skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that 'real life' examples are often worse.

Learners can get too caught up on adventitious details in the example like the wording or certain irrelevant details.

If the example is a real life example they are familiar with it could lead them away from the essential features the example is trying to reason from.

It's a common trope in movies to have a sassy kid show up the teacher by pointing out how artificial their example is and then proceeding to solve the problem realistically most of the time involving street smarts.

While this can be amusing this is also missing the point. The example is there as a learning aid to learn a particular concept.
Inflation is a scalar measure of a vector valued phenomena. It is usually scalarized using a basket of goods. The impact on the basket of goods people will buy if there is a basic income is hard to model and will likely be bigger then whatever monetary effects an UBI causes. Here are some random predictions anyway:

Subpar food prices will fall until that industry dies. Value items will become more expensive until the demands of everyone being able to afford them is satisfied. Prices for luxury goods will fall, some luxury industries might die. Automation will become more prevalent and cheaper. Car and gas prices will fall as people are less reliant to drive to far away work places. Consumer electronic prices will rise for entertainment related things and fall for things like dish washers. Culture will become cheaper. Land value will fall while houses become more expensive.
As I understand it, basically if it is financed by taxes, or even non-FRS backed debt then probably no. This is simply redistribution of goods, so total number of goods stays unchanged.

If we issue more money, it could lead to inflation, but not necessary. This is unrelated to if we spend it on UBI or not.
What's with Europe and their love of non-digital way to cancel service?
Yeah, I didn't mean it pejoratively, just that it's an indicator that the Fortran community is a very different scene from what you might find around other programming languages that are typically discussed here.
To qualify, politico.eu is pretty good for news about the EU, as in the EU institutions and EU politics

I'm not sure I'd suggest it for general purpose news about EU member states. It has some stuff but it's not really their focus
Neural networks were basically negatively critiqued for decades. I think there is something to cellular automata and there's definitely a relationship between CAs and DNNs that is unexplored.
I know all gov's to this to an extent, but I feel the current UK gov excels at it, including in high speed rail.

A couple of examples :-

- Scotland - NI bridge. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59368707

- HS2 Eastern leg scrapped - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/18/hs2-rail-leg...
I'll leave this H.L. Mencken quote here that aptly describes the Economist. The nature of periodicals and newspapers especially militant, crusading ones is timeless.

“One of the principal marks of an educated man is the fact that he does not take his opinions from newspapers -- not, at any rate, from the militant, crusading newspapers. On the contrary, his attitude toward them is almost always one of frank cynicism, with indifference as its mildest form and contempt as its commonest. He knows that they are constantly falling into false reasoning about the things within his personal knowledge, within the narrow circle of his special education, and so he assumes that they make the same, or even worse, errors about other things,whether intellectual or moral. This assumption, it may be said, is quite justified by the facts.”
I'd recommend getting a teacher or someone who can plan your drills that forces you to play songs at your level.

I'm no prodigy and could play stuff in a few months (heavy metal), maybe a year. But that's only because I played actual songs along with the drills.
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Totally agree. Back when I worked in print, in the mid nineties, there was always a copy of Le Monde around. I even still own their unique, one-off, "Le Siecle" (aka "The Century") edition (the one they edited on the day we turned into the 21st century).

But others in this thread are right: it's certainly not investigative journalism and, to me, it's fucking state sponsored globalist propaganda.
Holy shivers... That is something of a 1984-esque level!
I can't give any recommendations, but, at least, I thank you for reminding us to NOT to buy things we won't (be able to) own!
There is a distinction between "price inflation" and "inflation". Even the Federal Reserve allows for this distinction.

>A historical look at the origin and uses of the word inflation, arguing that although the term has become nearly synonymous with "price increase," its original meaning—a rise in the general price level caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and trade needs—is the definition driving many of those who advocate an anti-inflation policy for the Federal Reserve.

https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/newsroom-and-events/publicat...

That said, even if the actual supply of money (literally inflation) is not increased, if there is more money available for spending by lower income individuals, it stands to reason that price inflation would follow in the sectors of the economy which they participate.
Nice troll

Not a troll at all. It's a language developed to be used as an international standard by people across all languages and cultures.

Please explain how the statement is a troll.

everyone aside from the US as far as I know

Then here is an opportunity to educate yourself. There are a bunch of countries that use imperial units both officially and informally.

I'd do the Googling for you, but I'm on mobile right now and not able to search properly.
So, for context, I wrote the comment you replied to as a French who speaks Japanese fluently and has been learning both Cantonese and Mandarin. So I am talking from experience and I completely disagree with you.

First, I disagree that vocabulary is the part that causes by far the least problems, instead in general my approach to learning any language is to first focus on learning the vocabulary. And to counter your latin example, when I was a child, I studied Latin, after my first 6 months of latin, I went to live in Spain for 5 months, when I came back latin was significantly easier than it was before. I could understand a lot more than I could before. The only reason for this was that I know could speak Spanish and could use that to guess words.

Of course this works a lot better on writings that are not poems, in general poems like your example are more difficult to understand without knowing the cultural context around them. If you want to really illustrate your point, try with a text that's not a poem and you will see that knowing the vocabulary does indeed significantly help.

Second, reading is absolutely an essential part of knowing a language. At this point, I really don't even know how to answer to this besides asking for clarification why you would come to this conclusion? I'll just say that I would have loved having the significant advantage Chinese students have when it comes to reading Japanese.

Finally, I was going to make the same points historia_novae about how many words really do have the exact same meaning in written form between Japanese and Chinese. But he expressed that better than I could.
> Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains...

Is visual programming really so popular in game programming, or is it being simply used for specific and particular tasks?

From what I see, nobody is using blueprint to outright program any games because it is too slow, hard to debug, and way too easy to get lost in visual spaghetti.

In context to visual effects, visual "scripting" does comes more into play, because you are doing something like video editing. In that context, you are already dealing with a list of visually identifiable options to achieve an outcome, so visual scripting is the next level up by controlling how the options are applied.

Everything is already setup for the person, it's a matter of what choices and to what degree. If you reduced this to a more primitive concept, we would be talking about which buttons to press and in what sequence. Yes, we often still define this type of interaction as programming, but there should be no illusions that this is more basic and limited. It has its place (visual programming), and clearly more so with artists (who are not programmers by trade), but you still have to do text based programming for the more advanced and creative stuff. Visual programming isn't taking over traditional text based programming, rather it's supplemental.
> It wouldn't change the value of zero, because even if it devalued the dollar heavily everyone still has something.

Yes, the value of some ink and paper.
The best tool is one you use.

Pick one.

Do the work.

Then you will know what actually matters.

And can use that knowledge next time...if there is one.
Unsubscribing should be as simple as telling your bank to stop payments.

Why is this still a thing?
Update: I'm in!
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Two papers for your reading:

* March 2022 - https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 - "Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood"

* October 2011 - https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1003231 A Geospatial Analysis of the Effects of Aviation Gasoline on Childhood Blood Lead Levels

The two papers (plus others) taken together suggest that the impact is measurable (paper 2), perhaps to the tune of one or two IQ points on average per person exposed (me drawing a line from paper 1).

Granted, the latter point is my extrapolation, but there's enough of a foundation now for policy decisions to be made in advance of explicit research connecting these dots.
> Wolfram is arrogant, self centered and self congratulatory

Not making a comparison in terms of contributions to science. But the same could be said about Newton and a host of other great (mostly) men of history.

One of the most useful emotional filters I've learned to drop is the predisposition against zealous enthusiasm. Automatically dismissing it is as reductive as immediately submitting to it.
The $2k deposit is only for really expensive cars.
Yeah, PDF suffered for this because the catalog was at the end of the PDF file. My understanding is that "streamable PDFs" are something of a hack where only the first page is front-loaded. At least that used to be the case.
Are they not also lobbied by various players to badger Space-x?
you see this in a lot of food trends through the years... a lot of marketing-pushed popularity people aren't even aware of

almonds and avocados are incredibly popular at the moment despite being particularly bad for the environment, they have their own lobbying groups and political action committees
My intuition says that it would lead to rising prices, as poorer consumers would increase their demand for goods and services. However, I think the rise in prices would only partially offset the increased utility for poor consumers.

My assumption is that the wealthy do not consume in proportion to their income -- so someone who makes 10x as much money as a poorer person likely only consumes, say, twice as much. Redistributing some money to the poor would not cause the wealthy person to decrease their demand for goods as much as it would make the poor person to increase their demand.

Everything that is consumed must first be produced. If you're not producing more, a rise in demand will mean a rise in prices until demand matches supply. I think the end result would be that prices would rise, but it would still be a good thing for the poorest citizens to have the ability to buy what they really need, and to have the flexibility to leave toxic work environments without immediately suffering huge consequences in terms of losing a place to live, etc. So while price inflation should be considered, it doesn't mean we should immediately throw out the idea of basic income.

And eventually supply of certain goods would probably increase a bit to match demand better, but it wouldn't completely cancel out the rise in prices.
The other advocate - that’s exactly how they’re one of the most profitable company in the world. Fleecing customer - by making them buy chargers, earphones (ensuring its wire gets dirty faster than any other), extra storage, open repair hostile devices. List is quite long really.

Besides that’s not the only place they eat storage. Actually it’s so opaque you don’t really know what’s “really” happening.
> It's not money creation that causes inflation, it's _excess_ money creation.

No, it's just money creation. Money creation and inflation are essentially synonymous.

> Banks only loan money to people who have good credit, and can pay it back.

Well, that's clearly been far from the truth if we look back at recent events. But apart from that, the majority of bank loans nowadays go into housing and house prices are forever rising. So a bank might lend out $100k today but in 10 years when it's paid back they'll be lending out $200k to someone else for the same house.
> Really, I can't see a compelling reason to be in the cloud for the majority of mid-level workloads like ours.

I work on a very small team. We have a few developers who double as ops. None of us are or want to be sysadmins.

For our case, Amazon's ECS is a massive time and money saver. I spent a week or two a few years ago getting all of our services containerized. Since then we have not had a single full production outage (they were distressingly common before), and our sysadmin work has consisted exclusively of changing versions in Dockerfiles from time to time.

Yes, most of the problems we had before could have been solved my a competent sysadmin, but that's precisely the point—hiring a good sysadmin is way more expensive for us than paying a bit extra to Amazon and just telling them "please run these containers with this config."
In race to build quantum computing hardware, silicon begins to shine
not exactly sure whether "prominent", but The Local (.com and their local variants) covers big part of Europe

Slovakia: Slovak Spectator (independent) https://spectator.sme.sk

NewsNow - official Slovak news agency TASR, less prominent but should cover all events in English for free
https://newsnow.tasr.sk

Czechia: Czech radio (gov owned/propaganda) https://english.radio.cz

Czech Daily seems better for Czechia, though less prominent
https://czechdaily.cz

Hungary: Hungary Today https://hungarytoday.hu

It would make more sense to read local news sites (CZ - idnes.cz novinky.cz cnn.iprima.cz SK - pravda.sk tvnoviny.sk teraz.sk) via Google Translate.
The Aus media ownership landscape is such a car crash. Rupert Murdoch is a cancer.
> Elon Musk has something special that you don't have

I believe that there are many Elon Musks in the world but due to various circumstances (born in the wrong place at the wrong time, bad luck, terrible parents) they never get the chance to shine.
My thoughts weren't really meant to be a condemnation of monolithic web app frameworks, just a summary of my conclusions after using them for years.

The reasons I have for justifying use of React, JSX, GraphQL, etc. have nothing to do with being "hip and cool" and everything to do with happiness and productivity. Using modern tools is both more enjoyable and more productive in my experience, as someone who used Ruby-on-Rails with templated pages for four years.
It is no surprise to me - I have been 100% remote my entire IT career (decades), almost always working with 100% onsite people.

With lots of newly-minted remote workers I have seen HUGE drops in accountability and performance, including many, many folks who just seem to 'disappear' for hours and days at a time, and nobody knows that they are doing.

Yes, you can be unproductive in the office - but the temptation and opportunities to do next to nothing on a daily basis are too big a temptation for many people, and becomes a nightmare for the people that are supposed to manage the slackers.

Some people are just as productive at home, some people are more productive, but in my experience, the number of people that have become unproductive outweighs the benefit of the relatively smaller number of people who either stay the same, or are more productive.

It's unfortunate, but if you have ever had to manage large numbers of people, you know not all folks will work just as hard when nobody is watching.
> "They have been convincing customers to ditch their licensing renewals/maintenance contract and buy 'new' cloud services, which the customer doesn’t have to use," our source told us at the time.

> "IBM can book the ‘new’ services revenue as cloud revenue," the source claimed. "It is a quick and dirty scheme to inflate their cloud sales numbers. They are not new, they are simply gutting their software numbers."

This just sounds like how MS considers office360 part of their cloud division/revenue from office360 as part of their cloud division. Do we know if they moved these services to run on their cloud?

Nowhere is it mentioned the tune to which the executives benefited from this scheme. How much more money did they end up making because of this scheme?
Different key = different function, so you have not inverted the original function and thus have not found a preimage.
You are right. It is a lazy comment. I would delete it if I could at this point but thats not possible.

It really comes about from my frustration. So much effort pushing into new tech and the result (at least as I and others in the comments here noted) is something reflective of pre-existing technology that has been around for decades.

I get that though enough of these exercises true innovation does emerge. However there is a whole lot of "re-inventing the wheel" in-between that which is frustrating as it seems to be prevalent.
https://twitter.com/Jack_Raines/status/1511737489190494208
Since the album art happens to fit *perfectly* into the space, it's a pretty solid conjecture.
Would everyone getting a paying job lead to inflation?

And if it would, would that mean that we should rig the system in a way that it can never happen?
How would it be implemented?

If you gave everyone $1k a month by printing more money, then that creates a different scenario that giving everyone $1k a month that's fully funded by taxes.

A UBI that replaces existing benefits which attempts to provide more to people by reducing the administrative costs of providing benefits and which looks to remove any benefit traps will be quite different than UBI that is only added on top of existing benefits.

Without these details I don't think we can give a concrete answer to the question.
Not in significant quantities, looks like, but Morocco and Algeria, which are basically next door, are significant producers.
Without Spot/Reserved incentives. Could get even more if that’s done.
Awesome, more navel-gazing demoralization from corporate communists in New York City.
My opinion about him changed for good after watching some of those podcasts, it could be he has a very special writing style
Not entirely true, France Info is basically France24-but-for-France. Most of the coverage is the exact same.
I used to work very hard to push game binary sizes down because it limits the ability for our customers to actually play the game if the patch sizes are too large (though, it must be noted a large part of the company is entirely apathetic to this), but nobody is inflating the sizes intentionally.

As much as people like to hate on consoles gamers, it's predominantly console "TRCs" which put limits on the size of games, that's the only time the company really cares about the sizes of games.
You say:

> 1. One-way functions are not all cryptography.

The article says:

> Today, the internet protocols for tasks like transmitting credit card numbers and digital signatures depend on these functions. “Most of the crypto that is used in the real world is something that can be based on one-way functions,” said Yuval Ishai, a cryptographer at the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

Looks like they alreadyd mentioned that?
> If all of the individuals are acting without malice, how could the institution act with malice? Isn't the institution just the collective will of the individuals?

I think we are on an unproductive tangent, but these are quite important questions. An institution doesn't have its own free will, so I don't think I can claim it can have "intent to cause harm", but it can certainly cause harm.

An institution is not just a collection of people, it is also the business processes and policies. While these are created by people within the institution, they stick around over time. As the world changes around the organization, well intentioned policy can begin to harm.

Individual employees following policy and normal business practice (i.e. just doing their jobs) can behave maliciously without their own intent to do so (sorry, my hands are tied).

An institution needs not only non-malicious members, it needs to constantly re-evaluate its practices. Importantly, when harmful outcomes are observed the institution must re-evaluate and adjust, otherwise the harm will continue.

It's not enough for members to conduct their own behavior without malice, they must also observe outcomes and actively fight against the inertia of existing policy.
That's probably because of high quality assets being shipped with little to no compression to improve performance.
You can't be a neoliberal if you were publishing from the same viewpoint in 1843, they're classically liberal and helped define what that even means.
And by default it works like cache. If you need space the music files are the first to go since they can just be re-downloaded.
If we are talking about an idealized world with spherical consumers and a single product, then yes. However inflation is a scalar measure of the development of the prices given some basket of goods. An UBI will change what stuff people buy hugely. The economy will need to shift around a lot to accomodate that. Any use of a "steady-state" model is really inappropriate and you can't draw any conclusion from that.
> It's less green because it simply wastes energy.

I'm not sure how to interpret this, you always have to input energy to output energy. How wasteful it is depends on how much you had to put in to get the output. Is your claim that they put in more energy than they get out? What do the actual numbers look like for ethanol?
I think it's because metric is logical, makes things easier to understand and is used practically everywhere except the US.

English has been adopted as the international language (largely thanks to American TV, Movie and Music exports) so Esperanto doesn't really deliver much and doesn't have the numbers to be worth it.
On the first paper, roughly half the US population is >40yo, so this could well be talking about things that stopped being a problem in the 80's.
Actually they aren't talking about asymmetric/public-key encryption, but rather "efficient" symmetric encryption (and related primitives) where the key size is (asymptotically) smaller than the plaintext size.
Same thing happened to my old company (large insurance company). Moved from Azure to AWS + Terraform/Kubernetes because of cost and "cloud independent" nature of Terraform. The whole IT department spent 2+ years moving hundreds of (relatively modern + legacy) services and applications. Some services couldn't move because they were managed by third-party. I am pretty sure they didn't factor in the cost of migration.