skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Printing of money unbacked by gold in the gold standard system doesn't appear to have been significant, if it happened at all - the amount of gold reserves that the US treasury held and the money supply look like they grew proportionally during the period 1913-1929 [1, 2]. It would be nice to see user WalterBright's citation for this.

Meanwhile, if WalterBright's explanation is to be believed we'd expect it to have manifested as high inflation rates during the period 1913-1929, and spiking inflation during the 1929-1930 economic crisis as everyone realizes that the jig is up and their dollars aren't actually backed by gold and are worth less than expected.

Instead, that's not at all what happens [2]. The inflation rate is all over the place between 1913 and 1929, dramatically positive from 1916 to 1920, dramatically negative from 1921 to 1923, and then relatively stable until the Great Depression, including being slightly negative for the 4 years leading up to the Great Depression. Then the Great Depression hits and inflation becomes dramatically negative. The Great Depression starts in 1929, but FDR doesn't suspend the gold standard until 1933 in the interest of being able to expand the money supply and cause inflation. Inflation finally goes above 0% in late 1933, but even then doesn't spike dramatically - it spends a couple months in the 5% range before falling back and spending the next several years in the 2%-4% range.

So WalterBright's explanation just doesn't line up.

Credit to user the_why_of_y for pulling up sources in a different thread.

[1] https://www.swcs.com.au/goldreserves.htm#Table1

[2] https://www.longtermtrends.net/m2-money-supply-vs-inflation/
> I am basically end user support for developers.

Pull up a seat at the bar with us.
Crimea was 55% Russian, geneticall (ethnically). They easily won the referendum to rejoin their homeland.
It isn't just a lack of care. What I have seen is some engineers coming on and focussing on the domain knowledge, others focussing on rhe pipelines and they organically divide in two and provide each other help in good cases or each whine about the other not understanding the job in the bad cases. In the bad cases they are both underestimating dramatically how much the other has learned.
About 2 months ago I went to review a product I bought from Amazon
Even Draco knew that making unenforceable laws just breeds contempt for the law. Regardless of the answer to that question it still is a poor decision which makes them look like a tinpot dictatorship trying overseas critics in absentia.
But does Razib Khan do that?

Anyway, David Reich argued in the NYT that there are genetic differences between populatons which do influence behaviour and mental traits. It is only a question if we want to find these (or leave the field to racists):

https://archive.md/z3TlJ

> since all traits influenced by genetics are expected to differ across populations (because the frequencies of genetic variations are rarely exactly the same across populations), the genetic influences on behavior and cognition will differ across populations, too.
This is a good argument against technocracy. I want expert's views to be taken into consideration when making decisions that affect other people. I don't want them telling people what to do using the lens of their narrow technical expertise.
I suppose we'll feel that in every area of life, both domestic and internationally.

As a parent, especially of young men, this scares me greatly.
I'm from the many-worlds interpretation camp, and this "superdeterminism" business always strikes me as ironic.

Proponents of hidden variables, in their desire to explain QM effects, arrived at the idea that there is something that permeates the Universe since the Big Bang and participates in every physical interaction. Existence of this something cannot be directly proven - since we are "inside" of it.

How about the "wave function of the Universe"?
>The reproducibility crisis is real and affects more than "some studies in some areas".

>"Peer review" rarely means more than "JSTOR search for something that supports my claim, quick skim for obvious errors, cite and publish"

>"Science" is only "accurate by definition" when it's done correctly. Buying scientists is cheaper than buying politicians, in practice.
Shrug, dystopian novels like 1984 serve that purpose and do a better job imho. I can't speak for other readers but I don't think I got anything from that particular article that I wouldn't have gotten from a version condensed to a few bullet points. There are other SSC/AC10 articles that I liked more, so I do keep reading it sometimes.
I’d compare choosing Objective-C over Swift to choosing C over C++. Swift offers a higher level of abstraction, but Obj-C feels more lightweight.
Swift.org is decent, framework docs are still very bad. Bridging RN - Apple is a hell of a market at the moment though, getting the transition on your resume is worth a look.
That's a false equivalency. Republicans have been far, far worse. They have been anti-science across the board on all kinds of policy. Donald Trump is absolute low point in American history. The guy who said vaccines cause autism, pushed unproven and dangerous treatments, pressured scientists to change their recommendations, called climate change a hoax, wanted to nuke a hurricane and rake a forest. He owns the party right now. I can respect political differences but I can't respect being a republican in 2021. The party is fundamentally irrational and has abandoned reasoned policy discussions. And there a measurable real world consequences measured in death rates for red states.
It's because the reproductive strategy of humans (and many other animals) involves the mating of two sexes, with each sex providing a distinct type of gamete: eggs from females, and sperm from males. There's no third type of gamete and therefore no third sex.

The chromosomal abnormalities mentioned earlier don't define new sexes, but rather, phenotypic variations within the two sex categories. For example, people with XXY sex chromosomes develop as male, but with smaller-than-usual testicles that either underproduce sperm, or can't produce sperm. They also tend to be taller and have less muscle mass.

Another example: people with XXX sex chromosomes develop as female, generally with normal sexual development, including the capacity to get pregnant. They also are usually taller than average, and have a higher risk of learning disabilities and developmental delays.

This is all described much more extensively in the literature. Any general biology or developmental biology textbook should be good for providing further details.
Not what I'm hearing. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146
I'm a bit of an opposite opinion, in that the difficult ethics questions were with genetics and not necessarily much different with the brain per se.

Henrietta's immortal cancer cells were necessary in a large number of modern medicines, including the testing of the mRNA vaccines (one of the cheapest ways to test for human compatibility is to use isolated human cells for tests).

I don't see the brain as any more special of an organ than Henrietta's cells.

I wouldn't call it a dystopian future: this is much preferred over say, Nazi experiments. But we as a society should strive for better ethics. Maybe not necessarily banning Henrietta cells, but maybe at least paying her family a bit more of the royalties?

HeLa cells are really, really important test subjects after all.

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The real world certainly has different moral questions. Fiction can be used to think about imaginary problems and maybe even provide the discussion material for some real world examples.

But we must always ground ourselves back in reality as we make arguments. Lest we become like Don Quixote. (See what I did there? Lol)
I have checked the stats. Blacks and Hispanics have a much higher rates per capita of not being vaccinated than whites. It just so happens that whites are the largest race which results in significant numbers of unvaccinated whites.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-demogr...
Thanks! That's an informative reply.

I was wondering whether not logging could be an option. That's now quite clear.
Wouldn't most binaries not have UI anyways? Probably better to compare Swift UI to previous UI frameworks.
> And since materials shrink when they get cold, scientists and engineers created mirrors that were imperfect on Earth but will have the perfect shape (and come into focus) in the frigid environment of space.

I'm surprised it can be done so precisely, including predicting the relative rates at which components will cool as it journeys through space. Does anyone know something that describes the engineering and solutions involved? Does it depend on materials? Modeling? Mechanisms for adjustment after it cools?
You'd have to explain to the police why a device that's designed for tracking things being placed on your car is a serious issue?
> Can’t wait for the follow on months of real data disproving their terrible study.

Can you please elaborate on exactly which study are you referring to and your reasoning to accuse it of being "terrible"?

Meanwhile, we've endured at least two strains which are significantly different than the original 2019 Wuhan strain, and thanks to the vaccine the mortality risk has dropped to residual levels.
I mean, if you're not noticing infection but noticing only the disease, it makes perfect sense to the public.
You didn't summarize the flagged posts I did see correctly, this is exactly why I don't support censoring them.

Even to your summarization, that's up for those reading to decide. I don't blindly trust a single pharma company after the opioid scandal. Conspiracies are not impossible, and if you want to dispel a theory, do it, don't censor it.

Also at a certain point you cannot see flagged comments, even with "show dead" enabled.
due to the isotropic principle we assume that the universe is infinite (because our vantage point is random, and since we don't see any orientation at the edge of the observable universe)
IMO, if you serve content to the user, you're responsible for making sure you're not serving malware, e.g. by not allowing parties you cannot trust to serve arbitrary code.

And this doesn't apply just to the ad network, it also applies to the publisher. I'd really like the publishers to be held liable for malvertising they serve.

There is nothing inherently hard about serving safe ads, we've gotten pretty good at separating code from content nowadays. There is no reason why a "classic adsense" three-blue-links ad should be able to inject malware. Even images can be served safely. The only reason why this happens is because in pursuit of a few percent more profit (and more tracking) everyone allows everyone to include arbitrary scripts.
The distinction this article wants to make does not exist. Even if your app chrome is written in Swift, what good is that if any image you show can end up in someones C PDF parser that Apple includes wholesale.

Think of it as "Swift + Objective-C + C++ + C" versus "Objective-C + C++ + C".
I understand what you are saying, but I’m not sure I understand how it relates to what I wrote. Do you mind clarifying that?
This makes sense for a smaller org, but what do you do when there are dozens of dev teams? You can try to make every team a full stack team and have a devops engineer embedded with every team, but you will end up with a different process and set of tools for every team. I feel like having a dedicated devops (or tools or platform or whatever you want to call them) is needed in a large org.
1 in a 100 people hospitalised is not the common cold. Those are still worse numbers than the flu. Sure, it probably won't make you very sick, but at a population level omicron is still a disaster.
You can have faith in your religion without disregarding science. Who's to say creationism wasn't lost in translation to begin at the Big Bang and end at human consciousness through evolution?

I don't believe in that stuff. But it's a much more cohesive story than believing in an actual Adam and Eve with people living hundreds of years old.

If it happened, science may eventually prove it. Since you believe it to be fact, you should instead, push to dig deeper.
I'd love to see the language breakdown for new development. The binary analysis pulls in a lot of legacy code, so it doesn't really reflect emerging code composition.
The political heat for refusing to enforce EU laws? Is this a serious claim?

American's by and large don't want others laws enforced here. Not China's, not middle eastern laws, and they fought a war of independence against having European laws apply in the US (ie, the US killed folks over this).

A current political issue is partly the US enforcement of its laws overseas, which has rubbed many countries the wrong way. Because of the significance of the US in the current financial system the US has exercised really outsized power internationally.
The problem is some people honestly believe people are all capable of the same level of achievement. That the only thing that differentiates outcome is external to the individual. So if some children outperform others in Math it's because the system around the underperforming child failed that child. The reality is that all are not equal in ability but all should be free to choose the path they want. Some will become elite mathematicians, others trades men. They can both have great lives who are we to judge who is better off. Let the individual pick their own path and judge their outcomes for themselves.
> giant meth-addled goat rodeo

Saving this one for a rainy day. Thank you. I frequently find myself in these, of one size or another.
IIUC, there's a meta-lie (or at least confusion) here. (Apologies if I've misunderstood; corrections greatly appreciated.)

- Every person of intelligence and good will agrees upon the definition of "social justice".

- Every person who disagrees with "${author}" 's conception of social justice is at best part of the problem, or at worst a willing agent evil.

Having read some social-justice-related Internet arguments from the sidelines, I get the impression that this lie/confusion is particularly vexing to those who aren't in the stereotypical social-justice camp.
There are other possible choices that reject superdeterminism but are still ok: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05607 -- you have to abandon either locality or the assumption that observed events exist absolutely

Personally I think it's easiest to reject the "absoluteness" of events and subscribe to RQM or QBism. Superdeterminism is a little boring if ultimately plausible.
I don't see how higher education for the rich isn't already a thing, and is a problem.

I like history, however I also have to eat so I majored in CS and am content with reading books about history. If some rich kid wants to get phd in Classical Greek History or English Civil War era history and not be able to use that degree to get a job, let him. It is no difference than if someone wanted to buy a lambo. The rich people can buy it if they want to show off, but the government shouldn't subsidize poor people to get lambos. Some degrees are luxury goods.

I can probably get the same knowledge as any of those "luxury" degrees by my self via free books or videos online. Them going thru the motions to get the degree, which there are few jobs for, is therefore a luxury and should not be subsidized.
Although another commenter said that they are signaled electrically, neurotransmitter might be the word you are looking for.
>Buying scientists is cheaper than buying politicians, in practice.

Heads up I'm not gonna be able to cite a peer reviewed journal on that so you should just [flag] me now <3
These are completely mainstream liberal views and caricaturally imbued with moralizing self-importance. I know HN is as liberal a crowd as it comes but it's hard to believe you guys are eating it up, and don't see it for the obvious satire that it is.
This gets a lot harder to pull off when the images are transcoded by being decoded in one sandboxed process that outputs a bitmap, then encoded in another sandboxed process that outputs what ultimately reaches the user.
I think you're looking for this behaviour? Try using * instead of _ and that's what you'll get. Use two for bold, if you want.
"If statistical independence is violated, this means that what a quantum particle does depends on what you measure."

But in standard QM without superdeterminism, what a particle does already depends what you (i.e. the experimenters) measure - how you set the relative angles of your detectors determines the amount of correlation, even when setting them at spacelike distances after the entangled pair is released (say Alice chooses hers and Bob his without any communication between them.

It's the same physical facts and we either take superdeterminism or quantum nonlocality (or other interpretations not at issue here). To me the conspiracy of superdeterminism is too great.
Claiming that only one side's leaders have trumpeted dangerous lies is totally false.
fox news is the most popular TV news and has like 1-2 million daily viewers. I could be wrong but I don’t think people are going by what they see on TV.
Not really, these statistics arguments are inane.

A bathtub you have control over may not be especially risky. The stat itself probably includes unsupervised kids, elderly, etc. Take those out because they don't apply to me.

You don't have as much control over strangers. And any given homeless person may or may not be judged as especially risky - that's up for the person there to decide. There's also little downside to just avoiding them entirely.

To me, it seems like it can be completely rational.

Individual events don't happen with dice like you seem to be implying.
“Software is hard. The way to fix it is to fix it, not sweep it under the rug.”

Amen.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610069 (11 points, 6 comments)
I’ve seen this and I empathize. I’ve seen it lead to a sort of learned helplessness in developers who are supposed to own their whole stack.

I do think it’s unavoidable though. No company will have a truly open stack. There will be customized versions of everything, with caveats only the infrastructure team or developer-tools team are aware of. Naturally these teams become the go to folks to ask questions and resolve issues.

I don’t know if a good way around it. Documentation works to an extent. But at some point you have to decide what parts of the system you want to expose to developers, and whenever that happens you become the layer they communicate with rather than the underlying technology.
> Since ads can run arbitrary JS

That's the problem!
We pass our audits all day long and I can push to prod multiple times a day. But there are caveats. Another developer must sign off on a code review and quality check before code rolled out, and a build pipeline ensures that we run our test suites and all changes have an audit trail.
"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement." -pg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
I wonder if you're aware how transparent your strategies of derailment are here.

This is not twitter or something.

We see what you're doing.

It's not complicated.
China’s official fertility rate is 1.7, but there is evidence they’re (of course) lying about the data and it’s closer to 1.3 [1]. The US can support a lower total fertility rate with immigration and its existing wealth and dollar reserve status. China cannot.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/04/china-one-child-policy-...
> - No filesystem sandbox.

Every WINEPREFIX defines its own Windows disk drives, so the filesystem is effectively sandboxed. Conventionally, there's (often? always?) a Z:\ drive which points to / on the Linux filesystem, but there doesn't have to be. You can add or remove drive mappings without any additional tools beyond WINE itself, and applications running under WINE can't see files that don't have drives mapped to them, afaik.

Your other two points are correct, though.
The issue is that Red Hat's solution to this has almost always been Another Competing Standard.

> Situation: There are 140 different desktop environments.

> "140! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard desktop that covers everyone's use cases!"

> Situation: There are now 141 different desktop environments.

The only difference between this and the XKCD comic is that there's no one saying "Yeah!" to Red Hat's ideas.
Omicron Post #7
the two arrows coming together and making an X to show that it's about to enter GOUP mode is great ui design
Read the Damn Documentation
> This is too absurd to even be a non-sequitur.

Hmm! Let's review the logic...

1. Insane things are happening to math education in California

2. Democrats control California 100%

3. Therefore, Democrats are causing the insane things in California

4. Therefore, Democrats are not always and everywhere the coalition to restore sanity, but sometimes make things more insane

The logic seems pretty basic and sound to me. I suspect even children will be able to follow it, provided California Democrats allow them to take logic.
I'm sure no matter where you go, there is at least one type of food that wouldn't be eaten by most of the rest of the world.
I am pretty skeptical that no-code will be the major savior of folks who don't know how to develop, though I suspect more and more folks will do something similar, just like people in many professions learned word processing and spreadsheets. My SO has set up a few Zapier zaps to automate workflows for her writing business.

Other options I see:

* learn software development or a tech adjacent skill.
* branding. Become the X of choice (hairdresser, massage therapist, etc) and build up a following of folks who want to transact with you, not with any X. Shopify/square can assist you in being on top of the API (in this case, the search API).
* pick a profession not amenable to being API-ized. Handyman, plumber, etc. I think these jobs are too bespoke to be worth turning into an API.
* be on top of the API in other ways than telling devs what to do. Sales will never be turned into an API, though there may be excesses squeezed out of it.
* accept the tradeoff of being below the API in exchange for the autonomy (see this piece by Bill Gurley for more on that: https://abovethecrowd.com/2018/04/19/the-thing-i-love-most-about-uber/ )
Still leaves the fingerprinting vector.
The stat() results are going to be cached.

What is fair for a test like this? SSD or rotational media?

At least clear the caches between runs, or give them the same cache.

https://www.thegeekdiary.com/how-to-clear-the-buffer-pagecac...
The 'China state-affiliated media' tag Twitter is adding is useful here.
"subsidizing person A and keeping B the same is exactly the same as keeping A the same and taxing person B... Your changing everyone's relative place in society"

I don't think this 'zero sum' view is helpful, but what I have a real problem with is when people only apply their 'beliefs' selectively - you have to logically consistent.

If this is your view, surely you should be More offended about extremely rich people paying zero tax, getting government bailouts when they mess up, than you should be concerned about poor people being slightly less poor? Is this actually a view you believe in, or is it just an excuse to keep poor people down?

This is like 'pro life' people not supporting healthcare, or 'freedom' libertarians supporting civil forfeiture and surveillance or 'personal responsibility' people making up excuses for why executives shouldn't be charged after they make a decision that kills several hundred people.

"elevating the people that have behaved less responsibly"

We don't actually know that, maybe person A was on track to pay off his student debt, and then someone in his family had cancer or got hit by a bus. Person A might actually be more responsible, being able to solely focus on your career is a privilege that some of us don't get