skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No amount of screeching will change the fact that people are far more mentally prepared for grandma to keel over with little warning than they are to lose a random uncle or coworker.

That depends. If a coworker dies because they did drugs, you might say to yourself "I'm safe from that mode of death as long as I don't do drugs".

If a random coworker dies because of Covid that they caught on the job, you might say to yourself "I'm next", the result being existential dread and anxiety.

It's true covid skewed old, but people quote the stats of dead young people in the last 2 years as if people were mentally prepared for that. Overdoses don't kill young families in a matter of weeks, but Covid did. Overdoses don't bring down 43 teachers in a school system over the course of a few months, whose average age was 46, but Covid did that. Covid brought all kinds of unique and deep tragedies that aren't reflected in the stats, and people are still dealing with the emotional fallout.

Again I understand that covid skewed old, but grandma is already dead and has been since before Covid. Now my parents are "old" at 65, but I'm not mentally prepared for them to die at all. If their parents are any indication I still have a good 20 years left with them, and so I get really upset when people try to discount their lives as if they wouldn't be missed if they were to die from Covid, or if somehow that's just nature taking its course. Really this shouldn't be a contest of whose death counts more to society.
Is GNOME/Wayland compatibility any better? Qt5 applications running in Wayland mode (as opposed to xcb fallback) has issues with window decorator, resulting in windows with missing shadows and other minor differences, as compared to GTK applications.
Autonomous cars and fusion are very different creatures than the growth of the internet or computers in general. The latter was widely distributed and had low hanging fruit that just about everyone in society could pluck and have fun with, the former is something a handful of companies and a few hundred researchers will get to develop while the rest of us will have to have our creativity satisfied with the fulfilling act of paying for it. (Even ML to an extent, since it's so data and compute expensive - generally far from a low hanging fruit -, though less so.)
Time-lapse images as the living brain responds to experiences
It's a cool tool, but I wonder why someone would want to show "Now Playing" information on their GitHub page?
And I've always wondered about something else: on houses which require these systems, what happens when the power goes out? Do you simply crack open a window? What if you were sleeping when the power failed?
I think lots of nonprofits have public welfare in their mission but I think by organization you mean for profit entities? In that case my answer is the same as to the one for VCs in that there are lots that care about society and specific sectors and have that as a thesis with returns being equal (or perhaps secondary for a select few); climate tech startups and investors for instance or companies making alternative proteins (although maybe that's "animal society" not human that they care about)
> What do you think that chart is showing?

The U.S. dollar index, “an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies” [1].

> How do you square it with a chart of USD value versus an asset which has held consistent value for millennia?

Gold has appreciated relative to the dollar since its 2016 low.

Granted, it took until 2020 for gold to regain its ca. 2013 price. That doesn’t translate into any information about inflation in that interval. Nor about U.S. export/import balances or the dollar’s strength. Unless you’re in the gold business, gold prices are a facile measure of anything economically useful.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index
If anyone wants to listen to a prescient conversation about the feds actions post-2008 and inflation today, take a listen to this podcast.

It was recorded in 2009.

https://www.econtalk.org/meltzer-on-inflation/

It’s an interview with Prof Meltzer from Carnegie Mellon who has done extensive research on the federal reserve system.

Cliff notes:

- As a result of the 2008 crisis the fed expanded the money supply to a degree never seen before

- Rather than drive inflation, the “new money’s” effect was muted due to skittish banks who would decide to just take the funds and hold as cash/treasuries (maintaining strong reserves) until more positive economic indicators emerged (this process could be paused if economic sentiment turned negative)

- Once economic forecasts turn more optimistic, the money will be deployed (through lending) into investments and assets leading to inflation in those prices

- Eventually the excess supply will spill over into consumer spending in the classic indicators of inflation like CPI

- However the fed will be under immense political pressure to not drive the “fragile” economy into a recession so any tightening will be far too late and inflation will overshoot targets by a large degree.

- Similar to the 70’s, until strong monetary contraction is brought in, inflation will run very hot despite other efforts to control it

Pretty accurate so far.
That dial exists and it calls the Saudi king and reminds him that he wants to increase oil production if he prefers himself untoppled.
The punter/proggie scene definitely got me into programming. Articles like this bring such a special kind of nostalgia. It was both educational and for me at the time, it was very rebellious. My parents did not want me downloading any of these things on our family computer. My friends and I would share floppy disks of punters as contraband.

Learning Visual Basic and the open source community of .bas files was ahead of its time. The tutorials and programming guides, the general willingness to share information.

I learned how to write C++ from a random guy who went by LostSideDead. If you happen to be reading this sir, thank you for spending so much time teaching a kid how to write code. I’ve made a long career of it and I love it.
There was another lease, which was perpetual, signed with Cuba after that. See the link I posted. [1]

"A 1934 treaty reaffirming the lease granted Cuba and her trading partners free access through the Bay, modified the lease payment from $2,000 in gold coins per year to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 U.S. dollars, and added a requirement that termination of the lease requires the consent of both the U.S. and Cuban governments, or the U.S. abandonment of the base property."

[1] https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/ns_gua...
And yet people on hacker news or other high income forums seems to say "Just buy a EV".

It's the "Let them Eat Cake" of 2022. Poor people driving economy boxes and living in a 4th floor walkup apartment with 3 roommates aren't buying an EV... even if the savings are better long term.

It's the "Buy a better pair of boots they'll last longer".

And yet - people seem oblivious - like Marie Antoinette that the poor class can't simply upgrade to solar and use an EV and avoid the gas prices which hit their bottom line pay every week in the form of higher prices and higher costs to travel.

Who cares about bread when it costs so much to drive to the gas station? Let them get an EV
Without endorsing all that is Trump, what I did like about his tenure is that I had more money in my pocket to make decisions for myself. Whether that be buying more energy efficient appliances or perhaps an EV. Now I have less money, appliances are more expensive, and we're being told "don't like the price at the pump, just buy an EV lol".
It’s wrong because there’s a freak snowstorm in Seattle and it’s 39°F there right now and it’s 81°F in Kansas City. So the average temp between those two place is 60°F which tells us nothing useful about either place.
I read somewhere that déjà vu is when your two hemispheres get out of sync for a split moment and record the same input one after the other. But I don’t know if that’s true for sure. Or maybe they’re just rearranging the matrix.
Doesn't the government build and maintain the rails?
Russia's cash Gusher: Russian cash flows soared during Q1, despite sanctions
I'm not sure it's that scathing. Tests may well be seen as a tool for granting access to a particular piece of logic and allow you to interact with it it directly, to ensure that the code remains sufficiently decoupled to allow this. In that case, they may aid in discovering and examining unexpected behavior.

This isn't waterproof though. I think TDD-code prima facie upholds its promise to keeping down the code complexity per module, this is often at the expense of the bigger picture architecture. You go from spaghetti code to ravioli code; hardly an improvement.
> Usually if official statistics and what you see are misaligned, its the official statistics that are wrong.

"What you see" is literally what's being measured, though. Typical prices for typical commodities grew less than expected. The outlier is one particular commodity (petroleum) which is experiencing an external shock.

Sanctions on Russia are poorly explained as "inflation", obviously.

> Personally I have seen prices go up well above 10%.

On what? Does that not match up with the data in the report? If so, document it! You'll be internet famous, if nothing else.
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One method would be to have a unique key burned into the image sensor by the manufacturer. That key will be in turn used to cryptographically sign the raw signal output from the sensor to verify that the image was indeed generated by that specific sensor.

Now if the image is compressed, this is obviously moot. But for important documentation and the like, it's feasible to store the signed raw signal to confirm that the image was taken by that specific camera. Of course, this depends on the security of the keystore, the trustworthiness of the manufacturer, etc.
Which is potentially useful if the aggregate is weighted appropriately and whatever insights respect the implications of using an aggregate. It's even more useful with the additional information that temperatures in the US tend to be highly correlated between areas.

Some useful insights if you have enough data points would be where in the year you are, which season it is, if it might be an El Nino or la Nina year, and over the long term if there are any secular trends like global warming...
> No, that's not true.

Which part is not true? It all looks correct to me.
I don't know how one can reasonably weigh between a medicine with known risks (and plausibly unknown risks!) and the unknown risks of something like psychedelics, which are not yet understood at all but anecdotatlly appear to potentially have a very high reward/risk ratio.

Shrooms is not cocaine, you can't OD on the stuff. That is not to say it can't cause other types of damage.

Not prescribing anything at all might be the safest course of action.

And here you also say that unlike the advice you give your patients you might decide differently when it comes to yourself.

> Not my job to defend conduct of others of decades ago.

I'm not saying this judgmentally, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to reconcile all these things.

Your predecessors clearly also meant the best and gave the most prudent advice they could at the time. This is something to factor into the risk profile. The most trust worthy thing to do is admit that there are limits to our knowledge. But I understand why you would hesitate to provide this asterisk with your advice as a lot of people will take it poorly and rush to webmd and homeopaths as a result.
While it’s confusing, it’s the industry standard to express inflation percentages on an annual basis.
Big Law and Big Auditing are seriously a place where to find unsexy jobs
That's a strange take on Socrates, it makes him sound like he died (intended to die?) for our sins like some kind of Jesus figure. I doubt he'd agree with it.

Anyway, I suspect you mean 'in vain'. Veins are those little tubes in your body that the blood flows through, in generally in the direction of the heart. Since Socrates died by poison one could argue that he literally died "in vein" but this is probably not the interpretation you were going for.

I agree with you on the teams thing, and in my opinion it has a strong relation to two-party systems.
Highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication is successful because it allows you to curate a community of good-faith communicators. Attempting to apply that when talking to bad-faith communicators leads to disaster.

Bad-faith communicators occupy a lot of powerful positions. Perhaps even the large majority.
Not where I live. Blue and white collar people can both be middle class.
It may not be as open as the Pebble, but Garmin does have a development ecosystem - :

https://developer.garmin.com/
Which parents are allowed to disallow their children from attending. Partial conjecture, but it's probably the same parents who are unwilling to talk to their children about sex.

That's how it was for my spouse, at least.
If there is an existing parser, like for a lot of templating languages, this is can be done, since templates are parsed to ruby in a separate step. Otherwise, it would require creating a ruby-based parser for a language, or porting the concepts to that language.
Seasonally adjusted data are adjusted.
"What" you are, right.

> US spent an epic amount of money attempting to build in Afghanistan

I wonder where all this money end up, then.

It really shows how the US failed in the Afganistan -- when the Afgan people prefer the Taliban over US occupation.

Btw, did you know Taliban banned poppy cultivation and opium production promptly after the US evac? Why did drug trade flourished under the US rule? (dont bother, I know the "approved" answer is that there was nothing else for the population to do)
This is extremely reductionist. It's like saying untying a balloon doesn't cause it to deflate, the deflation is caused by the random motion and collisions of the air molecules.
Imagine if it were true. Then maybe no Forever Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

Or something else horrid and gross would have developed.
What is the benefit of this over existing lectionaries?

I use https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading
possible to hardware hack to create a deep fake and simply pass it though the camera CCD to get it be crypto signed.
Update on the Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community
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There's Gamasutra (now renamed to GameDeveloper), there's 80lvl, Twitter - a lot of game devs are just active on twitter, so if you follow a few that intersect your interests you can build up a bubble around that. Discords are great as well, especially for local level communities. Look at GameJams going on online and around you?

There is really no central meeting point that is a constant (except maybe GDC itself). From my experience as organising game developer meetups it is really hard to get devs to talk - BUT when they do its a great experience for all!
I'd like to note that identifiers like passport number, phone number, or a credit card number, are not really numbers (despite the word "number"). Number is something the represents a quantity (for example, 3.5 km). Credit card number or phone number is not a quantity, it is just an identifier, a string made of digits. For example, there are phone numbers that start with zero (like 02), and the leading zeros would be lost if you try to convert it into an integer.

So if you need a database field or a variable for such identifier, you should choose a string type, not numeric.
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> there is no law requiring your brand new startup to be on AWS

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30272588.
Chart with components. The big news for me is that durables, which were leading inflation for a year, are now a net drag in the month-over-month
https://twitter.com/lookinggdlouis/status/151388254299014759...
> I'll take an unfatigable, indistractable, computer that literally has eyes in the back of its head, and on the side of its head, and the front, and can bounce radar under cars, etc over the pitiful example of a "safe (human) driver" we have now.

Yes, friend, and when we have those so will I.

Those (as yet still fictional) robot cars (and can we PLEASE call them "auto-autos"!?) are not the problem.

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> Drunk drivers are killers. People that text and drive are killers. ...

Yes, and it's arguably fucking crazy that we let them do that. The whole reason is a deliberate campaign to normalize the carnage: "speed demons" were replaced by "jay walkers" and now more people (in the USA) have been killed by cars than by all the wars we've fought.

"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

Anyhow, "people kill people so my robots should be allowed to kill people too." Is not a valid argument IMO.
Frustum Planes from the Projection Matrix
This was posted yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30992322
I hate my job and am not that well paid. I have also worked jobs like warehouse worker, janitor, retail, etc. So I've been there and it wasn't that bad.

I have slightly considered quitting and working in a warehouse. They are advertising $25-30/hr jobs plus overtime. At least I wouldn't have to deal with the bullshit at my current job. Unfortunately, I can't really do that since I have a family.
> Do you have an explanation for why the increased price of gasoline won’t just infect prices for all the goods and services which depend on it?

The price of gas is known to be volatile, it has gone up in the past without bringing the entire economy along with it, and also has gone down many times without making everything cheaper. The prices of retail goods don’t adjust instantaneously, and gas may well be below what it is now by this time next year. The price of gas might be a small minority fraction of the cost of producing most retail goods as well, so there’s no reason to assume that consumers will tolerate compensatory price hikes that blame gas while the price is falling.

This is the reason that the US Department of Labor excludes the price of gas as one of the core indicators of inflation, because the price of gas does not always reflect inflation, and frequently changes for other reasons independent of inflation.
It was indeed the ESP8266/ESP32 I had in mind. The ESP8266 is slightly over $1, but not much! (e.g. available here for $1.17 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32651747570.html)
Claiming "politics" as a reason a company should not take a stance on something has turned into a blanket statement used largely for attacks on Human Rights.

We are seeing it here with DDG, Disney, and many others in the last several years.
You're right, but given the context of the thread, it's worth pointing out that's not extra work that one doesn't also need to do with cloud hosting. Ought to test your backups and disaster recovery regularly, either way.
The "modal tool" I think they called it. It was accessed from a asterisk-marked drop-down menu.

T4nk by Kai, empee3 player by freeza and A.S.S. (AOL spamming system) by Mikey were my favorite AOL proggies. I remember hanging out in the private room "vb" a lot, with all the crackers and spammers chatsending their rates
Presumably the results in the reverse direction are sometimes ambiguous, so x1 -> y -> x2.

I wonder it there’s a general code improver that tries this transform on every function looking for a shorter x2 than x1.
Atlassian just gave us an estimate on our support ticket it's not pretty
Sure, energy used in operation is fine.

However, trying to cool a building via cold floors alone runs into condensation issues. Necessitating a separate air handling system which could be used alone, thus the expense.
> it calls the Saudi king and reminds him that he wants to increase oil production if he prefers himself untoppled

America no longer supports the House of Saud. It tolerates it. But were it to face a serious threat, apart from a Wahhabi fundamentalist, the U.S. would be unlikely to intervene. Riyadh knows this, which is why those calls aren’t very useful.

That said, the President does have dials. They are drilling permits and import restrictions.
https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki $5-10 pi + $3 cpld + some comparators and a DAC for the analog addon https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki/Bill-of-Materials...
It can also be defensive - if Fast were to somehow destroy Stripe's payment business, you want to have a piece of that pie.
And then, quite often, the police at various levels of government infiltrate the groups seeking accountability, engage in provocations to discredit them publicly and frame them for unrelated crimes for which they are prosecuted and punished, and actively coordinate with and/or passively use non-enforcement to enable opposed non-police groups to carry out violence against their members. (Of course, we can then acknowledge those inconvenient facts, educate people about them, and push for accountability, if we are willing to start the cycle over again.)

Is the US government less effectively repressive of dissent than the PRC? Sure. But it still does tend to violently repress dissent, especially when that is about conduct of policing or war.
Yet the EU has better standards and works better for all citizens of the EU in comparison to the United States, despite the cultural and language barriers.

You could have definitely said this twenty years ago and I wouldn't have blinked an eye, but times change. They are doing it... technology and data help governments administrate more efficiently over large land masses. Italy and Germany also have similar federal systems and, again, work better together than we do, although Italy is probably somewhat compareable. At least they have culture lol
That's possible. But I think the reason why this is interesting is because you are seeing the same kind of representation in the brain for two seemingly different phenomenon, motion and orientation.
It's intuitive to see how you could represent motion by an orientation (we do this with vectors in math), but its interesting to actually see it happen.
you probably need to open your eyes more. Most software has been database CRUD for a long time. However there are always interesting things going on

1) robotics are amazing right now

2) self driving cars

3) satellite systems, like starlink

4) drones and drone meshes

5) artificial limbs/prosthetics, including eyes, ears, spinal stimulation etc.

6) genetics and genetic analysis, protein folding, etc.

7) DIY - 3D printing/raspberry pi/arduino

8) crypto/blockchain and decentralized networks

9) virtual reality

Yeah if you are trying to sell more cheap chinese products or do social media, that kind of sucks.
I have the prog scene to thank for some of my first forays into code. Mostly I was just decompiling existing progz, and re-skinning them and then we had a little crew that would re-release them. Not bad for 6th/7th graders. It was so much fun.