skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it was a futures contract, the cash and the product would be exchanged at the expiry date. If the cash is provided today in exchange for a product in the future, that is indeed a debt - some kind of zero coupon bond where they payment is in cattle.

Futures contract, and then a loan taken out with the future in your possession as the collateral. Which is the thing any large low-margin operating company holding some futures would do by default (through the commercial paper market), because cashflow. (Or they’d just sell the future to the mutual fund they likely hold equity in. Same difference.)

> But I think you're reading too much into the terminology. The concepts being discussed here really don't have anything to do with finance.

The author of the article was also “reading too much into the terminology”, though. They were trying to pick apart the financial implications of technical debt as a type of loan — when it’s clearly not any type of loan. But the exercise they went through seemed fun, so I figured I’d try shoving the concept of tech-debt into some other pigeonholes, to see if it could actually fit one of them.

I encourage everyone with experience in both finance and tech to try this exercise; maybe there’s some exotic financial instrument that actually does exactly mirror the “mechanics” of keeping tech-debt around, such that examining the properties of that instrument could elucidate the previously-vague properties of technical debt (in the same way that the properties of mathematical objects can be elucidated by mapping them into different equivalent objects from other mathematical subfields.) Maybe we could even prove some things about technical debt. Wouldn’t that be neat?
The EU is doing politics, trying to capture population resentment at big tech, with a disproportionate fine for breaking rule 29.6.4.23.iv, while european companies have gotten away for decades with national monopolies.

EU has many problems of acceptance among the population, so they will play dirty as a marketing campaign (see case against AstraZeneca and anything british)
Is there something exactly like this that doesn't depend on tailwind?

Using bootstrap themes are what I do now but they always have a limited number of components and don't have ready to go, copy-pastable documentation.

Ideally I'd have a library that I can just copy paste beautiful pre-made components.
> Would you find it normal to have...

As long as that's how the product was described or agreed when I bought it, then I think that's moral.

Kindles aren't sold with the feature of being able to remove the SIM and use it separately. If that's what you want... buy a different product.
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Literally anyone would be better to report on it.

Conspiracy theorists are absolutely awful at reporting facts. When talking about things that are actually true, they often still manage to mix in so many untrue and misleading things that the actual truth gets clouded.
The social justic argument is that this is explicitly not true and reforms are neccesary to make it more true: “most people are equal before the law, do have equal chances, do get equal treatment”.
M1 macbook air owner here, it absolutely heats up when working hard, especially at the top of the keyboard.

It doesn't catch fire or anything, but it's hot enough to be unpleasant to touch, I don't doubt it's hot enough to cause some expansion in the screen (especially if closed).
Extinction is wildly unlikely. Humans occupy a wide range of climates, from very cold to very hot, and even the most extreme predictions don't make the earth completely unlivable.

Complete collapse of the current civilization and population drops of 90% or even 99% aren't impossible. But there's an enormous difference between a 99% loss and a 100% loss.
> I’d say it’s a pretty safe bet that some of these “reports” are from users who shut their MacBook screen onto a keyboard with a bunch of Doritos crumbs stuck in it.

imagine your Apple screen breaks and then some tech journalist calls you fat and gross for no reason ??
> A students are often formerly unhappy C students.

Is there any empirical evidence for this? It flies in the face of my experience, which is that A students were A students from the start; that C students almost never become A students, and that A students sometimes become C students.
Yes, the browser was a winner-takes-all battle that took all major players to the path of my-technology-is-better-than-any-standard-technology.

In this regard, javascript was itself being pulled from different sides at the same time as well. The surprising thing, in my opinion, is that it managed to get in one piece after all.
I think some people believe you shouldn't fight back when you're tried and convicted in the court of public opinion even if you are proven innocent in actual court. That you should just roll over and die so their suppositions aren't challenged. It reflects and extremely weak stance and lack of confidence in your own take on the situation.
and now lambda variant is 2x delta.
the ride is here. just now am getting over delta myself.
like a whole different bug.
But we're not talking about just abstract principles. By themselves, these abstract principles are just that - abstract. They only matter when applied to the concrete, when you use them to learn something new about reality.

Technology is how we extend the set of things to which these principles can be applied, and thus the set of things we can learn about our world.
I think it's not a univariate problem. Our society is plagued by people who desperately want to simplify every problem into a univariate issue.

Genetics has an influence, along with many other factors, because reality is multivariate and complicated.

My twin is significantly overweight. Has been since we were 15. I'm not and haven't ever been. I always enjoyed working out, he didn't. Your univariate view of the world can't explain this.

My twin converted to Mormonism a few years ago. I'm not religious at all. Does genetics explain this?

Starting with our college years, he and I have divergent life experiences. I fathered a child at a very young age, and the child was born extremely premature, and I was subjected to a life and death medical crisis at this age. He wasn't dealing with that. My father views this as being a tremendously powerful factor in our rather potent differences today.

I don't seek to be antagonistic, but my entire life story defies your thesis. Doesn't mean you are wrong, but it certainly means that you are "overfitting" in the classic statistical modeling sense.

And to be fair and defend big chunks of your thesis, my twin and I do have a lot of similarities in our lives that are probably strongly influenced by genetics. But one thing we agree on is that a massive factor in both of us being successful is our difficult childhood. My mother was a schizophrenic who left us when we were toddlers, and doomed my father to raise 5 kids by himself. Our family's income put us below the poverty line, and we were subjected to a lot of trauma and occasional abuse when my father would relapse (alcoholism).

Coincidentally, my brother's ex-wife was a genetic determinist, and a big point of friction was her constant projection of our family history with mental illness onto every behavior she didn't like from my brother or myself. He got a small tattoo on his arm for his 35th birthday(against her wishes), for example, and she attributed this to mental illness. Because that's what univariate thinkers do: They explain reality with a univariate model, and make everything fit that. It's a shitty model, and if it was productized for data science reasons, it would fail miserably.
I know that I don't have sufficient engineering background to debate you, but still I see ARM's Johnny-come-lately 64-bit implementation that has gone farther up and down than would ever have been possible for Itanium (Fujitsu with the top supercomputer, and any 64-bit phone illustrate the point).

So I am drawn to Linus Torvald's commentary on IA64:

"IA64 made all the mistakes anybody else did, and threw out all the good parts of the x86 because people thought those parts were ugly. They aren't ugly, they're the "charming oddity" that makes it do well. Look at them the right way and you realize that a lot of the grottyness is exactly _why_ the x86 works so well (yeah, and the fact that they are everywhere ;)."

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/x86.html
Couldn't this argument basically be used against any court case short of there being footage of the defendant holding a gun next to a body? You can nearly always construe some kind of narrative like this in a "political" case, I'm not sure it's specific enough.
Designer here: Inter is my go-to font - a free (and incredibly made!) cross between Helvetica and SF Pro! Rasmus himself has worked at his fair share of Big Important Brands (part of the original team at Spotify, worked at Facebook, NodeJS, Dropbox, Figma) [0] and it's kinda crazy to me how much Rasmus has affected me: I see the Figma icon he created every day, I see the Spotify branding he founded, I use Inter, it's kinda crazy.

Inter is the kind of font that you use when you need something that just works. Not too fancy, not too simple, it's perfect for so many things. And it's free. And it's open source [1]. What's not to like!

[0] https://rsms.me/work
[1] https://github.com/rsms/inter

Edit: it's also not a new thing, and not a 'new SF clone' - it's been around since 2016[2].

[2] https://rsms.me/work/inter/
> These investors want tenants

Not necessarily. By the UK Government's own estimate [1], 1-in-20 homes in West and Central London (the more expensive parts) are empty. The story I've heard is owners who use them as a store of wealth safe from their own government's hands (usually Russia, China, or places in the Middle East). They prefer not to have tenants because it adds risk and complexity. I'm not saying this is the true story, but it's what I've heard, and there are definitely lots of expensive, empty apartments.

[1] https://theconversation.com/londons-extraordinary-surplus-of...
From the decision on the application for permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court [0]:

> The applicant describes himself as a “journalist in new media”. Whatever that may involve, it is relevant to distinguish his position from that of the mainstream press, which is regulated, and subject to codes of practice and ethics in a way in which those writing as the applicant does are not. To the extent that the submissions for the applicant make comparisons with other press contempts, and the role of mainstream journalists, this is a factor which should be recognised.

[0] https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
Let me reword the parent's question to avoid semantic dancing: Why are you using those adjectives to describe something that seems to have virtually no impact on you (ignoring whatever name calling results from arguments about it, rather than from the fact of it)? Maybe you think the inclusion of the label is unnecessary, maybe silly. I could see that opinion pretty easily. But sad? Baffling? Absurd? Briefly: Where is this intense negativity coming from?
I am surprised at the push for return to work. We've known about Delta since December. It took out India and the UK followed. We have at least another year of the pandemic left and more likely probably 2 more years before things settle down. Google and FB really need to figure out how to be remote first.

The Spanish flu took 2+ years. Learning to live with covid is a 5 year thing I think just because of how interconnected we are. Hopefully vaccines will dent it.
Didn't they release the CC details of a bunch of democrat donors unredacted?
A developer should be able to both advocate for each programming language they know well, enumerating its greatest strengths. They should also be able to criticize the language in a constructive way, listing the flaws of the language. Additionally, they should be able to describe when the language should be used, and when it shouldn't. A Wikipedia page dedicated to C++ criticisms sounds potentially informative.
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It isn’t about whether one is more of a ‘privilege’ than the other. It is about the source of the privilege. We are trying to correct privileges given by society, not the ones given by nature.
Made me go look up the tale. I recall part of why the whole thing looked weird was that she said that the owner of the bar where she worked was there when the body was discovered.

That dude, Patrick Lumumba, lost his bar and eventually moved to Poland. He was unhappy about the whole thing since he was only her employer.

She got 3 years for slandering him but says she was pressured into it.

Bloody hell. That’s a warning to not talk during an investigation. Looks like they were going to pin something on her.
I think one language turned out to be good enough, given what little could actually be done with scripting in the early days. There just wasn't any actual benefit to supporting multiple languages, each of which would need to be a fork with its own DOM API anyway.

Of course, Google tried with Dart, but that never went anywhere.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712659290/how-much-did-wikile...

This article suggests that certain people have at least been threatened. You may deem that to be worth the value of the information being leaked, but it has been reported on.
Big fan of Public Sans. It's got character and has excellent legibility.
That’s good advice for those that care, and I should have mentioned it, especially for HN crowd. I definitely noticed this problem when I did Google Takeout on my photos dating back to the Picasa days.

I still think that for most people (and on HN, where we care more about fighting data entropy, there might be significantly lower overlap with the majority), Google Photos is the best option.
Somewhat related: this scala library I coauthored is named after the Paige compositor:

https://github.com/typelevel/paiges
It is far beyond reasonable expectations that FB can be a neutral arbitar of all information.

Not only are they not qualified, as you state even the "experts" change minds, disagree etc.

Having so much power to decide or influence what people know should be a very disturbing and chilling concept of itself.
This was entirely predictable. Viral variants are always more infectious (easier to spread) than the initial virus. Those variants, however, are also always weaker (less damaging) than the initial virus. It is true in every case of viral variants.
>Are humans not part of nature?

No. Humans are supranatural when it comes to our influence on the planet. While this power is not absolute, it's significant enough to make humans an edge case in nature.

>Is the ocassional defacation of a back country backpacker a problem? No.

In the example given, it's not occasional, but occurs a significant minority of the time that nature can't cope with the volume of human feces.
The gov't can indeed force you to get vaccinated. That is settled case law and history.

You can choose to work somewhere else if your company forces vaccinations. Plenty of jobs and no right to work.
I didn't see the one that got downvoted. But I'm horrified that this one seems to be at the top.

Who's talking about genetics? This is about antibodies! It's not looking at the DNA of the immunized person. At all. It's not genetics. It's identifying the specific chemical results of their immunication, not the person. At all.

Do people not understand that? This is a ridiculous digression from the subject at hand, just to talk about some kind of Sci-Fi fantasy dystopia?
> and thus images would have more noise in the D40X

I've never understood this argument.

In insufficient light conditions, noise will be identical between the two, because resizing the 10MP image to 6MP will give the same result as the 6MP camera. (But you still get the choice of more-noise-but-more-resolution at 10MP.)

But in sufficient light, noise is drowned out by signal, and so the 10MP camera truly produces a 67%-better-quality image.
The C++ STL has something similar, insert operations accept an iterator as hint:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/map/insert

In common implementations iterators are just node pointers, which is enough because nodes have parent pointers, so you can recover the whole path.

In extreme cases like ordered insertion this effectively shaves off a log(n) factor.
If this is the case, then that's not how I was using that word at all. More like, I feel cursed to know this potential outcome, and feel like blissful ignorance might be preferable. Quite the opposite of what you're inferring, I'm going to be reading much further on this issue because it's important.

Obviously this is a really specific pet peeve of yours, in a specific context, that doesn't have much to do with what I said. Maybe you just saw the word, had an emotional response based on the behavioral of some individuals you know, and your brain turned off to reading the context of what I actually said.
Actually, Slashdot's system was the best, with Flamebait/Troll/Funny/Informative/Insightful options, with only a limited number of votes (they called it "moderation points") available on a given day (this was more complex, you didn't get mod points every day), and a meta-moderation system allowing to rate the way people voted on any given comment.
Google’s history with products is so poor I can never use them for a client, unless they explicitly ask for it or it’s in an RFP, if my business’s reputation is on the line.

Development is too expensive to screw around. Maybe if they’ve proven themselves in the next several years, I’ll believe it.
If indeed the case were open and shut the argument would be trivially refutable.

I haven't even seen a coherent rebuttal yet. I'm not sure it's even possible, given that the evidence in this trial would, conveniently, have to be kept secret - automatically ensuring by default it couldnt be open and shut.

Far from being open and shut it actually stinks to high heaven.
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The first thing I tried to do is drag the title bar of that "window".
Same. Sore arm after the first shot. NOTHING after the second.
Vegans avoid any animal products, not just the animal's flesh. They don't want any animals held captive. Manure is definitely an animal by-product and it's collected from domesticated animals, so manure is not vegan in the same way a facial cream derived from milk would not be vegan. I don't really know to what extent manure is used to fertilize these days though.
Yep. Totally take the vaccine but beware of the risks.. wink wink.

Meanwhile the risks are negligible at best, especially when considering the alternative which might be getting a disease we know for a fact has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone.

But hey let's focus on the totally big deal risks of vaccines. Right? It's like someone talking about flying for the first time - oh you should do it but beware of the risks... here's a link to the one in 5 million "probability" of something bad happening.

Yep. That's totally on me.
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I love Inter- it’s the first free font I’ve found with great and useful features[1]

[1] https://rsms.me/inter/#features
I beg to differ - for UX/UI, especially small screens you want large counters and tracking, as well as much higher x-heights than Inter.

It's a great general purpose font, but not the best for UX/UI. SF Pro has SF Pro Compact to deal with aforementioned issues (It is used on Apple Watch).
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Sure he is quoting Murray because there is nothing you can quote from the judge how Murray has identified someone.
For knowledge workers, You can either
a) get up, shower, breakfast, press clothes, put fuel in the tank, drive to commuter station, wait for the cattle car, suffocate for an hour, grab a coffee on the walk to the office, sit settle down and start working
Or
b) Alarm rings, wake up grab a bit of breakfast coffee, plop backdown on the bedroom and start off to the races, when you catch a break shower, pay bills and make a sandwich while listening on a conference call
There's a lot of optionality between city with roommates and no space to setup a desk and middle of nowhere. Point is, it's not mutually exclusive like it is when you work in the office and thus have to reside near the office.

Choosing to live in a city for reasons other than officing there is a choice. Given the choice and the preference for city life, would they choose a lower cost city where they could afford more space?
After working with Tailwind for a period of time I came to the exact same conclusion. You can achieve all of this in a better way using CSS variables. You can transform this:

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

@layer components {
.button {
@apply text-2xl p-2 bg-gray-100 text-gray-600 border border-gray-200 cursor-pointer hover:bg-gray-200 hover:border-gray-300;
}
}

in to this:

.button {
font-size: var(--text-2xl);
padding: var(--p-2);
background-color: var(--gray-100);
color: var(--gray-600);
border: solid 1px var(--gray-200);
pointer: cursor;
}
.button:hover {
background-color: var(--gray-200);
border-color: var(--gray-300);
}

Adjust variable names to taste. No build step, no extra tooling, just as readable in my opinion. On top of that, using CSS variables means that those values can be changed at runtime. You basically get user-driven theming for free.

I'm building an app like this right now and it's been lovely.
For a laugh, I set my name as a google alert. I get stories about a meteorologist, a guy who woke up and had lost 20 years of memory, a CEO of a sports media company, some random person with the same name who works as a dog groomer friended me on FB. Really not sure how trademarking that would work out.
No it’s not only fully thought through, it’s a tried and tested lifehack that we did for a year or so, and we loved it.

It means if you have a 10 minute walk to the charger, you only have to do that walk once when you drop off for the first charge, and once when you pick up for the last charge. That can save a lot of time.
Vaccination alone won't stop rise of variants, could push evolution of strains
They are using the now colloquial, perverted, definitions of privilege and equity. Under both these definitions GP’s comment makes sense. Society seems intent on using say whiteness as a genetic marker for privilege which then means those with the marker should be subject to equity correction policies such that the effects of the allegedly conferred privilege are negated. It’s not a straw-man.
It’s only 400 photos. They could have used human beings rather than AI. The result is probably bunkum.
Yeah, there is a pretty well circulated blog post [1] explaining this population growth. Ontario just wasn’t ready to see this many people show up.

If anybody doesn’t make SV money and wants a good tip: Consider an early inheritance of your parent’s home if you can build them an addition. That’s what we are doing. Took out a small mortgage to buy out my sister and we are now raising a family with grandma nice and close. We’ll assist her through old age and the entire thing feels very, I don’t know, European I guess?

[1] https://mikepmoffatt.medium.com/ontarians-on-the-move-2021-e...