skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the markets have been far more rational with regards to rate hikes than you are giving them credit for. It's looking like the rate hikes were priced in back in early spring, and since they've actually been slower than expected the market has experienced a bit of a bounce back.

Month over month inflation was 0 last month. We're obviously not out of the woods here, but consumer demand is dropping along with oil prices which seems to be leading the fed to believe that they may only need one more sub 1% hike in early fall. That would be much better than the doom scenarios everyone was talking about 6 months ago.
(Sorry for the late reply.)

I can post my counterarguments and then the other folks can decide. If the argument is compelling and cogent, people listen.

But I know I'll never convince everyone to like my stuff. The goal is to make a quality, useful product while listening to good suggestions for improvement and not letting people get you down.
Software Development and the Ever-Growing Testing Checklist
There's a touch of "let them eat cake" in the author's expectation that these difficult problems could be easily solved, if someone just put a little thought into it.

This is perhaps most clearly revealed here: "Changing the program is the most common thing we need to do in our work, it's the reason our job even exist. And yet, most of programmer's time is spent reading or planning how to change the code." Combined with the disdain for testing those changes, it seems the author wants a magic programming wand.
The Pandemic's Soft Closing
What a sensationalistic piece of trash. It's time to voraciously naming, shame and SHUN publications who insist on selfishly fear mongering to get clicks.
Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions
I am partially involved with the EA community and know he does indeed donate, I don't believe it's just a case of waving an altruism flag but completely genuine efforts.
Did I mention that the community support is incredibly good as well?

One of these rare non-toxic environments where you can get and answer to some simple problems (usually because you missed something in the excellent docs), or something more advanced for which there is a solution as well :)
Yeah, here in IL property tax is 100% local (state law sets limits and requirements only). And everything is an independent government body with taxing authority.

The city collects its taxes, the school district collects its taxes, the library collects its taxes, fire district, road department, forest preserve, etc. None of them can tell the other to do anything - they are all independent with independent funding. The county has its own taxes, but also has the function of actually providing the payment, billing and distribution services. So you only have to make a single payment.

By the way, property taxes in Florida work nearly the same as California and they don't have any problem building lots of housing.
It's because the cities are unbelievably corrupt. Bloomberg was the only non-corrupt mayor because he could buy his way to victory and didn't have to rely on the established political machinery to get there. But he was just 1 person and with the kinds of revenues NYC was bringing in, there was just so many opportunities to scratch backs. Other pols are so indebted to so many people/organizations/etc that corruption is going to happen. They can't rise to power without getting all these favors which are to be repaid once they acquire power.

How do you get power? You get the support of the political machine in your area. How do you get that support? You get the organizations that fund that machine on your side. How do you get those organizations on your side? You promise to make their investment in you pay dividends when you come into power.
I like the nest therm except for the most intricate choices (typing passwords) but it still beats the touchscreen from the competition.
> What exactly is everyone so scared about that we all seem to think the economy is headed for a major recession?

All the tech layoffs and hiring freezes that are happening. Whats the explanation for it if everything is fine and dandy.
Also note this paper does not seem to take in lifelong injury rates. We believe this has prevented 57 deaths, but we don't ask the question of how many injuries has this prevented. It may be easy for some people to point out the death number is very small, but living, not the non-existent should be the primary concern here.

There are over 4 million vehicle related injuries per year. How many of those are in the 0-13 year old range, and how many of them are life long?
On macOS, the Swift ABI is stable. It is different from the C or C++ ABI. Somebody would need to implement the Swift ABI for another language. Which is kinda tricky because Swift has many features that other languages don’t have. Rust could probably do it, or C++ with a ton of templates I guess.
> square paper A4 or A5.

You mean paper with a grid of squares on it, right? Because all the DIN A-series paper formats are rectangular, not square (as I first misread your meaning).
If I want a phone locked to a single Linux distro controlled by the vendor I will buy an Android phone and it will beat the pine phone in about every single way.
If only Raspberry Pi's weren't damn near $200 now...
Interesting that they decided not to just spin Pantheon onto BSD but develop their own DE.
I don't know what tech stack you work in primarily. But IntelliJ basically ate the Java world around 12 years ago, I haven't talked in real-life to an Eclipse (or anything else) user since 2010.

ReSharper has been a standard in the .NET world for well over a decade. If you're a C# developer and you don't use it, then you are at least familiar with it.

In the Python world, I believe that PyCharm has somewhere between 1/3 and 50% market share. That and VS Code are the two main games in town.

I'm not as well connected to other ecosystems, but I believe that RubyMine and PhpStorm are very prominent in the Ruby and PHP worlds.

I mean basically, in 2022 I would say that the vast majority of developers fall into one of 3 categories:

* They use a Jetbrains product.

* They use VS Code (I guess you can throw full-blown Visual Studio into this bucket as well).

* They use a plain text editor, instead of an IDE or more IDE-like tool.
Mozilla finds 18 of 25 popular reproductive health apps leak data
you can with mixins

doesn't mean you should...
Since escalation in Ukraine (war itself started in 2014) they conducted a massive relocation of personnel out of Russia to EU.
A fair number of risk-assessment vendors do that. Usually they consider more data than just email address. Riskified, Sift, and Signifyd are 3 of the better-known ones.
Also worth noting: print letters editors don't just moderate; they edit.

I once had a "letter to the editor" published. They cut an important chunk of my prose, and added a misleading headline. That was 30 years ago, and I've never written to an editor since.

When I used to moderate the comments section on a political site, I would edit, but very cautiously. Mainly, I would remove addresses and phone numbers of people being criticized in a comment, and removed completely most kinds of bigotry and prejudice, and most exhortations to criminal acts. This was an "open posting" site - very strongly anti-censorship - but we still got attacked regularly for moderating at all.
Reminds me of the video More by Mark Osborne-- though I feel like the song has changed?

https://youtu.be/cCeeTfsm8bk
People living such lives would start dying more frequently between 25 and 35. People in their twenties think they are invincible, so they roll the dice too many times, which starts taking it's toll. People in their thirties tend to settle down.

I'm pretty sure there could be a Twenty Club for soldiers who have seen war as well.
> In 2016, They thought they were going to be pushing level 4 self-driving capability to their cars in 2021

I can't imagine anyone in Tesla _actually_ thought that.
I'm not so sure that's an optimal solution. If you are going to use the display to show the UI, you may as well just use touch interface, as long as it is responsive enough. Physical controls make more sense when they are optimized for ergonomics so that they can be used without looking.
The Tragic Rise and Fall of Neos VR: The First Metaverse [YouTube]
Streaming embraces the traditional TV bundle
I've made this one and use it daily:

https://github.com/filipesabella/calcpad

It's electron though, if that's important to you.
> why do people / projects/teams (in general--not just this product) try to emulate the "finesse" of Apple products

Because people like them. Why do all sedans look kind of alike? Why are there dozens knock-off chairs that emulate the Aeron? Some people, myself included, really like the look and feel of macOS, but may want to run *nix instead. Enough of those people got together and made an OS.
Working remotely is a skill to develop, like any other.
> So I think it might be okay for these births to be avoided to save these lives?

The deaths are involuntary. The choice not to have another birth is voluntary. This matters rather a lot, since a lot of the 20th century was spent arguing that contraception should be allowed at all on this basis. Maximising for number of people without considering their crowding leads to squalor, and legalizing and promulgating contracaption across the world has been one of the great liberating stories of the past 100 years.

Now that women have choice, the situation becomes an economic one. If having more people around matters to you economically: you have to make it economically sensible for people to have children. Increasingly there's a cost of living crisis for everyone, and children are a subset of "everyone" that can't make their own income.

Russia hands you a medal if you have lots of children; the UK cuts off child benefit after the second child, as part of an explicit "people shouldn't have children they can't afford" policy. I wonder if anyone added up the "births avoided" of the latter.
We're more and more feeling we made the wrong call with gluster... The underlying bricks being a POSIX fs felt a lot safer at the time but in hindsight ceph or one of the newer ones would probably have been a better choice. So much inexplicable behavior. For your sake I hope the grass really is greener.
I'm not convinced your assertion is true in general. Picking some local towns, cities, and counties...

Shepherdstown WV, population of ~2000, population density 4,700/sq mi (bedroom community on outskirts of DC metro)

Fairfax County, VA, population of 1.1 million, density 2,800/sq mi (big, mixed suburban county)

Arlington County, VA, population 238,000, density 9,200/sq mi (much of it is very urban)

Charlottesville, VA (city) population 46,000, density 4,500/sq mi (small college city)

Anyways, the problem is sprawl, which can happen regardless of municipal label. Houston and LA sprawl and run into similar problems of upkeep as large counties like Fairfax Co VA.
World population in 1970 was 3.7 billion. Today it’s 8 billion.

It appears to feed more people we need a lot more farmland. For example, “we” need to burn the Amazon forests for farmland.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/why-brazil...
I keep raving about it to people, no one cares or understands why this is MASSIVE for react development...
Build Your Own Imagen Text-to-Image Model
For those interested, Tigerbeetle[0] is a high-peformance purpose built accounting database. It supports
- double entry transfer
- two-phase transfers (ie reserve an amount and post it later)
- linked transfers (move money across multiple accounts atomically)

Worth looking at.

[0] - https://www.tigerbeetle.com/ & https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle
I think the only reason why he used Sagemaker is that it provided him an easy out of the box set of tools that required minimum-to-no setup.

If the author took the time, he could have stitched together a completely zero-cost alternative that could have run locally on his box, but that would have gone against the argument that this is so easy that "even a monkey can do this". Don't get me wrong...AWS has some very nice libraries, especially their DL and encoding/decoding options.

I just think it was a bit heavy using Sagemaker especially for such a trivial use-case...maybe even the free Kaggle notebooks would have been a better alternative?
Talk To Book: Browse passages from books using experimental AI
This looks really cool!
There was a tutorial posted on HN about building mobile proxy pool with RPI that had obvious limitations: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...
It seems this could be a solution to scale capabilities of a single RPI.
https://rpilocator.com/ is probably the best place to keep an eye out for them. This is unfortunately also the case for non-CM rpis. Been wanting to get some more pi4s to replace some rather old pi3 (non+) that i've got running just because i want the uefi boot on everything since it makes managing things that much easier.
Sometimes non-accounting people get hung-up on the words "debit" and "credit" and think they have to do with "owing" or "being owed" money. The effect of a debit or credit on the business depends on the accounts in the transaction and debit and credit don't have anything to do with the "direction" of a flow of money.

My 100-level accounting instructor summarized it as: "A debit is the entry in the left column, and a credit is an entry in the right column." Without the context of the specific accounts being debited or credited the terms themselves mean nothing.

Aside: A 100-level knowledge of accounting can confer near "super powers" when it comes to dealing with finance and accounting people. Double-entry bookkeeping is one of the oldest and longest-practiced "IT" disciplines. Your work probably touches revenue / expenses for your employer and someday you'll need to interface with accounting or finance people. Being able to speak the language, even poorly, has helped me gain trust and credibility that I don't believe speaking only in IT terms would have.
If you consider money should be rare right now not plentiful, I think it’s an accurate way to look at economics.
Which functions were buried? All the images I can find of the 2016/2017 model have the same sound and climate controls as the 2020. The only major difference was that they replaced the capacitive buttons next to the touch screen with real buttons, but I think that happened before the 2020 model. The 2022 seems to have the same controls as well, but rearranged (and the touch screen moved farther away)
Imgator: Compress, convert, edit and resize your images
Indeed, however no one (or nearly) now advocates those energy sources (as they emit way too much greenhouse-gases). This is to compare to emissions of renewables sources.
> greater danger of social thought-police

People are concerned about existing as they were born as well. I think those people are less concerned about whether or not your grandma can be honest about her feelings towards black people.

> I don’t think she uttered a racial epithet to anyone in her whole life

I’ll start by saying this is an assumption and likely untrue.

As previously stated, lots of people who are racist are never overtly racist.
I think this is asking that we avoid additional episodes like the Redhat gcc "2.96" issue where redhat took cvs head, and slapped a version number on it that would have been the next release and shipped it with their "stable" distribution. GCC devs got tons of complaints about their shipping a broken compiler that couldn't compile the kernel and tracked it down to redhat shipping pre-release WIP software as if it were the new release version. GCC completely skipped the 2.96 version number, so "2.96" ended up being a redhat exclusive-- the fake 2.96 would have been a recurring source of pain due to confused redhat users making bug reports to the gcc project.

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.htm...
Better touch tools is a must. My computer feels broken without it. https://folivora.ai/

The same with Alfred.
Is that just on the secondary market(s)? I'm still seeing them available <$100 in various models, but not always in-stock.
Yes absolutely. I bought a practically brand new vehicle from them (Expedition) and have had all manner of crazy breakages, and even the dealer can't fix them properly (but will still charge me $2,000 for the "repair" even if it didn't actually work). Just the top things:

1. The backup camera faults out about 40% of the time. Usually it gets riddled with digital artifacts that make it impossible to see important details (like was common when watching video files under weak hardware during the 90s/00s). This becomes a major problem when backing up to a trailer hitch or backing into a tight parking spot. I took it in twice to the dealer and the first time they said they couldn't find anything wrong at all (and charged me a hefty diganostic fee) and the second time they said the camera was bad and replaced it (for almost $1,000). Within a few days the new camera was glitching like the old.

2. The Throttle Body fails every two years and has to be replaced (which is not cheap). When this happens also, it enters "limp mode" which essentially leaves me stranded wherever I happened to be when it decided to die. Unlike an older (and better) vehicle it doesn't give me the owner/operator (who has to pay the bill) the option of saying, "I accept the risk and command you to run." I lived in Alaska for a few years and this could literally be a death sentence to somebody if it happened in the wrong place. As much as I hate the inconvenience of the design, I can't even imagine the rage and hate I would have after freezing to death because it refused to operate.

3. The blower motor stopped working, so Heater and A/C don't work. This is at best highly uncomfortable (and when paying $40,000 for a new vehicle, is unacceptable), but at worst it's a major safety issue. In the winter time the windshield and windows will fog up and I can't clear them. The dealer has replaced nearly every part involved (blower motor, resistor, etc) at $700 per pop, and it never fixes it. Utterly infuriating.

4. The bluetooth is awful. I frequently have to pull over to the side of the road and reboot my vehicle in order to fix the damn radio. It's like having a windows 95 powered car.

5. The physical controls for the rear heater/AC (which does at least blow unlike the main) are broken for some inexplicable reason.

6. The tail light bulbs burn out every few months and frequently need to be replaced. It's not terribly hard but I have to get out my tools and take off the tail light to change the bulb. Takes about 15 minutes but I'd much rather do something else with that time, and I hate randomly becoming a cop magnet every time one burns out.

There's more, but I am weary and must stop.
There is a maximally efficient way to operate buildings when people are not in them. This is some function of building size, ambient air temperature and amount of time people will not be in the building (and probably other things). The key point is, unless the ambient air temperature is close to 20C, it is unlikely turning off heating / cooling completely is going to be maximally efficient.
Heatwaves caused by other countries burning coal and gas due to people that prefer burning burning coal & gas and causing climate change

Countries like here in Germany, where we have problems delivering coal to our coal plants due to low water levels caused by climate change caused by burning coal, poetic justice
This could be neat for a 3xnomad + 3xvault cluster. Just add runners and an LB.
My understanding was that historically double entry accounting very much had each entry stored separately (although tied together by some transaction identifier). You would normally add both at the same time, so one could consider it "one record" on that basis, but physically they were separate entries often in separate physical books.

In computerized systems, having a single record in one place, and virtually constructing the ledgers from it is feasible. Under the constraints that all transactions debit from just one ledger, and credit to just one ledger, storing each transaction as tuple (id, amount, debited ledger, credited ledger) is feasible.

Double entry does have the slight advantage of being possible to generalize to allow one transaction to debit from multiple ledgers or credit to multiple ledgers, as long as all the debited amounts sum to the same as all the credited amounts.

It has a disadvantage in that the storage format does not guarantee validity, unlike the tuple method.
Any time the idea of double entry bookkeeping comes up there is nothing but unanimous advocacy for it. This thread echoes the same sentiment where there's several comments about the importance of double entry. And yet like all previous endorsements I've heard, I've not been able to take away why it is so important. The reasons are always around error tracking, tracing source of funds, standing the test of time etc. and yet in my head I'm not able to envision the specific problem double entry can solve that single entry cannot.

Somewhere in my head I feel a double entry system makes sense if you have two different parties making respective entry. But if it's all with a single party, single entry system should be equivalent to a double entry system. My accounting concepts are weak so I'm unable to justify. Hoping someone with more expertise can shed some light here.
There's another very nice description, with useful pictures, by Martin Blais (as part of the documentation of Beancount) at https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m... (example picture that I would say is the heart of the idea: https://beancount.github.io/docs/the_double_entry_counting_m... )

Another one, with completely different graphs, is by Martin Kleppman at https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu... — despite the name ("Accounting for Computer Scientists"), on reflection / trying it out, I find it less useful than the Beancount one.

(Both of these are actually linked in the second paragraph of the posted article, but they're independently worth mentioning / good.)
It's true but the reason people are moving to cities are jobs. Rural locations do not have the job market to support the costs to live there. It's a lower cost, but a much, much lower income outlook as well.

If you have the money to outright buy a rural property and build a house there, it's not a bad place to live. But you don't want to have to depend on the limited job market with an expensive mortgage and limited buyer pool.
All this stuff exists, and most of it is decades old. The reason we don't make (better) use of it is that IT is a fashion driven field that ignores prior art (as the author of TFA demonstrates.)
I work in a healthcare startup too and can confirm that the interest in investing in innovative tech in this industry is only going up.
> I feel like a lot of boilerplate is a choice, that often comes from frameworks being used. [...] I disagree with the text criticism as well.

The representation as text files is also part of what's causing the boilerplate.

As an example: How would you reduce the devops and configuration boilerplate in a monorepo?

In your typical JS microservice, a lot of code is not actually JS but yaml, json, terraform, etc. And it is very hard to abstract these away since a lot of tools rely on the existence of actual files.

Of course you can use code generation and other macros to manage the units in your monorepo (nx.js does this). But this is very instable since you might need to tweak some file resulting in your macros not working any more.

My take would be that textual representation is a local maximum. And our needs have outgrown this maximum. We're spending 90% of our time to innovate to push the boulder up the remaining 10% of this very hill. But there are most likely other hills with a much higher peak.