skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's massively taken off during the lost previous 10 years horrible recovery. Read https://www.employamerica.org/ or Roosevelt interest stuff for why it's essential to have tight labor markets solve these problems --- more essential than ending all speculation.

The fact that the last 10 years were exceptionally weak labor markets and yet lots of speculation shows that the two are less coupled than people might think. There it was bad, but that doesn't mean the decoupling can't also work for good. The solution is:

1. Bboost demand enough so labor markets are tight -- and today "inflation" is not a problem but rather the result of trying to run a shitty poor-repair material economy that has gotten too use to low demand and cheap later. Whenever there is a recession, boot UBI, or run a job guarantee doing all that feel good low-intensity stuff. It's not like we are low on work to be done with global warming!

2. With the business cycle now constrained to merely be a speculation cycle (real people get fed regardless), think of new creative ways to go after that. For example, when there is too much speculation, limit financial assets as collatoral for loans. No more bitcoins as collateral for loans to pay for the the mining electricity in times like this. But maybe shit like that is OK in other times.
It's best when someone lets us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take care of it. I only saw this randomly.

That account was caught in a software filter; those are tuned more strictly for new accounts. I've marked it legit so this won't happen again. In the meantime, users vouched for all the comments—that's good. (More info on vouching: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch.)
I'm curious why you consider these ideas to be snake oil.
Searle's argument misses the mark. A simulated rainstorm wont leave us wet, but a simulation of a disordered state is (or contains) a disordered state. If consciousness is a relational property of a system, then a simulation of such a relational property will instantiate that relational property without qualification. The Chinese room argument can't address this conception of consciousness.
> WWII is not that long ago, in the grand scheme of things.

Nazi Germany was USSR's ally. It is technically "west", but you are not really answering OP's question in good faith IMO.

> there are many examples of US and European efforts to destabilize various members/vassals of the USSR (culminating in its dissolution)

Ohh please. The "CIA/Soros/NATO agents de-stabilized this country we are occupying (or trying to occupy) so it is _their_ fault we are doing it" is classical Russian propaganda trope. People were fed up with communism and voted to leave. Stop trying to take away their agency!

> There are also various examples of NATO or its member countries attacking Russian allies or friendly states close to its borders, notably in the Middle East, but also in Europe (the Kosovo war).

So answer is no, you can't provide any examples of NATO states attacking Russian territory?
You state that you don't understand why people use large, complex banks. Then state that you have a very simple, financially uninteresting life.

You answered your own question.
When the tide turns you'll get fucked fast following this strategy
Are all of them cut off?

There seem to be four, one north, two along the river, and one south.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=49.346598...
Regardless of what you treat it is, inequality of ownership of the major enterprises in the US is worth addressing.

I do think the US needs substantial reform of how ownership and corporate governance currently works in our system.
Expecting an instant public post is a bit unrealistic. They had a post up just over 20 minutes after the incident start, which is not that crazy, given that they needed time to triage all of the alarms and understand which component was actually breaking and confirm some technically correct information around it, even if the actual internal incident response can run without the public post.
Why is that even a package?

Hmmm... Why NPM? Why Node.js?

I am staying well clear of this in any important infrastructure.

I build test frame works out of Node.js (I had a set of bad choices) so I can get to know the thing. Made me hate it more.

All the mistakes ever made in computing rolled into one convenient system. Do not use this in important infrastructure. It is very bad.
What use case and/or value do you see useful to you/others and why can't that be achieved with existing/other technology?
That seems like a perfect use of node-red. Your setup sounds pragmatic and effective; I’m sure there would be an audience for some kind of write up with diagrams, especially if it also functions as a node-red tutorial (of sorts). I know that I am regularly designing control systems for hobbyist ag setups, and I pretty quickly hit a wall due to having minimal coding background. Something like node-red seems really useful for someone in my situation. Thanks for the ideas!
Unless you drive your car onto a ferry!
If someone mined 1000t pure gold asteroid and brought it to earth, Your gold bar would be worth less than paperweight.

Sure it would be worth more than $0 but your $600k gold bar being worth $5 is hardly an argument you are trying to make.

If the world would end your gold investments are as good as a story you can tell about your investment portfolio and a mountain of gold you own in Peru.

The hearsay of BTC having a value is similar to $$$, but nobody is loosing their mind that 'dollars are just a pieces of cloth paper, man'.
>No one reading those stories had any business thinking these allegations were proven. I doubt many did.

Were you living under a rock? People were frothing at the mouths BEGGING for it to be true.
I agree we need to deal with global warming. We also need to continue getting better at dealing with disasters. Thankfully, so far our ability to deal with natural disasters is outpacing the increased frequency.

While Frequency Of Natural Disasters Is Increasing, Related Death Tolls Are Actually Decreasing

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimfoerster/2021/10/01/while-fr...
Websites are not the only system that can enjoy a password, and there's no excuse for their egocentrism.
This is a new rewrite built into Chromium from scratch. No shared code with the original MetaMask fork.
There are still some of us who have CB radios (with all their limitations acknowledged) in our vehicles for back country emergency use, and I occasionally see mobile ham radio operators. A Garmin inReach seems like it would be a good addition.
List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers
It's certainly good for the shareholders to have more money in the market, I'm not sure about the others. I know I'd much rather have a solid 6-7% interest return than a flaky market return.
I haven't played with the api connector, but where do you store the api keys? is there a way to throttle the calls and hide them behind authentication so a user doesn't just blast my api if it's a paid service?
Correct me if I'm wrong but the browser still sends the request. The browser checks for the response's CORS headers to see if the response can be used but there's potentially an attack vector even when the response is ignored.
Important to note that this is an opinion piece. The New York times has not yet admitted to wrongdoing.
Snapchat, Spotify, Discord and more down asa major inet svcs hit by vast outage
This is a good example of what I call Similar vs Same. "Similar" code is code that happens to look very close, but is actually addressing separate use-cases. "Same" code is code that looks close, and is addressing the same use-case. Same code is safe to unify, similar code is not.

Of course, that's looks like a weak definition, because it ends up falling to, "how do you define your use-cases?" Well, that's kind of the point. The biggest thing to point out is that use-cases are not static, but change as the business changes. The second point exemplifies this:

For example, we later needed many special cases and behaviors for different handles on different shapes.

So now they're definitely separate use-cases, that just happen to look similar because they're achieving similar goals. But the methodology may and can be completely different depending on the circumstance.

So even if this was originally same code, and the unification was successful, it would have ended up split apart again anyway. And that's OK to. Sometimes things that really are the same use-case end up splitting as the business changes or learns. We as engineers need to recognize when this happens and split out the code also, instead of creating a tangled mess of one code serving two different use-cases.

EDIT: Just read some of the comments, and my thoughts expressed here are probably a subset or incomplete version of "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction":

https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29240647
Yeah, the evacuation order in Abbotsford[0] seems like the real news to me.

[0] https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts...
Your comment is arguably less useful, no? Arguably their comment is useful to Brave developers, assuming they care about user feedback.
What they don't tell you about BAT is that you cannot extract or trade the ERC20 without first going through their authorized 3rd-party custodial wallet service with KYC and your "earnings" don't accrue in your native Brave wallet either.
I cost myself a position recently arguing about this.

I had a first round interview that went well, and was given a take home and the problem was very simple, dead simple. In turn I tried to keep the code as simple as possible, with only necessary abstractions.

The second interview was with an entirely different person who seemed displeased I didn’t bloat the solution with all sorts of enterprise patterns, dependencies and conventions. I was kinda backed into a wall and while attempting to explain my reasons I ended up in an argument with the interviewer and it was clear we did not see eye to eye. He would later challenge my ability to perform in a patronizing tone and I was sure the opportunity was dead

It wasn’t the only thing that went wrong with that interview, but I feel that disagreement was the biggest killer.
> Except now you're paying 1-2 points more on a mortgage, student, and/or car loan.

When interest rates go down, house prices tend to climb proportionately as more people take advantage of the lower mortgage rates. The same goes for cars to a lesser degree. So unless you buy a house at the very beginning of an interest rate transition (before the market has settled), the rate won't have as drastic an effect on your monthly payment as you're making it seem. You can also refinance later if you buy when rates are high, but you can't lower your principal.

Also, interest rates affect other types of investments that people carry, such as retirement accounts.

I don't know what the cumulative effect of all of this is, though, so I won't claim that your overall point is incorrect.
as someone that was on IRC at the time, no it wasn't obviously cool, it was and remains worse in every aspect to irc. FB succeeded because it ignored the internet as it existed and conquered it for normies.
This is why I find it so strange that philosophers seem to by in large accept "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think therefor I am" as a valid proof of ontology. What if the appearance of thought is not actually thought?

Did philosophers not watch Blade runner? Sure Descartes didn't - but contemporaries sure as shit do!
Ethical Startup Playbook
If it is like cycling then lock-down was good opportunity to dope. Maybe someone went too hard.
> … didn't include ODBC database connectivity for free.

"ODBC 1.0 was released in September 1992."

https://www.easysoft.com/developer/interfaces/odbc/linux.htm...
Or, rampant incompetence of increasingly all-powerful government functionaries paralyzes more and more of our nation when random events occur.

The capacity to quickly repair roads exists. Call in a major structural steel engineering firm, and give them free reign and a big cheque.

You'll have a bridge over the swirling rapids in 24 hours.

Of course, government workers will be falling to the ground foaming at the mouth -- but that's just a side-benefit.
> The mainstream economic theory genuinely believed that handing out central bank securities would work just as well as, say. adjusting a UBI or normal fiscal policy.

[citation needed]

"Mainstream economic theory" states, AFAICT, that once the monetary side of things has done what it can, you need to proceed to Step 4, fiscal stimulus:

> I would summarize the Keynesian view in terms of four points:

> 1. Economies sometimes produce much less than they could, and employ many fewer workers than they should, because there just isn’t enough spending. Such episodes can happen for a variety of reasons; the question is how to respond.

> 2. There are normally forces that tend to push the economy back toward full employment. But they work slowly; a hands-off policy toward depressed economies means accepting a long, unnecessary period of pain.

> 3. It is often possible to drastically shorten this period of pain and greatly reduce the human and financial losses by “printing money”, using the central bank’s power of currency creation to push interest rates down.

> 4. Sometimes, however, monetary policy loses its effectiveness, especially when rates are close to zero. In that case temporary deficit spending can provide a useful boost. And conversely, fiscal austerity in a depressed economy imposes large economic losses.

* http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/keynesianism-exp...

* https://archive.md/O67TO

Can you provide a link to the "mainstream economic theory" that you are referring to that says otherwise?
If you thought this was about lines of code, you were not paying attention.
Peak Phosphorus May Be More Alarming Than Climate Change
> I've never seen a bug in their service. Having said that, what they do is simple compared to what other tech giants do

Setting and enforcing boundaries to keep your product apparently simple isn't easy. Frankly, neither is consistently making an apparently simple product keep working; especially when it needs to work on so many devices.

IMHO as a former WhatsApp employee, Facebook has no corporate interest in product simplicity and does not incentivize product keeps working as expected either. People respond to incentives and engineering is incentivized to launch big things, not to keep them working. Personally, I have philosophical issues with the FB way of addressing reliability, but that's a rant for another time.
All in all, this is mostly a question of policy (not in terms of typical market regulation through interest rates, money supply etc.) and not only market mechanisms.
Individuals with a high "wealth concentration" have a lot more power to pursue their goals ("gain [more] wealth [concentration], forgetting all but self"). Not only economic power, but -most importantly- power to enforce their interests politically.
Most western country (especially the US) policies of the last decades pretend to do something for citizens with a low "wealth concentration", but in the end just favor the rich.
Analyzing this trend only in economic terms and closing ones eyes (ears and mouth) regarding systematic political manipulation is hypocritical.
Probably you are correct. But that illustrates my point even more, I have made absurd amounts of cash by believing in the power of QE and the FED. Its not rocket science, its just accept that the fear mongering of "you are too dumb to use leverage" is false. But I will say, I have had huge returns on QQQ calls. Its working just fine for me to buy LEAPs 10-20% out of the money.
"Necessary to provide a service…"

- Yes, providing a service that isn't necessary! :-D

- But you can't realistically shop here without,

- Because we decided it's profitable to sell your whereabouts, cross-device phone, email, car data, and financial details to advertisers. So we're forcing you.

I don't think it mentions in the article, but the system takes a photo of your car with you in it and does OCR on the license plates. That's how it identifies you.

Convenience is a tossup, strictly worse for new users, and the cost is higher. Old system was a free/validated anonymous ticket that worked just fine. When a system is forced on people that is 98% to the advantage of a business and 2% to the customer, people are rightly going to get upset.
That seems to be a problem with a lot of these series. They usually start out good but they drag on and on. The story gets stretched out over too many books and it never gets to a satisfying end. It kills the pacing and makes me burn out on a series.

Nowadays I won't even start a series if I see it has that many books without showing any signs of coming to an end. At some point I want to have some closure.

Ideally a series has 5 books max, 3 or 4 would be ideal.
Thanks! Open-source has been fantastic for us. We've only recently launched our cloud platform, yet we've had a good sized community using Budibase and feeding back issues, feature requests etc. for ages. Building an open-source product has been so rewarding that way.

Of course, you're exactly right - we now have another ball to juggle; keeping our cloud up and running!

It took us nearly 3 years to open our cloud up, but I'm so glad that we left it this long. Only now do we have the engineering resource to handle open-source/self-host and cloud whilst still keeping the pace of development up.

So, for tips - work on product, product, product. Build your community and give them a great open-source offering. Your community will give back in return - even pure product feedback is gold. Then launch cloud when your direction is solid and you're confident in your product.
When people talk about fonts being "dated", they just mean "overused". Virtually every mainstream font out there is a riff on some design that's been around for a century or more.

Calibri replaced Times New Roman as Word's default font, because TNR had become ubiquitous (and because docs were starting to be read on-screen more than in-print, so switching to a sans-serif default made sense). But TNR is an absolutely brilliant font for its intended use case (i.e. dense body text). Most of the commonly recommended alternatives (e.g. Baskerville and Garamond) pre-date it by decades or centuries, so it's hardly an "age" thing. It's just that readers don't see them as frequently as they do TNR.

Even Calibri came along simply because Helvetica/Arial were "old". But Apple (well-respected for typography) still use Helvetica as the body text default in their office apps. And only the most pretentious of font snobs, who have carefully studied the capital "R" and "G", could tell the difference between a Helvetica and an Arial specimen. I still think that Arial is a much nicer font than Calibri for body text. It just feels "old" because people have seen it on Wikipedia pages a million times.
> obvious conclusion

Which is Covid?
Yeah if you got a million CPUs to compile the darn thing!
I think it's more nuanced than this. Like you're right that reducing consumption/commerce would help but it has trade-offs that lots of people don't jive with and isn't really the root of the problem which is waste. There is zero issue with goods made and distributed using renewables, or goods where non-renewables are reclaimed (i.e. metals, glass, certain plastics).
Nice! Will try that one.
I have a pretty complex financial situation, but Fidelity can just do all of it more easily than retail banks.

Is there something banks like BoA do better that I'm missing? When I've asked people I know this I haven't gotten any good answers. I'm genuinely asking.

My impression is that BoA, Wells Fargo, etc. mostly take advantage of customers that don't know better options exist.
Lambda School Changes Name to Bloom Institute of Technology
Oof. Well that's not good.
This is the user: https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump

This is what it says there:

> This is a joke. You'll only see this org if you are attempting to troll me about repositories I created when I was learning to program.
I am directly challenging the notion that you considered it an exaggeration at the time you wrote the comment. Considering you were criticizing the judgment of others in the comment, it seems a bit rich to play off examination of yours as somehow unfair or weird.

Cognition is often a group activity (comments on social media have effects upon the beliefs of others), and some of us actually take that very real phenomenon seriously.
Brave is expert on using hype.
use a burner account
I can say with great confidence - do not get married. Do not live in a common law state. You will very likely regret it immensely.

If I had been legally married to my ex - I would’ve been raked over the coals. I could see myself being the man on that rig. She contributed nothing to our relationship (financially or emotionally) and I put her through college while she didn’t work or pay for anything. Yet, even if I showed such selflessness, she would’ve gone to court to get half my savings I slaved over and then demand alimony for all eternity. Only because she knew she could. I think once you give people power - they will use it as much as they possibly can even if it is completely unjust. Power corrupts…

The legal and cultural institution of marriage is ridiculous. Don’t do it! And definitely don’t be with someone who doesn’t work or is a project. It’s miserable (because they become entitled and lack gratefulness).

It has left me feeling quite scared even if I didn’t go through the toughest parts. I’m overall feeling unable to trust women romantically. After it - I really feel like I’m taking off the rose colored glasses and seeing how poorly I’ve been treated by so many. I’ve stopped feeling like I’m the problem - after all, no one ever said I was. I’ve been the harshest critic of myself. Anyway - don’t get a project car for a partner. They don’t deserve you.
You can't fly into the US without a test, even as a US citizen and even if you're fully vaccinated.
Thanks for the explanation. A little hard for those who do not follow it closely.
I talked to the guys at GHGSat and led an investment effort into them.

The sources of methane release are pretty varied, for example damming rivers can be a line source, as it increases the water level upstream from the dam, submerging trees/brush which partially break down into methane.

It’s a fascinating space really. Earth observation from satellites is going to reveal a lot of insight about the world.
> we should require people to use a password manager.

And how could this possibly be checked except by allowing any random website that wants to use passwords to pwn my computer?
Pair this with the reduction of ownership of ANY real assets/goods in the general population.

I can't trade my Netflix account for food. I cannot lease my Spotify account to someone for income. I rent my house.

I think when you get down to the nitty-gritty, most people actually "own" some furniture, some clothes, and a car. If a crisis actually struck, what goods or services could you actually leverage to survive off of?
It was a way that delivered product on deadline, for exactly that project. Every project has specific needs. If you code to some other project's needs, you do the wrong thing.
Thanks for the feedback! We've not yet settled our pricing, which is why its not listed.

Great to hear some opinions on it :)
> If consciousness is a relational property of a system

But first you have to establish this is true.