skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MMT isn't a thing to try or be tried: it's not an ideology or set of policies or even policy goals (there is a very loose correlation between adherence to MMT and certain progressive policy goals, but they aren't the same thing.)

MMT is an understanding of factual nature of the environment in which government operates. Reduced to one sentence it is “the entire concept of fiscal balance is play-acting as if the government was using commodity or externally-controlled fiat currency, rather than it's own fiat and a distraction from the real constraints on government finance, rather than something which reflects, or even loosely guides policy makers towards, the real constraints.”
> I watched the NYTimes prediction flip from >95% Clinton wins to >99% Trump wins in a matter of seconds.

Did that really happen? The numbers I remember before the election were about 67% chance of Clinton, though I don't recall the NYT. On election night, I recall Clinton not doing well from the start.
I actually had to get used to the Zilents from MX Blues because I found I would miss a key occasionally (especially pinky), so a stronger bump would probably be a downgrade for me. The Bobas seem to also be sold out, and I got my Zilents in a few days from 1up.

Mainly got them because, and I quote my coworker, "When we were in offices and you were across from me, I sometimes closed my door because I could hear them" (only half-joking). Still wanted a tactile switch, and I tested it next to a standard ergo keyboard a bunch of coworkers have and it was about the same noise level, so I think it'll be fine for that purpose.

I did end up ordering a second Moonlander for the home office with Kailh Bronze, though. If I end up not liking them, I still have a full set of Blues. :)
> how do you not see the absolute dystopian downsides?

Sorry, I'm not commenting on the good or bad. I wanted to provide a dense technical overview of what web3 is being used for since it's HN.
Is this an issue with dynamic languages in general? Are Java/Kotlin and Golang, for example, not affected?
There are many, many projects where "simply adding more maintainers" is not possible at all, i.e. there are no people that you personally can trust to do the right thing, and that have the necessary experience. For various projects that I maintain, I couldn't name a single person that would have the skill and would actually want to take over. Granted they may not be as popular as this persons's repositories, but still - this claim is not generally true.
We detached this offtopic subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30703907.
Node-ipc module installs malware on Russian and Belarussian IP addresses
It was a disinformation campaign about hypersonic missiles.
> Conspiracy theorists can at least be entertaining sometimes, while "skeptics" tend to just bore you with self-assured arrogance while they take pot shots at low-hanging fruit.

I don't know about skeptics in general, but I found Mr. West's video to be pretty entertaining. He built some pretty impressive-looking simulations to support his claims.

I think conspiracy theories can be interesting and entertaining, but a lot of their theorists are kinda pathetic.
This is why I prefer Linux.
It's exactly what I'm thinking of but development on it has stopped and it isn't clear if there's a future for it (see the update here: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811).

I'd love to see a company like Panic put some dollars and development power behind a native UI for neovim. Neovim is built explicitly to support these kind of custom frontend UIs. It's basically a backend for a fully-featured text editor and IDE but with a minimal console only frontend UI.
That sounds just like a "kids these days" problem, simply with a new implementation (Internet vs vinyl records).
Academia always gives the best examples...

Oberlin Administrators & Bakery incident found the school owing 44 Million in Damages.

Honorable mentions

USC's Business School for being offended at the Chinese word "Na Ge"

Yale Law School for the Native American Law Students Association party invite
Russian claims of an interest in controlling the government of Ukraine are at least as legitimate as US claims of an interest in controlling Korea, or Afghanistan.
> he comes across as oblivious to the bigger picture, the possible downsides of "defeating" Russia in Ukraine, and the fact that Russia is a less-than-rational nuclear power.

Many who are experts in the "bigger picture" are working very hard for Russia's "defeat" - almost all of them. Depending on your definition of "defeat", how is that worse than Ukraine's defeat, especially for the people of Ukraine?
LOL reading pt 1 and 2 I had a similar reaction.

The first thought that came after the feeling of horror subsided, is that you can simply create a new wallet for each transaction, or maybe a new one once a day. I felt better after that.
After using typed backend languages like Rust and even Go (which is painful in its own right, in my perspective) I would hate to work again on a big Ruby or Python codebase. They feel just as disgusting, to use your metaphor, as using plain Javascript instead of Typescript.

> why wasn’t there such a massive push for types in those languages

Are you just choosing to ignore all of the history of type checking Python and Ruby?
Try diff2html - just a single npm install command away from viewing your diffs in your browser whenever you run "diff2html" in your terminal (pro tip: alias "diff" to the command).

https://diff2html.xyz/
Mr. Pocock is well known in the Debian community.

https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20211117
> someone billing $50/hr would be in the $30K range.

This might make sense for the service industry. It doesn't sound right, but I don't know the math there.

But it is not the same for producers. If you can do productive work (i.e. resulting in a product) at a full-time equivalent level, the math is straightforward.

Of course like all self-employment you need to "bill" for the administrative work as well. And you need to make sure there is a market for your time/production.
I never realized that was the rule. I thought you had to go in and wipe the backups regularly.
Old and _disproven_.
I guess it's hard to shake off yhe brainwashing. Especially since fo younger people it was throughout their whole lives.
I like the thinner text but the logo itself seems a bit off to me.
There's already a wealth of parapsychology research out there which "proves" the existence of all sorts of supernatural effects with standard scientific techniques.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...

That is to say, there's probably no amount of proof you could show me which would convince me.
Agreed, but this is effectively true of all self-employed people. So the administrative work has to be billed also.
We should all reflect on why this story is getting so little coverage in contrast to the 'Russian interference' narrative of 2017.
Just take pre orders for your product in tiers make initial customers and scalpers pay a premium.
> I have seen similar arguments from the pro-DST side

You have to be somewhat careful when reading pro-DST articles; yes, the same sorts of arguments tend to be presented, but when I read carefully, they're always vs. the status quo; I've yet to see it vs. perma-standard. That is "we should switch to perma-DST b/c it is better than normal-DST/the status quo." I think that argument is probably correct; the point is that perma-standard-time is better yet.

> of all decisions were based on optimizing public health outcomes […] aggressively regulated to outright banned.

… well… perhaps we shouldn't be giving children concussions & obesity that lead to a long list of health problems down the line …

But aside from that, most of those a parent or the person themself can simply opt out of. I can't readily opt out of society's time-keeping; I'm going to have to use the same system to communicate with the rest of y'all. And AFAICT, perma-standard is a better overall decision, and perma-DST is a local maxima of sorts.
Incredible speed + low altitude flying + statically unstable aircraft + sensors + weapons + offense + defense + communications + ...

Yeah. These guys must really suck.
> The items can be made unique and be used outside the game which increases their value.

They can't be used outside the game [1]

The only thing that "increases their value" is speculation (and scams).

[1] One person's game engine isn't another person's game engine. One game's items are not other game's items. Even displaying and interacting with items in the game that has the mechanisms to display and interact with those items cannot be translated to the world outside the game.
> but how to prove it to an audience like HN?

Sorry, you can't.
Sorry for the ambiguity. I meant that hiring someone into a senior level position is going to require approval from more people within the organization and that will delay the hiring process, to the point that it might cause it to stall and result in ghosting.

But I think you are right that senior level positions also probably get a lot of submissions.
I use it to code on my deep learning machine from my macbook. It makes things a bit more secure and ssh-ing is painless that way.

Then I can check experiments from wherever without worrying about a lot of the fiddly details.
That does seem like it will break a common pattern in web app code that runs both in browsers and on a server (such as a React app with server-side rendering) to determine whether you’re on the browser or the server, which is to check if typeof window === “undefined”.
The people that don't understand the difference between a language and a runtime always need to learn it at some point if they keep working as programmers, and context issues exist on all branches of human knowledge, even English itself has this quirk where some words mean the opposite depending on the context (these are known as contronyms).
Ah it seems they actually ran out of money. I'd assume the project is deprecated now as I don't see any updates in the recent past.

https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103...
I'd argue truthiness implicated by the presence of an object is more logical than having an arbitrary definition of truthiness depending on the data type.

If I have a cup that's empty, there's still a cup there. It's presumptuous to assume I care about the contents.
Hey, isn’t that a Franz Ferdinand song? “The universe expanded”
Was the phenomenon of determined in experiments that controlled for Stellar object positions?

Even then, correlation does not equal causation... so that means both astrology and the relative age effect quantitatively stand on equal ground in terms of causative possibilities.

HN's leaning against astrology is, in fact, from an empirical and logical perspective.. biased. Much of peoples' conclusions are formulated from anecdotal and circumstantial experiences, which has validity and is a conclusion I ultimately agree with... but looking at the totality of the reaction to this question, objectively it is a window into the nature of human bias.
I always found it strange that in Python, stuff doesn't get implicitly cast to string (even Java does that!), but for whatever reason the idiomatic way to check if a collection is empty is to do "if collection:", implicitly casting to bool.
> My point is that companies pay a lot more per employee than just salary

Of course, but the person who is paid $50/hr is also paid $100k/yr for a 2000 hour work year.
As a scientist, the comments entertaining this question make me sad.

Astrology doesn't "work". If it did, then it would be at least in part a science.

Astrology is not a science, but a pseudoscience.
"source of wealth come from excess supply of money which makes debt cheap for those in position to take advantage of it vs those who are oppressed by it"

what do I need to read to understand this
Nope, my hourly rate is my hourly rate. If something takes more time, it simply costs more.
Nothing in this analysis or conclusion contradicts the radar observations - how are they being "ignored"? And it is unclear to me (as an uninitiated person) how "visual" observations lend any more credence to the story when they are just retellings of the exact same kind of footage, except impossible to further analyze/corroborate.
Useful reading on the twists and turns of gay marriage policy in the US.[1] People have been fired for being a few years out of step with the timeline.

The U.S. State Department has classes for returning overseas staff to get them up to speed on changes in the US since they left.[2] This is said to be especially hard for teens.

[1] https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=592919&p=4182201

[2] https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/c56076.htm
Look, this is going to back and forth. Take a time machine to pre Web 2.0 and explain to everyone why OOP programming sucks. I’d dare you to take it off your resume. But we’re here now right?

It’s not hard for me to imagine the reversal of this trend inevitably where everyone goes ‘the fuck are we writing all these verbose types for this dumb web app for?’.
> there were armchair "experts on Russia" and "experts on Putin" saying it was a bluff and guaranteeing there would be no invasion

I don't recall many guarantees, and actual experts are not at home in armchairs. The OP author is not an armchair expert, but a three-star general. It's not a black swan; many did predict an invasion, including the governmet of the United States - openly and repeatedly.
I think there's a distinction to be made between B2C and B2B there. Gmail and Github are not free for businesses (and Docker is still free for individuals).
In that case "" should be truthy. And 0 should be truthy too probably.
What about not making [] any kind of boolean? Let's be explicit and use [].empty() or something, implicit conversions are confusing.
Onivim is not vim or even neovim. neovim + VSCode extensions doesn’t really work as well as it should, and the configuration story (to me) was a nightmare.

There aren’t many software purchases I regret, but this is one of them. (I’d never ask for a refund, because I paid for _access_. I just didn’t like what I paid for.)
OK fair point.

If you want a concise definition of web3 the website provides this as well: https://web3.lifeitself.us/concepts/web3
> You can start thinking now, aside from violence, what other plans are there? Huh? But in the end, violence would be fine too. Huh? Beat him [chuckles], beat him until he cannot run for election. Heh, that’s the-the last resort. You-you think about it. Car accident, [he] will be completely wrecked [chuckles], right? Don’t know, eh, whatever ways from all different angles. Or, on the day of the election, he cannot make it there himself, right?

Wow... If this person is indeed directed by the PRC, that's basically state-sponsored killing/maiming...

I'm sure other countries (including the USA) do it.. but it's wrong on so many levels....
> not promoted as some sort of better alternative to JavaScript, because it's really not.

This leaves me skeptical if you have extensive experience with Typescript. It's way more than "oh this is a number not a string." It's "you forgot this property on an object's return type that you built from a response value" or "your Redux reducer doesn't handle all of the possible action types so it will crash at run time"
There is a long standing dispute between WW2 engineers at Raytheon vs. those at the UK's Telecommunications Research Establishment [0] about who was the first to cook sausages on a radar set.

(I previously worked at one of the modern successor organisations to TRE. I distinctly remember as a very young software engineer being told by an elderly staff scientist that his purpose in life "was to help confound the Queen's enemies and keep the poor bugger on the battlefield alive whilst he did so")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Research_Es...
Thanks for the summary.
Granted I feel a bit sleepy after lunch but the article doesn't have a TL&DR and after skimming I still felt clueless on problems web 3 is supposed to solve.

I guess its one of those cases where time will show what sticks and what people find acceptable. To me they are all controversial.
Other than local file access (which was not available until recently), those issues are specific to PWAs because they're literally another Chrome window with the URL bar hidden

If they're not willing build a fully fledged desktop app, at least build an Electron app like Spotify which has none of the issues I've listed
Camera glare is often known to disable ships and cause small fleets to mobilize to investigate
> Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune

I know this isn't your main point, but afaik most low-level celebrities barely make money from it either. So it's actually even more similar than you thought.
"Now, keep in mind that we can't deliberately design our way to drugs so easily, so we won't be able to design horrible compounds in one shot, either. "

I would discount this, heavily and concerningly, as a false sense of security. The reality is that prohibitive factors in creating new drugs from compounds discovered similarly (by AI or other automated process) is almost entirely due to testing safety procedures and regulations... If the bad actors are trying to find the most lethal compound with no such oversight - and chances are very high that they aren't bound by any such regulation if they're state-level labs operating under impunity - there is nothing but the synthesis that would make the formulation and testing of these as impractical as the author claims. Take away the years-long, heavily scrutinized and regulated multi-stage billion-dollar path to drug approvals and you'll find that barrier is not so high.

I would like to think this data could be helpful to any organizations looking to proactively develop detectors or antidotes for such compounds - especially if the threat was previously unknown to them.

Let's say an entirely novel class of toxin was found in a cluster of these predictions that has no existing references in private or public records - it could be that another organization has discovered and synthesized something similar through one of many other paths.

Many lines are drawn between this type of approach and that of whitehat hackers. You must necessarily create the vulnerability to mitigate it. It feels like "white hat" biolabs claiming the same are operating on the same conundrum and that the difference between "studying for the sake of mitigating" and "creating a weapon" are fundamentally indistinguishable without an absolute knowledge of intent - such is impossible from the outside.
> Given the huge benefits of a Dyson Swarm and the fact that it seems to require no exotic materials and no more physics

This doesn't account for the fact that you don't know what - if any - benefits do exotic materials and funky physics might bring if they exist and are feasible to exploit. The benefits might be so much larger than Dyson Swarms, that it would be wastful\unnecessary to use Dyson Swarms, except maybe as a hobby or as a low tech fallback for civilizations like camping enthusiasts and survivalists. Why bother with stars when you have tech to live in the 21 dimensions that those born-yesterday biologicals can't even sense yet ?

The Dyson 'Paradox' doesn't strike me as much of a paradox, imagine if a group of ants looked at the sky and wondered why aren't extraterrestials building tunnels inside the moon's regolith like ants do on Earth. It's just assuming too much. It's of course a valid scenario, it just isn't the only one.
Sure it's not the most humanizing but it is valuable to disassociate oneself from our human side in order to analyze inhuman systems. The perspective isn't without value, and GP wasn't implying it wasn't, but to take the time to elaborate the point going through the motions to emotional pad it would have been time wasted for most of us.

It's something I appreciate about this community, that we can express ourselves in such ways in order to convey a point without any fat on it. I still assume the person making the point understands that there the fat is there without needing to explicitly mention it. It's a sign of mature dialogue IMO.
tl;dr: Try something new and be yourself.
For others- https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/dcf-model-training-...
Do you have some factual counterpoint to the analysis, or just "the conclusions sounds like something I don't want to hear"?
> the west was not uniformly virtuous.

So not absolutely perfect angels at all times? Harsh criticism.

The US started the thermonuclear arms race, and escalated it until it consumed a large part of the economy, based on literal calculated lies about the "missile gap."

> If your goal is to compare the West or the US in particular with its dictatorial rivals

The goal should be to point out its dictatorial tendencies, and its preference for predictable dictatorial regimes all over the world that it is willing to spend huge amounts of resources to install and preserve, bathing countries around the world in blood.

China is not doing that, Russia is not doing that, Iran is not doing that, North Korea is not doing that.
Yes big fan of Workers and Cf. The only issue it was confusing tying the domain to the worker, but that was a few years ago - last I tried it a couple months ago seemed easier.
There’s a difference between “please don’t ask for support” and “I’m happy to support you even though legally you can’t force me to support this”.
Dentistry is full of shameless shams. That is part of the reason it (along with Chiropractic) is not often covered by universal healthcare insurance systems. The exceptions are limited, about 12 countries at most [1].

[1]: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...
How are you supposed to discover something new about the universe if all doors are closed from the start? How do you go from zero evidence where something isn't worth being investigated further because there isnt sufficient evidence to there being sufficient evidence for it to be considered acceptable to investigate? The seems like a feedback loop that will result in nothing new ever being discovered unless something magical drops all evidence in your lap.
Panasonic microwaves besides the very cheapest ones are unique to Panasonic and much better than the Midea models. I no longer own a microwave (due to kitchen space, not ideological opposition) but when I did, the Panasonic microwave I owned was noticeably better in every way than any microwave I had owned prior (which it turned out were all probably Mideas).
The 5% = full employment threshold has always been calculated based on U3. That's what they measured to come up with that estimate. If you want to talk about how U6 is better, then you need to compare it to previous U6 measurements, not previous U3 measurements.

If, as you were implying, U3 was hiding extra unemployment right now but U6 was more accurate, then it wouldn't be so closely tracking U3.
> Confirmation bias tends to manifest as a desire for more in-depth analysis for statements that violate one's expectations, but the rational case here is that the prevailing narrative needs far more in-depth analysis to deserve any kind of support.

I have been trying to say this exact thing, but couldn't put it as clearly.
For basic sprites and characters, you absolutely can.

There are companies using it to show ads in decentralized way in the metaverse right now.

I don't understand it like you but I can reason about it looking at similar patterns in gacha and game skins. They are a digit in a database but sold for huge money and have a big secondary market.

The value of it comes from the association and possibility than immediate practical use.