skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currencies can lose value in an absolute sense while gaining value in a relative sense. USD per unit of goods is a different metric from USD per EUR

Both USD and EUR are losing value relative to real goods, just at different rates
I've never understood why EUR/USD "parity" is a concept. It seems analogous to two stocks having the same share price - a totally arbitrary number that happens to be equal. Am I wrong?
Michael O'Leary has been CEO since the early 90s but did not found the company.
My uncle was a math teacher in Brazil - mostly test-prep course schools for university exams, later he opened some of his own private schools.

He used to say two things: that he has estimated to have taught at least 100 thousand people in his life (seems just crazy boasting, but feasible when you are working in 5-8 different schools per semester and each class has 100-250 people) and that a teacher is always teaching for the worst student in the class, and that the only reason that top universities are better is because of their selection process.

Forget class material, forget infrastructure and fancy facilities. What makes the best universities is the fact that the top students are there.

If you can not (dramatically) change your students and make them smarter, you can make your classes smaller and segment by performance. This at least stops your top 20 percentile from being dragged down by your bottom 20.
The beginning of the conclusion of the original study [1] is worth repeating:

No one should try to reform or rehabilitate the ranking. It is irredeemable. In Colin Diver’s memorable formulation, “Trying to rank institutions of higher education is a little like trying to rank religions or philosophies. The entire enterprise is flawed, not only in detail but also in conception.”

Students are poorly served by rankings. To be sure, they need information when applying to colleges, but rankings provide the wrong information. As many critics have observed, every student has distinctive needs, and what universities offer is far too complex to be projected to a single parameter. These observations may partly reflect the view that the goal of education should be self-discovery and self-fashioning as much as vocational training. Even those who dismiss this view as airy and impractical, however, must acknowledge that any ranking is a composite of factors, not all of which pertain to everyone. A prospective engineering student who chooses the 46th-ranked school over the 47th, for example, would be making a mistake if the advantage of the 46th school is its smaller average class sizes. For small average class sizes are typically the result of offering more upper-level courses in the arts and humanities, which our engineering student likely will not take at all.

[1]: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation... (section 8)
I suppose I should provide some links to what I was able to find:

Contra studies on the importance of inter-child interactions:
* https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-2187-3_...

* https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Child-care-and-childre...

Study indicating that most of the assessment instruments supporting inter-child interactions and their importance is flawed: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/001440298305000310
Huh?
Say you own DEF. Wouldn't you rather trade it for ABC to gain more interest?
Citation needed, specifically regarding your use of the term "a lot".

Sure enough, if you take the small percentage of extreme tech talent or very entrepreneurial employees, many in that group might consider taking their business to the US.

But how much is that really? 1%? 5%? Can't be much more. So, 95-99% don't...hardly a brain drain.

The other thing Americans can't seem to comprehend is that not everybody is a dollar-chaser. For the typical European, if they have a decent quality of life and some reasonable disposable income, they are satisfied.

Bread and games as they say.
Finlandisation is a dirty word in Finland. 'Good relations' were maintained by giving up an independent foreign policy, allowing Soviet-funded political parties, and censorship of anti-Soviet press. They were 'good relations' for the Soviets - not so much for the Finns.
My undergrad was at Umass Amherst, and I currently attend GA Tech's OMSCS program. Professors love sharing info on why they chose to talk about one topic vs. another, and by and large were happy to connect with any student motivated enough to attend an office hours or talk to them after class. I knew same personal information about the professors I worked with in the lab, but I don't generally see how that would improve my learning outcomes.

Class size naturally dropped as you got into niche subjects, of which there were many!
There was a "flight simulator" ported from SGI GL to OpenGL+Windows when Microsoft embraced OpenGL. There were a small variety of aircraft in this program. I could take off in the 747, kill the engines and glide to a safe landing. Considering I have no experience whatsoever with real aircraft, that's probably not realistic.
>The downside is that liberal arts colleges aren't research institutions and they are generally undergraduate only.

What's ironic about this though is how many universities won't accept their own undergrads into their grad programs... IE: they know that their undergrad programs are sub-standard but they don't seem to take action to improve them because the money and the focus is on the grad programs.
> For whatever reason a lot of people keep betting on a pivot.

At some point the US has to print to outrun its debts. There will be a pivot.
Well, I wrote up a quick draft while it was on my mind. Here you go!

https://www.brightball.com/articles/automatically-reversing-...
Right the evil greens trying to secure a future for our children.
If you mean "mental" as in "not based on reality", then no, that's wrong.

However, it is true that your hunger urges are not solely based on thriving and surviving, but also significantly on the current state of your gut bacteria, which is highly influenced by diet and stress. They say the gut is a second brain for good reason.
Automatically Reversing Account Takeovers
>I'm not so sure about that; I've certainly met plenty of people who did not understand it. HN is not representative of the wider tech community.

Well, people understand it just fine.

It's just that the definitive allure of FOSS is not what the purists think it is.

purist: FOSS is about freedom (to work on the source, release changs as FOSS, etc)

real world: what I care about is 70% the code being available to use for free and 30% the ability for others (and me in some cases) to edit it and release my changes. Yeah, I do understand it's not the same as mere "freeware". But for most intents and purposes that the part I care most about, but I also like the FOSS aspect because it means I can get more community stuff for it, and I don't depend on a single vendor releasing it.
True. And it was immediately reversed when Merkel's conservative government took over. And then again reversed by the same conservative led government after Fukushima.
Eternal Blue – Invisible digital dimensions of reality
In an emergency situation (a matter of life and death for the vulnerable) can't space heaters be powered by electricity then?
I love colecanon. Mine has skin on boiled and mashed potatoes (any type or a mix), lots of butter, full fat whole milk greek yogurt and chopped cooked kale. My family loves it hot or cold. Add a few more spices and a little mustard, and I serve it as potato salad to my mayo hating in-laws.
How about USD in private sector circulation becoming scarcer due to higher prices paid for same output and lower USD federal deficit spending being a deflationary force.
The EU also had loose monetary policy resulting in inflation. USD is getting stronger because of the American oil industry. Demand for exports is always a major factor (probably the biggest factor actually) in exchange rates.
No, that’s an accurate way to look at it. The important thing is the relative movement, not the precise value (the US economy would not be meaningfully different if we cut a zero of the end of every price).

Psychological effects can come into play, of course.
They did a fabulous job of the Star Trek transfers (I’m currently watching the original series).

However, some studios put very little effort into their film to HD transfers. Last year, I watched Buffy, the Vampire Slayer on Disney+ and its transfer from film is woefully bad. For certain scenes, the picture quality looked like upscaled standard definition and these transitions were very jarring. Also, whatever filter they used for grain removal made the flesh tones and facial features look “wrong”.

Even worse was the wholly unnecessary conversion from 4:3 to 16:9. The resulting composition of many scenes was distractingly bad. At one stage, they the second camera unit can be seen filming the action from the side!

Edit: Fortunately, Disney+ have made The Simpsons (another transfer from film) available in 4:3 – as well as the default 16:9. There’s a setting in the UI to play it in 4:3.
Adam Ruins Everything, Season 2, Episode 7 [1]

1: https://youtu.be/EtQyO93DO-Q
There is a Soviet joke hidden in this somewhere I feel we just have to find it.
> It's not sustainable in the long term, but that term is actually quite long.

I'm not so sure about that. There were a bunch of news outlets warning that Gazprom is on the brink of a massive default. Gazprom, of all companies.

If the company that subsidizes Russia's ruling regime can't make their payments in spite of sitting on a huge pile of oil and gas, that does not bode well for Russia's economy.
A lot of the stakeholders of Eth classic and the forked current Eth believe in code is law. The fork is and wasn’t in favor of that.
Apparently you've fallen for Russian propaganda.

Russia has capital controls. Exporters are forced to buy roubles with 80% of their foreign currency, among other restraints to the free trading of roubles.

If you traded roubles on the black market, you'd get the actual price, and it's much lower there.
EU interest rates are below 0%. US are above 3%. Also EU economies are a little slower than the US at the moment. Primarily, though, its always rates.
You're not wrong but as far as arbitrary comparisons go, them being at parity is a historical anomaly.
People should learn something before visiting a foreign country, especially a unique city like real Venice, not a cheap copy in Las Vegas.
Or Gran Canaria, or Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Norway, Singapore, Mexico, Brasil...

World cultures ignorance is staggering in some Anglo-Saxon countries...
US tells EU to jump EU asks how high
Per PR description:

> Removed warrant canary (we still have never received a NSL or FISA order, but we are removing this language now to avoid a future situation where we receive one but are not permitted to remove the statement from our policy)

yeah, is that more believable? Maybe, I cannot tell.
If it's sentient or I believe it to be so, finding another job is my priority. I don't have any answers for those ethical issues.

Otherwise, advanced energy storage, chemical recovery from low concentrations(Phosphates from sewage, metals from landfill ash, etc), and medical advances would probably be my priority.
Re: StarCraft 2, I think it's a shame that playing at lower speeds never really caught on. Both SC1 and SC2 have (or at least had?) options like "normal", faster, and fastest speed, but the community normalized on the highest speed as the standard, where mechanical skill is much more important to winning, and you don't get much time to plan anything.
The video game prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD
> As for the Euro, it's currently at a 20-year low

The Yen is at a 24 year low vs USD. The Yen is down 15.9% YTD. That is just an incredibly fast erosion and we're only halfway through the year.
>Right to repair has been all over the news, including mainstream news, and least in tech circles

Has been in the kind of news Joe Average doesn't give a fuck about and even if they watch, they forget in 10 minutes.

Techies spot mentions of it in the news because they already care for it and know the term.

That's not the same as something being in the news that reach regular people (that would be more like some high profile Hollywood divorse, some war, or gas prices).
The RM UP-01 is thinner. "This new ultra-thin timepiece is a mere 1.75mm in thickness beating out Bulgari by a walloping 0.05mm."

Source: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/richard-mille-sets-a-new-r...
Because as Victoria Nuland said back in 2014 when this was all kicking off, "F** the EU" [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XNN0Yt6D8
What I've heard anecdotal bears out what you are saying, IE: once you get through various mega weed-out classes, in many universities you still get the luxury of smaller class sizes and more direct access to professors as you reach those upper level classes.

Where I was asking for clarification was on the idea that somehow people were getting better materials and a better overall experience in thee 500+ people lecture hall type experiences, rather than those 20-person intimate learning style classes.
> EU was/is too heavily dependent on Russian oil and natural gas whereas the US has better isolation due to its domestic fuel production.

Oil follows the "law of one price" globally; https://public.wsu.edu/~hallagan/EconS327/weeks/week9/LOOP.p... global prices converge since it's an identical commodity that can be transported with low friction.

When the EU restricts russian oil, India and China buy more, and then EU buys more oil from elsewhere -- it's a global market that readjusts relatively quickly.

There is some short term friction around switching costs and infrastructure, moreso for volatile-to-transport gas than for oil, but this shouldn't be a meaningful factor to currency. There are tons of other impacts of war, such as general destruction of capital and people's productivity, as well as plenty of other explanatory factors that would have a bigger effect here.
I doubt it's because of steam train residue, but when I was on the Underground it turned all the mucus in my nose black for a day every time I rode it. From searching around, this seems to be a common occurrence for visitors. Air quality there is severely compromised. There's also the health and safety problem of its steadily rising temperatures, about which nothing appears to be being done or even considered.
Is there a way to look at volume of EUR/RUB exchange?
Short answer no. Unless someone comes up woth a scalable domestic heating version, using electricity, of AWS.

And stop spreading FUD about people freezing to death in there houses in winter, please.
This has been brought up multiple time now over that last decade. At least this is one step in the right direction.

Adam Ruins Everything, Season 2, Episode 7 [1]
1: https://youtu.be/EtQyO93DO-Q
Pumped storage is cool but way more situational than you think
Well, there's an easy solution to square these viewpoints. People who prefer a caveat emptor can keep operating like that, and people who want to be responsible can drop the "AS IS" clause from the license and put their money where their mouth is. (And really, none of this "well yeah the license says that but really you should be held to account for other stuff"; either commit or don't.)
There’s a video floating around out there somewhere from the 80s show Knight Rider. One of the things about that car was that it could drive itself. I always assumed they used some sort of complex remote control system to film those scenes, but the video clearly shows that it’s just a guy wearing a suit that looks like the seat in the car. I guess simple wins out over cool.

EDIT: Here’s a link to the tweet with the video. https://twitter.com/BryanPassifiume/status/13356368964881203...
I wish they had included pictures of his hardware.
Archive: https://archive.ph/2GWII

Letter: https://freedomfortexas.com/uploads/blog/3b118c262155759454e...

Letter title: "litigation hold letter — sidley austin llp"

Quotes: "We will also be introducing legislation next session that will impose additional civil and criminal sanctions on law firms that pay for abortions or abortion travel. The legislation that we will introduce will include each of the following provisions.

Litigation is already underway to uncover the identity of those who aided or betted these and other illegal abortions. In light of this pending litigation, as well as any anticipated litigation that might ensue, you and your colleagues at Sidley must preserve and retain all documents, data, and electronically stored information relating in any way to: (1) Any abortions performed or induced in Texas on or after September 1, 2021, in which a fetal heartbeat was detectable (or likely to be detectable if tested), including any such abortions that occurred while Judge Pitman’s injunction was in effect from October 6–8, 2021; (2) Any abortions performed or induced in Texas on or after June 24, 2022, including abortions performed while Judge Weems’s TRO was in effect from June 28, 2022, through July 1, 2022; (3) Any abortion that occurred on or after September 1, 2021, if there is any possibility that the patient might have opted for a drug-induced abortion and ingested either of the abortion drugs in Texas, even if the drugs were dispensed by a provider outside the state of Texas; and (4) The identity of any person or entity who has aided or abetted the abortions described in (1) – (3), including anyone at your firm, and anyone who paid for or in any way reimbursed the costs of those abortions.

You and your colleagues must preserve these items regardless of the medium, format, or device on which they are stored or hosted, and regardless of whether they appear in documents, drafts, notes, calendar entries, emails, text messages, voicemails, social-media posts, or any other form. Failure to preserve these documents could subject you and your colleagues to significant penalties.

Conduct yourselves accordingly."

In the United States, can you pass a law that makes something retroactively criminal? I'm not sure I understand why the Freedom Caucus is warning people about conduct pursuant to legislation which has yet to be introduced.
> That led us to create enormous Gantt charts (printed dot matrix) that we’d tack onto a huge wall, and use them to track plans and work completed. It never failed that during the first week of coding we’d discover something that we didn’t think of in the design phase, and we’d have to replan the entire project and print all new Gantt charts. We did this over and over every project.

I’ve only ever worked with “modern” agile approaches to software development. Gantt charts feel like a mismatch with the speed of software development, but sometimes I wonder if there certain software projects where Gantt would work better than agile.
That seems naive to assume. We already live in a world where there are multiple rankings, and many of them (even some of the most important ones, like QS or Shanghai) rely only on independently collected or public data.

We already have what you suggested as a solution, and look at where we are. The problem is more fundamental.
as siblings noted about Soviet joke - in today's Russia you don't quit your job, your job quits you.

Actually it isn't that much of a joke today - according to the new wartime law Russian government can compel any business to produce the amount of product/service the government wants with the business having no right to refuse, and the government can force people to work overtime, weekends, holidays with the government defining what payment, if any, to happen to the business and the people.
That's what they meant. Read the second sentence of the comment.
The West/NATO are reluctant to force Ukraine to make a settlement. They've been very clear that it's up to the Ukrainians. That could change closer to winter and it seems Zelensky is aware of that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/28/zelensky-...
Yes, I know it is my opinion.
Show HN: Dev databases on Windows in one click
Wow fascinating - so US News is now a rankings company.
I took an Econ class with northwestern’s president and he said that they straight up lie about their middle 50 gpa and standardized test scores. Can’t say I was super surprised. Every top 25 school is saying 25% of their students got a 35 or better on the ACT, the numbers just didn’t add up.
Are you arguing that the ruble is more stable place to store your money than the Euro?
First we killed god, now we try to kill the thing-in-itself. Probably a lot harder to do the latter. I appreciate your perspective on this, I hadn't made that connection before. When you put it like this, I wonder if this fusion is a force that acts counter to individuation, basically being part of "something bigger", the workplace replacing community?
Kadium – App for staying ontop of YouTube channels' uploads
"Reader View" from Safari only shows the first paragraph of this story for me
> Meanwhile, the Ruble is up from where it was just before the invasion.

A massive economic sanctions package, which eliminates their ability to import goods and services while having their sole export stockpile foreign currencies, does help level the balance of trade.

But that does not mean the economy is not tanking though.
I used SQLite’s built in fuzzy search and it is surprisingly powerful. I used it to for full text search over a magic the gathering card database and it was amazing.
> What's confusing? Get infected once, avoid tens of infections. If your immune system "forgets" the immunity after 6 months (which is the case for COVID), then every 4 months get exposed, you won't get actively sick since you still have some immunity

Another problem with this concept (at least for things like COVID) is that every time the virus is passed on it has a chance to mutate into something your immune system is unprepared for. Maybe you catch it and don't feel sick, or are only briefly/mildly sick, but you can still play host to it long enough for it to mutate and get passed to someone else. The more it moves from host to host the better it gets at surviving and defeating immune systems.

Entire populations passing a virus back and forth at a high rate for long periods of time seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Russia, while at war, is doing not that bad, surprisingly: https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=...
Show some stats and sources. What does Russia import? Chinese goods? Is China willing to trade with Russia for food and energy? What do you think?
That bunch of news outlets was/is feeding their clients bullshit
I used to love RTS games as a kid. I kind of fell off of them when they started to really emphasize the e-sports angle. Mostly because I wasn't really good enough to enjoy them and there seemed to be an ever increasing focus on "more APM". However, I recently picked up "Starship Troopers: Terran Command" and loved it. It was built to just be a campaign focused single player RTS. It's such a fun game, and doesn't overstay its welcome.
You are right. Something like 60-70% of inflation is energy everywhere.

You can look components of inflation in both regions and see exactly how much is hydrocarbons.
> For instance, any ranking that does not have Stanford first among non specialized US universities (i.e. excluding MIT, Caltech, Julliard, etc.) is suspect.

LOL wut? Stanford is modestly well known, but obviously Harvard is the one that is unambiguously first.
I think more so the precedent it set. Not switching on ~and~ not growing nuclear. It wouldn't be too ridiculous for Germany to be producing 30GW from nuclear by now. That's a 22GW spread from what it is today which isn't negligible.

But yeah, people are definitely being a little over dramatic on the severity.
They should create a little "status map" which shows the entire palette of all available sRGB colors and fills out those who have been voted on.

That would at least make it interesting to keep voting and seeing the map fill out.
Menlo on MacOS, Ubuntu Mono on Linux.