skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Terry Pratchett put it:

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

> Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

> But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

> This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
I can't find any supporting documentation-- so take this as hearsay-- but I recall a man being arrested for handing out FIJA pamphlets in front of a courthouse at the Southwestern Justice Center in Riverside, CA.
Price data can be protected by copyright as a compliation of data.

https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html
I understand TP's point. It's nonsensical because he's comparing twinkies to eclairs. They're superficially similar but are in reality vastly different things.
CPI includes many loss leaders, e.g. milk and bananas. So is it really fair to benchmark inflation off of the retail prices of those items if the retailer is losing increasingly more money on them while making up for it on other inflated/shrinkflated goods?
If the goal is to save money, then the inmates should just be released.
Do you know that banks, by and large, don't just stuff your money in a piggy bank?

(Interest on excess reserves is making the discussion a bit more complicated, alas.)
I don't disagree with your most of your assessment, except that I do think we should abolish the the DEA. The war on drugs has been going on for 50 years. At some point, we have to admit that drugs won, and address the crisis in the most effective way based on the best, most recent information available to us, which is that addiction is a disease and one that can be effectively managed.

20 years ago, sure, who cares about the DEA, they put dope and guns on the table and largely stayed out of peoples way. Now, we have around 60k thousand deaths per year from the opiate crisis that reaches almost everyone in America. Law Enforcement has no solution, just carry around Narcan while drugs come in through every major port and postal facility in the country.

Let the cops do what they are good at: reduce violence, enforce property rights and keep communities safe, but stay out of healthcare. Give the DEA the best grads, and that won't change the fact that they are working in a system where they simply don't have the power to stop two consenting individuals engage in a prohibited behavior.
I think that last one looks pretty appropriate, considering the subject matter.
No, food providers can extract higher prices for food.
Have you read Max Stirner? This is one of the most compelling motivations of egoism I've seen, and the phraseology converges almost directly with Stirner's "The Ego And Its Own."
No, because vaccinated people have protection from a safe and effective vaccine, vaccinated people can spread the disease as well, and also if they are still worried they can choose to isolate themselves at home if they wish. Extremely high vaccination rates have repeatedly shown not to eliminate outbreaks.

So the argument has shifted to the load on the healthcare system. Unvaccinated people are a risk they claim because they might create hospital shortages and therefore be allegedly responsible for the death of others.

Same as overweight people.
> Running a business is usually more stressful compared to a job.

it is, but you are adequately rewarded for running a business (or you fail). A stressful job which underpays you is worse than a stressful job which pays.
As soon as new type of battery will have been invented, flying taxi would became a huge thing.

After cold fusion - all other power tech including most “green” one would die.
Even in affluent locales, quality base ingredients are noticeably expensive.
I didn't mention masks nor the effect or lack of effect of the current vaccines on case rates, I only added a supporting statement to the previous comment that they are doing very little to stop spread.
By seeing a therapist and working through the emotions and it’s causes.

I learned that I shouldn’t suppress. I analyzed and unentangled the feelings that I had to get out.

I learned to be more generous towards myself and other but at the same time be more critical of ideas. They where too entangled in my mind before therapy.

Now I am much better critiquing and idea while at the same time being warm, kind, encouraging and funny towards myself and others.
Food availability is also suffering. I haven't been able to find wings at a Zaxby's in months. Many places have switched to lower quality ingredients, like Wendy's switching their buns and chicken breasts.
Tvs should get a hedonic adjustment equal to the cube of their diagonal length.
> I don't think anyone wants to go back to the bear skins and stone knives of centralized version control they can't effectively use from a modern system.

When working on a small team with everyone in the same office, there was nothing wrong with cvs, rcs, SourceSafe, Subversion, etc.
Absolutely.

When working from home, i managed to lose on the order of 5-6 kg by eating less and skipping the occasional meal.

Now that the office is open again, the weight is slowly creeping upwards. This is due to the rather large plate served in the canteen at work.

To balance that out, my estimate is that the 45 km of biking a week i do, will have to be supplemented with gym visits 2-3 times a week.

With the above it will be possible to get within 4-5 kg of the ideal weight:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight

So maintaining a healthy weight is not easy without reducing servings and the ideal weight is even harder to achieve.
I once blew an interview badly-- after speaking to a founder... He said, "we only want the best engineers." And I asked him, "How much experience do your engineers have on average?"

"5 years or so."

(my resume had ~15 years of continuous work)

Everything went downhill from there lol
Is there a reason your minimum targeted iOS version is iOS 15? Are you using any APIs/features that are only available in the latest iOS?
Powershell attempts to use a more scripting friendly language in the shell.

And it’s a horrible shell experience.

It’s great for scripting (but not as good as other scripting languages) but it’s a terrible experience on a day to day basis, with the only salvation being the existence of 2-3 letter aliases which make things slightly more manageable.

Bash is a great shell language that whose scripts are useful because it allows you to trivially convert your manual shell actions into an executable script.

If you need to do anything complex (or rather, something you probably wouldn’t type into the shell manually if you had to do the thing on a one off basis), then you’re probably better off using a different scripting language.

But changing BASH with scripting as a priority would probably make it a worse shell language (which is not to say there are no improvements to be made…there are).
It's a highly cyclical thing. Schools that perform well are generally in rich areas, because that's how they're funded. Well funded schools have better facilities, more programs, and can hire more teachers, so have better student to teacher ratios. People want to send their kids to those schools, but need to live in those districts, so move there. The property value of those areas go up, which leads to more funding to the schools, etc.

Schools that perform poorly are usually in poor areas. They get less funding because the property is worth less in that area. They have more students, because it's cheaper to live in those areas, but have worse facilities, fewer programs, and they can't hire as many teachers, leading to even worse teacher/student ratios. People who can afford to move to better school districts do so, or find a private school they can afford.

People get angry when you say that because it's taking a complex issue and trying to simplify it in a way that's only true from a surface level.
See mom, so many instant apps
Wow, that’s a 50% monthly inflation rate!! The canned beans will be $129 in a year and almost 17k in two years.
Endurance athletes also have a pretty high injury rate from overuse, poor techniques, and falls or crashes. My local triathlon club email list is full of requests for physiotherapist recommendations and advice about injury rehab. I crashed my bike a few weeks ago and got a nice collection of road rash. Overall it's healthier than being sedentary but injury risk comes with the territory.
$11 -> $17 in 4-5 years is ~9%/year. High, but not 20%, like the parent post claims.

CPI actually claims meat and poultry inflation is 10.5% (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/, click Food -> Food at home -> Meat and poultry), so that's not far off eitherr.

I don't think there's any lying going on. It's just that not everything is inflating at 10.5%, and the CPI is just one number describing the whole economy, and you probably mostly notice the things inflating the fastest.
Well, I'm not surprised at all. I mean, have you ever seen the price of Bitcoin? I know that it's not more than $532M, but still. I think NFT can be more valuable than cryptocurrency since it's a piece of art. I mean, personally, I'd never spend so much money on a token, my maximum is a card from myimpactpower. But I guess there are some people that don't care about money that much, and I'm confident that they're the same people who can buy a picture of a few splashes of paint for millions of dollars.
Did you mean steganographic?

Because stenography is a rather different subject — see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stenography

That said, steganographic techniques are not robust in the face of alteration — they’re meant to be kept hidden and undetectable, so they are very fragile if the image is modified in even the slightest way.

There are more robust watermarking methods, but they are definitely not hidden or difficult to detect.
Lack of internet connectivity should be a basic scenario any browser should have a plan for.
Mobile IPs will be a problem until the entire Internet is IPv6. The issue is that there are not enough IPv4 addresses for everyone to get their own IP every time their phone connects to the Internet. So the mobile networks use one IP for many handsets. Block the IP, block dozens of different (innocent) people.

Once we're all on IPv6 we can go back to blocking IPs. But then IPv6 creates its own problems.
hey! Thanks for replying!

I just looked up the service lookup pattern and your right! I'll need to update the documentation accordingly.

Would you mind sharing your thoughts on why it's an anti-pattern? Multiple companies I have worked with have all come up with their own solution for the issue of swapping out different services without requiring to touch the implementation code itself.
Or as Jordan Peterson might say it “choose your damn sacrifice, or it will be chosen for you”
It won't be a doozy: it will be a few paragraphs of general statements without saying anything specific, just like this communication (the first of consequence in days, another big failure on their part).

Roblox has to start taking infrastructure a lot more seriously than they have so far.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
> Beartype brings Rust- and C++-inspired zero-cost abstractions

> Thanks to aggressive memoization and dynamic code generation at decoration time, beartype guarantees O(1) non-amortized worst-case runtime complexity with negligible constant factors.

I don't think the author(s) understands what "zero-cost abstraction means". O(1) is not O(0). Also let's not forget that memoization incurs a memory cost.
Because more people can afford to buy them...
Keep in mind, rationalism is about "this, therefore that;" the root of rationalism is ratio, as in the multiplicity of proportions which lie between integers. Rationalist thought is "I have these guarantees, what does that mean for this context?" Try inverting it: "I want these contexts, what guarantees allow for their manifestation?"

It's also important to remember that we are animals of habit and change. Valuing collaboration is a habit; sports are a great way to build and exercise it. I'm personally very fond of rowing. There's little else that matches it for enforcing collaboration.

Last, have you ever had an interest in psychedelics? LSD lit a fuse of empathy in my skull, and a lot of this has developed naturally (but not easily nor simply) from my relationship with the absurd.
I use to spend $30/day on car rentals and get upgrades for free. Now I spend $50/day on car rentals and get some old shit box with tons of miles that smells like stale cigarettes.
I think you've pointed to the primary reason that climate change is such an unapproachable problem for so many people and why we're failing in our responses to it. So many people have the attitude of "well, if you're just depressed about it, you won't be able to fix it anyway." And yes, there might be some truth to that, but I'd argue there's only a local minimum there before you realize how much of a driving force it can be to understand the sheer gravity of the problem. It's the exact same thing as self-actualization or "positive thinking". Like yes, negativity can lead to more negative outcomes but only in a metaphysical way.
I don't think token is only the thing it comes to play here. If the company wants they can use various other techniques like fingerprinting, tls fingerprinting and lot of thing.

Its just a cat and mouse game. After few year I think hardware attention etc will come to play which can mitigate bot issue somewhat.
I suppose the balance is not allowing anger and negativity to guide our overall moods, perceptions, interactions, etc.

Anger is especially destructive in the short term. Negativity can absolutely drown a relationship in the longer term.

In both cases it seems useful to feel it and then let it go. It’s very real and relevant, I agree. Just not useful once it has been acknowledged.
Ah, I should have guessed, I've done my time on the farm
And a broader bezel.
First A319neo flight with 100% sustainable aviation fuel
Sure, but you'll run the same tests when upgrading from 8 to 11, even if they're both Oracle.
I think there is a real thing happening there. Luxury things are going up astronomically. It's just not for the middle class anymore. A bunch of the population just won. They got to upper middle class and it's no big deal to spend a few thousand here and there. $500 meal etc. There's a huge divide and there just won't be home ownership or all sorts of things. It just for the highest bidders now and they somehow have 10x more than you.
How could there possibly not be massive inflation given the amount of money that we've printed in the last two years? And the current administration is using these completely misleading inflation numbers to justify even more spending on ready bloated and unsustainable social programs [0]- all while failing to secure the border and expanding the pool of spending recipients.

This is effectively a tax on the native middle class - and apparently a big one. I did not consent to any of this; did you?

0. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1...
as someone with a bit of an economics and official statistics background as well as tech (albeit not in the US), one of my frustrations with visiting hacker news are these threads on non-tech topics.

for instance: CPI. how is it calculated?

I haven't downvoted this post, but let's use it as an example.

here's how CPI appears to be calculated: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm

by my reading, the basic methodology is to obtain a basket of goods and consumer items and then track the price change in those items. yes, it's more complicated than that in the actual methodology in reality, there's likely some debatable things like hedonic adjustment and a real question over what the index should track, but the general idea seems sound.

this post seems to suggest that CPI is based on some kind of longitudinal household survey methodology weighted for how much individual households consume over time, and that statisticians and economists are simpletons fooled by basic household budget substitution effects as prices and consumption patterns shift.

CPI becomes "a load of crap". But the error seems to be in the original post's incorrect misunderstanding of how CPI is actually calculated. and the actual method is somewhat closer to his suggested base-item method.
So vramework tries to avoid using OO paradigms except for services. The thing I don't really understand about functions and long lived aspects (like a database connection for example) is that if you don't encapsulate it within a class, you end up with it being on the global scope, which in some way effectively treats the global scope as your class.

How would you for example deal with having a single database pool that doesn't automatically connect on startup (when requiring a class)?
You live in a different part of the country than almost anyone else. The goods you buy, even in your area, can vary significantly. If you're trying to buy a gallon of milk, things aren't so different. A car, yeah that's gotten pricey. But your anecdotal experience is no reason to doubt the statistics on what is happening broadly.
That's a great take on another perspective. Thanks! :)
The title is not misleading. It's a statement of fact inferred from data presented in the first paragraph. Calculating per capita hospitalisation would be a measurement of a different metric and require a different title too.
Given the URL I was thinking that this would be hosted on a service that could run Github gists as single-page-apps. Unsurprisingly something like that actually kind of exists:

https://gist.run
I'm not sure that's accurate at all. I agree that Trump isn't really to credit since he also pushed for another (earlier) surveillance bill but in this case it's very clear that his veto was crucial to block an extension of the sections. Your article is from march 2020 and while it does mention the house dems/senate GOP agreeing on a new bill, the Trump's veto threat came in 2 months later.

>House Democrats scrapped a vote to reauthorize national security surveillance authorities that have been expired since March after Republicans revolted from the measure following tweets from President Donald Trump urging them to oppose it.

[...]

>Pelosi charged at a news conference Thursday that Republican support for the bill "disappeared by a tweet -- the twinkle of a tweet."

[...]

>Trump issued a veto threat over Twitter Wednesday after telling Republicans to vote against it, and he celebrated the bill's failure in the House on Thursday.

source: https://cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/27/politics/house-vote-fisa/inde...
I guess I’d be the outlier in your friend group. I haven’t noticed a significant change in our regular grocery bills. Optional purchases by and far dominate, and the biggest factor for our grocery bill is whether or not we bought alcohol, not the change in meat prices.

Aside from rent, the only things I’ve noticed significant price changes in have been items undergoing acute supply shocks, such as lumber. And most of those have calmed down since mid last year.
From the original article: Speaking from the city of Mainz, Kleber says: "You get reluctant and rare praise for it, but you get a lot and vehement opposition to it.

Surely that's all fantasy and you are right that there's a huge majority that supports gender-neutral wording.
Obviously they don't really need just new blood. They need some new money too!
Presumably the goal is that Lenovo change their practices, institute better oversight, etc..
So many people in my tri club kept getting run over or crashing on road rides that I actually got a mountain bike and started mainly riding on fire roads because it seemed safer. At least if I fall off the trail it will be my own damn fault unlike getting mowed down by some teenager texting.
The Fed hire major financial institutions via an open RFP process to run programs all the time, in the same way other government agencies hire outside contractors to run things for them. This makes sense because they do not nececessarily want to maintain the skills, expertise and infrastructure in-house to run these programs themselves. BlackRock is one of the largest asset managers in the world, it makes sense to use them to run an asset management program.

If you want to see another example, during the covid crisis the fed ran a process to decide which custodian to run the Main Street Lending program. They set up the parameters of how it would work and then different custodians could submit proposals ond how they would run it and what their costs would be. This is totally standard for government work of this kind.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/mainstreetlend...
SF Supervisors who took a wrecking ball to plans for 800 units
Have you tried waterproof ipod while you're swimming? I have one from underwater audio and I love it. Total gamechanger for pool workouts.
Yeah due to the Services and CoreServices functions being completely typed we have intellisense on everything in vramework. Down to the database tables and column names in queries (when using typed-postgres or typed-mysql libraries)

https://vramework.io/design/#typescript-everywhere
I spent a lot of time writing lots of Selenium bots 5-6 years ago, but Playwright is way way way better. It's absolutely worth trying out. You'll never go back.
Well the other three conditions they listed (diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure) are also frequently caused by obesity.
I'm looking at houses in Tokyo right now. Yesterday I saw a 2SLDK in the Nippori area (2 bedroom with living room, dining room, kitchen, and storage room), and it was $600k. This is in the city, near central subway lines. If you want to live out in Chiba or Saitama, you can get a 3 or 4 bedroom for around $400k, but that's more similar to living in the suburbs.

Buying apartments here is actually more expensive than buying a standalone house, because they tend to keep their property value more than the houses (which usually are sold for the land - people tear the houses down and rebuild). If you're trying to verify what I'm saying, the apartments you'd buy here would be called a "Mansion", which is mostly a term for upscale apartment.

Edit: oh, I should mention that the interest rate here is insanely low (around 1% or as low as 0.5%), and you can get 35 year mortgages.
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Can your scraper be used to scrape images? I need to scrape some books from a paywalled site and they are presented a page at a time. The JS code is too complex for me to bother trying to figure out how it creates the unique tokens it applies to every image it displays to avoid a very simple scrape.
From the blog post it sounds like no. They say a service got overloaded due to an increase in the number of datacenters and triggered a bug.
The Patriot Act was when I realized you can't judge a bill by its name.
I read this from time to time https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/03/your-attitude-dete...
The World of Flying Saucers
Alvin Duskin, a creative crusader against high-rises, dies at 90