skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a believer in Austrian economics. This is a a different view of economics from mainstream economics, which is universally Keynesian / Monetarist. The way I think about the world and manage my investments is shaped by my view of the interplay of a central planner trying (very poorly) to manage the economy, which is by its nature impossible to model.

The gold standard prevented governments (somewhat) from inflating their currencies. The reason we say “gold standard” is because the pound was convertible into gold until WW1. With the outbreak of the war, the bank had a rush on their reserves, which they had printed far more notes than they had available.

The solution was to ban the conversion of paper into gold, seize all additional gold, and force all international colonies to back their currencies with pounds and USD rather than gold.

This is not a conspiracy, it’s simply the history of how we went from a gold standard to the fiat standard. There are good reasons for why this happened. I just simply believe it’s a mistake and view the current strangeness in our global economies as a side effect of all the odd characteristics of a system where the lender of last resort (central banks) can print money at will. It’s a very strange system and I think it is bad. However I still myself must live in this system and think, reason, and invest accordingly.

https://www.natwestgroupremembers.com/banking-in-wartime/ban...
Can the federal bureaucracy resuscitate market dynamism in America?
Why Don't We Value Open Source Software Assets?
Most interviewing I've been involved with from large FAANG companies to smaller IT shops basically are just running around with their heads cut off when it comes to interviews. They get resumes from HR, skim them to see if the person is even in the right ballpark, cc: the team asking "yes/no?", then proceed to schedule an interview whenever everyone on the invite list has an open slot.

Everyone then proceeds to examine said resume closer ~10 mins prior to the meeting when their email pings them that they have an upcoming interview scheduled.
Are you suggesting Dutch journalists are censored by the government?
This is something that I would be interested in, but you are asking for too much without giving anything back. You are essentially asking me to put my entire budget as well as future plans into your site before giving me anything interesting.

I am estimating it would take > 15 minutes to fill out everything you want, and there is no way I am making that investment into a random website without some token of return.

Please consider giving general projections after only a few questions and then allowing the user to refine it by adding more details if they are interested.
Just rewrite the entire kernel in Rust this is getting ridiculous.
Can it build GUIs? What about 2d/ 3d graphics? Does it interface with Java things? Databases?
Funny how the FAANG companies never make open source work a requirement, but every once in a while you get a recruiter reaching out from AcmeStartup, having just raised their Series A, listing requirements that boil down to:

* Must be a rock star, experienced developer with at least 100 years experience, but also not too old

* Must have previous experience as lead developer of open projects such as Postgres, Linux, LibreOffice or similar, in addition to full time employment

* Must be willing to work for significant below market wages in exchange for a lottery ticket that might be worth billions
I had roughly the same experience but it was 10 years instead of 1. I just took the defaults for tax rates and stuff because frankly it already felt enough like doing my taxes just to get an idea of how the thing worked.
I mean it doesn't have to move to dead venues like print or tv broadcast in order to just get away from targeting. It's not like internet advertising requires narrow demographic and individual history targeting for some reason, it's just that it made that more convenient.

> Yes, I realise that no small company can afford such advertising as that, but in a previous life, when I spent about a year in advertising sales for a local newspaper, I was wined and dined about a dozen times by local firms who'd let me come up with ad copy for them, and sometimes a campaign, who (rightly or wrongly) attributed a sales boost to my efforts.

I mean, the fact that this isn't really a thing anymore is almost certainly part of what kills local media nowadays, and by a kind of vicious cycle also helps kill local businesses. It used to be that small, local businesses weren't competing on the same playing field as large (inter)national businesses. They'd get local eyes on local ads in local venues. That would keep local media alive, and the ads would keep local businesses competitive.

Now they fight with national brands for ad space on national platforms where they're outspent for more narrowly targeted ads than were ever possible in the old days. Local media dies to national media, local businesses die to national businesses, meanwhile the national media gets bigger and richer every day.
Not to be taken to the letter though. He criticizes the Alesis SR-16 for having a tape in-out interface as only way to back up data, which is 100% false since that drum machine implements MIDI Sysex messages allowing the use of software editors/librarians on a PC through the MIDI interface, which is pretty much every non ancient piece of gear still uses these days.
Obligatory could this have been done in rust and work the same without the vulnerability? Or are there some problems that make it unreasonable to do?
ok, if you add a house it adds the morgage.
However, it seems that i get bankrupted very quickly if i do so. And I should live withouth cash. not sure
The story is even more interesting than that video makes it out to be!

Hiroko Okuda, the woman who programmed Sleng Teng was (and still is) a Casio employee who had just graduated from school with a degree in musicology. She was a fan of reggae and wrote her thesis on reggae. So, it seems the whole thing is circular!

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-04-casio-and-the-sleng-teng...
Don't forget Whitetown's Your Woman. I think the rest of it was done on an Atari ST Falcon.
The best thing about startups is that they test questions like that in a way that these studies can't. Because the participants have a very real and strong incentive to succeed they will perform that continuous search and hypothesis adjustment till they hit gold or die. If you truly have a Thiel hypothesis, you're going to get very rich.

In software, we call this "talk is cheap; show me the code", but of course here you don't need to show me the code. It's just that you're letting this golden opportunity go to waste. Up to you, I guess.
Git submodules have an annoying attribute: double commit

First you commit/push to one repository

Then you update the submodule pointer in the parent repository
In a forcing-based consistency proof of a proposition P, you start with a model of ZFC (or a sufficiently large subset of ZFC, depending on the exact formalism being used), approximate a witness to P (e.g. a bijection between a set of reals and aleph_2) within the starting model, and then apply the forcing machinery to construct a new model of ZFC where P holds. Unlike the diagonalization argument, it's inherently metamathematical.
'World longest' (330m) solar panel bike path opens in Utrecht, Nederland
It's not a trivial question, so it's not that surprising that nobody answers it without prior knowledge of the thing?
I really can't stand talking to people who frame everything in terms of how it makes them feel or other emotional responses. IDK why but it just seems like such a cop-out. Say what you mean, and don't try to get what you want by guilt-tripping and psychobabble.
The biggest drone conglomerate you didn't know about
This is fantastic, and the pricing for "lifetime" is nearly a no brainer.

Here are some additional ideas for ways to generate revenue:

* $100-$200 one time guided setup consulting, where someone spends 30-minutes with me on zoom to get data setup the right way, talk through data analysis process, talk through simulation and projections, etc.
* Marketplace to connect me with financial advisors who know your software, align with your approach to financial planning, and can help me with next level optimization.

Nice work!
You are moving goalposts : drug trade is something else than pushing drugs to children. Of course there is drugs trade, I have never disputed that.
What is it suddenly with all this talk about racism?

> Racism in SF or LA is bad...

> ...having to deal with racism in Boise, Idaho, for example, was something they didn't feel comfortable with...

Who are those racists and in what way do they express their racism?

I'm a European who has been on your side of the Atlantic and Pacific quite often for work- and leisure-related purposes over a period of several decades. If I can believe the current narrative things have been going from bad to worse to black people walk the streets in fear of their lives from racist cops in the last few years. This did not use to be the case, America was the "melting pot" or "salad bowl" or whatever metaphor you want to use where people divided by country of origin, religion, personal story and - yes - skin colour all came together under the stars and stripes to celebrate their country on the 4th of July. Now that same flag is being called a racist symbol by leading politicians, the 4th of July supposedly celebrates independence for only part of the population and more of such nonsensical inflammatory political rhetoric.

Either everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose. I do not believe the former to be true so the latter seems to be the answer but that makes me wonder why the parent poster brought up the bad racism in SF and LA and the racism in Boise, Idaho.

Maybe I should point out that I use the traditional definition of the word racism as can be found in printed copies of dictionaries and encyclopedias from a few years ago. Is that the change which made it possible to claim racism is everywhere and if so, why do people use the new definition of the word?
The pictures in the article are fantastic, worth the click
Also stated as "The purpose of the system is what it does".

If the system as designed is concentrating wealth in the hands of a few individuals (who themselves helped set up the system), how can we say it's not working as intended? It seems to be working out very well for them.
> Not even with all-out nuclear warfare?

We don't even have enough nukes to wipe out the human race, let alone the biosphere. Building enough to would likely need more uranium than we can access with known technology.
Not only is it left to the reader, but the reader isn't told it took Nature about 400 million years of trail and error and a zillion failures to move from organizing things around Hierarchies to organizing things around Networks - https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10464
I understand your individual points, but not your final conclusion. It gives me the sense that you think maximizing profits for shareholders is "the greater good", moreso than doing what(in the opinion of employees) is right.

I totally understand the logo anecdote and that makes sense, but it's different when the employees opinion differs for moral reasons, I'd say employees ARE more qualified to make those calls than those who are beholden to investors and motivated to maximize profits above all else - IF, that is, your goal is to be moral and not to maximize profits, which is where I'm feeling a disconnect with your posts.
For people who are actively using their smartphones for many tasks. They're in majority I guess.

I personally use smartphone as a phone, off-line GPS, camera (when I happen to not carry dedicated one) and to control various gismos like drones.

I do not use it for reading, viewing websites, computing, etc.
https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/product-overview
I love that Chris Hadfield's version of Space Oddity is "up next" after this video.
Confused by the assets. It's starting with my current home's value, and decreasing it over time, maybe at the rate that it decreases the debt associated with the asset? But that payment should only be applied to the debt, not the value of the asset.
More fundamentally than asking for censorship is holding Facebook accountable for what content they are promoting. They've been caught multiple times allowing Ben Shapiro's page to break the rules that other pages have to follow [0]. They also keep claiming that they don't favor right-leaning content. Maybe this should be regulated or not, but at least we can call them out for lying about it.

[0] https://popular.info/p/facebook-admits-ben-shapiro-is-breaki...
> "a fully orbital version of Super Heavy will have 33 of the methane-fueled Raptors."

This both boggles my mind and makes me giddy with excitement.
I use uBlock origin and uMatrix on top of Firefox's regular tracker blocking. I never heard of regular Facebook ad tiles being blocked by anything, but maybe I just didn't look into it enough. If you have some info about it, feel free to share.
Closer to 20 Mbps, even, for a full-bandwidth OTA broadcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_standards.
At least then there would be a consistent narrative, but if you look under the article you can see that in January they had a headline about how everyone was leaving.
> When the govt "prints money", the govt takes on new debt against which it issues the currency notes, isn't it?

No you don't have to take on new debt to issue new currency.

Let's say you're a dictator running a banana republic. Your currency used to be modestly stable, prior to your coup. It even stabilized for a while after your coup, as you made a lot of fake promises around stability and economic improvements that the West wanted to hear. Then you begin your authoritarian implementation, you start breaking things to maintain your grip on power. The currency begins to devalue, slowly at first, and then more rapidly. The economy starts to shake apart, you implement price controls and various regulations to restrict & control supply chains. Things just keep getting worse, tax revenue isn't what it used to be and keeps getting worse. International debt markets are no longer believers, they don't trust you to repay anything. Now you're struggling to pay for routine governmental things including salaries for workers to keep the government functioning, or police & military to maintain order (which you're rapidly losing control of as your nation spirals into chaos). So you turn to rampant printing of your nation's already badly weakened currency (you order the printing presses from the Germans, Giesecke and Devrient GmbH). There's no need to issue debt as you do it, you just print new fiat bills and give it to whomever is still willing to accept it in exchange for goods or services (and you definitely force it upon your government employees, which they promptly ditch - at an increasingly steep conversion fee - in pursuit of USD). The word is out, everybody knows what you're doing to the national currency, it proceeds to sink like a stone. You just keep adding zeros on to the new bills as you print them. Maybe you get more desperate and fake-outlaw USD and turn its use into a black market (in reality you and your cronies, and the elites, will still be utilizing USD freely; and the USD black market will be understood as a common presence, it's just that now you can arbitrarily smash people that go near it for any reason at any time, everybody is now a criminal).
And … ?

Dec 1988, MS Word 5.0 for MS-DOS, $450.
Chromium also comes with a lot of API's, for example webGL and WebRTC.
I could fly anywhere, but there's something really nice about driving to the mountains for the weekend
If I had a nickel for every person who thinks they have an “original” app idea I’d be a millionaire. I’m skeptical there can be any novel tech in a chat tool someone spent $100k to build.

But let’s be generous here and assume his story is 100% true; his app was stolen and it is worth $1 billion dollars to the company.

Why waste time in a stupid legal battle when you could be selling your app to one of the 5,000 other airlines on earth that likely have the same need? Delta has just proven how useful it is based on the fact that they built it themselves!

I highly doubt Delta will be selling internal tech to competitors, so the market opportunity should still be there.

If the founders’ time is best spent in a lawsuit with a single potential customer instead of selling to other customers, I’d say that’s a sign it was never a viable business to begin with.
That's the thing though. The theory is commonly rejected, but not debunked. And after reading the peer review[1] I came away even more convinced that the reasons of why it is opposed are based in confirmation bias and preconceived notions. Frankly, the author seems to have a stronger grasp of the underlying physics and mathematics than the people criticizing the theory.

[1] https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/13/1039/2013/acp-13-1039...
No. I just want to see what my friends are up to, not ads.
You can hire developers/engineers anywhere but it's hard(er) to find leadership and/or VC connections elsewhere.

I moved from the Bay to Raleigh, NC. If I wanted to start a B2B AI SaaS company here, I could (probably) find dozens of good engineers locally to help me do that. If I want to hire a VPE who's "been there done that" and scaled a B2B SaaS engineering org to 200+ engineers, or 1,000+ customers, or $30M+ revenue... my options are going to be significantly more limited here than SF/SV.
One idea that might help with onboarding for users who want to jump right in is a sandbox mode where you can skip onboarding and plan creation and go directly into a scenario pre-configured to model one of several selectable templates or personas. How would you feel about that?
>1. The VAST majority of people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck are not making $100K.

Right, because the VAST majority of people aren't making $100k.

> According to the same report, Seventy-two percent of those who make less than $50,000 live paycheck to paycheck.

In other words, increasing your income by more than $50k, only decreases "paycheck to paycheck"-ness by 12 percentage points. That seems to support the thesis that it's due to human nature rather than income distribution.

>The death of pensions matters

Everything you pointed out is true, but I don't see how it's relevant to the discussion of whether it's human nature or wealth distribution. The point of my original comment is that people live paycheck to paycheck despite having a lot of money, suggesting that it might not be a money issue but a human one (rat race, hedonic treadmill, etc.)

>3. The background of people making >100K also matters. Many people making over $100K are well-educated, which often means significant debt and/or catching up on retirement savings. Think doctors, lawyers, PhDs, etc.

The debt is higher, but not enough to account for the difference. If your income goes up by 242%, your student debt (and therefore payments) only goes up by 20%[1]

[1] https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/which-households-hold-most-..., comparing the debt/income ratios of households in the second quartile and the 75-90th percentile.

>4. CoL also matters

Agreed, we need a study that controls for cost of living
Can you describe more of what you mean by that? What part of letting the richest companies on earth set up shop in your city and using little to none of that wealth to establish helpful social programs is progressive?
A. We live in California, so this shit doesn't fly

B. Software engineers make side projects because it's fun, dude. No one is using that as a gating function. But someone who spends their spare time exploring their field is going to have a leg up on people who only write code 9-5. That's a natural result in any field. Exploration of your field in addition to constant professional work leads to skill development at a faster pace than just the latter.
IATAOJ (I Am The Author Of Josh) ;)

You are absolutely right about the main motivation of using a monorepo: Allowing upsrteam library maintainers to see downstream usage of their code and make the required downstream changes themselves at the same time they change their libraries.

Also like you say the easiest way to get those advantages is to just check out the monorepo locally, so if there are no other reasons preventing you from doing just that, go for it.

However there are a few reasons why this is not always sufficient:

Size:
The repo might be so large that cloning it all will makes local tools (git cli, guis,...) slow to use, or in the most extreme case require to much disk space for your machine. To address this there are some git native tools like partial clone and sparse checkout, so size alone is not really the the main issue for us.

History "pollution":
Having a lot of somewhat loosely related projects in one tree means a history that shows all the changes. Yes git can filter them, but once again that might be a performance concern, but once again not really the biggest motivation to create a new approach/tool.

Permissions:
In some organisations (like the one I work for) it is not possible to give all developers access to all the code and thus the advantages of monorepo get lost just by trying to comply with data protection standards. The only solution with native git is to split the repo at legal (not necessary technical) boundaries and try to coordinate the changes across those. Loosing most of the benefits described.
Josh does not have a full blown permissions system yet, but the concept certainly allows for it and implementation is work in progress.

Sharing with others (aka, distributed VCS):
This is the biggest motivation for using something like Josh. The partial repos are repos in their own right and all the distributed features of git can be used with them. In a monorepo setup as you describe distributed workflow is sacrificed for monorepo advantages. Only developers in the same monorepo see the same sha1s and can easily exchange changes.
In Josh the same library can be part of different monorepos at different organisations and while the monorepos have different history and therefore sha1s, the “projected” or “partial” library subrepos will have compatible history with identical sha1s.
In this way Josh can serve as a bridge between organisations using different repo structures.