skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol, non-inflating is bad.

People aren't owed a risk-free return on thier capital and inflation is an incentive to invest. You're looking for a merged risk-free long-term store of value and medium of exchange. There's no reason to couple those two. It's actually counter-producive as they have different objectives. Money's job is to remain stable enough for as long as you hold it and cheap to transact. A long-term store of value's job is to go up.

Money is your short-term medium of exchange and lossy store of value. Which you use to buy long-term store of value. This is how capital is productively allocated while also creating a stable financial system.

The ability to adjust the money supply is crucial to reacting to shocks, to a changing population, and a changing economy. Taking away the knobs from the Fed removes their ability to create a stable monetary system in which business and individuals can operate.

If you actually look back in time you'll see under the gold standard, an attempt at this, boom/bust cycles were worse and more exaggerated. And much harder to control. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

This whole trope about the fed "stealing" 99% of money's value over the last 100 years is voodoo fringe economics. These are the people who used to hang out with megaphones at the corder of 5th and Market. Of course it went down, they told you it would, and they told you to buy something else with it.
Why take a shot at Florida? CDC shows 159 covid deaths / 100k. That's on par with California and much lower than New Jersey, Mass, NYC, etc.
No, the coin doesn't have a memory, so the chance of tails is still 40% making it still optimal to choose heads.
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That's my point too...
Ask HN: How to automate copy most recent file in folder to clipboard on macOS?
What's the best way to get the most recently added file to a folder and add it to the clipboard?

I send screenshots to a particular folder, and regularly need to drag the file with the most recent timestamp into a window--though paste would probably do.

Should this be an AppleScript? Maybe Keyboard Maestro macro? Am I missing out on some other great utility?
you're not betting on the number of heads/tails per 10 trials though, each trial is independent with a 60% of heads. In a striaght-up prediction you should always choose heads, it the how much to wager that is the question.
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> I'm not sure why that's called out. If you've just had 6 heads in a row the next 4 "should" be tails, so it's not an add thing to bet on tails is it?

I realize you're probably joking, but since this argument is intuitively appealing to many people, I will answer as if it was serious: if you have a weighted coin that is 60% likely to land on heads, that means it's 60% likely to land on heads on any given toss. On the first toss. On the second toss. Any given toss. Even after you have tossed it 6 times and seen 6 heads in a row, the coin is still 60% likely to land on heads. The coin has no "memory". Previous results have no effect on future results.
That’s just false
Why doesn’t GitHub Actions limit the environment variables it exposes to jobs/steps? The codecov step doesn’t need my GitHub or PyPI tokens! Environment variables should be opt-in for every step in the pipeline: I should have to explicitly list every environment variable I want to expose. This leak is as much on GitHub as it is on Codecov
> No one can know the effects of Oxitec’s artificial DNA entering the human bloodstream through mosquito bites

I'm still not sure I understand the problem. This entire experiment feels like a much safer version of the time the USA released a massive amount of DDT to end polio transmission [0]. DDT is obviously horrible for humans, but now we also live in a country without polio. There are costs to everything. Nothing is perfect.

Please provide better evidence than "having non-natural DNA in your blood is bad".

[0] - https://academic.oup.com/envhis/article/22/4/696/4057684
It's still pretty huge in the enterprise behind-the-scenes world of EDI exchange. I work in the railroad industry and use it pretty much daily (in addition to sftp, ftps, and other protocols).
Audiophiles are a different breed.
If we're limiting it to "used by computers", and "actually used in some meaningful non-hobby volume" maybe the T1/DS1 TDMA protocol? That dates back to 1962.

Or maybe morse code counts as a protocol?, Still around in VOR (VHF omnidirectional range) and NDB (Non-directional beacon) in the aviation world.
As a long-ago grad of one of these fancy-schmancy schools with vast endowments and big revenue streams from application fees, I have this question, and complaint:

Why haven't they expanded their number of students in proportion to population growth? Why shouldn't their product be available to more people? Yeah, small class size? BS. They've mastered the art of large lectures and small sections.

They enjoy government subsidies: tax exemptions on endowment profits and revenue streams. That's because they're considered educational institutions serving the common good. Maybe those tax exemptions should be scaled back for institutions that don't scale up with population.

So, Ivy League, make like Cal and other public universities: Make it your mission to educate lots of people. Quit bragging about your selectivity.

</rant>
Exactly. As I said in another reply, remediating a poor K-12 education is not the point of going to college.
They do. Well, most do. Well, some do. With the modern day race quotas (harsh phase, but that's the reality) in place it turns out that suddenly admissions exams are racist. It's wrong think to believe that you have to pass an exam to be accepted to the highest of higher level learning.
Pretty frequently, yes. It doesn't take that long on modern, moderately-powered devices. Even when I was using a mid-tier device from a decade ago, compilation time was still around half an hour, which was less than most Rust projects I've encountered are on modern and reasonably high-end hardware, despite doing much more and being much larger.
Nothing really.

Luca app just had more hype/better marketing.
CEO activism in America is risky business
I don’t know much about LA homelessness, but I have plenty of experience with stoners smoking away their opportunities.
Not sure if it's okay in high temperatures though. When the air temp in the car can go as high as 60 C, black surfaces can go as high as 80 C or more.
About time Humans eradicated mosquitoes - they are by far the number 1 animal, that kills humans and are responsible for untold misery and suffering to humans, livestock and wildlife. Of course their predators may decline somewhat but that’s a price worth paying. Humans have decimated so many ecosystems - eg in Great Britain were no large beneficial predators remain - that this change pails in comparison.
Not in my experience. Except for very well known brands like Coca Cola and Mars, the store-brand products are always front and center in all shelves, and all in-store marketing (flyers, catalogs, promotions) is for the store branded products. This is for Carrefour, Franprix and Monoprix, not sure how it is in the US.
I think it is tricky.

The claimed "time ~ experience" correlation certainly exists, and in a long established discipline, like plumbing, experience is almost unquestionably a virtue.

In a young discipline, such as computers, there is a very concrete risk of confusing experience with not-moving-with-the-times, certainly on the party claiming experience.

So it is probably very much a case-by-case judgement call ?
You've just discovered the Gambler's Fallacy.
I guess you are American from the US.

See, the problem is that you are savages, no offense.

Of course smoking in public offices must be restricted by the government, which represent the voters and which in turn are elected to govern the State.

The public cannot harm the health of the citizens that it has to protect by mandate.

If you wanna smoke and harm yourself (I am a smoker myself) do it on private property, away from people that have to be there for reasons beyond their will (for example testify at a trial).

Of course the government is the solely ultimate responsible of controlling (i.e. banning for some uses) hard drugs.

Who would you put in charge of it?

Of course it has to control guns, you can't let it control to private entities that profit from arms, it would be crazy!

You would see kids that go to school and shoot other kids.

Lucky us nobody in the World has ever thought of not strictly controlling guns!

That would be a nightmare!

Of course it is the only one who can ban diesel cars from cities and all of the above, you need laws to make it happen, the parliament writes and approves them, it's government's duty to enforce them.

Government is not the enemy, government is the average of public opinion that becomes ruling class for a brief period of time depending on how many votes that coalition of ideas and (of course) interests can get from the citizens.

The idea that the government is formed by aliens who come from another galaxy to ruin our otherwise beautiful peace and harmony is idiotic at best.
I don’t know where you would even look for that kind of statistics for companies that might use Java. That said, America has:

1,829,875 companies with 5-9 employees
779,922 companies with 10-19 employees
467,634 companies with 20 - 49 employees
170,749 companies with 50 - 99 employees

Of that a few are pure software companies, but it’s far more common to want to automate something. Which often means outsourcing it, but then they simply can’t afford these kinds of large projects.

At the other end only 23,553 companies have 1,000+ employees. Yet even at that scale it’s not guaranteed to have large development teams in house, a single hospital can have 1000+ employees and use mostly 3rd party software with a few generalists to stitch everything together.
If anyone wants to see Kelly in action, I made an app where you define an edge and a wager (% of pot or absolute amount) and see how you fare compared to the optimal bet strategy.

https://kelly-criterion.netlify.app/

https://github.com/breeko/kelly-criterion
You are lying. You know most students at top schools aren't capable of doing serious scholarly work or engineering. There are more than enough spots for every good student. State schools like UT Austin have 20,000 students who can barely handle freshman level science and math.
You can find a detailed description of the RF system aboard the spacecraft here: https://web.pa.msu.edu/people/edmunds/Saturn/new_horizons_rf...

It's light on the details of any of the upper layers, but the vast majority of big-ticket government space missions use protocols developed by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS): https://public.ccsds.org/.

CCSDS publishes a wide range of open standards that run the gamut from very high bandwidth links for LEO observation satellites all the way to very low-rate, robust delay-tolerant links for deep space. For an overview of the standards at a very high level, I suggest taking a look at CCSDS 130.0-G-3, "Overview of Space Communications Protocols": https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/130x0g3.pdf
More broadly most applicants apply to several schools. If there are as many spots as applicants and each applicants apply to k schools, you could go as low as 1/k average admittance percentage (rates will be higher when colleges accept applicants that do not come: you could have 100% rate after all). With k = 12, you're at about a 8% lower bound for the average college.

For elite colleges that will attract more applications and will have fewer admitted-but-does-not-come applicants, 4% is not that low.

If the marginal cost of an extra application is lowering (say, because we went from typewriting & mailing everything to copy-pasting & online applications), the number of applications per applicant will go up and thus the admission rate will go down.
Do you have examples of how that would be used in real life decisionmaking?
Made an account just to comment: Goodreads seems to be way more interested in selling books than recommending books, and they want to sell books from Amazon primarily, then other major online retailers. I'll give points for including "smaller" retailers like Indiebound, but they're at the bottom of the list.

I just switched to LibraryThing and I'm in love with it. It not only predates Goodreads but it runs circles around it. Go to a book page on LibraryThing and you're treated to the most common tags for it, people with similar libraries to yours who have it in their libraries, member recommendations for similar books, lists the book appears on, forum conversations, and a full list of translators, editors, and illustrators. Want to acquire the book somehow? You can configure LibraryThing to have links to major retailers and even search for local book shops and libraries and have them appear in all book pages. AND, if you want to swap a book for another book instead, it gives you links to swap sites with how many are available and how many are requesting said book.
I thought a byte ment “by eight”

What’s a nibble of a byte is 8bits
That "During the current FLoC origin trial" bit scares me though. Why should I assume the scope of implicit inclusion in FLoC won't be expanded in the future?

I don't exactly trust this opt-out header. The spec makes it sound like it's not so much a request to the user agent not to use cohorts in general. Rather it's a security-in-depth measure to prevent third-party scripts or injected spyware from exploiting certain functions. So those functions are disabled for resources loaded from that domain. Chrome, meanwhile, can still do whatever it likes.
Yep when Korolev passed away their moon program with their super complex N1 rocket died as well.
Point taken and I agree with the examples you provided.

I would argue this is not quite the problem you make it out to be, because generally speaking, people tend to be strong or weak in a subject overall.

If you're generally good at math, getting tripped up by vectors is not a death knell for pursuing coursework at that level. But there is a massive divide between the ability of someone "generally good" at math and "generally bad" at math. Tests do a really good job of capturing that, actually.
The metadata itself is not a moat. ISBN APIs allow for easy access to primary data attributes of a book.

The social data that Goodreads aggregates is definitely a moat, because it powers their SEO efforts further.
Yes it is irrational. That's a common statistical misconception, the key thing here is that every flip has a 60% chance of being heads.

The result of each flip is completely independent of what came before it. In your example the 7th flip is just as likely to be heads as the first flip, or any of the other 5 flips that landed on heads.
Consumer products were less flexible
The FTP protocol has support for this:

$ /usr/bin/ftp
ftp> help
Commands may be abbreviated. Commands are:
...proxy...

While I've never been able to make that work correctly, it supposedly allows transfers between two remote hosts (all cleartext of course). The logins work, but the gets and puts don't.

It didn't seem worth the time to set up, and similar functionality has been added to SSH file transfer.

The SITE command can also run arbitrary programs on the server (becoming something like an rsh), which will never be added to SFTP. I've actually written a couple web applications that drive a VAX with "site spawn" and some DCL.
But I am also a primate, mammal, vertebrate, animal, terran life-form. And going the other direction I am homo sapiens as opposed to neanderthal, caucasian, German, member of my specific family. Why draw a sharp line specifically at "human"..?
Each toss is independent of prior (and subsequent) tosses, so no matter what, a given tosshas 60% chance of landing heads. Rationally, one should bet heads on any given toss.

But most people would agree with the irrational bet. This tendency is known as the Gambler’s fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy).
Last year I made an app for a professor that tells you your chances of getting into Harvard based on your high school circumstances. The results are pretty crazy: https://wkoury.github.io/harvard-admissions/
> And I thought the factory pattern itself came from the GoF, but I might be misremembering.

It did, and GoF certainly influenced OOP outside of Java, too. But EJB created a need into which the Factory pattern was really the only solution. (GoF precedes EJB and even Java.)

But certainly its not the only thing; Java hit popularity right around the time GoF was most influential; OOP languages whose ecosystems developed earlier (e.g., C++) or later (e.g., C#, though GoF-heavy code isn’t unheard of there) wouldn’t be as influenced by it, all things being equal. Java just had the perfect combination of language features, early specs like JEE (which included Beans), and timing to be naturally inclined for maximum naive GoFism.
Airtable API: What is it missing?
Book metadata quality is extremely important and it's hard to get right in a short timeframe (e.g., < 3 years).

Over the past decade, Goodreads builds a huge army of volunteer members (120,000+) to help correct book metadata [1][2].

But to compete with Goodreads, a new service can start from a vertical, instead of ALL BOOKS IN THE WORLD. A subreddit could be a good MVP.

- [1] https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/What-is-a-Goodreads-Lib...

- [2] https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/220-goodreads-librarian...
>I guess it's a matter of personal taste, because for me, the disadvantages you list are what makes an open-world RPG desirable.

Totally agree with it being a matter of personal taste. If people didn't enjoy those kinds of games they wouldn't make them.

>For me, it's much better for immersion than most modern games which focus on tight storytelling: you're special, have to follow your destiny, everything in the world is placed there to drive the plot, help you in your quest or entertain you.

I'm not really a big fan of linear story driven games either to be honest. Most of them go way too far in the opposite direction have have many of those flaws you describe in your post. The modern final fantasy games or the Drake series type stuff all have those problems.

>So let's hope for plenty of RPGs for every taste in the future.

100% agree with this. More variety is always better.

I think where our tastes seem to differ when it comes to these kinds of games is more in the implementation of exploration.

Say, take a game like dark souls. I find its world to be more immersive and suitable for roleplaying a character than something like daggerfall. In dark souls, you escape from a prison, end up in some dying kingdom, get a vague hint about what's going on and you're pretty much left on your own to piece it out and figure out what needs to be done and where to go. But you don't have to if you don't want to hell, you can turn around and play an entirely different main story if you want to and you're skilled enough.

The world and the NPCs don't feel like they exist for your quest, as you wander around you get the impression it really is a dying world full of lost souls awaiting the inevitable. Everything you find feels like an actual part of the world. There's a reason for it to be there, both gameplay wise and usually if you pay enough attention, you can figure out the story of why the item's there, even with random pickups like souls.

To me that feels more immersive than walking into a house and being like, oh ya someone lives there, look their table's set up, or that NPC just told me they need to go take a shit.

Because in the end, it's a video game not a life simulator. The world in a game doesn't need to be a complete reflection of our own mundane world for it to be realistic and immersive. The world just needs to be consistent, well realized and the gameplay and story should go hand in hand. The game shouldn't tell you the story, it's not a movie or a book, you should play the story.

For me, the best balance is games that have a story and structure, but leave it vague and open ended enough for you to create your own story by playing. I feel like those rare games that manage to do that, are the ones that really utilize the full potential of video games as a unique entertainment medium.
In practice, I agree we need more. In particular, I think requiring that their finances be completely transparent the rest of their lives would be a huge step forward.
Amazon bought CDnow which was all human-curated and had very high recommendation value, but that doesn't scale with the size of today's music catalog tail when people are only renting (aka streaming) music
That's the gambler's fallacy in action. So long as each event is independent, the prior ones have no impact on the likelihood of future events. If you've flipped the coin 60 times and they've all been heads, there's no reason to expect the next 40 will be tails. They still have better odds of being heads.
You could probably give a 23 year old a degree from a top school, without him or her actually attending it and still massively improve their life.

If you come from a lower income background such as myself college is needed since you need to surround yourself with better people.
I didn't mention anything about increasing socioeconomic prospects of students.

The things you're saying are contradictory. If all the good people go to college then college will always be required to get a good entry level job by definition. Why would any employer give someone a "good" job if they didn't go to a "good" college that has all of the "good" students?
It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education.

"Move fast and break things" is great when your worst-case scenario is your parents letting you move in while you clean up after your failed startup. It's got a lot more downside when it's an experiment with the development of real humans.
Yep, that sounds exactly right to me - about 30 minutes on older hardware. That's very odd to me that you have 30 minute rust build times - as someone who works on a rust project professionally, with 10KLOC, that isn't my experience at all. If Rust gets into the kernel I would expect it to account for <1% of the code, so even if it were 100x slower to compile, which it isn't, I don't see it having an impact.
How much of the home tools and amateur construction market does the hone despot have? I'd image they have more than 50 as well
That's not even an argument. It seems you're commenting in bad faith trying to trap me in some linguistical mistake.

I did say perhaps which, last I checked, is a sign of a rhetorical thought.

Apple is not perfect, I don't like Apple, but epic is selling crack to kids in my community. at least apple keeps intermediaries between them and their child slaves. I'm not taking sides here. All these huge companies are deplorable and should never have been allowed to grow so large.
That's racist, why call paint white?
Justice Thomas's Misguided Concurrence on Platform Regulation
> Android is definitely less secure than iOS, you can easily verify this by googling.

You can also verify that the world is run by lizard people by googling.
Haxe does this https://haxe.org/

Is it a better language with better workflow? Maybe. But I do know there are people using it in just this way.
That's very interesting! Can you talk some more about what you see?
"What's the oldest protocol that's still regularly used?"

People are answering with old telephone codes and British naval signals, etc.

You should be thinking:

- The muslim call to prayers.

- The affirmation of faith, as it is spoken in mass or (protestant) church ... or the first and second readings, followed by a Gospel reading.

- The Jewish rite of circumcision (which is, among other things, almost certainly a signaling mechanism).