skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sound monetary policy according to Fed mandate and goals is low unemployment rate and average inflation rate 2 percent over medium length period.

Many argue that helicopter money is better alternative to quantitative easing (buying bonds). Just give money to the people. Buying bonds is ineffective because bond holders don't consume. The velocity of money just drops and asset prices increase.

(you may picture helicopter money as trowing more money than is needed, but that's now what the idiom means. It means that the money lands on people, not banks).
Does anyone know who's manufacturing these locomotives? I'm surprised they didn't name a manufacturing partner. I have to assume it's not a US company.
If you want to do things incrementally it makes perfect sense.
The high level of individual gun ownership in the US makes a coup a very risky proposition.
If it is wrong, I hit the escape key and the suggested code disappears.
Who are they buying them from?
You can find benchmarks here:

- https://jjfumero.github.io/files/VEE2019_Fumero_Preprint.pdf

- https://www.tornadovm.org/use-cases

- https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/190177400...

- https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/190176058...

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.16304v1.pdf

Besides, TornadoVM integrates a benchmark script for users to run applications with Java JMH and OpenCL/PTX/Level-Zero profilers:

- https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/master/assembl...
Does the HN hive mind have pointers to some kind of trusted pseudonymity infrastructure?

Something along the lines of a network of pseudonym issuing authorities, which allow two things:

Individuals can generate pseudonyms and use them to act online to their heart's content.

However some kind of nuanced "reputation" is propagated back through the network and is "sticky" to the entity behind their pseudonyms.

As reputation is relative, the evaluation needs to be relative to the crowd you interact with. And the big big challenge is to protect the real life individual, so the pseudonym can only ever be uncloaked by the individual themselves.

Is that possible at all? Where are the communities researching about this?
Even if we assume those are the best metrics, if something has to be shown to be in the public interest, rather than just not against the public interest, that's quite a high bar.
One thing you could consider is short-term versus long-term gain in future decision making. You already know that the colleagues who offer help and information are finding success at a greater rate than you.

Consider that information the next time you are approached. The short term cost of helping or sharing information will pay back in that longer-term success.

While some people may expect you to change your actions to be a good person, in reality, helping others and sharing helpful information will give you an advantage in future.

That's one of the things about doing good; it pays off in the longer term through personal contentment and often (but not always) in meaningful success.
You are still just arbitrarily limiting what is possible to current human understanding. I find it extremely unlikely that the understanding we have of nature at this arbitrary point billions of years into the universe's development and ~10k into our development just happens to be the exact point where we have a clear understanding of the fundamental nature of reality and what is possible.

The other problem is that if this were a simulation, quantum mechanics might not be a fundamental mechanism of reality but rather arbitrary rules executed by the simulation.
Zero punishment is quite new. We are seeing the results of the first generation raised in such an environment.

We were well down this path when I graduated in '99, and went full steam ahead during my kid's primary school career. You either escaped to a (private or suburban) school not full of juvenile delinquents who had parents that still cared, or you simply gave up on having your child have an actual education.

The inner city school I had to attend in 1998 was more or less a daycare even back then, and the anecdotes I hear today have only gone further in that direction.
Any specific ebook readers you would recommend?
I have been thinking about getting one recently.
Nice initiative but I fear the principle of this design is flawed and will only prove once more that the working class as a whole has no real power. Technology can solve many of the problems of society but I don't think it will in this fashion.

Asking nicely or many times won't do much because the people who run a society are the ones who control production, not the ones who mediate policies. In short, this is not the root of the problem.
Show HN: Kube-green, K8s operator to reduce CO2 footprint of your clusters
https://www.alt-m.org/2021/07/06/the-fable-of-the-cats/
Yes, precisely. Very much not the pythonic way but that only matters if your prior background before R was python. If your background was SPSS then many of these would be drop downs or check boxes, and (IMO) it's superior to the SPSS scripting language as well.

Heck, my background before using R was python and SPSS and I still prefer R for precisely the example you gave: fine-grained control built in as above, specifying how to handle missing values etc.

I end up using python for large scale data prep.
Yes, the Second Coming Of Java that was PHP5 was where PHP lost its DIY magic.
> The railroad will spend $100 million on the Progress Rail-built locomotives and other infrastructure improvements, the largest investment into the technology ever made by a Class I railroad.

Progress Rail is at least building them.
Was coming in to say the same thing.

Super cool though.
> All the profits to them, all the risk to us. I'm sure Pharma companies are loving that arrangement.

That's how it works everywhere in public policy, which is the only area where you can't directly sue Pharma companies (i.e. when the government makes a vaccine series part of the childhood vaccination series or part of a pandemic response regimen). But at that point the party directing you to take the vaccine isn't the Pharma company or companies, it's the Federal government, so they are properly the ones that should be counter-party to a suit in any event.

> It's much easier to bribe a politician than make a new product that actually works when development costs hundreds of millions.

You say that as if it proves your case, and yet we can see from data that is obvious even to the untrained eye that the product you're complaining about 'actually works'.
I'm not sure what country you're in, but in the U.S. the problem is in how it's broadcast now. The broadcast rights never should have been sold exclusively for such a long time and NBC is a terrible steward of sports and the Olympics in general for many years. The truth is though that the heart of the problem is the IOC, who agreed to these kinds of deals.

To me the Olympics used to be about the discovery of heroes, as they emerged through the greatest competition in their event that the planet could put together. Great moments of sportsmanship and overcoming what most people think are limitations of the human body. There was always a sense of discovery and the pioneering of new horizons in the events.

Now it's about making and manufacturing "heroes", with commercial deals going out to athletes years before they're ever even proven to be winners. Selective broadcasts, 30 minute human interest stories, commercials commercials commercials commercials, and after the games branding tie ins. Athletes used to be "Olympic gold medalist!" now they're just celebs with less clout than the many "influencers" who aren't known for having much talent in anything in particular.

edit I just heard the phrase "industrial sports" applied to the problem and couldn't agree more.
I mean...I'm kinda glad you got out of the profession...
Well, that at least explains why they laid off so many of their private security personnel, and then helped shaped the "LA train crime" story to their advantage. Those battery-electric locomotives are not cheap.

[ EDIT: have any of you downvoting this actually read the backstory to the LA train crime story? Here are some links to the layoff part:

https://jalopnik.com/union-pacific-train-thefts-started-righ...

https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/

]
In many districts you can't fail a student (banned), you can't hold them back and you can't discipline.

This does make things harder and disrupts learning for others.
Ok but whatsapp and reddit are very very different. It is very easy to see how people can dissemnimate kiddie porn in an unmoderated WhatsApp group. But for a post to make it to the global reddit front page (not your personalized homepage) it would have to make it past the eyes of probably millions of people. Short of botting or hacking I can't see how it would even be possible.
no we're not going to turn every public space into airport-tier security. it's an affront to human dignity.
There's a rehab app for that.
The New Post-60 Career Paths
`php index.php > index.html` should work, or from your browser “Save As…” index.html
I think it would be mentally exhausting dealing with ~30 children all day. It's not a job where you can take a quick mental break if you're feeling overwhelmed since the kids will be there regardless.

> relatively short day

Citation needed. Teachers I know spend a ridiculous amount of time prepping, marking, and going to meetings outside of class hours.
I think the validation phase of auto-coding fullblown apps is much more complex than AutoCode is ready for. When coding up a specific function, it's pretty easy to assess whether it maps input to output as intended. But composing functions into modules is much harder to validate, much less entire programs.

And specifying a full app to be autocoded is most certainly NOT a solved problem.

Until AutoCode can build an app that employs compound AND complex behaviors, like Angry Birds, or a browser, I'll continue to see it as little more than a write-only copy/paste/derive-driven macro generator.
So you give them dust contained in your decoy wallet.

The problem with cryptos with public balances is that attackers can know your net worth in advance, and thus know whether you're a valuable target, and exactly how much they can ask of you. And this is the reason why privacy technology likely won't be outlawed: high networth individuals use them constantly.
https://archive.is/3GH5e
Not sure why I'm sharing these stories, but...they are amusing.

My father, 84 years old, remembers his elementary school teacher kicking him full-force on his flank (for fooling around with his buddies). Probably not the best approach, but he remembers it to this day.

He also remembers students being forced to kneel on hardened kernels of corn as punishment.

And I was repeatedly told when I was in elementary school, "If you were stupid enough to go home and complain to your parents that your teacher beat you, you just got beaten twice as hard."

kids these days...
For me I have found that traveling helps break that "tunnel vision" which I occasionally find myself stuck in. And it's very hard to realize you're stuck in it until you break out of it. Traveling helps me realize that there's an entire world out there where people are not just living, but thriving. That always helps stir up my curiosity to dig deeper into things.
I understand the risks of this approach, but I just dumped everything into google photos and I'm very happy with how it's working for now. I do not miss the days of keeping track of those devices at all.
> Maybe I'm having a different experience as I'm in Canada and its broadcast differently.

Yes, far different. Where I use to live, I use to be able to get one of the Montreal Stations. Even though I could not speak French, their coverage was far above what the US would offer. So when I could, I would watch that station. I moved away from there are years ago, and the US coverage is so bad I no longer care about the Olympics.
But if democracies put together modest bids that their citizens can accept and authoritarians promise to make it spectacular + offer larger bribes, who will win?
I can't even get undergrads who are paying thousands a year to do the readings ahead of discussion sections.
Spanking is not the same as beating. Words matter.
[Meta] I wonder if it's just me but, reading through these comments I can imagine myself being the OP and thinking that every comment here is both very insightful and terribly useless simultaneously.

All I can think of reading through all the different perspectives is: "No one can fix you, only you can find the solution to yourself".
> the original submission is free and polished

No, it's not free. Every time you load up the page to view your own files with files.gallery, a big honkin' pop-up shows up instructing you to buy a $40 license for additional features:

Purchase a license [$39] to unlock features and support dev!
- Remove this popup
- Upload
- Download folder
- Code and text editor
- Create new file
- Create new folder
- Rename
- Delete
- Duplicate file
- Dedicated support
- Multi-user, panorama and much more coming soon!
[payment button]

The files.gallery website only hints at this restriction at the very bottom of the page in the "License" section, which devs would expect to mean an OSS license: "Files is free to use with basic features. To remove the license-popup and unlock additional features, you may purchase a license [$39] from within the app."

Now if you look at the rest of the landing page you can see it very carefully does not mention the ability to use basic file browsing features so that it's not technically a lie to present a tool that can "browse files and folders without complicated installations" that doesn't allow you to do anything more than download your own files without opening your wallet.

The dev is just another hustler.
yeah, I understand your meaning, but you fail to understand the situation...did you read the article? NO ONE can do the job...
I use regularly Shotwell to import from my camera and cellphones, and Geeqie works quite well in finding (also not exact) duplicates.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell
(it doesn't require Gnome, my desktop is XFCE)

https://www.geeqie.org/
Great examples! Another one is the version number, which is really helpful in lots of situations. It can also be useful to embed the git commit for debugging. (One practical use case for these is cache busting to ensure that a browser downloads a new version of a script, for example.)
Interesting. It seems you better be pals with a member of parliament if you get one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJW_v_Guardian_News_and_Media_...
That seems correct. Google also found this:

https://www.progressrail.com/en/Company/News/PressReleases/C...

> Union Pacific Railroad will purchase 10 battery-electric locomotives from Progress Rail, a Caterpillar Company.
US coverage is less fun because they focus on US athletes all the time, even when they are not participating. So if there's no swimming on, instead of watching some random-ass sport--which is fun--we have to watch a random human interest story--which is not fun.

Obviously they should cover US athletes when they are participating but they cover them all the time. It's just more boring.
Someone who really gets PHP.
Tools of the Trade for Scraping and Automation
Waiting for PostgreSQL 15 – Add UNIQUE null treatment option
Most points could already apply in current payments and banking systems with only a few big players (basically security, privacy).

The economic nightmare is maybe a degree up, but not really more. Generally speaking, it also tends not to be just "the government" doing stuff that no-one wants - there will be people liking whatever the policy is.

The only real new point is that CDBCs with any kind of programming would effectively be vouchers, not money (ie your first point).
Art has always been the money laundering system....

There is talk about a secret currency that happens at the ultra-wealthy;central-bank-controlling level...

And what 'blockchain' did was find the chink in that armor, and the next level of currency was brought down to meet that vulnerability...

Now we are once again, tying 'art' (NFTs) to monetary stores of value - and in the digital realm, that could only be accomplished through a blockchain-type of model. (and modal (stats meaning)

So this is a hedge into digital rights via NFTs as a hold on currency-/-value of digital assets since you cant own the physical original, which would by premise, would be universally unique...

So we needed a way to track 'ownership' of an NFT created in digital terms (which are always fungible) --> this is why blockchain based value storing systems are important for storing wealth in the going forward...

In 50 years we are going to be trading IDEAS via whatever iteration of the information age we are living in at the time - and thus we needed a system of capturing, securing, validating ownership of 'bits' of information - regardless in the format for which they express to the perception of the humans' awareness...

I think this is what the ground zero version of NFTs on the blockchain are...

Blockchain-based-NFTs are the currency of the Transhumanists.
OpenGov recently researched this and the results largely backed up conventional wisdom, and suggested a trajectory of change. You night best learn by starting with the findings summary: https://v2v.opengovfoundation.org/summary-of-research-findin...
It's it the admin or the politics. At least in some areas there is such pressure around graduation rates, attendance (for the money) and such sensitivity around disparate impact (ie, poor/minority students with higher than average detentions etc) that you end up with basically no failing allowed, attendance is everything including students who are massively outside of classroom ability to manage in a large class, and limited discipline
We are seeing the outcomes at universities. We are getting football teams and really fancy gyms but not better education. On the contrary, if you fail students who shouldn't really be there you get in trouble with the administration. The naive free market solution does not work.
Olympic Games have been used before to underline the power and greatness of a nation - look at how the 1936 Games were used propaganda-wise, so I don't think this is a new phenomenon. What has definitely changed is the importance of live events on TV. In the German speaking area in the 80s to the 2000s, Saturday night shows were popular that gathered the whole family in front of the TV (I'm just saying "Wetten Dass..?"). Due to on demand entertainment that can be perfectly tailored for the desired target audience on Youtube or similar platforms, such TV events have simply lost their importance.
How do you define success in a short term timescale to steer any adjustments though? If the goal is to educate children to become successful adults you have at least a 15-20 year time horizon. By the time you know if the methodologies are working or not, it has probably changed 3 or 4 times and most of the teachers have moved on, maybe if you're lucky there's an institutional "agenda" for lack of a better term that hasn't moved too far off course. And that's assuming that no external forces change in the intervening years.
I read twitter without an account. Twitter tries all kinds of things to get me to log in. Now it blocks too much scrolling on a particular person's tweets.
There's three pages of other developers from Belarus who've suddenly experienced the exact same.
Just opened my drawer to check on my flashlights after reading this.
3 out of 4 appear to be dead.
Specifically, they are these: https://www.progressrail.com/en/Segments/RollingStock/Locomo...
Young people are better behaved now then at periods you talk about. Drugs abuse goes down. Young people commit less violent crime. They drink less alcohol. They even get pregnant less often.

Young people now literally behave better wherever you look. The generation that grew in 90ties just was not better behaved.
I worked on the BBC's British coverage of Sydney, Salt Lake City and Athens Olympics (2000-2004).

The sibling comments here are absolutely right - the US coverage is terrible compared to the quality of the output of other broadcasters.

The problem is that US audiences only want to watch American competitors and most popular sports here are ones where the majority of teams and players are American. The Olympics isn't about one country and so to focus all of your coverage just on your own country creates a very tilted output, esp when America isn't featured in a final. Whole sports are not covered because there is no American competing, and to not show a final because no Americans made it through is just absurd.

For comparison, the BBC shows every heat/round from every sport. Some of it is online only or via the red button (extra channels via digital TV we don't have in the US) but they show it and commentate on it. And with no ads.

Sports like Formula 1 are not popular in the US because there are no American drivers and the single American team is hardly American (based in Europe, currently has Russian flag livery due to weird sponsorship deal). But we'll know when Americans start watching sports for the pleasure of competition and not for nationalistic reasons because sports like F1 will become more popular organically.
There was a particular instance where Thomas Jefferson called John Adams a hermaphrodite (via a supporter with a newspaper) [0]. Adams apparently responded by spreading a rumor that Jefferson was dead. I believe that technique was learned from Benjamin Franklin, who "predicted" the death of a rival almanac publisher. [1]

There's much more in the way of antics among the founders of the US, but this isn't unique to them. Classical antiquity even has stories of some of the childish stuff that politicians got up to.

EDIT to add example: IIRC Cicero accused Clodius of incest and a number of other things [2]. Clodius responded by accusing Cicero of acting as a tyrannical king while he was consul. Some of the insults don't hit the same today, but this is supposed to be seriously petty stuff.

The Cicero example wasn't anonymous, of course, but then again anonymity in classical antiquity would have been a good way to make sure your story didn't survive to the modern day. Having said that, there are stories about some of the stuff that was written in graffiti in Rome.

I'm not sure if I'd call any of this stuff "worse" or not, though there was more political violence in the ancient world. I guess it depends on what you include under the term "discourse".

For what it's worth, the origins of our word "invective" apparently come from Latin [3][4]. Apropos if true.

[0] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/are-presidenti...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Leeds?wprov=sfla1

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Clodius_Pulcher#Sex_an...

[3] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/invective

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invective
> resetting the computer clock to a new day

Or just modify the JavaScript. It's uses the date as an index into the La array, modulo the length, which is 2315.

I used Chrome DevTools to pretty print the source code, it's on line 1156.
Progress Rail
Not to mention, if you play on hard mode, using that non-existent second 's' is now required. I get that this implementation doesn't have a hard mode, but most of my friends play in hard mode, in practice, even if the box isn't ticked on.
The lede is a bit buried here:

> Union Pacific plans to purchase 20 battery-electric locomotives for yard service

If all they're doing is moving around a yard, they're not ever very far from a charging station and they're moving at very low speeds.
I’m just running a single contact form on my blog. Messages aren’t displayed on articles. Users don’t even have to include their email if they don’t want to. The comment is stored in a file on disk by a very simple fastCGI script. The rest of the blog is static [1]

[1] https://franz.hamburg/writing/boring-website.html