skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't happen unless the fear of food shortage becomes an actual food shortage.

Ethanol subsidies let farmers already invested in corn grow more corn than they might otherwise sell for food, and politicians get to say they're doing something for renewable energy.

As with so many other things in politics, the good of society isn't the driving factor. Money and talking points are king.
The cause of this round is not some sudden bubble burst. Fed raise rates because they want to signal that they are serious about taming the inflation. That caused sharp sentiment change in capital market.

The cause of this round of inflation can be many things, we've been in low-interest environment for 10+ years with occasional QEs. It hasn't inflated the economy as much as we hoped for that 10+ years. It is lazy thinking to attribute back to QE for this round of inflation.
Though I had almost zero ways I would actually use the learning from this course (and indeed really never did any ML after and have probably forgotten it all) it was still a really fun brain exercise to revisit some math and then see how ML thinking worked! I have recommended it quite a few times.
Vangelis: Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner composer dies at 79
Get a job at a FAMGAN and capitalize on that talent.
Bernie Madoff was able to fulfill withdrawals for years, until the house of cards collapsed. Being able to redeem 10% isn't something to brag about.

Bank depositors have the FDIC as a backstop, too.
It's up to you...I'm 55, and still going strong...
Haven't had any trouble keeping up or finding jobs.

Have Fun!
Probably 2-3 times a week actually. My team is specifically the spear point of new tech and integrating it for the company to use.

From a point of self-evaluation I think it would help if I tried to listen more than talk.
I've been on an LG Ultrafine 5k for a year and I consider anything less to be borderline unusable.

> I have pretty good vision

My vision is terrible. Maybe the relationship works the other way around?
Yes as a "greybeard" i noted first that the headline performance gain was 10% & 11% this for a team given far more time and resources to optimize for their goal than most teams or individuals dev. I raised an eyebrow at that

However devs seeking employment should always be prepared to play up to what is trending vs what is appropriate.
Why not take your skills and professionally contract with yourself. You mention..

>> This feeling of loneliness got quantified when the commit number came up.

What if instead of commits, it was the # of external contracts you are able to maintain per week.

If that doesn't make you feel better, then maybe you need to invest into building a portfolio that people can contact you externally, while you are still managing/maintaining more internally.

Additionally, when you work for yourself, you have the ability to set the terms upfront, to minimize meetings/back+forth communication, and you send one-way updates with progress updates..

My two cents. I've self-contracted for myself the past couple of years and I feel much better about myself.
Open standard

Simple protocol

Use any client I like

Also accessible via the web

Decentralized and non-hierarchical

Been around for a while
Mainly the non-standardization of ARM hardware currently is my guess. For x86 a lot of it is standardized and well known.

There was a good thread here the other day on the subject of ARM hardware and the difficulties of things such as device trees and odd boot processes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409273
> > Nim accomplishes memory safety using a garbage collector.

No memory management in Nim equals no memory safety guarantees. Or no? Well in that case the statement above is true.
>>they felt so clumsy to me that I don't see how I could ever be a convert.

They do have a learning curve; but FWIW, I feel exact the opposite - I can achieve both lightning fast movement, AND pixel-perfect precision with the trackpoint (the latter I have never managed to consistently achieve on a trackpad).

(Note, for me, it's never a "Trackpoint vs Mouse". I'll use mouse 100% of the time when at my desk. When not at the desk though, it's "Trackpoint vs Trackpad", and for the amount of space it takes, the compromises it instills in keyboard layout and ergonomics, Trackpad never quite worked for me. On aside, I miss the potential of netbooks because a 10" screen with Trackpoint would be a formidable hyper-portable machine with today's ARM processors - but not if you need to reserve 5 inches for a trackpad :| )
"paying bills at work" -- yikes!
I learned a while back but don't have time to dig up sources now that eating simple carbs and fats together encourages your body to take the fast calories and store them as fat, moreso than eating simple carbs alone (fast energy, relatively clean-burning) or fats alone. These kinds of interactions are historically very important for explaining particular quirks of the effects of diets and I wouldn't be surprised at all if microplastics had some sort of catalytic effect, e.g. by being nucleation points for buildup of something (arterial plaque or whatever else).
> In another world, I can envision computers running operating systems which are totally transparent and easily understood by their users. All running services would be opt-in and users would be fully aware of exactly what's happening on their machines. That would be the world where end-to-end internet connectivity is highly desirable.

Even then, you have the issue of bugs - not just in the programs themselves, but also in the kernel-mode stack and even in the hardware. As long as something is reachable from the Internet, it will get scanned and assaulted from the Internet - and the lower your attack surface is, the better.
Believe it's a great time to consolidate car ownership. Especially with transition from ICE. More car sharing amongst extended households. And of course a drastic reduction in total miles traveled ;)
How fungible are wheat and corn crops?
Why is everyone talking about mortgages when the article talks about everything but mortgages?

> Borrowers with limited or troubled credit histories are defaulting on credit cards, car loans and personal loans
Only till you think it through. What hiring manager doesn't want someone who can demonstrate a track record of leveling up the people around them?
I am not a top developer or even close to it (I don't or want to have this trait of "relentless pursuit of self-improvement"), but I have worked with a couple.

It seems to me that being controlling is part of the problem. When I worked with a top developer, every and each code that I wrote they would have written it faster, more elegantly, more maintainable, and more bug-proof. But when they reviewed my PR, they would approve it if it was good enough. They would point out possible improvements, but once they were done, they would approve and go on. If they used their skill level as the bar to accepting other people's code, they would be doing 80% of the work and writing 80% of the code. In that case, I would be very comfortable just doing much less work than I could for some time until eventually I would get bored and leave.

Still, this top developer eventually changed areas completely (in the same company). From web development, which they mastered to cyber security, where they could start again their relentless pursuit for self-improvement, working with people that knew more than them.

That would be my suggestion. Just change areas, inside software development (inside the same company, if you like there, would be easier, as you already have the respect from people and they know your potential). Go learn something that you are not a top developer. But this is just me, a very regular developer, looking from outside what I saw people more similar to you doing.
That's what I tried to tell students at a bootcamp, but then I never got hired back. They could just fuck off whenever they wanted to go play mario kart, and I tried to tell them that's not what they were paying them for.

No clue if any made it
This is Soylent's time to shine.
A home is a savings account on its own. Much like investments, a home's value nearly always goes up with the times as long as it is kept up. So much like a 401k the value increases over time, but paying a mortgage is like paying yourself while also paying the bank. The bank gets their interest rate cut, but the actual paying off the home is you paying you in the future.

So while a mortgage vs rent may be pretty close ATM if you are new home buyer (Yeah I wish I was able to buy a home 10 years ago..), your mortgage is putting money into your home as a savings account. And if you ever need some of that money for whatever reason, you refinance. It is real nice and easy
If you improve the building envelope with air sealing and insulation (assuming that wasn't already done) you can get even lower operational costs. But the even bigger value is in the increased comfort.
Is there any topic on which we’re not currently facing a catastrophe? In the last few months I’ve been warned about impending doom for insects, food, nuclear weapons treaties, democracy, the economy, the internet, space, the environment, the arctic circle, abortion rights.
> Certainly I would expect apps to disclose whether or not they are using any information on my contact list

I would expect the app to ask for permissions when first started and that if access to contacts is one of those permissions that I can disable that. Its for the app to work around not having this permission and if part of the app is not working due to not have the permission, so be it.
> She was banned repeatedly, which does make it feel a little extortion-esque, akin to the cop throwing you back in prison so you can bribe him again.

She was probably also violating policies repeatedly (e.g. sexual nudity).

I think viewing this situation as a case of a purely unidirectional power dynamic is an ideologically-motivated falsehood. She's got one kind of power, the Facebook employees have another kind, and it's unclear who (if anyone) is on the loosing end.

I mean, she claims she was literally hunting for Facebook employees to achieve her goals (likely to not suffer the usual consequence for policy violations). It's also quite possible that the employees she successfully used could get fired on account of the situation she consciously engineered. This also has one of the hierarchy or duty-of-care dynamics that you'd have in a school or workplace setting.
Yes, this is really good! Andrew Ng, too.
From doom-scrolling the Ukraine/Russia war it is pretty obvious that Ukrainian farmers have not been idle. Battles are being fought in the treelines and along rivers next to plowed and planted fields. Hopefully some of these crops are harvested and make it to market.
Any country not self sufficient and with no capital to outbid the other starving nations.
Ghostly ‘mirror world’ might be cause of cosmic controversy
networks derive their value from participation. ex. if the us government held 100% of dollars or berkeley had 100% of internet connected devices or jack had 100% of twitter accounts, these dollars or devices or accounts wouldn't be very useful
You can get more processing power and true unlimited time with any semi-competent graphic card (probably costing less than 1 year of Colab Pro+). Pro+ is a scam, you are not told what kind of instances you will be running at, and you dont have any guaranteed continuous running time. And even if you were given full 24/7 access to a top of the line card that would be like 0.001% of the power used to train any big modern ML model.

Users complain all the time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleColab/comments/sq0lia/colab_p...
> Many game companies failed selling NFTs.

They rushed — Microsoft x GameStop implementation, whenever they decide the ecosystem is mature enough to launch it, will not be a joke like Ubisoft's or whoever else's was.
There's not much added to the browser that's particularly independent (i.e browser A adds it with browser B having no plan to implement it at all), and when there are APIs that are perhaps newer and not widespread yet, it's usually easier to pull in a specific polyfill (or ponyfill) for that specific feature, rather than rely on one library that's trying to cover everything. Especially as those libraries tend to mimic the API as it is expected to be standardised, rather than implementing a distinct API as jQuery does.

In practice, I'd much rather use the native APIs to do things in the browser than a wrapper library, because I find abstraction from these wrappers tends to get in the way as often as it helps. With modern JavaScript (for-of, the spread operator, far more array functions), it's usually only one or two lines more code to do things the native way, and I find it saves me a lot of complexity down the line.
I think the main issue with AMD might be they lack support for Thunderbolt (last I've heard anyways)
Once frenemies, Elastic and AWS are now besties
> I mean, if you can actually execute with 70% less, why did they hire in the first place?

Hiring and onboarding takes awhile. VC-funded companies are intended to grow quickly. Those two things put together means you need to hire for where you want to be in a year or two and not where you are right now.

The actual goals & constraints have changed.

When you hired those people your goal was scaling up as quickly as possible and your constraint was having enough people (in this scenario, money is not one of your constraints).

In the new world, the goal is "stay alive" and the gating constraint is runway.

So, no, the fact that you can survive after large staff cuts doesn't mean the CEO was incompetent. It might, but it might also just be a function of the goals/constraints/execution strategy/environment having all changed.
The relevant ratio for mortgage underwriting is monthly income to monthly payment obligations. This means that the highest available mortgage amount depends on the interest rate. You get a very different answer if rates are 2.5% instead of 5.0%. That means a person with $80k is getting approved for a much smaller loan today than six months ago.

Rules of thumb like “mortgage amount should be less than 3x income” don’t make much sense because they ignore the interest rate.
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Even in Rust I don't like chains that go beyond ~4 operations. At some point it becomes clearer when expressed as a loop.
Short Clinical Thread on Monkeypox
Works on contingency? No[,] one cannot predict how bad the economy will get.
"How long do you think such treatment can last? Have you checked? Do it for your partner. Do you honestly think using this stuff for decades does not come with major drawbacks?"

I know people who have been on ADHD medication for 30 years. I'm assuming the people I know aren't the only ones. So do you have any evidence that these treatments can't last, or are you just making things up?

Edit: Also one of them has a doctorate and it would have been impossible for him to obtain it without medication.
> There's no easy answer.

Seems like a fairly easy one, MDOT opens a few job reqs for road marking painting, buys some trucks, and paints lines on our roads. Private contractors makes a lot of sense in some situations, but this doesn't seem like one. MDOT knows how many roads need to be marked, how often, etc, why pay a private company to do so?
Everybody is saying recession all the time, so I doubt it will be that severe. Isn't a recession more like it comes out of nowhere and people get hit hard quickly, thus the economic inefficiencies caused are a drag on the total economy?

I don't see what's unhealthy about our economy besides the fact that super cheap money may be gone for awhile. Alright so companies like PLTR go down, whatever.
This is like asking how fungible are calories. People with the means to mill and cook with wheat flour can probably manage with corn too if the alternative is starvation.
That is indeed my question. I want to remain a generalist, mainly due to the fact that its a big part of my character and specialising often doesn't consider whether the technology will be viable in a few years. Generalising means that if a technology is no longer used, they can move into something they already have a general insight into. Also, it looks like there was once a time for example, early 90s when technology was very new, being a generalist web developer would be something valuable, or during the renaissance being a philosopher & mathematician was celebrated, but now it would be hard to balance those. It looks like being in the bleeding edge space would be rewarding for a generalist, because they are always looking for wide-range people.
Oh, yeah, you're right! If you want to collect into a Vec you may need to specify the type, but usually, you can just call `.collect()` and the compiler will infer the correct type (as I suppose you're collecting it to use or return).

If it can't infer, it's idiomatic to just give it a hint (no need for turbofish):

let new_vec: Vec<_> = array.into_iter()
.filter(|&x| x != 0)
.map(|x| x * 2)
.collect();

I don't think that's ugly or unreadable.

About the Python list comprehension, I answered your sibling, I think you're both right but it also does have it's limitations and that may be personal, but I find chained methods easier to read/understand.
'What hardware giveth, software taketh away'

Suppose we wrote our software again in a compiled language, based on the libraries delivered with the OS, and started doing some more basic algorithmic optimizations again, and keep memory usage in check. A lot of the power gained has been wasted, mainly because it was cheaper for organizations to drop low-quality crap on users and make them upgrade.

If the Moore-party really is over, I expect organizations to start optimizing again up to the point were performance is acceptable.

I see some parallels with plastic: Both plastics and software are basically miracle material, cheap to make anything in huge masses. The result is huge amounts of wastefull practices in both cases.
>>There's a good reason nobody makes them anymore.

But they do. Last I checked HP, Dell and Lenovo all had options for power users (not in their consumer / mid-range laptops though). Or at the very least, my last several and current clients have all sent me laptops with a Trackpoint from those three brands (and not to my asking; it's just fairly standard for mobile employees or enterprise customers to have Trackpoint included)

>>What learning curve? Isn't it just a joystick mouse?

well, no - to me, that's an inherent contradiction: Mouse and trackpad are both positional (as largely is trackball). Joystick, trackpoint are directional. They are fundamentally different paradigms.

In terms of learning curve, I do believe Trackpoint is less intuitive for most users, as it does have that different paradigm. I think it takes a bit of time to get really good at it - most people who use it for a few minutes feel it's inferior and clumsy. But I've had "races" with my colleagues with Macbooks, and spoiler - I'll agree it's not even close, but not necessarily in the direction you might expect 0:-)

(on aside, I do have a Macbook, it's about 4 years old. How new does a modern it need to be to fit your definition of a modern Apple Trackpad?
Not op but for me - and I think for many others - it's really a worthwhile tradeoff.

To say life with mental illness/disorders comes with its own major drawbacks is really an understatement. Amphetamines may well have harmful effects, but untreated mental illness/disorders can cause an incredible amount of damage, not just to the person affected but to those around them.

Many people, such as myself, seek treatment with medication after they've exhausted all other known options. There's only so long you can keep running on empty. I'm just happy to have something that works.
I don't know if it was just propaganda, but I saw several videos of grain being looted by Russian troops and supposedly brought back to Russia.

Even if that's not the case, a live war has to decrease productivity immensely.
Meh. 16 people from work came to my wedding (including my best man). You can be social at work without it ruining your life
Africa and the middle east.
I forgot about the RPi train - good point. Fwiw, I hope this gets fixed too, and quickly. Unlike the other commenter, I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for updates all the time and hopefully this will get the attention it needs. Cheers, friend!
Yes, project-level (aka workspace) settings generally override user settings.

But then again, language-specific settings will trump all other settings. And that’s one way to override workspace-level settings in your user settings if you want.

Here’s a detailed list of all levels of settings in VS Code, ordered by precedence:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_sett...
The two use cases for carjackings I imagine are: (1) people who want to steal luxury cars, and (2) complete nutcases like

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

who probably stole at least 5 cars for each bank that they robbed. If you avoid luxury cars your carjacking risk is low. Back when carjacking was big in the media in the 1980s my high school science teacher and I imagined that they'd make cars that were really nice on the inside but looked like crap on the outside to deter carjackers.
SQLite and Go
Yeah, it's probably a natural effect of using usenet with its built in retention. Definitely once you get past 10 years (typical retention is ~3000 days), things drop off a lot because no one re-uploads them.
What's the good stuff? Also what's your best spirits?
God, now I want a Big Mac.
greybeard has always felt like a term of respect to me. personally i think of the type of person who could have been at bell labs in its heydays. definitely could exclude women though.
You're paying quite a bit for vPro.

I'd guess that the 2 extra cores don't really make much of a difference day-to-day. If you crank up all the cores, both chips will throttle in a laptop of that size. If you are only running a couple single-threaded applications, the extra 100MHz turbo hardly makes a difference (around 2-3%).

On the flip side, the places that need/want vPro are going to be very enterprisey and don't mind spending the extra money.
> even if the conditions they violated were spelled out only in a contract or terms of use.

Is that correct? In https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1507126/downl..., I see:

> that division is established in a computational sense, that is, through computer code or configuration, rather than through contracts, terms of service agreements, or employee policies

and later

> A CFAA prosecution
may not be brought on the theory that a defendant exceeds authorized access solely by violating
an access restriction contained in a contractual agreement or term of service with an Internet
service provider or web service available to the general public

and

> the Department will not
take the position that a mere contractual violation caused the user’s previous authorization to be
automatically withdrawn

However, any previous authorization is withdrawn if you receive something that you should understand as a C&D.

It seems to me that this new policy says that to reach the threshold for CFAA prosecution you must now do more than "just" violate the terms of service. Am I misreading?
Well, yeah, of course they hid the answer. My point was that making it cryptic would be removing the real names of the referents.
I've had the same debate myself. Honestly, not counting crazy hectic meeting days I could work 9-3 and still produce more than others. The only thing stopping me is the feeling that if I'm getting paid I should be working.

However, I know that if I worked 9-3 my personal well-being would improve.
The point stands equally true for those catastrophes as well.