skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The models are not made properly...

Yes and: This OC refers to the empirical data.

Friedman (et al) rejected empiricism. I was gobsmacked when I finally figured out what that meant. Like, wtf are they even arguing about if they reject reality?! (Ya, I am a slow learner.)

So agree or not with Nitzan's thesis, at least critics can have constructive debates about it.
That's not what he's arguing. He's saying that restricting money supply as a solution to inflation only makes sense if the average price inflation represented price movements well. His contention is that it doesn't so restricting money supply isn't a solution.

I find that argument reasonably persuasive. His other point about inflation indices themselves being effectively useless, because of the inter price variability, I find less so. He skirts over the weightings which are key to the meaning of the index. They are weighted in such a way as to approximate the relative spending on each commodity. So the net effect of the index should be the inflation rate that you feel.

So average measures of inflation are valuable. The standard cures likely less so.
… and when the child grows up they learn to be a doormat.
This was my thought too. When learning to drive, I don't really care about what the clutch is or does, I want to know how I can go from my house to the shop, or my house to my friend's house. But I understand that I need to be aware of the components and processes that go into driving a car. I can't just sit in it and expect it to whisk me away.
One of the worst aspects of this forum is the completely ignorant blaming of "big pharma" for any and all short-comings of health systems.
Came here to mention this as well. Its about Paul Le Roux. From Wikipedia (contains potential SPOILERS):

> Paul Calder Le Roux is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration. In 1999, he created E4M, a free and open-source disk encryption software program for Microsoft Windows, and is sometimes credited for open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code, though he denies involvement with TrueCrypt.
Yes, there is such tradition. I remember one of my maths professors at the uni 25 years ago complaining about "those people that "use a model to develop their results and then hide the model when publishing them".

I think that there are multiple reasons, not only trying to be "fancier". One important one is of presentation style. Some traditions (for example, Bourbaki) insist in conceptual purity and minimalism, presenting the most abstract concepts in its distiled form. Hiding "unnecessary" details is an objective on its own in that tradition.
is Github ops team mainly in Japan? I would think it's heavily US based

do you think it's worth it to go there to work as a SDE?
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
> Programming is a profession requiring learning from experience - if a novice doesn't have the patience to overcome very small speedbumps like this on a daily basis while learning a new domain, this might not be a good path for them.

There's a lot of assumption packed into this statement.

Those speedbumps used to also not be there—they were put in recently[1].

Also, having read through your comment first and then read through the article (fully expecting to find what you describe), I'm compelled to say that your summaries grossly mischaracterize the substance of the complaints actually mentioned by the author.

> a painful but necessary migration incompatibility is an unfortunate reality, the only alternative of which is to stagnate and never introduce/deprecate breaking features

Well, no. The module fiasco is 100% a consequence of really, really bad decisions on the part of the NodeJS folks. They created the preconditions that led to the demand for their solution. This problem/solution cycle is rife in the NodeJS/NPM world. The only way to deal with it is to opt out[1][2].

1. <https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/03/06/how-to-displace-java...>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495646>
Where did I mention everyone? Why are you so immediately on the defensive? Maybe if it is not possible for your particular special unique circumstances you have a reasonable exemption. A lot of people however live in cities and don't really need a car, or alternatively need to use it daily. Maybe a car curfew should come first.
Here are some additional fun facts. Fair warning - I'm neither making fun nor any form of derogatory remarks but rather the observations I learned working with both sides of the protagonist in my story below.

I'm usually the guy who will translate the English spoken by Indians to the Japanese and vice versa. We, Indians, have our Ing/Hin-lish, and they have the Japlish.

I once led the Indian team and interacted with the Japanese team at Dentsu to launch a new eye-care product for Johnson & Johnson. The content was, of course, Japanese, and we do have translators on our end but do not speak Japanese. So, English and here is a dramatized reproduction from my point-of-view.

Japanese team, "Now, we do propaganda to make people buy the products."

Me, in super-slow, enunciating beyond what my mouth can stretch, "No, no, we won't spread propaganda. Yes, we will do Marketing to help launch and make people know."

Me to my team waiting to stitch the Japlish, "Yes, Confirmed. Marketing team involving."

Me to the super nice Japanese team, "All Good. We, in India, Do everything."

Oh! Btw, commenting in Japanese with English terms thrown in is very common in programming code.
Poe's law intensifies.
There's no mastering configuration tasks, because it's all arbitrary unilateral decisions made by randos and committees of randos. There's no logic to finding out which arcane formatted strings need to be placed where in which text files in which directories, otherwise every single thing fails out of the gate. I used to complain about having to spend my time on this even as a senior.
The coming wave of“boss loss”
Through and endless barrage of “diversity and inclusion” marketing over the past 10 years corporations have convinced people they care about marginalized people, underrepresented minorities, and every social cause in the world.

In reality they’ve turned human beings into quota. Some of these companies actually put their “diversity stats” in annual reports and on their websites, essentially showing off how many minorities they can collect.

Unfortunately minorities have become a tool woke corporations can parade around to make themselves “look good.”

It doesn’t make them look good. It’s dehumanizing. And it’s surprising how many people still support this charade.
> DigiCert’s OCSP service

A weakness of the OCSP protocol is that it gets sent the certificate hash as an input. This means that to a significant degree, an OCSP provider can track what software you are using, what sites you visit, etc... For the code signing certificates, they could also determine which year (or two) it came from.

DigiCert could sell that to marketing companies, and spy agencies / state-sponsored hacking groups could use it to determine if you are running vulnerable versions of software they have hacks for.

There would be ways to fix the protocol to be less vulnerable to this, but I'm sure you'll find that any such suggestion would be rejected by the major players like DigiCert in a strangely forceful manner.
That was my first thought - the only logical way I could see for step 3 would be to pay for people's parking.
Even countries with universal health care have private hospitals, they'll take your money. One near me asks you to consider paying for their services out of your retirement funds if you don't have private health insurance.
Bionic Reading- Chrome Extension
I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if you are worried about your data being collected).

I personally prefer Linux, but what’s holding me are the streaming services (netflix, amazon, etc), I can only watch SD content if I’m on Linux, so my second opinion is macOS, I can watch at least in a decent resolution and also their notebooks are the best ones out there (the air is amazing between price, performance and battery life) for my use case, that’s also work.
That escalated quickly... Being in a developed part of the world thats not getting in the way of the product functioning but I feel sorry for those who don't have a reliable connectivity and/or good bandwidth
Thanks! The README has info that's helpful beyond the specific library itself, so this is a nice find!
IP address and domain name count mean nothing. Why would you care if windows pinged 1 Microsoft domain vs 20,000. If they are all controlled by the same entity and send the same data, these numbers mean nothing.
It's just a typo. It should read "when the tech giant acquires Activision Blizzard." The acquisition hasn't taken place yet.
Suspecting the Unsuspected. Extracting and analyzing log anomalies
Haskell and web programming article from PragPub archives
From the PragPub archives, Part Two of Web Programming in Haskell, in which Paul Callaghan poses that we rethink the structure of web applications:

https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/web-programming-in-haskell-part-two-rethinking-the-structure-of-web-applications-2479157c1ef3
> You are given currency coupons in exchange for your work, and then more of those coupons are just forged than correspond to actual work having been done, thereby defrauding you out of the value of your work, also commonly called theft of service.

All currency is made up. Even gold, or bitcoin, or giant rocks:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

The only thing that has "inherent" value to humans is air/oxygen, shelter, water, and food. Everything else is psychological projection for convenience.

See The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Bernstein:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249245.The_Power_of_Gold

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_L._Bernstein

And Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Goldstein:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103-money

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Goldstein
So change the premise of a person who cannot afford the treatment to cannot afford it in a private hospital? Hownto find such a person?

Probably the easiest of alln3 is to fly to some poor country and do the stuff there (supported by a local lawyer).
Have you ever put a hay bale in a transit? Pulled a fifth wheel trailer? Moved filthy equipment?

I don’t think most people understand the use cases.
May brain parsed that as if you were talking about software bugs for a second.
I smell a class action.
Wow, what brand?
> I personally prefer Linux, but what’s holding me are the streaming services

Yes but then these turn off, drop the content you were watching with little/no warning and are unreliable. Buy physical media while you can at least then you have a licence to watch it when you please until the media degrades. (Or better in the territories which allow for backing up across media formats)
Hmm, how many bits are you allowing for the 'number'? Also, you need to identify which user it belongs to, as well as - in our case - which device and which sensor on that device. Also, is that ordinary NVRAM? How do you protect against bit flips? Google's well-known paper[0] found a 0.22% average incidence of uncorrectable errors per DIMM - that's corruption of more bits than ECC can fix (and I'm not sure that your pricing is even for ECC RAM). Your tolerance of errors may differ, but you'd probably want to replicate the data at least once. Disk seems a good choice, for the added benefit that you can actually survive a power cut without going bust (i.e. redundancy against total loss, as well as handling the 'freak errors' in data correctness that become the norm when you're dealing with vast amounts of hardware). I'm a fan of the kind of minimalism that you're advocating, don't get me wrong, but it's from pushing that limit that I've learned what the hard limits are.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
There's https://metacpan.org/pod/Org::Parser which works quite well in Perl.

I am using it in a data-driven program to extract multiple tables from a single file. CSV is too limited with only one table layout per file, and trying to read multiple sheets from a binary spreadsheet format is far too complex. Org files let me edit tables in a plaintext format that even lets me attach attributes to tables, and file tables under headings that describe what they are.
Google seems to be working on offering Postgres interface compatibility to Spanner as well:
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql-interface
Look at the data I was criticizing: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc...

Even if total compensation was flat from 2006 to 2019, it would still be a radically different conclusion that what was drawn in the article.

The article says hourly wages only increase half of what productivity did by 2006. Yet total compensation increased equally.
Part of the current propaganda via internet social media just uses repetition to saturate our typical heuristics

https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Repetition_bias#:~:text=R....

Especially with all the garbage "news aggregation" it's easy to trick the reader into thinking there's multiple sources.
I'm not sure I'd want to go there still, I was unfortunately born into a class of people that are "hard to even interview"[0].

I'm sure if you fit into one of the many preferred classes there is much to learn there, and a fair amount of prestige in working with high scale systems.

(relavant topic from 6 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story...

EDIT: I'm not trolling, I have legitimately not entertained the idea of interviewing here because of this, which is probably preferred for them, but it's worth pointing out to others who may not be informed.
Much appreciated.

Anyone in particular you have in mind? Other than Michael Dell, I mean.
You didn't mention everyone. :)

I'm on the defensive because in my country it's usually the politicians living in big cities that tax car ownership based on their own use case - which is being able to bike everywhere and delivering their kids to school using a cargo bike.
Is node.js giving the author bullshit or did they knowingly step into a field they are unfamiliar with, getting themselves involved with a package manager, a javascript runtime, a browser, and a local fileserver?

As if you were able to instantly run whatever code you found on the internet back in the C++ days. It's bizarre. Not everything needs to have such a low barrier to entry that anyone can work with it. Who said _that_ is where we collectively set the bar? It's a false premise, and frankly it feels like toxic false entitlement open source maintainers are typically showered with.
Magic Johnson now has a SPAC
You can comment anonymously if you wish
Ok so if we all send data to azure it's safe or to ovh that's just fine.

It's not terrifying but it does reveal the scale, this isn't a licence check against something like genuine.microsoft.com this is a completely different scale all together
The point is that the concentration of housing wealth becoming more concentrated means the average person (median) is worse off and their cost of living has increased accordingly.
> They didn't pass one in 1990s

Wow, those goalposts sure moved a long way! We were talking about the Osmington shooting in 2018, so 2019 is totally relevant. Also, New Zealand did pass an amendment to the Arms Act in 1992, in response to the Aramoana massacre. So even if you did want to restrict this to that narrower time range you're still very very wrong. You cherry-picked the numbers for reduction in deaths (without citation) and claimed it was unrelated to any law change only because you failed to do the basic research which would have shown that there was such a change after all. That's exactly the dishonesty you project onto others.

According to the guidelines, we're supposed to be curious, and not merely polemical. If you're not willing to learn the facts on your own, maybe at least engage people in actual dialogue instead of always attacking them for having reached different conclusions based on those facts.
How does this compare to orgzly?
I've been predicting the rise of 'good clans' and 'good mafias' for some time. IMO, as governments become more corrupt, good people will be forced to join clans which adhere to their principles for survival. Power will shift towards clans, mafias and hacker groups.
1) Northgard isn't that, but it is a proper RTS with a way slower overall pace, so it might scratch the itch.

2) Anachron is a RTS with time travel, and issuing commands in the past depletes a resource, so it does something similar but for a very different purpose.
This was the result of a 5-minute skim of the statistics to check the (unsourced) claim that Australia has more guns than it did before the ban. You're assuming dishonesty but the reality is that this was a quick internet comment, not a peer-reviewed academic paper. There's no dishonesty or malicious intent here, just laziness and lack of effort. If people wanted to check my work or learn more, I gave my source so they could do so.

That said, you do raise some valid points, even if they're wrapped in false accusations.

The gun ownership rate isn't relevant to my point. My point was that while the number of guns (i.e. gun ownership rate) has increased, the number of people owning those guns has decreased.

I "selected" (more noticed and found surprising) the subcategory of people with licenses because it was one of the the only available statistics indicating the number of people who owned guns (rather than the number of guns owned). This number is supported by the statistics for number of households with firearms.

The dates were laziness. I couldn't remember the year the NFA was introduced and couldn't be bothered, so I took the earliest datapoint and the latest datapoint.

Regarding the number of illicit firearms, I honestly just didn't think about it.

Taking this feedback into account, let's do as you suggest and look at the statistics in 1997, when the law was introduced, and 2020, the latest data we have available. First we'll look at the number of registered firearms compared to the number of license-holders, to get an idea of the trends in the legal world, then we'll look at illegal firearms.

In 1997, 6.52 of every 100 people was licensed to own a firearm. In the same year, there were 13.58 registered firearms per 100 people. This indicates that the average firearm license holder owned 2.1 firearms.

In 2020, 3.41 of every 100 people was licensed to own a firearm. In the same year, there were 13.81 registered firearms per 100 people. This indicates that the average firearm license holder owned 4.0 firearms.

So as you can see, despite all your objections, my point still holds: the number of firearms has increased but the number of people who own them has decreased. Gun ownership has consolidated.

But you brought up illicit firearm ownership. What if there's an enormous number of people who own guns without a license? Well that would be an illicit or unregistered firearm. The statistics point to a pretty constant number of 260k illicit or unregistered firearms, with the data covering 2006-2016. The number of licensed firearm owners fell from 1.2M in 1997 to 868k in 2020, so even if we assume every illicit firearm represents one person who bought or retained an illegal firearm in 1998 and kept it until now, we _still_ have fewer firearm owners than we did in 1997 and my point still holds.

Regarding the University of Melbourne report, it's not relevant to my point. The UoM report discusses gun deaths and gun violence. My point was only regarding the number of people who own guns.

So yes, I was lazy. I was not dishonest, I did not cherrypick and it's quite rude of you to throw around accusations like that.
Not only this. Try to change the app two years later. Dependencies gone, wrong NPM version, Webpack config depricated and what not.

That's why I like to use vanilla JS as much as possible. It will be maintainable years later.
Thanks for the correction :) Sometimes sarcasm is difficult to pick up when it appears without context you’re near the center of it, if I must make up an excuse.
I mean a super basic example everyone has come across - in the past 5 years the block syntax at some point changed randomly from all-caps to lower-case (no idea why..). You're saying organice just sticks to the legacy syntax? I guess half my issues were with config parameters, Elisp variables and the export targets
Okay, it's a PWA that is served from a server. The code in the repo is the code for that server. (We could waste some time defining "server".) You wouldn't deny that? Docker containers don't run on phones. But I agree the borders get blurred with PWAs.
Java didn't have a comparable thread/worker model to Go until this year, and arguably added it because of the success of Go routines for highly parallel services.

Also, go accomplishes the same with much less verbosity because it's the default operating mode.

So yes, you can do everything with Java that you can with Go (not true with Python) but it's a bit like using a semi-truck to commute.
Ah, is that a Windows thing? I've never done that in Linux, I think, without tmux or something.
If you have 500k house outright vs. 500k equity in 1M house then probably yes I imagine that is correct on average.

But that is orthogonal. Both people in the comparison have the home equity to begin with. How? Either they paid $500k from earnings or they got it a lot cheaper in the past. A lot cheaper in the past == inflation.
At it's most basic level, inflation tries to measure of the affordability of living. Mango prices go down and avocado prices go up, so I buy more mangos and fewer avocados. However, what really impacts my life is how much of my income I need to spend, overall, on groceries to eat well. Inflation doesn't capture the choices I must make to optimize my grocery bill, but it does do a decent job of representing how the all-important total on my grocery bill changes.

What inflation doesn't necessarily do is capture how my grocery bill changes relative to my paycheck. If you look at the historical inflation rate, it does a semi-decent job of indicating when weird stuff happens. Wars tend to be accompanied by spikes in inflation. Things get scarce. Supply chains get disrupted. There's less stuff to be had so, on average, people can afford less stuff. Everybody is making the same salary but things cost more. Pandemics can have similar effects. (We just happen to have gone from one directly into the other.)

Deflation coincides with recessions (e.g. 1929). You'd think things getting cheaper would be indicate people can afford more stuff, but it's just the opposite. People are making less, so they buy less, and prices come down as supply exceeds demand.

Inflation does need the context of average earnings to be useful, but it is useful given that context.
This is the way. I do this on any app that allows me to. Mainly because notifications cause me to ghost people out of the anxiety. I liked it better when nothing told me about anything and I had to actively look at things and it wasn't assumed I saw a thing because the default is that the program notifies. The implication man.
Forcing me to help people at ransom isn’t really going to make me feel good about doing it.
I didn't realise that thanks, however you still need to give people a way to delete their account.
I've been using this for years and love it, too. But didn't Apple recently make some change to macOS recently that allows many "system" processes to bypass this?