skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you that your employer pays for it.

I think universal healthcare is a social must and we need to fix it instead of talking it down.
* A lack of good iPhone XMPP clients.

Not only that. I'm putting the downfall of XMPP right about where most people started having a smartphone (2009-12), so it certainly didn't help - also on Android there weren't any great ones, the ones we know today are all younger.
Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.
Is there any way to block connection to these sites with DNS or something?
Nobody gets arrested for buying pizza for a bunch of kids.
This has been a professional concern for me for many years. I lead grad students with no programming experience into making their own tools for research and sharing. I've completely given up on learning a programming ecosystem and building programs from scratch. Rather, I work within applications that can be scripted to a task. I envy the engineering students for whom Matlab is enough, because that seems to be the closest modern equivalent of Visual Basic. Mathematica is sort of there, but much harder to learn and not easily shareable.
In Germany my aunt gets expensive cancer treatment without extra pay.

Any specific you think about?
And they assure you it's all safe, secure, and private.
Of course symptoms can wax and wane, but that's not what the grandparent claimed. They claimed a person would have zero Covid symptoms (and thus be excluded from the trial), which would skew the results.

As per the trial design, if a patient had any symptoms of Covid and a positive Covid test, then they could be included. And despite a battery of tests, there was no physiological difference between those patients and the controls who had never been infected with Covid.
Most markets in Canada are a duopoly between Bell (phone/fibre) and the local cable provider.
Well, the way that "activity" here is phrased, they kinda expect you to lurk in the nearest hospital for some kind of a medical emergency that can be solved with a bank transfer. The people postponing treatment probably aren't loitering in the hospital.
> To me it absolutely is, because you can only keep borrowing money and paying the (increasingly large) interest on it for so long.

No. This is modelled and understood reasonably well. There are limits, of course (though the Reinhard-Rogoff paper stipulating a significant drop in growth beyond a certain level of debt to GDP is considered flawed [1]). But moderately growing debt can be sustained indefinitely.

A blog post explaining this well would be useful indeed, I wonder whether Krugman has written one (but haven't found one after a quick search).

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-reinhart-and..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/reinhart-and-ro...
We Are Not Living in a Simulation, We Are Living in the Past
Is there a pihole list or something ?
I'm not a games review person so sorry if this comes across as clumsy. But they just made a really good video-game, you know? What really blows me away about it is how much of it there is. Yes, the world is big and full of interesting stuff, but other games have done that. What stands out here is the quantity and variety of mechanics. I'm still on my first playthrough and I'm doing a pure melee-focused build. There are dozens (hundreds?) of special skills that can be applied to hundreds of different weapons. Many weapons have their own special skills. Ditto all that for shields, and the armor you can equip. And since my character is melee-focused, I haven't even touched any of the huge amount of magic stuff that is in the game, nor ranged weapons, nor even most melee options that are better served by different stat progression choices. This is just a huge variety of playstyle approaches. I've been playing the game for three months and I'm looking forward to beating it so I can go back and try again from the start with a completely different approach.

And it has such a pure focus on gameplay. Other games try to be movies or HBO miniseries. There's story and lore in Elden Ring if you want to dig for it, but personally I don't care about that, I'm here to play a game. It respects your time by respawning you immediately outside boss doors when you die. If you enjoy the challenge, you can tackle bosses immediately when you come across them. Or if you're struggling, you can go do something else in the world and come back later after you've built up your skills and weapons, and have an easier time of it. There's loads of optional content to find, for people who want additional challenge.

It's just a really jaw-dropping, video-game experience that isn't trying to be something else. It's definitely a masterpiece video game.
none of that was used in brutally killing dozens of elementary school kids. Where as guns were used, not once but twice.
Security ‘researcher’ hits back against claims of malicious CTX file uploads
That's what I said to a friend who has claimed that they "had some fun with LaTeX"
Don't code with JS on the server side at all. There's no real advantage to having JS both on the server and in the client, and there are plenty of alternatives that actually support the features Typescript and the like pretend exist in JS, but really don't.
Yeah, he’s likely using AutoWikiBrowser for this, it’s a great tool for automating MediaWiki tasks.
Yep... Using the blood of innocents to as a tool for scoring political debate points sure is contemptible. Falsifying information towards that end, more so. ... Now what was it I just read?

Edit: Some "right wing" reporting, for contrast: https://www.thenewneo.com/2022/05/26/on-that-report-that-pol...

> I don’t think we have anywhere near enough information to judge what actually happened and what the police did right or wrong. Inflammatory videos tell only a tiny part of the story, and I don’t rely on them for an understanding of what actually happened except in regard to the tiny part they are telling. In this case, we know that desperate parents were angry at what they perceived as police inaction, and the police restrained some of them.
Ah, the comments here never cease to provide amusement.
zls doesn't support this unfortunately. I don't know what the plans are for comptime support.
[EDIT:] See https://rubenerd.com/about/#mascot and https://rubenerd.com/anime-restore-my-blog/ . Looks like a typical harmless Anime nerd to me. [/EDIT]

Not just any schoolgirl, but a schoolgirl drawn in "Manga"[1] or "Anime"[2] style, AFAICS. Lots of people are Manga and/or Anime fans, and many of those perhaps to such an extent that they feel it's a major part of their identity, so they want to show it some way. And a lot of those Japanese comics and animated films just happen to have young people of both sexes as their protagonists, so of course there will be schoolgirls in them. And much of that is, as I've understood it, "perfectly ordinary" comics and animations, like any "Young Adult" literature in Western culture; no more (explicitly) sexualised than Harry Potter or Star Wars.

So not necessarily "creepy", in the sense of sexualising schoolgirls... But yeah, from what (little) I understand of Japanese popular culture, sexualising schoolgirls is a pretty big part of current more-or-less accepted Japanese social mores, which is reflected in Manga and Anime too; see the whole phenomenon of "Hentai".[3] And I suppose there's a whole lot of Manga and Anime that is just titillating -- not quite explicitly, but borderline sexualised.

I have no idea about the proportions between the categories: I read quite a lot of Marvel and DC comics (and, ahem, some porn -- but those were wildly different things back then) in my youth, but that's so long ago that it was before the rise of Japanese popular culture phenomena in the West, so I've never been into any of that stuff. For all I know, the "creepy" stuff could be a majority of it; or it could be just a comparatively tiny fringe phenomenon.

So, summing up: Not necessarily creepy, but certainly gives at least me vibes of "potentially rather creepy". But, in the absence of any proof to the contrary, I guess I'd go with the guidelines and assume the best.

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[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Genres

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai (NSFW![4])

[4]: Well, depending.
> What an interesting idea. Is there any historical precedent for actually deleting/destroying money?

Bitcoin?
Adding to this, if a company does rent it to smaller service providers, they provide terrible support when there are cable issues. I had to leave one of those smaller providers, Teksavvy, not because I disliked Teksavvy, but I had a cable issue and Rogers (the cable monopoly mentioned above) just would not fix it. For months. At the start of the pandemic when we were all working from home.
Part of the problem with greenbelts like the one around London is that they increase demand by making an already in-demand area nicer to live while reducing the potential supply because building can't happen anymore.

I think land use is more important, and number one for that would be a reversal of the policies that turned London from somewhere anyone in the country could expect to live into a primate city where only the rich can afford to buy while others can scratch along in their vicinity. (Which might mean less need for greenbelts as people would spread out more naturally, as they used to).

However, that would mean dealing with immigration based on reality[1], the capture of the UK by banks, and probably making it incredibly hard for MPs to benefit from property (and hence voting for measures that benefit them), along with a whole host of other things. I'm not hopeful.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/city-eye...
That's basically what I was going to write as a response. Yup!

Especially your last paragraph there. So many conflate thoughts and beliefs and opinions and truth. Everything is separate. Our reality tunnels are not unbiased.
False. CMOS gates (4000-series) consume no power except when they switch. And they work at low voltage.

There are ways to make a microcontroller use less power, by making it hard-sleep when nothing is happening, but you don't get that without extra work.
It is not quite hard to learn actually. You just need to go through the webpack Concepts section[0]. Documentations in the JavaScript ecosystem are quite good and explanatory compared to other languages (like Java).

Not every front-end developers learn the internals of the tool they chose, like create-react-app. Most of them settled down if the solution "just work".

[0]: https://webpack.js.org/concepts/
Are You More Likely to Be Killed Riding a Bike Than Driving a Car?
Oh yeah I personally dislike python a lot because of all the pip and easy_install and anaconda nonsense that exists (existed?). It is a shame that python for some reason became the defacto ML language that people use - I do not really understand how that came to pass (sure there are lots of libraries that help with ML now, but that is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation)
rqlite – distributed SQLite: Trading durability for higher INSERT performance
Thankfully smaller nations do have effective countermeasures against such threats, as the latest example from the central bank of Zambia showed: Backups.

Bigger nations must have a natural adversion again such silly measures, which is a chance for smaller nations to teach them basics.
As an absolute layman to this field, the Friedman’s "inflation is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’" has appeal to me in that it offers a (simple?) solution: "government austerity" as noted in the article. Whenever I read other views on inflation and even this article, they fail on providing any solution for either fixing or taming the inflation.
This doesn’t seem to be a problem. I have a gigabit connection, the whole speed is usable and there are no data caps. It doesn’t cost a huge amount, and I don’t believe the ISP is running at a loss to provide this service.
Yes but what's the "dirty" meaning? What were they pointing out? It's not aparrent.
Reddit never started by taking me to a giant signup page for a paid subscription.
As someone who was mildly curious and might have checked it out of you presented something interesting I immediately left, maybe think about making the base landing page more interesting in hopes of gaining traction with users and then make another landing page for people you want to sell the service to.
Forgetting the money velocity is very apparent for example in discussions about basic income, where people who claim it will cause inflation forget that BI redistribution is a big change of V.
great article

> Price-change variation rises and falls with the average rate of inflation.

I think we can see it as a decay of money as a tool, its main function of being a unit of account becomes disrupted because its self-referential aspect increases.
AdGuardHome or PiHole should be able to block this.
Yes, all sorts; an example which comes to mind is the Indian demonetization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...

It was pretty disruptive: "The move reduced the country's industrial production and its GDP growth rate. It is estimated that 1.5 million jobs were lost." and it seems to not have been very effective in its stated aim to move the "black economy" back into visibility.

The Cyprus "bank haircut" could count as another example, in that it's deleting secondary money - bank deposits which had become unbacked and unbackable - rather than primary money. https://www.ft.com/content/4a1bb1d6-9926-11e2-af84-00144feab...
You couldn't save on memory if everyone was using the same textures?

The most hacky but also potentially elegant approach would be to create/modify a game engine such that it can render 4 clients at a time onto the same viewport (i.e. 2x2 1080/720p). Just like the good old days with goldeneye64 multiplayer. With a setup like this, you could take advantage of cost sharing throughout.

Again, would have to build the game from zero to target this path. I think there could be some economic arguments to be made here. The software and creativity are the only real limitations.
OK, show us how it's done
Duplicate.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31515787
Henry++ Simplewall
https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall
Think of it this way. The article presents a random-gap list with only five entries, and it looks terrible; the most common page occurs 9 times as often as the least common.

Now think about a random-gap list with five million entries. With that many entries, will the gaps balance out? In the best case, five of them end up in the range from 0 to 1 millionth, five of them end up in the range from 1 millionth to 2 millionths, etc. But we've already seen what it looks like to have five uniform random numbers in a range (whether it's big or small doesn't matter); the gaps tend to be really varied. So we're going to get this sort of imbalance between gap sizes (viewed as a ratio) no matter how many entries we insert.

One other thought experiment: the article mentioned a page with a gap size of one billionth. How many pages will it take for that to balance out so that page doesn't have an unusually small gap any more? How many pages does Wikipedia have?

(This is similar to the reason that infinite space packed with marbles has the same packing density as infinite space packed with bowling balls.)
> Australia had a much better plan to just make the infrastructure government owned like water pipes or power lines. Then each ISP pays the government for capacity.

Concepts involved:

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_network
You can probably configure the firewall to block.
It's declared dead by the people where every single one of your 20 nerd friends in your xmpp contact list has shut down their server, and that happened like 8 years ago in my case. We were on IRC before that and we're still on IRC, that's why IRC is alive.
An academic journal is just a Twitter feed
Someone apparently got arrested for offering candy to kids though, so I wouldn't count on it.

https://www.shawlocal.com/2020/10/26/man-charged-with-disord...
Anyone feeling tempted to play the Devil’s advocate here? :)
> biilu

That’s really funny
> recognition that yes this organisation that claims to represent my employees does in fact represent my employees.

Uhm, and why should the company have a say in this, when it's the employees that are already telling the company that they are unionized?
Read the rest of this persons twitter, or their website for that matter.

No I don’t think there is anything enlightening whatsoever about their experience “trying” to learn to program. They spent 10 minutes installing the interpreter, and then got upset for their social medial followers because they weren’t immediately able to write software to do something useful with their CSV.

I cannot think of any other discipline where “I bought a woodworking shop and then couldn’t immediately make cabinets 10 minutes after walking inside” would be considered insightful towards anything other than the person writing it.

There are SO many people who spend their time trying to help others program. Literally thousands of them. “Aella” could have spent an hour watching any of their videos or reading any of their tutorials instead of this.
Good place to start: https://www.clearerthinking.org

Join your local Skeptics circle.
Ah yes, now I recall!

I had concerns that Vertx was bundled into that portfolio too, but RH to rescue again.
> f people want to exchange more, they need more coupons.

thats a fallacy. nothing prevents you from exchanging more even if you had a fixed number of coupons. you would just have to consider that the value of each coupon becomes more, not less, over time, so you need to use subdivisions of coupons more.

Inflation, even at low levels, is ultimately value destruction over time.
> I'd disagree, you must have come across the wrong models. Theoretical economics has many beautiful models precisely laid out. For example, the Arrow-Debreu equilibrium model [1] utilises "the Kakutani fixed-point theorem on the fixed points of a continuous function from a compact, convex set into itself." I doubt that any engineer can find fault with the specification of that model. Similarly, the Heckscher–Ohlin model of international trade is well specified and yields five informative theorems [2].

There's a lot of theorems in economics that I basically think of as math theorems. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem for instance. Various things in game theory as well, just about all of Tirole's book (IO? Can't remember).

But I think of them as math, with the very particular term "theorem" precisely because they are defined like math problems, with very specific assumptions.

They are really math theorems that are dressed in economics words like "demand function" in the same way that you can have a theorem in physics, eg the Bubble Theorem about what angles arise. Or that theorem that says you can't balance a magnet statically.

> To which extent those models reflect, or can be applied to, the real world is an entirely different question of course.

That's what engineers tend to care about though.

Now about averages, I think the point really does matter that the person who spends the average basket isn't representative. The guy in the 1% just doesn't care much at all about his beans and rice getting expensive. The family in the bottom 1% may well end up not eating for a day. Sweeping everything into one number causes some real problems with our decision making.
I think the right solution is the middle - private primary care and public chronic & advanced care. India does this but loses out on effectiveness because of capacity problems and simply the huge scale it needs to work at.

Primary care is provided by private doctors and hospitals, so it is almost like a business. Doctors offices have websites, and get reviews from general public. You choose where you go to. All health insurances cover almost all of them. The doctor's offices are "competing" to provide a good service - being clean, solving problems correctly, not charging too much etc.

The government spends what ever money it allocates for healthcare on Public hospitals that focus on expensive medical equipment(labs, diagnostic machines etc), and treating chronically ill patients.

In an ideal world, you go to private doctors to figure out what is wrong, and then use the public facility if you can wait, and get the surgery/medicine/treatment for free. Often times, the private doctor refers you to a public doctor with a specific note that says this person needs this particular surgery using this particular medical device.

However, this systems leaves a big hole in catering to the poor who cannot afford to go to a private doctor for primary care owing to costs. No system is perfect. I think this model has the most potential for better healthcare.
Could not sell newsletter sponsorships.
Speculation:

The author found "ether-rot-mutex" amusing enough to start the blog and name it after the thing. They anticipated more posts in the future, but they didn't happen.
> Separating the layers doesn’t help because there will never be competing infrastructure at the last mile, or, if it happens, it is inefficient almost by definition.

OSI Layers 1 and 2 should be either an independent non-profit corporation providing equal access to all Layer 3 plays, or a government-owned utility.

Take the profit motive out of fibre infrastructure.
To have so many problems with dangling pointers, Google must be doing something wrong with its C++ coding.

It's amazing to me that they spend so much time trying to circumvent these issues instead of solving the core problems with their development methodology.

And before someone saying 'but C++ code at Google is too large', I'd like to point out that in other industries there is a lot more C++ code but they don't have such issues...e.g. automobiles, where the code in a car might reach the likes of 100 million LOC, mostly in C and C++.
I mean charities could open up crypto accounts; since it's a public ledger, the ransomware operators would be able to see the transaction.
I have put vscode into a docker container. This allows you to commit the settings via git.

https://github.com/pubkey/vscode-in-docker
I'd be interested to see plots of median or upper-quartile inflation across the CPI categories in there too. In periods of high inflation, is the high variation really random variation about an increased centre, or does it reflect the departure of an extreme from an unchanged centre?

In the article and my suggestion, there's also an unexamined assumption here that the CPI categories are peers, on which it's valid to do statistics. It's not clear to me that "medical care commodities" and "shelter" are really things it makes sense to take an arithmetic mean of.
I smell an opportunity here to provide a service where people pay to have someone else deal with these companies.
Or you just ignore all the shiny new things and go with older technologies that work like a charm. I for one, still write code in jQuery, and don't plan to switch at least for the next five years.
~20 years ago, the Honda "del Sol" was legal to sell, and got 50MPG. Today you can't sell a car like that in the USA, because we changed the laws.

Perhaps (I know this is a radical idea but bear with) we could change those laws back? Maybe even go further and accept lightweight non-"car" tuktuks and such?
Would be a big red flag if Stadia would be losing save games. If I'd have invested 100+ hours into a game and it would be lost-> seriously annoyed.
What would you expect the JS community do after this? What would you do?