skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> election fraud where Republicans have submitted 425 election bills across 49 states because they see the election as fraudulent. Are those misinformation or just politically inconvenient truths?

Ultimately it has to be determined whether the election was or was not fraudulent. By some process outside of both the political parties, that they are capable of both respecting. If that ceases to happen - once the parties cease respecting court rulings and public inquiries - then the ability to hold free and fair elections starts to collapse and you get power grabs like that.

(IMO the US federal system should simply not let states run Federal elections, they keep having to sue them to ensure fairness)
The problem is not misinformation. It’s whoever gets to decide what is “misinformation” and what is not.
If you think that's impressive, you should see asset price inflation!
> The establishment is the enemy, not each other.

The problem with the premise that the establishment is a lot like The Matrix. Some people are so hopelessly enamoured with the establishment that they will do whatever it takes to defend it.
Core inflation excludes food and energy. So as long as you're dead, you only experience core inflation! Everyone else who is alive is exposed to core inflation and also the one that takes food and fuel into account. Perhaps that's why people don't "buy" the numbers. Because the numbers aren't representative of the reality that alive human beings experience.
I think you left that under-explained.
This proposed solution strikes me as overly simplistic. Many people don't want to learn critical thinking, and doubly don't want their kids to learn it. Many people who produce and/or consume misinformation distrust public schools and so fight to divert resources from teaching anything at all in schools, and especially things that would undermine their worldview.

I'm not saying critical thinking shouldn't be taught in schools – it definitely should – but (a) it's a solution that would take generations to have an impact, (b) many people don't want to or are incapable of learning it, (c) it's a threat to current power structures and so current power structures will fight against it, and (d) no amount of critical thinking will save you from the actions of people who don't learn critical thinking.

Saying "if they would just teach people critical thinking" is like saying "if they would just teach people not to drink alcohol, there would be no need for DUI laws". Sure, if everyone learned that and practiced it, the problem would be solved! There's just that one tiny flaw in the plan: people.
Of course, the problem with removing First Amendment protections is you only know about these lawsuits because Business Insider and Glenn Greenwald enjoy First Amendment protections.

That having been said: the First Amendment is not absolute, and there are exceptions to the general principle that people are free to say what they feel (Assange, for example, could be tried on espionage if he's extradited). But in general, exceptions are carved with a jeweler's chisel, and only when extremely necessary and when there are no other possible remedies.

In this case, the sickness you've highlighted has several potential non-first-amendment remedies, including enforcing monopoly laws, passing new monopoly laws, and taxing billionaires at a rate that would make it difficult for them to keep the surplus cash-on-hand to buy 70% of the US's newspapers. And changing the market via law to find a new way to pay for news since the Internet era has completely ingested and digested their traditional advertising model.
Untrue, I just looked at my phone and I have an NYT alert from 3 hours ago: "Inflation hit the highest rate in a generation last month. Consumer prices rose by nearly 7%..."

It's also right on the front page of NYT.com
100%. Sanders wouldn't have made it to his own inauguration. They would have never allowed it.
For comparison, in .NET Core the default logger and all extensions in the dotnet/runtime repo are 9014 LOC (19.5k if including tests)

find -E src/libraries -iregex '.*\.cs$' | grep 'src/libraries/Microsoft.Extensions.Logging' | grep -v 'tests' | xargs cat | grep -v -e '^$' | wc -l
I really want an opportunity to unpack this with a real economist, because it doesn't make any sense. How do you define a short supply of goods? We are far above the 2019 supply of goods in nominal terms, in real terms, in terms of shipping containers and actual ships and trucks moving. At what point it stops being a supply issue and becomes an issue of excess demand? And wouldn't this demand be fuelled further by the fear of goods costing more tomorrow than they cost today, again due to the accelerating inflation.
I'm sure I remember reading about a city (somewhere in south america I think) that banned all billboards, and it was like the city was reborn.
Bayer, Bushel and AWS launch carbon measurement tool for US farmers
Different people like different things
Density is the thing that makes it a bad choice.

The main way of mitigating it is spending lots of money to make your own living conditions not dense, despite living in an area that is otherwise dense.

That is, it is convenient to live in an area where services and amenities and the people needed to staff them are dense, so long as you personally can afford not to be packed in a tin like the rest of the sardines.
If you look at the chart of covid cases from March 2021, it is true that herd immunity was, in fact, near. Cases dropped to nearly zero shortly thereafter. Until the delta strain, of course, but the WSJ can hardly be expected to predict the future.
I normally agree with code being subjective but with test code around the UI I'd argue actually that this is a good abstraction. For example this code would completely break if they added another div with text on a page. It'd also completely break the Page Object Model. But imagine there are 50 tests covering these pages. In the iterative example you'd need to update the divs for all 50 tests, with a page object model you'd need to update them in one place and the tests would then be updated. I appreciate this argument might come down to "trust me, I've seen this" but it really is a good abstraction to look at if you need to write selenium or cypress tests.
Yes, this is an unspoken facet of inflation it seems. Many goods are both increasing in price and decreasing in quality or quantity. You're getting less for your money, but only the price increases are counted.

I'm curious if economists have a formal study of this.
Even with that lens, Covid is not universally successsful. It's very much opportunistic. For example, leave the nursing homes - even after being well aware of the data from Italy - and plenty of innoscent ppl die. Blaming Covid for incompotence of leadership is silly. Or, we had a pandemic ~10 yrs ago, yet zero discussion of "Where's the mask stockpile?" and "Where's the PPE stockpile?"

Then, of course, there's how well Covid does against (often) preventable conditions.

We're on the same page. Context matters. Now let's human-up and table the details about Covid. Let's stop hiding behind fearmongering aggregated data, and abuse of the use of percentages and other intentionally manipulative tactics. Finally, let's not forget to ask why? Why the thumb on the scale approach?
Or just a firewall rule to block outgoing connections. Basic security precautions prevent this attack against servers.
Well, to be fair, I don't even think that's obviously true even given your unsourced claims.
>I hope I would’ve recognised the law as unjust at the time.

I'd have hoped so too, but from what you've written it sounds like you would have slotted in with the liberal whites who declared support-for-ending-segregation-in-theory but would also say that "this isn't the right way" or "this isn't the right time".

They made rather similar arguments to yours about the primacy of the rule of law as a principle.
It is amazing to me that people don't get this. Government spending of something like 40-50% of GDP over the past few years. That spending has been leaking into the money supply because the market can't absorb the debt (this is amazing given that all the big exporters own massive amounts of dollars). Handing large stacks of cash to business and consumers. What could possibly go wrong? The last time there was something like this was in the late 60s: the US was consuming heavily, was a huge importer, exporters collecting dollar balances, fiscal expansion into infinity...it is very exceptional (and to be clear, the level of expansion today is something like 4x what happened then).

The supply of goods hasn't really changed much. Labour supply is lower by a couple of percent. Raw materials prices up a bit. Demand is up by something like 20-30%.

Also, it is worth noting that what you are seeing in the US is worse because there has been the highest level of growth in govt spending (over the past few years, to be clear), and the most amount of fiscal leakage. Even Canada, which really went balls to the wall, isn't seeing the same level of inflation.

A good explainer is - https://www.bridgewater.com/its-mostly-a-demand-shock-not-a-...
i am not saying everyone needs to go for AWS and there are many good reasons for self hosting However, if the only reason for self hosting is a higher uptime than AWS or GCP, it is general false economy, and you are likely taking short cuts that you are not aware of.
The basket of goods it tracks may not reflect popular consumption patterns and it’s possible the measurement severely minimizes the inflation most people observe.
Core inflation is a different measure because food and gasoline prices vary so much.

Its not about withholding information. Its about aggregating the important bits together.

With a 60% rise in gasoline prices in the past year, it makes sense why you'd want to track gasoline separately from everything else.

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If you want to just track "everything", then quote "CPI", not "core CPI" (a different number entirely).
Yeah, I need to work harder at just leaving the damn thing alone. It's become like a nervous tic :/
Me too, ad blockers and all my media on Plex, etc. For me it's only when I watch live sport that I see adverts now, which I quite like, it's like a little window into what most other British people are seeing when they watch TV all week.
Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies
I have a mechanical IWC watch from 1947 that still works well, and some other, newer mechanical watches I expect to last for decades (with proper maintenance).

During the lockdown, I've replaced most of my kitchen items with things I expect to last a long time - like high-quality knives and sturdy stainless steel pots and pans that can be used on any cooktop (including induction).

My shoes and boots can all be resoled, and I own enough pairs to rotate through them, which should help them last longer.

I'm at the point in life where I have most things I really need. If I do buy something, it's usually to replace a low-quality item with something built to last.
Uplift Aerospace wants to make concrete from moon dust
Park City startup Uplift Aerospace is quite literally creating the foundation needed for off-planet construction, commerce, and manufacturing—paving the way for humanity to work and live in space and eventually on other planets.
That's simply wrong. In the US at least, prior to 2010 cell phones were typically replaced about every 3 years. The Motorola Razr flip phone was absolutely a fashion accessory in 2004; watch some music videos from that era. Motorola and other brands did push out new models every year.
You would also need to consider if you changed any purchase habits. If you comparison shop, or focus on buying whatever cut of meat is on sale, or similar, then you might actually be buying a different distribution of items.
Thinking of the most elaborate clockwork built today, those quarter million dollar wristwatches, there isn’t much written about them, maybe a youtube sizzle reel at most. Their customer base is small and they have little reason to document the inner-workings.

Could be this mechanism was just an exquisite commission for a wealthy dude to keep on his boat.
At this point I think the best chance of implementation would be something like the Board of Labor, OSHA, or some open source bug reporting where specific lies can be be reported and fined/punished for. Maybe random audits like the IRS. I'd like the determination to lie with the public, but the issue is coupling determination from enforcement given how intertwined information control is with power.

Right now? It wouldn't work. It's an angry pipe dream.
The reason behind the algorithm is again advertising. A chronological timeline makes it super-easy to tell when you've caught up. An algorithmic one can recycle posts endlessly in a different order, making you spend more time trying to make sure you've caught up - this means more opportunities for them to insert ads.

The problem with social media isn't "social media", it's advertising and the fact that money is made out of "engagement". You kill that disgusting industry and so many problems would disappear overnight.
But houses are capital goods that generally appreciate in value, for the purposes of calculating CPI, treating them like consumption goods or like other consumer durables (e.g. vehicles) that generally depreciate seems odd to me.
Do-Not-Disturb mode on all your devices, 24/7. It stops all notifications, messages, dinging, buzzing, phone calls, everything. Huge, instant, and permanent quality of life improvement. I've been doing it for a few years, now, and I could never go back to life with my phone dinging and lighting up like Reno ever few minutes.

A lot of people think they can't do it (OMG what if I miss that one important call out of thousands?), but I lost that anxiety after about a month. So nice to use my phone on my own terms and review my missed calls when it's convenient for me.

You should be issuing commands to your computer, not the other way around.
Avoiding paying taxes because you lost money doing something destructive, that we as a society have to bear the cost for by living in a damaged environment, is a form of double dipping. It externalizes risks while keeping gains private.
Curious to know, how did you manage to get to an advertising free life?
You should avoid those channels whether or not you're working with ESP, unless you like really big fines from the FCC.
I think you countered your own point - the value is in verifiable authenticity - whether that be an authority (museum), certificate, or the blockchain.

For example, consider a baseball or other trading card. Can be easily replicated/printed - yet certified authentic cards have value much more value. Why?
CodeParrot: Train and evaluate your own CoPilot model
The article manages to make this point in the most hopelessly long-winded way possible, going mile after mile on "guess what's wrong! did you guess yet?" and fails to fully cover a nuanced subject in the process.

Informative writing gets to the point instead of playing gotcha games.
why would remote workers matter? AWS is basically all remote.
Great tips, thank you!

> Instead, use multi stage Docker builds. This way you can also run your pipeline locally and all your GitLab jobs will consist of "docker build ..."

There's a section in the pipeline efficiency docs with more tips and tricks for optimizing Docker images: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency....
They're banned on some stretches of interstate (maybe where they cross federal land? Not sure) and damn, it's nice. Even relatively dull and shitty landscapes are so much better without that blight.
Ah you are right, sorry.
The gasoline you personally buy at the pump is 1%, the gasoline that runs all the vehicles used to produce and transport everything else is not included in that 1%. That means more expensive food, manufactured goods, services involving travel, etc.
Some of his videos are only available via Patreon.
The pre-modern/medieval Japanese iron industry was actually quite massive! We went to a museum in Izumo and there was a nice map showing the are in ancient times and now and the difference was pretty stark - there were just swamp where the Izumo city is today and the local lake Shinji was like twice as big as today.

All the new land and end of the swamps is apparently the result of hundreds of years of iron ore mining in the nearby mountains. So even with primitive means and shitty ore, if you need the material and go at it for centuries, you can achieve substantial results. Not to mention reclaim some land as a result. :)

Also in related (but much more recent development) there were coal mines in Japan mining from under the seabed via tiny islands!

Hashima is the most extreme example, basically a piece of barely dry rock that has been converted to a concrete city housing many thousands of workers and their families: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island

But there were other such mines, some of the local ones even connected to Hashima via the underground works!
> They run start_driver() inside a while loop with 10000 iterations

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.

EDIT: Gruez(below) made the point that the code isn't written to be async so this is definite issue.

> For that specific one I'd probably try "//*[contains(text(), 'Apply now')]", if they add a single element to that page the entire xpath will fail in the code example

You're prob right about this to be honest.

However, there's two elements with 'Apply now' on the page. A button with 'Apply now' and a dropdown with 'Apply now' that opens when you click that button. Lol

https://jobs.kellogg.com/job/Lancaster-Permanent-Production-...

Welcome to scraping hell!

> Do you have two first names?

It's generating fake names. It doesn't matter.
I don't care about the moral aspect, I just thought it was established that obesity causes the body to be less able to handle ~any kind of stress. Is that actually incorrect?

Like, my confusion is that I didn't think we needed to go look for a new mechanism unique to Covid here.
Lots of good replies here. One other thing to be conscious of is that inflation expectations play a large role in determining how actual inflation will pan out, so to raise the alarm on it in earnest is to the play a very dangerous game.
I haven't been poor as an adult. I was definitely poor as a child.

Inflation is different things to different people, just like unemployment numbers are different things to different people and communities. Unemployment may be low, but if you don't have a job, that doesn't matter.

Yes, the top line inflation number can be very misleading for individual experiences.
Shadowstats is one of the dumbest websites on the internet. It doesn't remotely compare to the older formulas, it just applies a random consistent number to US stats and says "They're undercounting!". If they really "recalculated" it wouldn't be a mirror of the official numbers.

Think about it logically, per their dumb chart, inflation has averaged ~10% since 2000? and something like 7% in the 1990s? That easily gets you to over 1,000% total inflation in the past 30 years. Are you paying 10x for anything compared to the 1990s? TVs? Computers? Food? Gas? Furniture? Cars?
Advertising is cancer and should die, but billboards and real-world display advertising is probably the least bad version of it. I'd prefer if online advertising (and the associated data collection and privacy violations) were nuked first.
A better short term and long term solution is to prioritize EV micromobility such as E-Bikes and Scooters for short trips. This may mean reconfiguring roadways and investing money differently. Half of trips are 3 miles or shorter, which is perfect and easy E-Bike/EV scooter distance. Micro-mobility is massively cheaper than car travel which makes it a great solution. Long term transition to EV cars should def be a priority for longer trips though.
Most people don't like driving.

People might like their cars for the freedom of movement they provide - like being able to transport cargo without a headache; being able to go on a weekend trip with family; etc. But they certainly don't like their cars for having to spend 2 hours a day just to get to their workplace and back home.

They tolerate it.

That's why manuals are dying, that's why cars now HAVE to have things preventing distracted drivers from dying, that's why autopiloted car manufacturers are swimming in money thrown at them by everyone despite showing no results.

Should you ask why they tolerate it - the reason is very simple. The alternatives - cycling and public transport - have seen close to none of investments in the past decades all over the world. And therefore provide a horrible and humiliating experience to its users.

Also, the focus on cars allowed many cities and even countries to get lazy at planning and providing equal infrastructure to all districts. Having a smaller school in your neighbourhood is better for the kids - they could go there by themselves with friends and not spend much time doing nothing in traffic everyday. But because everyone has cars government will do the cheaper thing and build a bigger school that isn't convenient to anyone.

People shouldn't have to drive everyday.

All neighbourhoods should have adequate commercial and infrastructural exposure on the spot. No driving to school, groceries or GP. And when you have to commute, alternatives to driving should provide a better experience. Then many people would opt not to drive even if commute is needed, and therefore people like me - who like to drive - would have the roads free of traffic jams and distracted drivers, and be able to actually enjoy the experience.
However, if there's part of the software that is useful outside the EU, there would be the option of reusing just that part.
Logback is dual licensed as LGPL and EPL (Eclipse Public License).
I don't know if you were being rhetorical, but the Fed's motivation doesn't seem like that big of a mystery. They're succumbing to political pressure not to induce a recession or allow asset prices to drop.
Throwaway cause reasons; Job life, finding a job.

My education was in the late-90s in electronics. Offshoring took that career away by the 2010s.

Oh, I don’t know web app development or anything above CS200 by heart, or haven’t contributed a decade of free labor to open source; fuck off.

A modern college education and different experiential timeline does not make a college educated person anymore than 1 of 7 billion like the rest of us.

Real on the ground life issues for millions are waved off as nbd cause the data shows those millions of able bodied people who see society act indifferent they exist, as they are just a rounding error, seems to be acceptable discourse.

It’ll be interesting to see how this all unfolds in a nation with a second amendment and one political party recently sharing plans internally to announce they are overturning the election to protect their demigod.

It’s not tech that’s the issue; it’s humanity itself. Its root social language is feudalism and moral relativism. Tech is just the latest vessel for those behaviors.
"A PS5 and a PC of the same specs is comparable in price."
What?. No. A PlayStation 5 digital edition retails for $399.99. What Celeron powered hunk of junk are you able to put together for $399.99?
Nah, I don't go to "corrupt"...never assume malice when incompetence will suffice.

Lazy? Absolutely. Prone to exaggeration? Definitely. Self-delusion? Always. Corrupt? Maybe sometimes.

Science is a human process, and is subject to all of the problems created by any group of humans. But the magic of it is that, in the long term, everyone's personal incentives produce an emergent result of overall correctness. You just have to understand that most papers are wrong, and never take anything at face value.