skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>"Why is American stimulus not comparable to Zimbabwean stimulus?"

Zimbabwe (like Venezuela) didn't get hyperinflation because they "printed" a lot money, they had to "print" a lot of money because they get hyperinflation (1).

The video actually mention this in all the examples that use, it's only that it get the conclusions wrong. If you destroy the productive capacity of a country, you are going to get inflation, that's inevitable. That's not what happened in the USA.

The authors of the video, also, don't understand the difference between adding bank reserves (not inflationary beyond a point) and fiscal stimulus (which can be inflationary beyond a point).

The good thing is that, maybe, in the future, when hyperinflation doesn't happen this time, I will not have to hear this nonsense anymore. One can hope, I suppose.

(1) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3773
Since more and more web sites/apps are using JavaScript, some of the most powerful things you can do are in interfacing with the site's own JS. Throw down a DOM breakpoint, trace the call stack to find a method you want, find a reference to the app object and you can basically write any macro you want.

Yet userscripts fail to meet that use-case. They run in weird sandboxes that pretend to be the real runtime but really aren't. They focus on DOM modification in a time when the DOM is little more than a framebuffer. I love userscripts and used to have a bunch of them. Now, I have a folder of snippets to paste into the dev console and a bunch of custom extensions in dev-mode. Userscripts are simply too limiting these days.
The MASSIVE plus is storage. They take up a fraction of space of even the most compact bicycle (folding or otherwise).

I would have loved an electric scooter while travelling around in an expedition truck a few years back.

That said, all the "smart" and "connected" features reduce its appeal for me. Just give me a simple ESC and im happy.
It's a difficult problem to tackle for sure. The easy solution (at least, if you allow yourself to simply ignore the consequences of doing so :) would be to just increase import duties so that retail prices match with locally produced products, but I guess that's quite incompatible with the idea of a free market. It also won't make you a popular global player.

Still, as a thought experiment, I wonder how it would work out for the global economy if every country/economic block in the world would simply match prices of imported products with comparable locally produced items. I guess one of the big issues would be how to assure comparisons between products are fair.
High speed trains in snow are indeed more difficult as the speed creates under pressure between the ground and the train. So much that even stones have to be remove otherwise they hit the train all the time.

This under pressure sucks up the snow and plasters it to the train.

In Germany at least ICE train speed is reduced (despite their name ;-) if there is snow on the track.
> A bicycle is superior in virtually any category: range, security, acceleration, deceleration, max speed, cargo, maintainability.

Is a bicycle superior in ease of learning? I know in Denmark there are a larger number of people untaught in using bikes in immigrant communities than in the native Danish community.

Also in a country where nearly everyone bikes if you don't know how it can be really embarrassing to learn.

on edit: I am supposing it is easier to learn ( could certainly be wrong but it looks easy) and if so it might just be easier to use for someone with accessibility issues in learning to bike?
Where I live (the Netherlands) all landlines (copper) have been replaced by fiber, I still call them landlines. I guess OP does too?

If you mean landlines for Phones: The fiber can handle that, and does, but people are indeed dropping their telephone-number-for-a-house subscription in favor of individual cell phones (and my Phone is generally on WLAN-call when I'm at home, so it use the fiber as well). My parents in law were the last ones I knew with a house-based phone number and they dropped it this year. That said, I think you still get a house-telephone-number for free with many internet subscriptions and the ISP's modems have ports for Phones on them, so indeed the landlines as defined still exists, but it's a matter of definition.
UK census data “never passed to security services”
Scooters are much smaller than bikes. You can easily take them with you in an elevator: Put it under your desk at work, store it at home. Scooters mostly drive by themselves, e-bikes need paddling. Less maintenance, less moving parts.

It's an incomparable experience.
The only good part of sh/bash script is to run commands with piping/redirection support IMO，other than that I saw posts like this to explain sh/bash script’s puzzles/pitfalls all the time.

Maybe it is time to consider using rust instead: https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib ?
Given the upload bandwidth is so paltry, I’m surprised they’re complaining at all.
A lot of uncited scare claims in this article. If "hidden hunger" is

> a chronic lack of essential micronutrients in the diet, such as vitamins and minerals

then I'd bet most of the world - vegan or not - experiences hidden hunger.

> For example, iodine deficiency is the most common cause of preventable mental impairment and the UK ranks seventh among the ten most iodine-deficient nations

So are most of those with iodine deficiency in the UK also vegan?

> The consumption of cheap, energy dense, nutritionally poor and heavily processed foods, particularly by poorer members of society, is a major factor.

Cheap, energy dense, nutritionally poor and heavily processed foods... are all vegan?

> The rapidly growing trend of veganism is likely to become another major contributor to hidden hunger

Oh I see... is *likely* to become. So it isn't yet, in contrast to the clickbait headline.
Full title: We have never given census data to anyone – not even the spy agencies, says the UK's Office for National Statistics
Ask HN: Does anybody uses ITIL in real life?
No, if it has been merged into the master branch, it will be released with 28.1.
So then that 'weakness' in python is not an issue to you personally, because you fluently drop down to a fast language anytime you need to, with no particular loss in productivity?

Keep in mind though, that this could be a hurdle to those who are less multilingual. So even though it's not a weakness to everyone, it is to many.
> Retool positions itself as a tool for technical folks, and you’ll need to be comfortable with basic SQL and Javascript to get the most out of it.

> An interesting reminder that PMs aren’t always in the driver’s seat. In fact, sometimes they’re not even in the car .

If you're building a technical tool for technical folks then you probably don't need product managers, until late game anyways. Though you'll probably already have a few product engineers and product designers, who fill in that role.
With large integers - no, ie:

`Math.pow(2, 55)+1 === Math.pow(2, 55)` returning true
Hate these sensational headlines. Please stop it.

"... but poorly planned vegan diets that do not replace the critical nutrients found in meat"

Many thing done poorly is dangerous.
James Hoffman (finally) touches on the Aeropress topic. Hugely recommending this video and his whole channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aidvrssMSGo
How would you use this tool to redirect a blog subdomain to a /blog/ subpath?
> They're worth less than toilet paper.

Is ethical behavior worth less than toilet paper? I don't think so.

> I've happily violated hundreds of EULAs for all sorts of software in my time.

If stealing software is legitimate, then what else is legitimate to you? when does theft become legitimate in your opinion? (I don't care about your answer, really. Just think about that).

> And... what, exactly, are you expecting to happen to this person? An Apple SWAT team to break down his door and shoot his dog?

So, not being caught makes unethical stuff OK? Do you have a conscience?

> I installed MacOS on my PC hardware for fun too.

When you say "PC hardware"... Do you realize that every macOS device is also a personal computer too? The "mac and PC" dychotomy is absurd and purely marketing driven.
>From my own experience: go get therapy, meditation classes and Ritalin!

This is your first advice. Anyway, no need to get pedantic. Fact is you're carelessly suggesting the use of some pretty heavy and specific medicine, to someone you don't know, based on a few words of text he wrote on an anonymous internet forum.
There are several OISC (one instruction set computer) https://esolangs.org/wiki/OISC

I used BitBitJump for a hobby project once, although that's technically not Turing-complete (it has a fixed pointer size, like C). I also like Flump, which is unbounded.
The reader even has a parameter `read-decimal-as-inexact` that controls how to read decimal numbers.
The best Indian electric scooter is probably from this startup: https://www.atherenergy.com/
You can interact with them on a daily basis, have a care-taker sent to them to check on them and asking their needs!
I'm not surprised.

Vegan foods in the West are a joke compared Indian cuisine which has perfected vegetarianism over many centuries. The culture historically has even taken to protecting Cows in order to offset for (IMO necessary) rich dairy intake.

Many of us support Gaushalas, which are a sort of retirement homes for old cows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVkZwhGhz7c

Pity.

Everything single practice of pre-modern India is today demonized by the occident and "modern" Indians who ape the West, even while they reinvent things badly, and resell them around the world under the garb of "progress" and "animal rights".

You see this around Asia everywhere too - Yoga and meditation took off in Asia, after they became popular in the West, even though most Asian countries from Japan to India have had local forms of these traditions for centuries.

There is a deep sense of inferiority in these societies IMO.
Making Windows Terminal look with oh-my-posh
Quite a few people properly understand micronutrients. Even more so when you consider bioavailability of nutrients[1]. Even taking vitamin supplements does not guarantee you are receiving the nutrients you need [2]; this is why veganism in the long run can be very detrimental to your health if you don't do your research[3].

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393990/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/

[3]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073751/

All articles can be accessed through sci-hub.st

Edit: There is also some research that shows the body uses the same channels to absorb different minerals and therefore consuming them at the same time gives diminishing returns. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7836627/
"created: 19 minutes ago"

You create an account to just post some political comments or to stir the hornet nest?
Here's a nice SMS to blog how-to/setup: https://writxt.fun
Backing Up All Azure Key Vault Secrets, Keys, and Certificates
For Perl, you might want to look at https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::Run3

You can:

- specify each argument separately

- get separate stdout and stderr

- provide input
NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials [2104.02789]
also:

"run smoothly on air: our pneumatic tires are shock-absorbing things that make for a less bumpy ride"
No proper shock absorber is a deal-breaker. Especially in Europe with stone paved streets.

"Setting new standards for user experience with customized end-user App"
What a nice way to spell "vendor lock-in"
On the reduction of self control: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
Was also thinking this, feels a bit like RPA. Will no doubt generate quick returns, buzz and happy management (short term) but longer term will it be performant, scale, allow integrations between departments. Not so convinced on this but for smaller isolated projects can see it having a place even if throw away effort.
Many people feel scooters are fun to drive. It's not about common sense.
> FPGAs are written in languages like Verilog that are still high-level and do some probably misguided tricks to make it look like you're programming them with a vaguely C syntax.

This is either incredibly badly explained or wrong. Verilog compiles to gate level.
When I was a student I often had to deal with photos of pages taken with a smartphone. To compensate for uneven illumination I used the following trick: open image in GIMP, duplicate the layer, Gaussian blur, then set blending mode to Divide.

This made photos much more legible and printable.
It always boils down to the same thing: people think that it's a technology problem. But it's a people problem.

Software development (at scale) is not difficult because you tell a computer what to do (that part is quite simple), but because you and many others need to communicate your thoughts both to a computer _and_ humans (sometimes even themselves) over a potentially long period of time. And as if that were not bad enough, it all has to be coordinated.

These two things - sharing thoughts and doing coordination work - are what eat your resources. When doing "normal" development, you use a programming language and most likely an IDE and a VCS such as git(hub). All of these usually exist for quite some time are used by _a lot_ of people and are well understood, polished and mature. (well, of course some more than others)

But every no-code tool (or low-code) such as Retool has to recreate _all these_ by itself. This is really as bad as you having to learn a brand new programming language, an IDE and (partly) a VCS. Will they be as good as the tools that millions of people already use? Probably not.

And just to clarify the programming language part: yes Retool is sort of a programming language. Even though you can embed SQL. (You can do this in other languages too). Clicking instead of mostly typing doesn't change this fact.

Of course, all of that doesn't matter if you build something quickly and throw it away in a few month. In that case, Retool might actually pay off. But these cases are not the "hard" ones anyways and are usually not a big problem in most companies.
"Poorly planned" NON-vegan diets are the BIGGEST contributors to malnutrition in wealthy countries.

Have farm, eat meat, strongly considering veganism
Preparing for a privacy-first world: your personal guide to getting impersonal
If you're okay with dropping vendor-unique features (e.g.: RTX) then I've found VMware's GPU virtualization to be very good, at least in my testing of Windows-on-Windows via VMware Workstation. Looks like Workstation 16 added DX11 support on Linux hosts, too.

Just make sure you go into fullscreen + (what they call) "exclusive mode", and maybe even increase the VM's priority when input is grabbed. That fixed any microstutters I had on my older CPU.
> That is because "session.load(Person.class, 2)" line literally says "and track changes" - as article says.

I'm aware that that what occurs. That is my point. I'm responding to the previous posts statement "No calling a setter on an Entity doesn't automatically issue an sql UPDATE query". This is an example where calling a setter causes an update query to be run.

> That is not how Hibernate or JPA is used normally. It is going out of standard way to achieve the thing you complain about.

What about this not not how Hibernate and JPA are used normally? Are you saying that setters are not normally used? Do you mean that people normally call update or merge to persist an Entity? If so, I agree that is what people normally do. However, when people do that they tend to accidentally introduce bugs. Usually this occurs when they update an entity and then do some validation on it. When the validation fails they think they can avoid sending he changes to the DB by doing nothing. However, that isn't true. They have to manually evict the entity from the session to prevent that from happening.
"App-only unlocking" Oh no.

"Tires with air" What an innovation!
"While ADHD and depression have relatively safe and effective medications"

I don't think administrating a neurotoxic agent like Vyvanse to be safe, in that regard even coke is effective for ADHD, but all those who takes stimulants chronically, will end up regretting it one day.
> people's democratic republic of

“Peaceful and Serene People’s Democratic Republic of…”

http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2019/08/22/1108-republics/
The article switches from facts to speculation as soon as it gets to the subject of the headline.

" . . . veganism is likely to become another major contributor . . . "

" . . . poorly planned vegan diets that do not replace the critical nutrients found in meat, can lead to serious micronutrient deficiencies."

"Vegans are consistently reported to have lower intakes of calcium and vitamin D . . . " With no followup facts as to whether this is too low.

And on and on. Nowhere except the headline is any of it definite.
https://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html
Why so much focus on vegans when most people changing diets are going vegetarians?

It's always about veganism even though what it isn't that popular (at least not compared to vegetarianism).

I bet product labels are contributing to this, because many food products have no animal content at all so they write "vegan" as it checks all boxes and please everyone. But that does not mean people who chose them for diet reasons are vegans. This creates a lot of confusion (I've been vegetarian for two years and my family and friends are still confuse about what I eat -- even though it's extremely simple and about 1/10 person in the world follow the same rules).
Don't forget bicycles are much safer as well. The tiny wheels on scooters make it incredibly easy to fall if you hit a good sized crack in the road, whereas a larger bicycle wheel can just roll right over it.
I (GGP) have also heard it in NRW/Rheinland-Pfalz (Eifel) e.g. from older relatives. It is obsolete, and used less than the Zentner, Pfund.
I was in exactly this situation. I had a static site/blog thing on GitHub pages, but the process just wasn't conducive to spur of the moment writing. I nearly went back to WordPress but it's just far too bloated for my needs, so like you I ended up on Ghost. I went with Ghost because it was nice and streamlined, made writing quick and easy and wasn't too bloated. I still need to take some time to develop a super streamlined theme but it's good enough for now!
Translate this as "we did the math and we think we can afford insurance". A main reason one wouldn't buy those is theft. The market they gain will probably offset the insurance claims.
Physically possible but not economically viable, it’s ~3 grams of tritium out of ~1,000,000,000,000 grams of water.
`open my $fh, '-|', 'ls', '-l', $dir` should do the trick I think, but apparently it only works on platforms with a "real fork" (so fine as long as you don't care about Windows, probably).
> Do you really think people who can't be bothered to learn and understand Hibernate properly are somehow going to take the time to learn and understand "vanilla SQL"? Why?

Because JPA is a magnitude larger space to learn than just SQL.

Or more precisely: using Hibernate in simple applications (CRUD) will cause you issues very soon (sessions missing), some magical saving of data when you a set, doing filtering in streams (and now you take too much fields).

Doing the same with SQL (using JDBC or something like JDBI) won't cause that for simple apps.
Title - hyperinflation is already here!

Content - inflation has been stable over the last year. It may go up or it may not, who knows.
27.5kg begs to differ. For reference xiaomi escooter weights 12kg.
Going from using only JPA/Hibernate for everything, to use a combination of both jOOQ and JPA/Hibernate on a project, is probably the best decision I've made. Using each tool at what I believe they do best.

I use JPA/Hibernate for most writing and inserts. It helps a lot when you're dealing with aggregates with child and child entities. It would be a nightmare to track all changes myself and try do manually do what the ORM is doing for me. Deleted a child of a child of an aggregate? No problem, persist only that.

I've started to separate my JPA/Hibernate entities from my domain models as well, and it looks promising. There's some more mappins, but my domain won't be polluted with database concerns.

Then I use jOOQ for almost all reading of data, reading into custom read models that fit the view they are supposed to be shown in. No problem doing multiple joins or other stuff that would give you an immediate headache when trying to solve using JPA/Hibernate.
Oh yes, that's the other thing - since apparently there is no way to start the scooter without the app, expect it to turn into a brick in few years time when the company/app disappears or if they simply decide it's not worth supporting a few years old product anymore.
From Egypt.
Init scripts are just executable files.

They can be written in any compiled language you like or even an interpreted language, if you are prepared to add the dependency of an interpreter for that language at boot time.

This is a lot simpler than migrating to (and getting locked in to) systemd.
France to ban some domestic flights where train available due to climate measure
Can you switch to OpenBSD? It is the best for such things.
Are they made out of paper

Basically, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_shingle

How can a solid slate roof need replacement after only few decades?

Putting in a new solid slate roof today is stupidly expensive, and basically nobody does that outside of the very top end. You can probably change your asphalt shingle roof 4 times for the price of putting up a slate roof.

Essentially it's a question of priority. Most people probably don't plan to live more than 20-25 years in their current house, so why not go for the cheapest option that gets the job done and let the next owner worry about fixing the roof.
"Few nations like the idea of Iran enhancing its nuclear capabilities"

Lol. No nation in over a decade likes this idea except for maybe North Korea. Sure Israel has always been the most vocal, but Iran having the bomb is an international liability.

Even the Sunni Arabs stripes have changed. Common enemies make strange bedfellows. Also, the Iranians have been willing to flex against their neighbors more recently. See the 2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack.

My bet is that there's likely been a lot of international cooperation behind this and every other attempt. The Israelis likely take the blame to help others save face.

Consider the US/EU/Russians/Turks have called out Israelis after umpteen assassinations. No punitive actions have materialize.

Instead, trade has flourished with the aforementioned parties, and now we have the Abraham Accords, and the Saudi's might even open their door.