skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The surprise has been that inflation hasn't occurred outside of asset prices.

But it has occurred. People were originally calling it "short term" but its clear that the 6-7% inflation seen at the tail end of 2021 was very real.

As to your two outcomes:

I'd like to believe that the second one is what is sort of happening, with the "great resignation" of blue-collar and otherwise "unskilled" workers (its a term of art, I understand some of the jobs in this pool require a lot of finesse). Unfortunately, I also see lots of push from the top of the economic strata for the first outcome; most notably in the attempt to move from car ownership to ridesharing.
no. i did have to go through a metal detect and xray every day to get into school though, certainly reinforced the prison feeling.
>... more prone to flooding.

Or mudslides.
Very few nintendo games are region locked anymore.
Realm of Racket

https://nostarch.com/realmofracket
The bottom of the slippery slope is what's going on in China right now. Worldwide, the non-ivermectin early treatment block of governments seems to want to slowly push everyone there.

In China, they have an app that ties to your social credit score that you need to show everywhere to do anything. It tells you you are ok, or you are banned from society until you test, or you have to go to quarantine camp indefinitely.

Ivermectin seems to be the big red line in the sand. Governments that promote it as a treatment don't want to go full China. Those that forbid it do.
Same. I actually downloaded it in a VM and logged in one last time before the AIM servers went offline a couple years ago.
Most stuff on Github is garbage as well, but all the best projects are there.
Let's just add some explosions! That'll fix a terrible script.

The king of witless, trite scripts has got to be the recent "La Brea" series. There's such a lack of creativity that the characters recycle each others lines.
When the profitability of creating valuable information decreases, and copying valuable information increases, people will do more of the latter and less of the former. I don't see how it wouldn't turn out like that.

With regard to the second, yes a case can be made that since countries invade privacy any way, utilizing this information like this doesn't add to the privacy invasion. Maybe. But an admittedly speculative argument could be made that it makes more people economically dependent on income taxation (like the hypothetical tax receipt roll scourers who identify and stalk successful truffle foragers), making it harder to abolish the institution. The way I see it, the less we normalize income taxation, the better.
That's not true. Climate models model and simulate physical and chemical condition on Earth. Modellers don't know what they say beforehand.

Offhandedly portraying scientists and researchers as dishonest and conspirators in every opportunity possible seems the default here.
Oh no! I don't want to be associated with radicalization! I repent!

No. Try that act on someone else.

Frame it however you want. If you frame free speech as the potential for radicalization than I'm 100% fine with the potential for radicalization. That's part of what living in a free society entails, the right for people to believe in things that you find radical.
>90% of conversations about covid, it has taken over daily life

this is what the powers that be want to happen. they want you to live in a state of panic and fear.

when i was in school (i am 30 now), i had many severe illnesses like pneumonia twice, shingles, mono, staph. nobody ever gave a shit, and nobody died.
I think you are being nostalgic. The current generation of communication software (iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, Signal, Messenger, Hangout, Matrix, etc) trumps what was popular in the 90s/00s.
R is between 2 and 3 infections per infected. That’s exponential growth, and omicron’s life cycle is faster than delta or alpha by a couple days. Health care facilities and airlines can’t keep fully staffed despite them taking the most precautions and requiring vaccinations. There was an outbreak in Antarctica where more than half the research station got it despite strict isolation and testing before arrival. How can we possibly stop that?

Definitely not a dumb question.
I read this as "maybe a few (which are the ones automatically created on primary keys)", as opposed to redundant indices created on primary keys.
The maxim I was told by my dad, who I think got it from someone like Warren Buffet, is that, "In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it is a weighing machine"

So for the day-to-day, week-to-week, etc movement of an asset or market, its primarily driven by the immediate feelings of the sellers and buyers. Longer term, however, its historically been fluctuations on top of a lower-frequency trend based on fundamentals.
hell I’d be excited for 1!
I agree with most of this, but not necessarily with this:

> That is, if an interface has enough consumers, they will collectively depend on every aspect of the implementation, intentionally or not. This effect serves to constrain changes to the implementation, which must now conform to both the explicitly documented interface, as well as the implicit interface captured by usage. We often refer to this phenomenon as "bug-for-bug compatibility."

This isn't necessarily the case. Plenty of software makers feel completely free to make incompatible upgrades and not offer any upgrade path. Mozilla, for example, completely destroyed a lot of Firefox functionality, even to the point of destroying bookmarks. Websites which rely on the blink tag are similarly out of luck; some, but not all, browsers support a CSS property which does the same thing, but the point is that the original API, the HTML element, is largely useless.
> Extreme weather can occur in both directions.

Of course that's true. What I guess I was trying to say is that a change in climate doesn't necessarily mean more extreme weather (in every instance, I mean). A change in climate could cause something to happen more or happen less. But no one is going to study a given year and a given place that doesn't have an extreme weather event.
> Resolution is far less important than bit color depth.

I discovered this playing with my scanner, looking for the best settings. It surprised me.
It would be like asking to see Facebook's algorithm for the news feed.
It seems like the simple solution is to include distance learning days in ADA (does NY even use average daily attendance for school funding?).
Consultant, startup sent notice I owe them money for dishonest, unfinished work
They first didn’t signed any contract, I asked they didn’t bother , just email communication and they said it is legally bound by email

Now I invoiced them first for research work and then implementation . In ten NDA it says I can’t get a lawyer. The work I did was ongoing and like any software will have bugs or updates requirements if internal api change . After that I worked for few months, most of the last months work was experimentation . I in emails said yes I will complete task before any more payment and I did but it was asked to not be pushed to prod but I did spend time on Those tasks. Now they are asking to pay them back
It is not extreme at all. Sabina is using Luboš Motl wisdom as her own for some time now anyway.
Climate change means you can have an extreme drought, followed by a fire, followed by extreme rain then mudslides.
I remember explicitly disabling acknowledging read reciepts on a sony ericsson in the mid-2000s because a friend of mine had discovered how to ask for them on their similar dumbphone and made dumb assumptions about how long until someone should reply.
For too long extroverts have built a world that is hostile to the needs of introverts. It is time for a new order.
Archived: https://archive.ph/DBEVM
Ah I missed that - thank you!
The date selector has an odd bug in leap years. My birthday is in February in a leap year. If I click Feb 9, it highlights Feb 9. But if I click Feb 10, it highlights Feb 9; if I click Feb 11, it highlights Feb 10, and so on. For all dates between Feb 10 and Feb 29, it highlights the preceding day instead of the day I clicked.

I would guess this is due to a disagreement between some part of the code that thinks there are 28 days in every February and another part that is aware that there are 29 days in a leap year. But it's odd that the bug shows up one-third of the way through February, instead of halfway through February, as I would expect if it were rounding to the nearest day. Quite a strange bug; it suggests that date calculations must have been done ad-hoc instead of using a well-tested date library.
That seems backwards. My perspective is that we pay them to do the most routine, absolute bare minimum.
Oh thanks. I thought I was crazy because I could notice the blur on the bottom and top of the screen but not anywhere else. I thought "Maybe they did this so the subtitles have a better contrast" but I found it stupid. At least it was done for artistic motives...
They are kids and acting like kids.
Are we reading the same post?

They are trying to ignore COVID and carry on as usual. The issues come from having so many teachers out sick.

Can’t run a school without teachers. Doesn’t make sense to force kids to come in just to pack them into overcrowded auditoriums because so many teachers are sick.

I don’t understand how people think schools are only a place for kids, who never interact with teachers or go home to their older adult parents.
Annonacin is found in the seeds but the fhe fruit is fine, IIRC. Also IIRC, regular consumption of paw paw with lime is linked to excellent improvements in liver function for extremely late-stage Hepatitis patients. Consider also Annonacin promotes selective cancer cell death via NKA-dependent and SERCA-dependent pathways: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6037677/
Ask HN: Is it worth developing independent games anymore?
I wonder if I'm alone with this. I have been seeing plenty of developers create game and pour their heart and soul in development and marketing.

I heard about influencers who fail and get depressed, but since game development has become so accessible I wonder if this is happening to developers, too.

It's clear to me what I need to do to promote my game (new trailer, contact the press, social media posts etc.), but it takes forever to get myself to do it because I'm afraid it won't be good enough or it would fail for whatever reason.

I guess you get the initial rush when some people purchases the game in the beginning. Until you realise it wasn't enough. Have you had similar experiences? Any thoughts?
The idea is that the teacher doesn't have to keep their eyes on a laptop screen and can mostly move about the classroom in the normal way that they would teach a lesson.
Another poster here remarked that spares would be made. That would indicate the cost of doing so isn't that remarkable.
This calculates my age incorrectly. The diagram shows the number of years I've lived as about 3 years less than my true age. It's kinda disappointing when the site literally has one job — to calculate my age — and it doesn't get it right.
Looks like there aren’t actually any good reasons. I’m actually kind of surprised that mere curiosity at what could have been seen wasn’t good enough.
Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism (2020)
Before smartphones, SMS was a big selling point for US carriers. Plans were very cheap compared to the rest of the world. So we were already accustomed to texting when smartphones arrived. When WhatsApp / Telegram got here, no one in the US really cared because all our contacts already had SMS and MMS.

SMS should have been retired a while ago. But now we've foolishly managed to tie MFA to it...so I doubt its going anywhere anytime soon.
Congratulations on release!

I was wondering if there is any low hanging fruit for WebGL build size improvements.

I did a Unity test build for comparison against your rect example, with a cube and a single script that does nothing (so they can't e.g. strip out Mono).

Listing sizes uncompressed, 7z Ultra (a decent proxy for Brotli), and wasm-opt + 7z Ultra respectively:

Rect example: 13473kb, 1964kb, 1720kb

Basic Unity: 9528kb, 2304kb, 2291kb

Bevy is still leading, but it's getting uncomfortably close.

The uncompressed sizes matter a lot more than any other asset type, as it's all code that has to be compiled, running poorly until the optimized compiler has finished with it. On a Chromebook, my experience is that much code gives you 30-60s of poor FPS before it comes good.

I understand this is not necessarily a focus of Bevy, but I do think that you have an opportunity here to build the first game engine without significant downsides on any single platform. Filling the code base with a bunch of feature flags may not be worth it to achieve that goal, though.

The modularity of Bevy is super exciting (I've asked you before about WebGL builds on here before and you mentioned this). But Unity ships quite a bit of stuff in a basic build and is probably fairly similar in scope to Bevy with all crates.
This printer cartridge issue is creating a huge opportunity for some enterprising startup to produce a solid printer with quality cartridges ... I just hope this happens and they refuse to be bought out by HP or anyone else
There are no plans at the moment because it is not even clear how long will current fuel supply last. NASA engineer today said "maybe 20 years, roughly speaking", my back-of-napkin math says that it could be up to 30 if everything goes great. It will depend on exact schedule of observations, number of unexpected transient observations and solar activity. Computer simulations of its orbit and solar wind pressure have some error bars that will be corrected once we get solid data. It also has funding for only 5 years of ground operations right now. Once the mission get extended and we have solid understanding of how it behaves in space we could think of designing refuelling mission. It has fuel port so it is possible in principle, but I don't expect any concrete plans within 10 years.
'Since March 2020, the federal government has provided $190 billion in pandemic aid to schools …'[0]

'There are 130,930 public and private K-12 schools in the U.S.'[1]

$190 billion divided by 130,930 is $1.45 million dollars per school. Now, I will readily grant that a million dollars just ain't what it used to be, but it is, even in 2021, still a heck of a lot of money, and it sure sounds from the raw numbers that public school teachers shouldn't need to spend their own money on basic COVID-19 supplies.

0: https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/look-up-how-much-covi...

1: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/education-statistics-facts...
I am 100% sure that the Exxon model from 1982 was not what Exxon wanted.

It also has been and continues to be tremendously accurate and predictive.

https://xkcd.com/2500
I'd really like to see an article that described what the actual variant looks like (in terms of mutations from the Wuhan or D614G strains). Neither this article or the [likely] source Bloomberg article have any info on it. Don't see anything else out there (besides a CNBC article that credits the Bloomberg one).
"Elastic" deformation means the material deforms under load and then returns to its original shape after the load is removed.

"Plastic" deformation means after the load is removed, the material does not return to its original shape.

A spring is the canonical example of elastic deformation; it returns to its original position when the load is removed. A dent in a car (or a bent frame) is an example of plastic deformation.

The hydrocarbon compound we know of as "plastic" got its name from this phenomenon (more precisely both the compound and the phenomenon got their names from a Greek origin word meaning "capable of being shaped or molded".)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasticity_(physics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic#Etymology
Examples? This is a pretty dubious claim.
Are you suggesting that spares are only produced for the cheap parts?
> I’m a older than millennial, but too young to be a boomer

There is a generation in-between millennials and boomers, it’s called Generation X. It refers to people born in the 70s and early 80s.
Indeed - apparently my Trump bashing was "unqualified", so I now have to go and run for President, get elected, be President for 4 years, and then I can start bashing him.
Drones used by farmers could be spying
Hello. I'm the author of the library, you should use the IndexManager (https://github.com/heywhy/ex_elasticlunr/blob/master/lib/ela...) to store your index after making changes to it but note that the indexes will be lost on application shutdown.

But I'm currently working on a configurable storage mechanism so that you can use whatever storage provider of your choice. See https://github.com/heywhy/ex_elasticlunr/pull/9
>Here's the problem with climate change modeling, you are modeling a complex chaotic system, you just cannot do it accurately

Its more than that. Large models have hundreds of adjustable parameters, which each may be tweaked within reasonable ranges to simultaneously backfit historic data and potentially get any kind of future result. It's very easy to get biased outputs which look totally reasonable, which is especially dangerous if the discipline is subject to a rigid orthodoxy.
I kind of love that description. "We don't want a dark pattern, but maybe it could be, you know, beige?"
Not $25 cheap
The signal is typically bandlimited by hardware — the optics and sensor. When it's not, you get weird effects, though that's rare because cameras have optical low pass filters to avoid this.

When they don't, like the Canon 5D mark ii when used in video mode (which just threw out most of the sensor's pixels to get to 1080p), you get aliasing producing moire patterns like this:

https://youtu.be/dMHDB5fG6ys?t=218
Why is the date picker filled with possible birth years in the future — all the way up to 2072, all greyed out and unclickable? That makes the UI more cumbersome for no good reason.
It's probably too blur out any imperfections in the background green screen, or to hide any uncanny valley lack of detail in the CG set. It's become basically standard practice to use a CG set of some kind in almost everything, because it's cheaper than shooting on site or on a fully detailed sound stage.
Do you have any evidence for this? Are you implying that climate change isn't happening?
What other language(s) is that word used in?

It's a moderately rare word in everyday spoken English.
I was explaining this exact quirk of pandas to someone recently!

But I think a better goal is to make bad code patterns unduly tedious and good patterns very pleasant. There’s some cool idioms for library design in that direction that I’ve had fun doing
So in this case the modeler just needs to tell the model to (1) accurately calculate the degree to which the Earth's climate will change in the next few decades and (2) give a comprehensive global forecast of the accompanying extreme weather events.
Maybe, but crazy shallow DoF goes back at least to Kubrick famously shooting parts of Barry Lyndon at f0.7.
Even just open source firmware for an existing proprietary printer would be interesting.
This answers a question I’ve had for a long time: how can the telescope station-keep without any thrusters pointing “up”, away from the sun? Answer: very, very carefully.
Risk of myocarditis (heart inflammation) in men under 40 years old is higher after 2 doses of an mRNA vaccine than from SARS-CoV-2 itself, particularly after Moderna where it's many times higher: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

Article is an overview of the most interesting findings; in particular I'm referencing the second image, which is copied directly from a study that's linked right above it.
I had covid. My kids had covid. My parents had covid. My neighbors had covid. My cat had covid (snotting - no test). You will get covid. The war is lost. Unless, you move to northern Alaska and do no visit shops - and use the land. But that is death.
Yes, it is a port of that library with some improvements.
I've been using various unices for thirty years this year. I have no respect for the 'unix philosophy'.
> we live in a society that sarcrifices their young...

Maybe. The other thing I've been seeing is a lot of leaders not making hard choices and picking the perpetual compromise path that never leads anywhere.
> No, I’m well aware.

No, apparently not.

> But there’s a simple solution to this problem: Don’t try to run and maintain your own servers. Pay a little extra to use cloud hosting and let it be someone else’s problem.

But that's only if it IS a "problem" in the first place. You have defined it as such, although Bitecode themselves said that for them, it simply isn't. (To paraphrase: "If the site is down, then it's down; so what? We'll fix it when we're in the office again.")

Just plain ignoring whether something is "a problem" or not is hardly being "well aware".
Typically, it gets your performance. And if performance is what you need it may be one of the simpler things you can do.
> Some high priority scientific observations (GTO & GO) with the JWST are likely to be carried out during the commissioning period, since it is clearly desirable to begin to take science data as early as is technically feasible.

> Early Release Observations (EROs) will be taken by JWST during both the commissioning and post-commissioning phases of operation. These observations will be chosen to have wide public appeal and are designed to demonstrate the capabilities of the JWST instruments. Publication or reporting in any form of results of these observations is embargoed until the EROs are released.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportunities-and-policies/...

There is a chance for first images to be released before commissioning is complete, but no dates announced so far.
Resources to Master Slam and Visual Odometry
This analogy doesn’t hold since the best projects aren’t on Netflix. HBO’s TV catalog destroys Netflix from a quality and critical acclaim perspective. I can’t even think of a Netflix show I’d consider to be HBO-level quality.
Scientists Created the First And#39;Liquibot&#39; That Runs Without Electricity
Let me rephrase your empirical observation in probabilistic terms. If the a random sample of data scientists from startups had the same distribution of mathematicians and CS people than a ramdom sample of data scientists from banking then we could compare empirically whether confidence intervals are equally useful in both industries.

Given that historically regulators figured out that when playing with other people's assets you need to assess your confidence, the volatility of the outcomes in non banking industries that lack such oversight can be greatly attributed to people DunningKrugering after a couple of Andrew NG's courses.

That is my claim and based on my experience working in projects accross many industries accross many countries.
I wonder if this article/research exists to drum up anti-apple sentiment.
It has constant sunshine on one side, and constant darkness on the other.
modeling an infinitely fractal set of chaotic systems can only do exactly this
For tests and exams it’s common for teaching assistants to mark the same few questions on every test, usually on the same page. It helps catch cheating and plagiarism and keeps grading consistent.

When I was a TA we’d split the stack of paper tests evenly and rotate them every few days to grade them in parallel. It’s even easier to do the splitting if tests are submitted online.