skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I can identify a variety of purity spirals in non-North American cultures.

It does seem, however, that US-based social media companies set up systems that foster and fuel them, like warm a Gulf of Mexico (am I a racist for using that name?) makes hurricanes (not an intentionally racist suggestion).

Here is a question I don't know the answer to: are purity spirals common/problematic on WeChat?
However, the spread they make on their transactions gets wider as price action is more volatile.
Apple rewrote Preview.app post-Mavericks and crippled it in the process; text box placement definitely lost functionality
I mean, there are managed SQL services too. Comparing managed SQLite to DIY Postgres seems disingenuous.

EDIT: I didn’t expect this to be controversial, but I’d like to know where I’ve erred. If you need lightstream to make SQLite operationally simple (beyond single servers, anyway), that seems pretty analogous to RDS to make Postgres operationally simple, right?
Agreed! It demonstrates how dramatically the answer changes depending on exactly how you ask the question. Suppose Lincoln could get $50 million (with those funds ultimately sourced from a criminal enterprise) in each of four different scenarios. I asked 8 people locally and here's how many would take the money.

(A) The government tracks down the ransomware guy, seizes his assets, and decides that $50 million is Lincoln's fair share to reimburse Lincoln's losses (8 of 8 would take the money).

(B) Lincoln tracks down the ransomware guy, takes him to court, and wins a civil judgment of $50 million (8 of 8 would take the money).

(C) Lincoln tracks down the ransomware guy, their lawyers show proof of Lincoln's losses and how much they could potentially win in a civil trial, and the parties agree to a $50 million out-of-court settlement (7 of 8 would take the money).

(D) A ransomware criminal proactively contacts Lincoln, the criminal won't comment on whether he had any role in harming Lincoln (and Lincoln doesn't know either), but the criminal offers to donate $50 million to Lincoln anyway (2 of 8 would take the money).
Love it. Seriously can't wait for the first images this summer.
"The pound peg broke because the price it was pegged at was fundamentally mispriced."

The pound peg broke because the other side of the peg with infinite capacity - the Bundesbank - refused to undertake their part of the bargain, buying pounds for new DMs.

Pegs can only be stable if each issuer takes out the excess liquidity when the price moves in their direction.

No currency can stabilise itself by selling foreign. It can only stabilise itself by suppressing an increase in its own value with devaluation - as we can see recently with the Rouble.

In other words currencies can only cap, they can't collar.
I beg to differ. Go has been moving at a glacial pace. Generics took forever to implement, aren't even feature complete (no type parameters on methods), and have no integration with the standard lib. Meanwhile Java is adding lots of new features and versions at a quick pace.
How well does this scale for larger data sets? Could I use it with 100GB of data for instance?
> money laundry, illegal transactions, and bribes.

Is it good for those things if you have to launder it AGAIN (with fees) just to get it back to a practical fiat currency?
What's wrong with tables? Datatables are my jam!
I do wonder if the preference for serifs in long text bodies in print media is due to a reasons of historic technical limitations similar to the low PPI resolutions on older screen displays.

For example. It is easy to imagine older print technology being prone to ink bleed (particularly on mass print media such as books and news papers) which becomes very visible on small the smaller font-sizes prominent in the same media. I can also see how such bleed would be more disruptive without the serifs and the serif fonts would then be preferable.

With modern printers (or screen displays for that matter) such concerns would be as obsolete as the concerns that the serifs turn into smudges on low resolution screens.
Nuclear waste literally comes from power plants. If their residual heat could be used to generate electrical power, it would be done already.

It can be (and is, although not everywhere) used, for cogeneration - residual heat from any thermal plant used for district heating/industrial heating processes.
Cause people will abuse it and and a dozen 100 emojis to their messages - please keep the status quo
> The Hoover Dam generates, on average, about 4 billion kilowatt-hours (4 TWh) of hydroelectric power each year for use in Nevada, Arizona, and California - enough to serve 1.3 million people.

Edit: Looks like the "single hydroelectric plant" is the Three Gorges. Hot dam, that really puts Hoover to shame.

> The Three Gorges Dam has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW) since 2012 (10% of China's electricity).
Practical Linear Algebra for Data Science
This is ripe for survivors bias. Nobody remembers the time people said “X is just a fad”… and it was
Clearview AI promises not to sell face-recognition database to most US business
http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-f...

And this is from 2016.
cool UI design
It's not about fetuses, it's about sex. Some conservatives are already making noise about contraceptives, IVF, even miscarriages are becoming suspicious. Also, other rights based on privacy such as gay marriage are on the chopping blocks. Also sex ed, and 100 other school sex issues that the right has already been in a purity spiral over. There are endless ways that conservatives dream about restricting our sex lives.
New Startup Ideas (2010)
> "Heresy" and "pseudo-science" are not synonyms.

They are when your definition of “science” is an argument from authority.

> "Ignorance" and "idolatry" definitely aren't even similar. This point is poorly argued

Idolatry is the worship of false idols — worshipping something other than the one true god.

The parallel with “glorification of ignorance” should be obvious enough.

> Certainly there's always been pseudo-science. Far more prevalent, perhaps. But never has it been more harmful.

Pseudo-science has never been more harmful? Really?

How about the use of pseudo-scientific eugenics to label and justify sterilization — and often, murder - of undesirables?

That’s just recent history.

We’ve done worse in a myriad of small ways, for longer, from positions of much greater ignorance.

> Choose any intersection of science and politics, and there is no obvious pattern of science winning.

You don’t believe there’s a clear pattern of science winning over the course of recent human history?
US health insurers are required to spend large majority of revenue paying claims, which does not cap profits absolutely but does proportionately.
>"horrible waiting periods for elective care, and non-emergent surgeries"

Same as in the US. Three months is the minimum.

Hell, I couldn't even schedule a tooth cleaning with a new dentist less than six months out - I called close to 10 dentist offices.
Its a perfect metaphor for the kind of environment the FED created in the last few years for risk assets imo.
People who were hired to work onsite before the pandemic shouldn’t be surprised they’re being dragged back into the office
I love Preview but since the Monterey upgrade and this M1 Max, mine constantly loses the ability to actually preview something with spacebar. It will only show me a thumbnail. I'll have to kill and relaunch the Finder a few times a day to regain the normal functionality.

Anyone else seen this and managed to resolve it?
Yes, advertising definitely does detrimentally affect consumers...

But I'll insist Sugar and sweetners, do not need any advertising whatsoever!

Sugar sells itself. And these guys and gals know it and they pump it into everything, including most "healthy" things.
The John Lam Podcast: Stories from Microsoft’s DevDiv
The pseudocode for the flight + hotel saga is quite long and messy and I would not immediately recognize that this exhausts all the possibilities that might go wrong.

I am not sure here, but, instead of encoding the desired and actual states via "the current place in the program", maybe it would make sense to write this program as one big for-loop that looks at the desired state and the actual state (explicitly stored in the variables), then does exactly one step to move closer to the goal, and, based on the outcome, updates these variables? I.e. apply the transformation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_program_theorem#Sin...
> The Ruble is way up as it's no longer safe to keep money out of Russia.

The Ruble is up because of capital and currency controls.
From the quote it seems obvious that the 'flight to Mars' comment is really focused on her own limited experience as a ""suburban midwestern teenager with a severe anxiety disorder". Not saying India is so weird it's like Mars.

She could have said the same expression about New York.
It's quite entertaining that when electronics and clothes go on sale people go buy buy buy, but when stocks go on sale people sell like crazy. People are weird.
I was doing the mobile phone typing.

The housekeepers were immigrants and saving up to open AirBnB properties in Mexico as their next salary/profession/business.

They were going down to check on what they were investing in or actually buy the properties or something similar to that.

I don't know where it was. It was probably close to one of the vacation areas which are supposed to be safer. Not sure if it was their home town / area or not.

And then there are stories like this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-mexico-beach-resort-2-...

I suppose you can point to killings in the US and turf wars and the like, but ... the vacation areas are supposed to be more heavily policed / controlled since they are such huge profit centers.
Ask, or demand?
I haven't given much thought to type annotations.

pandas recommends using accessors to extend DataFrames (as we do in Woodwork), which are actually just decorators:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/development/ext...
My "ACA plan" (Individual, bronze) through my state's exchange costs $2770 in premiums, which seems relatively good until you add the $8250 deductible. Now we're up to $11,020 for one person. Plus we're not counting whatever portion of my taxes also goes to healthcare expenses for myself or others already.
The Desert’s Fragile Skin Can’t Take Much More Heat
Aren’t these first images too?
> the sales pitch is that it's quicker to move in and out of a stable coin then it is convert to cash

That's true for bank account deposits as well. The sales pitch for this specific stablecoin is (was?) apparently an almost 20% APR on deposits.

> There's been enough exchanges disappearing with people's money

What's the functional difference between that and a stablecoin issuer disappearing with people's money?
In the event of a serious war, I do not see how a side that is losing due to satellites does not just end up creating the Kessler Syndrome. Seems like the the continuation of scorched earth warfare in modern times.
Will comment I think the hardest thing is getting users. I tried to make a dating site almost a decade ago, I learned a lot from it but I had to seed it with fake profiles and yeah, ultimately it went nowhere.

What is this 'webring' thing on that site

> https://webring.xxiivv.com/

Huh it looks like an old thing (wiki)
It's a bit awkward since "poisonous" usually refers to things you eat, and sandboxes or their contents are generally not eaten.

If you want to continue the sandbox metaphor, which I do like, "playing in the Fed's sandbox until the bottom fell out" might work. Or even "toxic sandbox".
> Affirm

A credit firm whose customer base is primarily folks who have to finance their small ticket item purchases in order to afford them is going to have a tough time in a rising interest rate environment. Their margins will compress as their cost of capital rises, and their default rate will rise as their borrowers slowly approach insolvency in a recessionary environment. I would be cautious about investing in anyone who is lending to borrowers who don't have sterling credit and/or strong balance sheets and durable cashflows this late in the cycle.
COVID stimulus certainly did go to people and businesses that didn't need it. Or didn't need as much of it as they got.

However, PPP didn't adequately cover some of the businesses that needed it the most.

Consider somebody who is bootstrapping a small business because they were packaged-out of their corporate job a year or two before the pandemic began. They couldn't afford to draw anything close to what they need to live on in the year prior to the pandemic. So the PPP payment formula didn't approximate their true needs.

People in that situation had no choice but to try for EIDL. But EIDL required income reported on a Schedule C or an 1120 / 1120S, and if you didn't have that because you were still finding the customers that could sustain the business, then in all likelihood your business either died an early death or came out of the deepest part of the crisis in much worse shape than when it began.
Very little, if at all, the value of crypto has been created independent of the money supply. According to economists all inflation is created when the money supply increases faster than the output of goods. You can think of each crypto as its own startup where the value is locked in the startup and only a little bit is converted into currency but the money supply does not change since there are no new dollars being created. The dollars to buy it have to come from the current money supply.

Also, unlike other assets, such as real estate, few banks are willing to make loans against it so the money supply has not expanded much that way. So even if crypto goes to $0 it won't affect the money supply much.

If crypto becomes an actual currency that can be directly exchanged for goods or banks will lend against it without much trouble then maybe it will affect inflation since at that point 2 currencies would be competing for the same goods.
As of 2020, only 1% of physicians opted out of Medicare[0]. That is an increase of only 0.3% since 2013. Furthermore, in my experience, physicians that opt out of Medicare refuse to accept any insurance, so the number of Medicare opt-outs is probably more of a proxy for opting out of insurance entirely. It is really not “a lot”.

[0] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-many-physicians...
What would deep field show that these images doesn’t?
Dividing things into different senior/junior tranches or grouping together things to reduce uncorrelated risks is not a recent innovation. It’s been important to finance for a long time. I don’t think this has much to do with CDOs.
b$st$rd maybe
Weird MTUs: DSL with PPPoE encapsulation, maybe? iirc they tend to use 1492 or 1452 rather than the usual 1500.
Its not about "winning" its about skimming enough off the top that you end up rich and someone else is holding the bag.

We don't prioritize punishing white collar crimes.

They will keep doing it because as far as they're concerned it works. I guarantee you these folks have been partying it up since the second they had the cash on hand.
From my experience working at a private insurer, (1) is, unfortunately for the body politic, more complicated than meets the eye.

The payor mix narrative has attractive qualities: it makes the private insurance companies sound like they're subsidizing care, the logical implication is that if we made these atlases shrug with M4A, the local PCP would go bankrupt. In reality, the narrative is at best reductionist and at worst misleading. But it rhymes with the truth, so it has a lot of mileage.

Private insurance reimbursements are negotiated in multiples of medicare because insurers and hospital groups alike expend tremendous amounts of money each year in administrative costs to challenge claims back and forth.

A surprising proportion of private insurance payouts are never reimbursed at the negotiated price. But hospital groups are OK with this, because it allows them to deduct the difference as a loss. Accountants rejoice!

Medicare/Medicaid prices are "low" because (1) the government has a strong bargaining position, (2) the population served by those fees has confounding variables of age and disability which raises the relative price of care (3) the government does not play claim-challenging games anywhere close to the extent of private insurers.

Private insurance companies and big hospital groups benefit the most from the status quo, and have the most to lose from medicare for all. But it would not be doom and gloom.

Medicare can adjust their prices to match the new population and tax base, hospital groups can stop running mini debt collection agencies, etc. There are real cost savings in M4A.

I think what's most likely to happen is an expansion of medicare advantage, (ma4a?). Since it's a program that effectively nationalizes the existing regime of private insurance.
This is an amazing list, though I'm curious given how accurate the rest of this list is how you drew the conclusion that code reviews are a waste of time?
Oh no! The horrors of getting down voted. Imagine the blood bath if I said something pro social justice in this indignant thread.
> As I said... wilfred social science...

I don't know what the point is supposed to be here.

> Here's a nice visual graph that I like: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/12/7-things-to...

> Go put your finger on the republican line and see where it moves.

Ok. I downloaded the gif and went through it frame by frame. What it shows is that the Median Democrat stayed exactly the same during 1998-2011, while the Median Republican moved right the whole period of 2004-2011.

Anyway, this story is from 2014, so it's missing the last 8 years.
People weren't saying the "Internet is a fad" back then.

They/we were saying that many of the businesses that were being heavily invested in were unsound because they lacked a real plan towards profitability. Many businesses had no chance of turning profit, but were VC funded like crazy. I worked at a company that was doing "group buy" purchases and the product themselves weren't really getting real group discounts, so they just burned investment money to discount them. Literally buying customers under the thought that getting scale would just eventually solve the problem. And then the whole house of cards fell apart.

It wasn't until a few years later, when Google figured it out with AdWords, etc. that people started making real money.

There's no inherent reason to assume that this will happen with cryptocurrency.
Also, if these people have children, getting the children to eat the healthy version of things, is more demanding that getting that burger, hotdog, taco or greasy take-out, than getting them to eat brussels sprouts and lentils. Only truly impoverished people eat food that are made from scratch because there is no job to juggle and you're just juggling food budgets.
You’re really asking a lot of the word “probably” here...
I mean cash is better for strictly better for illegal activities. That misconception has stuck and just stays there. One leaves way to many crumps with non-private digital assets. And private ones are treated like the plague.

Plus KYC and compliance checks for any exchange in the USA and EU (dunno about the rest of the world) practically bans anything iffy.

Compliance requirements have been stricter in Coinbase from my point of view than my banks...
It was also how computers were documented, since the paper would take up tens of feet of shelves. You could get the source code for VMS on fiche for example.
I read parent’s post as an argument for simple sites where nothing more is needed. If your goal is to convey information in an acceptable format, _and you want to manage it yourself_, it can be hand written pretty straightforward in a notepad, in single html page with a bootstrap include.

If your dry cleaning business needs a page with the opening hours, it’s not more complicate than managing your expanses in Excel. Except for the hosting, which is another story altogether.

To your point, this is also where the value of Squarespace like solutions lies, for people who still want/need to touch their site but win’t go the length to understand how it works.

Now,

> people who might want to concentrate on running their dry cleaning business or dental practice

Do these people even want to deal with a website themselves, and not straight ask someone to build and maintain it for them ? The same way that cleaning business wouldn’t spend their days in Illustrator designing new business cards or posters, they’d ask someone else to do it.
The mechanism of DAI is quite a bit different. If the value of the underlying collateral crashes the created DAI is destroyed, which raises the value of DAI from its peg [1]. The only scenario in which DAI depegs in a direction against DAI holders is if the underlying collateral (i.e. Ethereum) flash crashes before anyone can liquidate the minted DAI.

[1] https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper#maker-protocol-auctions
you make it seem easy, and yet not everyone can code.

Yet the value of computers and code is almost indispensable.
Please dream out loud. :) What would those tools look like?
Agreed, but the comment I was responding to seemed to be surprised, concerned, or at least saw it as a negative that a Christian college was populated by Christians.
AirTag helps Australian photographer recover over $7000 worth of stolen gear
I honestly believe that stock is headed to $0 and may de-list. disclosure: may short it
>The time it takes to look up potential configs, figure out how to make changes, play around and see if that’s what they want from their editor, and in general figure out what’s possible doesn’t really happen in a “modest amount” of time.

I'm saying that the developers could, with modest effort, provide a dramatically improved out-of-the-box experience for 80% of users that obviates the need for a lot of config futzing.
Civilian and military
When Robinhood's stock tanked, employees were given a bump in equity. I suspect Coinbase will do the same if they haven't already.
Sucks to suck, China
Fair.

Still, CDOs are the most recent example where they went wrong on a very large scale, enough to wreck the USA's real estate market in 2008... and then topple down a lot of banks as well.
You successfully nerdsniped me and I'm having a lot of trouble finding discussion of the formal implications of what they call "strong consistency" here, other than reading that they did in fact formally verify it to some extent. The best that I could find is this other HN thread where people claim it is causally consistent in a discussion about a Deep Dive (frustratingly shallow, as it happens): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968627
Doesn't that make UST a derivative of LUNA? The price of UST when it is below $1 should be equal to the expected percentage that LUNA falls during the time it takes to convert your UST to LUNA and then sell that LUNA. Since doing that actually inflates the LUNA supply there is no point at which LUNA should stop falling (absent other value propositions) and therefore UST should always be below $1 and so LUNA should inflate away.

I'm probably missing something, but stable this is not.
This behavior is by design
I think it's perfect: soldiers of the old guard. I think many of us who love Emacs fall into that category.
How do you feel about StableGains, the ycombinator backed one?
Do like we did in the bbs era and pre Unicode emoji standard and use ascii compliant smilies
Neither Gates nor Zuck went to UC. Any dropout can run the world.
>Agile as per the Agile Manifesto isn't bad. At all.

If you actually read it it really is just a bunch of words that doesn't specify much of anything at all. To me it reads as something incredibly vague and hand-wavy and how on earth modern Agile has been inferred out of the text of the agile manifesto is somewhat beyond me.
I’m sure they thought about it a lot.

Thinking alone doesn’t really help if you dont know shit about finance.