skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Congress spends money, it doesn't print it. It borrows it, at interest. Everyone talks about the national debt, but then they start talking about printing dollars in the next breath. Makes no sense. New money comes through the banking system, not Congress, and banks create money when they lend--a decision that depends on economic factors. However, when Congress moves around money, e.g. by borrowing from investors to give checks to lower income and middle class folks, that can cause inflation by shifting dollars to where they will be used for consumption rather than in investments, which tend to increase productivity which offsets inflationary effects of spending. However spending on lower income folks is almost surely a good bet in the long term, and while it may be inflationary in the short term, in the long term it must increase the productivity of the work force (and its inflationary effects can go away as soon as production in expectation of increased demand of those consumer goods ramps up).
> Languages do have their respective idiomatic structure, you write JS differently than Java

I object to this specifically as it relates to JS because the sort of code that mainstream "JS" programmers write nowadays ends up being passed off as idiomatic even though it really shouldn't. If you look at well-written JS in very large JS codebases with high standards (like Firefox, at least as it was circa ten years ago, or Apple's Web Inspector[1]), then you realize idiomatic JS looks a lot more like Java, C#, and Objective-C than what you find getting pushed to GitHub today—and (very soon after) discarded, since the half-life of an NPM-powered codebase is something like 2–3 years.

The problem is that the style of development associated with the NodeJS+NPM crowd has cannibalized the JS ecosystem, so almost anyone gazing in on the situation today is going to have a _very_ skewed view of what "idiomatic" means.

The perverse thing is that you will encounter more of an impedance mismatch with JS-the-language if you actually try to follow the crowd. This is a big driver for toolchain/framework churn—because they're all fighting the language instead of just going with it.

1. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/WebInspectorUI/se...
Many people ask for more bread after they wolf it down and even ask for some to take home.

It might be buttery, lightly seasoned bread or something like rolls, usually fresh-baked.
Without knowing what fraction of their costs are wages you can't give a meaningful answer. If 100% if their costs are wages they obviously can't raise wages more than 2.2% without going bankrupt. If 1% of their costs are wages they can double them without meaningfully affecting their profit margins.
My 2c is that a focus on "meta" has had a profoundly bad effect on games. It's hard to see ways it could have gone differently with the introduction of the internet, but it's definitely a Bad thing. Another outcome of this is what I like to call "the professionalization of amateur play" — thousands of players watch top 0.1% players of their favorite game perform at an expert level and talk about things experts care about, and then amateur players parrot those things in their local communities (or reddit, etc.) as if they are truth or if they are actually applicable to their skill level. This also belies the fact that a meta can change organically without developer intervention, but once any pro player "cracks" the meta, players are too lazy to find counter strategies and will just wait for the next patch. It creates a negative feedback cycle that makes players less interested in engaging with a meta, while simultaneously forcing developers to develop a new meta.
My mother is not a cool teacher -- at all. We shouldn't conflate interesting and engaging with 'cool'.
Fair points, but this is not some random app popping up a dialog. It’s a child window of Terminal itself, so I can’t think of a good reason why it shouldn’t get focus.
easy enough to block that with a restrictive covenant too
Instagram will start nudging teens away from content they continuously browse
The mistakes are the interesting parts; that’s what makes it you.
To a degree. Companies also have to have a stable society in which to operate, and the lowest classes in American society have zero ability to absorb any additional costs because over the last 10-15 years, the increase in data collectability + Fed/government policy giving the indicators that the free money spigot will go on forever and the working class can suck it has meant that it's been feasible to run things where the lowest are treading water but not getting anywhere.

Now that inflation is hitting, the choice is: Give those people on the bottom more money or start incurring costs in other ways. If people can't feed themselves and their families on their wages, they aren't going to slink away and die to serve the Economy: They're going to start doing things like robbing grocery stores. Which means said grocery stores have to invest in security, lose more of their (now hard to get) stock, etc.

The problem is that you give the people at the bottom more money, then people in the middle wonder why they're busting their asses for only a little more than they'd get at Wal-Mart, then THEY start leaving or demanding more, and so it goes.

It's almost like running a society with no resilience is a bad idea. Go figure.

Likewise, a lot of businesses (especially in large cities) rely on being able to pay low wages because people commute from long distances; once energy prices get high enough, that won't work.

Low wages have basically been subsidized by the government since at least 2008 and now that it's ending it's a shitshow.
Be careful on this. Yes some FANGs make a lot of money but most tech companies lose every year. You want to give up wages to help pay the deficit?
I think that's fair. The EU is trying to push stricter environmental laws in countries outside of The Union.
Hypothetically, why can't you only allow private individuals to buy houses in a residential area? I honestly see no real issue with this in many communities.
While I recognize that this is, to some extent, asking for proof of a negative, do you have specific links for this information?
I wonder if Im the only person who is triggered by this widespread over-simplification? Relaxed and focussed is not drowsy. Also totally within the normal spectrum of amphetamine effects for anyone, regardless of diagnosis. I always see people parroting this idea. Oh you have ADD so _those drugs_ just make you sleepy yeah? Id be bouncing off the walls, they'd say.
I have a friend who is a professor with a PhD in complex analysis. Multivariable complex analysis (along with the theories of complex manifolds and analytic spaces) is very far from over.

Heck, one of the Millennium Problems (the Hodge conjecture) is in complex geometry (granted, in the more algebraically flavoured part of it).
Is it true, though, that academic works don't spin a narrative? That's a large part of what historians do: attempt to reconstruct a consistent version of events, what caused them to occur as they did, and what their effects were — in short, construct a coherent narrative. There might be a difference in emphasis on the average, with pop history focusing more on the narrative and less on facts that might be inconvenient to it, but some of the best and most influential rigorous historical works are those that present an interpretation of historical events that requires reevaluation of the narrative of preceding work.
> If Putin simply wanted to invade only for territory he would have taken it years ago

He did invade and take the most important territory years ago (as soon as there wasn't a Russian puppet governing Ukraine), when Ukraine was incapable of much resistance, and then paused to complete the integration of the territory seized at the time.

Did you miss that?
Which is funny, because we've seen prices go up despite wages remaining stagnant for the most part.
You’re grossly underestimating how difficult it is to pull off these exploits in practice. Even before getting to post compromise activity the adversary has to have a JavaScript VM escape, and also escape the browser sandbox. That shit is worth serious cash and nobody is gonna be spamming the internet with their precious zero days.

Even then you have to perform privilege escalation and map out the network. By this point you’re already pwned. The adversary isn’t gonna be looking for or even capable of pulling off a low level cpu exploit.
I think Bo Burnham's Inside would make an interesting comparison
I'm from Chile (and still live here). I don't know where you got the idea that anybody whot wants to be a doctor can go to a medical school without much effort. Medicine is by far the most exclusive career that you can apply to, they're always the highest scores in our version of the SAT (you can check the scores that are needed for one of our universities here https://www.uchile.cl/admision-y-matriculas/admision-regular...). There are some private colleges that have a lower entry barrier, but they're still far and above the rest of the careers that you can apply to.
Their salaries are also ridicously higher than the rest of the population, our minimum wage is 462 USD$ and a doctor can make easily 20 times that amount (and if you're a specialist you can make way more than that). Obviously there are some cases where a doctor can earn less than that, but they are in no way or form just another professional.
> Being poor in general, during your childhood, scars you for life.

You can learn to cope with the anxiety better if you talk to a therapist but it will never fully go away.
The other very strange aspect of consciousness is that the only way we have of experiencing consciousness is through our own consciousness. The recursive nature of trying to reflect on consciousness while using our consciousness to do so ends up having some very weird effects. The book, I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter is what got me thinking about this problem.
Not necessarily, I grew up pretty poor, my mother stealing food from kitchen she worked to save money (and I had to lug it every day when I was older), father having mediocre salary (later divorced without father's income), yet now belonging to like top 3% earners in country I live, I have like 150K EUR in stocks and don't really give a F about losing currently 10-20%, it's long term investment. It probably also helps I bought apartment without mortgage in 4th most touristy city in Europe.

So yeah, I dislike the idea of being mortgage slave, but if I didn't optimize my income I wouldn't mind taking one to buy investment apartment, so I had to invest money in stock.

But the funny thing is I will refuse to buy something I consider overpriced even when total sum makes absolutely no difference at my income, I just don't like the idea of wasting my money on something which can be bought cheaper, so some people may think I am poor or cheap although I don't mind spending money on something I consider worth the money. For instance almost nobody here in Czechia has AC, but I am one of those few people who have one, because I value my comfort at home more than having newest smartphones and other crap.
It would also allow to authenticate sudo without you knowing for as long as you sit next to your machine
So the government gets away with stealing our wealth by printing money and keeping real wages low
It would be interesting to see per 1000 vehicle owners or normalized in some ways.
gus_massa: Since you are likely an expert, could you recommend a resource that explains how you use the Lagrangian equation for the standard model [1] to actually compute a predicted value for the electron's g ?

An elementary resource that goes through basic steps for a computer scientist (non expert in QFT) would be a great. A simpler particle than electron is also ok, but I'd love to understand how you mess with that equation.

[1] http://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~tgutierr/files/stmL1.html
What Is an Oscillator in Music? [video]
This.

And in the thousand options to twiddle, there aren't the options I want.

I'd like a panel that when vertical did not scale the controls on it, just kept them the same size but rearranged them. I want a 4- or 5-column vertical panel with nothing growing or shrinking in size.

I'd like the Xfce option to constrain the Start button to a single line of text+label.

I'd like the Xfce option to set the size and font of the clock.

I rather liked wm2. I would like the option of window title bars on the left or right edge, or even the bottom. Why not?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Wm2.png

I liked BeOS' title bars as tabs, not whole width. Can I have those, please?

Then if I stack windows on top of one another, I would like to move the tabs so they don't overlap. Or better still, have them automatically rearrange themselves.

I hate the trend of having no menu bar, just a hamburger menu. Can I disable that globally, please? I want a menu bar in every app, enforced by the desktop. Currently some apps have it, some don't.

I do not want desktop gadgets or widgets or plasmoids or whatever they are called. Not at all, not ever. A tick box to disable them globally might be useful? Maybe integrate with Conky for a desktop status monitor.

I used to have a machine with 3 screens arranged in a line, with the bottom edges level. (Don't have space in the home office, sadly.) If I can't have a working vertical taskbar, can I have one taskbar across the bottom of 2 or 3 screens, please? KDE 3 could do that no problem.
Any links to photographs of the artifacts?
* In comparison comparing for pennies on flour is fun, it's entertainment.*

This just isn't true for me. Comparing pennies on flour is extremely stressful. At one time - a time when I couldn't pay for natural gas for proper heat nor hot water - I cried because I spent 25 cents more on a product I liked a whole heck of a lot better. That quarter might have been the difference between going to the laundry or washing clothing in the sink (with water heated on a hotplate). Or at least, this was what was in my head.

I generally don't count pennies for flour as much anymore, but it took years, divce, remarriage, and a move to another country to even get to that position. I still get pretty panicked about spending money. Usually it happens on things more than approximately $50-$100 (after exchange rate). Occasionally I just go without a haircut or don't buy new clothes despite a few holes/being a bit threadbare, though.
Isn't that just outsourcing with extra steps?

I mean a lot of software development and techie life has become gamified; github streaks, collecting stars, getting :+1: votes, apple watch circles, no-fap or no drinking streak apps; tinder stars, instagram votes, youtube watches, badges/achievements, the list goes on. Lots of things are gamified, and I'm actually surprised there's not more of video game style sound or visual effects when you do these things.
He skipped the masters, but the PGA suspended him because of LIV
I believe your perspective is limited by your experience.

As someone who is (a) a millennial and (b) has a chronic medical condition, I need medical care WAY MORE than I need to own a house. Or even rent a house. A crappy apartment will do. Right now I live in a relative’s basement.

I’ve learned to settle on living situations that I don’t love because medical care takes priority.
That seems like saying that DDoS is the server's problem and that it doesn't affect you and that the issue is the server's response to bad actors, not the bad actors.

Like DDoS, bots become the problem of all users when they slip through.

Fair enough to disagree with the mitigation strategy. I suppose most web services wouldn't care to differentiate you from a bot.
Putting money into asset markets causes "asset inflation" (see Nasdaq skyrocketing, until recently), putting it into "peasant hands" causes "peasant goods" inflation (hence the food or gas prices rising).
> Printing $4T+ into asset markets didn't cause inflation, but printing $0.4T+ into peasant hands did?

Fiscal policy is far more powerful, monetarily speaking, than monetary policy. It's not 10x more powerful. But a dollar the Treasury creates is minted. A dollar the Fed creates is lent against an asset. It's a small difference with massive multiplier implications. (It's why, in a crisis, fiscal responses are so pleadingly called for by economists and central bankers.)
Are you telling us that kids these days don't have boyfriends and girlfriends? Just fuck buddies? The biological phenomenon of falling in love evolved out of the species in one generation? I don't believe it.
A recent family emergency had me racing to Wal-Mart to get lacking urgent medicine. I had forgotten my wallet so I retrieved my "emergency C note" [an old US $100 Federal Note, kept in the glovebox, exactly for such purposes]... and the Pharmacist treated me like a criminal!!

She just could not understand why "somebody would be in such a rush to have forgotten their wallet and only have this old hundred dollar bill in their possession" — meanwhile, my god-mother is at home convulsing in her lack of L-DOPA.

Added more delay than my entire commute there and back! Ultimately they realized my situation and an assistant store manager "APPROVED" my old bill.
Perhaps they were referring to Canadian parties.
Oh even Bernie knows how he got c*@kblocked by the mainstream liberals to run for president. Would he make a better candidate and president than Joe? Yes of course, no brainer. Would he make the liberal donor class upset and they couldn’t afford to have him run? 100%.
I like the language, but I'm not sure that it actually targets any mainstream application. If you look at something like golang, it's very geared towards online server work bc that's what the language maintainers wrote it for, hence a lot of focus on GC-induced tail latency. Python and its package distribution system are great for glue code that's going to pick from a wide library of modules. C++ is amazing for portability and performance / zero cost abstractions. Java has its weird cult in enterpriseware and also is an OK glue layer for mobile UI stuff.

Comparatively, OCaml was initially written with symbolic operations in mind, and thus I personally think it's a great language for writing parsers, compilers, modeling systems etc. The type system makes it easy to avoid certain kinds of common errors in those programs and the tail latency of GC operations is typically not as important for those applications as overall throughput. I don't think that heavy symbolic computations are a mainstream target though. To be clear I think that's absolutely OK for a language not to aim for mainstream use; but if one wishes for mainstream use, then it's important to be clear about the kinds of use-cases within mainstream that will be targeted.

It has been a while since I played with the language though, so maybe things have changed since. Happy to learn more if I'm wrong and OCaml now has a clear mainstream target use case in mind.
I'll be honest, having worked at companies with profit sharing, you're better off taking the raise unless you're working for commission, and even then now is a rough time to be on commission.

If you can afford to risk your income on your company's fortunes, start your own or join a startup with a founder who seems trustworthy.

For me and most people, predictable income is much better than risky equity.
Pop_OS successfully bolted tiling onto GNOME.

Why not make that an option in KDE?
I don’t know that much about Japan, so forgive me, but I was under the impression that in Japan there was a lot of shame attached to sex, and sexuality.

Could the view on sex, particularly casual sex, impact dating?
Interesting that the Bank of England actually has a counter in their building in the City of London where you can exchange old notes.

It’s quite small and is (or was a few years ago when I last visited) also used as a waiting area for visitors to the Bank.

IIRC you can only have a personal account if you are a Bank of England employee.
> Raising wages with Consumer Price Index (CPI) is dangerous, because it could cause spiraling inflation!

This is only true iff 1) there is no profit margin on the employee and 2) productivity is flat or falling.

1) Remember that each dollar a customer spends only requires < $1 to employ. So as employee costs go up there is a cushion before an employer must raise prices.

2) If productivity rises then they can pay more, _and_ there ought to be price deflation as supply increase (or some mix of the two) .
If you think the Simulation Hypothesis has any merit whatsoever, you should consider the possibility that the Simulation does not have a fully-consistent engine, just one that was "close enough".

Note, of course, that the same could be true in a coincidentally-generated universe, as well as a deistic or theistic one (the latter two being effectively indistinguishable from a Simulation).
Yes, there are plenty of people who would work in the medical field not necessarily for the big pay but because of their calling, to care for the others. A lot of these people can't make it through the med school gauntlet and don't want to risk their mental health while in med school. Plus the crazy and insanely school loans... It's a system that disincentives the people with a calling and instead is replaced by people who can put up and have a stomach for a very complicated and inefficient system. While hospitals are run by MBAs this problem will not go away.
> Isn't Britain still part of the European continent?.

The author is likely referring to what is colloquially known in British English as "the continent", which means the mainland part of Europe.
The US isn't that devious. It's more akin to a dog eating a trail of kibbles made of fossil fuels. Won't look up, can't stop, keeps tasting good.
I'm sorry for not inventing a different name but what I have in mind is very different. Main difference is that it queries recursively automatically, and it is weighted. Weights are very important. This is old version where I had put my ideas [1]. I have no chance touching it anytime soon - it requires focus and solving hard problems (some of which sound lame like usability and bootstrapping). I write these comments hoping that maybe somebody decides to try it. Chances of bootstrapping it are slim (but could start in some niches), but the payout (I mean positive change in society, there's no money to be made here) is huge enough that I think it's worth trying.

Since I wrote it I became confident that algorithm which is used for cumulative trust computation should be up to each node (instead of using zk-SNARks for example). If you trust somebody, you trust them to compute it as they wish. And I would drop dimensionality at least in the beginning. Probably using multiple identities in place of it.

1. http://comboy.pl/wot.html