skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>High inflation destroys savings

This is not true. When the inflation is high, normal savings accounts pay interest rate that protects from inflation. Besides if you are saving a lots of money you should invest it for something. Like government bonds at least.

> High inflation is rarely if ever matched by wages going up.

This is not true. Inflation and real wages are not connected. Why would they? See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wages#/media/File:United_...

What high inflation does in some jobs, it allows employers not to lay off people by not increasing their wages (when their productivity is not increasing).

> Inflation penalizes anyone who isn't invested in things that hold their value versus the value of the money

And this is how it should be. Money should not be good store of value in long term.

And as I said before, savings account interest rates are not zero when inflation gets going. https://www.finder.com/history-of-savings-account-interest-r...

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/cds/historical-cd-interest-...
Heads up, was reading the docs about how it works.

>The OtterTune Agent connects to the database to retrieve the necessary information. OtterTune only requires access to retrieve the database's runtime metrics and configuration information (knobs). It does need to access user tables or queries.

Presumably, the last line should say OtterTune does NOT need to access tables/queries?
Yes. It's on our roadmap for next year.
> It absolutely does affect the analysis.

The analysis is why strict voter ID laws didn't have an effect on actual or perceived voter fraud. So tell me why distinguishing undercounting matters for that analysis.
Base comp probably... but the OP is discounting equity almost entirely:

> and those are likely to be the kind of complex instruments that I treat as a gamble, not guaranteed salary

Idk, opinions vary, but the majority of my early startup total comp in my career has been equity payout. Maybe I just got super lucky, but I think this is too firm a stance and tips the scales against non-FAANG too heavily.
> automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it.

This is still the case, at least as of a few months ago. It is possible to disable the "feature", thankfully, but the option for it is hidden away and not easy to find.
It's good, but dated (2014).
It's also the most aggravating circumlocution I've ever read.
Levels.fyi has a nice chart showing salary ranges at different levels of seniority for a variety of companies https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html
>Second, we need to make artificial breeders, to help nature to regenerate.

Nature always thrive better when we just them Her do her thing. Leave Nature alone!
How can any serious person compare the level of honesty between the two?
I'm pretty sure this was the plot of at least two separate Final Fantasy games. The answer, in one of them, was "France."
Does its sandbox work yet on distros that don't use apparmor? Last time I checked, snap apps were essentially unconfined on Fedora, and sandboxing is one of snap's most important selling points.
I sort of tried to define them above I'm sure we can iterate. The Truth God is what is discussed in the article. Einstein believed in this God because it's a paradox to live a life in this universe with a consciousness and not understand there is universal god which all things take part of.

Our hearts beat for us out of loving cooperation.
I want to like AppImage, but it is just unreasonable that there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded.
I registered this account to make this post in the hope that it helps readers of HN and others.

Under U.S. law, citizenship and nationality are two different things. The common refrain, well-established and reified by no less a body than the Supreme Court, is, "All citizens are nationals, but not all nationals are citizens." In other words, the set of U.S. citizens is a subset of the set of U.S. nationals. (The set of U.S. nationals is itself is a subset of the set of U.S. persons; viz. U.S. entities such as corporations or LLC's are U.S. persons but not U.S. nationals.) The rights and privileges, and duties and obligations, conferred on the two groups, U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals, substantially overlap, but do not coincide. Both U.S. citizens and nationals have the right to enter or exit the United States of America at any time and for any reason, both have the right to reside indefinitely, and both are authorized to work without restriction. In general, U.S. citizenship confers all of the features of U.S. nationalship, plus some; U.S. nationals are barred from certain activities, such as voting in federal elections and, generally, are exempt from being called to serve on a jury.

The author of this article found her U.S. citizenship to be too burdensome to maintain, and therefore relinquished her U.S. nationality, thereby indirectly relinquishing her U.S. citizenship. Was this necessary? You will notice that the IRS claims the authority to tax (a) the income of U.S. persons (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. entities such as corporations or LLC's, and non-citizen and non-national residents), and (b) the worldwide income of U.S. citizens.

But does the IRS claim the authority to tax the worldwide income of non-U.S. citizen, non-U.S. persons...such as non-resident U.S. nationals?

It really makes you think.
As someone who has worked multiple elections for the Australian Electoral Commission, this is an incredibly rosy view of Australian elections.

You’re thinking of the preliminary count in a polling place. On election night, basically the only thing that’s being counted (estimated) is which of the two (expected) main parties in a seat has the lead. It’s the only thing scrutineers pay attention to - no one watches the preliminary Senate count. Declaration votes (out of area) and below the line Senate votes (complex preferences) aren’t counted /at all/ on election night. No one has ever stopped me from leaving the polling place during a count.

Once the preliminary count is done, the ballots are driven off by the Officer in Charge into the night in his or her personal car for the real count. It’s not hard to be an OIC - it was offered to me while I was still at uni. There’s no particular ethical or vetting requirements to be one, and they’re often older folk who don’t bother reading the rules and requirements, and I’ve seen them do things that are brazenly illegal. Entire boxes of votes have gone missing in the past. We have had to re-run an entire election recently because of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Australian_Senate_speci...

It’s one thing to be critical of shoddy election practises and I support your indignation, but let’s not fall into tired “America bad” tropes. Elections are hard. We muck ‘em up too.
The spider thinks things are going great up until the shoe comes down and crushes him.

The universe is old and huge on a human time scale. But (and I'm making up the numbers for effect) 99.999999% of the universe is devoid of joy and should you find yourself in other than that 0.000001% of the life-friendly places, you will be snuffed out without concern. As for the time scale, it is estimated it will take 10E100 years for all the black holes to eventually evaporate, leading to the final heat death of the universe. Life will have a home anywhere in the universe for an exceedingly small fraction of that time.
Yes (to repeat the other reply here more confidently). Pseudovectors are (n-1)-graded vectors in exterior algebra, ie bivectors in 3d and trivectors in 4d. No sign flip is required required if you write them this way. Algebraically, P(x^y) = P(x)^P(y) (basically by definition), where P is a parity transformation.
The IUS Repo did much in the way of solving PHP Hell on RHEL(type) machines.
I have a hunch the graphical fidelity of this could drastically be improved with floyd-steinberg dithering.
Honestly I find it pretty fucked up that someone would renounce their citizenship "for convenience". I can't really comprehend how their country could mean so little to someone, especially when that country is a democracy.

Regarding the taxation when living abroad, doesn't it actually make sense? Sure it sounds like an oddity because the US are the only to do it, but most emigrants I know still use the consular services of their country of origin every now and then, benefit from its diplomatic protection, and can return any time if circumstances require it (implying they should be contributing to keeping the country safe and functional in the meantime, call it an insurance policy if you will), and probably many other benefits I'm not thinking of. Some countries will even send special forces abroad to recover citizens in danger.

So yeah apparently the practicalities of it suck sometimes (and that should definitively be improved) but in principle it's not as outlandish as it sounds, imo.
This is the same place covered in the recent NBC News 6-episode "Southlake" podcast, https://www.nbcnews.com/southlake-podcast

Southlake, Texas, seems to have it all: stately homes, intense civic pride, and above all, terrific schools. So when a video surfaced in 2018 showing Southlake high school students chanting the N-word — and when Black residents came forward to share stories of racist harassment and bullying — the school board vowed to make changes. But the unveiling of a Cultural Competence Action Plan set off a backlash that’s consumed Southlake, fueled by a growing national crusade against critical race theory. Hosted by NBC News national reporter Mike Hixenbaugh (host of the hit podcast “Do No Harm”) and NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, “Southlake” tells the story of how this idyllic city, and its local school board election, became the poster child for a new political strategy with national repercussions.

Edit: I wonder if their both-sidesism extends to things like the Alamo.
Yea, but with serde, you don't get an untyped mess. You either get the type you expected or you get an error.
It's snide because it's identifying a huge, irrational hypocrisy in what's supposedly important to those people.

> I'm in favor of a Federal ID

But there isn't one now. This means that your original point about the case with IDs in America being similar to Europe is not actually relevant here.

In any case, what problem do you think requiring ID at time of voting is solving?
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Obviously you put the effort into the Arch one to set up everything with Nix, and didn't do that in Ubuntu. A fairer comparison would be "a system that's actually being used to do something" in just Arch to Ubuntu or Nix on both.

I'm not a heavy linux user but I know 3 guys who use Arch at work and one of them had an upgrade issue that caused them half a day to fix, this was circa 2016. I know plenty of people who use Ubuntu no issue. Not that such anecdote really means anything, just to demonstrate that they can be used to back whatever bias.

> Having a separate system partition by default

This is just one simple extra step when you install. And I don't know if arch has this by default?

> Even Windows allow you to snapshot and rollback changes

just use brfs? This is more of a linux thing has nothing to do with ubuntu
I don't know about GPU contexts: is there no way to hand them off? Reliable hot reload is always painful no matter how you do it. I don't know the situation with gpu contexts but if your long running program needs hot reloads and has a gui, maybe you want to split the gui itself into a separate process, or alternatively maybe do that with the component requiring reload.
At this point I'm sure you must be joking.
It also ignores that even then, there were Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not pass along party lines.

More Democrats voted to pass it than Republicans by numbers. Republicans only had 33% of the House and about 33% of the Senate.

Now, Republicans did have a larger percentage of their members voting for.

But when you split it by region, the picture comes clear. The old Union voted overwhelmingly to pass the act while the old Confederacy voted Nay.

Northern Democrats outvoted all other groups by percentage and numbers for the act. And not a single (of the 12) Southern Republican voted for.

So yeah, miss me with that "Democrats are the party of the Confederacy" stuff. The South was the party of the Confederacy.
It’s a relevant comment, and people evidently found it interesting.
I guess maybe the opposing book would be Satan worship?
For learning I used FreeBSD at my university to do some work with the kernel. I would be interested to hear more about someone's experience if having used all three, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

1) For VM Desktop Usage on a laptop
2) Server only.
I used Blender to edit a bunch of my YouTube videos and can’t really recommend it. (Using Kdenlive now and it’s OK.)

Blender’s VSE is too unlike normal editing programs and the performance is bad as well. It makes your workflow more clunky for no gain unless you’re also mixing 3D scenes into your video.

There are ambitious proposals to overhaul the VSE so hope might be on the horizon.
It's not "spoiled" to expect, at worst, a thank you for pointing out a serious and extremely easily exploited vulnerability in public-facing code. You are inarguably doing the company a favor by disclosing it to them and helping them cover their ass and and in some cases lack of competency.

Something shouldn't have to be literally illegal to be considered shitty behavior. (Of course, people are often incentivised to be shitty, which is why legislation should also be applied to the issue)
A billboard is a broadcast message though, whereas an HTTP request is more like a back and forth exchange between two participants. So I think the original knock->response->enter is a better metaphor.
The option is pretty easy to find, just search for Firefox and install that instead ;p
> Inflation by printing money is a tax.

Inflation is tax on lazy money. As it should be. Money should be put into work or lose value.
But how would you force people to vaccinate if they are on UBI and dont have to jump when their employer says so? Or do you crack the U of UBI then, attaching strings to the basic income to make people comply to what you want them to comply with?
The fontconfig patches are a big reason I stay with Ubuntu. Fonts look _so_ much better on Ubuntu than Arch/etc.
I get that "no punctures means less waste", and
"Every year, 20%* of tires are discarded as scrap due to flats and rapid pressure loss (12%) or irregular wear and tear caused by poor tire pressure (8%), i.e., the equivalent of 200 million tires, or 2 million tonnes*. That’s 200 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower."

However, there is still the problem of getting rid of
"a flexible load-bearing structure made from glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP)".

I would hope there is a way to degrade, reclaim or reuse these materials.
TIL: Steam support can “retire” any indie game at any point, then censor the dev
Steam support first "retired" our indie game in the submission process and has now put our account on "cooldown" for 30 days for trying to bring the issue to attention.

They have in effect banned the game then censored the developer. They wouldn't dare do this to a major publisher.

If you know any dev's with Steam games send the below link to them as they could help all us indie dev's out by telling Valve that this is unacceptable behavior.

https://imaginationrabbit.substack.com/p/if-you-know-any-steam-dev-with-spines

Thank you.
That was public opinion influencing marketing.
It is very ironic that Amazon asks Ring owners to respect privacy!
> close as many DMV offices as you can in counties where people don't vote your way, restrict the hours on the remaining offices.

And make sure those remaining offices are nowhere near any bus lines, so if someone does not have a car they either have to take an expensive cab ride or spend a lot of time walking when they go to get their ID. And make sure that IDs are only issued during work hours in midweek so you can't get your ID on a weekend--which means many minimum wage workers will have to lose a day's pay to get their ID.

And once people do have whatever ID you require, there are still ways to make it harder for the "wrong" group to vote.

• Restrict absentee/mail-in voting so people have to show up in person, but also greatly reduce the number of polling places in areas with too many of the "wrong" group.

• Make it illegal to provide food or water to people waiting in line to vote.

The first can result in polling places where people have to stand in line for several hours to get their turn to vote, and can only drink whatever water they happened to bring with them. Of course they could leave the line to go get water, but then might lose their place and have to start all over.
Hmm, I have a couple of laptops with Ubuntu on them, they aren't my primary personal (or work) machines, but I generally haven't had trouble upgrading them - I did one today, via do-release-upgrade -d and it worked fine (though the FF snap, while maybe ok in theory, meant that it had lost all my tabs / bookmarks / etc., uninstalling and installing via apt got me the deb version which did pull those all in from my profile).
I think you may be underestimating 2 things, just from my previous experience.

First, unless you are using sophisticated AI and behavioral data mining practices, you are not able to spot current bot activity. It is nearly undetectable from human activity by standard systems (ip address, browser fingerprinting, JavaScript systems, etc.). I know this because I worked in a space dealing with this. Google developed the tools to catch a lot of it, but does not disclose how they work. Their success at this is also why they now control most online advertising avenues. I know HN is small, and it may not be within your budgets for such systems, but perhaps there’s someone in the space willing to lend a hand?

Second, a lot of this comes from non bot traffic, and regular user accounts. Even regular users on other services have admitted being paid by various “advertising agencies” to post or comment on certain topics.

And I do get that HN is not the size of Facebook or Twitter, and so the issues are not the same. However, again, HN reaches some of the brightest minds in an important field of the US economy, so it’s not exactly an unimportant target.

Anyways, if you see my comment history you’ll notice I’m extremely skeptical and science minded. I appreciate and applaud your need for hard evidence, which I can’t offer since I don’t have all the data.

I do have experience with this stuff though, and on top of that, if you’ve gotten several thousand requests for recent investigation, I wouldn’t be so quick to chalk it all up to increased divisions in society. In fact it certainly is part of it, since that’s the whole point. It’s a feedback loop.

Thanks for taking the time reading this and replying. I do appreciate it.
I don't think you read that very well. His response is to Samson Mow (CSO of Blockstream) claiming that Vitalik was "Pivoting to 'Principles are law' from 'Code is law?'". This is because anyone who is even remotely familiar with Ethereum/Vitalik knows how many times Vitalik has said he believes "Code is Law".

Vitalik goes on to defend against Mow's claim that he is "pivoting" by saying that it is indeed a principle. It's extremely clear with basic reading comprehension that Vitalik is claiming that as a principle of his.

Not sure how you extracted the meaning you did. If I'm being honest, you seem to not really be researching the subject in good faith, as a simple google search will turn up many times he's either stated he believes that in text or even video.

You are welcome to believe what you'd like to though, I unfortunately don't have the time to do your research for you, nor do I care to change your mind. So cheers and good luck!
You are right, crypto is Ponzi, HYIP, MLM or whatever people want to call it. The technology behind crypto coins is valuable not the crypto coins itself.
Maybe it will? They didn’t say why they can’t sit through the videos, it might be because they are too slow to get to the point?

I don’t really see what value your comment is adding. The parents’ post was reasonable to me.
Sounds like a foolishly overbroad claim, perhaps you should step it back to "the Americans I follow on twitter"?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-man-targeted-...
Ask HN: I'm a senior back end dev, what's the best way to learn front end?
So yeah, 8 years of experience as a developer and yet I know nothing of the current front end stack, aside from the bases of CSS and HTML that I learned really long ago. React, vue, SCSS, webpack... nothing.

What would be the best path to learn front end development so I can transition to full stack? I know it's a field that tends to change constantly, so I'd hopefully want updated resources.

I must say that my goal is for my skills to be marketable, so the more mainstream the approach the better.
Top insecure standards we can't easily abandon
> I would hope there is a way to degrade, reclaim or reuse these materials.

Plasma gasification
> Aren't all gods unfalsifiable?

No, that is exactly counter to the point the person you were replying to was making. Amorphous, fluffy definitions of god can be unfalsifiable. But if you declare detailed attributes of your god, they can be in contradiction and thus the claims about that god are falsifiable.

But in practice, people are terrific at rationalizing and will overlook all those contradiction and continue to believe their god is the right one.
Software development, in general, doesn't require much resources. You're just editing text most of the time. Most of my development is done remotely via a Raspberry Pi.

But that also depends on the development you're doing. There's a night and day difference between compiling Rust projects on my 2015 MBP versus the Ryzen desktop I just built. Same thing goes for development that requires VMs or modern IDEs. Sure, I can run a single VM on an old MBP, but I can't run much else. I can run a modern IDE, but it will be slow and I won't be able to open more than one browser tab at the same time.

Students in certain fields also rely on heavy applications to do CAD, special effects, 3D modeling/rendering, graphic design, video and photo editing, etc. It would be a shame for them to have to buy additional machines because the ones they already own have 4/8GB of soldered memory and they need 2 to 4 times that, or because their processors are too slow or don't have enough cores. The Framework laptop would allow them to upgrade their memory and CPU without having to buy a whole other machine.