skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In principle, these two series measure the same object.

Measurements have errors, particularly with something as complicated as the economy. The series are correlated because they are different measurements of the same underlying quantity. The correlation is not perfect because they measure that quantity differently, and so have different errors.

There being 3 different ways of measuring GDP (income, expendeture, and production) is not controversial. I am struggling to find any source on GDP measuring methodologies that does not acknowledge all 3.

Put another way, what produced value does not end up as income on someone's balance sheet; and an expense on someone else's?

Yes, a nation's economy is not a closed system, so you need to account for imports and exports, and this accounting manifests differently depending on which methedology you use.
I found it very engaging and entertaining and it really tied together how we get from the very basic building blocks to a computer that can do something useful. As to whether it will be actually educational, it sounds like maybe it won't be for you, but it might be a nice refresher depending on when you were last in school.

Many CS programs just barely touch on the lower level stuff so this is widely relevant to many in the industry. Its also an easy enough read that even if you have no background, you can follow along and get an understanding of how a computer works.
> The link you provided seems to suggest that employers can't dox you without your consent.

What on that page suggested that to you?

> Isn't "eligible for rehire" or "would you hire this person again" a standard question to ask when checking references?

The difference here is, a third-party company is providing that information about you without your consent.
> it had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Many computer users might have imagined that this was a recent invention.

Incremental search is a recent invention; it was invented for Emacs in the late 01970s, making it a decade more recent than things like hypertext, parser generators, graphical user interfaces, CAD, garbage collection, computer video games, packet-switched networks, and filesystems, and two decades more recent than things like high-level languages, compilers, operating systems, hash tables, and SIMD instructions.

I'm curious whether vi copied tags tables from Emacs or vice versa; ctags already existed in 2.9BSD in 01979.
How to Remember Anything
A math proof for the best method for improving your memory
gpt 3 is going to be pretty good at regurgitating what your parents said if that's all it hears.
What if energy companies also invest in "free" energy?
Please not video. Video is a horrible way to communicate anything non-trivial: it's slow & difficult to navigate around; it's difficult to extract from (eg. I can't just copy a reference); it's difficult to skim; and it's very time-consuming to edit/revise.

Sure it's not easy to write good documents, but that's half the point - good documents take effort and time to create. The world is full of very low value papers. If the author isn't willing to devote the time and effort to write well, I'm unlikely to devote my time on reading something that is probably trash!

Many of video's advantages are actually disadvantages. Video is easy to produce, so the web is filled with low-value video. Video is easy for low-literacy people to produce, but scientific literacy is less about language and more about thought (I'm perfectly happy to read a idiosyncratic or ungrammatical paper, if it is clear and the contents are valuable).

Scientific writing should be all about communicating with the reader. So unless a video is better for me, the reader, stick with text. Please.
They are sarcastic and rebuttals of the idea that 'Linux is not ready for the desktop' because it doesn't have things the author of the post considers necessary.
> unpaid overtime

Nobody is saying oncall should be unpaid, especially not in this subthread you're commenting on. Did you lose the thread of the conversation?
> I spend a lot of time advocating for Bazel for this reason.

Bazel works pretty well for large scale projects. There are definitely things I don't like about, but I would agree that for large projects it is better than make.

But for small to medium size projects, bazel adds a lot of complexity and has the problems you mentioned, for not that much benefit. Especially if you are using a language that doesn't have built in support in bazel,or do something that doesn't match up with bazel's way of doing things.
Free credit monitoring from the company that lost your info is like a court making a guy that ran into you while drunk your personal driver.
Redfin CEO on the Cooling Housing Market
I'm having the same issue with images on Android. It's a great article though, I love your frankness with the downs as well as the ups of your process.

FWIW, The Nintendo link is UK only, which is a mild trip hazard to people installing in other countries. I'm curious as to how my 8yr old enjoys this
Disclosure: I currently contribute in part at a fintech, thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is somewhat true, but because weight is given to credit reporting data that shouldn’t be. Past performance is not entirely indicative of future performance. Several large commercial banks are moving away from FICO because of this, and cashflow underwriting is normalizing (with you being underwritten based on actual fiat flowing through your deposit account versus credit payment history). This is also beneficial to folks with a “thin file”, or not a lot of credit history.

https://helloskip.com/blog/is-the-fico-credit-score-going-aw...

https://www.crai.com/insights-events/publications/use-cash-f...
Yes, the grid needs to adapt to changing conditions. Strangely enough, it has engineers who know how to adapt it. Some, you even say you know.

"Ooh, a turn is coming up! Who will turn the steering wheel so we don't run off the road?" ... "Oh, we have a driver? Why didn't anybody tell me?
How about this?

esc esc esc ZZ
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

Google will pay you significant extra money for oncall, with the huge caveat that your management structure has to fight for it. I have worked on three teams at Google over four years. All three had some kind of rotation, and none gave extra compensation. Usually they call it something else -- "emergency contact," "caretaking rotation," etc.
Note that libdeflate has used essentially the same method since 2016 (https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/blob/v0.4/lib/adler32...), though I recently switched it to use a slightly different method (https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/blob/v1.12/lib/x86/ad...) that performs more consistently across different families of x86 CPUs.
> For instance, I refuse to wear a mask at the doctor’s because I know that masks don’t stop virus transmission, while they impede patient–doctor communication.

Yeah, sorry, can't take them seriously after this.

> We now know empirically what reasonable observers predicted inductively: once Covid has a toehold, non-pharmaceutical interventions do vast harm and have little or no effect on the speed at which it spreads; suppressing the virus is impossible; and we do not know how to make vaccines that will prevent infection.

Not with that attitude, for sure. This reads like a tired and warmed-over rant against "oh-so-terrible covid restrictions".
Having a tolerable experience when forced to hand-write JSON?
Spectrograms are used in speech therapy to help with pronunciation. I remember using one such program to correct my own speech, at elementary school in the 90s. It was even a game: I moved a cursor through a maze and it would only move in the correct direction when my sound I made was correct. The game had a spectrogram for additional visual feedback -- my speech therapist could point to an area on it and tell me that I was placing my tongue incorrectly or whatever. Its a really cool example of the power of biofeedback.
Apple suppliers rumored to be told to avoid Made in Taiwan label
Solar Foods
I've seen several movies based on real events that have a section about the level of similarity to actual events
>My point was that if you're looking for actual penalization of companies, class action lawsuits are basically fake justice that lawyers and businesses profit massively from.

Okay but what's the issue with this "fake justice" that you're describing? It seems pretty obvious that you take issue with class actions and are not simply describing how they work. If you don't think the settlement is fair, you're free to not participate in the class action and possibly seek your own justice through your own lawsuit. Otherwise you get the settlement which is better than the $0 you would have otherwise gotten without the class action. If you're the righteous type who knows you wouldn't sue but don't want them to get the satisfaction of settling you can opt out.
try google search alerts.
"You can get emails when new results for a topic show up in Google Search. For example, you can get info about news, products, or mentions of your name."
Well, in the linked blog post, he exclusively talks about Chalukya, Rashtrakuta, and Chola.
Ah that's too bad. Running Syncthing over Tailscale would have been the main reason for me to install the latter.
You do know about package managers and software packages, right? Debian has its own packagers, and so does Arch, there's nothing in common between Debian and Arch packaging (except for certain elements of the philosophy, etc).

What do you mean by "programs usually tailored for Debian", in general Linux programs for sure won't be tailored for Debian, except for Debian-internal developer tools perhaps.
Global warming is being caused by us digging up carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere.

Leave It in the Ground.

Ban fracking and new exploration. Close wells. Dismantle rigs. Shutoff pipelines. Shutter mines.

There will be an economic cost for this - ensure it is carried by those most able to afford it.
I don’t know what the conventional wisdom is these days, but speaking for myself, I felt much more equipped to tackle the huge undertaking of being more entrepreneurial after seeing how a really serious software shop is run.

As for getting the big company job, it’s a weird time over like the last two months and the next two months, but this will soon pass.

Everyone hates leetcode interviews. I hated being interviewed in that format, and I hated interviewing in that format. It is what it is. It’s a test like the SAT or LSAT or GMAT or anything, arguably not as hard. It’s basically nothing to do with the job at the lower seniorities. I think people would be less psyched out about it if they viewed it the same as cramming for any other test. A high score on the LSAT doesn’t make you a good lawyer, it’s a loose proxy metric at best, and you game it by studying.

By virtue of a) hanging out on HN and b) hanging out in a thread about Nix you’re clearly curious and paying attention, so go get that marquee job, and take the experience with you when you start your venture! I’ll be rooting for your success!
You are looking at this the wrong way, from an individual perspective. National economy is about production, not consumption. Income is something that has already been earned, not something you choose to spend. Production comes first, and then expenditure gives it value and turns it into income. The way GDP is defined, the sum of domestic production in a time period is always the same as the sum of domestic expenditure and the sum of domestic income.

If someone buys Chinese goods, they contribute to Chinese production, expenditure, and income.
Interesting read.

As an aside, HTTP/2 is technically superior to WebSockets. HTTP/2 keeps the semantics of the web, while WS does not. Additionally, WebSockets suffers from the same head-of-line blocking problem HTTP/1.1 does.

Not really a fair comparison. WebSockets is essentially a bidirectional stream of bytes without any verbs[0] or anything fancy. WebSockets is more like a fancy CONNECT.

And speaking of bidirectional stream of bytes... HTTP/2 also suffers from head-of-the-line blocking as well, it uses TCP as its substrate, after all. QUIC, however, despite sharing some ideas from TCP, it seems to ameliorate this by resorting to multipaths[1]. It remains to be seen if indeed this is going to be beneficial however.

[0] - unless you count its opcode field as something similar to HTTP verbs but if so it'd resemble more TCP than HTTP, I think

[1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-multip...
> If you want to avoid Apple, then you're up to the will of N vendors want to try to solve the problem their own way, so...

Isn’t this the whole idea of having a standard?

> For Apple, the key feature is iCloud. Your headphone bluetooth information is stored in iCloud, so any headphones that have been paired with one device, are paired with all other devices.

The pairing itself, while a bit annoying isn’t the whole problem, it’s having to connect and disconnect all the time and sometimes pair again. Now I’m not sure how iCloud is necessary for this, the device should already know my regular devices (in fact I think one of the headphones I have can be paired to nine devices, but only connect to two at the same time). The annoying thing is that it stays connected to devices I don’t use, e.g., the closed laptop, the desktop I’m not even logged in on or a different user is actively using. In an ideal world it would connect to all and figure out what to play. In an ok world I’m fine with it always connecting to my iPhone and the other device I’m actively using.
>What on that page suggested that to you?

The "Obtaining Authorization" heading.

>The difference here is, a third-party company is providing that information about you without your consent.

Do you take offense at your former employer providing the same "information about you without your consent"? More fundamentally, what makes you think you have exclusive control over the piece of information in question?
Rebellion against the Surveillance Capitalism/State.

We understand that granular metrics are needful for tuning an information system.

Treating a society like an information system is totalitarian.

Over time, the percentage of society rejecting totalitarianism will tend toward 100%
Is-it-even-legal startup culture by LATOKEN CEO
This story is widely discussed in the Russian-speaking tech community over the past few days.

It started with a video of LATOKEN zoom meetings where the CEO is shouting, cursing at and publicly humiliating company employees [1]. The video is mostly in Russian but auto-subtitles in English provide a good representation with all expletives replaced with "[__]".

The video also alleges that the CEO takes away employee stock options for things like missing meetings or deadlines and provides a screenshot from company Slack for proof, because allegedly all of this is done in public.

In the last day or two CEO wrote public posts to defend his approach. Here is a translation of the beginning of one of the posts [2]:

BE PARANOIC - YOUR BUSINESS IS STEALING RIGHT NOW ON ZOOM Or how to survive in crypto and create a scalable product with an effective team of 100-300 people remotely?

Upd. The video can be compared to a torture tape from someone's bedroom. Well, ok, this is "bdsm" with the rules that everyone agreed on and the zoom out button. You need olympic-level bdsm in a startup, that's your only advantage over legacy companies that they can't copy. Did you see the reaction to the video? They cannot copy that.

Briefly: New rounds of evolution and products are created by non-standard individuals under the pressure of a threat to survival - open the eyes of the team to it. Build the culture of Olympic athletes with automatic up or out. Describe it and reward with options those who identify free riders who break your rules. Hire and train athletes with case studies, bringing problems and even spanking to the general discussion. Teach them to conflict openly in order to achieve a result. As long as your up or out doesn't work automatically, push as hard as you can to get the result or out so that the free riders don't decompose the athletes. But at the same time, guarantee the execution of contracts, and allow employees to swear at you, but in front of you, and not in the locker room behind the back of a “coach”.

You have to and you can afford it: in web3 channels this is a constant background - in any case, you will be attacked by free riders and thieves, and the public likes it. Think of these attacks as a publicity stunt to magnetize like-minded people who can create the future.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3bKjgspTFk

[2] https://www.facebook.com/valentin.preobrazhenskiy/posts/pfbid02a1fTaakmSLia9mU3AP1C9e8eVhNy7qndbUnjEU33qvCMrpwGfXtt2QnzFLxoc1Zal
GDP is atrocious, "velocity of money" is worse, but really any attempt to measure "economic well being of most people" (direct quote from OP) based on dollars moving through the financial system is problematic. Finance-industry circle jerks? Counted - often over and over again. Domestic labor (especially child care) by a stay-at-home spouse? Not counted. Made-up increases in asset value? Counted. Barter or charity? Not counted. When GDP is the basis, mean vs. median hardly even makes a difference. Many countries have worked toward better measures of human prosperity, but again the US is falling behind.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gdp-is-the-wrong-...
Politicians allready talk about e.g. poor people, workers, middle class and rich. So I don't think a concrete group division is too hard for them. Percentiles might be too much to ask though ...
Addressing "how do you add diversity" was part of your own set of operating principles until quite recently. Have you changed your mind about all this now?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>but you could draw moustaches on the Pikachu.

No, you never could. That's copyright infringement.
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So, please know that I am I reading all the critical comments very carefully and taking them seriously. I haven't responded to all of them, partly because I don't have good answers to all the criticisms and I need to sit with them for a few days. I have also gotten a lot of positive feedback and encouragement. I'd say it's 50/50 right now. Maybe 60/40 at best. I've got a lot of thinking to do.

I think what it comes down to is this: Do you believe the average actor in academia/science is a good actor? In other words, are they honestly trying hard to collaboratively advance good work and good science and check their own biases?

Or do you believe the average actor is a bad actor (OR that the bad incentive structure is so strong that it corrupts even the well intentioned into mediocre actors at best.)

If the former is true (average actor is a good actor), then this system could function the way it is supposed to and would be self regulating to a large degree. And there are many things we could build into it that would help that.

If the latter is true, then the critics are right and this system will absolutely fail. Catastrophically.

I really don't want to believe the average academic actor is a bad actor, so I'm going to forge ahead for now. But I'm also going to be seeking a lot more feedback for sure. I'm going to read every single critical comment, note it, spend time thinking about the ways in which this could go bad that have been detailed here (some of which I was aware of and thinking about, and some of which are novel ideas). And if I see this heading in those directions, and I can't turn it back on track, I will absolutely pull the plug rather than keep pushing a platform doing harm.
> I guess it's more nuanced, but I don't have a PhD in economics like the author.

English is funny. I knew exactly what you meant and I'm not saying it's wrong, but it would be read completely the opposite if you had said:

I guess it's more nuanced but, like the author, I don't have an PhD in economics.
I’m of a different opinion. There actually aren’t alternatives to fossil fuel and that’s why there isn’t broad support for the tax. A tax on fossil fuel would make everything more expensive with little recourse for alternatives.

I bought an electric power washer and weed wacker recently. The performance is just laughable compared to the petrol powered version.

Electric cars have given people hope that a fossil fuel free future is possible. However, electric cars seem to occupy a niche where carrying around 30x the amount of “fuel” is possible. Most fossil fuel uses don’t share this luxury.

Climate change will likely force a fossil fuel free future. But it probably won’t look much like the society we have today. There certainly won’t be high PSI pressure washers.
"We conclude that — though we can’t remember a fixed number of facts from each day in the past using spaced repetition — we can ultimately recall an infinite number of facts using this method."

This is the perfect example of the difference between mathematics and reality.
https://www.experian.com/blogs/insights/2021/05/introducing-...

>With a consumer’s consent, lenders can request the information from Experian and an income and employment report can be delivered to lenders [...]

emphasis mine
Public service, if you think jail is too much. An hour for each word of the falsehood, 1000 hours for each picture included.

Poisoning the well is a deeply antisocial act, and just because it isn't the literal town water well, but is instead the common information well, doesn't make it less of an 'eff-you-all' act.
ok - but the purpose of publicly identifying by name, a particular genetic component, is to own that function commercially somehow - am i wrong?
One of them is a music video. I was Rijkrolled!

Okay maybe that didn’t happen, but a boy can dream
That makes no sense. What sane company would pay you 1.5x to be oncall instead of just paying someone 1x to do actual work as well as respond to pages when they happen?
They story had many interesting arcs that could have been richer, but halfway through it was clear there wasn't any interest in developing them, and that it was just about finding/connecting with the girl. Also, the fact that the trivia questions always seemed to align with his accidental experiences was just not that interesting.

A story about a poor boy making it big by things other than "always being lucky" would have been better.