skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They found that in the US, high-income consumers pay an average of $13 less per month through retail prices, and low-income people pay 60 cents more, because of swipe fees on merchants. Rich consumers spend more overall on fees, but it’s because they spend more in general. When it comes to a percentage of transaction values, it’s poorer people who lose out.

If we're talking about $.60/mo, this seems like a tempest in a teapot. There are bigger issues in the world. There are such bigger issues, and so many of them, that I question why Vox would frame the article this way. If you want to talk about how credit cards are inherently regressive, this can't be your smoking gun. The harder conversation to have would be our relationship with consumerism and the credit system that pays for it, but that would involve a level of nuance that Vox has never been ready to provide.
It's a joke. Explaining it to a computer means expressing it in code. (Not sure if I'm the one who got whooshed here)
I want to point out that this is incorrect:

> It’s rare to hear someone accused of being un-Swedish or un-British—but un-American is a common slur, slung by both left and right against the other. Being called un-American is like being called “un-Christian” or “un-Islamic,” a charge akin to heresy.

In fact to be unswedish is not just a common idiom it’s a positive one. It’s when you don’t show the typical negative Swedishness. You aren’t “accused” of it, you are congratulated.

“-I went to say hello to all the neighbors in my building. -What a nice and unswedish thing to do!”
Well, if you can avoid it, I wouldn't recommend full-on unemployment unless the situation is really that bad. Work provides an intrinsic sense of daily purpose and routine that does help with psychological recovery, regardless of how one feels about it in the middle of burnout.

A part-time schedule could always be part of the burnout plan. Or a planned sabbatical. Like I said, do the creative thinking now so it's not when you're in the firefight.
The brand names pay for their spot, so its moot. There is no meritocracy in grocery store product placement. For the most part the grocery store doesn't have a formula to decide where to put most things based on sales data. If you sell a cereal or soda or fancy mustard and you want premium shelf height, just pay extra for it. The store basically rents the shelf space out.
There are perhaps other metrics to go for, other than 'just' monetary:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2020_re...

Some other countries may have chosen to trade some personal income/wealth for other things.

Further, while there may be more money in general in the US, using averages skews things a bit due to inequality; social mobility is lower in the US than many other countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_curve

If you're not already at/near the top in the US, good luck getting there.
[tangential]

That's assuming that basic cognition is in good shape.

During the pandemic and after I've noticed (and been told explicitly) about how their cognition took a bit hit in the past year+.

I wonder how prevalent this is around the world. Especially that many people haven't had a proper vacation/time off.
Does the USA really offer the greatest opportunities to the greatest number of poor people as a share of the total population, of all countries in the world? Why do so many people from the USA believe this tripe without question?

It feels like the 'shining city on the hill' was extremely effective propaganda, for the domestic population.
For the confused (or to get more confused!):

https://youtu.be/bZe5J8SVCYQ
Yeah, but that's because USA basically swims in cash because since world uses dollar as core currency for the global economy USA has to print more dollars to match the growth of global economy to avoid deflation. And once it prints dollars it does with them what it pleases. Mainly buys ton of stuff from the world, but still keeps enough to maintain status of wealthy country.

It's no wonder people can get more cash it the country that basically prints it for the whole world.

Once the global economy start shrinking or the world moves to yuan or euro USA will descend to level of Eastern European country in a generation or two tops.
I am well aware of the downsides of metformin since someone ends up in my ER (and sometimes dies) because of it most weeks. So you'll excuse me if an off-label and very new potential indication is not an immediate go for me. When we want to open a new indication for a particular drug, evaluation of the risk-benefit ratio for this particular indication has to be performed. There are many factors at play and results are completely unpredictable.

As for the rest no, I'm all for pop-science because it's what stimulates the interest of the masses. The problem in my eyes is more that academic medical studies available to the wider public are akin to a very sharp saw, and people will get cut if they don't know what they're doing.
The Christian Science Monitor also ran a similar article last month that I feel is worth a read.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/0512/Is-politics...

Rather than try to drive any particular point this is more of a discussion piece about this moment in time.
I think it was addressed by python already:

Eventually, someone working on Python (ironically, of all things) noticed this waste of good performance

But It would be good to know when & what versions.

I'm also not sure why this is "ironic". Who else but the experts on python would be more likely to discover this & resolve the issue? Which basically makes the whole thing a non-issue:

Python creators made a choice when creating python. A while later they realized they could improve performance by revisiting that choice.

The tone of the article makes it sound like this was an embarrassing mistake of massive proportions.
The next tech antitrust era is beginning in earnest
I would just read the linked post:

https://bugs.python.org/issue38980?fbclid=IwAR0cyfahpBywNzbq...

As it contains almost the same info without the rant and with better explanation.
The military doesn't need GPS to work from inside a house.
We may be on the cusp of a great religious revival, due to the increased acceptance and eventual mainstreaming of psychedelics.

People often interpret their psychedelic experiences in religious terms, and psychedelic use has often created new religions and helped to engender an authentic reconnection to existing religions.

Mainstream religions rarely offer much more than platitudes or a place to socialize for the majority of their adherents, of whom many are part of the religion simply because their parents were, or because the church is the social center of their town.

They don't have an authentic connection to the teachings, many don't even read their sacred scriptures, rely on priests to tell them what to believe, and usually neither they nor their priests ever had a mystical experience.

Then psychedelics come in to the picture, and suddenly they may have a renewed sense of the sacred, religious texts and spaces come alive, and they may even come face to face with what they experience as the genuine heart of their tradition, including meeting, talking to or even being god.

This is not an uncommon occurrence, even for atheists and agnostics.

I don't think the mainstream culture has fully appreciated either how enormously powerful such experiences can be, nor their repercussions.

Historically, mainstream religions have been very against drug use, but it'll be interesting to see what happens when their churches, mosques, and synagogues start filling up with people who were drawn there through mystical experiences they had on psychedelics.
Would you consider updating the site guidelines to explain this "just the diff" principle? It sounds like an important enough concept to be captured there. And it seems in some cases to supersede the "please use the original title" guideline so it's probably worth calling that out.

[Edit]

I wish I didn't have to continually edit myself but originally I used the term "editorialize" and I thought it had a more broad meaning of "exercise editorial discretion". While there is still an opinion involved in the edit. Something along the lines of "users of this site will already know X so it isn't part of the diff" I don't think it meets the stricter definition of editorializing. "Not part of the diff" is still cited as a justification for editing the title that I don't see covered in the current site guidelines.
Yeah, scientism used to be a huge problem at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century, and we seem to be there again.
> The Monarchy does so much for this country via tourism and and international relations, that we'd be worse off without them.

This is the crap the royal family's press department churns out, to be repeated by fawning journalists trailing their every move.

More tourists visit Paris than London. Unlike in London, they can go inside those palaces and see the art collections.

The presidential guards in Athens or Moscow still do a ridiculous dance when they change shift, and Britain could keep their equivalent in a republic if it's what tourists want to see.

Republics choose who represents them. If they want a conman with no respect for women, they can vote for Trump. They can change their minds and vote for someone else a few years later.

Britain has Prince Andrew anyway.
No, "-n" has the opposite effect to the one desired. "-n" is for when you have a server-side command that reads standard input and you want to prevent it from reading from the client side. "-n" cuts off the standard input so the server-side command reads empty input (/dev/null).

The desired effect is when you want the server-side script to read input from the client environment. For example so you can give answers to questions, or interact with a terminal program. That's broken by piping $script in as input, and it's also broken by "-n".
I suppose.

The reason I wondered was because I never had anyone reference anything I said prior to me, whereas I've had this happen on 4chan to me, a forum sans usernames because someone recognized my writing style or opinions.
The visual style is very reminiscent of VBDOS, e.g. https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-visual-bas/10-for-d...
I mean, I agree with you, it's not accurate to refer to "science" as "[a set of] beliefs" but that's sort of besides the point. The point others are making is that "believe the science" is not the mantra of a society that actually "does science" but one that "Practices The Science^(tm)".
Wouldn't plugging in a small appliance (electrical toothbrush, phone charger, alarm clock, etc) be enough to tell you if a socket is live? Why have an extra device unless you need to do actual tests (ie, check what the voltage/current draw is)? Plug in something with a power indicator before shutting off the power, and check it before you start working.
جزاكم الله

My website was originally a Flask web app which used his Arabic number converter, Arabic stemmer, Arabic normaliser and other modules. But in order to use offline as a PWA I end up porting these to JavaScript. I will release the source code once tested properly and porting is completed.

Also just going through your blog, enjoying the summary of Abul Hasan Ali Nadwis book. Keep up the good work!

Edit: Also Taha's work is amazing and on the back of that I've been creating a programing language specifically for string processing, so it can be used for stemming algorithms etc which compiles to multiple other languages.

The idea is to hopefully port Taha's work over and hopefully benefit communities of other programing languages.

Hit me up if you're interested!
Ardit,

You need to measure purchasing power using PPP rate, but even still NY and SF known to be expensive areas with high tax rates.

SF engineer could earn 200k year but this money could be much low as 80k in another state if you compare purchasing power.

It's complex. The Americans can always buy a car but never foods. This become a meme in my home country.

There are always trade offs.
I did the first time around, but then I closed the tab, and when I wanted to go back to look at something in more detail I was blocked unless I signed in. Luckily someone posted the full text in another comment.
Yeah I'd recommend you open up with information like that in the future, just right off the bat. It's a lot more interesting and at least somewhat useful.
This might be more of a modern reanalysis based on etymology. The sense development in Greek was apparently more like “private (non-political) person” > ”layperson” > “ignorant” > “stupid”.
Really? How about growth and decline of Marxism vis-à-vis religion?
You don’t see the brands they don’t carry at all. Only the brands they carry get displayed and they often make more money on the name brands anyway.
i likely ran into the same or a related issue. i dont know much about javascript though.

for(var i = 0; i < elevators.length; i++) {
elevators[i].on("idle", function() {
for(var j = 0; j < floors.length; j++) {
elevators[i].goToFloor(j);
}
})
}

it only works for "i < 1" and then only the second elevator moves... its kinda sad as i immediately enjoyed playing ...
If you can't beat people who are "nice", doesn't that mean your strategy is bad?

Whoever wins the game is the person who played the right strategy.... you have to account for other people not playing optimally when designing your strategy, whatever the reason for their suboptimal strategy (whether it is them trying to be nice or just not knowing the best strategy)

If you know a player is always nice during a game and won't attack anyone, incorporate that info into your strategy. Part of game strategy is knowing your opponents.
While the sentiment may be true for Americans living in America, if an American decides to emigrate to a different country then they obviously think living in this new country is better for them - unless they move back later, I don't think emigrating Americans remain "American" for long, certainly not after a generation or two.
I think it expresses doubt in ability of a layperson to make a rational judgement on merits of a particular scientific research or process rather than on science itself.
Scraper to check for covid 19 vaccination appointments for my dad. Never had to use it as his health care provider proactively got him signed up.

Scraper to check Target for PS5 stock every 90 seconds. Never returned any hits in a week, which I believe reflected reality, then I found one at Best Buy.

Daemon to repeatedly check internet speed and spit out a CSV, which I then graphed. Point was to see if I was getting sub par speed and ask for a credit; turns out the speeds were fine.

Just for fun daemon that spammed my friends' WordPress blog message form. Involved using OCR to break the (very weak) captcha, which was fun. Sent over 100k snippets of various garbage fan fics. I don't think they ever checked wherever the messages go.

Scraper which looked for chair massage appointment openings and emailed me when it found them. We used to get massages at work, but the slots went quick. Worked great.

TODO: I found out some of my photos in Google Photos are of interior quality. I want to write something to compare my local copies to their cloud counterparts and indicate which are sub par. I'll then upload the higher quality versions somehow.

TODO: scraper to enter all my financial account balances in a spreadsheet daily. I currently do this manually twice a month.
No, taxation was not very high. Some tax rates were very high but they had an extensive range of deductions that don't exist today. The effective tax rates, what people actually paid as a percentage of gross income, were similar to today.

They lowered tax rates simultaneous with eliminating deductions, making the changes over time roughly neutral in terms of taxes paid.
I don’t think anyone judges you because of who the president is.
Wrote some tools to convert a bunch of kanji (japanese, originally chinese characters) stroke diagram (diagram on how to write the character) csv's I got from some open github database into png's with nice colors per stroke. Which I then added to a kanji anki deck for learning japanese. Maybe not quite the kind of thing you were asking for since it is not a tool I run regularly, cause you only run it once. But I use the results on a daily basis.
Walk into a mainstream religious setting. None of them are there because they got high. If that were the case, the 70s would have looked a lot different.
> Burnout doesn't happen everywhere. It tends to happen when bad or inexperience people run projects.

Definitely.

I would also add that burnout at least for me is a function of ROI. In my experience, teams are willing to put in crazy hours if doing so regularly results in success and favorable outcomes for them. If you force teams to put in crazy hours and the effort results in failure more than a few times, it decimates morale and very quickly leads to burnout. If you're asking teams to give their all you had better be able to deliver.
I believe people who move to the US also like the comparably low bureaucracy, as well as opportunities in some sectors. Personally, I've lost my interest in moving to the US (or even visiting it) a long time ago, around the time of Bush Jr. for various reasons, but I'm still convinced that founding a successful company with low starting capital is easier in the US than almost anywhere else. The same is true for acting, music, show business and all the support like film cutting, audio engineering, special effects, etc. Despite the increased competition, your career prospects in these areas will probably be much higher if you move to L.A. or NY than if you stay somewhere else in the world.
Uhhh... this article is really out of touch with the world and I'm pretty sure they totally didn't understand at a minimum half of what they're talking about.

I'd really like to point out something that's just a fact, that was told to me, while I was abroad, by non-US citizens:

The USA is the only country where you can move to and say you're from. I can't ever move to France and call myself French. I can't move to Germany and be German, no more than I can ever move to Japan and call myself Japanese. One can however, move to the United States, and call themselves American.

There is something binding to America, much greater than religion, and it's the idea of freedom. Not even real freedom, just the god damn idea of it.

> As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen

ROFLCOPTR. Next you're going to try and sell me a tool to predict stock prices based on the weather (and I did read more after laughing my ass off at the sub heading).

To assume that religion is what held together America is itself fucking stupid. I could accept greed, war mongering, or pretty much anything except the bullshit veil of religion. This was obviously written by someone who has no lens without religion and so applies it everywhere they can. It'd be more accurate to title this article "let's blame the problems of the world on the decline of religion, because I'm to stupid and willfully ignorant to accept the complex dynamics of modern society."
(totally off-topic just a 'DM')

I wasn't looking to email you, but just to say your bio mentions your 'email below', but doesn't then specify one.

The email field in HN profile edit form is actually private, to display an email address you need to put it separately (and probably want to obfuscate it) in the general bio text area.
Sort of. You can get to a range where kinematically defeating the missile is unlikely / impossible, but it still might fail due to any number of problems that can happen during the intercept.
We learn from birth without conscious effort or awareness. As we get older we learn patterns, incentives, rules, punishments that interfere with self-directed learning. Young children show intense curiosity and learn quickly. After a few years of school those qualities usually get pushed down and replaced by the forms of “education,” which get mistaken for “learning” due to perverse incentives.

You can recover your innate curiosity and ability to learn. If you went through typical schooling you have to give yourself permission to learn on your own. I recommend John Holt’s books How Children Fail and How Children Learn, and Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.
But if you have an android phone you can buy apps where ever you choose, even from the developer directly. There are alternative app stores. The market has a low barrier to entry.

Apple only has control over consumers who chose for them to have that control. If you are selling an app to an iPhone user, you are selling to someone who only wants your app if Apple blesses it. If you are an Apple user that doesn't want that, then why did you by an Apple? Free yourself and buy a real computer or phone next time.
You all work so hard for almost nothing (apart from 'stuff', that is now mostly made in China).

In Europe people have a much more relaxed attitude to work, yet somehow pretty much everyone has a very high quality of life - judged by quality of food, things working properly (e.g. washing machines and public restroom doors!), freedom from fear (e.g. of losing their job, getting ill, or interactions with the 'police'), and time to spend with people important to you.
You gish gallop'd me through the floor by answering, yet again, as if I claimed something I hadn't. You should be ashamed for yourself, the very intent you had to better inform people was defeated by you.

You know most of the world isn't getting mRNA vaccines, and even if we quibble over 'most', it has nothing to do with your original nonsense, that somehow we know exactly when boosters for mRNA will be needed.
it’s worth also introducing another word into the vocabulary of the discussion: spirituality
I don't want to block the French unskilled worker and I don't need to, as the EU exists and allows for him/her to move to Germany if desired. As for the Syrian doctor - sure that is a pity if strict immigration keeps such individuals out. However, going the formal route with work permit application etc exists as well. It won't be easy but resourceful people will find a way.
"Join me in our crusade to reap the rewards of our global victory'

Said President Bush in 2005. Once politics and faith intermingle the result is higher intensity.
It seems to be the materialist/reductionist perspective, which is based on 19th century science (despite being totally outmoded since the early 20th century and the discovery of emergent properties in physics and biology alike).

I sincerely think that it's the thing holding us back the most in the 21st century.
> Neural networks "tend to generalize well in the real world".

I've always interpreted that as "we've found an algorithm that could, given a foreseeable amount of computing power and maybe some tweaks, simulate human decision making".

It isn't so much that neural networks can approximate the real world as they can approximate human perception of the real world.
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Near our work there is a single public tennis court that in normal (pre pandemic) summers is heavily contested for bookings. So I wrote a script to book in whatever set of sessions me and my colleagues wanted to play for the following week. It was pretty consistent, would still miss a few though - other people were either staying up to midnight, or they'd written their own bot!