skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want a currency with a bull case. That means it discourages spending it in favor of holding it. I want a currency with an extremely slow bear case.

Also my value of USD hasn't dropped 30% in the last month.
No. Mahalanobis distance is not an alternative to Euclidian distance because it's not even measuring the same kind of distance. The are incommensurate, both figuratively and literally: Mahalanobis distance is unitless while Euclidian distance is not.

Euclidian distance measures the distance between two points, while Mahalanobis measures the distance between a distribution (canonically multivariate normal) and a point. Mahalanobis distance is not a generalization if Euclidian distance, it's an altogether different concept of distance that doesn't even make sense without talking about a distribution with mean and covariance matrix.
Any market with insufficient liquidity and an easy way to trade, is ripe for this. I'm sure you could look at the price history of all sorts of stuff on Ebay and Amazon and see many many cases of this.

Imagine a seller buying their own products cheaply and giving reviews. Then come back and raise the prices when the product gets listed higher up in the search results.

I recently bought some KF94 masks on Amazon cause they were crazy cheap. Came back a few days later and the price went from $8->$25. A few days after that, the entire listing was gone.
Reading about MIPS was where I first encountered the concept of a branch delay slot and I am -so- glad I've never had to write assembler for a processor with that feature.
> A process that's broken for everyone gets fixed. A process that can be worked around by everyone who has the power to get it changed can stay broken indefinitely.

OK, but the only processes that are broken for everyone are processes that are mandatory for everyone. Using a different process is a perfectly workable way to get around a broken process.
I went through similar hell recently. Google should just sell Google Play at this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29640436
Yes, applause to Josh for doing such a thing.

But I think getting paid for work is quite human, no?
Thank you! I added a fun little thing where it charts the results to check for complexity problems. eg:

Grow store, different table to index with multiple row count, µs per row
First: 16.3 µs per row
Last: 3.61 µs per row
Min: 2.76 µs per row
Max: 29.89 µs per row
Avg: 7.33 µs per row

90.00 ┼───────────────────────────────────────
84.00 ┤
78.00 ┤
72.00 ┤
66.00 ┤
60.00 ┤
54.00 ┤
48.00 ┤
42.00 ┤
36.00 ┤
30.00 ┤╭╮
24.00 ┤││ ╭╮
18.00 ┼╯│ ││ ╭╮
12.00 ┤ ╰╮ ╭╯│ ╭╮ ││ ╭╮
6.00 ┼──╰───╯─╰────╯╰───╯╰──────────╯╰╮──╭───
0.00 ┤ ╰──╯
So don't lift it as a standard attribute.
What are the usual concerns about these lists?
Minerals in water are unnecessary. Fluoride is better obtained by brushing ones teeth.
The more efficient these rentals are run, the higher the profit the government makes. The more money the government makes, the less they need to tax and the more services they can provide, and the more votes you get. If they don't run these well, people will leave to the private sector, reducing government income, which would then have to cut services and raise taxes, losing them votes. So there is a strong incentive to run the service efficiently.
>~50 years ago Keynes predicted by now no-one would have to work menial jobs because everything would be automated, freeing up people to work a few days a week and pursue creative endeavors.

Well that's not the outcome automation is having but quite the opposite. Automation means fewer jobs for some, meaning those left without those jobs have to compete for a brutal job market to make rent when unemployment runs out, it doesn't mean they get to prop their legs on the table and pursue arts and other hobbies.

The automation utopia where everyone is free from most work cannot and will not happen under the current economic model where all the benefits of automation are vacuumed by the private companies developing them and the governments have to deal with those left without a job and support them with taxes taken from those who still have a job.
Things I love about python:

- minimalist syntax

- very gentle learning curve

- yet an extremely powerful language

- interactive development

- and of course the library ecosystem

Things I mildly dislike about python but at the end of the day are not a big deal:

- dynamic typing

- significant whitespace

- scoping rules

- dependencies

Things I really hate about python:

- error messages (I *genuinely* find it easier and more pleasant to debug 1000 lines long template
metaprogramming backtraces in C++)

- horrible performance
IMO the Netflix originals over the past several years are terrible, and this pricing hike is to pay for more of them rather than buying AAA catalog content. No thanks
It is accurate, just not completely accurate. You only get cognitive dissonance if you try to resolve it all the way.. stack multiple imperfect intuitions to approximate the real thing.
A rotated game of Tetris: better memory planning for deep learning inference
UX is a night and day difference between Netflix and its competitors. It's mind-boggling that the giants like Disney and HBO can't even get close. It's especially more noticeable on slow devices like Smart TV's.
Zig is warts-free C, but you can use them together. You can gradually refactor your C codebase, Zig can even transpile C. Zig is also a standalone C toolchain, compiling and cross-compiling C is a breeze with it, and it has it's own libc implementation.
Why would you have to guess when the source describe it. Anyway, funny how you mention "only"- the "only" increase in trackability is to be able to retrieve user information about users using the world's most popular online services. I don't want pornhub to be able to view my photo from Google. Comparing this to CSS fingerprinting seems misinformed at best.
List Zero: Reduce overwhelm by 80%, Increase flow (to-do app)
But shilling bid is illegal regardless of how you bid. While crypto can be made harder to trace than fiat, the fact of the matter is, someone have commited crime.

With millions of dollars flying on all sorts of NFT exchanges/auctions [1], sooner or later some government will crack a case and make it very public in a form of a warning to others.

[1] https://nouns.wtf/
Does anyone have further references to pieces that examine this property? I read the linked paper from Strogatz which showed a similar geometry for the basins of coupled oscillators. Though it was interesting it did not provide more insight.
I work with Estonians, silence is their way. Even Swedish colleges will say something given a long enough pause. Not the Estonians. I tried longer and longer pauses after asking if there are any question. I found the point that, one out of four times, someone will say 'No. There are no questions'. It feels like a really very long pause.

I'm Spanish, in my culture people will interrupt you mid sentence if they have something to say.

I just need to change expectations like I change languages. It's not a problem but it requires to think about your audience culture. They are just different.

I like the article and how shares this idiosyncrasy. I wish it talked about it as something normal, instead of something 'abnormal'. But it makes sense that it takes the British perspective.
Can we blame that on minimum wages going up, or can we blame it on McDonald's find a cost-effective way to automate that? Do we find no kiosk in those states who haven't had a minimum wage hike?
Forget the value of the education. Being allowed to attend the career fair at a top university is worth it alone. You'll be able to secure internships at top companies and get a high paying job upon graduation. You'll end up being able to command higher salaries with that background. The reality is that pedigree (both university and previous companies) make a huge difference in getting top tier companies interested in you.
After reading through the whole rant, it seems like this particular developer wants an approachable, powerful language that is statically typed, high performance, concurrent, memory safe (without garbage collection), without long compile times, and uses # for comments.

We all do.
Because newsletters, special interest groups, internet forums, product updates also a valid uses of mass email.
Our Garden – A One Year Time Lapse
Patrick Boyle's books are a good start.

Generally I would discourage people from trading - 99% of people who try fail.
In US, these taxes wouldn’t be particularly progressive. US taxes are already very progressive, much more so than in Europe. In US, the wealthy already pay overwhelming majority of the tax. If US was to embark on European level governmental spending, it would have to introduce more European-like taxation system, where bulk of the revenue is collected from middle and working class.
I just don’t buy it. Here’s why:

I personally know several people who received sizable pandemic aid and have said, explicitly, that they are not bothering to look for work until their savings from the received aid runs low.

This is just very basic common sense. Work is often not fun or easy. So, if you’ve got free, no strings attached money coming in, why bother working?
I don't get this joke. I get Wayne Brady's - there are no black characters on Friends, but I don't get Colin's part. I tried watching the clip but I still don't understand it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djX7aDuqi48
When I got into crypto back in 2013 I resolved myself to long-term holds with self-custody(before HODL was even a meme) precisely because I had seen how bad things got in pink sheet trading a few years prior and had the losses to prove it - I already had no faith in regulated markets, therefore I knew it was only going to be more blatant in crypto.

But if I held over the long term and carefully looked for the macro picture, I would sidestep manipulation, because it's ultimately the product of people sitting in front of a whiteboard trying to make their play happen within the span of the next business quarter, whereas my bet is on crypto as an asset class.

The plan has worked reasonably well; it's had huge ups and equally huge downs, so I have not quite "won" yet, but I have definitely not lost.
I definitely think it's a cultural problem

China is probably the most extreme end of real-estate-as-an-investment mentality. Even without NIMBYism and zoning laws, everybody invests in real estate because it's impossible to make money off the stock market without insider government knowledge i.e. the government can destroy entire industries overnight like the recent private education bans. They're experimenting with increasing property taxes for each non-primary residence but only time will tell if it'll work.

Unfortunately, culture will take multiple decades/generations to change so the current generation are essentially out of luck if they are not in a high income career or have rich parents
> - Import system: Having historically used/dabbled with about a dozen+ languages, I have yet to find an import system I like, including the C family of languages.

For me, Python has been one of the better ones. I especially like that its explicit where a symbol comes (unlike C/C++, C#, Ruby) from unless you explicitly opt-out (D is confusing about this).

My main gripe (assuming visibility of items isn't import related) is that it merges pulling symbols in from a module with loading a module, leading to initialization order confusion and several gotches that confuse people.
Hey, it's unreleased so we can project our personal vision of "ideal C" onto it.

Then when those design choices get hardened into a 1.0 it will become just-another-language and we will inevitably feel let down and move into the next attempt at a Perfect Programming Language. So it goes.
I would have cut the box and repaired it afterwards

My grandpa used always say that DIY is mainly covering your bad work
That’s the interesting thing. Some people want to be lifetime wage slaves: they will work till they die at a low earnings level. Others would like to make five times as much with five times as much work. Proportionality is what they value.

The problem, apparently, is that you want to force the latter into the former lifestyle. To that, I say no. In fact, you’re not going to get that world.
To have
Ask HN: Does unchecking “send me future marketing updates” do anything?
I think I can safely say I have never once created an account and opted in to receiving marketing emails. Yet it seems like every site sends them to me anyway, forcing me to deliberately unsubscribe. For those who have worked on such sites: does the box actually do anything? I assume including it is some legal requirement that’s just rarely (if ever) actually enforced?
If I were a leader of a country that engaged economically with the US, I would be less concerned with the use of the dollar for UBI than it's current use, which is too enrich a small financial elite. A group that not only had outsized power in the US, butt also around the world, since the power of the dollar is so generalized.

It takes a relatively small slice of a billionaire's power to destabilize national leadership, a process that I assume isn't just happening in the US butt around the world. This doesn't even include the fact that Facebook is a near-optimal propaganda tool in protecting the wealth of the people who rule over changes to the way it runs.
Because spam filtering should be done at the server.
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> There would be a lot more work happening on material things, not less

Who will do all the hard, unpleasant work then? Who will pick strawberries, work retail, or do hard labour, for anything less than a fortune? What substitute to the current "don't starve/end up homeless" incentive structure will motivate people to do these jobs?

Productivity improvements aren't universal, they're specific. We've not improved productivity for strawberry pickers because we've not come up with a way to automate the picking of strawberries. The least productive work tends to pay minimum wage.
Maybe, but I think the fact that they could be planned for / assumed would mean the benefit would have a high risk of quickly disappearing into inflation and rent-seeking.

In the case of rent in particular, there would be no reason for any landlord to take less than $UBI if there was a guaranteed monthly payment from the government.

Unexpected or unpredictable cash influx almost always makes things better because people know they can’t “count on it” and they use it for savings or to fix problems they had been unable to fix, rather than “live off it.”

To put that differently: what most people really need is margin to handle the unexpected problems in life. But living below your means to create margin is hard, even for high-income people! Doubly hard when you are low income. So unexpected cash is more beneficial than expected cash, precisely because it is unexpected and therefore inherently “margin.”
And watching that new field like a hawk, and outcompeting all the other hawks.
How can they afford to quit if they aren’t earning enough to live on in the first place?

You have that luxury because of savings.
Progressive socialist ideologies like this are not working out well! For example the recent social Justice laws passed in progressive cities where we are now seeing once unseen massive smash n grabs and rail cargo trains being ransacked.

Also give ppl free money the a good majority will not work ... I'm sure there's a lot of ppl who got free money from the govt during covid and have yet to go back to work when there's lots of jobs as well wage increases. We can argue that $15 an hour to work at a convenience store isn't great but every human if not mistaken can go to school and educate themselves ...work hard to better themselves. Some it's harder then others and that's where social ideologies need to be most focused on! Not giving free money or ignoring criminal activity... some images of the US as of late are starting to look like Venezuela.
I don't get it... why not raise minimum wages to reflect local cost of living? IE, why tax all of us instead of the businesses not paying enough for their employees?
Bad example.

Heater core jobs are 6+ hours in many cars unless a trick is figured out specific to the model years down the line. (And to be clear you usually get charged 6 hours of labor since they're going by book time)

They should have replaced that 20 dollar sensor along with the rest of the HVAC work they did. I'm also guessing it's not a coincidence the sensor failed after they were in there
It’s open source? You should have a link to the repo on the website.
Having a key to the office and having a key to the network closet are not the same thing. The article said only four people had access to the network closet. So did this guy break into the closet to plant the pi?

I think he got off way to easy.
> People need offices, just not all the time. That’s what "perpetual hybrid work" means.

This is a good article. The need for space, for places to go in this world is very real.
Maybe I'm just in some kind of weird minority (I also like modern art and brutalist architecture) but many of the TV shows I've most enjoyed watching over the last year have been Netflix originals. Arcane and Castlevania are both up there with the best western animation ever, The Witcher and Cobra Kai are great pulpy fun while still having compelling characters, and Kate is my favorite action movie.
> If your neighbor says he has more trouble losing weight than other people controlling for calories and exercise, this is very plausible. And it certainly isn’t outside the realm of physical law.

Now you're just moving the goalposts. I said this exact thing in the beginning of this thread: "Yes, it will be easier for some people and harder on other people." The point of contention was not "is losing weight harder for some people" (because we agree on that), the point of contention was "is losing weight impossible for some people". If you took a survey of every person on earth, grouped the people who said that it's "impossible" for them to lose weight, and then put them on a diet, how many people do you expect to find for whom losing weight is literally impossible? You can't even find a SINGLE example.

> I didn’t just get you, I dunked on you.

If you take pride in "dunking" on people, maybe you should inspect your values.
CRT is defined precisely though. It is the application of collective guilt based on skin color for the actions of individuals with the same color skin. It is similar to the Stormfront crowd blaming all black people for violent crime. It's inherently racist.

Critical theory in general (not just CRT) is an attempt to use a marxist lens to view <insert social issue here>. This is why collectivism is central to CRT.

This is why we read nothing but race-based assumptions from proponents of CRT. It's a framework that requires us to not consider the content of ones character, but rather the color of their skin.
Why would labour costs not go down?

If the worker gets X from the state, they employer can pay them X less for status quo, which obviously was an amount of money that worked out earlier.

I.e. the cost of living in cities is what prevent workers from undercutting each other in cities.
I'm am American who works for a Finland-based employer which has given me a few opportunities to travel there. My experience suggests this is changing a bit generationally as I've generally found it pretty easy to have brief, friendly conversations with younger (say, under 35 or so) people at least in the Helsinki-Espoo areas.

The quiet public places and public transport do make my introverted heart gleeful, though. I also reckon that a group of German tourists can give Americans a run for their money in the boisterousness department. :)
There are plenty of very dynamic languages that still have quite reasonable performance. JS is the most well known, but many Lisps also are quite good. Being slow is an explicit decision of Python.
> It depends on how you define "concaveness". A cube is concaver than a square in a sense.

Yup. Even a regular 3D cube (and 2D square) has concave faces if you're viewing it from a polar perspective. As I stand in the center of the cube, measuring distances from me to the surface, I'll see that measurement follow a concave pattern.

Yeah, I know that's not the definition of concavity or whatever, but when relating a sphere to a cube, and trying to get an intuition of higher-dimensional spaces, I think it helps to look at it from the sphere's perspective rather than a Cartesian one.
I go by "unicorn wrangler" on mine for the same reason
Thanks to Richard. mdSilo is based on Notabase: https://notabase.io/.
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There was a comment several days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825516) that made me reconsider the whole enterprise of operator overloading even for math, specifically its last paragraph.

The gist is that you can easily build them to preclude useful optimizations and efficient execution, when it's often more desirable to be fast than to have syntactic sugar, hence having explicit function calls like multiply_add(a, b, c) instead of a+b*c. If you really want syntactic sugar when it comes to math, operator overloading probably isn't the way to implement it, it'd be nicer to have something with the full context so there can be optimizing reductions. Lisp macros can do that, or you might have some other kind of parser (that might have to work on strings), or with sufficient cleverness you could build an overloaded operator nest full of context-accumulating operations-to-perform that either require some doMath wrapper at the end or a final overload of operations producing a fully computed return type.

I prefer languages that don't cripple expressive freedom and so overall I'm not anti-operator-overloading in general even if I think some overloads are pretty questionable (I dislike C++'s arrow overload for Optionals) but I no longer think that e.g. a math-focused library is an obvious win or exception to the downsides of the expressive power granted from operator overloading.
This looks more like deskilling than automation. There's not someone constantly on the fryers in most fast food outlets, this just makes it a button press instead of having to learn by sight/smell/feel when something is done. That can make things a little faster, but at 30% faster you're paying now paying a whole person's salary to... save at most a person's worth of work, with a much bigger business risk if anything goes wrong.
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Ah no, these aren't transactions in the sense of locking and multiple client access. My glib answer is that there's perk to JavaScript not being multithreaded! But seriously, when persisting/saving a Store, the library doesn't guarantee that you aren't saving over something another browser window might have just written. I would need to think about what that would entail.
That's why I specified unlimited IP laws. Basically who licences the robots and AIs - owns the world.