skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has a large overhead - easily a few kilobytes per file, depending on filesystem. Poor locality - your data gets scattered across entire disk; even on SSD this matters to some extent. And also starts to break down in some ways already at O(100k) files, e.g. globs in command line stop working. You can work around by splitting files into different directories but at that point it's just easier to use a normal database.
>Now please explain why withdrawing some money from your bank account, which converts a deposit account into currency and causes "printing" of money (this is the only thing that can cause printing of money) is going to cause inflation?

Why do you go directly from OP's comment to this question?

The market perception of downstream inflation arising from USD 'printing' is arguably the origin of price inflation.

We've seen asset inflation (from real estate to crypto to commodities), now we're seeing price inflation follow.

>Shifts in these from one to another may cause swings in M1, and they are the only possible cause of "printing" USD, but they don't cause any inflation.

The US wasn't pulling from equity to print these funds, it was diluting the existing. This isn't a transfer from one asset to another.
Ha, I never thought about digging on old articles on this topic.

- Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992

- Windows 3.1 ... by Microsoft ..., released on April 6, 1992

In windows 3.1 days floppies were the norm, jaz and zip were expensive and not so common.. minidiscs would have been so damn crazy cool as main storage format. So many alternative timelines..
What's the proposed mechanism behind the 500-year periodicity? Without a plausible mechanism it's hard to take seriously.
We can (and probably should) blame Amazon, but at the end of the day it’s you and me on the end of every transaction. Consumers need to be more thoughtful about who and where they buy from, along with the consequences of their choice. I avoid Amazon at all costs. I try to shop through local suppliers (or even - gasp - in-person). I understand when I buy from smaller retailers knowing it will cost to ship and most likely take longer.

As a side point, it seems crazy that the family mentioned in the article decided to abruptly stop selling through shops and suppliers? I wonder did they test their online sales first?
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You are replying to someone requiring recruiters to use their communication method. Not employers. Imagine I send you an email offering you the rough details of some "opportunity", and you reply with some questions, but then instead of answering those questions directly I reply to you with an invitation for a phone call and a refusal to give a direct answer via email/message. Now who is being entitled? You contacted me, not the other way around.

Moreover, unless your business is basic webdev or your skill requirements are very low, I have a hard time believing you are turning down lots of candidates. It's brutal out there for those trying to hire. This is definately not a buyers market, it's a seller's market. It may not be for long, but that's the current situation.
Reminder for everyone wanting to indulge in some MiniDisc nostalgia: There is now a webapp that allows sending MP3s to WebMD recorders over USB:

https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/
Oh, I understand alright, it's you that are already set on a conclusion and then pretend to be discussing it.

> false, it says don't covet your neighbors wife.

It says "don't commit adultery" too. Like I say, god almighty creator of heavan and earth and the whole universe has things to say about me and my gf fucking before we're married. I call bullshit :)

And the "dont't covet" verse is also great: don't covet your neighbour's property (already this is problematic but okay), which includes: cattle, his donkey, his wife, or his servants.

I don't want to worship a set of commandments that puts people on the same footing as oxen. In repeat: disgusting morals which ought to be worth zero to a civilized person.
That doesn't mean much. Other fonts designed for dyslexia have failed:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188700/#!po=34...

I am not going to check every study here, which are helpfully not hyperlinked, but every one I checked showed no effect at all. Kind of disingenuous I think.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/
Ok, when are people grown up?
In the US, the DMVs of many (all?) states sell the data they have on you to 3rd parties without you having a say in it. So there's no telling how many DBs have copies of your data stored.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...
So you're saying the things they do that annoy you are: ignoring you until after you got a good job because you didn't have a CS degree, using devious tactics, and spamming you. And having so much power to affect your career that you don't even like to admit when they annoy you.
Never-ending infrastructure migrations can be a contributer too. "Lets migrate to these new unix hosts, our spaghetti code will run 5 times faster after that"
I very much doubt this. 99 times out of 100 someone who says they are a-political, ascribe to some form of moral relativism, or don't have an ideology, very much are, aren't, and do. They either:

1) Lack the introspection to see it and are unaware of what they take on faith.
2) Are knowingly lying in order to appear more open minded than they are.
3) Are actively undergoing a crisis of faith period in their life where they are looking for a new foundation to replace one that has recently failed them.

Put some skin in the game. Own your assumptions.
> It doesn't sound difficult to me. It has nothing to do with whiteness and maleness; it's about political power.

This kind of attitude is a big problem with US cultural export. You have to realize that the US has a unique history with unique problems. Slavery, segregation etc etc. Majority-minority relations in other countries will have different histories and many different nuances. A straightforward application or translation of US discourse will therefore often be very inappropriate.
Free will does not imply, nor require, determinism. Non-determinism (randomness) does not imply free will. The concepts are orthogonal.
First, that isn't how Chromecast works.. however, for me to cast a movie from my laptop to Kodi I just enable file sharing on the directory that I want to share and then I can access it in Kodi and play it using the remote. I can also serve it via HTTP or SFTP.
My thoughts exactly when I got my first MiniDisc recorder: "Why are we still using floppy disks instead of this?"
Obviously this is a reason otherwise Fuchsia would have the same licence. However Google probably doesn't care that much about having an option to keep it closed source. Antagonism to the GPL comes mainly from Hardware vendors.
Not to talk about the environmental impact!
They really don't, but I'll bite. The "relentless hard-selling" shouldn't be hard to understand when we are in the middle of a public health crisis that can be significantly mitigated through the thing that is "relentlessly" being "sold". Spreading awareness about vaccines is important, and there is enough misinformation and FUD out there that needs to be counteracted to allow people to make not just informed decisions, but decisions that are informed by facts and not nonsense.
A great job queue for PostgreSQL running on Node.js https://github.com/graphile/worker

I've been very happy with it.
Mass?
> FIDL, our IPC system, is a joy. I often smile when debating designs, because whether or not something is in-process or out-of-process can sometimes feel like a small implementation detail to people.

It also applies, partially to COM/UWP, with the "small" difference that to this day, Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero tooling, is ages ahead of the notepad like experience for the IDL files.

Sometimes I wish the WinDev team would spend some time with IPC implementations on other platforms to understand what they are missing, regarding their Stockholm syndrome in COM tooling.

With Fuchsia there is yet another example to learn from.
This reminds me of how excited I used to be to get spam emails. I'm a lot happier to get recruiter spam than I was before getting them. It is awfully tempting to be a dick and treat them poorly, but I rather entertain the calls. Most are very polite too and I'm happy to tell them my current salary and what I don't like about my current job; usually they offer some other career advice from their perspective like what other companies are offering.
Nice! Open source contribution at its finest.
I think a lot of this is due to the language barrier.
Like most French people, I learnt english at school, so following English and American media makes sense, whereas following for ex German or Chinese media would be way harder.
Similarly, since Americans are notoriously bad at foreign languages, it's to be expected they don't follow a lot of foreign non-English media
The Economist had a pair of articles in December last year about the risks of looming inflation. As usual they state an opinion, but provide plenty of discussion and analysis. I know it's from over 6 months ago, but I think they still provide really useful look at the arguments, and knowing the subsequent history gives useful perspective on the different arguments today.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/12/12/after-the-pande...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/12/12/a-surge-in-inf...

This more recent one on inflation in China, and possible knock on effects is also good for an international perspective.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/06/10/s...

They have published a few articles looking more specifically at the US, but I think these are good overviews of the global picture and debate.
Unlike Western colonialism, Russia/USSR developed the new territories. Look at Central Asia, for example. There were no cities, almost no population, no houses for the most part (other than some primitive clay huts), no education, no medical care, sometimes not even written language. Definitely no any kind of industry.

USSR invested billions to build infrastructure, schools, factories, power plants, hospitals, irrigation systems, etc. in the middle of deserts.

These countries still continue to use Soviet infrastructure. They lack resources (including human resources) to build their own. Not a single big project, even something like a power grid or a new hospital was ever built there since USSR collapse.

Also, under USSR every nation had equal rights, even more, USSR invested into building national schools, publishing books in native languages, promoting national culture (musicians, poets, writers). There was not a single Western country that ever did that in the colonies. E.g. when India was liberated, about 90% of the population didn't know how to write. Some american visiting India in the beginning of the XX century, said that the whole colonial budget for education in India is smaller than budget of one school in New York (I don't want to look for original quote, it should be easy to find).

Now, quite on the opposite, Baltic states and Ukraine made it explicitly forbidden to speak Russian, for example. I don't know where else in the world it's explicitly forbidden by law to speak some language. I think that wasn't even true in Nazi Germany, so they surpassed even their masters (Baltic states and Ukraine supported Hitler and still celebrate soldiers that joined German nazi army)
Why do we need to judge her at all?

I can only sympathise with the socialite renouncing the society that continues to criticise them; which in much of this entire thread amounts to judging her for not dedicating her entire life to motherhood.

Her grown-ass children will either be happy for her, or they'll be mourning their loss. Or maybe a mix of both. But they'll deal and life will go on.
Reducing data transfer costs with a Docker registry cache
This statement makes no sense. For a start, stablecoins provide no yield. What you can do is lend your stablecoins and obtain a yield, in the same way that you can lend any currency. The yield is provided by the borrower. Second, the expected return on an investment doesn't tell us whether such an investment is better than another. In order to compare investments, we have to look at the risk-adjusted return.
I think the real issue is laid out at the end

>"If matters of good and evil are not to be resolved by an omniscient God in the future, then Americans will judge and render punishment now. We are a nation of believers. If only Americans could begin believing in politics less fervently, realizing instead that life is elsewhere. But this would come at a cost—because to believe in politics also means believing we can, and probably should, be better"

I think the author is part of a group of largely public intellectuals in the US who have subscribed to the theory of "religion is the opium of the people, but that's a good thing".

Yes, the loss of religion does away with a glue that in some sense kept a sort of false peace intact. Injustices can no longer be explained away with metaphysical explanations, superficial alliances under the banner of faith cannot be maintained. The people who stand to lose from this are the kind of people who write these op-eds. People who benefit from delaying conflict. The people who stand to benefit from the loss of religion are the people who need some justice in this world, not in the next one.
It is still a contested topic among linguists, I keep seeing newly published articles about it. The debate's mainly around whether the standard used for Middle English writing is Anglicised Norse versus Norsified Old English. I've seen strong arguments for both views. If you know English history or know English dialects then viewing some types of English as Anglicised Norse would not be surprising.
> The minidisc is the most “aesthetic” format ever made

... you are on to something here.

(I mean, look at how many movies it shows up in :)
A newbie could simply use the export functionality in observable, which automatically generates iframe code, or vanilla-js code or react code for you.

Quoting other people that don't want to spend 5 minutes on their problem, doesn't make your not wanting to spend 5 minutes on your problem any more valid.

If you want a no code solution for data viz, use Excel, if finding the export button, or reordering variable declarations in an order, where things come before the things they are used by, is already too difficult, then you're not gonna understand D3 anyways.
"The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432288.The_Grass_Is_Alwa...
Hell, even their approach is to retrofit Linux binaries rather than trying to modify Android to run on Fuchsia. Android is a different beast itself, I'd rather see a better, reworked Android runtime and HAL that is idiomatic to Fuchsia rather than this one. The same could be said for ChromeOS too.
The best way imo is the telegram bot
Yeah cause we're right about that
Ask HN: What are some “unfair advantages” that you can gain?
I do think that Jehova's Witnesses requires it of their members. At least previously I believe they were required to do X hours every Y period.
and its sharable to the rest of the world
2016 --> 2018?

Shouldn't that have been 2020, or did you switch to mid-terms there?

If we put "Rust all the system code!" at 2020, we have four years to think about what the next one is going to be.
Infosec Core Competencies
A lot of the Bitcoin are owned by early adopters that no longer have access to them. Bitcoin loss is happening at a pretty high rate because of that. It won't take 24 years.
The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (2018)
"It should come as no surprise that recent advances in big-data analytics and artificial intelligence have created strong incentives for enterprises to amass information about every measurable aspect of their businesses. And financial regulations now require organizations to keep records for much longer periods than they had to in the past. So companies and institutions of all stripes are holding onto more and more.

Studies show [PDF] that the amount of data being recorded is increasing at 30 to 40 percent per year. At the same time, the capacity of modern hard drives, which are used to store most of this, is increasing at less than half that rate. Fortunately, much of this information doesn’t need to be accessed instantly. And for such things, magnetic tape is the perfect solution.

Seriously? Tape? The very idea may evoke images of reels rotating fitfully next to a bulky mainframe in an old movie like Desk Set or Dr. Strangelove. So, a quick reality check: Tape has never gone away!"
When the Illness Is a Mystery, Patients Turn to These Detectives (2019)
AND is not OR, but I understand your confusion.
Would like something like this. I find most of the US political content that shows up, and the discussion around it here completely insufferable.
>They're nothing like Microsoft was

Anti-Trust is about Power. Not market share.

I dont know how others that were there in the 90s thick about it. But I do think Apple today is way more powerful than Microsoft in the 90s. Your PC in the 90s were not the access point of anything in the society other than some games or spreadsheets. Not to mention most of the population dont even have a PC. PC in terms of reach to population is basically a niche.

These days it is hard to argue that. Excluding child and grannies US literally has 100% smartphone ownership. And smartphone ( or more like a pocket personal computer ) is our access point for a lot of thing in our society, and increasingly for almost everything. And it has to go through App Store where Apple is the judge, jury and executioner.
Good old "the world is going to shit".

The simple reality is that it's always been this way and will likely be this way for a long time.
Yes, but the Merlin engine doesn’t burn hydrazine, it burns RP-1 just like the F-1. I fail to see the environmental benefit.

Also, how energy efficient is the production of hydrazine? Non-fossil processes for making fuels tend to be pretty wasteful, take hydrogen from methane compared to hydrogen from electrolysis for instance.
Yeah I know that.
Processes provide better security isolation than just language based security (I think that's what you're talking about). For example with Spectre vulnerabilities they only work within a process (at least the original ones).

There are OSes that use the language for safety and have a single process but having to use memory safe languages is a pretty big limitation! Plus I would imagine it is easier to prove process security than language security.
The same happened to me with many recruiters, but the worst was a recruiter from AWS who wanted to "have a quick chat".

I only had a simple yes/no question about the job that was important enough to me to either refuse or stay considering the position.

The recruiter just uploaded my cv in his database to start the normal long process and never bothered answering to me ever again.

It was a waste of time for everyone involved.
Investors Managing $41tn in Assets Urge Governments to Speed Up Climate Policy
We understand that you have many motivations that are counter to our interests. That's the point - they irritate us, because they're counter to our interests.
Your insistence in using words like "liberation" gives a sense of your ideological zealotry.
> The US still have a better academic culture but the chinese are catching up.

Science is about truth. Dictatorships are about appealing to the dear leader. That's why China will never catch up to free and open countries.
Which currency has the US been devalued by 35% against? Euro? Swiss frank? Japanese Yen? NZD? TWD?
There always seems to be a lot of hate for recruiters here, especially the ones that call out of the blue. I'm the opposite. I love taking these calls. Although I'm not interested, I'm always happy to find out more detail about the role so I can pass it onto others who I know may be interested. I've even gotten nice bottles of whiskey for helping out. Drinking from one right now :)
The "ideal male body" in the last article in the series (in a picture from a tweet) is Fedor Emelianenko, a legendary heavyweight MMA fighter (and that's really understating it).

Of course Fedor is no body-builder, but 80% of males on the planet would probably find it very hard to reach Fedor's physique, even if they trained as hard as he must have.

Anyway Fedor became legendary for his skill and his technique, not his physique. In the olden days of MMA, when men fought like men, in the ring, rather than like animals in a cage, Fedor made his name by bringing down enemies bigger and stronger than himself in a sport were you don't win on points; and also of course for exhibiting something that approached chivalry and honour, as much as such can be found in any sport where two grown men turn each other's face to mush for a crowd's entertainment.

I digress. Fedor's is not the ideal male body. The ideal male brain, maybe - for a time of war, certainly. But he's a professional fighter and most males aren't. Holding his body up as the ideal male physique is committing the same sin of unnatural over-otpimisation the rest of the article (very clumsily, I find) supports.
I don't know about you, but in my area we started to see more MDs around the Sharp 722 days [0]. Later on Sony started to make them more afordable and featureful. That's quite a few years of void there.

[0] apparently 1998 http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_MD-MS721+MS722.html
I'm a CTO and I don't wonder this. I wonder why recruiters:

* Send through candidates that have nothing to do with our requirements.

* Tell me a candidate is interested in a lower salary than they actually are.

* Tell me they've phone screened a candidate with an expert and that they're excellent, but then within the first few minutes at interview it's obvious they can't code.

* Lie about candidates, including modifying their CV without telling them.

* Lie about the role to candidates.
It makes me feel weird that I have the option to “fill a form to not sell my personal data” though.
We need a shared culture or believe system that will continue to shape our understanding of how we relate and treat one another.

One of the primary reason we setup FaithCircle - https://thefaithcircle.com - to connect Christians locally and globally.
I've never had any problems with recruiters themselves. I've had problems with HR, often when the interviews are disrespectful, like asking you to go to another state without reimbursement or refusing to say pay range, but asking for salary figures for the last three jobs before the first interview.
I was obsessed with AARON a procedural artwork generator featuring humans, plants and paintings. Made a viewer to read, draw and export its image files http://xosh.org/Kurzweil-CyberArt-AARON-Image-Viewer/
Not sure if you include it as napping, but: sleeping. Like, 8 or more hours.
WHO really dragged their feet before admitting that (1) it is a pandemic, (2) masks work and people should use masks, and (3) aerosols are the primary mode of transmission. They have been a notable source of misinformation themselves.
Thank You. It is tiring those analogy continues to be made when they are over simplify to the point of being wrong. Despite giving them an explanation how the world actually works.
> (Actually, the ad industry ate software.)

If Google follows Apple's lead (summarized in https://wwdcbysundell.com/2021/security-and-privacy-at-wwdc2...) then software may become much less digestible.
Right but we don't have access to conversion rate by category to compare. And it'd have to convert ludicrously well and the other categories ludicrously badly for it to get anywhere near being relevant to Twitch's revenue. Personally I'd suspect the advertising revenue for the Top 10 streaming categories (over a million concurrent viewers right now) to far outstrip the sub revenue from the Hot Tub category (4.5k viewers) all by itself.