skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Obviously 30%, let alone 60%, of the population cannot be considered 'upper class', or even 'middle class'.

Huh? Why can't 30% (or 60%, for that matter) of the population be middle class?

Wikipedia [1]:

> The American middle class is a social class in the United States.[1][2] While the concept is typically ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use,[3] contemporary social scientists have put forward several ostensibly congruent theories on the American middle class. Depending on the class model used, the middle class constitutes anywhere from 25% to 66% of households.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class
They could just subpoena websites and retailers that sold them previously and start there.
I wonder if OP isn't confusing Ming China with Qing China. The Ming dynasty had a period of exploration and then it stopped, but not because it closed itself off, just because it was becoming unstable.

Qing China is the one that famously closed itself off from the world.
Well, it can export as json, xml and I’m sure some other formats as well, so in principle it can.
What's wrong with Timidity exactly?
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What's the plan with this? Is it to incorporate it into Firefox to improve its Web Speech API implementation?
All of a sudden we need a QALY analysis to justify an immediate reaction from the government? Things sure have changed in the past couple hours when it comes to What people think is required of America’s COVID19 response.
> We know that there are no side effects that are common enough to be of real concern

No, we can't know that. Some affects don't show up for a long time. One example is women.

Women's bodies are complex because they go through so many changes. These changes affect how they respond to medical treatments. In other words:

- Just because pre-menopause women respond well doesn't mean post-menopause women will.

- Just because pre- or post-menopause women respond well doesn't mean women who are going through menopause respond well.

- Just because non-pregnant women respond well to the vaccine for a month doesn't mean that pregnant women will respond well.

- Just because 6-month pregnant women respond well doesn't mean 3-month pregnant women will respond well.

- Any issues with the vaccine during pregnancy may not show up until after the child is born.

- Women's hormones are fluctuating wildly at the beginning and after pregnancy. These are also times that need a lot of representation in the study.

In fact, the amount of change women's bodies undergo affects medical treatment so much that many clinical trials deliberately under-represent women to simplify the study, and then use the results of the trial to recommend prescriptions for women.
If anything that lowers growth is a kind of violence, then it is tautological to say that you cannot lower growth without violence.
I found it weird that a generic foundation with a generic website would post such an unexpectedly opinionated article. Sure enough, it's politically motivated.

> The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a libertarian economic think-tank in the United States dedicated to the "economic, ethical and legal principles of a free society." FEE publishes books, daily articles, and hosts seminars and lectures. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Economic_Educat...
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Whoops, mis-copy-and-paste. Thanks!
Feds recommend pausing J&J vaccine over blood clotting concerns
School custodian refuses to download app that monitors location, got her fired
Exhibit A. A-Rod (Baseball player) owns 13k units: https://www.merlynnacquisitions.com/post/a-rod-owns-13-000-u...
No, much easier. You can deflect off the 1 into the 7 and pick up the 10 with the 1 pin. It’s not bad, for the 10 you might pass the 1 in front of it, but it’s very doable, and not nearly impossible.
You seem to be talking about a caricature of the "silicon valley rich."

Who are you talking about when you say "this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sense of responsibility"?
Oh they are! Tacos is their name, brick is their taste. Be proud of mexican-american tacos, they are the real deal.

Peanut butter is just non-existent because there are an amazingly huge number of jams, marmelades, local honeys.
Ok this is theory and what people tell you.
In fact, everyone is just totally addicted to Nutella. The one and only.
The first part of your comment is arguing for the second justification. Which I agreed was logically fine to do, and I think you laid out the case well.

The second part seems to reveal a difference in opinion unlikely to be resolved easily in this forum. Food for thought, though - thank you!
> You are paying for the months as you use them.

If that were true then there wouldn't be a cancellation fee.

> You merely agreed you'd use the service for a certain amount of months in exchange for a discount.

That's disingenuous anti-consumer corporate bullshit.

> Is paying rent on a year long contract is a loan? Is paying your monthly phone bill (which is on a 2 year contract) a loan?

They both should be considered worse than loans. They're not only demanding that you pay all the money if you want out but they're also fully necessary in a modern tech society.

> Agreeing to pay something in the future for services they will render in the future is not a loan.

It is if you have to pay for those services even if you don't want them any more.
It can also be seen as a huge opportunity to create niche-stars. There is little value for the world in thousands copycats when you can have a large distribution. However, there is value to find the best fit. I have hope in a future in which everyone can find the best doctor to fit its own needs or even better, where the number of doctor "specialities" is broader.
I think I've automatically double-clicked the back button every back-button click since the back button could be hijacked, like years ago. Same with iOS. I try to use my iPhone less, so I uninstalled all apps, and access everything through Safari. It's the absolutely worst experience and I love it. Reddit is practically unusable unless you visit the `www.` site, but by far the worst thing is visiting a site that hijacks the back button.
Good article and explanation on the real-world issues that can be encountered with I2C devices. I wish the author had gone into more detail on how to solve those issues by using discrete sensors instead of breakout boards.
Not to condone but I never rely on back button when using references in context of some longer material I am currently reading. I always right click and open in new window. So to me the problem mostly mute.
If is immediately clear how the problem fits the model conceptually, if the framework doesn't require deep new skills, and the tooling, documentation, such are good, the answer is "start building".

(for instance, imagine some Sinatra-like web framework which could be in any programming language -- the deep complexity is in the nature of http for which your past experience is portable...)

If the above are missing you look to remediations such as: maybe reading the source code is better than the reading to docs, intensive training in the subject (i challenged myself to make a print a day and now I have a pile of burned out thermal printers, samples of every industrial adhesive I could find, and walls covered with photo prints and anime art), doing a pilot project to scout risks (e.g. build an instance bigger than prod will be on day four), etc.

Also: frequently the "onboarding" is to a system that already uses the framework. For instance, this is how React found me. Then thinking hard about the problem of "how do I update the UI when I receive data from the server?" did pilot projects in Vue and MobX-React.
It's pretty easy to "vaccine shop" (if you care about it) at least in the US with all of the scheduling being done online. Sure, if you go to one of the big vaccination sites, you may not get a choice, but it seems that sites offering J&J have been advertising that and ones that don't indicate seem to be Pfizer & Moderna (or if J&J, give you a choice, at least around Massachusetts).

J&J is also widely used in the US for people who might have issues with scheduling a second shot, for example people who are homeless, or are home-bound.
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One in three of people do not have middle class professions. Only about 35% of people go to college at all!

But anyway even if you don't agree with that, the original claim was that they were 'upper class'! Which is obviously ludicrous. You do not need to be an elite to own a house - drive down almost any suburban street in American you'll see people who own houses.
Disentangling AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
While warnings of skills shortages are arguably overblown, why do we seem to change our ideas about what skills are most in-demand faster than those roles can be filled in the first place? More broadly, and with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, why does AI research have so many different names and guises over the years?
》 British Empire financed itself with ... slaves for all its History

That is just not true.

British Empire abolished slavery worldwide. They went into war with many countries that supported slavery. They even took huge loan to end slavery, that took hundreds years to repay (until 2015).
How could a Covid vaccine cause blood clots?
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>a democratic non-profit foundation

Isn't that what Nominet basically was and here we are?

>Why are we still paying >10$/year for less than a kilobyte of information hosting just so that shady businesses can make a profit?

To provide a minimum barrier to people simply writing a script and registering literally every domain in existence. Either to resell or troll. Probably also to provide a financial paper trail in case of abuse, illegal activity or other reasons.
Why only this 2 companies? Why don't we mobilize all pharma of the world to produce more mRNA vaccines quickly? Intellectual property? I think it's an extraordinary time so we should all agree to vaccinate all earthlings quicker is much higher priority than commercial interests.
From the comments:

> Bowling is hard on the looks.

Harsh, but hilarious.
Technical debt = "why didn't you do it right the first time?"
> The issue is the large number of people who rely on cars for work

Sooo sure. But the only reason most people need cars for work is because we just build car-friendly infrastructure and then all of a sudden we need cars.

Imagine if we just built mixed-use walkable neighborhoods and towns of medium density. Why would we need cars? Or at least why would we need so many?

It’s different in Europe to some extent, at least, since many Europeans have access to alternatives.

I read lots of comments like this that think the problem is centered around the cars. But the cars are the problem that need to be optimized away. We need subtractive thinking, not more more more. “How will they use their cars?” Should be more like “why would they need cars?”
> So I don't think it's something you can solve with money alone, having functional parents is always going to set you up to do better in life.

Do you think your parents being in poverty (if they were) or a similar situation made it as difficult for them as it was for you? It seems to be an obviously vicious cycle that is difficult to break without education and opportunity for people in these situations.
LOL, I knew I knew the quote, didn’t remember from where and WikiQuote gave me that source. Should be corrected but I’m on mobile at the moment, I’ll do so later if no one does in the meantime. That’ll teach me to trust the internet.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Unix
I believe some of those are probably true.

That being said, I'm sad to see such a blob of unsubstantiated "facts" at the top of HN.

I'm also not sure it has anything to do with the subject at hand.
The future of crypto is pretty obvious when a company is set to do a raise for USD and not BTC.

Especially when BTC is at record highs.
I don’t think people are programmed that way.

I think there’s a disproportionate number of people who take that approach among people who consider themselves smart, maybe because they assume they know better by default. Most people don’t try to operate by thinking on that scale because it isn’t conducive to daily life and happiness, and most people are just seeking out happiness (no matter how possibly misguided their approaches might be).

I think it’s more of a lens effect. Cynicism in concentrate, my friend!

(I think a person is finally “old” when they realize old platitudes aren’t just platitudes. “Take time to stop and smell the roses” is both literal and allegorical ageless wisdom in aphorism. Wisdom we forget to apply too often for our own good)
If the tone of this article seems off to you, congratulations! You've got a good sense of media awareness. The FEE is funded by the remaining Koch brother and a foundation that gave the founding funds to the Ayn Rand Institute.

Unsurprisingly, what follows is a very conspiracy-leaning article.
So this past year the government has been willing to let unemployment, suicides and drug overdoses jump due to isolation and loneliness caused by lockdowns, child abuse to skyrocket and mental health to plumment due to schools being kept closed, all because we needed to stop covid at any cost. Now one person dies out of almost 7 million who received the vaccine, and we need to stop administering the J&J vaccine "out of an abundance of caution"? I'm starting to think more and more that the shitty decisions regarding covid in the past year were because it was an election year.
Which do you think a more likely cause for improving circumstances in that case, totalitarianism or improved trade relations with the world's largest economy?
It doesn't mean the TOS should be legal though.
you can still run up technical debt doing things the 'right way'. Sometimes the quick way is the right way https://hackernoon.com/on-technical-debt-7bac65edf349
MIDI file playback support in macOS was removed in the 64-bit only transition in Catalina (since it relied on legacy QuickTime). If you opt to install Apple Garageband (free, preinstalled on new Macs I think) then that can play (and edit) them.

The OS still has a software synth and a high-level API for playing them, there's just no bundled app to interface with it.
Yes. A couple more points worth noting:

Sir Michael Lyons wrote a report on Nominet some years ago. The Nominet board basically ignored all his recommendations, though his report was widely supported by the membership.

Axel Pawlik was head of RIPE, which is an Internet membership organisation with a good relationship with its members and a reputation for doing worthwhile things for the benefit of the Internet as a whole.
> Didn't housing prices fall dramatically in the 2008 financial crisis?

No, not really.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/240991/average-sales-pri...

> Didn't various governments put vast amounts of money into the economy in an effort to ensure house prices returned to their previous levels and continued to rise?

No.

They put lots of money into the economy as Keynesian economic expansion policy, to combat unemployment.

House prices simply weren’t as dramatically effected as you seem to think. Check the statistics on the previous link if you don’t believe me.
The Netherlands really has most? I honestly don’t believe that without any supporting evidence.
What would we do if this happened now?

I think the Covid response has been quite something to watch. There's obviously been some pressure on governments to put their own citizens first, sometimes to the detriment of other nations. But there's definitely been some incredible collaboration.

Would this be a situation where the 'top people' across the world put their heads together super quickly and come up with something? Cloud seeding? Underwater vegetables? More freedom to trade? Perhaps it would be harder to act as a solo nation because weather travels pretty quickly and there'd be more impetus to work together?

Really interesting to think about!
I guess the newline that echo without -n would add doesn't matter that much.

OTOH -e, depending on your shell, is either necessary (e.g. bash), or unnecessary but harmless (e.g. zsh) or insufficient (e.g. dash). If you want to print binary stuff portably, you need to use printf(1).

(Shameless plug: you can use https://github.com/jwilk/printfify to generate printf commands for binary files.)

In this case, base64 encoding is much more efficient:

/EiD5PDowAAAAEFRQVBSUVZIMdJlSItSYEiLUhhIi1IgSItyUEgPt0pKTTHJSDHArDxhfAIs
IEHByQ1BAcHi7VJBUUiLUiCLQjxIAdCLgIgAAABIhcB0Z0gB0FCLSBhEi0AgSQHQ41ZI/8lB
izSISAHWTTHJSDHArEHByQ1BAcE44HXxTANMJAhFOdF12FhEi0AkSQHQZkGLDEhEi0AcSQHQ
QYsEiEgB0EFYQVheWVpBWEFZQVpIg+wgQVL/4FhBWVpIixLpV////11IugEAAAAAAAAASI2N
AQEAAEG6MYtvh//Vu/C1olZBuqaVvZ3/1UiDxCg8BnwKgPvgdQW7RxNyb2oAWUGJ2v/VY2Fs
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Firefox user here, no problem at all.
That's an interesting view, but how do you know it's the CIA, and not for instance, the army, mosad, scientology, or apple?
No, it doesn't literally suggest those founders are Protestant, it suggests those founders are following certain cultural norms that originated in highly-Protestant parts of the Northeast US, sometimes called the 'Protestant work ethic'. It does not say you need to be Protestant to follow those norms.
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Dependency weight is more a factor for maintenance than initial development.

The apps I write I have to support for many years, so this dependency weight does concern me. By dependency weight I am more referring to the breadth of authors/maintainers and not the actual amount of code. When working in the Java/.NET worlds you still deal with a ginormous amount of dependency code, but they are one maintainer that is funded. The downside of monolithic dependencies is lack of flexibility and vendor lock in.
The problem isn't a "housing shortage". The problem is that interest rates are so low, so everyone who has a bit of money on the side tries to invest in the real estate market.

The result is that for every house thats sold, there isn't just someone who wants it as a living space, but also 5 people who want it as an investment. So 5 people outbid each other, the highest bidder gets it, and then the sucker who wanted to live there but couldn't afford to buy it ends up renting it.

The problem (at least where I live) is absolutely not that there's too little housing. The problem is that a lot of people want to make money from the real estate market, which drives up prices.

Also, because these investors really really want to make a profit, they'll rather let an appartment sit empty than charge lower rent. The appartement I live in was empty for a year because nobody wanted to pay the high rent. (I was able to negotiate a bit, but it's still pretty high)

Pretending that the people who use the real estate market as investment don't profit off the working class who can barely afford housing is laughable.
Plenty of those tech startups that make the rich richer are exploiting the poor.
The wealthy capitalists are paying much less than 40% tax rates. Tax rates for capital are cheaper than tax rates for labor.
All projects that follow economic constraints have technical debt. It's meaningless for the silent majority of the industry that delivers product and maintains them only when the customer pays for it, otherwise never touches them again.
Bizarre though it may sound, some politicians in America are in favour of badly designed tax systems, for anti-tax reasons.

By making tax as difficult as possible, they recruit supporters for their anti-tax stance, and they can claim they're delivering on their anti-tax policy by 'making the system collapse under its own weight' or 'making everyone aware of how much tax they're paying' and they can allow loopholes and fraud opportunities and they can collect donations from tax preparation companies.
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This is pretty cool. Personally, I would love a multiplatform app like this. My wish list for it would be to:
- Run on Android, Windows and Linux
- Have a self hosted Web front end (this is already here)
- Use encrypted flat files for storage with data stored in a way that lets the app do incremental synchronisation between instances (examples of what I mean: git, rsync).

Perhaps use different encryption types and password recovery mechanisms for different kinds of data. For example encrypt your forum passwords with an easily resetable pin, encrypt your Web banking details with a secure password(or 2fa) you can reset with a key you can print out and store in a safe.
- Finally, support scripting so you can extend the app's functionality.
Why *do* people post code as images?
https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/6rtoh4/produc...

Sure, a bunch of sources linked here.

https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/growin... this is linked there and goes through how the data looks if you correct for all the issues.
That sounds interesting, but either programs deal with schema transforms, or we'll have to write a lot of that kind of logic in XSLT or jq (kind of the same stuff we do with cut, sed, awk, sort and grep for unstructured streams). Not sure it's that useful a feature unless the domain of the programs is narrow.
> Weird phrases that we often mock, such as "action item", or "circling back", are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody.

I hold the opposite belief. Management speak is meant to obfuscate. Instead of just telling a report who disagrees with your decision based on expected outcome to think the way you tell them to, just say "think outside of the box". When you commit to "circling back", you're committing to nothing but having this idea cross the manager's mind at some point in the future.

It's weird that this is the conclusion the author came to from their linked article, considering this is in it:

> This is why you might be tempted to use the readily accessible management metaphor laced language which you’re familiar with. Don’t.

"Technical Debt" is this level of crummy metaphor. I love Cunningham's original definition. Do your best to model the business problem with the understanding you have. Later, pay down that debt by refactoring.

That's not what it means anymore. Tech debt means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. It's a get out of jail free card for any bad software choice.

"That choice will severely limit our capabilities in the future, and be incredibly hard to change."

"I'm willing to take on some tech debt to prioritize shipping."

See? No need to think.
Security.

Privacy.
It's not conspiracy leaning. It's fact. Gas cans don't work because the government doesn't let you have a vent on them anymore.

I used to have gas cans that work. Now I can't get one that works.

Fact.

Edit: And most of the attempts to work around the problems of auto-closing end up causing the user to get gas on themself in the process of attempting to make the stupid broken government-can to work.