skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChromeOS is hard to celebrate though. While it is essentially free software and based on free software, it puts computing of its users in Google's cloud. That's a big loss of control and a huge privacy concern.

Free software is important to me because it is supposed to enable users to take back control of their computing.
You don't have kids? My significant other is an adult, but I definitely have savings that needs to end up with the kid.
This advice works only if 5 prerequisites are met:

- the coder is fluent in programming. Beginners will not know how to architecture things, and need to fiddle way more. It's impossible for them to create a doc that will make sense from the top of their head.

- The coder understands the problem well, and it has a known solution. Many problems are better understood when trying to solve them, by exploring its space while programming. It's impossible to start documenting something you don't know very well. It's espacially true if you have to come up with a novel solution.

- The problem is well defined. Unlikely. Clients don't define their problem well, and it's half our job to extract the information from their brain. However, while it is sometimes possible to get that on paper, and formalize it, most of the time, programming an incorrect PoC and iterating on it is a better interface to communicate with the client: they have a visual result to discuss. Writting a doc that you trash down every day would be a waste.

- The coder understands the field well. I'm currently working with a Bank, and I don't know the field. Many algo I must implement are in the head of my clients, and the quickest road to understanding them is to peer code them. They attempted to make a formal doc first of course. After 6 months, they still don't agree on how to do some things. One week of coding with me forced them to confront reality, and take concrete decisions.

- The coder has the big picture. Starting with a doc assumes you know what your API should look like. I would recommand that you do know, if you don't, you are probably in trouble. But it's a fact of life that sometimes you can't figure it out, and starting from something incomplete and coding it will make the big picture clearer.

That's a lot of pre-conditions.

My experience is that most teams starting with the doc (or tests) don't ship, or end up shipping only once they start fiddling. Those who do are excellent teams, the best ones, and I love working with them. But they are a rare bread. We are usually an average team, not ticking all pre-conditions, and not composed of only very skilled or experienced professionals. We fiddle a lot.

And unless you have a great team leader, taking such an ordinarity team and making it write the doc first will result in a terrible doc that doesn't match the solution to the problem, that you will rework again and again, while nothing is getting in the hand of the client for concrete feedback.

I favor a middle ground: start with paper, but don't pretend you are going to have a full spec.
Taffy – A high performance rust-powered layout library
A loss of one of us is a loss for all of us. I’m glad you are in a better place.
Power and compatibility doesn't correlate from visual attractiveness, especially in photos where many otherwise attractive people are simply not photogenic. Yes the market (because that's exactly what it is now, which is what sets it apart from the pre-agriculture era) is fierce, and it's based on faulty preferences - it's almost completely about the photos.

Statistically, couples who vet each other based on purely visual characteristics like height, body shape, skin colour and facial structure do not fare well in terms of relationship stability. This is a net negative for both women and men.

Women do not find powerful or uniquely attractive men, they find conventionally attractive men and push the market towards homogenisation. That's incredibly damaging from a societal growth perspective; it weeds out innovators and eccentrics. It forces people to change their priorities to become more homogeneous, and at the same time be the best at it. This is keeping up with the Jones' on steroids.

The technology we made for convenience is incredibly dangerous and potentially harmful in many aspects to both individuals and communities, and trying to rationalize it as weird but acceptable because of some parallels in history does nothing to address valid issues.
Ask HN: I have no idea about world economics. How I can fix that?
I'd like to understand more about the world economics and finance.
General news websites are pretty dull and panic based.

Are there any good blogs / newsletter that talk about the economics / finance events in the world, with good (non panic) analysis?

Thanks!
If you have been taking exports as backup, be aware that any attachments you have were not exported - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31702594
Gold is flat YTD and over 1 year. It may yet go down but probably won't unless inflation is checked. It's living up to promises.
This speaks to the power religion (which is after all just a belief system) still has to be exempt from various laws. Religion is grandfathered in so many ways.
My first job out of college was working for someone that wanted to implement whole systems in XML documents and use XSLT transforms to turn them into working code and documentation at the same time.

That approach didn't last very long. But hey at least I learned the Muenchian Method.
For the sake of people you care about. Speaking from recent experience. Loved ones have an easier time grieving if they don't have to tackle banks/government/vendor issues as well. I feel it incumbent on me to maintain my affairs in such a manner that they are less of an issue for people I love, should I unexpectedly kick the bucket.
I find anthropomorphism in nature documentaries hugely annoying. Especially when they add music that is sad depending on the outcome.
> the author clearly doesn't know anything about crypto.

> Inflation is about total supply of something, not cross asset trade price (i.e BTC/USD, or EUR/USD).

Bahahaha.
I agree, but even modularity is just an implementation detail, rising from the finiteness of human work capacity and computer resources. Algorithmic solution to the problem is the same, whether it is implemented in a single implementation-specific C file or a cross-platform multi-repo project. Also, it is (IMHO) much easier to learn engineering principles, than how to solve algorithmic problems. The latter is akin to solving mathematical problems, which require finding a problem-specific needle of knowledge in the haystack of mathematics.
Sounds like an incentive to accelerate development of electric truck.
It's been done already, see https://wiki.bitmessage.org/
Games started having region checks around 1992, although it isn't consistent which ones do and don't have it.
Babushka Z: The woman who became a Russian propaganda icon
> Wage is the result of adversarial relationships between demand and supply and not one of some arbitrary authority doling out favors left and right with strings attached

Except there are:

- systematic biases in access to the skills needed for this contest
- systematic asymmetries of information/social capital/access which skew access to high earning professions
- outright discrimination against minority groups and women in payment

All of which means current remuneration is in part (not wholly) a reflection of privilege.
It's one thing to build a few samples, it's another to mass produce with high yield. The GDR produced a 1 Mbit DRAM chip with great fanfare, but was never able to mass product it with commercially viable yield.
For me the problem with password managers, etc. is that it assumes that there will be a somehow tech savvy partner or relative left behind with all the knowledge of how to open it.

I prefer a method that can work in case me and my partner pass at the same time (e.g. accident). A paper will work for my partner, parents, siblings or an attorney in case of emergency.
Fadell also spoke about this story on the Decoder podcast recently
>>This idea that a central entity can’t regulate cryptocurrencies is pushed around by crypto enthusiasts. However, governments are trying to bring regulations into cryptocurrencies and stable coins.

> Literally nobody claimed they were going to control the actions of governments and force them to not regulate crypto. Where did this idea come from? The claim is that they would be effective despite attempted control by governments (see Monero)

Are you interpreting the statement differently from how I do? It's absolutely they case that cryptocurrency enthusiasts often use "take control away from government" and "code is law" (implying law is not law, or at least not law that overrules code).

Your reply here seems to be imply that you read it as a claim that cryptocurrencies would blackmail and bully governments to do their bidding.

If so then I don't see how you get there from that quote.

But then you seem to be saying that indeed regulation is ineffective. Which is the point of what you quoted to begin with.
> There was a very detailed article that used data collected in Tinder.

Survery* OkCupid* and 2011*.

> It showed something like 80% of women fought for 20% of top men and other way around.

It showed that women rated 80% of men below average. Which is pretty understandable, in okcupid and in 2011. That is an insane sample bias, when women look at men in ACTUAL research they tend to rate in a bell curve, and are actually kinder to age than men that tend to rate older women super low.

> This basically meant that large number of men are being left out cold in dating scene.

The data from the same survey showed a lot of those women ended up in relationships outside that 20%. Women rate look as the 4th most important thing in a man.

It seems like you probably need to check first hand sources instead of parroting whatever youtuber you heard this from cause you extrapolated conclusions from data you never checked and got all the conclusions wrong.
Moot point.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/moot-or-mute
Can't we say that the labour market is a market, and is unfair to some people, and the dating market is a market, and is unfair to some people? I'd guess that would be the "typical" HN person take, and I don't see a problem with it. I also don't see a problem with wanting to increase your chances of success, in either arena.

> one is not owed this attention, time or privilege

I thought this[0] was a really good piece about this kind of framing

[0] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does...
It's not only that. After the Civil War and Franco's regime, Spain's political tradition is to avoid conflict and wars at all cost.
The lack of the direction is definitly the biggest issue, as every couple of years the next big thing that will finally bring the crowds to D gets started, without fully finalizing the previous one.

These distractions have allowed competition to come up, and C++, Java and C# to strengthen their position by improving in areas of metaprogramming, modules, type inference and AOT compilation, making the transition to a smaller ecosystem less appealing, just to use such features.

I recently noticed that Andrei Alexandrescu is at NVidia now, and I imagine that most likely he will continue focused on C++ instead, or maybe NVidia is going to add D to CUDA?

I don't know, it is a pity, because the community is great.
On the other hand: Neither does password authentication check if it were your fingers typing.
I agree with your sentiments have you looked at how Apple has integrated Doc-C with Xcode?
Aren't they allowed to have an opinion?
How will they deal with misuse. E.g. one time accounts using vast network to create DDoS against target site.
Can’t think of many dull days in the last 10y, I don’t know why another 10 would make it boring. It’s a perpetual drama machine like no other.
Mixxx is such a legend. It's absolutely competitive with the "Big 3" (Serato, Traktor and RB), although it doesn't have real time stems separation like VDJ or DJay Pro. Neither do the Big 3, either, although I hear rumors (and pray) that Traktor might bring that in someday in their 4.0 release.

Anyway, kudos to Mixxx and the entire dev team. It's a breath of fresh air.
I am only speaking for myself here, but I am really feeling the switch from "data engineering" to "data ops", for whatever that means.

In short, 5-10 years ago, writing mapreduce / spark jobs (or even debugging / optimizing hive jobs) was complex enough that it was often the job of the data engineer (and not the data analyst / scientist). And I do not only mean writing the data processing logic, but more importantly, properly configuring it so that the resource footprint was acceptable. This required a good understanding of the underlying framework, analyzing the job execution plan, tweaking the resource configuration, etc.

Now, writing distributed jobs is pretty trivial with most cloud providers, hence it is now purely done by data analysts and scientists. And the data engineers have switched to doing more of a devops kind of work, doing the plumbing between the various cloud components and the IaC required to provide those cloud resources to other data users. In short, you can be a data engineer and have absolutely no clue on how distributed systems are actually working, this will not be an issue in your daily job.
It's a form of genital mutilation. It would be wrong to call it a non-issue. It is moral one at the least.

I have no issue with consenting adults getting circumcised for what ever reason they want too. A baby, however, cannot possibly consent to such a thing.
If you mean descending into mysoginist bile and hate, then yes.
What a weird response.
> Just because it seems conscious doesn't necessarily mean that it is.

What does consciousness have to do with pain ?
> There is no gaggle of desperate women running after a succesful hot man in a suit who keeps denying their advances. This is simply not happening

Go to a place where there are a lot of women. The simplest example is dancing class(es). Become the top 5% guy there (not 5% in dancing, top 5% male in general) and see. The same thing by being top 5% in your high school or university.
This is a guy who co-wrote Clinton autobiography in the height of Epstein drama. And everyone still cheers him.
Yeah! No idea why I still have a VPS at Digital Ocean compared to this. For a Basic / 4 GB / 2 vCPUs (aka shared cpu 4GB ram) instance I'm ending up at like $28.5 per month including VAT ($20 droplet + some backups).
Looks like I could literally get 4x the RAM for the same cost on Hetzner!?
> If they were to taste good

But many people report they do!
> A key cutting scheme may be useful in the case of mutli tenancy

No. Cutting a key in half doesn't halve its security, but it reduces it exponentially.

256 bits = 2^256 possibilities for bruteforcing

255 bits = 2^255 possibilities for bruteforcing, or half

128 bits = 2^128 possibilities, or 1/(2^128) the security
Cutting a key in half doesn't halve its security, but it reduces it exponentially.

256 bits = 2^256 possibilities for bruteforcing

255 bits = 2^255 possibilities for bruteforcing, or half the security of 256 bits

128 bits = 2^128 possibilities, or 1/(2^128) the security

But you can have encryption schemes requiring N-of-M private keys to decrypt.
For less confident people IRL, the ability to like with low cost is actually great. I have had dates with people I would probably never have approached in real life and online dating has been a confidence boost generally.
I meant, it’s unlikely that dictatorial regime will let publication about the faulty behaviors it produces be released, let alone generate reinforcement of its system through such a release.
Just the other night I was told to enjoy being poor by a couple of new investors, sucks for them, I don't think they invested sufficiently long enough ago to not have lost money by now
This is actually a great time to buy house. You are not going to have bidding wars and take your time. For now, swallow the pill for 6% rate but know that this will come down in next 2-3 years as Ukraine war wraps up and supply chain stabilizes. You can then simply refinance at 3%.
There were like a billion ways this all could have been really simple, anonymous digital cash. But y'all had to make it overly complex and y'all had to get greedy and all y'all libertarian fedora vape ass dudes had to inject your absurd capitalist ideologies about currency speculation into it.

Saying cryptocurrency isn't a grift is like saying Amway isn't a pyramid scheme because their cleaning products really can clean things. Maybe, but the wrong people got in the door and now the regular people, the non-cypherpunks and non-Galties wanting some way to buy ketamine on their little floating pirate utopia or whatever, have realized that you can't actually use a currency as a currency when even the "stable" ones are about as stable as Ezra Miller with an eight-ball at a karaoke joint.

And all of this bullshit has managed to completely derail the tech industry as everybody tries to figure out a way to shoehorn crypto into every other useless idea, the same way they did with "social" for the last decade. Here's an NFT of my balls, go find some actor to pimp it for you at Super Bowl halftime.

Between crypto and the various dippy con artists getting miniseries of the week made about them, people are starting to realize that the higher tiers of tech - not the people who, y'know, actually make things people use, but the hustlers and rain-makers who get all the column inches, so to speak - are just absolutely full of people you wouldn't leave in a room without double checking your wallet is still in your pocket and your napkin is still on top of your drink.

You can drone on about economic and number theory all day - and a lot of you do - but it doesn't change the fact that everybody thinks this shit is one big Dutch flower market where you can trade black tulips for heroin or piss away your savings on ScroteCoins that some geek in Belarus will inevitably gank outta your virtual deposit box at the exchange, leaving you just as confused as when you started but twice as poor.

So,y'know, good job, guys. :-D
What does that prove?

There are tons of celebrity gossip about super attractive people who don't sleep with each other anymore. Dead bedrooms and non working partner dynamics has nothing to do with the silly "women only want top 5% of men". Some of those men are in dead bedroom situations, thus if anything it furthers my point.
This is confusing to me. Did VisiCalc start as a reference card or not? Because the article doesn't say this and neither does the transcript of the TED talk.

>In addition to prototyping, Dan put together a reference card for users. If we couldn't figure out how to explain a feature on the reference card we would change the program. The original method for copying formulas was too complicated so we just changed the design rather than try to explain it.

Sounds like the reference card came after prototyping and was used as feedback in an iterative prototyping process. Pretty standard. This isn't "write before you code."
When did it crash worse?
The Economist might be a good starting point? https://www.economist.com/

For a narrower focus, the Wall Street Journal (New York) and the Financial Times (London) are probably the primary English-language sources for financial news.
For whatever reason, this resulted in me being prompted to first type my password, then also authenticate with Touch ID.
I mean yes, but also no way.

I think the term 'documentation' (in a dev context anyway) is a daunting one. Documentation is hard. Time is poor. And things always change in build, often big things. Knowing the process, why would you presume the outcome?

That said, even on personal projects I do like to write a readme.md (a scope of work "lite" - audience me) outlining the intention and key features of whatever it is I am planning to create. This isn't a massive commitment, neither detailed nor prescriptive, but it does provide a reasonable amount of guidance and milestones. But it's not documentation.
Unionizing indeed wouldn't hurt for a vast majority of workers. However, people on HN seems to generally be anti-union because, by virtue of their career position, they do not experience the instability that a lot of people suffer under. Moreover there is also this idea that unions would reduce their career/salary prospects. i.e. HN people tend to enjoy a comfy position on the labour market that makes them removed from and sometimes disdainful of the plight of a majority of workers.

When I say privilege, it is less about the value of the work itself, and more about the overall stability (and of course wealth) that CS jobs have guaranteed over the past 20 years. As you mentioned it, adversarial is a good term here. A lot of HN people have not experienced how adversarial and imbalanced the labour market really is (think people stuck in the poverty trap working retail jobs in the US for instance).

So you have a lot of people here that seem to apply the labour market logic they're accustomed to, to a social relationship setup they ultimately see as a market -- which is a bad thing in my opinion.

Hoping this clarifies my point.
Writing the definition hurts peoples feelings and they downvote. Humans haven't evolved a lot in the last 200K years. But doing the opposite of: being short, poor (not stocks poor, you can't drive a stock), clueless of social interaction, being fat, no muscle, not being fun, reading hacker news, having low social status, being unfunny, being needy, being `unsexy`, bad fashion, being bald and not owning it, etc.
I expect Japans prison population to explode then, maybe they can beat the US. This is why platforms outside the legislation of your country are often a better choice. Not that I would recommend bullying, you are already a lost cause if you cannot just ignore people you do not like, but such laws will always be extended further and chill any discussions. Aside from that on many platforms users cannot be identified in the first place and I think that is a great feature of the internet. Those that decry such features are often quite short sighted.
It is still ongoing, but the trend is really on managed services. Most shops that are still running hadoop distribution are doing it for legacy reasons (and I used to work in one).
I mean, just look at job offers: how many offers do you see where hadoop experience is a plus VS cloud experience?
That's the point. It wants to set taxes and has made moves in the past even with veto.
IMHO, the obvious takeaway for me here is that pretty printing debug data should not be part of the originator system. It's a-okay to dump a 1GB binary log. The pretty-printing logic should be located in whatever dedicated application is used to inspect those dumps.
It’s very cool, but every update of mac OS resets it! After a while I didn’t bother to reactivate it…

Is there a permanent solution, that does not involve cron scripts or other hacks?
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Graphs
> No, that's just an increase in the price of bread.

> Definition of inflation: a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

It feels like you are jumping through hoops to avoid the definition of inflation.

The parent comment's mention of bread is literal and figurative. When talking about inflation, "bread" a whole sector of goods. The specific mention of bread is to reference necessity - basic needs like food/shelter/clothing.

Clearly the lines of inflation are fuzzy but if 'large enough' people's basic buying power decreases then you have inflation.

With BTC, the parent comment is simply talking about being able to buy less with BTC because they can't go to someone who will give it to them for a lower price. Do that with enough goods and you've got inflation?
How is your password safe from someone threatening you with a lead pipe?
You can split up a key using something like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing