skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand (I know this is supposed to be a bitching thread, sorry):

Imagine all the people who can now see these things who would never have been able to travel and see them in the past. I don't even think I could travel to half the places I want to see due to time constraints and my personal life choices (kids, etc.). I love being able to watch some videos of people walking in different cities or whatever, since I know I have maybe 2 overseas trips left in me.

Having been to plenty of places in my youth, though, I can say that seeing the Eiffel Tower on video and climbing to the top (twice in two consecutive days; man my legs hurt) is way way different, but for someone who couldn't go there, it's probably great to see the videos. Also, maybe if people saw the wonders in their own backyard, that would be a good idea, versus watching other wonders on video.
Televisions have more channels, but a far worse user interface with more latency.
I love it - is there an xbell to go with it? :)

PS: I just got a jingle.mp3 and wrote a small script to randomly play it - goes very well with xsnow!
Right! What would filtering even look like? This seems like an unreasonable burden on the developer.
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Everything is transitory, the earth will explode at some point and I'm sure the US dollar won't be around by then.
A Benedictine once put it more or less this way to me: community life causes the monks to round off each other's sharp edges over time. A solitary life is generally not good for people.

Check out "Into Great Silence" for a film about life in the Grand Chartreuse, the motherhouse of the Carthusian order. I recall reading some years ago that it is one of the few (only?) orders in the Catholic Church that has never needed reform. Carthusians only talk to each other once a week I believe -- interesting monastic order.

There is also a relevant classic work on the Jesus Prayer so used by the East: The Way of a Pilgrim. It's about a man who is determined to find out how to pray without ceasing. He becomes a solitary mystic is how I would describe it.
This is in part because they changed how CPI is calculated in the 80s and 90s, which, as luck would have it, lowered the rates. You can see what CPI looks like with the older formulas here to compare:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Congrats! Going from $6k to $1 billion MRR in one month is quite good.
Thank you, that's an excellent explanation. Being primarily a Python dev I've been looking at it entirely backwards.
I bought mine for $.10 on the dollar...
>These two categories overlap but are not the same. This is a problem of asking a yes/no question to about access to a vague category that contains thousands of services.

This is the subjectivity of politics in a nutshell. Well written.

>This relates to your post in that you can't fact check imprecise claims that mean different things to different listeners.

Let me even propose more what should the immigration number be? This is a bit of a bigger issue in my country but lets stick with USA.

It's around 1 million new legal immigrants a year.

If I say it should be 750,000 vs you say it should be 1.5 million. There is no way to say what is correct.

What happens in my country? Anyone who thinks we should have less immigration is literally a white supremacist.

Even just side line: https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223727977361338370?s=20

February 2020, Trump took the plan from Obama's playbook to restrict travel from China. For which he was called xenophobic and fear mongering. Even just looking to stop travel because of covid, not even just reducing immigrant and he's called xenophobic.

Hindsight 20/20 Biden looks very bad here because he himself has now done the same thing that Trump did.

What's the misinformation here? Should we be looking to censor something?
Layoffs will happen when companies aren't doing well. IMHO, the problem is the CEO getting a freaking _BONUS_ while simultaneously claiming the company isn't doing well and as a result they're laying off people. The board probably approved his bonus as well, so all this is nothing but a PR stunt. They don't care, they never cared.

If the company isn't doing well everyone in senior management should also get a haircut. Bonus cancelled, pay reduced, etc. As per the CEO - "Not meeting deadlines will not be acceptable". Well, dude, what about your own deadlines and milestones? He drove the company into the ground, and so should also shoulder some of the responsibility.
I would guess self-sufficient units of people with little interaction outside of it.

Be it a housing block where everything is within walking distance or people choosing to only interact with a small and static group of friends. But within such a block, there are few restrictions.
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It's because they measure the item to an equivalent item from 1970. Take a car for example. Modern cars have various electronic contraptions that didn't exist in cars in 1970. A car today will have electronic control of windows, rather than the mechanical control from 1970. So, the BLS considers inflation by replacing a modern car's electronic control of windows and replaces it with what you can buy with a mechanical window today. It does this for all parts of the modern car to make it an equivalent product of 1970. Only when all parts are equal, they will calculate inflation.

It is an incredibly flawed metric.
Because "ships to trade" is the Black Death equivalent of something like "Wuhan flu".

Not even close to obesity. Maybe you are looking for "allowing home ovens to bake bread attracts rats."
Thanks @mritchie712, yes I saw it :)
One thing I find missing with facial animations often is blood flow under the skin. Skin often looks plastic because it doesn't change hue with pressure changes. An example of this would be firmly pressing your lips together - they'll go a shade lighter due to the pressure causing the blood to flow out of the lips. These things are almost imperceptible, but they go a long way to making something look alive.
It's fairly simple to construct a way to see your own face. All you need is a high-grade color LCD or OLED display, a high-resolution digital camera, a power source, a few controls and a logic board. Too bad none of this was available before 2010, those poor ancients must have always wondered what they looked like.
You’re basically supporting OP. OP is saying it’s not a reasonable choice right now because it’s not a good choice, and then you’re confirming his point by saying that it’s not a good choice.

OP is asking for it to become a good choice by fixing the problems that lead it to be a poor choice right now.
so if they make more money (vast incrase in money supply) does not lead to inflation? (not anymore?, what's changed?)
Our last secretary of education was quite literally the heir to the largest MLM scheme in the United States.

Do you really think they wanted any of their potential future clients “thinking critically” ?
The centralized power of webapps have been a concern for hackers since webapps became popular. I and many others have been talking about this for well over a decade. And on this front, we should all work towards decentralized software to eliminate this societal threat.

However, "deplatforming" is a more recent political term meant to drive indignance at the existence of social repercussions (eg political hacks talking on FOX about being "deplatformed" by other channels). It's a motte and bailey set up - the motte is the longstanding issue of unaccountable centralized authorities, and the bailey is the wider tolerance of bad-faith debate-destroying spam that used to be confined to AM radio.

Furthermore, the leaders of The Party pushing this issue of "deplatforming" have also been committing notorious crimes. Off the top of my head - dereliction of duty (many counts), plotting to overthrow the US government, obstruction of congress, statutory rape, and human trafficking. These crimes are an integral part of their public reputations, and therefore a large part of why they might be "deplatformed".

And so, it is quite in line with its overall usage to apply the term "deplatforming" here. The Sacklers committed crimes, and so their shamed name is being removed from a wing of the Met - an institution that doesn't want to be associated with them. Basic accountability does look an awful lot like like injustice, when one brushes past the inconvenient details.
I assume your product does some kind of entity disambiguation and/or link to an ontology? Spacy doesn't provide this out of the box either, AFAICT. Can you share more info about how you do it?
My sleep.

I used to use smart phone before I lie on bed before bedtime. I know that I shouldn't use them. But the dopamine generated by digital devices and internet is too cheap. When I am unhappy or under pressure, I tend to use my smart phone. And I am always unhappy or under pressure recently. Then I use smart phone before sleep. Then I fall asleep very late. This creates some vicious circle. The worse my sleep is, the more unhappy I am.

I can no more live with a digital device in the same room before bedtime.

Before I go to bed, I have to leave all my digital devices, except for kindle, at first floor. Then I return to my bedroom at second floor. Without them, I can finnaly sleep well.
No it doesn't. It has a purely voluntary military. (People still have to register for selective service, but there hasn't been a draft in decades.)
And how much money did you lose on your house properties going up in price?

Ah right, you made money and/or equity actually. That didn't really affect your price of housing. Your 30Y mortgage was locked in years ago, so you only benefit when prices go up.
Fortunately (and for reasons I can't begin to understand), debug and info logging levels seem to be safe, but error is not. Technically better, but somehow... morally worse?
Yes, because that's totally what I wrote.

Anyway.

No, but if you actually go teach a class of real children in this world of ours, today in the year 2021 when none of them have ever seen a card catalog and may literally not know how to use books ("what's an index?") and you're not unreasonable so you let them use the web because, realistically, that's what they're mostly going to use to find stuff out the rest of their lives, and they have not been taught to be wary of non-mainstream sources, I guarantee you'll get an avalanche of bullshit to read every single time you assign a research paper. 99 times out of 100 they won't find a deep-hidden truth The Man doesn't want you to know, but instead a bunch of crap. The skills to tease out the difference eludes a high percentage of adults. An 9-year-old writing their first research paper has no hope.

It'd be cool if it were possible to transmit all our knowledge and abilities into kids instantly, but it takes time, both because of how learning works and how children develop over a period of years. This is an entirely reasonable first step, without which proceeding is hardly possible except maybe with a very few exceptional kids, but schools are tasked with teaching everyone.

And, go figure, it's possible to do this and then later hand the kids Chomsky and Klein and cover propaganda and government and corporate lies and media complicity in same.
At least on Android, it's pretty easy to uninstall all the bloatware and leave only what you need. Why are you not doing it if you miss it?

All you need is to enable developer options, enable adb debugging, install adb or Android developer tools on the computer, connect phone with USB and do a bunch of "adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 some.package.name" for a bunch of packages.

Ok, now that I wrote it, it's not that simple, especially knowing what to uninstall, but it's not rocket science either.
The Fed was initially saying the inflation was transitory, but have recently dropped the "transitory" label.

Back in July, Siegel pointed out that the M2 money supply is 30% over pre-pandemic levels and predicted that would translate into 20% cumulative inflation over the next 3 years. Here are my talk notes / video links if you're interested: https://neapowers.com/investing/jeremy-siegel/

In July Siegel said "There is zero need for the Fed to be buying $120 billion in bonds every month given market conditions." I don't know why the Fed is buying mortgage backed securities in the midst of an apparent housing bubble.

Larry Summers was voicing inflation concerns back in March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBnaahSe7JU&ab_channel=Bloom...

The main macroeconomists I follow (Siegel, Gundlach, Summers) are all puzzled by the Feds actions recently.
Wow, thanks for making Hamachi. Brings back memories of playing things like Starcraft and a few other games with a non local friend.
But clearly not because of Biden printing money...
Skimming through the comments I read many things I would have said some years ago, but by now I mostly solved: advertising, social media, attention, notification hell, marginally useful tech in appliances…

There is one thing I feel I cannot stop reaching to and makes my life worse: endless supply of any kind of porn imaginable.
Yeah the sibling comment by j_san is likely more correct than what I wrote above
There wasn't inflation (outside of housing perhaps) prior to the pandemic event. Then the event hits which perturbed the system and led to monetary and fiscal responses. We saw some deflation early in the event (remember those low oil prices in May/June of 2020?) and now we've been seeing inflation for about 6 months. We're still too soon after the perturbation to know for sure if this isn't just ringing in the system.
I mean wouldn't that allow 10,000 parallel operations? If you waited for each one to complete, then close each one, it would take forever.
Gentoo, in particular, is very heavily dependent on Python. Its native package manager, Portage, is written entirely in Python, so the base OS install depends on functioning Python and many particular Python libs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)

Gentoo is in a special place with packaging Python as well, with Portage's slot system allowing many parallel python versions, and having each python lib installed for all installed python versions at once. Removing a python version from PYTHON_TARGETS and uninstalling that python version will cause all the installed python libs to eventually rebuild and remove their installed packages for that version. Adding a python version to PYTHON_TARGETS will do the inverse.

So Gentoo needs to package python libs because the OS depends on them. A lot of other distros have dependency on Python and some Python libs as well, or have very close-to-core use depend on it. A lot of the SELinux tools are Python, last I checked. So there needs to be at least some mechanism for including python libs in-distro.
Usually doesn't hurt to ask, but if you really want a raise, in my experience the most reliable method is to have a better offer ready.
If it's not plaintext and client-side encrypted, is it even worth writing down?
> So the people living in NYC, LA, Chicago, etc are not living well?

Not the ones that aren't making significantly above national median income, no. High income work (and even more so large acal5 capital ownership) makes it possible for people to afford to mitigate the downsides of dense living, which is why the presence of high wage work and capital returns leads to more people voluntarily accepting sense living conditions.

Eliminating the choice of low-density living by reducing availability will force more people who can’t afford to mitigate the downsides of dense living into it.

(We need more dense housing in places where it will relieve the problem of people being unhoused; those people already typically experience dense conditions with added downsides; but forcing people who would otherwise choose to be housed in lense-dense conditions into dense conditions is reducing the quality of life.)
> but on the other hand the U.S. upholds much stricter rules of engagement than any of its enemies (hell, even stricter than our cops). Should credit not be given for that?

In all honesty and at the very minimum, being criticized openly and fairly for atrocities is the cost of being seen as capable of virtuous military action.

The older I get though, the less objective distinction I see. I'm sure that's how the dead felt in their last moment as well. Just look at the last US bombing in Afghanistan where they hit the car full of water and children. We like to act like there's a higher standard, but who will ever be held accountable for that mistake? Nobody.
And there's no good way to decouple things once they're tied together. I can't get my personal phone number out of some lists from projects years ago that I can't even remember. The spam calls are constant, probably one call every 30 minutes from different "Scam Likely" numbers. Our government does absolutely nothing about it, either.
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I’m sure that never, ever caused any problems for anyone, ever. /s
Thoroughly agree about adverts. Have you read Tim Wu's "The Attention Merchants"?

On the social media thing, I find they are always better when they just show you the things you've asked to see, in chronological order. It's all this algorithmic "hey, your aunt's brother-in-law's gardener just commented on a post by someone you don't know" bullshit that causes the problem. If I just look at Twitter posts from the people I follow it's fine, it's just my friends talking about stuff, the moment I make the mistake of following a trending topic link it's a cesspit.

And yeah, a lot of things seem to be cost engineered to the point where they are designed to look ok, but not last or take much punishment. But that's less about tech, and more about us as consumers, we seek to minimise cost and so that's what manufacturers go for.
My response to not getting a raise has been to reduce my hours proportionally. Working backwards to maintain the same effective hourly rate. I make enough money already, so it ends up just giving me more free time.
If you're really asking about ethics and not morality, then the question boils down to 'what does the society find acceptable'?

Which is to say that, while many complaints about your owning a car you don't necessarily need can be conjured, few that I know of are valuable.

It's more important to be true to what is right than it is to conform, anyway.
Thank you. Covid-era policy was choosing between bad and worse outcomes. The Fed and both the Trump+Biden administrations correctly learned the lessons from 2008 and decided that we could handle a year or two of inflation in exchange for avoiding a 10+ year sluggish recovery from a recession.

I'd take higher consumer prices while supply comes back online 10 times out of 10 over a prolonged economic downturn.
For context, that guy is inside the EU parliament as part of a joke party ... but sadly, it seems, only a jester can speak truth to the king.
This seems reasonable, lots of new money (currency) leads to inflation. As far as I understand this is how it works; this seems to be as basic as suply and demand based pricing.

If this is not the case, the reasoning is counterintuitive.
I'm not sure if this is the case with these data sets, but one common difference that causes confusion are current advertised rates vs total inventory. It could both be true that apartments on the market cost 17% more, but all rents (including those not marketed or not renewing) are only up 3.8.

Another methodological difference might be mix of goods. For example, you probably can afford to pay 150/grocery-visit, but someone else might have just cut their meat intake, or switch to cheaper cuts, or have otherwise substituted such that maybe they pay $120. If you measure by the visit, or gross store receipts then the numbers will seem lower than they would comparing the same exact goods.
Buy them for a meal, forget them in your pantry, crush them when you remember them and they're already expired. Repeat if you managed to eat them before expiration.

This is how I accidentally fulfilled my childhood dream of crushing an entire bar of sliced bread to its minimum expression.
I think the Fed clarified that they won't be using the word "transitory" anymore last week: https://fortune.com/2021/12/03/inflation-no-longer-transitor...
Yes that's true. 10 personal chefs do not have 10 times the utility of 1 personal chef.
I generally disagree with the framing of this topic. I think the real issue is that what many people call "facts" are not facts at all. At least, they aren't easily or immediately verifiably true to the receiver, so unless you blindly trust everything you hear, you must make judgement calls.

If you read a research paper by some John D, that spells out a hypothesis, study plan, results, and summary, the written summary of results (even the the actual results themselves) is not the "fact" of the study topic.

The facts are:

- John G wrote these things down into a report paper

- John G claims to have followed the proposed plan properly

- John G claims to have accurately recorded the results

Even with replicated research, you are merely improving the statistical odds that the two people aren't putting out bad information, intentionally or otherwise.

If I tell someone that type 1 diabetes is a genetic disorder, there is only 1 fact from the receiver's perspective: I claim that type 1 diabetes is genetic. I have provided no way of verifying that information to them. If they look it up, they are trusting some source or trusting someone else's information. That is still a tribal following, as they have a set of sources that are going to be more likely to trust than others.

Most "facts" aren't shared through well vetted, replicated research. They are given though casual conversation or short internet comments. I'd say you'd be a madman if you take anything you've ever read or heard as fact. The closest you can come to fact is observing things yourself, and even that is flawed.
This happens all the time. This twitter account has tons of examples: https://twitter.com/arch_crimes/status/1460426779714220032?s...

Also most suburban sprawl is a never ending construction site. It is insanely expensive.
The 3.5 trillion bill will cost zero
I'm immediately turned off by "rewriting American History with the 1619 project."

It looks like the author is taking well-known, well-covered historical embarrassments by the Times, and plugging in current conservative talking points.
More here too: https://scite.ai/search/citations?page=1&q=%22pardon%20the%2...
For me, it is a mess no matter how you look at it.

It is because there are so many layers. The way commands are parsed is already not that easy, but then the command itself has its own rules, and it is not uncommon to pass a script as an argument.

for example if you type "sh -c ls", first it is parsed into exec("sh", "-c", "ls"), then "sh" parses its arguments "-c" and "ls", then a sub-shell is started that parses the command "ls", then the actual "ls" program is launched.

This is simple but at every step, there are some quirks, first is all the shell parsing issues, with globs, interpolation and all that. Then you have the issues of how the command parses its arguments (be careful about "-"). Then back to the shell parser with the sub-command, then "ls" itself has its quirks, like locales for instance.

I have done Perl (line noise), C++ (memory unsafe with too many features), PHP (injections everywhere), JS (with IE6 support) and none of these languages make me more uncomfortable than UNIX shells.