skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well other than two summer internships at a tech company I don't have any other professional experience, which is why I'm labeling my self as entry level. I built a free and open source website built entirely using the ruby on rails framework, it was my senior project from school. Other than that I have miscellaneous React and android projects on my GitHub.
>I don't know why people use the phrase "printing money", when people use this word I honestly don't know what they mean.

So this isn't just the creation of paper money but rather issuance of new money that mostly lives in imaginary numbers inside 'accounts' of various types.

> The problem is that there is no such thing as "money printing" except printing of physical cash

I think this is your confusion.

> Nobody is worried that if people withdraw money or bank notes are damaged that the Fed must print physical bank notes.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2

M0 is the printed money. Paper and coin. Call it about $6 trillion.

M1 is all the usual things. Bank accounts, money orders, cheques, and everything included in M1. So roughly $20 trillion in money. This is the money that could go buy something from a store.

M2 is all of M1 and M0, but also tacking on some very plausibly going to be money stuff. Roughly $1 trillion difference but it's there anyway. It's measured but not a big factor here.

The replacement of damaged notes will have no impact at all on any of these numbers. You literally can't see it there. Looking at 2009 is interesting, but lets keep to covid.

What we can see happen during covid is actual printed money increased bigtime. There's 3 trillion new $ running around. Basically 100% increase. So they absolutely did print new money in the physical sense.

We can also see from a bank account point of view. Going from $5 trillion to $21 trillion. So it's not just currency of bills. This can't be ignored. This is 'printed money' when people say they printed money. They absolutely did to an insane degree.

>This colloquial language really drives me nuts every time I see it. When you randomly choose the meaning of printing money there are surely some situations where it is obvious that it is benefiting the rich but is that really what people are talking about? I honestly don't know or can't know.

The total $ of the american people was increased over 400%. Poor people and even middle class are crying bloody murder... they sure didn't get any of the new $16 trillion. That's roughly $53,000 per person in the USA. If the poor didn't get it... who did? They got even more money?

>If you are really dense, you can consider lending to be money printing and lending definitively benefits the rich as the rich have most of the assets, including bonds and money in their bank account.

Not sure about density here but yes absolutely that's exactly right.

>Since interest is paid based on how much you own, paying more interest obviously benefits the rich because rich means more money which means more interest. So, if the rich save more, the bank must lower interest rates, or lend out more money to earn more interest.

"the rich" is not the jeff bezos. It's retirees. Retirees just gave themselves $16 trillion.

> The money that is being borrowed is always "fresh" money.

Freshly printed money.
Genocide? nah... if there was a genocide, there'd be no albanians left in kosovo. The situation was more like the situation in ukraine, where some separatist movements wanted a separate country, and the serbia wouldn't let them. The KLA would attack the serbs, and they'd attack the KLA. Then USA decided to attack serbia, like putin is attacking ukraine now, but that was considered good, because when america bombs someone, it's "bombing for peace".
> "I have decided to implement ... a series of measures to switch payments — we'll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin said in a televised government meeting, adding that trust in the dollar and euro had been "compromised" by the West's seizure of Russian assets.

Objectively, the dollar and euro have been compromised as reserves. The whole idea behind reserve currency is to be liquid and not subject to seizure. Weaponize the dollar enough and people stop using it. Not tomorrow or probably next year, but eventually.

Still this seems very unlikely. People have been proclaiming the end of dollar hegemony for decades now. It doesn't happen because nobody has an answer to the simple question: what else is there?

No country other than the US is insane enough to want the world's reserve currency because of the many ways it screws up the productive economy. Think Rust Belt. Gold is a pain to use and in the end people just end up trading paper promissory notes instead of physical gold.

The one asset that might have a shot is Bitcoin. But that's still crazy talk. In a few years, though...
And, make it more difficult to cancel the subscription.
Go 1.18 compile time may be about 18% slower than Go.17 (generics)
I recently had my first floral honey experience, it's amazing that I'd went this long without knowing that honey can taste flower-y! I'm considering raising chickens in the future --how difficult is beekeeping to get into, in your opinion?
The thread admits that savvy financial consumers have better options:

> Second, credit scores were the most predictive variable of good participant behavior for us. But people with high credit scores tend to have better, cheaper options than ISAs.

And then claims that the simplicity of the instrument makes them a better option than debt ("simplicity" isn't a virtue if the alternative is middle school pre-algebra levels of "complicated" and comes at much lower prices):

> Furterhmore [sic], consumers were consistently confused by ISAs and had a vague sense they were exploitative. I think ISAs are less complicated than debt, but consumers don't have experience with then.

His TL;DR has borderline misleading levels of... interpretation. The real story is that ISAs are exploitative and most consumers -- ESPECIALLY the ones who might actually do okay in life -- can't be "educated" out of seeing that an obvious raw deal is an obvious raw deal. So you're left exploiting the folks everyone else considers too risky, who, it turns out, are... too risky.

Like... he says so himself, in so many words.
Trouble with that is creators use Issues / Discussions / PRs to collaborate with people.
It sounds like "they don't know why it's going down." I've worked with plenty super competent people that have taken time to root cause incidents.

Guide to incidents:
Step 1: Stop the bleeding
Step 2: Prevent it in the future

Doing Step 1 doesn't make you incompetent.
Interesting. What kind of bureaucracy?
People live such incredibly dark lives. I really can’t even comprehend wanting that. I’d rather kill myself.
> Young John, a math whiz, calculated the change in his father’s grocery store without using the cash register.

seems like a millenial wrote the obit :) everybody used to do this
"ISAs align incentives between teaching institutions and students, they're strictly better than the tuition model."

That's very, very hand-wavey. I'm in broad agreement with you that, at this moment in time, ISAs are probably better than tuition for most people, however, they are an immature financial instrument (relative to traditional tuition loans) and so little effort has been into extracting as much profit from them as possible... but that doesn't mean it's not possible, nor does it mean that it won't happen, and it certainly doesn't mean that there is some inherent alignment between ISA institutions and students.

All the positives about ISAs could have been said about student loans a few decades ago! That's before even challenging the assumption that higher student income is best for all parties involved: if a student discovers that actually, their new career is miserable, there is suddenly a huge incentive mismatch.
Choosy developers choose gif!
I'm also very interested in new paradigms to explore the internet. I've built a sort of explorable graph of adjacent websites based on my search engine database, was on Show HN a while back:

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/news.ycombinator.com

If you click 'similar' under any site, you get a list of its neighbors.

I think it would be neat to extend the metaphor not to just websites, but ... I dunno, something more general, links, topics, what have you. Like a browsable web of connected things. Maybe like with a bookmarking or annotation system. I think it could be super neat. Still a bit of a hand-wavy idea, but I want to build it, or someone else to build it.

I do think the search box is a bit limiting.
- zero interest
- {snip} you end up having to pay 150% of the principal loan (assuming you have a high enough paying job for long enough within those 5 years)

Those two things don't line up, and repeating the 'zero interest' line in an edit doesn't change that. If your repayment is 150%, you've paid interest.
Russia Is Facing a Tech Worker Exodus
One insect secretion or another, it's basically the same thing.
Maybe this is controversial but the fact that it's "revolutionary" to use/not use a non play store payment options is a sign of monopolization of payment method this should already have existed. And while I know Google is not the worst (looking at you apple) it's still not an achievement in my eyes it's management imposed dilemma.
The developer who made a useful website with a link to their paypal has been mostly obsoleted by app developers. Small tool development isn't a novel creation of modern mobile devices - it's just the packaging of these into bespoke binaries that have highly regulated distribution channels. A cynical person might assume that part of the reason Apple hated flash so much is that it threatened to stunt the upcoming app market. To lend some credence to this position, things like Kofi have taken off in recent (on my scale) years as HTML5 gained enough traction to essentially duplicate the functionality of flash without any of the security issues - I personally think this is what led to the feature to save websites as apps on iOS and that is something that doesn't threaten Apple much with their network advantage, but has the potential to cut into their revenue if it gets popular enough.
> Why do you say that vector search would help with narrow queries?

I was just asking whether he'd seen better results. I haven't experimented very much with it on my search engine. It's as crude as they get, and in part I want to see how far I can push old fashioned 1970s search algorithms :P
This reminds me of something I often forget about. The value of GitHub to Microsoft may be significant brand-wise, but it might not be a huge revenue source comparatively. Even if it were a huge revenue source, most of the revenue might still be shuffled off to the corporate behemoth to cover its balance sheet rather than reinvested in improving the product. Meanwhile the actual value of GitHub to organizations around the world is probably a couple order of magnitude higher than its actual revenue.

At some point it's actually cheaper for a coalition of international organizations to fund inventing a backwards-compatible GitHub replacement that is very resilient to failure, rather than wait for GitHub to get a measely enough budget increase from Daddy Micro$oft to shore up their legacy MySQL database.
The best (and the only working) way of data protection is to never send the data.

...until it is no longer possible to function as a normal economically active member of your society without "consenting" to the data sharing. As others have said that might mean that you can no longer get a phone or a mortgage in some cases. Given the financial services industry doesn't exactly have a glowing reputation for either responsible handling of personal data or fair and rational decision-making processes some middle ground will need to evolve here if widespread abuse is not to be an inevitability.
Physical access is not ownership. A turnkey solution can provide reasonable defaults, along with the information needed to assert ownership and override those defaults.
This page [0] keeps an updated list of RPi stock. Maybe it could help you find something when it restocks.

[0]: https://rpilocator.com/
This is like SaaS Pegasus https://www.saaspegasus.com/ which is a fraction of the cost and has a lot of the same functions. I wish I could demo it, but I do understand why I can't. Regardless, I hope this project takes off.
And his joy in finding new adjectives to describe bad outcomes.
Yep. This is a 5bln lighting company which used to be known as Philips Lighting. Unlike their Hue product, their policy to work is not innovative. Good luck hiring talent :)
>> to establish that the Russian Federation is, in fact, not a permanent member of the UN Security Council at all. The argument comes down to a literal reading of Article 23(1) of the UN Charter, which provides that ‘The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council.’ There is an obvious issue here: the USSR ceased to exist in December 1991, and the Charter has not been amended

Ah, so by UN law they're dealing with USSR, now I understand why Putin tries to restore the countries borders /s

edit: why not just choose Ukraine to be the USSR successor state in the same way China was replaced as a permanent member; bring in the UN peace-forces ASAP
The only thing that has 'aged poorly' is the #russiagate debacle, which as a result has seriously undermined the credibility of what's left of the legacy media due to their choices to promote endless conspiracy ideas which turned out to be untrue.

This has nothing to do with the endless 'mastercard or visa' team sport that is US politics, which is stitched up by the DNC & RNC and their media so no new parties or politicians can play. We need quality independent journalist more urgently than ever as a result...
Wow, love it! I host a matrix server on my current NAS, but I can’t put the database there cus spinning drives are just so slow. I’ve got the DB on a random Mac right now, but this is my new upgrade path.
This isn't true in any meaningful way and doesn't really make much sense, it's really just repeating the conclusion of the halting problem in the form of an assumption. Any algorithm that halts will do so, by definition, after a finite amount of time and use a finite amount of space, so saying "assuming unbounded time and memory" is begging the question and taking the conclusion as an assumption.

The very problem is that there is no algorithm that can output whether an arbitrary algorithm on a given input needs unbounded time to begin with.

>if it doesn't [have unbounded range], then it must [terminate], but it is very, very, very hard to determine if that is the case.

This is also false. You can limit the scope of the halting problem to algorithms that have a range of one single input and the halting problem is still undecidable. Heck, you can limit the halting problem to algorithms that don't even take any input whatsoever, they just have a start button and either they halt or do not halt, and that problem is still undecidable. The range has nothing to do with it.
IIUC, common mods/expansions of the TRS-80 Model I (or so) weren't pre-assembled.

A guy I worked for as a kid one time said/joked he got his company's start by finishing people's botched attempts at assembling their TRS-80s. (Though his company also dealt in S-100 bus CP/M systems around then, and he might've been speaking more/also about those.)
No mystery: almost everywhere else has a population count that is orders of magnitude more elderly and obese. Young skinny folk don’t often die from covid, and that describes most of Africa.
If you want to see the most crass but hilarious thread, here is the reddit thread about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/tlcm6r/stephen_...

It's got some pretty good g/j jokes in there.
Interestingly, cyclobutane and cyclopropane do not have a large difference in ring strain (within about 4% of each other).
Cyclopropanes are well known in natural product structures.
One of the weirdest is this natural product, U-106305, which has 6 cyclopropanes. Made by a strain of Streptomyces!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja9619420
I didn't know there were two. Weird. Even weirder that Myst is selling for $29.99 and realMyst, 17.99, 25 years later.
The other huge thing a ton of people miss when repeating is that the undecidability is between "definitely terminates" vs. "definitely does not terminate".

A ton of useful stuff (for instance in compiler optimizers) can be done with deciding between "trivial to prove it terminates" vs. "who knows, this instance of the problem is hard! I'll just skip this optimization in this ridiculously non-representatively rare case."
I think if we got the OS level payments API that you envision Apple and Google would do a decent job policing the user experience
Dialogue: Are software construction and maintenance different?
miohtama is not blaming one party in their comment, they are blaming three:

- "cybersecurity industry"

- "sloppy software development"

- "lazy pointy haired boss"

Combine the three, and you end up with breaches like these, although I agree that "sloppy software development" is probably the least likely source of these issues. Thinking that security is just checklists that have to be checked (thinking done by party #1 and party #3) probably carries most of the blame here.
Pyrotechnicians.
The point of my comment wasn’t to ignore your very plausible explanations. I expect there are many people that suffer from those.

The point was to point out that epistemology works best when you make a good faith effort to understand how other people arrived at their conclusions.

I have spent a lot of time recently trying to understand why many people are convinced about things like New World Order / Global Cabal / QAnon / Soros, Stop the Steal, various vaccine/COVID topics, multiple religious beliefs, and even why Putin believed he should “protect” Ukraine (assuming good faith). It’s far easier to bridge misunderstandings if you understand their motives, intent, desires, and the chain of facts that inform their worldview.
Thanks for making this comment. I’ve often thought alone similar lines.

The state of mental health advocacy is shallow and hyper positive. They imagine that mentally ill people are just one mental trick or accommodation removed from being able to fit in to our new inclusive culture.

Instead, it’s more like an extremely junior employee giving a presentation to prospective applicants that has them making colorful, three dimensional “modern” resumes that I know would get tossed in the dumpster by any hiring manager at the firm.

Not to use 2020’s favorite word: but it’s like being gaslit by a person that isn’t old enough to understand what they’re saying isn’t true.

“You’re gaslighting me!”

[honest] “No I’m not!”

…lol… this is based on an example from my work. I wish I could put to words just how trendy their recommendation template was.
Why not send that paper card instead of an e-card?
Mr. Roach's (and Radio Shack's) story is amazing and largely unknown in 2022. It's interesting to imagine what might have been if Radio Shack (or Commodore, etc.) had managed to be as successful as Apple as a computer company.

It's too bad that Radio Shack no longer exists - they didn't serve much of a purpose as a phone accessory store, but their prior incarnation selling computers, electronics, stereo and TV equipment, toys, educational kits, and components seems like it was was a lot more interesting.

At one of the last Maker Faires, I recall a Radio Shack executive saying that they were planning on adding a DIY store section supporting things like 3D printing, microcontrollers, and electronics kits, but sadly that didn't seem to materialize (and probably it wasn't a large enough market to be successful with thousands of small stores.)

I'd like to think that there's still an opportunity somewhere for small shops like Radio Shack (or larger stores like Fry's) that sell cool and useful electronic stuff (maybe with fast local delivery!) but it's probably hard to compete with Walmart on one hand and Amazon on the other. I'm actually surprised that Best Buy seems to be hanging on somehow.
Great work from Igalia helping Chrome catch up with Safari
(UK)

I'm (just) old enough to remember bank managers that managed banks (OK branch managers) and requesting loans where someone would review your history by eye and make a decision on that and a few well chosen questions.

This was also a place that opened at 0900 and closed at 1700 and was not available at 1200-1300 and also couldn't be arsed to help you out arbitrarily. You had to take time off work to visit a bank - yay! Meanwhile they made profits from your credit balance (investments) and your debit balance (interest). Go overdrawn? that'll be a letter (£25 in 1995ish) and punitive interest.

That was the past but: Banks are profit generation centres. My personal wealth has (there's always the mattress) to be lodged in a bank and they insist on making a profit out of me.
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Well that’s appropriate, because Pokémon aren’t real.
> but also to have the least possible permissions for developers, support desk workers or anyone really.

Considering that Okta say they already do "Zero Trust security" and giving people least possible authorization (and also that they were never breached in the first place, still), I don't have a lot of fate in the industry realizing anything from this breach.
> On one hand, the total payback would be $40K for six months of school. That is really high even for a top-tier college.

For reference, my wife worked at a restaurant during undergrad, stayed with her parents, and didn't have much scholarship money. She paid about $40K ($30K in loans, $10K in money from her restaurant and tutoring gigs. We paid off the loans with signing bonuses before they accrued any interest). Again, for FOUR YEARS of education at a full university. Why does that matter? Well, she had three majors in three very different subjects, any one of which enables a lucrative career and the combination of which makes her extraordinarily valuable.

Sorry if this comes off as rude, but I can't even begin to imagine thinking that $40K for 6 months of instruction in white collar commodity labor is a good deal.
A single low paid employee shouldn't have the access rights to do serious damage. For example Okta probably has rate-limits on how many users a CSR can reset the password for.
Or breaks the build in an otherwise non-obvious fashion or fucks the installer?
Whoa, my bad.

You clearly know more than me about Buddhism.

For me, I limit myself to Theraveda Buddhism and especially to Buddha's teachings only.

Long before I grew an interest on Buddhism, I realized that very few people actually understand great people and their teachings. Normal people dilute, misunderstand, and misinterpret what great people taught and communicated.

Years before I started studying about Buddhism, I always read original sources- Russoe, Voltaire, Tagore, Smith, Lenin, Bose, and so on.

My understanding stood correct. Very few of the people who talk about great people actually undestand them.

So, when I started with Buddhism, I told myself that I will limit myself to Buddha's direct teachings only. It's not that I will not touch Great Vehicle stuff, but I will never go deep into it. But reading never hurts. Tibetan Buddhism is interesting, colorful, and exotic. But not for me!

There are people who understand the great people that came before them- but filtering them out is a lengthy and tiring process.

But I remain genuinely interested to study deep into Dingnaga and Nagarjuna, and their philosophy ajd works.
How we analyzed and fixed a Golang memory leak