skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for BWT-related hypotheses has been overstated

Overstated does not mean the hypothesis is invalid, does it?

Also you realize this paper is not about the BWT as a hypothesis for more crime, which is the BWT hypothesis, but is instead applying BWT to health outcomes, right? Seems a bit odd that this is what you select.

If you want some recent papers actually about the BWT, try [1]: "The findings reported here lend support to propositions derived from broken windows theory to a major extent."

>And yes, I trust the word of a large scale meta-analysis over individual studies as a general rule

Good. Maybe read the next sentence after the one you quoted that you conveniently forgot:

"Even where there is evidence that BWT impacts outcomes, it is driven by studies that measured disorder as the perceptions of the focal individual, potentially conflating pessimism about the neighborhood with mental health."

So there is some evidence that BWT impacts outcomes, even health ones, in some situations?

When you select a paper not on topic, pull a quote out of context to make it look on topic, ignore the following sentence, that level of dishonesty is not worth dealing with. Looking at the 14 of your posts (out of 32 total posts) in this thread so far, you are not being honest with anyone here. So I'm done.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2017.13...
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> your situation

Unfortunately this situation is by no means unique.

> That has to be unsettling.

And now you know why there has been a growing movement predicated on the idea that the vast sums of money we spend on police may not be well-spent.
Wikipedia includes entries based on notability, but they have their own idea on notability. A friend of mine is a famous voice actor who has won not one but two CLIO awards. Wikipedia deleted the page I created for him on the basis that he was not notable. Another page I created was for the person who introduced deaf sign language to New Zealand. Deleted as she was not notable.

There are more than 19,000 entries for CLIO awards [0] from 62 countries yet only 18 Clio Awards juries comprised of industry leaders from across the globe awarded 13 Grand Clios in 2020/2021 [1]. The Global Advertising Agencies Market Size in 2022 was worth approx. $332.1 billion [2].

By comparison the Academy Awards give out Oscars in 24 categories [3] to nominees selected from only 9,921 members [4]. The Motion Picture Association released a new report on the international box office and home entertainment market showing that the industry reached $101 billion USD in 2019 [5].

Oscars are considered notable. CLIOs are not. It would appear that making art is notable (except in the sad case of Bruce Faulconer), while impacting an entire industry or contributing to marketing or education in a highly visibly recognized manner is not.

[0] https://clios.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clio_Awards

[2] https://www.ibisworld.com/global/market-size/global-advertis...

[3] https://www.britannica.com/art/Academy-Award

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosaescandon/2020/03/12/the-fil...
Your common street criminal also tends to go after low-hanging fruit. A "Beware of Dog" sign and a security camera (even a fake one) will go a long way in your favor.
I'm guessing a lot of that money is being reinvested into the network. At the point in time their business levels off, they can take profit.

Likely in this case, they can't upgrade their network fast enough, I'm guessing. And they don't have the funds to do it.

This would be a different story than my local cableco say. They will sell you 5TB of data for $100/mo. Or about $0.02/GB. But that money isn't going into network upgrades. And won't until they're forced to, since that's the cable company business model and has been for decades.
Thank you. This is a very helpful suggestion.
His novel 'Earth' also predicted glassholes.
> I'm skeptical that interest rate hikes will curb inflation. I'm even skeptical that a recession will curb inflation.

They won't, but the Fed has to do them anyway. That's the nasty situation we're in: current inflation is mainly being caused by supply shortfalls, which can't be fixed by interest rates short of massive demand destruction with a recession, but if the Fed doesn't do anything we could transition to a regime where the inflation is expectations-driven instead. That's the really bad kind of inflation which becomes self-reinforcing and hard to stop without completely Volckering the economy.

There are no easy answers here, but doing it is better than not doing it.
The President is hardly forgiving student loans. So far the government has only forgiven loans of students who went to scam schools.
> Easiest way to increase labor supply is to immediately increase the retirement age to 70.

The actual maximum benefit retirement age for Social Security is already 70.

The misleadingly named “full retirement age” is 67, but I don't think squeezing three more years out of the non-disabled elderly is going to do as much good for the industries where demand exists as you think.

EDIT: Also, proposing an immediate increase to the retirement age is probably the easiest way to lose one’s next election in most US constituencies; there's a reason why the increases adopted in 1983 had a phase in starting 17 years after they were passed.
If the policy is “you must feature in Grove’s”, Wikipedia becomes even more derivative than it already is.
Alternatively, or perhaps in addition, we can begin lowering the Medicare enrollment age so we can free employers from the burden of overseeing health insurance plans. This would also free up workers currently wasted on interacting with insurance companies on behalf of providers. It's win-win-win-lose (the winners are everyone but the insurance companies, and I'd wager the former vastly outnumbers the latter).
I am not an economic expert, so you may take with a grain of salt. Gases, prices, a complex topic. From my understanding there are/were two things causing increases in price. First is just inflation across the board that affects all items. The second is the oil specific problem of, there is plenty of crude oil, but not enough was being refined, leading to a lack of supply for actual gasoline. Some measures have been taken to curb the later problem of not enough refining. The prices dropping could be a product of that. To my knowledge the cause of that was exposing some of the crude supply to the wider world so places that had the capacity to refine more could take it and refine it. The US and several other nations were already running at capacity. Building more capacity is a long term solution, but needs year to build new refineries. The short term solution is to let whoever had slack capacity to take it, refine it, and put back out into the global market.

So the price decrease we see is probably more from the later, but there is still impact from the former. As a reminder, this goes more specifically for gas prices and not necessarily all prices on all items in general.
> but inflation only happens in reality because of government spending, borrowing, and deficit spending.

This is incorrect. Note that governments around the world are also experiencing record levels of inflation and each has their own fiscal policy.

Inflation is an aggregate economic effect driven by a variety of factors—including but by no means limited to government spending. Other things that contribute to inflation:

1. Supply shortages

2. Cost of living

3. Abundance of capital (low interest rates, high wages, etc)

4. Speculation

Basically anything that contributes to groups of people assigning a higher value to the same set of goods or services.

Supply is the most immediately noticeable cause and COVID has disrupted supply chains for some time. It is entirely unsurprising we've seen inflation as a result. Government policy has certainly played a part, but blaming everything on government spending is misleading in that ignores the larger realities of inflation beyond the borders of any nation state.
I guess I was defaulting to imagining the percentage would be based on published earnings. I can see how that wouldn't realistically work in this case on second thought.
"Due to many governmental economic measures, a deficit in the fiscal balance, and a large issue of local currency..."

(From the article). Chronic lack of competent governance seems to be the culprit.
> Think "track a burglar as he moves through a neighborhood" not "snoop (illegally) on the contents of people's mail".

It’s not illegal, though. Google is (presumably) fully legally in the clear to just hand over footage to police. That means that, if Google decides to hand over your footage to the police, anything on tape can be used as evidence against you. And Nest offers indoor security cameras, so your entire house could be fair game.

> Google is smart enough to know that "snitching" on its users is bad for business.

Is it bad for business? That’s not clear. Your whole argument is that this is fine so long as you think the likelihood of abuse is low. My guess is that it actually won’t hurt Google’s business at all, even as we start to discover police misusing this.

“It only happens to a handful of people! And anyway, they were [doing drugs/stealing/etc], so they deserved it. It’ll never happen to me!”
That's fine you think that -- links?
It's mentioned in the comments of the article, but "just the transplant" is not really enough. You still need heavy immune suppressants, which is rarely worth the side effects.
Very cool. Thanks for posting!
The Russians curbed inflation at the start of the war quite effectively ... by raising interest rates to 20%.
In my social circles, the homosexual men prefer to be called "gay" rather than anything else. Also, some of the black people prefer to be called "black" - two are not African and hate the term "African-American."
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps on moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.

- Ronald Reagan
What is being to address the price gouging by companies? Oil and gas companies are seeing record profits, how can it be just inflation that costs are going up?
Canada had it at 67 for awhile, but it recently got pushed back down to 65. IMO, it should have stayed at 67.
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This exactly. Look at airlines. They lit tens of billions on fire in stock buy backs rather than pouring it into their businesses from 2015-2020.

Who got the first corporate handouts when COVID decimated travel?

Individual actors will act in their best interest according to the incentive structure in place.
> Specifically, it lacks one fundamental thing: why.

No, it's there. I can explain.

They clearly mention that adding support for a new language is considerable effort - the language needs support for core libraries, security and privacy, developer experience etc. They also mention that a long tail of languages are "community supported", meaning the teams that use them support their own use cases.

Let's look at it from the perspective of an infra team - let's say the ones maintaining the privacy aware database abstraction. That team has limited bandwidth so they can't support every language. They start with Hack support, because that's the biggest language. Then they add C++ support and build Python support "for free" on top of the C++ code. That's it, they've done their job.

Now if a developer team on a niche language wants access to the database, they're on their own. They need to come up with bindings to access these core abstractions. They implement it on their own, or they try to wrap the existing C++ libraries.

This is the core philosophy - every team has the freedom to make their tech choices. Maybe in some cases the tech is compelling enough (like Haskell for a rule engine) that it's worth the investment to build those bindings. In other cases (like Go for networking tools), they might not need the bindings at all. But the important thing is that tech choices happen bottom up and not top down.

Which also explains why Rust is now supported at Meta. Rust has a couple of advantages. Like Python, Rust can access C++ libraries with the appropriate bindings (https://cxx.rs). This reduced the friction for teams around the company to adopt Rust - the libraries they needed were mostly supported. Secondly, Rust has some compelling advantages over other languages.

This organic adoption of Rust led to leadership eventually considering if it made sense to make it "officially supported". The implications of this change are spelled out in the article - all of the things necessary for developer productivity would be provided. Clearly, they felt that Rust provided something that the other 3 languages didn't. That explains their decision.

I hope that answered your question. The article isn't worthless. I would not criticise so harshly if I were you.

Further reading - A brief history of Rust at Facebook (https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/29/developer-tools/rust/)
That could just be bullwhip effects and we'll settle out to overall price increases. I believe that's what is happening with lumber. The overall trend is up, even though the prices came back down from the big highs.
> It's also difficult (impossible) to curb demand for housing if housing is far and away the best investment you can possibly make, both in the short, medium, and long-term.

Rapid population decline. The coronavirus helped in this regard.
> I'm skeptical that interest rate hikes will curb inflation. I'm even skeptical that a recession will curb inflation.

Or rates will eventually cause demand destruction to the current levels of supply - which we have seen a bit of. But you're right, this was definitely not the typical inflation event. If inflation is defined as too much money chasing too few goods, supply chain issues from covid absolutely led to an acute too few goods situation. And a war, leading to sanctions on Russia certainly didn't help the energy supply.
None of my clients on dreamhost shared hosting are down.
"Well how was I supposed to know your pronouns?"

"Well, pronoun pins are dumb"

Pick one.
The Sagrada Familia was my first thought too. Definitely worth a visit! I think it very much carries on the spirit of Gothic cathedrals. Those builders used the best construction techniques of their time to create breathtaking buildings, and Gaudí did the same with the techniques of his time (and those who picked up the work after he died did the same). The interior with the tree-like branching columns is especially impressive...
Wikipedia actually seems like a good replacement for personal "websites" in the social media era. I'd love to see the wikimedia social network
> if housing is far and away the best investment you can possibly make, both in the short, medium, and long-term.

citation needed? genuinely curious - are there studies about long-term returns from housing vs. other asset classes (namely public equities)?
Every day it becomes more clear that famine is the goal
Apple Notes for personal stuff (lists like groceries lists, TODOs, insurance details, bank account numbers, what did I store in my attic, my vehicle registration details …etc) - pretty much anything that I need to recall.

Joplin for work/learning related stuff (organized by topic). For any topic that I work on, I create a page with links, notes, snippets of code …etc.
This is not economics 101 and it's more nuanced than that. Stimulus checks can make inflation go up, but they can also do nothing. And it's important what type of inflation it causes, because California is only giving it to lower income citizens. If you quadruple the price of sports cars by giving every low income person a check, you still helped out the most vulnerable people.
> What I find tragic is that 'we' had all this time to gradually increase the retirement age but didn't do so.

‘We’ actually did exactly that, over a 20 year period that just finished in 2020, under a law passed in 1983. (‘We’ also phased in increased incentive for delayed retirement past the nominal “full retirement age” at the same time, so that the actual maximum retirement age of 70 has substantially higher benefits—+24%-+32% depending on birth year—than the nominal “full retirement age” .)

https://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/IncRetAge.html
To clarify, this means that of the many servers Dreamhost has, only one is down, not that Dreamhost shared hosting is just one server.

And I can confirm that the downtime is not across the board. A podcast that I listen to has its website on Dreamhost shared hosting, and that site is up.
I do think that a pacifist can stand up to violence, but I don’t think working in the defense industry is the way to do that.

The more wars I study, the more I realize the genius of MLK and Gandhi. Violence just begets violence.
I do this too, but with people who change their phone number. No, that number still exists, and I associate it with them. They choose to change it? That's their problem.

Edit: Guess I should put a /s. Is there a tag for highly passive aggresive /s?
I actually don’t have much of an issue with the New Age version of the theory. We are indeed all in this together. But this is the version of the theory which Gaia proponents have typically insisted they are not pushing.
I've often wondered what it would be like having a variant of Rust that was essentially the same underlying language, but with a garbage collector of some kind instead of a borrow checker and lifetime annotations.
Fair enough, I definitely wouldn't put it past Disney.
$20 USD was a lot in 1915. The average worker probably made $400 a year back then.
Maybe not what the OP had in mind, but the more you work after a certain age (I’d say 60) the sooner you die because of that work, especially if we’re talking non-office work.

So, in a way, what the OP suggests will have a double “advantage”: people working longer, i.e. less pensions to pay, and people dieing sooner as they retire, so, again, less pensions to pay. Of course, it would suck massively for the common man, but that’s not an issue anymore, as nobody seems to care for the common man any longer.
Radiolab, consciousness and the state of being. All with informed individuals who are looking to encourage the discussion and discovery without just dunking on people.

HN is special, and this thread is a great example.

Thank you to everyone who's posted!
Young people arnt jazzed about raising retirement either. I would like to retire some day as well. Not looking forward to the future where I get to "retire" at 80 or 90 because the generation before me couldn't handle a budget.
Hmmm, great idea that way cloud providers can extract insane amounts of money from unsuspecting organizations. Let's call it function as a service :)
Please read the discussion that deleted this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

It's a hard problem. Volunteer editors are spread thinly over millions of articles, some of which (like "Bruce Faulconer") are about living people that are really important to get right.[1] The project has settled on the guideline of _notability_, meaning that articles are kept only if they have significant coverage in reliable sources.[2] Proving a negative is not really possible, but it works okay most of the time.

It's worth thinking about alternate policies you could set up.[3] You could decide deletion based on whether a figure were "known and beloved all over the world," as the author suggests, which is difficult to define. You could could keep everything,[4] which some alternate Wikis have tried. You get unmaintained pages and probably libel.

Gioia criticizes the barrier to contribution, which is also a difficult balance to reach. Some processes are just inherently complex and involve reaching consensus among hundreds of people. Others could be simplified, but every hour spent discussing and implementing improvements is an hour taken from improving the content.

The policies are under constant discussion and change,[5] and no one thinks we've reached the perfect balance between these constraints. See, for example, this month's headline case at the Arbitration Committee around deletion.[6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_i...

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...
How do you consider it threatening?

As ineptech wrote, "This (and a lot of other related arguments in this thread) would probably be a lot clearer with less contentious examples, like "don't push a deploy after 4pm," than with hot-button political topics. If you go to push a deploy at quitting time and someone says "We don't do that here", you wouldn't think they're on a power trip, you'd think they don't fully trust their automation tests."
I have almost 90K followers on Twitter and have a few ideas about how to grow your following.

- Interact with others (w/ high followers) in your niche

- Produce interesting content in your niche

- Consistency

I've created a 30 day course to walk you through these steps:

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(It is currently part of a Python Humble Bundle where you can get it a little cheaper.)
And there is a link from the Dragon Ball Z page where its music is discussed to the Bruce Faulconer page (which existed for 15 years, but no longer does), but that page then redirects back to the Dragon Ball Z page. Seems pretty dumb.
> The question is, mostly, where I will go. (...) Can someone just build a simple photo app that isn’t sleazy and let me know where it is so that my friends can join it? I have a lot of cat photos I’d like people to look at.

Anyone on HN have suggestions for alternatives? I'd love a simple photo sharing system.
Do you mean this?

https://wt.social/

I joined long ago but have never used it.
Strange. I use Firefox on Android daily on both my phone and tablet and haven't seen it crash in months.
It's a tough line to draw. Personally, if someone has already demonstrated that they're willing to commit a felony (burglary), then I'm in fear for my life and the lives of my family. I get why some states don't consider that a justification for use of deadly force, but I also get why some states do.
Did S&P 500 jump on the news?
We'll see where the market settles in a few days. I wouldn't read too much into today's price action. You're seeing a lot of options action in a low volume market. We're not even done with a big earnings week(cough, AAPL, cough).
I feel like until we catch up on covid demand, there will be short supply and inflation on the shortages. But let's not forget that the oil companies are price gouging now as punishment against growing green technology. This greatly increases the transportation cost of all goods and their components and can put upward pressure on wages to meet workers higher bills. I agree that raising interest rates will slow inflation but not curb it.
Interest rates definitely can curb inflation. See Volker recession.
Radical PoV: All hardware should require the release of sources/documentation after a certain period as a way of recycling consumer e-waste.
they have a budget surplus
The free market normally takes care of price gouging by drawing in new entrants.

If the barriers to entry are too high, then price controls or nationalization.
But this isn’t the first time. You’d think they’d learn their lessons. So something is amiss— perhaps they don’t have a choice? And if so, why?
It's you who misunderstands. He means that the time he doesn't spend with his family is dedicated to work (his fulltime job and the bug hunting) and that this 1-dimensionality doesn't set a good example.
CA isn’t printing money. If they don’t use it for this it will be used for something else. Now perhaps specifically this use of money is especially bad but it’s not obvious that’s the case.