skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can see you subscribe to modern monetary theory

Nope. I generally lean more towards Krugman (whose not too hot on MMT):

* https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/running-on-mmt-wo...

> Further, I see that you don’t share my concerns about increasing inflation.

I've been hearing people yammer on about inflation for a while now (at least 2009). The constant droning on about it is becoming like background tinnitus. It's not that it doesn't matter when it gets "too high", but given the modern secular stagnation we've been seeing in the developed world, little growth and deflation seems like a higher probability. Japan has had a bank rate of <1% since April 1995 and has printed money and… nothing.

> In your eyes, if economists can predict inflation we don’t actually need to prevent or stop inflation.

In my eyes economists see inflation in the context of the time that is (or is not) occurring. They can work towards preventing it, stopping it, encouraging it, or letting it run for a while depending on the situation.

Annualized inflation was -0.36 in 2009, was that a good thing?

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

If they can predict inflation then it implies they have a decent understanding of what various policies are doing / will do. It allows them to tailor those policies towards various objectives: the current objective could be that they want to get people employed again, and as the unemployment number decreases (or the participation rate increases) they can scale back the program(s). At least in the US, remember that the central bank has a dual mandate:

* https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/1468924345703706631

> In my mind inflation is theft by central powers, stealing the most from those with the least leverage (aka the poor and middle class).

Contra:

> Inflation redistributes from creditors to debtors — not exactly a burden on the bottom half of the income distribution 2/

* https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1469728251643838467

A good portion of people have debt, the largest portion of which is often their mortgage.

> A 2% annual rate of inflation over a 40 year career will steal 40% of the purchasing power of the wage-earner.

Assuming that wages don't rise. Fight for inflation-indexed minimum wage (at state and federal levels), and fight for unions. Having 0 or negative inflation (deflation) is worse from the reading I've done (see 1930s).

> We are currently experiencing 6.4% inflation based on official data.

And we'll see what it is over the next year. I'll go with the prediction of a spike over the course of 12-18 months (probably ending late-2022):

* https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/in...
Do you recognize any inalienable rights? If so, what are some?
Were you hoping to get autism? To get programming superpowers or something.
You are confusing rate and burden. The top burden is different from the top rate-- tax burden is a function of income and demographics.
When a 16-year old kids starts learning to drive on the city streets, is anybody alarmed? I doubt that is much safer.

We should treat the AIs just as children at this point. They are simply learning.
I would guess more so the latter.

Fox has been going more to the right for a few years now, but CNN has really been fading out especially with the recent scandals hitting Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Their core audience is older centrist-leaning folks and securing someone like Chris Wallace may help them bring over some center-right viewers from Fox.
How is “Tax Burden” calculated? How is “personal income” determined? This is opaque and essentially meaningless. It remains true that California has the highest tax rate in the country.
The details depend on your project requirements.

As a default: Django, Django Rest Framework, HTML, CS, and either JS or Typescript. (Typescript is nicer, but JS saves a build step and config, and some headache related to DOM types)
DataTables is solid.
A few "yes, but..."s:

> If you're not traveling outside the US and living a fairly normal life

Globally, given an at-least-middle-class lifestyle (and any other years than 2020–2021), "not travelling outside [your home country]" is actually rather abnormal. It's mostly an American thing.

I've seen it hypothesized that higher risk-aversion from a media-inculcated culture of fear could be responsible for Americans' unique disinterest in international travel.

If that were true, then "properly calibrating your risk-aversion" as we're talking about here, would potentially result in the average American desiring to travel a lot more — which would then mean that the extra vaccinations would have rather more justification.

> Should every sexually active person take PrEP regularly since HIV is a potential risk to everyone? No, there are populations of risk exposure where it makes sense though.

I mean, if we just had a huge supply of PrEP laying around so that we could afford to be wasteful with it, we could just give it to every sexually-active person for a while to stop transmission, and so effectively eradicate HIV. (Everyone already infected would keep taking it until death, but nobody new would be getting infected, so as soon as all those people passed away, there'd be no more HIV.)

Personally, I'd see it as my duty as a citizen of the world to participate in a program like that. I want to live to see that virus die.

But moreover, doing so would eliminate the risk of anyone ever contracting HIV again; which doesn't just have personal consequences for arbitrary individuals from the population; but also has societal effects (in any country with socialized healthcare), and even cultural effects (in terms of changing the landscape of sexual mores.) Those effects could have net-positive utility that greatly outweighs the personal calculus of "am I more likely to get HIV, or an iatrogenic illness from PrEP." (I don't think anyone's done the true cost-benefit for the societal-level effects. It'd be interesting to see.)

See also: the argument to eliminating homelessness. Where, in that case, the societal-level "economically externalized from the individual" effects (e.g. fewer unpaid ER visits per homeless person) clearly do come out highly net-positive, such that we should strive to do that even if such programs were economically net-negative per homeless person. Thus thinking like "just give every homeless person a house."

> Your dentist only takes x-rays every so often because the x-ray exposure increases risk of various forms of cancer.

X-rays are an outmoded technology, though. If we could make MRI machines cheap enough, dentists could do what they do now with X-rays, by instead taking MRI captures and using a spectrum that highlights the bone-density sections.

In that hypothetical world, there'd be no downside to getting a new MRI every time you visit the dentist.
I read ebooks and listen to audiobooks. My kindle syncs with the kindle app on my phone for ebooks. So anytime I'm waiting in line for something, like at a grocery store I take out my phone and start reading my current ebook (or more often hacker news). Sometimes I'll take my kindle with me on a walk and stop in the middle to read for a few hours if it's a weekend or something. If it's during the week I don't normally read from the kindle directly more than an hour a day. If there is a tv show I'm watching sometimes I'll do that instead of reading.

For audiobooks I listen at faster speed so it's like reading more content than the time actually consumed. If I don't feel like listening to a podcast I'll listen in the car. I'll also listen while I'm doing dishes or that sort of thing around the house. Occasionally I'll listen to an audiobook while playing videogames.
The FIA has been consistent in being inconsistent during the whole season. Max deserved it but god what a mess they made.
Gothic novelist Anne Rice who wrote Interview With The Vampire dies at age 80
There are other problems with big apps. Look at the comments under a YouTube video. YouTube is one of the biggest sites in the world, but it was written and designed by LtR natives. The comments have to support both LtR and RtL languages, but the comment viewing can only support one layout, so the experience is sub-par for RtL. For instance, RtL comments will start at the right and span towards the left where the user's avatar is, whereas Latin comments will sit nicely next to the user's avatar.

Tl;dr: There is no perfect solution when your site has to support both LtR and RtL in the same page at the same time. Someone is going to suffer.
> Use proper procedure to resolve disputes

That's really the depth of your thinking here? Sheesh, why did I bother?
This is actually how Apple does some of their open-source projects.

For example, the XNU kernel at the heart of macOS is open source, along with some of its kernel extensions. Apple isn’t interested in having other people work on it though or having their commit history unveil vulnerabilities, so they just squash all the commits into one and release the tarball for every new macOS version.

Open-source kernel? Check.
What's the status of Rust usage inside NASA? I am currently writing software that, hopefully, will be sent to the Moon one day, and I am considering options as to software technologies.
Address the problem? LOL! Yes, we are totally going to stop the tracking problem dead in its tracks by bombarding the poor serf with annoying popups. A foolproof, masterful plan. Pure genius.

Next thing you know, the executives of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, The Government, the Church, YCombinator, and every other corporation on the planet will be arrested en masse, charged with egregious violations of civil rights, convicted, then publically executed.

If only the common serf had understood sooner that their every move and all details of their lives were being monitored, tracked, and recorded for sinister purposes, and their data, dignity, and rights exfiltrated by ubiquitous malware installed by Big Brother on every single digital device. Their minds controlled and manipulated by an endless barrage of disinformation; their bodies, souls, and lives totally owned by their betters. If only they had known they were born into chattel slavery.

But now the dawning of truth and justice is at hand! Finally, at long last, the masses are going to rise up in revolt against digital slavery by faceless corporate/government/religious demons! I'm sure of it! And all it took was ubiquitous, annoying popups, to finally awaken the power of the masses against their corporate/government/religious overlords. The era of total freedom from serfdom is at hand! Arise, my people, and FIGHT! Launch all zig! For great justice!

Meanwhile, be sure to wear that scrap of fabric across your face, citizen, or the boogie-virus'll get ya! lol.

Like I said, humans are extraordinarily stupid creatures. A worthless, failed, unrepentently evil species. Bring on the asteroid. ANY DAY NOW.
Ha. We better read it while we can!
"median" might not the best measure to use in cases such as this. I'm not from SF, so I won't try to take a side, but I do know that with the wealth gaps in this country, median is highly unlikely to accurately tell the story of employees working in the public sector.
You forgot tiny detail that they live in prison for entire life eating equivalent of Mc Donalds or worse.
The notion that non-lethal (or less lethal) weapons might be considered functionally equivalent to their lethal counterparts is, I believe relatively new.
> I'm really surprised to see this as the top comment.

Me too. I consider most of these trivial too. But there's another aspect. Many things (version control flow, release model, rollbacks, etc) has to take into consideration and will inevitably affect the workflow, meaning the way engineers write code (feature flags? dynamic config? gitOps? what about rollbacks? Do we keep the tip of the branch synced with prod or no?).

The _state of art_ is different based on things like: Monolith or micro-service (like smaller, well defined scope)? Is the app written in Java, NodeJS or Python? Do we have 5 developers, 1 or 400? Do we need to testing because the app is handling medical data or we don't care if we don't case because our SaaS doesn't handle sensitive data? Do we need integration tests? Do we care about raw computation perf? Mem leaks? What about testing thresholds?

All the above and many more, depend on business goals and domains, engineering cultures and less obvious intangibles. These evolve "naturally" over time.

There's no "state of art", just business needs. The "state of art" is the sweet spot between engineering velocity and reliability, which is a moving target anyway :-)
For some types of software, we really do not want students doing it, for free or otherwise. There are whole classes of software, like database engines, that are non-obvious and require many years of real-world domain experience before it is plausible that someone will design a competent, scalable architecture and implementation. If open source is going to run critical infrastructure, we don't want naive and inefficient software design but that is frequently what we get; this isn't a criticism of the people that create many of these projects, more the process in practice and our expectations of it.

UBI is not a solution because it would, at best, pay poverty wages. People with the skills to be effective core contributors also have the skills to be paid much, much more for their time. Few people, and definitely not enough, are going to sacrifice the living standards of themselves or their family for some ideal of OSS.

There are strong adverse incentives that make it improbable that the people designing and building OSS are who we as users of OSS would want to be in that role in an ideal world. This has been getting worse with time. The risk for OSS is that those adverse incentives are never addressed.
I’ve read on r/selfdriving that he did take over, the “take over” alert just lingers for a few seconds.
>200 StackOverflow points

You forgot to mention Excel and Word.
Hamilton had the faster car today so I don't think the terrible first lap non-call would have affected the race. Mercedes did a terrible job with tire management today - they just needed to cover off Verstappen's tire changes and they would have been fine, but they failed. The way that final lap turned out was super exciting for fans, but the outcome was pre-ordained given the age of Hamilton's tires.

The way the race officials communicated the restart was confusing and terrible. Masi probably needs to be fired for this.

But we probably all need to be talking about Perez and the amazing, selfless job that he did as a teammate for Verstappen today and all weekend.
You've established a frictionless work environment with perfectly spherical employers and employees in your head. You have the base model down but it's an abstraction with no ties to reality.

You won't be able to think about the subject accurately until you get more experience under your belt. People generally learn the answer to "what's wrong with being honest" on the job.
dataclasses author here.

That's not true. You can use make_dataclass the same way you can use namedtuple:

>>> from dataclasses import make_dataclass
>>> A = make_dataclass("A", ["x", "y", "z"])
>>> A(1, 2, 3)
A(x=1, y=2, z=3)

It is true that if you want to use @dataclass you have to use annotations, just the way you do with typing.NamedTuple. But as others have noted, the annotation is mostly ignored.

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Are those cops giant? The measuring sticks seem like they can't be two meters long unless the cops are all incredibly tall.
People. I am so motivated when I know about what people did and how they did it.
Why? You can do anything client side in any language

Not familiar with the lore behind why it would interesting in the language formerly known as Perl

Did it lack cryptography libraries for a long time or was it notoriously bad at something?
Isn’t that the allow_mutation parameter of the field function?

https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/usage/schema/#field-cust...
> giving birth and breastfeeding being a very costly event with very real risks for almost all women.

Natural selection suggests that women who find giving birth and breastfeeding more difficult than average women, will die off over time and be replaced by the descendents of those women who found it easier than average women.
Median household income is going to consider a lot of single people; the parent post said "supporting a family".

The income thresholds for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development[1] (HUD) seem to be the best location-adjusted standards for poverty (the federal poverty thresholds[2] are the same for all mainland states). HUD's 2021 numbers for households of 3-5 people in San Francisco:

| | 3 PERSON | 4 PERSON | 5 PERSON |
|-----------------+----------+----------+----------|
| EXTR LOW INCOME | 49,350 | 54,800 | 59,200 |
| VERY LOW INCOME | 82,250 | 91,350 | 98,700 |
| LOW-INCOME | 131,750 | 146,350 | 158,100 |

So, supporting a spouse and 1 kid in SF, 150k is just 14% above "low income". But just eyeballing the federal poverty thresholds to the HUD numbers for other locations, it looks to me like the "extra low income" number is the one most comparable to the poverty threshold; in that case, you are correct, 150K is not anywhere close to the poverty line.

[1]: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il21/Section8-Inc...

[2]: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-ser...

-- lukeshu (some guy who has never even been to California)
The biggest chess game ever
I like challenges that are small enough that I know I can finish them, eventually. This is why the Advent of Code is so fun.

I especially like doing things that people say are impossible. Probably because I'm a mapper, and inconsistencies between those statements and my mental model of the world are irritating.

Getting started is always an issue for me, but once I've decided something can be done, and I'm on the chase... it's persistence hunting until the universe bends to my will.
Try Sky Map app. It's fun to go on a walk when the sky is clear and identify constellations and planets.

It was originally made by Google, then open sourced in 2012.

https://github.com/sky-map-team/stardroid
only read Interview with The Vampire but it's a book that left a profound impression on me.

rip.
That's more an indication of the clips you select to watch. I've seen half hour videos with no problems whatsoever.

We can't really draw any conclusions from self-selected video clips.

I do think the data should be openly available for all to study an analyze. If that helps competitors, then that's the price for testing in public.
Sounds more like you need a full on revolution to change that then.
They haven't yet responded, but I wonder if it would make any difference in power consumption (CPU usage, to be more specific) if redbean[1][2] could be used instead of nginx.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271117

[2] https://redbean.dev
The hint is clearly in the sentence you're confused about -- that he has also created some puzzle games is the only plausible explanation.
Came here to say exactly the same. Just needs some typescript into the mix.
At that time the system was merely lane keep with adaptive cruise control. Any system would have had a similar result at that time.
Well the sun has probably set in Barcelona too, this won't help either.
Ask HN: Membership Management System
I've been asked to help create a system for my community garden to help manage memberships. Right now it is being done painfully on spreadsheets.

I'm debating
1. Rolling up a Rails instance coding the minimum to meet the features
2. Looking for an open source member management system (checks on github are unsuccessful so far)
3. Paying for a monthly service.

Does anybody have any leads on points #2 or #3?
the big caveat in planetscale is that you pay per row READ. so make damn sure you use every index afforded to you
Ironic that the content is solely about the server itself. It's a bit like a blog about the libraries and tools used to make the blog.
> It's still FOSS, except if you are making millions using it and the entire issue becomes a luxury problem.

I guess we can discuss what should be, but AFAICT it's just not FOSS according to the OSI or the FSF.
The paper says fisetin reduced the number of senescent cells in a sample. It’s not clear if that means the cells were eliminated or if the were prevented from entering a senescent state. Do you know the answer? The former sounds better than the later.
Good catch. Tricky because Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) || Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) == Lena Gonzalez (D-)
The only thing stopping GCC from becoming the desired boringcc is to find people
It's just like clicking "Accept" when installing something, a fact of life we're all stuck with.

We all realize that this is the law in Europe, and the pop-ups are consistent enough that its safe to just accept the cookies.

If enough people (not in the EU) break this pattern in a bad way, the shit will fly. You could do something like that, but reputation points will be lost in the process.
It is, but its not at all difficult for shady lenders to game it. So if everyone is doing it, eventually it becomes the norm.
This "you can't have free stuff" argument I've seen way too many times now is based on a false premise.

You _absolutely_ can have free stuff. I remember the web when it was run by hobbyists, and that's exactly how it worked. What people who use the "no free stuff" argument really mean is that there are those who are on the web to make money, and you can't have their stuff for free.

To that I'd say; take your stuff and go home. Your stuff is exactly what ruined the web in the first place.
> This was caused by a software upgrade of the Linux kernel, which increased the average power use of the server from 1.19 to 1.49 watts

I wonder what change in the linux kernel caused the increased load. Someone out there is responsible for this crime!
>Lethal means would be required to safeguard that.

Why is that? It sounds like you are saying that even if you don't need lethal force for self defense, you would need it for regime change?
Some people will be left holding bad debt. That could be bad if it happened overnight, but a fertility rate of 2.0 is a very gentle off-ramp. Either way would be preferable to exponential population growth continuing.
> Will people be happy with "virtual travel" as a substitute for actually visiting places?

To be fair, a lot of "influencers" and regular people in lack of attention are already using photoshop just for that.
What is it that you are complaining about really? You need the latest runtime if you want to develop for the latest runtime. If that's your intention, download the latest runtime anyway you like, and then install it on your target machine. If it's not, don't download it and develop for the last runtime available on your machine.
I think this also shows how inefficient modern website hosting is. The fact that this person was able to get a raspberry pi to host the #1 website on HN powered by a small 50 watt solar panel is very cool (meaning maybe 10w average power budget), but also shouldn't be as uncommon as it is today. To put this in perspective, a modern server uses 50-100 watts idle doing nothing, and many more under load. To handle the top of HN, the developer probably would use load balancing and other tech, multiplying the power usage accordingly.
Edit: fixing typos.
"SGT Puzzles" or, sometimes, "Simon's Puzzles" is a collection of single player puzzle games that has been ported to many, many platforms.

If you can think of a non-card solitaire game, it's probably implemented.
I used his Tkinter docs to write my first real Python program, in 2003. Two years later I was getting my first job as a Python programmer, that’s still what I do for a living. RIP to Fredrik, his work changed life for the better for many of us.