skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China is facing water crisis among many other issues from energy crisis as well. If the main supplier of US faces crisis it will likely affect US as well.

China is only 14% of US trade (third place after mexico and Canada) - still a lot but not as big of a player as that sounds
Here is the link to the article in question. It looks like they’ve since changed the image in use.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/06/23/boris-johnson-hail...

I wonder though - could each page view be considered a separate event? In which case a limit of 200€ per view could be quite significant. I highly doubt it, but it’s an interesting thought.
Zillow's model is fine in the aggregate, which is what the parent was suggesting it for. They ran into trouble profiting from it because adverse selection hits them hard -- they'll only be able to buy from the very homeowners whom the model most overpredicts the value of, because of unobservables it can't model.

None of that relates the question of whether Zillow, on overage, correctly predicts how much the market, in the aggregate, has moved.

I think you're confusing separate issues because they both merge into a narrative of "zillow bad".
Go treats strings as a sequence of unicode code points.
Windows forms are great, whilst WPF is a bit odd,to say the least.. Here's an example:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/get-started/cs...
MAPCAR and UIOP:READ-FILE-LINES or READ-FILE-STRING will get you most of the way there.
I think I used it for the bingo day, too. cl-ppcre for the first line (comma separated list of numbers) and then 5x5 loops calling read over and over to fill out the bingo cards. Why jump through parsing hoops when the language will do it for you?

I've also been solving them in Ada. It's not as convenient as just read, but if you instantiate an IO package for a type you can do the same kind of thing. So I made an enumeration and an IO package:

type Command is (Forward, Up, Down);
package Direction_IO is new Enumeration_IO(Direction);
use Direction_IO;

Then reading each line was just:

C: Command;
D: Integer;

Get(File, C);
Get(File, D);

Other than the setup (3 extra lines), it's as easy as the Lisp version to use.
> when in reality accounting rules are amoral because they are the same for everyone.

When is the last time you avoided 600M in taxes on your personal income, due to business “expenses” (fines)?
Yes. However, a significant portion of Tech IPOs have a modified lockup which allows selling of a portion of lockup shares based on some event triggers (earnings release + stock performing +x% from issuance price). Lockup agreements are negotiable and can vary from one IPO to another.
I know for certain that, from 1997 onward, there was at least one Amiga 2000 on Athos (specifically, in Vatopedi) because it used to be mine.

How long it stayed there, or whether (given that it was originly a N.American, thus 60hz/NTSC edition, though perhaps it could detect and switch to PAL operation) it was ever even plugged in, I never found out.

I'm not even sure the monk who I gave the system to (staying in the US for study) had any particular plan for it, though he did know his way around the machine just well enough to run tetris and wordperfect.
The solar cycle is extremely important for premodern agricultural societies, since it allows predicting growing and harvesting seasons. If you're going by the Julian calendar and the Autumn equinox is falling on September 10, there's probably going to be confusion as to when the harvest should occur. In the case of the Gregorian Calendar, Catholic countries rely on the Spring Equinox to schedule Easter, and when it started occurring well before March 21, this made it increasingly difficult to synchronize the religious and secular calendars.
Yah, maybe I should have been explicit, but I think my HTML change as semantically important. (My interpretation of the last line of the challenge.)
Any viral infection can cause some medium term effects. But most of the people with so called long-covid didn’t even test positive. They are just really convinced that they got it some time ago and that now they have long covid and the doctors are gaslighting them
You could, but you would be better off by quantifying health care quality by life expectancy.
I assume you also don't wear a seatbelt?
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. You can't do "race and religion" (to use your euphemism) flamewar on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Also, does the word permissionless ring a bell?

a door with no lock it's perrmissionless

how does this solve the issue of authoritarian governments?

> You have no idea how smart contracts work, do you?

I was writing smart contracts in solidity in 2015

at least it was something new back then...

but back on topic, what if they payment is never sent and "some time" is forever?

can you tell me what tools can the poor Bob use to claim what is legitimately his in your perrmissionless world?

how would you encode the "work completed" in a smart contract?

should nodes run by people in the Philipines vote on Bob's work, when Bob lives in Yowa and only wanted to be paid for keeping the gardens in his neighborhood clean (as per job description)?
They won't, there will be too much political pressure for the president with the mid term elections coming for the fed to take the risk of raising rates. If they want to raise rates, they will do it in 2023 so the current regime can blame the fall out on, I'm assuming, the newly elected Republican Congress.

I'm assuming the next cycle will be a huge win for Republicans for two reasons.

1) Things we saw in this last election. For example, a truck driver won in New Jersey against their senate president with a campaign budget of $153

2) Joe Biden's approval rating the the the high to mid 20's
> I couldn't say exactly why it got popular.

Probably because it has the backing of Google.
Sounds like you're describing the German IT job market to a tee. It's keywords, keywords, keywords, lots of promises, and zero willingness to discuss anything.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the Kindle yet. Mine is 10+ years old and works just as well as it did the first day. I can even browse and purchase books from the Kindle Store directly from it (as opposed to my 4 years old smart TV that can no longer open some of the apps). Not to mention the battery, which is still impressively lasting.
Also true for me. I'm building something like that, where RSS feeds and RSS readers come together on a small personal website. Not necessarily a group chat or forum, more like a microblog/timeline/webring thing. A lot of individual websites, connected by the technology of modern and traditional internet.

Question: Would the absence of a forum (or some sort of group chat) be a deal breaker for you?
I don't know what happened to Borland.

In 1982ish in Germany I was programming my Apple II in Applesoft Basic and UCSD Pascal. UCSD was 3 floppies, I had a 2 floppy system so for certain steps one had to physically swap floppies.

I attended an Apple User Group In Frankfurt and somebody demo'ed Turbo Pascal 1.0 on their Apple with the Z80 add-in soft card under CP/M. Everybody was amazed with the speed and integration. I bought a copy on the spot, received it maybe 3 months later as it had to shipped from the US. By that time it was on version 2.0. I had bought the Z-80 card in the meantime and switched all software development to Turbo-Pascal.
Everyone loved Assange until he [entered politics, played favorites with information disclosure, and demonstrated that he is more mercenary than martyr]. I wonder why.
Buying records at the store
> You can't give your source burglary tools, ask them to break into something particular and then claim you were just a reporter.

Drop the analogy, what did Assange actually do to help Manning?

I’d maintain that it’s not unreasonable for a journalist to ask a leaker for documents about a particular topic.
424B4 (final prospectus) under the section “shares eligible for future sale”, there will be a lockup section.
"wherever you go, there you are"
Socializing. This pandemic would have ended months ago if people weren’t on social media. The algorithms cater to fear and the fact people stay online gives them the impression of socializing.

Generally, I think it’s broken the sense of localized community; while making it more global. This has upsides and downsides, but I’d like to see a more localized system in place.

Regarding the comment about living off the grid, I am well on my way. Should have my families setup by late 2022.
Big meeting with HR or CEO is completely normal.

Preferably followed up with various smaller meetings, but those aren't legally required everywhere.
Stop astroturfing.. Your company is a scummy monster!!
The thing is, not every developer wants to care about memory management. A lot of us just want to solve user problems, and we don’t mind too much if we spend a couple of extra bytes to do so.
This is all fair and there are hundreds of economists who will admit that CPI has plenty of shortcomings - I don't think anyone would say that it's perfect or even hugely accurate. However the value of CPI comes from the fact that it's the accepted "compromise" for weighting and measuring inflation across the largest economy in the world.

If you believe that CPI isn't accurate and your methods more accurately represent real-world inflation conditions, there's a ton of money to be made betting on the TIPS spread.

https://www.thebalance.com/10-year-treasuries-historical-cha...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE

Right now it appears the market is actually reducing long-term expectations for inflation.
The thing that really gets me is just how densely the whole mechanism is packed together. What a masterpiece. The techniques must have been developed incrementally over many revisions of the machine, perhaps over several lifetimes by various machinists and/or designers.

Sadly I read somewhere that the "slop" between the gears (the mechanical imperfections that add or multiply together over many gears) would overwhelm the more complex calculations that some of the machine was intended to perform.
This depends. When it is reported as a news or one simply wants to discuss details sure there is no need to bring other's wrongdoings.

But when it is used as at least partial propaganda (and it often does) in line of "look at good us and bad them" or comes from the government / affiliates then they better look in the mirror first. One thief has no standing criticizing the other. The fact that one had stolen $1000 and the other went for $2000 does not make much difference.
The author of the study, Knut Blind of Fraunhofer, is a hardent proponent of software patents. If you read the study, you will find those nonsense things related to patents:

"Table 5.16: Impact of OSS Commits on patents on computer-implemented inventions
(FE)"

"the number of national contributors to OSS has a positive influence on the development of patents on CII as an innovation indicator of the IT sector."
I guess contacting sales as a merchant with questions about why products aren't meeting expectations set by commercials could help, but it'd have to be a lot of people calling to make a dent. I doubt CS calls will amount to anything, they'll just add more computer voice layers.

Maybe sending activist investors to company meetings would get headlines, but I dunno if anything substantive would come of it.
With Oracle you always read the fine print. I wouldn't risk touching this with your ten foot pole.
Having the economy crash would just speed up global warming. You can't have clean energy and reduced pollution without investment in new tech.
It's like DNA of the programming world at this point.
A person shouldn't be able to have signage above their business to indicate what it is, the phone number, etc? Not billboards, but literally a sign that says "Johnny's Bakery"
The infrastructure isn't good enough for that in the UK, they will just get squashed. I narrowly avoided hitting one head on about an hour ago.
The presumption that other people aren't smart enough to do what you can or imagine has a name: bigotry. The "shouldn't exist" is bigotry.

It's also evidence that we see even today that knowledge is fragile and easily lost when it has a large tacit component. Most things technological are highly fragile because half of the knowledge required to create them is tacit.

See also: "FOG BANK".
The reason was you weren't competing with the world class. Programming was great because you could be a local hero.

Now everyone strives to make as beautiful websites as <insert big blue with their genius web framework>
Not to hate on the job done here. But I think most people today (or even back in 2013) could have gotten further with Blender from an artistic perspective.

Blender 2.4 was kind of terrible to use from an animation perspective, but the controls for simple objects / cycles rendering was never really that difficult IMO. The key was having the knowledge to stay on the "nice parts" of Blender.

Blender 2.6 and 3.0 these days have made great strides at being easier to use from an animation and rigging perspective.

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The harsh shadow lines could be made easier if you used area-lamps (in Blender) for example. They probably exist in POV-ray, but a 3d GUI to move-and-place these objects around grossly simplifies the effort, compared to placing the objects around with a text-based format like POV-Ray.
I'm pretty much an unabashed capitalist and I make no apologies for it. However in discussions with Socialist friends I readily admit capitalism has flaws but unlike them I am not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

While I don't agree completely this essay has made me think harder on the subject than I have in a long time. He's got a lot of interesting ideas, especially for those of us doing business in the cloud. Combine it with DAO's which I'm also learning about and they mesh together quite easily.

If you plan on all your startups employees being remote why not look at a DAO (or a LAO) instead of an LLC or a C Corp? VC's may turn up their nose at you but long term imho that is to their peril.
I remember learning about CORBA in undergrad too. Then a few months into my first job, "new guy, go do this integration with SOAP/WSDL." Crushed me so hard I went into sales.
(re: Log4J versions <= 2.14.1)

Does anyone know if removing the `JndiLookup` class is enough?

On the Apache Log4j2 page (https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/) it's stated to:

> Remove the JndiLookup *and JndiManager* classes from the log4j-core jar.

(emphasis mine)

However, the only place where I've seen that being stated is on that page.

So - is it required to remove the `JndiManager` class as well?
Inside the log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
And I'm sure Emacs plans to outlive you ;)
SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant – United States, December 1–8, 2021
Are We Doomed?
Please spell out the parallels. I am lost.
I think that when you replace a hierarchy with an arbitrary directed graph, you can be pretty confident that what you've done will at least be impactful re: problems that hierarchies have (namely corruption at the top).

Whether they can scratch the itch in peer-to-peer mode is an unanswered question, but I think we'll get to find out.
> It certainly could happen more often.... We would then be constantly facing a new pathogen.

If? Isn't this how contagious respiratory diseases always work?
> CPUs [...]

you can pry my 16 core Threadripper and its 64GB of RAM from my cold dead hand.

Some of us use computers for things where more CPU cycles per second and more RAM are always good things.
Kelowna?
It's hard to build yachts by giving away free machines.
Are he, and you, arguing that the CPI report is useless?
Why would anyone want to carry around 3+ iPhones?

Anyone rich with 3+ iPhones would rather have an assistant carry the 2 other phones.
Or they are just totally failing in the cloud and this is an indication of that.

Also not hard to imagine the whole cloud getting shut down and/or sold to Salesforce (and shut down)
Well, EU Commission hires indians via TCS or Infosys.
Ultimately you do have an issue with who controls the browser. You would think that web3 people would invest in Firefox so that you do not have a duopoly owning the browser space between apple and google.
True, but there's value in reducing the number of parties you must trust to get something done. It's easy to imagine that, at the margin, there are a subset of collective action problems that will get solved if you can reduce the number of parties that must be trusted. Worrying about the need to sue 3 people has to be better than worrying about the need to sue 6.
Interesting timing of this post. A priest from Hamatoura Monastery in Lebanon (https://lebanonuntravelled.com/hamatoura-monastery-kousba/), just died it was announced he is to be buried at Mount Athos.

Hamatoura appears to be of similar style of build, high up on a cliff....or rather in a cliff!
My biggest problem with the drag and drop builders was how it played with version control. The last I used was nearly 20 years ago - Windows Visual Studio C++ with MFC. Even if the builder produced C++ code, it was hard to know exactly where and how the changes were made. CVS (and maybe svn?) didn’t exactly like tracking those changes.

Is that any better now?
We've been taken for absolute fools, python was a toy language all along.

Is there an actually stable and serious modern scripting language available? how's raku doing?
That's not new, is it? You could always have an onchange/oninput handler on the login fields and send it to your server.
Love cryptopals beyond my ability to articulate it well enough. This is monumental work many engineers owe their “cryptography 101-404” education to.

For a long while company I work for used Cryptopals as means to train/qualify interns before letting them touch serious practical stuff.

Not that knowing answers is a problem (there were public solutions, albeit clunky, before), but such careful explanation almost eliminates the fun in solving to some extent.

Gotta come up with our own take w/o public tour now, is anyone aware of any similar sets of challenges? CryptoHack is ok, but fairly deterministic one that removes “oh where do I go now” feeling, which is essential to bear with to learn to love the craft.

Edits: typos.
That's a huge part of software development. Wrapping things to be more concise, use-case driven. I mean most software developers are just placing a veneer over something more complex. That's pretty much all we do.
>This was written by Edward Frenkel

And he is not an economist, yet he is a well known econ crank.

Here's an actual economist [1], looking at the evidence one decade past the Boskin report - concludes the same thing.

And, the really cool thing about inflation over that length of time, is you can check it for yourself (which I have showing people why ShadowStats is complete nonsense).

Get some old ads from the start of the period (say 1996, the year of the Boskin Report), and look at prices. Put them in excel. Do the same for now. Compute a reasonable basket.

And here is the really neat part - see if the BLS reported CPI over that period matches reality, or if adding 1.1% annually matches reality.

I will spoil the result - BLS is correct.

From the CPI calculator, Jan 1996 to Jan 2021, inflation is a 1.69 multiplier, for an annual rate of 2.12%. Add back the supposed 1.1%, take the 3.22% over the same 25 years, get a 2.21 multiplier, quite a difference.

And, for the record, there are lots of other places tracing inflation, like the Billion Prices Project, that reach the same conclusions. If the govt lied about it, there would be awesome arbitrage opportunity (and like all such things, people have even investigated that - no such lies - papers on Arxiv).

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w12311/w123...
The attention economy and addiction to tech in general. The bottomless scroll and the dopamine hit on pull to refresh. The aversion to be alone and with ones thought, no matter how troubling. The obsession with likes and subs. And so on.
The large print giveth.

The small print taketh away.
There's absolutely no way Oracle will continue giving this away free indefinitely. With the rush they're likely to get just from this being on HN, I'd be surprised if it wasn't at least temporarily disabled because of over-subscription.

As an aside, I've looked at Oracle Cloud before, and pricing definitely seems favourable compared to the big 3, and IIRC they even include a good chunk of bandwidth for free. But... I just don't trust Oracle. Now, it might well be that Oracle Cloud is completely separate from the rest of Oracle, in which case I might be more tempted - anyone here work at Oracle Cloud and can share, even with a throwaway if you're too embarrassed to admit to it? :P
I see you made the mistake of thinking that the healthcare system has anything to do with your wellness. Common mistake, but still a mistake. The healthcare system is just another machine to shovel money into a select group of peoples pocket, any doctoring they choose to provide is just a consequence of the marketing budget (gotta keep those word-of-mouth numbers up!).
Philosophy professor John Holbo had a blog post about ridiculously whimsical scenarios in philosophy under the delightful title Occam's Phaser:

https://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/25/occams-phaser/

There are good examples in the comments too, though I mostly recall it for getting into a heated argument with someone making utilitarian arguments for torture.
Not when it's the laptop and the phone.
You can’t just "drop in" a faster 6502 (or 6510) into something like a C64. For one, all the serial i/o routines are software bit-banged so parts of the "ROM Kernal" need to be modified. More importantly, the VIC-II chip is the DRAM memory controller and it is tightly coupled with NTSC or PAL signal timings.

Most accelerator boards for the C64 need quite a bit of glue logic to overcome these difficulties.
Lest folks not read the actual article, STH is pretty happy about this offering:

> To us, this is a big deal. This is perhaps one of the best “free” instances that one can get. Something that we really like about Oracle’s Always Free tier is that one can use it without being as worried about overages as with Amazon’s offering. AWS has a size advantage, but Oracle has a great Always Free Tier offering.
The offer is here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
In a complex system, there's a lot of actors. Take ANY one actor as the only one with a choice, presume all the rest as a given, and you can blame that one actor.

The socialist argument does it this way: inflation obviously only happens when prices are actually raised, and that's done by the sellers of things, so if the sellers simply decided to keep their prices unchanged, they would stay unchanged. That's absolutely true and doesn't depend on anyone else. Biden didn't sign a law requiring anyone to raise prices.

I suspect you can find some way to complain about that argument, and maybe your complaint will make sense. But if you want to pick ONE blame point for price increases, the one that is best is the point where some person directly chooses to raise prices. Besides that, it's all very complex.
> What happened to them?

Microsoft poached dozens of key staff with 7 figure signing bonuses.

Also, ISTR some anticompetitive thing with Windows APIs, but the poaching was decisive.
> Regrettably, we humans just don’t have a good sense of scale.

Yep, and the people that we "elect" to make those big decisions rather go after the money and their own self interest.
That suspicion should motivate people to think about the incentives they're setting for government agencies and try to create clear objective measures that cannot be gamed.

> Public debate needs a core set of facts to reason about the world so politicizing BLS numbers is... really bad

When it becomes tied to trillions and the agencies are selected by politicians then its by definition political.