skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for being honest and straightforward about your communist sympathies. So many that agree with critical social justice play word games to obfuscate their radical position as a classic liberal position.

I agree that instead of the transition from a tyranny of the proletarian communist leaders, those with gnostic knowledge of communism, to communist utopia communist revolutions have a tendency to fall into feudalism. I disagree with your assertion about Cuba, your example, where the political elite and Castros family has much more access to food&resources than the people.

However, considering that communism remove all checks and balances on state power transitioning into feudalism ruled by a political elite seems like its natural outcome. I therefore disagree with your assertion that the communist process to achieve utopia could ever result in a different outcome. “Trotskyites face the wall first”, those were the communal ideologues and opportunists took over

Instead of looking back I think we should look forward and learn how to harness technology with a healthy fear in order to not “burn” ourselves again, and try something different
Just a digital zoom (crop) with Super Resolution™-like (machine learning) upscaling...
Read the studies, not the reporting on the studies.
I loved it. Nice depiction of how weird our world has come to be.
Thanks, I am glad to know my half finished Masters degree isn’t a total waste :)
It is a combination of inappropriate fiscal and monetary stimulus that led us to this current predicament. And it is far from over, because inflation is a lagging indicator, meaning it will not be fully realized until much much later.

The addiction the American economy has to stimulus is not unlike a heroin addict. If you were to cut government spending drastically, or raise interest rates dramatically, the economy would suffer terrible withdrawals and most likely cease to function. Conversely, if you stay the course and continue with both fiscal and monetary stimulus, the economy will overdose, most likely causing it to cease to function.

I do not envy our politicians and central bankers. They are screwed either way. And I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them flee the country when the US Balkanizes.
Cryptomator for Android
% chance of having covid * % chance of being asymptomatic * the % chance of the test failing * % chance that you transmit it to someone who is vaccinated * % chance they actually become sick..... this is one figleaf of an excuse for these mandates
Yeah, this recommendation is very random
Multi-hour outages are already relatively common and getting more frequent by the year for banks. About 10 days ago there was a massive Bank of America outage.
Does Econ101 dig into the differences between demand-side and supply-side inflation? Or what happens when you try to hide the deflationary effects of debt destruction through money printing?

I ask because I'm unfamiliar with the basic curriculum in economics, although in the sciences some of the early concepts that we are taught include:

* Correlation is not causation

* Confirmation bias should be overcome by posing relevant testable questions rather than relying on anecdotes.
In CA at least there are legal penalties for selling fake illegal drugs so some illegal activities get legal protection.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/health-and-safety-code/hsc-sect...
fun fact: it's impossible to get perfect intonation across the scale length on your standard fretboard guitar (like a Strat). The intonation adjustments (like checking the 12th fret) are a compromise. Of course, that's better than just having it wrong all over ;) A lot of people (myself included) just don't notice these small "errors" and sometimes it actually makes for a better sound...
A part of this is that the tooling mostly depends on huge trees of dependencies.

If top level tools devs interacted with bundled more of their deps things might be less likely to break, at the cost of a bigger node_modules folder.

Right now you occasionally run into situations where Webpack or ESLint stops working right because is-even released a bad patch update.
When a nation becomes dysfunctional enough, it’s no longer possible to tell the truth.
I agree with the general premise of the article, but

> Customer sentiment on restaurant cleanliness fell 4.2 percent this year

This is almost certainly due to heightened expectations after the initial phase of covid where people thought the disease spread through transmission from surfaces, and the norm in most of the service industry in 2020 was to keep things visibly shiny clean.
I think this is neat and may try it. For anyone looking for an excellent tuner app, Peterson iStrobosoft is the one.
F-droid shows at least a dozen different apps, none of them with ads. Even if the open source apps were not a perfect fit for your case, you could have taken 10% of the money you spent and made everyone's life better.
Can you give some details on your projects? I bought one and haven't made anything other than a few microcontroller cases and things to do drugs with.
Or maybe it's what happens when there's a global shipping shortage and a breakdown in the supply chain.

Or maybe it's a combination of a lot of things.

But chances are it wasn't because of stimulus checks.
Ah, I misread. My bad.
> This is only “a failure” if the loss from this is worse than all of the money they have saved over the years by running so lean.

Don't forget all of the future losses by losing the trust of both the customers and the employees.

> it’s that prepping for them costs more than the loss from not being able to absorb them

This assumes that they can absorb these losses.
Ouch, I did not know about that. This makes their situation radically worse. I almost feel bad for their mistake, greed got the best of them. Hope many will think twice before going for easy money. It’s not that easy after all
The Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level [video] (2019)
Something being popular is no guarantee at all that it is a good idea. The US just left Afghanistan this year, for example. Anyone claiming that 20 year debacle was a mistake going in to it was not in for a pleasant time - but they were right. The Patriot Act is much more long-lived than Bin Laden.

The worst time to do this is hastily and when people are feeling scared; these are some serious bridges being crossed. The systems being set up to deal with people who aren't scared of the coronavirus are going to be permanent and are a very decisive step in reshaping Western culture using the model trailed in China.
Not looking for work at this stage, but feel free to reach out and say hi. Email in bio.
Make sure you read the OP's follow-up before cargo-culting on the "Golang bad" ship: https://debugged.it/blog/20000-lines-under-the-go-cean

(I actually quite like Go, despite it being more difficult to write tests for than other languages, and error messages usually being very cryptic.)
Is there a performance difference between i++ and ++i in C++? (2008)
The 'myth' since the early 90s is that you should definitely study COBOL because you'll be set for life because of the big shortage.
Moved from France to the US in 2013, mostly because opportunities in tech don’t compare, and also because for all the great things French culture has, the gloomy/whiny tone of the culture was always difficult for me.

It was hard for a while on precarious immigration visas, but then we got our self-sponsored Green Card in 2015, and it’s been smooth-sailing since. The Green Card path I chose took many years to prepare, starting far before we immigrated; and tons of continuous hard work to prepare. It’s hands down the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

It’s worked out pretty fantastically for me and my family, so I regret nothing. We became naturalized citizens last year.

Every culture is different and there is none that is for everyone. That’s why it doesn’t make much sense to me that people would want to spend their whole life where they happened to be born, without trying anything else. I think everyone should live abroad a little while, no matter where.
Right, async processing performance is hard to predict, but still it helps to be able to use async/await.

This brings to my mind the current logistics crisis in the global trade. Lots of parallel tasks and traffic jams and all of a sudden stores don't have stuff and prices are going up and we don't know when will it be back to normal. That is what Node.js can feel like, because it is hard to understand what tasks execute when and who is waiting for what.
That just punts the same question - why are the inputs being bid up? Is there more demand for wheat than before?

Where in the production chain is the item whose scarcity triggers a bidding war?
BBC Debunks Ivermectin
To be honest things are looking too bleak at the moment. Life is already hard when we consider everything is based on rent seeking culture and huge relative taxes to poor people. To add more I guess too many people aren't motivated to do laborious job when they can easily earn money by learning some html/css in computer for 1 years. My friend who is completed bachelor in physics is now doing computer jobs here.

I think we need some economic reform otherwise it is going to be harsh. Just printing money as much as we want is not a solution.

Update: Grammar
These are reasonable security measures, but it does bother me that there's no way around them. I don't use android (or Chrome) so I don't know, but could anyone more knowledgable about these moves chime in about whether it's possible to circumvent them with user permission?
This kind of thing:

US $9.50 5V 1200mA 6Watt Battery Charger USB port DC 5.5*2.1 Charge Regulators Solar Panel 6W https://a.aliexpress.com/_u842IG

Probably won't be sufficient for a router, but it would charge a battery bank or phone pretty well (make sure it's angled 30 degrees south, and use a usb battery bank between it and the phone because the phone usually won't adjust the charging current up and down as clouds come over). For laptops, use a power bank with a laptop 19v output.
That would be one class further than the knowledge being used to make the current decisions.
Yes but these prople weren’t really career criminals, they had respectable jobs and good lives. They got tempted with easy money and blew it all away
But there's nothing complex here. You are wrong on a very simple econ101 type level.

The covid check was economic stimulus. Like what Bush W did for example. It literally stimulates the economy every time, because for every one of you and me who don't need it and save it, by investing it in companies via mutual funds, there are people who immediately spend it on things like food, also giving money to companies.

Now here's what happens when you don't give money to companies: they have to take loans with interest. That interest is later paid by customers via increased prices, because the supply side cost is now higher.

Companies also go out of business w/o money. You now have less supply, for inelastic demand (because it's food). This increases prices.

So, econ101: prices went up. Because supply chains were affected by the pandemic, and when supply cost goes up, you pay more. If you didn't have the stimulus checks, they would have gone up more. Much more.

Paying attention in econ101 helps know this. What you missed by not paying attention, is they were referring to printing money and Not giving it to people. Like the government having to fund itself, or the king funding himself. A stimulus check is trickle up economics, and Lowers prices. So econ101 taught us the opposite of your takeaway from that class. That class was of course called microeconomics, not econ101.
Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
Clip-on tuners are just far superior. They use a piezo and are driven by vibration, which works in a noisy environment, like a stage. I probably would not have bought one if that crappy phone app had not pissed me off so much. Thanks crappy phone app!
> we've way under-built, then you don't need any other explanation

Not only that, but the other explanations become suspect. Eg. Is it true that corporations are going to own every home and turn it into vacation rentals? Obviously not, most places aren't that desirable for tourists, and the more competition, the lower the price, so the lower the return, so the lower the value as a rental. Really this goes back to under-built too -> 1. people want to vacation at location X. X doesn't have enough beds for residents and tourists. Solution? More places for everyone by building to meet demand.
West has become hyper selfish and unaware of their shutdowns in spending and travelling and not redistributing vaccines vs vaccinating kids and getting third shots in. People scared to go out with 10 cases on per cent of the 100k while third world countries have essentially 0 vaccinated.
Vaccine mandates are both illegal and immoral. They are an affront to our basic notions of informed consent.
https://biblehub.com/revelation/22-19.htm Sure you can edit it but it is a no because of God's curse on people that edit the Bible.
> Starting with Chrome 94, Chrome no longer allows HTTP requests to local IP addresses.

What kind of scenario does that prevent?
I like this code:

- it's got a history/blame with associated bugs linked in the changes, including all the reasoning behind every line.

- it can be versioned into rollouts and rolled back if it interacts with another system in a bad way.

- it's dead simple and self describing.

What's not to like?
Supply and demand for the labor required to produce and transport the cereal?
Nazis: https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na...

Then there's this:

> Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqy8x/most-of-scottish-wiki...

Some examples of the writing here: https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1298579510581960705

And finally, I remember some translated wikipedia language was mostly written by like 10 people and went kind of nuts, but I can't find a link.

This stuff is like @tptacek bait -- I heard of these by reading his twitter.
Am I wrong? Those instrument clusters are like Java and JavaScript
Such chances are cumulative over time and number of unvaccinated coworkers. Given a large body of unvaccinated there is no reason to suppose that the chance of infection doesn't continue over many years and approach 1 over multiple years.

I and a lot of others don't accept any reasonable chance that you are going to kill me or my family members at work today.
> This is also why Canadians continue to flock to the US. They get higher salaries and lower housing cost

As an American, I would love to move to Canada, but this is a pretty bad combo which makes it hard to justify.
Never? I clearly remember back in the mid to late 90s, you could easily bring the browser to its knees with a simple JS loop. It wasn’t until Google came around and needed fast JS for Gmail, google docs, maps, etc. that JS became fast as they poured resources into that space and everyone else played catch up.
Money is both the metric and the target. You know what that does so take everything economists say with a giant pinch of salt, as the complexity in question is entirely artificial and self-service oriented.
This is the most objective summary I have read on this situation. Bravo.
Rest assured, if it gets leaked the vocal internet gamers that spend more time on Twitter and reddit will rarely be happy, and instead will use the leak to make it look bad. It's too bad we live in the digital age where you can't just tell someone "sora is the next character in smash, nobody is going to believe you." And then walk away. Everything's recorded and saved somewhere.
$20 for hamburger buns? In Australia even the fancy pants brioche buns at the local Whole Foods equivalent are $5 for 4.

https://www.harrisfarm.com.au/products/boundary-road-bread-b...
There have been major bank tech failures too, if you wanted to see major vs minor side by side...
I promised myself I wouldn't reply further as I really don't want to debate anything. But this comment is so nonsensical I have to let you know that.

> A stimulus check is trickle up economics, and Lowers prices.

How, in your mind, does this sentence make any sense? Don't worry you can really lay into me, I won't reply.
This is called conspiracy. [1] How intentional, motivated, and opportunistic you were, and what actions you actually undertook all add up to the offense you committed.

A random person saying they'll assassinate the president probably won't be a serious threat, but if you have military clearance, access to secrets, show intent to trade those secrets, and initiate communications with foreign powers then that's more than enough to prosecute. Saying you were "just joking" to scam some money isn't much of a defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)
You assume all choices are rational and wilful
Yes, that's why /s
If you're committed to not knowing something then I can't stop you.

But compared to, say, tens of thousands of investment transactions for pension and retirement funds evaporating, disbursements to a hospital's operations budget being delayed, sending confidential historical balance records in bulk to a large corporate customer's competitor, having an online investment system down during a period of extreme market volatility, or even large-scale customer data breaches, then yes. 'Money missing from a bank account' is in every significant way a comparatively minor problem probably fixable with a phone call and a couple hours of investigation on the bank's part, even with a significant sum of money. The bank would almost certainly catch it themselves during an automated audit. It's exactly the sort of problem that bookkeeping organizations are designed to mitigate and root out if they do happen.

The others could affect many, many more people's lives for much longer— potentially permanently.
Yeah, the Snark is good, I usually use that with my acoustic guitars. I also use a Polytune 3 which is the first thing in my signal chain for electric or bass.

I've never had good results with tuning apps on my phone. Usually because of background noise - which is where the Snark shines, working through vibration!
I haven't noticed the same change, but to be fair we buy all home brand goods.

Aside from mince, I can't think of any grocery product that has had a substantial price increase in the last couple of years.
Lambeq: An efficient, high-level Python library for Quantum NLP
I hope it isn't a forced upgrade like Windows 10 was to some people. Doing fine in Windows 7, updates install, reboot to Windows 10.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...
As a front-end myself with my share of experience (Senior-Staff level), I've found a way of answering this "I’m not sure how any of us can solve it" is by building credibility on yourself and on your tools. It's a bit of an uphill battle, but def doable.

When I build a small tool/webapp in 1-2 weeks, using "simple, dumb" technology (even within the React ecosystem), while some of my colleagues take 1+ month to build similarly complicated webapp, and after few months of usages there are 0 reported bugs in my apps and they are still cleaning edge cases.

Then I'm usually brought in to help on some of these projects, and most of my PRs look deep in the red (removing more lines than adding) while still adding features/fixing bugs. That shows part my experience, but also often the better use of the tools.
It's a Jira where tickets move by themselves and the right most column have two categories, done or death.
Amish Covid (Full Measure Segment)
By 24 months, I think you mean since 2008. They never turned off since then and have only increased in pace [1].

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CURRCIR
The "West" has donated 100s of millions of vaccine doses to other countries. The US alone has donated 176M doses. Hardly my definition of "hyper selfish".
One meat product you can't eat raw in the US from a store is pre-ground hamburger, which can be contaminated from multiple cows.
> Different people can obtain different quantities of financing.

And the people that can obtain the most get the best houses, and the people that can get a little bit less get the next tier of houses... until no houses remain (or no buyers).

Here in seattle (for example) we have a lot of SDEs making ~150k. A mortgage company will give you like 500-750k mortgage for that income. Maybe 1M if you have a couple with that income each. Most houses in areas where software engineers want to live all start at 650-700k for decent homes. Because that's the top end of what the buyers can afford, so that's what sellers ask, knowing there is a cohort of buyers that can afford that as a minimum buy price.
Same. I think modified title is more clickbait by confusing.
When a nation's media becomes convoluted enough, one might add
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LBS=F/

This is why. Last month was a local minima.
The most likely explanation is here [1]. Pilots (and apparently some air traffic controllers) are doing a sickout to protest vaccine mandates, presumably to make the powers that be understand just how difficult they can make things for the country if they proceed with intended mass firings. But the sickout is technically illegal, so nobody will acknowledge it. That is why you won't see a clear explanation of this incident - probably ever. You've never seen anything like it because we have never been in a situation where a significant percentage of the population is being threatened with the loss of their livelihood unless they take something that many consider to be quite dangerous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28824370

Edit: deleted link to tweet, comment below points out that it was from a suspect Twitter account.
I don't trust this as this study is very weak and takes into account only a particular platform.

Without blue light filter, after prolongated usage, my eyes start to water and itch. It makes me very uncomfortable.

But with blue light filters like flux and Qredshift, I use dimming and filtering 24/7.

I never have aforesaid problems when I am using filters and dimming.

I have also started to use ambient lighting (just a $4 table lamp) behind the screen. This makes things better.

So, with the lowest brightness allowed with no filters or dimming, I start to face unavoidable peoblems after about four hours of usage.

OTOH, with 24/7 use of flux or qredshift, I can comfortably undergo screen time for 14-15 hours.

I would also like to mention that I have seen difference in being able to sleep.
> When a very basic idiom taught in entry level economics proves true again and again, I'm not sure how much complexity is required to prove it false. At that point it just feels like fighting for the point of fighting.

Except "your basic idiom" actually turns out to not be true in a lot of cases. It turns out that when you look at cases of notable inflation, these are nearly always accompanied by substantial supply side shocks, and that's also happening now.

For a good research article of a related example, see https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c9160/revisions/c....