skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that hasn't changed over the years is E-Ink never hiring a web designer to sell their products.
I wonder if this will be constructivist.
When it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Actually as callous as it sounds extra deaths are good for the economy.

More dead people means fewer competitors for all resources except labor. What that means is fewer people need stuff and there are fewer people to make stuff, so the stuff the dead people had is easy to obtain for the living while employers have to pay more for labor because there is less of it.

As evidence the black plague was considered one of the major events that ended the dark ages and the oppressions (relatively speaking) of the peasant class. Suddenly lord's needed to start giving their peasants rights and things to do or risk losing them to a lord that would give them those things.

It's horrible and callous but it is also a fact, especially when you consider many of those deaths were not among the most productive segments of society.
U, the internal energy is objective.

The free energy F = U - TS is the maximum amount of work you can extract from the system. This depends on how much you know about the system. S does indeed depend on what you know about the system.

See the Gibbs Paradox for more information.
Right up until you hook up that spectrum analyzer...
Humility. Quick progression can nourish a feeling of invincibility/superiority which will eventually come back to bite people.
Damages would hardly exceed $25k
Ranking All 20 Wordle Variants (That I'm Aware Of)
Hijacking the thread: is there any Smart Watch out there that I can use without any smart phone and that I can put music in it? Basically, I would like to use it as an mp3 player (so, ideally I would just need to plugin it to my laptop to transfer music).
Yes. Put some ear plugs in and crank up the Elder or Pelican. Way up.

Filtered through (muffled by) ear plugs, heavy metal is a good accompaniment to software work.
Rumors have been swirling for a while that the vaccines lowered your immune systems capabilities over the long term so this doesn't surprise me.
You have more features with Tusky (like being able to see the local timeline) than the official app.
Always wondering exactly what people mean when they talk of "civil unrest", and who and how will it start. Do the various riots in 2020 America or the Jan 6 storming of the capitol count?

On the other hand, Elon Musk Twitter purchase: $44bn. There's plenty of money out there still.

I think it's unlikely that merely raising rates will do anything, for two reasons: firstly there's a real need to do some fiscal policy as well, and secondly this inflation is being driven by real shortages not just the bidding up of goods. Chip shortages, fossil fuel shortages due to cutting Russia off the world market, food shortages, and the war in Europe's sixth-largest country destroying a lot of production capacity. Not to mention ongoing COVID costs.
Yes, and obvious if you are predicting out 2.5 million years that’s important. Though U238 is more plentiful and has a half life of 4.468 billion years. So, if the reactor needs a fixed amount of U235 that’s an issue but if you change the designs it’s less of a problem.

Really, it’s just more complicated than I wanted to get into.
Whatever is the driving factor behind the laws of physics seems to have “perfect information”. Not implying anything religious.
Also, Kubernetes was originally written in Java, and only got rewritten in Go after a few Go-savy folks joined the team and pushed the rewrite.
Sure, but that's irrelevant.

There are billions that are similar, and only one that's all 0.
My key takeaways:

1. Scientists: Japan’s Plan To Dump Nuclear Waste Into The Pacific Ocean May Not Be Safe

2. A panel of scientists has identified critical gaps in the data supporting the safe discharge of wastewater into the Pacific

3. Independent scientists are questioning Japan’s plans to dump just over 1 million tons of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, following a review of the available evidence

4. Last year Japan announced that wastewater from the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroyed in March 2011 following the Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami, would be dropped into the Pacific in 2023

5. “So these are all the things we need to consider.” Confusing The Masses The Pacific Islands Forum convened its panel of experts – specializing in policy and different scientific disciplines – because of the highly technical nature of Japan’s plan

6. But panel scientist Robert Richmond, director of the University of Hawaii Kewalo Marine Laboratory, says the panel unanimously believes that critical gaps in information remain

7. Through phytoplankton, Richmond says, the radioactive element could then find its way into the greater food system as the microscopic plants are consumed by mollusks and small fish, which are later consumed by other fish and eventually humans

8. The IAEA is expected to deliver reports from its site visits in the next two months, according to its website, and would release a fully comprehensive report before any water is released
I can't tell if the flowchart is a joke, but I enjoy how 5 out of 6 answers (with the 6th being... email lol) recommends using a database.
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Another thing that contributes to the confusion which you have noted but not fully realized is that there are two different concepts that use the same equation and the same word: "entropy".

Information entropy and statistical entropy are two different things.
Not all values are known to you or terraform until after the apply. For example, on AWS, publishing a new version of lambda might have the ARN as known after apply since it includes the version # as part of the string. Or something like the calculated hash of an S3 object that would be known after apply. You can still reference these values in other parts of your terraform, and it will propagate the <
‘known after apply’ state there too. These dependencies are built into a graph to determine which items should be applied first, so all references to unknown data can be resolved in the correct order.
I don’t think this rant is toxic - there’s no personal attacks or rude words of any sort, and the tone is lighthearted - but it is all criticism. Maybe that’s enough to qualify it as toxic.

However, the author has real Go bonafides, he wrote many of these libraries: https://github.com/itchio?q=&type=all&language=go&sort=

I presume working on the above software burned some deep scars. Their switch from Go to Rust is motivated by this kind of issue.

(To be honest, I also stopped writing Go for fun because these kinds of paper cuts build up. I enjoy Go when writing stuff in its sweet spot - dealing mostly with network bytes in a server environment of my choosing. For me, venturing too far out of that domain is joyless, but not exactly painful.)
I really don’t want to sound calloused because caring for the weak and the elderly is a pillar of civilizations, but my impression was that the bulk of “excess deaths” were not among the most economically active populations. I could just as easily see this having the opposite economic effect: reducing the burden on the state for such things as retirement and Medicaid.
I only have an undergraduate degree in physics, but I think the point you may be missing is that information requires some physical medium to store it.

So entropy is very roughly speaking the property of the system that determines how big a hard drive you need to store a description of that system.
This won't solve the content quality problem, in fact it will worsen the experience and cause more churn. Trying to please stockholders will backfire.
You're right. My mistake. I'll write an edit
Agreed. 16 second marketing videos doesn't "tease" anything it just makes you wonder what they are hiding.
Well you got my opinion right at least. Distrust in the government is exactly why I have always opposed government administrated Universal Health Care. Deregulation and elimination of most health insurance still looks like the best path, but things are getting bad and at this point I would support anyone willing to try a radical change.
What I’ve read is: Refrigerated trucks only have so much fuel to maintain the coolers. Typically, this is enough fuel for a standard haul, but forcing the trucks to stand motionless in the heat leads to the coolers running out of fuel and the food spoiling in the heat. Keep in mind that food safety regulations has specific guidelines for time/temp that may not align with a common expectation for “spoiled”.
Given that the economy grew 6.9% previous quarter, over the past two quarters, the US economy is growing at an annual rate of 5.5% - which is very high.
So they wanted out in 2020 and they’re still on in 2022. So either the language isn’t really that bad or they have an attention deficit?
> The internet is still a series of dumb tubes, as I see it.

The internet is a series of contractual agreements between large corporate entities that, till now, have provided an interface that is like a series of dumb tubes. Up till now, they have operated on the principle that everybody has the same color money and should therefore receive the same service.

However.

These days, large corporate entities need to be aligned with the ESG rules established by the major investment banks who provide them with finances and sit on their boards. That includes an obligation to fight back against forces deemed insufficiently progressive, to avoid the rise of another Trump. Nobody wants to be remembered for complicity in the rise of fascism in the USA, like IBM's complicity in the holocaust. If a site on the internet is seen to be a locus for fascist voices, it will soon be acceptable for that site to no longer be on the internet. Better to enter the kingdom with one eye than to be cast with both eyes into Gehenna.
The fact the Fed is even contemplating a rate hike tells me they're misreading what's going on. The inflation we're seeing isn't a result of a hot economy needing to be kept in check, it's the fact that 40% of China's production is on lockdown and just about every product made, regardless of where it's made, is relying on part(s) coming from China. Supply is constrained and therefore prices are rising. Likewise, supply is constrained and that's impacting industrial output - hence a shrinking economy.
Having excess capacity is necessary and should be a consideration to build a resilient system. It's not about trying to get to 100% efficiency, it's about managing to what you care about and resiliency can be one of those items.

It's hard to adequately staff to that level when the systems/processes are largely unmanaged. By definition, an unmanaged process doesn't know how much nursing gets spent on each element, from patient care to admin work. So it becomes just a guess as to how many you need; when people work in unmanaged processes they tend to feel overwhelmed and the knee-jerk reaction is to hire more people. And often when you add more people to an unmanaged process, the inefficiency can compound, leading you to feel like you need more people to fill the continuing gaps.

Hiring more people can be part of the solution. But you need to understand and manage the process first to get to the right answer.
GDP is always reported as "Real GDP" with the inflation taken out. In fact the need to survey inflation to calculate GDP is the primary motivator for surveying inflation in the first place. Surveying for inflation is a ton of work, but its worth it to know GDP.
While I agree it's more likely that carousels are more of a way to satisfy stakeholders than to actually provide something of value to users, most of the usability issues with them are solved by simply disabling auto-play, or at least disable auto-play as soon as the user interacts with the carousel in any way.
I am curious, please do send the fair evaluation, or the mistakes in this post if there are any.
Even if it's not a preprint, it includes one of the worst actors during the entire pandemic (McCullough[1]) in a 2nd tier food journal and it's first author isn't a biologist but a computer scientist who's already published a bunch of antivax nonsense in "naturopathic" journals[2]... why are HNers so obsessed with being 'contrarian' to the point of promoting just pure scientific garbage?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough#COVID-19

[2] - https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2021/SeneffNigh_mRNA_vac...
Everything is a question of tradeoffs. I have to deal with cross-platform Go code on a small project at work. The requirements are modest and the Windows file system code is mostly for developer testing. The production system is Linux. Yes, it's sometimes not pretty and Go was clearly designed for Posix style file systems. We chose Go is that it is fairly high level, it gets the job done, and we don't have to worry about what's in the runtime on the box (e.g. library or package dependencies). It suits our needs. The other options we have (e.g. statically compiled, native C/C++, Rust, or more weirdos like Ada) just aren't as fit for the job. I also ran into the same problems using Afero for unit testing. Moral of the story - pick the right tool for the job or abstract it out a layer and make it fit better.
It's not exactly a "narrative of the moment" or common talk. It's a hopeful fantasy of the right that is ever present, but seems to always burn brighter during tragic events or when democrats are in power (which to them, is a tragic event). It's incredibly ironic when you consider this is the same side that likes to call themselves patriots, but seem to always hope for a time when they could openly kill their fellow Americans.
I grew up around Chicago and ever since I get mildly indignant when I can see the other side of lake people describe as "big".
No, that's not better. If the outcomes were different, that's for reasons within their control. That's the whole point of this entire thread! There is no voodoo in self-hosting mail!

You either get everything right (due diligence of your provider and the IPs they're giving you, configuration of your mail server, not sending spam, monitoring your reputation) and your mail is delivered, or you don't and it isn't. That's it. Getting everything right, and knowing what you have to get right, comes with experience.
I couldn't become a nurse. It requires hard word, dedication, and focus. I can pull off being a programmer because it provides flexibility.

Saying someone's profession doesn't require "talent or brains" is just insulting. Saying something is "unskilled labor" is one thing, but if you're having a heart attack in a hospital bed, you're going to be lucky there's a person there with some talent at dealing with that (i.e. a nurse).
That requires the profit from the number of loan originations to non-W2 workers to be enough higher than the costs and errors produced by detailed human underwriting (against adversarial applicants, which both W2 and non-W2 applicants are, but W2s are harder to fudge).

It’s surely possible for that assumption to be true, but I start out skeptical.
Temperatures are permanently below freezing almost everywhere on the moon if you dig a few meters into the regolith. If you buried some ice underground it would stay there for a while but if you don't wrap it up in a vapor barrier it would eventually sublimate and disappear.

If there was a geological structure that trapped the water vapor (like the trapping structures in oil and gas deposits on Earth) and maintained some vapor pressure there could be deposits of water ice anywhere on the moon.

It would be really cool if the permanently shadowed areas had large amounts of nitrogen and carbon oxide ice because that would provide most of the volatiles to support technology and civlization on Luna.

(Without that, lunar water is less transformative than you think. There is a certain ratio of nitrogen/hydrogen and carbon/hydrogen you need to do industry and you're still limited by the need to ship up whatever isn't available on Luna. Similarly as a rocket fuel hydrogen from Luna competes with hydrogen from Earth and with Starship-grade rockets Earth hydrogen is pretty competitive.)
It's a combination. But if you look at the actual data as it relates to consumer consumption, pretty clear the primary driver was demand driven.

The port backlogs that started in 2021 were due to excess consumption triggered by stimulus

Retail sales chart:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS

Tell me you don't see a problem here ^ ?
I like Elon, too, but "no qualifications to run a rocket company" is simply delusional. He majored in physics at Penn and econ at Wharton and went to grad school at Stanford studying material science (for two days, just enough to get to signal being smart). I have a harder time imagining what kind of background would be better being CEO of a rocket company.

If he runs Twitter like 4chan, it will surely fail, but I think he has more to his plan than he is willing to share publicly at this time.
Rumors backed by legitimate data, data that didn't wasn't generated during clinical trials because it wasn't looked for; arguably because the trials were purposefully designed to be inadequate - multiple proof points to support this argument.
Ah sorry, my mistake. It's only 0.5x.

14th page – Europe MAUs = 418M

(I looked at Asia-Pacific and was perplexed.)
I'm curious what the 995 bad results you're getting from reddit are.
"similar" is in the eye of the observer! This fact should be especially clear in the context of bit strings. If 10010001111110101000 is my login password, don't be surprised if other permutations fail to grant you access, even if you have the correct number of 1's and 0's.
In computer science a high entropy means a high informational value. So any information that is not the expected value has a high content of information and therefore a high entropy.

In thermodynamics the case is a bit to the opposite as a high entropy means a low state of energy and therefore less internal processes within a system or none at all.
Meanwhile I've been using vanilla pip+virtualenv with possibly a Makefile and direnv (.envrc) for convenience for years and have zero issues with it.

When I occasionally encounter a version compatibility issue, I pin the offender in setup.py, done.

If reproducible builds/distributions are important, then I add a Dockerfile.

I will say that I primarily develop applications, not libraries meant for wider consumption. If I do create a library, it's for my own narrow use case. It seems like some of the value in these modern frameworks is reducing complexity over multiple supported versions and platforms.

I'm not saying my workflow is in the mainstream necessarily, but the standard community tooling has been fine for me.
Durable goods make up ~20% of the US economy at best (~12.7% on average according to the Cleveland Fed [1]).

Food, energy, & financing are >50% of the US economy.

The rest of the economy is primarily services - which have very little impact from the supply of screws & toasters coming out of China going down.

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/newsroom-and-events/publicat....
Something to note about your local bank/CU. They might originate the loan, but as sure as water is wet they’re going to sell it to someone else for service.

If you have a good working relationship that you can used for good terms, then go for it. But don’t go with a local bank because you think you’ll continue to work with them.
I mean... yes. This is the case with Microsoft, Apple, Google and pretty much anyone else on the Fortune 500 that owns a software stack. I still find it hard to believe Facebook would go out of their way to intentionally flag random political articles for seemingly minimal gain.
I think you’re confusing people’s online rhetoric with their IRL interactions. If there was no civil war after 2008, there sure as hell won’t be one this time when people are doing better by most metrics.

American’s financial situations are actually quite good right now. Everybody is just anxious as fuck, for many reasons.
>Always wondering exactly what people mean when they talk of "civil unrest", and who and how will it start. Do the various riots in 2020 America or the Jan 6 storming of the capitol count?

A whole lotta people, mostly outside the HN demographics, are real pissed off about a decade of public policy that has amounted to making their lives worse and worse at every juncture and now it's finally getting to the point where ends are hard to meet.

I am not dumb enough to try to make specific predictions but that's a pretty substantial powder keg.
I do basically the same thing and I'm quite happy. Does it really counts as a "main computer" though?
This is super concerning. With inflation and a contraction in economy, this is looking like the potential for stagflation that we haven't seen since the '70s.

EDIT: Not here to fear monger since people are silently downvoting away. It's one quarter followed by a relatively strong quarter. But inflation issues have been present for a while and is growing worse. World wide conflict between Russia-Ukraine that affects everyone via energy. Concerns about a recession have been in the works for a while now as well. If you have confidence that my fears are unfounded, I'm happy to hear them.
You can also include the subreddit in the site operator for the more lazy of us i.e.

pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes

Can't force it to return the old.reddit.com versions, unfortunately.
There is also financialization that has been going for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financialization

Finance industry share going up vs. Real economy output, which could be cause or the consequence of high valuations.
> toxic

The author presents things about the language that they don't like. How on earth is that "toxic?"

Have we reached the point where "toxicity" is just "things I don't like hearing?"
You expected a science article like this coming from scientists paid by governments and the pharma industry?
"Keep doing 'It' but at our company" is not even slightly motivating.

That's true, but what about "Keep doing 'It' but at our company for half the hours and double the salary"?

Then you could take the extra time and money and work on your +1 and +2.
An odd thing to say after people spent the last couple summers burning things down
>"You don't need a civil war when you can vote for a different government."

This is one of those things that works perfectly in principle but does not seem to work in practice. I've lived in solidly red or blue districts all my life and in only one election did the party representation switch to a different team. That was only because blue team had two top-tier names splitting the vote which allowed a red team representative to win the special election. They were defeated in the next general election by a landslide.

Furthermore, I also see Congress as having a single digit to low teen approval rating as evidence that being unhappy with one's government does not correlate with actually getting "a different government". Without getting into a long drawn out discussion of why this is the case, I nevertheless think that voting is not the solution it is touted to be.

Edit: I still vote regularly and I encourage others to do so as well. It's not a totally hopeless situation but people should have realistic expectations and expect to be disappointed.
Thanks for the Baudrillard recommendation. Not someone I’d heard of.

Your choice of words (beef/cow, venison/deer, mutton/sheep, pork/pig) is interesting because they are all of either French or Germanic origin according to your consumption/production logic - likely Norman or Saxon I guess.

I found your comments on being “trained in setting the scene” to be curious, as it has seems to have more in common with a magical or mystical training than the familiarization with brute logic and scientific process that was my own education. In anthropological terms I should not be surprised, every culture has its Brahmin class adept in the use of secret knowledge.

It’s been enjoyable exchanging and given me much to think about.
Can you please elaborate on why you think it's toxic?