skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well first the price is built to entice you to get a value meal.

Second, there's a non-insignificant time for labor on making the Big Mac + we all know that the cost of beef is increasing quite a bit overtime. And while McDonalds are expert at logistics, you could argue that they have been expert for so long now that they already got all the savings they could have gone many years ago.

At the end of the day, it's expensive beef, with a labor shortage.

I'd find it surprising it didn't increase more.
In this specific case supporting the full host language would mean implementing a whole C++ compiler which might be a bit overkill.
This is so f’ing stupid, and in that way perfectly epitomizes what’s so broken about crypto.

Nobody wants to run their own bank, which ALSO means nobody wants to use Jim’s shady internet bank or their buddy’s bank or their mom’s bank or or or…

Like, nobody in crypto seems to think for one second about how the world actually works or what people not brainwashed by crypto might want.

It’s a tech that has thoroughly, definitively lost the argument. It’s as clear a dead end as the metaverse, or pivots to video (let alone Meta/FB’s pivot to video)
The original idea used to be that you could use the price of big Mac instead of comparing every aspect of consumer spend to calculate PPP.

But clearly that isn't working anymore. Indian PPP rate which tech companies use to adjust pay is around 17-20 INR/USD. But this chart implies that the number is close to 35 INR/USD

The numbers from numbeo which uses all the aspects of consumer spend gets a ratio closer to the one used by tech companies

Maybe the original criticism of big Mac index still stands: there are cheaper burgers in other countries and they should be comparing against that.
Yes, those are problematic. This tends to happen when a pipeline changes payloads. I know a little bit about this: typically what they try to do is to shuttle the 'interface' to a segment long enough to contain it completely, then vent that section by opening a valve at the end of the section, then push new material in until the mixture reaches a certain level of purity.

Unfortunately, the mixture is useless and vented into the atmosphere. There ought to be a burden of responsibility to deal with that in a more ecological way on the pipeline operators, but these tend to be in bed with the nation states that are home to the pipes.

A pipeline carrying a single substance or single mixture of substances can still vent, usually that is to deal with pressure excursions and is a safety measure.
Right, which is noted in the post. That verbosity is, well, verbose. I generally need this in 20% of things I write.
See also Marco Arment's (creator of Overcast) commentary: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1489595417117483010
Germany Has Picked a Fight with Telegram
If you have a hand of cards you want to optimize it makes sense to keep discarding and redrawing your worst cards. At the beginning your worst cards are probably below average, so any new replacement is statistically likely to be better. But even when you reach the point where all your cards are above average it can make sense to keep redrawing a small percentage, since that's the only way to get more aces.

Of course teams of employees with emotions and institutional knowledge are a bit more complex than a hand of cards, but that has never stopped bad management strategies.
> Already paid by the user.

Right! So as soon as I’ve bought one game built with Unreal Engine, I’ve paid for the engine and should get a discount on all other games which use it.

I’m the customer. I can decide when the company is fairly compensated.
Seems like the obvious first step would be requiring companies to buy emission certificates to cover those leaks. It'd very quickly become profitable to fix them.
> HIV transmits mostly through networks of people who do not practice safe sex

This is correct. Over two thirds of HIV cases around 2009 were transferred genitally; over 80% if one includes the intestinal tract (rectal) [1].

> Viruses do not care about politics

But people do, and their behaviour influences how viruses like HIV spread.

[1] http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/content/2/11/a006965...
Among my peers where I've observed how they use FB, I think it's an even split. For me, if there's a web site, I skip installing the app. And of course a majority of news and social and commerce web sites now prompt you to install the app.
Build out using html5
I'm sure there are plenty of bugs like this in other browser but yeesh...

Unfixed for 20 years because it was an implementation bug no one in authority was willing to fix. No other browser even supports it!

Ugh.
> I genuinely don't think many kids these days want t6o spend time playing with there LOGO Turtle

To be fair, as a kid growing up in the 80s enamoured with BASIC, I didn't even want to play with the LOGO Turtle. It always seemed like the most boring thing you could do with a computer.
HIV mutates so fast. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
> without knowing there is only one observer and the coordinates of that observer

Like a satellite? (Agree this would fail with multiple satellites.)
> it's never as simple as them handing over money; there will be terms and conditions.

The "terms and conditions" would be "pay the tax or go to jail".
Everything about this web page is awesome. The rest of the site is pretty sweet, too (there is a “proof” that π is rational that I enjoyed).

I especially like the links to related work. Too many people write about what they made, or put up a page explaining something, giving the impression that they are the only ones who ever wrote about the thing or did any work on it in the history of human thought. The web thrives on linkage.
Seems like a great example where a carbon tax would incentivize the right behaviors.
In which steps are the failures more usual?

Do people expect the talk to be free or "for exposure"?

Is it common to not get paid after the talk?

How common is to get a bad description of the expected audience? (size, age, math level, ...)
Big Macs in Denmark are roughly the same price as in the US, but in Denmark you'd make $22/hour...
You have a point on this
Certainly we can join the calls for both common sense and careful awareness,

but with relevance to both the Darwin Award to that science teacher that beheaded herself by throwing substances in a manhole is a warning about possible miscalculations, behaviours and events. https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-06.html
Why is the PPP index flawed?
No.

Google the definition of conspiracy, before presenting your wrong opinion as fact.

Do you even get the irony of what you've just done and I'm sure have been doing for years? Probably not.
V8 does actually include a bytecode interpreter called Ignition to reduce memory usage on stuff that doesn't really need to be heavily optimized.
Yeah, I have this question myself a lot.

I thought I could just buy my kid an old C64 or ZXSpectrum, but those computers are just sooo slow and cumbersome now. They have the right spirit, but too nonstandard and weird in some ways. If you just want an environment to go over basic programming and doing sprite stuff, they can work.

One possibility is to get a raspberry pi kit that comes with a display and keyboard to where it is kinda like the old C64 experience. Depending on their age, make it a family activity. I doubt my kid would just go read on their own (at least now), but when I say it's reading time and sit down with them, it is usually an enjoyable activity. Start with Scratch and then later move to a Basic interpreter or Python. Programming is hard, but if they have little example text games to program and tweak, they'll pick it up little by little. To really learn, they'll have to keep at it (a few hours a week). It probably won't be super enjoyable at first, but eventually I bet they'll be happy once they can actually do stuff.

As far as Basic goes...Once you've taught them some basics (print statements, if-then, for loops, while loops, arrays), you can help them with creating easy games like tic-tac-toe, guess the number, a 3 room text adventure...etc. This will never be the dopamine hit that watching TV, social media, or playing Fortnite will be though unless they're really just into it.
Then we need to fix the apparent problem of idiot majority. If you say most people are stupid why would you want them to vote every 4 years. Can you trust their vote? Do you still advocate for the current form of “democracy”? Maybe we should go back to monarchy and have only one glorious ruler rather than one glorious government.
Why is why they're colloquially referred to as "flu shots", not "flu vaccines".
This is a nice hypothesis based on what happened
12-year-old revives Unity desktop and builds gaming environment for Ubuntu
I literally gave my son an Apple ][e lol
Analyzing the Open App Markets Act
CSS is kinda Turing-complete, but you need an external tick. And running SQLite compiled to CSS would probably be unusably slow.
"Rank-and-Yank" always produces this kind of outcome. A system that rigid can never handle a team that has no losers.
In Australia we have a Dark Sky park at the Warrumbungles where the Siding Springs Observatory lives. IIRC we also have some of the radio-quietest parts of the Earth where the SKA is being developed.

I love the idea of making the whole country a Dark Sky park.
None of that gets around the fact that the 27% can be defined as the licence fee for intellectual property. There’s no principle of capitalism that allows someone else to compete with you on the sale of your own goods.
They didn't choose "burgers" - they choose something that's largely the same across the world. A Big Mac was what they choose. It's certainly not intended as a policy tool or a pay adjustment tool. But it is an interesting metric non the less.
> The real effect has been to stabilize the economy.

The economy only needed stabilization because it was running on usury. If you ban usury, as Islam does, then you wouldn't need fake money that can be printed at will, and these crazy periodic cycles won't happen. It's not like today is stable anyway, I've spoken to several people in finance and they admitted to me these things.
Totally off-track, but seeing this font made me wonder: we have steam-punk, which is nostalgia for the times of the steam engine. Isn't it time we have a similar genre for the technology of the mid-twentieth-century?
I sense a real reluctance on the part of some scientists to admit that covid-19 has already gotten an animal reservoir (or three), perhaps because they just at an emotional level don't want it to be true, perhaps because they worry about the policy implications.
To me Go feels like a natural progression of C, And could see C often when I write it.

That said my experience with Go on ARM with low memory and CPU power hasn't been as same as my cloud services. I had to resort to ugly GC hacks and even preemptively killing the application on memory threshold.

But it's just my experience, I wouldn't be surprised if there are highly optimized Go apps running successfully on low-mem devices on edge. I don't think Go can replace C for embedded programming, Perhaps newer systems programming language like Rust, Zig is the way to Go.

I used to have Netdata on my edge devices, It would trip on its own Go plugin usage(mem) while the plugins written on NodeJS, Python ran fine; Likely because of unabated use of Goroutines.

Go's strength is its Network stack, It's been years since I've touched Apache/ngnix as deploying Go binary and setting up systemd rule is all that's required. For non-network application on edge, Especially on low memory devices I think Go is not ready yet.
> The important thing that crypto brings is optionality. Without crypto, what option do we have if not to trust the handful of BofAs, Itaús, Deutsche Banks, Santanders and the Goldmans out there?

You can keep nonmonetary stores of value (gold bars, fine art, silos of harvested wheat) and then convert them to cash as needed. If you find the right counterparty, you can even skip the conversion and barter directly.

> Decentralization is a spectrum

We're on this spectrum now. There is no world currency; anybody is free to make their own (the hard part is getting others to accept it). The existence of cryptocurrency is proof of this.
Unfortunately, there are millions and millions of people who build skills, work hard, and live frugally, and still aren't left with enough to invest anything, because the world has shifted in ways that make it impossible.

The idea that this is open to everyone—that working hard will guarantee you a decent income—is the big lie that's being increasingly recognized by young people today.
John Dvorak has a interesting piece on Burroughs here :

"The [ElectroData derived Burroughs 205] drum had two sections. The high speed access section which had each piece of data duplicated 10 times and offset on various bands on the drum to increase the access time by 10. Here the average data access time was .85 milliseconds."

my mom performed her bank clerk job on Burroughs Adding Machines, in the early 50s.

IBM famously was required to sign the 50 year Consent Decree for hobbling the 7 Dwarves by developing new machines using sales and supply contract deposit payments for vapor ware https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/ibm_and_the_1956_consent_...

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ibm-and-the-seven-dwarfs-dwarf-on...

edit : Dvorak auto correct on phone sorry
They're referring to openly "manipulating sentiment" (with facts?) around a given coin/institution. I guess people are ostracized for this in crypto circles? Seems pretty lame honestly.
No. I only use web banking.
It shouldn´t. The way to proceed is to overcome its drawbacks. The world is async, do not fight it.
I think it is a lot easier than reliably storing say, gold, and yet it is considered not unusual for people to keep some gold or other physical assets of value in personal home vaults. Unlike physical assets, you can make redundant copies of digital assets giving anyone not lazy a huge durability advantage.

For readily accessible warm wallets not storing kidnapping-worthy amounts, this airgapped pattern can work well for the modestly technical https://github.com/hashbang/airgap/blob/master/docs/HD-Crypt...

Anyone that wants to learn reliable self custody hit me up.

My job is teaching self custody to major fintech companies but anyone asking questions for personal use in public in places like #!:matrix.org I will help for free as I have time.
>I'm not talking about Gödel or unprovable statements, because even if something is not provable it might be constructable.
>Or proving the Collatz Conjecture. You need only basic algebra to build it, but something much more complex to prove it (if it is provable)

It seems like your first statement is about constructibility of the same object (that should be a proof). In your second statement you talk about constructibility of an object and provability of a certain statement about an object. I may be be judgemental, but being so imprecise is a big no-no in metamathematics.
>At worst, these sattellite images will cause an outrage on Twitter until the mob finds something else to be angry about.

Before the mob finds something else a small guy is gonna be made a scapegoat out of, like that one small-ish bank that got prosecuted over subprime lending. What message does that send to the real offenders?
> Use int-type enums with iota: […] no compile-time guard against illegal enum values

Create a new int type and use that for your enums. While you still can create an illegal enum value, you basically have to be looking for trouble. It’s not going to happen accidentally. It’s even harder if it’s an unpunished type in a different package.

See:

https://github.com/donatj/sqlread/blob/91b4f07370d12d697d18a...
The word democracy appears 12 times. Funny.
Trading vs Roulette – what's riskier? (2022 data)
That word right there "potential" is the culprit here. As long as that potential is within "acceptable" ranges of unlikely to happen, nothing will be done.
> In other words, you can build centralization on top of decentralization, but the opposite is not true. So by having the base being decentralized (and dangerous for the common human), we can still have centralized parties on top of that (less dangerous for the common human), that offers the traditional security people are used to, for the ones who want it.

What you're describing is basically how the IP protocol has been manifesting itself with something like Twitter vs Mastadon.

Here's the problem - if I can't get my weather alerts from my local city township from Mastadon, but have to use Twitter, then the point is moot. For example - https://twitter.com/TravisCountyTX/status/148934948869109350...

To bring this analog to bear - my local police department accepts credit cards online now for paying a ticket violation. What if they don't support <insert whatever crypto protocol I want to use>. I still need to use the "old" protocol (USD via Visa).
Oncall is paid in Amazon Europe
I read a lot of papers about space travel, nuclear energy, and other technology from the 1960s and 1970s and love the use of typefaces similar to this.
It's like valgrind for the real world.
Standardizing an API by a central authority means more centralization, not less.

It is not difficult to sympathize with people who do not fully trust banks, especially if you grew up in a third world country with corrupt institutions. There have been times in history where you could trust banks and times in history when you could not. I'm not sure the past 70 years of grand prosperity for the west is a good way to gauge the trustworthiness of institutions owned and operated by others, since in the full scope of history the outcomes have been mixed.

That doesn't mean decentralized web3 cryptocurrency stuff is the one-size-fits-all answer, but I am sure to some people it is. And people should be free to choose the way to protect their assets and hedge bets against different local and global outcomes as they choose. Governments are the same way, with their large stockpiles of real physical goods like weapons and gold.
The entire transcript is the context, and everything else in it contradicts your unreasonable belief that a small slip of the tongue takes precedence over the rest. It's the type of non-argument & deliberate misunderstanding that I expect of the most cynical pundits or political partisans, whereas HN folks usually do a little better than such recycled flame bait.

So, I don't think you and I can have a productive conversation. Perhaps you are capable of doing so when it doesn't involve a political figure, but it seems clear that you have a vendetta in this case and are unable to look past it.

If you'd like to reply for posterity, for anyone else who comes along, go for it, but don't do it on my account, I see no point in revisiting this thread. If we encounter each other in a different conversation then I look forward to the possibility of a reasonable discussion & exchange of ideas, but you don't currently, on this topic, seem interested in that.
Wordle for Word 97
Looking at something from 2 years ago in social media isn't really relevant, trends change FAST. This TikTok trend has taken over the world quite a bit over the last few months.

Also, annual growth worldwide tends to hide one key things. It might mean Facebook is arriving in markets where internet penetration was poor (poor/slow data, etc..), however you have to look at their core market where advertisers spend money. In those markets, have they been gaining users? It's been said that they were losing eyeballs in core markets while expanding in markets that didn't bring much money.

If they lose customers in their core market, that means the service has been going down from their saturation point instead of stabilizing. And a worldwide growth would hide this data.
They did exactly that for their Xbox platform.

The fact that Microsoft chose to do otherwise with Windows isn’t a particularly strong argument.
Sounds like you're describing Dieselpunk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk
I think it would be easier to evaluate this font if the page were not using

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

which IMO really should be a last resort, and with this particular colour combination triggers halos that detract from readability.
"In 2019, there was an estimated $1,650 trillion in
foreign exchange market activity (Bank for International Settlements 2019, p.3).6 In that same
year, world trade in goods and services was $24.96 trillion (World Trade Organization 2020,
p.17). This is 1.5% of total currency market activity. Even allowing for multiple covering
transactions by various parties and multiplying this by a factor of five, it still yields a total of only
$124.8 trillion, or 7.5% of total foreign exchange volume. If we assumed that the appropriate
factor were ten, which seems very unlikely, this does not help markedly as it only gets us to 15%
of the market. In other words, purchasing power parity is an explanation of currency prices that is
based on something in the range of 1.5% to 15% of actual foreign exchange market activity.
Even supporters of purchasing power parity admit that it only holds in the long run – a
period of time they say is equivalent to years or even decades. The more likely answer is that it
does not hold at all. Because the factors that determine the demand for goods and services differ
significantly from those that drive financial capital flows, purchasing power parity cannot
possibly explain real-world currency movements."

Harvey, John. (2021). Modern Monetary Theory, the United Kingdom, and Pound Sterling.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351764940_Modern_Mo...
It's on purpose, like the omission of negative search terms, something almost every single search engine offers. Udi Manber was the relevant VP at Amazon and he literally wrote the book on search engines.

I sometimes just switch to DuckDuckGo to search Amazon, because it doesn't treat my search keywords as mere suggestions. What I really need to do is fully kick the Amazon habit.
I would suggest that it is one form of politics becoming more and more professional. With help by professional staff politicians like Obama or Merkel have perfected the art of pleasing the majority most of the time while never taking any attackable position. One way to draw voters away from that is taking on "populist" positions. I have yet so see another way.
Very sweet, I was wondering how it was implemented. The scriber image really makes the letters more into the artwork of the era.
Don't have such prejudices.

Russia will be on the first line of climate change, they have quite few incentives to make the right call.

Algeria for what I know is corrupt like hell and this undermines everything.
Public policies if decided, won't have any impact.

In the US the federal gvt can have quite a huge impact if the chambers follow.
But you need indeed to convince a lot of people with conflicting interests.
So Go's runtime is pretty heavy in comparison to... .NET and the JVM? Or pretty heavy in general? This is the first I would be hearing either of these two opinions in either case, so interested in the rationale.
https://temp.chrismorgan.info/2022-02-05-union-jack.svg

It depends on calc(), vw and vh units, so it’ll work in browsers but not elsewhere.

(Certainly not all flags with similar specifications will be achievable; this one’s diagonals just happened to be all neatly anchored in the corners, though the red diagonal St Patrick’s cross is fiddly, requiring masking to achieve the required stroke alignment, for which see also https://svgwg.org/specs/strokes/#SpecifyingStrokeAlignment, which is an incomplete draft, and unimplemented.)
Yes. But cryptocurrencies are decentralised, and have coalesced around a few centralised entities.

I imagine it won't be long before Coinbase, for example, will warn you against transferring to wallets which aren't held by one of the big providers.
Having all that responsibility were you SDE-2 ? SDE-3 ?