skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hyperinflation... are you joking? Hyperinflation has always had an external cause. [0]

The deflationary forces in most fiat currencies are so strong the central bank can choke the entire economy to death with the snap of a finger. Central banks are scared of raising interest rates, not inflation.

[0] https://youtu.be/_uQpyFda6I8
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Yes, the cohort with security clearances is very white and eurocentric, which perpetuates a racial/ethnic divide between the in and outgroups for power in the US. Yes, you can't be legally discriminated against when seeking to be a wage slave, but if you want to get into the real echelons of secrecy and power, it's status quo, and without transparency.
"If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners."

--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

The list of countries by incarceration rate is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera....

About 5% of people in the US go to prison at some point, 9% for males, 16% for Hispanic males, and 29% for black males.
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/Llgsfp.pdf

"About one-quarter of U.S. adults report having a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression or experiencing emotional distress. This is one of the highest rates among 11 high-income countries.
...
The United States has some of the worst mental health–related outcomes, including the highest suicide rate and second-highest drug-related death rate."

--https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

And of course, "Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States".

-- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all...
If you think someone's paying customers are "debasing themselves", it probably says more about you not being the target market than a negative critique of the customers themselves.
Not one mention of Epic in the article.
Definitely specific to the V8 JavaScript engine. I was able to put 40 million keys in a map in Firefox/SpiderMonkey. It was pretty fast and only took a few seconds.

The pitfall was that because I did it in the Developer Tools console, the CPU and memory usage would shoot through the roof from the autocompleter if I wrote any code that would cause a string representation of the map to be printed as a helpful hint.
I think that's irrelevant to the point which is that in electing a candidate campaigning on criminal justice reform SFs voters are reacting more to national issues than local ones. SFs criminal justice system is already quite "reformed" and probably the issues that people are seeing aren't primarily in SF
"Security".

Newer CPUs have hardware for AES decryption and other such stuff. Hardware can do it about 100x faster than software. OS manufacturers have spread "security" all through their stack.
San Francisco had a declining population from 1960 until 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco

So according to people voting with their feet: no, San Francisco was not a brilliant place before tech. Or at least it wasn't brilliant enough to attract a net increase in population.
Gresham’s Law of Time Management
Open Source Robotics Foundation
What would be some of those issues for you?
A Global History of Trade, as Told Through Peppers
Not only that, octal notation is actually valid in non strict-mode versions of JavaScript (which is still the default unless you opt-in with "use strict"). So it would be backwards incompatible outside of strict mode, and very confusing if changing from non-strict to strict-mode changed the semantics without giving an error/warning.
Yup, but he was the candidate, having been VP for 8 years. There was no plausible way anyone else could have gotten the nomination.

But then, Ralph Nader could have looked at the polls in October 2000, and realized that he was the only progressive person in the world who had the power to elect Gore instead of Bush. And he said, "Nah."
Pre-CCP history — the two Opium Wars demonstrated to the Chinese about staying in control of domestic markets ahead of foreign merchants, otherwise, they lose some of their sovereign power: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

To be fair, Imperial China has a history of developing vassal states in its sphere of influence, so what goes around, comes around.

Main thing is that China used to have greater influence and I think the current generation of Chinese citizens see no reason why China shouldn’t be a superpower, even if they have to share it with the US.
Not sure how did you get the idea that the market was not there.

Arm China had stellar financial results. Arm holding, with 49% share of the company, has significant upside to gain from the market.

And this fiasco is partly a misconduct of Mr. Wu, showing no signs of being directed by Chinese investors.

And partly because of Trump's tech ban, which obviously affect arm China's prospect.

And then this statement:
> I believe the US government will at some point soon decide that any person born in mainland China is a security risk as far as working on anything national security related.

Even if Mr. Wu was directed by CCP, how can you extend that to all of Chinese immigrants? There are plenty of Chinese Americans who had misconduct inside China, and flee the country back to US to escape Chinese law (numerous corrupted officials of course are such examples) recently https://m.sohu.com/a/412302008_220095/?pvid=000115_3w_a are these people US spys to sabotage Chinese economy then? How ridiculous was that logic.
San Francisco has also given homeless people one-way bus tickets to get rid of them. It's a common practice in many cities nationwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
While lol-worthy in some ways (especially that error message - wow!): 16 million is a very "human-scale" number. I'm (somewhat) surprised that's the limit, and that I haven't heard about it before.
Would have been a different and better world.
That seems like it must be an exaggeration. Not once in my entire life have I seen a beach closed due to any of these factors. I know it happens, but I don't think it's as common as you make it sound. The only time I've ever seen a beach closed was due to rough surf.

Of course, I don't claim to have been to most of the beaches out there, but I've been to a few! Have I just been getting really lucky?
To be honest my understanding of math and statistics is far too basic for me to really approach this guy's work, in all likelihood. I have read some papers in this space, like the original TrueSkill paper[1], and I found them utterly impenetrable. I'm sure with sufficient practice I could learn but there are so many things to spend time on. I love the concepts and I do think that they are fascinating tools for modeling reality. I'm glad other people are developing them.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I would say that people are gifted with different forms of reasoning and that we have no choice but to work with what we have, beneficiaries of specializing training or not. To deem some reasoning more pure than another would imply they have an order, but as a mathematician you know what Gödel has to say about that.

Of course if the authority has critical information that can not be communicated then no compelling argument can be made and the age of enlightenment was but an illusion.
> As an individual country, blocking or tarrifing imports from China isn't very effective because it hurts consumers and industry that rely on importing products and raw materials/commodities/industrial inputs from China more than it hurts China who can often export to other countries instead.

This isn't really true. If there is a tariff on importing iPhones from China, in the short term iPhones become more expensive by the amount of the tariff, but also the US taxpayer pays lower taxes for the same level of government services because the tariff money is going to the US government. So to US citizens in the short term it's net-zero.

In the longer term, Apple builds an iPhone factory in India or Mexico. The US iPhone customer doesn't even really notice the difference from this, but China obviously does.

> Blocking exports to China is tricky because one the one hand, China doesn't import too many things, but on the other hand, for those things they do import, they're a large portion of the global market, so a country that cuts off those exports will leave their exporters will a large surplus, often of perishable goods, that will be difficult to deal with.

Nobody really even wants to block exports to China. Gaining fair access to the Chinese market is kind of the point, and for things like soybeans or something like that, "fair access" mostly just means they're buying your products.

It's more complicated when you start talking about tech companies and censorship, because then it's about more than just "they're buying it from you."

Moreover, where export restrictions hurt isn't necessarily for things where they're paying a lot of money. It's for things they can't get elsewhere.

> Most western countries don't have much in the way of laws that could restrict foreign ownership of land or businesses except in exceptional cases.

That wouldn't be that hard to change. Especially for ownership of land, the change would be locally popular because it would make housing more affordable, and the foreign interests who would have to sell their holdings don't get a vote in US elections.
How does this article not link to the specs, aka the RFCs?
Netflix and Video Games
If that was the world we wanted, then we all would have cheered as Microsoft steamrolled over Apple in the 90s, and we all get our software from the Microsoft Store today.

That's not the world I want to be living in.

Competition breeds excellence. Monopoly breeds complacency.
This is an extraordinary position to take, one because it assumes "serious corporate customers" somehow take security seriously. Every. Week. There's a new breach from a "serious corporate customer".

Then there's this:

> So you can imagine our surprise when we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the accounts and databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers, *including many Fortune 500 companies*.

Source: https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-how-we-hacked-thousands-of-a...
Ways to Predict the Future
(July 6, 2021)
Show HN: ReactJS with JSX without bundling or transpiling
source: https://codesandbox.io/s/dikoh?file=/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge" />
<title>Static Template</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main"></div>

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/babel" data-presets="react" data-type="module">
import {
ChakraProvider,
Box,
Text
} from "https://cdn.skypack.dev/@chakra-ui/react";
import React, { useRef } from "https://cdn.skypack.dev/react";
import ReactDOM from "https://cdn.skypack.dev/react-dom";

const MyText = ({ color, ...props }) => {
return <Text fontWeight="bold" as="span" {...props} />;
};

function Foo() {
return (
<div>
Foo
</div>
);
}

function App() {
return (
<Box>
Hello <MyText>Skypack</MyText>
<Foo/>
</Box>
);
}

ReactDOM.render(
<ChakraProvider>
<App />
</ChakraProvider>,
document.getElementById("main")
);
</script>
</body>
</html>
I suspect China doesn't really need western markets in the long term

Being from the West, we see things with West-Centric eyes. When, if we look more closely, we see that China alone has more customers than the whole of the West (Five-Eyes, Europe, Japan) combined.

The West is pretty much unimportant, relatively speaking, in the over-all scheme of things. A mere 20% of the world's customers.

As a whole, the world is reverting to the status-quo that existed prior to the 1400s: The world's big economies being in India and China, with Europe/Europeans being a quiet backwater.
When I was a google intern in 2013 I downloaded the raw google maps satellite images for all of the United States. I stitched it together into one giant high resolution image. The plan was to get it printed big enough to cover an entire wall. That ended up being too expensive though and nothing ever happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

China has twice the tariff rate of the US, *in addition* to directly stopping foreign companies.
The enforcement is inconsistent. It seems the CCP is just against tech companies right now. Maybe because they realized they have some concentration of power.
My problem with these assertions is that there is no data supporting it, but these stories and anecdotes keep circulating. I could make up 100 reasons to hypothesize how homeless could possible end up in California, but without data this is just thinly supported.
I always thought this was one of the worst notation conventions in modern languages.
Okay I don't get it. In the launch HN, they said their craft is 60 feet long and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Doesn't that basically describe a semi truck? Or an airplane?

So is the pitch here a way to eliminate the labor costs of trucking by going somewhere that doesn't have much to run into?

The typical way that companies like FedEx solve this problem is with an airplane called the Cessna Caravan. It's an awesome plane, it can carry a (figurtive) ton of weight, it's fast, it's reliable, it can land on primitive fields, it has a long range, and it is incredibly well established wrt regulations, and processes.
This is the same ineffective trope said repeatedly without grounding in practical solutions which help real people get to a healthier weight.
Can cell phone usage lead to male infertility?
> China’s cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins
of COVID-19. Beijing, however, continues to hinder the global investigation, resist sharing
information and blame other countries, including the United States. These actions reflect, in
part, China’s government’s own uncertainty about where an investigation could lead

Crazy how, just a few months ago this would have resulted in a ban on several social media platforms.

Nothing changed in the meantime, other than the presidential administration...
You mean a change in direction?

Dart 1.0 Optional Types runtime checks

Dart 2.0 Mandatory Types (sound null-safe type system) static checks + runtime checks.
I think it was intended as a satirical comment.
According to https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jun/09/science..., the rising action of cake is mostly from water boiling and leavening agents producing CO2: "Carbon dioxide and water vapour account for approximately 90% of the subsequent expansion of the batter, the remaining 10% being due to thermal expansion."
My reading is that "successful" means "makes a lot of money for the developer". It sounds like your concern is about the effect on the consumer, which is covered in a separate footnote.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2021/08/27/app-store-payment-compe...
Use what you're comfortable with if it'll do the job. In this case turns out it won't, but it was perfectly plausible it might've.
> I'm not sure if I understand, but we did not use a memory map (mmap), but rather blocks of memory that are explicitly (un)loaded by the buffer manager.

But then, do you have your own cache competing with the OS cache? Or you use O_DIRECT to disable the filesystem cache (at least on Linux)?
The bad thing about the Charles is you don't want to touch the bottom. There is much heavy metals from the IC industry that was there.
> opaque "after approval"

Those are just my words, please don't judge someone based solely on someone else's summary, prefer first-party sources to form your own opinion. What it means seems pretty clear to me: https://sixtyfps.io/ambassador-program.html Just email them about your project and see what they say.
Been running the free version for a couple of years now. No problems at all. I update and reboot it maybe once a month, or whenever there's a severe security update (that I don't miss). It's uneventful.
This was posted to HN a little while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIuhg0bjvQI [1h 41min]. It's long, but very much worth a watch if you're interested in gacha.

One of the conclusions reached is that the amount of money a game like Genshin Impact can make over time can fund development far in excess of what a traditional shipped-and-finished game could afford (even with expansions/etc). This improves the experience for everyone, > 90% of whom don't pay for the game at all. It seems like a win to me. It just requires a change of mindset: enjoying the game while accepting that your in-game resources are limited and "completion" is impossible.
I thought this might be interesting to people because it's no longer necessary to use a transpiler or bundler. Instead, just use es6 modules loaded from skypack.

Save the above code to index.html and load it in a browser.
That's the most hilarious video I've seen. The lack of concern for safety, environmental impact etc.. is just amazing. To think how much our views have changed in just 70 years.
Really? Having lived in both for a good period of time, I found New York City to be far more livable and safer. The homeless, petty crime, and general disfunction issues here in SF are laughable for what some might consider to be a "world class city".
That wording is so ambiguous. "The vehicle then collided". Is that saying the human was _about_ to turn, but didn't, and the vehicle moved on its own, or the human operator did it?
Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot
They are approximate in the sense that the float literal 1.1 is not equal to the real number 1.1.
I’m going to be a bit snobbish here: I can’t take the article seriously when it misquotes “Double, double toil and trouble” as “Bubble, bubble toil and trouble”. Not so much because the mistake is egregious (it could make sense if you’re going by ear), but because the article claims to be about the language used, and this is one of the most famous lines in the play.
I have only very briefly looked at ELM. There is one thing I’m not clear about with the ELM architecture. Is the Model a tree with one to one correspondence with the GUI tree? If so, I assume this implies duplicate model entries if the same UI element is in two different branches.
This would seem to imply that the Model is a ViewModel and not the ultimate Model.
It's easy to imagine some app to reach that amount of keys pretty easily. Like games, scientific simulations or GIS apps.
> US security clearances

The last U.S. administration quite clearly showed us that clearances mean utterly nothing and are a quickly bypasssble joke in the U.S.
San Francisco (and much of California) has effectively a one party system. This means that often the real elections are primaries or along party lines. Chesa Boudin and Gavin Newsom are both in the same political party, but their political views are vastly different.
Complacency breeds competition though.
And the Ganga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges
Nothing much.

Perhaps a question of expectations: "The big question is whether Google originally intended Dart to replace JavaScript".

https://insights.dice.com/2019/03/27/fall-rise-dart-google-j...
More robust question is to ask where they were living 10 years ago. It turns out half of the homeless weren't living in San Francisco ten years ago. Or put differently, they moved to the city within the last ten years.

https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...
Your bar is so low it's on the ground - watch your step.
Firstly, while that's technically correct according to the CISSP, it's obviously not actually correct. Two different things I have can absolutely be two factors as long as they are not susceptible to the same method of compromise. 1+1=2.

Secondly, many password vaults refer to the master password you use to unlock it as the key.

Thirdly, many security keys require a pin or similar to be used.
Woodside and Atherton are closer to 30 miles to the south. I should know. I live 20 miles to the south.
You asked why you got downvotes. I offered my perspective. You seem to be overreaching with your conclusions. You accuse me of the same, but I didn't say anything was conclusive, I pointed out contradictory evidence, that the issue of whether cloth masks are effective looks unsettled. You are saying that I was selective with the studies I looked at. But it sure seems like you are doing the same. Or worse by saying that this is conclusive when it sure doesn't look it. Not just the studies, which vary in quality, but wave after wave of covid in states and countries with mask mandates.
Underrated observation. S.F. has always had a scraggly personality since the Gold Rush days. It's where Dirty Harry and tons of '70s police procedurals were set in, after all. The issue is that despite tech wealth since the late 2000s, none of it has seemed to better the city and in some ways has increased wealth inequality.

Manhattan's answer is because of Giuliani's authoritarian mayoral reign. Cleanliness came at a cost of mass arrests and evictions of the homelessness, restrictions on shelters, and stop-and-frisk. Probably not a price that S.F. is willing to pay.
I don't blame Nader. All the blame is at the feet of Gore. No one else has the blame. He ran a shit campaign. That's not Nader's fault. Gore could have said, "nah," eight years was enough, let someone else run. But he ran his crappy campaign, do I acknowledge I was in office with Clinton, or do I pretend I didn't know him? Oh, gosh, that's a hard one. Let me bury my head in the sand. That was not Nader, that was all mr Gore, sorry.

This is like being the guy behind the lottery winner and saying, dammit, if you hadn't been ahead of me in the line, I would have won the MegaMillions, it's your fault!
China will cut you off the moment they perceive it to be in their advantage

no need to worry about voters losing their jobs
I disagree. Many users are simply whales or people with compulsive disorders. Not everyone genuinely "enjoys" the model more so than being stuck to it.

Not saying there aren't people who truly like it. There are. But not everyone who uses it does.
Exodus is part of its ethos. By 2002 some people were ready to declare the city deceased. Boom towns need their busts like forests need fires.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/24/business/a-city-takes-a-b...
I've lived in SOMA, the Mission, and Russian hill to name a few... there is a lot of shit here my dude, far more than should exist for a city with this much wealth.
> just don't live in SOMA or the tenderloin and you'll be a lot better off

I mean, that's basically just saying "lalala can't hear ya". The entire point of calling SF dysfunctional is that a significant number of people in those areas (and others) are on the streets without access to needed psychiatric help and other basic needs. As a result, there's so much petty crime going unreported that any statistics on the matter are bogus.
Spot on.

Also don't slap the name of a food that people heard about on something very different.
This isn't the paper about the cookie study, this paper examines results from a number of studies, including the cookie one, which it identifies as Ward and Keltner 1998. That paper was never published.

https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/05/22/the-cookie-mons...

It also doesn't claim anything like the effect that Lewis is talking about in his speech. The people in power ate, on average 1.25 cookies, which is not consistent with every single one greedily devouring the extra cookie. It also has 5 cookies for 3 people, so that at least one person could take an extra cookie without the social stigma of being the one who grabs the last cookie.