skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, a pawn of russia. just like trump. yet it is biden who said yes to the biggest russian infrastructure project for germany with the pipeline.

the narrative of being a russian pawn doesnt work. everyone loved assange until he underlined the oblivious corruption of clinton and hence contributed to make her loose rightfully so the election. I am no trump fan and I am for a non partisan vision of the world. a vision where freedom means telling the truth even if it hurts yourself or your political leaders. Assange is a victim of usa and it is sad to bring russia to the equation
This is a PR piece for politicians, yellow-journalism for uneducated people. Lots of adjacent color cultivating reader biases and eliding basic economics and accounting. But thumbs up, great journalism! Reminds me of how the same US pols that fundamentally drive infrastructure policy with the tax code chided companies for “not paying taxes” based on the very incentives they had designed.
Maybe Ditaa?

http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

Emacs support...and org-mode babel, too.
> 18 minutes of advertising per hour of TV.

Hmmm. That would be nice.

I watched a one-hour show last night (with a 6-minute ad-break) that rolled titles at the 40-minute point. There followed a 10-minute ad-break, and 10 minutes of trailers. All of the ads were low-grade - hearing aids, wills and equity-release, and charity donation pitches.
Could be referring to diceware https://theworld.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Discoverability is real problem. But even then we have more prestige, high-quality TV being created today than a few decades ago.
Those are all valid concerns, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation."
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/bank-transfers-120k-to-wr...

But then maybe you thought that your app really took off :)
It was also very distinctly DOS/Windows-first product family. Microsoft OS slide to irrelevance sealed the fate.
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Plenty of people were afraid of "dangerous thinking", so we stagnated as a species during the middle ages.

That's why some civilizations were more advanced thusands of years ago than, say, Britain during the 1200's.
In 1990, Brazilian Interest Rates Hit 790,799%
In light of today's high CPI print in the USA and soaring producer prices [1] around the world, in 1990 Brazil reached an annualized interest rate of 790,799% [2]. Unfortunately, HN reroutes the businessinsider link to a different page, so I was forced to post it as a text post.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/forecast/producer-prices-change

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-historys-highest-interest-rates-2014-2

[2] Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20150702062927/https://www.businessinsider.com/brazil-historys-highest-interest-rates-2014-2
Not sure where you got this "manipulation is negative persuasion" definition. You can most certainly manipulate people without intending harm. For example, I could manipulate you into buying a bagel instead of a croissant, just to see if I could manipulate you into doing so. No harm is intended, but it's still manipulation.
If it has no statistical significance why would you run a campaign at all?
Because of the misogyny and injustice of the system /s

I think generally all virus are more severe in man

(Dec 2016) Riddle of why viruses hit men harder than women finally solved by UK scientists
https://www.rt.com/uk/370278-viruses-evolved-men-women/
the purpose of CPI, at least in my mind, is to calculate the change in the price of goods from year to year. Making your monthly mortgage payment isn't the same thing as buying a new house, so the fact that the payment might stay the same over the life of the mortgage contract doesn't seem particularly relevant. What seems relevant is how much it would cost to buy the same house again today.

For instance, if we suppose for the sake of example that the average American buys a new TV every five years, it would be true to say that the cost of TV for most Americans didn't rise this year even if TV prices increased 15%. But saying that seems to provide zero insight about CPI.
I'm a professor and I talk with a lot of adjuncts. I'm not saying it's easy, and I don't think the OP of this thread was looking for an easy life. They wanted a life free of commercial toil in which they could devote themselves to raising chickens and open source work. If that's all you want to do, you can do this on an adjunct's salary. No commercial work necessary, just teaching people what you know.

If you want to raise a family of 4, own property and cars, dine out, and do all the normal things that most adjuncts want to do, then yeah, that job won't afford you the life that you're looking for.

Also I will note that this piece is conflating the adjunct position with the property of being non-tenured. In fact there are many non-tenured positions that are not adjunct positions, and they can pay much more. These can be called among other things, "instructor" or "research faculty" or "visiting professor".
I think there's a lot of fuss here to come up with something which has the same structure (isomorphic) and same representation / encoding as quaternions, while trying to avoid calling them quaternions. Part of math pedagogy is getting comfortable with terminology and when to say that two things are "the same thing". You understand a structures (like quaternions, like rotors) by using both axiomatic approaches (what are the properties of these things?) and from constructive approaches (how do we build these things?)

Take the real numbers, for example. They are intuitively simple, but if you take an analysis class, you'll be asked to rigorously prove that your different approaches to understanding real numbers are equal to each other, and therefore interchangeable. You can take your axiomatic approach (real numbers are an ordered field, where each nonempty set bounded above has a least upper bound). You can construct real numbers as decimal numbers with an infinite number of digits past the decimal point. You can construct real numbers as limits of series of fractions. All of these approaches "are" the real numbers. No one version is privileged over the others. By understanding these different approaches, you get a better understanding of the real numbers.

Same is true of quaternions, but here, it seems that we're being sold an idea that one version is superior and the other versions are inferior. This is, I believe, a bad pedagogical approach. There are certain advantages to thinking of quaternions in terms of a scalar component and 3D imaginary component. For one thing, the imaginary component points in the direction of the axis of rotation! That's pretty handy, for visualizing quaternions as rotations. This article takes the viewpoint that there is no reason to think of quaternions as anything other than rotors and plane reflections--again, this is bad pedagogy, because people should be encouraged to think of mathematical objects in different ways, and use whichever way that they find convenient for the problem, or convenient for their own mental model. No one approach is privileged. As a mathematician, reading this article, all I see at the end is "Oh, you want to use quaternions, but you don't want to call them quaternions."

Perhaps we need a more in-depth article on the notion of rotations explained for non-mathematicians, something that, at the very least, incorporates the relationship between axis-angle representations and quaternions/rotors, because these two different representations are not isomorphic, and they are related to each other through calculus, the exponential map, and Lie algebra. It's also worthwhile to think what the tangent space is for unit quaternions. If you incorporate the different approaches to representing rotations, and don't try to sell one as being "the best" representation, I'd love to read that article.
Came here to reminisce about xroach.

Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon that the security configuration of an X workstation was open to external windows/display. e.g. you could run a program on your system, but target your neighbor's display.

I think universities did this to make it easier to help/troubleshoot a workstation remotely, but once you figured out the commands, xroach was one of my favorites to run on another machine.
People are motivated to lose fat already. There are immediate social and psychological costs aplenty to carrying it and immediate benefits to presenting as trim/fit.

Obesity is not a motivation problem.

I would believe that covid has provided all sorts of opportunities for changes in habit, though, which might help.
TV has always had competition. With anything else you do in your free time. When it started it competed with radio. Later it competed with what you had on the VCR. Then gaming. Then streaming. They always had to worry about losing people to other activities.

And as such, they couldn't just run 25 minutes of ads and 5 minutes of show, because people wouldn't watch.

There are more ads now because the people who are left on linear TV are the people who are most die hard about watching it and will take more abuse, or simply don't have any idea what to do with their free time instead.
> Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long

Unless it is with other people and, more critically, at least one of the people involved goes beyond planning and takes some concrete step to advance the execution of the plan (at which point it becomes the separate crime of conspiracy), no, planning a crime, even of that seriousness, is not itself a crime.
Love the design of the website, despite the difficult readability of the fonts. Simple easy layout, happy vibes, reminds me of the old days.
Rust trait objects are surprisingly painful. I've reached for them a lot where I would normally use Go interfaces, but ended up avoiding them. I suspect this has more to do with Rust's memory management model--having sum types and interfaces would almost certainly work out perfectly in Go.
One neat characteristic is that the derivations of these higher Cayley-Dickinson algebras stabilize!

[1] https://projecteuclid.org/journals/pacific-journal-of-mathem...
Yeah as a kid i remember staring at the jbuilder box in a "computer store". I wanted it so bad. But never had the money.
>We are heading back toward the "TV" era... Where speech is controlled/censored 98% of the time.

That's an odd assertion to make when you're talking about Reddit, where anyone can fork a subreddit at any time, or even the web where anyone can launch a website for free or without much expense that can be seen by almost anyone on Earth, or even Donald Trump whose every word and deed still makes headline news and who is currently launching his own multimedia platform.

Speaking of which, Trump and his followers have to be the least censored "censored" political group in history. They're constantly shouting from every social media platform and every comment section about how censored they are. It's ridiculous.
“inflation is good because it’ll make people skinnier as they can’t afford food”

Wonderful argument lol
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Yes, but it doesn't seem to achieve much in the context of COVID-19.
Why are we so afraid to state the obvious?
So does shelter though; at least anything produced by human hands or human minds has a shelter cost baked in somewhere. Every factory has to pay for the land it occupies and the land their workers sleep on. Bay area salaries could probably be slightly lower if Bay area rents were slightly lower. Et cetera...
Prosocial Capitalism
also, women tend to be smaller, so even with higher percentages, the total amount of fat can be roughly similar to men.

but it seems the real issue with fat is how much visceral fat there is vs. the total amount anyway. obese folks all tend to have much more visceral fat than relatively fit individuals. visceral fat interferes more with the workings of organs and the signaling mechanisms (hormones, neural pathways, lymph/blood compositions, etc.) that keep a body healthy.
I'd be happy to chat more if you want.
I really dont know what happened, but borland c++ 3.1 was the very best IDE I have ever used, no amount of emacs can replace it in my heart.

Delphi was super good as well.

We have only gone backwards since those days..
I remember doing an annual complete disk reformatting, Windows reinstall in the early 2000s (restoring all my data from backups, took hours), and scandisk + defragging on the reg, and manually compiling a kernel on my Slackware box. I remember using public terminals that were crippled by adware and viruses. Good times.
That is a valid issue that you raise, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation." Hopefully everyone on Hacker News is smart enough to know that housing has special features that are different from other asset classes.
Hopefully there can be EU supported remedies for GPL violations. It's kind of absurd. The Estonian eSignature software (FOSS) could fairly easily automatically support many countries eSig, IF the drivers are added to OpenSC ...
The climate comments here are virtue signaling. Like it or not it was completely legal.

There is a price for everything, including human lives. Lose a limb? Eye? There’s a price for it all, even a oil spill.

Whether it’s enough is an entirely different conversation.
I dunno, I really have 0 problems.

If I compare python against: go, npm, ruby, jvm - it clearly has better user/dev experience.

pipx just works and it is a pretty decent failsafe option. perl5 was a sad hell last I had to use it.
Other data points worth noting:

- Wages in the US increased 9.8% in October of 2021 over the same month in the previous year. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth

- The Estimate for Q4 GDP growth is 8.7%. https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
> It actually has to be used, which it generally has not been:

maybe it comes down to where does it need to be used (as in which level, capital investment and other long-term assets in contrast with consumer goods)?

This money is quickly finding its way to consumable (and other rent-like) purchases, so now it does trigger inflation whereas in the time around 08 the end consumption was not really affected (it is now because pandemic)
To play devil's advocate, there is at least some value in US diplomatic cables being secret. It allows our diplomats to pass around honest impression and sensitive information back to our government.

If all diplomatic channels were transparent, diplomats would treat it like a twitter account. If the US's Saudi Ambassador thought the Saudi leadership was unstable, they'd never write that in a cable if it was going to be released publicly.

And nobody would tell our diplomats uncomfortable truths.
The machines at the very top are the only ones at the very top, yes. But there are dozens of manufacturers and fabs building useful ICs slightly shy of the bleeding edge. Lots of microcontrollers, general-purpose ICs, and special purpose ICs are still very frequently made on 22nm and 45nm scales.

And most of the hard trial-and-error discovery and experimentation has been done already, so it should not take 50 years to recover 50 years of historical progress. A process from 1970 can be done in the garage with 'just' a microscope and projector (and a lot of skill and hard work!): http://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
That argument applies to words too. The string ‘run’ has to be learned. So does the spoken version. So does the idea. And you have to relearn the word in each language.
I think everyone, including the writer of the article, understands the mechanism at play. The point is that you can't justify something by just stating the mechanism. The article already states very clearly what is going on.

> That’s in significant measure because she was able to transform money her company was compelled to spend cleaning up the oil spill into a perfectly legal nine-figure tax write-off for herself.

OP's post was essentially a re-wording of this quotation, and as such, doesn't make a case beyond I guess an implied "that's legal so it's good, or at least just the way it has to work".
Interesting. I know some have tried to make faster versions of old 8 bit computers from the hardware side instead.

Here's an FPGA-based drop-in replacement for 65C02 that runs at 100MHz: http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

Not tried in a C64 yet, but he did get it working in a Commodore PET.
Not just a bonus, but $25 million. An amazingly high bonus even for CEO standards.
When you see or hear something that makes you think "that person lacks critical thinking skills", how often are they 18-25 year olds? For me, I associate generally with older people.

I think young people today are pretty media savvy.
Your nominal profit is 5% and your real profit is 0%, good point, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation."
Can you enumerate some of the accounting issues?

Also, “they” is not accurate. I suspect you already realize that lawmakers and the population governed by their laws have very different incentives and outcomes.
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A bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused a 911 call to fail
Legacy software really is their stated core business. Maybe that is why they sold Suse again.
I don’t think you know that, and ultimately it will he decided in court.
Not the person you're responding to, but 6.8% compounded over 4 years is 30%, at 5 years, you're at 39%...
Heroin has medicinal properties too. That doesn't mean any 16 year old should be allowed to purchase it over the counter for whatever ailment they think it may treat.

Nicotine is one of the most reinforcing substances we know of, and can be as difficult to kick as a cocaine or heroin habit. It easily removes a decade from your lifespan and reduces the quality of the remaining years.

I am not a psychiatrist, but my degree is in neuroscience. It's not 100% clear why some clinical populations are overrepresented amongst nicotine users. You offer an explanation but there are many more and some are at odds with one another.

If it's because of medicinal benefits, isolating those is preferable to getting tar in your lungs. If it's because people with conditions like schizophrenia are less supported, predisposing them to substance abuse, having a legal and extremely addictive substance at any store or gas station would make it worse.

Makes no sense to me given how most governments treat cannabis, psilocybin, LSD, etc. which are much safer and less habit forming (and have much better medicinal applications)
In the same way that Visual Basic offered simple, drag & drop interface builders.

What happened is also changing hardware, UIs that need to adapt to changing screen sizes, different needs, theming, and many more.
They never really made the jump to Windows did they?

I know they had Windows IDEs but lets be honest, just like Wordstar, Lotus 123 and a bunch of others they were way too slow to move to Windows in the industry shake up that was Windows 95.
This is true but I think, ime at least, most people don’t buy their own routers and get a cheap modem/router/Wi-Fi ap unit that gets replaced every few years when they experience issues. Then again my experience was It so it wasn’t like the people who never had issues called.
I do this a lot. You can even do `A{B: 1, C: 2}.myfunc()` in many cases.
>My view is that when you develop a product, you have to own everything. The users don’t care if the bug comes from code you wrote, or code in a library, or the language’s standard library, or the OS. You have to fix the bug no matter what caused it. It doesn’t matter if the code came from a vendor or a language designer or stack overflow; you are the one responsible for fixing it if something goes wrong.

So then using a programing language that has a big standard library and a more rich and stable ecosystem is a big advantage.
If I want to do a network request, parse a json file, parse or format a date or some other trivial thing I prefer to have a good enough built in way to do it then evaluate 15 packages or write it myself. Otherwise you get in a shitty situation where you inherit some projects and it has 20 dependencies with vulnerabilities, 20 dependencies abandoned, some dependencies that are incompatible with some new version of the language/ecosystem causing issue if you would like to upgrade.
European commission uses Bitbucket afaik, as well as the rest of the Atlassian stack
Does anyone know of a macOS version of this? The one linked to from Wikipedia is a pay app. I like my desktop silliness to be old school command-line fun.
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It's really hard to identify one specific thing, but I would have to say car tech seems to have tripped the most offenses for me.

The most upsetting thing to me is the fly-by-wire controls. I used to drive a vehicle that was EFI, but still had a direct cable from your foot to the throttle body. To describe the throttle response as "immediate" is an understatement when compared to any modern car. Today, I have a recent generation sports car with electronic throttle body. There is a dead zone and about 100 milliseconds of latency associated with any input. It really kills the experience/flow when you are anticipating that step-wise moment.

Also, I will probably never drive a car that doesn't utilize an E2E hydraulic braking or steering system. You can maybe survive the software engineers fucking up TB angle. You can't survive the computer deciding to take you directly into a barrier at 80mph or refusing to apply the brakes in an emergency situation.

I think higher latency, lower reliability and reduced safety (in edge cases) is at the core of most things that bother me with tech. Sure, you can get the statistics to make it look good on paper, but the individuals caught in those "but sometimes" situations would like to have a word with your methodologies.
China and India makes up most of it and they don't care, nor are they going to care any time soon. So UK is in fact irrelevant. It could reduce carbon emissions to zero (impossible in any reasonable time frame), and nobody would even notice. Nor would setting an example encourage big emitters to change, if anything it'd discourage them as they'd see that net zero = poverty, and poverty is the thing they're trying to solve, not create more of.
well one positive thing about the UK immigration system after brexit it's now much easier and straighforward. sort of points based. much clearer, no h1b lottery to deal with like you would if you were trying to get in the states.
Manipulation in American English generally has a negative connotation. Technically you can say your doctor manipulated you into losing weight because of your heart disease, but that would be an odd usage. You would normally say she persuaded or convinced you. Conversely, the car salesman manipulated you into buying the unnecessary extra warranty.

American Heritage dictionary has this definition for manipulation:

>Shrewd or devious management, especially for one's own advantage.

Lastly, if you try to convince me of something "just to see if you can" that would definitely be perceived as negative to most people. You did it for your benefit, the enjoyment or education of doing it.
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