical scoping, or errors when you make mistakes, you have to ask for it in Perl.
> businesses do not try to cut the pay of remote workers

This is what I don't understand - company essentially gets a worker + office in one package and they think this is of lesser value than a worker in their office?
Rocket Lake is still on 14nm because of issues with their 10nm process and the new guy a week in is talking smack about them shipping 7nm product and compete against the likes of TMSC/Samsung ???.
What does that have to do with toxic masculinity?
What's wrong with that?

The company has to react both tactically and strategically. Short term, they may have to use overseas production while the domestic capability improves.
Using Refs in React
Yes, that's very different, and much more reasonable than most places that don't do take home technical examinations.

There's obviously a fundamental necessity to evaluate a candidate's technical skills directly, rather than relying on credentials - my issue is with the false expedience and conflationism of timed and artificially performative technical evaluations, and my personal difficulties with the social requirements inherent to them.
oh thank you! I appreciate your kind words:) It's very rewarding to read all the comments on this thread... You made my day !
Yes, but some of the ROI of that intervention should be able to be captured by the US (as a representative of the people) in the form of equity or secured loans.

Insisting on stimulus of private industry without equity or interest is a great way to socialize losses and privatize gains, as they say.
> because the facilities were completely shut down, clean rooms were flooded with particles and every piece of equipment was contaminated

Ouch. That suggests that they didn't have backup power for the positive pressure ventilation system. I hope adding that is on someone's todo list for next time.
I was curious so checked and thought other might be interested.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/counterfeit-bankno...

"How many counterfeit banknotes are in circulation?

The vast majority of counterfeits are discovered before they go back into circulation, when retailers and the banking system are sorting them. A smaller number are detected by the public or retailers who hand them directly to the police, or when the police carry out search warrants. Counterfeits are typically removed from circulation quickly, often after a single use.

Only a small fraction, typically less than 0.02% of banknotes are counterfeit, that is less than 1 in 5,000 banknotes. In the first half of 2020, around 94,000 counterfeit Bank of England banknotes with a face value of £2.1 million were taken out of circulation. At any one time, there is an average of 4 billion genuine banknotes in circulation, with a notional face value of around £75 billion."

The scope of the problem seems to be about 2 million pounds per year. I wonder what this solution will save and cost.
That’s ridiculous. WFH is huge benefit to employees. Are you also going to charge employers for the time it takes you to cash a bonus check?

Let’s not get overly greedy.
The interactive coding can handle quick jobs (sub 30second with scikit-learn). For heavier loads, we're working on a Google Colab integration
> Isn't it totally verboten to put secret tokens / passwords into scripts?

It's only a rule because people have made the mistake enough to learn the lesson...
Interesting. Did you find a remedy?
Have you ever worked on very large React applications without Redux or Saga? I just cannot imagine any other way of keeping my application sort of understandable.
probably to stop people from creating more "un-yank previous versions!" issues?
I mean, that is pretty much the open nature of the internet. Everything was banished to the dark recesses of the internet and just your friends and family, until we had Yahoo, Altavista, Excite, Lycos, and then Google...An open internet doesn't mean everyone has equal visibility and promotion.
When you are a CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world (or even just a commenter on HN), even the smallest thing that you say can be misinterpreted by people. Pat said great things, but the newspapers picked the most controversial part of course.
I agree with your points but feel it would be better to try and and aim for a more mature tone when replying to a possibly less mature comment?
> What would happen if for any reasons the biggest fabs are destroyed?

it "just" takes some years and heaping piles of money to replace them. though probably more if you're trying to replace them all at once, as there aren't a lot of folks who make the equipment to rebuild the fabs.

> It would take years to get more than half of a century of accumulated knowledge just from patents, and that's not even counting industrial secrets and all the economical machine needed to support such an industry.

sounds like you're more concerned about loss of the personnel and records, rather than the buildings.

> I can't think of any project entirely focused on building from scratch and kick-starting the industrial motor of modern civilization.

i mean, "world peace" is generally concerned with preventing it from being destroyed in the first place.

conventional wisdom is that taiwan bases a chunk of their national security on nobody wanting to see TSMC ruined.
> I'm not sure I agree with your framing of the precise terminology ("passing a reference to an object by value" vs "passing an object by reference")

The distinction is that, if JS truly was pass-by-reference for objects, you could change what the reference was pointing to. But you can't.

I agree with you that objects/references are a stumbling block for new programmers in JS. You have to understand how these things work but there's no explicit concept of a reference, which means it can be tricky to learn.
A counterpoint thread to the part about sperm count: https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1372178337016201224

Some points are that it's going back up again and is largely caused by poor sleep health. Beyond that, I haven't looked this up but what is the actual relationship between lower sperm count and fewer children? I mean, you have maybe 2-3 children and millions of sperm, surely they are not linearly related.

Effects on mothers could matter a lot more, but also maybe they just don't want to do it.
We can't do it because we're bootstrapped and have costs which scale (streaming, code execution). However our GatsbyJS theme is open-source: https://github.com/CourseMaker/gatsby-theme-coursemaker
Is there a word for puns that are not jokes, like this title?
...By running the same JS on the server or in a build step.
Yeah I really should adopt that.
This website’s ad network is delivering browser hijacking ads. I haven’t seen one of those for a long time.
Mensa always struck me as pretentious.
One can be forgiven a lot of one's politics are correct, especially if one has the mitigating status of minority status, even if it's a minority status that one grants oneself and no one is allowed to question.

We've just witnessed two celebrities on the same show, make tweets comparing a political situation to Nazism. Only one was fired for it.

One was conservative, the other liberal. If you immediately knew that one kept their job based purely on that description, the question of why Reddit would hire such a disastrous individual becomes much less mysterious.
What are you talking about?

It's pretty clear now what happened is that a completely innocuous post to an article in The Spectator contained this person's name. They weren't the subject of the article or any of the conversation.

This particular reddit admin then removed it and banned the person who posted it (long standing mod).
This somehow misses the Supreme Court.

The American Supreme Court can basically make up interpretations on essentially whatever, and it has and will so long as the Democratic and Republican party agree on it.

China also has local CCP organizations, and they have a significant level of influence on the national party (and vice-versa), but ultimately just like in the US the DNC and RNC chair can basically make up whatever arcane rules for nomination and get an agreeable candidate.
companies are not people, so why are you advocating for them? we should extract as much money from our employers as possible.
Yes, I would hope that anyone whose freedom or life is at risk isn't depending on Tor to keep them safe without knowing what they're doing.

In fact, I'd go one step further and recommend that if your freedom or life is at risk, then don't use computers or phones to do things that states might execute or imprison you for at all.
I agree. There's so many ways the government can spend spend spend. Doesn't need to be hand outs to generate fictitous fleeting economic states.
Apple has a problem with ProtonVPN wanting to challenge governments
Having used Fruity Loops, Reason, Cubase and Ableton back in the day as a kid, I agree.

Reason + Cubase linked together was a lot of fun :)
> demonstrating that this gene has an effect on neurogenesis of human dopaminergic neurons from the substantia nigra.

But there is no neurogenesis of human dopaminergic neurons in the adult substantia nigra.

To create the organoid model, they used fibroblasts to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, and then differentiated these into neurons in culture. As an experimental model, this is fine, but it is not particularly indicative of actual human biology.

The most you could probably infer from this paper is that IF there were dopaminergic progenitors in the human substantia nigra (there aren't), they MIGHT respond this way if you deleted PINK1.
This isn't the first time that newcomers have complained about Austin traditions. First there were the people who admitted they moved to the downtown for the vibe. But then complained about the loud music from the bars along Rainey Street. So.. you moved to the Live Music Capital of the World, only to complain about the live music?

The city adopted a noise ordnance that kicks in at 10pm, and enforces it with SPL meters.

Later, they started complaining about the smoke from the BBQ restaurants. Daily batches of BBQ get started around 3am, and to be good BBQ, are made from beef brisket smoked over a wood fire (not gas, not electric, and certainly not with "liquid smoke"). So .. you moved to a state where brisket BBQ is a second religion for people, only to complain about the smell.

I believe the city figured out there was no pleasing these people, and told them to keep their windows closed if they didn't like it.
"gooch"? Am I a square for never having heard that?
This seems a little sophistic. Yes, incarceration is not actually violent. It may be "violent" in some metaphorical sense, and some of the other inmates may be violent, but incarceration itself is not violent.

I've had clients get incarcerated, and I've had clients facing potential capital sentences, and there is a world of difference.
Very rough caricature: nothing is scary (including/especially harm to others) until it threatens the wellbeing of one's penis.
Entirely predictable (in retrospect). The (in mice) of economic predictions.
A Free Remote Desktop Client for Linux, macOS and Windows (Including ARM)
People didn't like Samsung chips, they started complaining about battery life, that was why Apple moved to being TSMC only I think.
This forum.
IMAP: Implicit Mapping and Positioning in Real-Time
Would be nice to see similar test run on intel and amd processors
Giving something away for free doesn't mean that no one can criticize it. It's a severe shortcoming, it's been there for over a decade, and no obligated to fix it but that doesn't mean anybody is obligated to stop complaining about it either.
SPOILERS

Yes, Randy avoids reading out the coordinates by monitor to keep them safe from Van Eck phreaking.
> Do you think gay people in pride parades, minorities in various race groups, etc are insecure?

Well, uh, yeah, sort of.. I thought the whole point of gay/ethnic/etc pride events was to overcome the insecurity caused by marginalization in society. Is that not the case?
It might be that toxic masculinity is correlated with an obsession over penis size or sometimes at least talking about it, or thinking that it matters when it doesn't.
I don't see how depriving others of technological advancement comports with any kind of justifiable theory of social governance, it's just a method of dominating others.

I am not convinced we even benefit much from these kinds of antics. We have a few more consumer goods, but fundamental goods (education, housing, medicine, food) are sky-high in price, there are few worker protections, and huge portions of the budget are dedicated to illegal military adventures. I think cooperating and sharing technology widely leads to a richer world.
> It is unlikely that Nvidia and AMD will want to use Intel as their foundry.

Why not? Nvidia seems to be very pragmatic in their foundry picks on what's available for example.
Guessing it's because "Huge penises are more manly!" ergo, Save our penises! ergo, Stop pollution!
Of course, Jack has a bunch of advisors who told him what to do as well. It's just that in China the system do not give them a title of "lawyers".
Nope, I also got some sort of browser hijacking redirect from their ad network. It’s been a while since I’ve seen those.
I was skeptical about the m1 processors, specifically around performance on something like a desktop where you expect snappy performance.

I have definitely changed my thoughts and if apple can solve getting more ram in their systems (it’s pretty shameful that in 2021 you max out at 16gb on a MacBook Pro), I feel like they are going to knock it out of the park with their new architecture.
Trust me, this already happened and it's an easy way to get rid of your workers after you "relocate" without paying unemployment.

Offer remote work and then offer no advancement opportunities until they quit, so you don't take the unemployment hit. Voila, you have shifted the costs unto them to go find a new job.
Depends. It could be an indication that there's been a miscommunication and the interview is for a much more junior position than expected, so I would expect a more senior person to push back. Fizzbuzz tests "can this person program at all?" For a more senior position, best to start with something harder and more job-related; back off to fizzbuzz if the interviewee can't do the hard stuff.
“standard practice”
I've heard of wolves being hunted using golden eagles in Mongolia, they're not much larger than a bald eagle.

I wish the biohackers would bring back Haast's eagle.
Yes, they left out that part. The paper's abstract ends with:

>[Our method] ensures that even in the extreme case when counterfeiters have procured the same printing equipment and ink as used by a legitimate government, counterfeiting banknotes remains infeasible because of the difficulty to replicate a stochastic manufacturing process.

Which means each note manufacturer has its own signature, though whether the researchers confirmed that with more than random samples from circulation, I haven't been able to tell. The full paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06184
So? Don't most manufacturers already have to provide multiple product versions if they sell internationally, to handle different electricity/plug differences around the world (among many other things)? Maybe there is an effect, but it isn't as if products sold worldwide come in one version that works everywhere.

Corporations love excuses to differentiate (read: charge more, especially for local captive customers) for products. Big Pharma uses all sorts of US government programs to run interference for them - patents, import/export restrictions, legal buying requirements, etc - all to charge more for the US version of products they sell dirt cheap elsewhere.

Whatever "National Security" effect was present causing manufacturing to move overseas was dominated by maximizing profits: wringing savings out of the supply chain and lower labor costs. The result was predictable.

I see Intel's complaint about this a way to drum up or steer business their way, hobble their competitors that rely on Asian chip manufacturing, seek future government intervention to help them - or accomplish all of the above.
>Can someone explain to me how this is not cancel culture?

I'd look forward to hearing that, bit I wager the answer is no. You can call a pile of feces a rose, and it doesn't change the nature of what the pile of feces is

I'd like to thank you, and invite you out for a beer or the drink of your preference if you're ever in my neighborhood however, because you sound like one of the precious few sensible folks that actually project political action through past it's first order consequences to the inevitable conclusion.

It's rare enough at times that it's nice to call out when it happens, even in passing.
It's broader than just social, but I really like "strategy credit": https://stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit/

Basically, do the right thing when it's easy to do, or even better, it directly benefits you.
One way to explain OTPs is a proof by induction.

The base step:

Start with one bit. The key is also a bit chosen at random, and the cipher text is plain XOR key.

You can then work out that no matter what key is chosen, you have no reason to believe 0 or 1 is the original plain text.

The inductive step is simply to add a new random bit of key that is independent from the prior key, and a new bit of plaintext.

What I like about this explanation is that you can actually work out the decision trees for a few bits to convince yourself that the encryption still holds.
Well, they're the "lower 48" in terms of the date of admission to the union...
Caffeine is a drug that generally increases energy and motivation so it makes sense that those levels wouldn’t be as high without consuming it.
Prediction: next reddit will be the decentralised one. Yes, those decentralised communities already exist but will become mainstream once those achieve good usability (UX) and accessibility (apps)).
TSMC is far too important to far too many parties. We're getting dangerously close to a direct US/China war for Taiwan. That wouldn't be good for anybody. Both sides will claim it's about something else, but really it's all about the chips.