skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S=I is tautological, from the definition of the model.

One guy had $1000 and no solar panels, another guy has $0 and 1 solar panel, maybe they trade.

What changes about your definition of savings and investment if they do or don't trade?

Nothing.

> People make the mistake of thinking savings are desirable

as compared to what?

> not understanding that formal language has separated the idea of savings

I assure you every economist knows the difference between putting money in a bank and manufacturing a car.

S=I says nothing about the usefulness, causality, or predictions about the economy. It would be like determining the state of a business by whether their assets equal liabilities.

If assets != liabilities, you have an accounting error, not an unprofitable business.
A disproportionate number of prominent women in my life are Scorpios. There was good empirical evidence, then, that my daughter would be one too -- and lo and behold, that's what she was born as.

If you look enough you can find roughly equal solid empirical evidence in astrology, especially if you honestly include hits and misses.

Out in the world, the accuracy, and consequently the utility, of human beings advising one another on actions based on macroeconomic theory has been pretty similar to astrology.
My personal experience is that GIMP is not quite at feature parity with Photoshop 3 or 4. It's definitely nowhere near Photoshop 5, and there are some features and workflows I used in Photoshop 2.5 that are missing from GIMP--just not many. The UX of GIMP also continues to be a major problem. GIMP is just the most famous alternative to Photoshop, that doesn't mean that it's a good substitute for Photoshop for most Photoshop users.

I think people who consider GIMP a good substitute for Photoshop probably haven't ever used Photoshop seriously, or have photo editing needs that fall in a very narrow range.

Companies which don't want to pay for Creative Cloud can more easily pay for one of the various alternatives--the particular alternative that works for you will be different.
For years, I've looked to GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop but now I've given up the idea. Yes, it's missing many features but my main reason for dropping it is its perverse operation, it's just too awkward and clumsy to use.

I can only conclude the reason that these inherent problems with GIMP have remained uncorrected for so long is that its developers couldn't give a damn whether we use it or not.

It seems only a play toy for its cliquey developers and the only reason it's available at all is that we gullible users act as occasional bug detectors.

Sure, open software has resoure problems hence expected delays but too much water has flowed under the bridge for that now to be a viable excuse.
I’m all for people learning, and if someone has an idea for how to do something better, that’s great. But the OP asked extremely vague questions about entering a complex, highly-regulated, capital-intensive, safety-critical industry with no indication of having any kind of goal or relevant background knowledge. If they’re serious, then the obvious first step is “hire someone who knows how not to get electrocuted”, not “ask Hacker News to create a business plan for me”. (Which is a bit insulting, by the way — do your own homework!)
I remember reading a lot about Mondragon a few years ago. I don't remember the specifics but my takeaway was that it is not so different than a regular corporation. The idealized co-op only really exists in organizations where everyone does close to the same job, if fruit picking. There are some examples of such co-ops in the US.
i dont think you've learnt anything yet if you're spending 5hrs watching lex pods.
I'm unsure what you're arguing for. The supreme court has no authority to be 'rational', if congress dictates otherwise. That's not its place.

American government gets its power from the people. If the people, via their representatives, act irrationally, then the government is irrational. no government is going to be perfectly rational. That's kind of the entire point of our constitution. I would highly recommend reading the commentary written by its writers.
I think the problem here is that it introduces a new syntax, not the configuration options itself.

Why not just use yaml as a syntax? At the top of the document they already say it’s very similar anyway, I don’t see what this does that can’t be done with yaml?

http://docs.acorn.io/authoring/overview
Many people want the build to be in Docker to.

I personally don't -- I publish on the host build agent and just Dockerize the publish directory
This is a nice summary.

Also add, that breaking microclots is the main goal not necessarily with anti-coagulants, they are similar but not the same. Anti fibrinogens are more useful in that post covid phase and it has been shown that live virus DOES live in those microclots so that's why antivirals (eg lysine, shown to bind to spike protein and also wide spectrum antiviral) to be used together with them.

Check out dr Gustavo Aguirre's work, he was months early every time.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344325326_COVID-19_...
Mondragons as an economic model are also referenced in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars novel series
She is an amazing engineer and amazing ceo.
>>European colonial powers were simply the first to outsource this dynamic into other continents. While most people in Europe did not directly benefit from native or African slaves in the Americas the transfer of wealth allowed them to import grain and other products from abroad which simultaneously freed up enough labor to develop mining and other industries and increased the purchasing power enough to create significant demand for manufactured goods.

Is there any evidence to support this? I remember reading that exploitive practices like slavery added very little to Europe's GDP. There seems to be processes - like advancing textile production and coal mining technology and metallurgy - that began long before the age of colonialism, and thus would likely have continued even in the absence of the slave trade.
They already have the education if they are in debt. Time to pay it off like everybody else.
See my other more recent comment for more details. It's old. I'm not so sure it has resistance other than it was likely a strong adult when the blight came, and the blight had an easier time killing trees that were not so massive.

Before I made last comment I tried to wrap a measuring tape around but it was only a 36 inch measuring tape and circumference of the two halves coming out of the base are at least another 6 inches after it. Height is harder to measure, maybe 30-40ft, it grows at the edge of the forest with multiflora rosebush around it, some hickory and tulip trees over it in height. Some branches have been cut off over the years and the bark is kinda gnarly.

Everytime I walk around here there's some new discovery of something new or old. Today I fished a live rusty female crawfish out of the pool and I'm pretty sure it's one of the first sightings of this invasive in this county. Nothing like looking down and going 'Oh I guess we have pool lobsters now'.
Dictionary definitions? This observation suffers from the exact same problem that economics does.

Theory and practice are very often completely different.
What keeps the Bryant Park restrooms clean? What's different about it? I've never actually used it.

The Port Authority bus terminal bathrooms recently had a full renovation. It was nice enough for a little while, but it didn't take long for it to become a shithole. The money spent to clean it up and renovate it turned to shit.
Namecheap's support pages seem to be a completely different system to their main site. I've sometimes been unable to log into the support page even though I can get into the main site fine, and contacting support about it got nowhere. Maybe the support is outsourced?

In my experience, the support people ask for a PIN which you can only see by logging in to the main site with 2FA, so while this problem is not great, I don't think it's as bad as this article suggests.
Since the company mainly makes portable devices that is probably the company’s obsession too. And it’s increasingly important in the data center.

Not an apple zealot by any means, but I think you shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss.

For my own part I’m not sure how to measure performance per watt given all the functional units on die.
I have assembled 4 or 5 keyboards, the last 2 all have switches assembled from different parts (springs, tops, stems etc bought separately). I don’t really care that much about the shape of the keycaps (cherry profile would do but good to have alternatives), but i am very particular about the layout.

It seems to me the only logical resolution of my keyboard hobby is it design my own keyboard that will address most of my complaints. They are minor but the more I think about it the more I conclude that in the future people would be using fully custom (layout, spacing, etc) keyboards a lot. Unless the typing goes away.
Samsung exec: “this is our best opportunity to attack iPhone” (2011)
> When the rules, applied to a situation, produce a seemingly very harsh outcome – especially when there is no evidence their original authors would have actually wanted that outcome in this particular case – judges often look for ways to "bend" them.

The original authors of what? The original authors of the bills to tax expats actually did want these outcomes.

I actually disagree with the law, but the claim that the writers didn't intend for this is quite the stretch, as the law is extremely clear in the punishments, and if you read into the history, it's quite clear they wanted to punish people.

What may be a remedy by the court is if they believe the punishment is cruel or unusual or the fine excess. They may find that and strike down the entire law, but the law is certainly intended to do exactly this.
If you are researching your chronic illness and contacting many docs you are going to know more from many docs who are experts in the topic then a random doctor who is only following orders and is going to have minimal information 2 years later when knowledge pushed itself through all bureaucracy. Why? Because more doctors who are focusing on the topic weigh more than a random doctor who has no clue.
I struggled with this for ages. I have spent loads of time playing MTG and WoW, eschewed a traditional career path for something more relaxing. I am not a software wunderkind and for a long time that bothered me. But then I decided to just do my best, enjoy the time I spent coding, the time I had with my friends, and somehow it all fell into place. I am coming up on my 30th birthday quickly now and I am happy, at peace. Don’t lament what could have been but instead what could be my friend. Now that I have given up worrying over others accomplishments I find myself even more productive. Sure, there will always be those that break boundaries, at especially early ages. But there is no better time to plant a tree than today. Er, well, 20 years perhaps… good but luck with that ;)
not every hardware-encoding AVC (H264) or HEVC (H265) chip is in any way comparable once you start digging down into the various tweaks of encoder settings that are possible. it's very likely that youtube wants capabilities that they may not be able to guarantee exist in commercially available H264/H265 and similar encoding ASICs.
No, the declaration of independence is the founding document of the United States, since before that no United States existed by anyone's reckoning, and after, someone certainly thought so. The articles were written way after, and formed the second federal government of the United States. The first was the continental congress.
Yes, 'getting published' refers to people with a $0-$10000 advance from a small independent press through to the million dollar deals discussed in the article. And nobody can guarantee that you will sell enough to get past your advance, but being a social media personality is a huge boost. Fantastic reviews and most awards and prizes do not actually indicate good sales. To make a living, you need to get on the best seller lists. What we now call going viral.
> Society will always need prisons

Not every society has needed prisons, especially smaller, tribal ones. Maybe our complex, global one currently does but I don't think it is a hard requirement.
Completele agree.
Because users actually pay for games.
Not worrying about it and accepting that sometimes life is gross?
This is where reading smarter works for you.

Unless you're actually studying for your own interest (and this is a good thing of itself), the goal in a college course isn't to read the assigned texts, it's to maximise your grade in the course. Usually with a minimum required effort.

If you are studying for your own interest, the text will probably be intrinsically interesting to you, and you don't have a problem.

If you're reading "for the course", then consider what the goal of the reading is. This will vary by subject and text, but generally:

- Skills courses (maths, engineering, comp sci) tend to focus on learning a specific skill or ability. Focus on what delivers that. Often the assigned text is not the best.

- Theory courses (typically social sciences and some humanities) focus on understanding a concept and its applications or instances.

- Knowledge courses (law, medicine, philosophy) often require memorisation of a large body of knowledge.

In all cases, examination or essays will only focus on a small quantity of the material. Understanding how tests are structure or how essays or presentations are graded gives you a leg up here.

Specific approaches will vary by subject, course, and instructor, but "read it all" is virtually never actually required.

A good study group can be invaluable, if the group and its members understand what is required to pass the specific course.
You might want to start with some of the original articles on post-viral fatigue syndrome going back to the 1980's. I suspect there's not much really new with long COVID.

https://doi.org/10.1177/014107688808100608
One of my guesses as outsider to both 2d and 3d software industries. Is lifetime of the projects created in each software and the workflows around it. With Gimp/Photoshop the drawing will be usually done by one person and once it's done it's mostly done. With 3d software used for games and animations and movies projects are much bigger, made by teams of many people, projects lasting up to few years. Art pipelines and processes get built around the tools, which might be at least partially reused across the projects within same studio. It's less unusual to have inhouse software developers for creating specialized addons and tools.

With that in mind seems believable that companies where long term impact of investing in tools is clearer are more likely to consider investing in open source tools for the sake of long term benefits. In comparison with 2d drawing industry where investment in tooling is mostly limited to skill and experience of individual persons working with specific software.

There is also fact that final output of 2d drawing software is plain image which have relatively simple widely used standard formats (for practical reasons the Photoshop files are still commonly exchanged but sooner or later result is treated as plain image). With 3D software the complexity of output and integration with other software is much bigger. This encourages other big software companies to invest in Blender for the sake of better integration with their tools. Unity, Unreal consuming 3d models produced in blender, there is interest for both good workflow and integration, as well general accessibility to tools required during game development because more game developers means more potential game developers buying their software. Nvidia and AMD interested in better support for their hardware, so that end users are more likely to buy it.
For me, reading is decided by two factors:

1: is the author intelligent enough? (I filter out atheists, extremists, nonsense-blatherers, rudes and hypocrites etc).

2a: if humanities, does it touch a chord in my heart? the first 100 pages can decide.

2b: if sciences, do I understand enough to keep reading?
>> seems like an inherent risk with any SaaS provider.

If you see risk as binary, then yes there is risk in any SaaS provider, or indeed any part of your company supply chain. Risk though is not binary, it is measured on a scale of 0 to 1.

There is risk every time you get in a car. But some cars are safer than others. Some are renowned for putting safety first.

The vast majority of people survived their Ford Pinto, no doubt some loved it, but the perceived risk of driving it (rightly or wrongly) was higher than say a Volvo.

Google is the Pinto of SaaS. Whatever the actual risks are, they are perceived as being higher risk than other SaaS providers. Thanks to their "no support" policy, the penalty for failure is total extinction. With most SaaS businesses there are humans in the loop who can make human decisions.
When you have a lot of kids, the older ones take care of the younger ones. 8 isn't too different from 4
I realize this is going to come off sounding like Godwyn's law (FWIW I'm Jewish and I also was arrested with pot), but the people who broke the law were breaking an unjust law.

In WWII, people hiding the Jews were breaking the law; people killing them were following orders.

Now we celebrate the people who broke the law, and vilify the people who followed it.

I realize it's a completely different situation, but perhaps this actually gives a benefit to those who have been disadvantaged by the previous policy. It's not as good as monetary compensation, but I can't see a world in which the state has enough money to compensate all the victims of the war on drugs.
What a load of incoherent and ill-informed drivel (and/or propaganda) this article is.

An uninformed reader could gain the impression that "zero-days" are related to fabrication outside of the USA. Most of the security problems of current chips (no matter if already public or not - this won't matter for unpatchable security problems), however, result from design flaws in the chips, e.g. those leading to side channel attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre.

Some claims are simply ludicrous, such as "An infection in one can easily spread to another, like a biological virus." Oh my.

Of course, security problems _could_ also result from a manipulation taking place in a foreign country. Or by US three-letter agencies for that matter (i.e., should anyone outside of the USA continue to trust/use semiconductors designed and/or made in the USA?)...

Overall, to me this article simply comes across as yet another piece of FUD.
Smaller tribal societies exiled you and you died. Or they just killed you.

Prisons are an improvement over that.
> For example, people experiencing persistent mental health issues would literally be locked up "for the common good".

I don’t know that we’re doing much better now. Is it so great that now the same people spend a few decades self-medicating and living like rats on the streets because they can’t escape their inner demons without extremely intense intervention?

Do people really look at a person having a violent psychotic breakdown for the 10th time this year in the street and pat society on the back that at least he’s not in a mental institution..
Ah, well in that case, the parent poster can just say that asking about the cause of the creator is a valid thing to talk about, because they mean a subtly different kind of ‘cause’ than the kind of cause you told them wasn’t valid to talk about outside of the universe.
Please check my previous comments, there is way out for most long haulers.
If it can be a law to require you to use the bathroom in a specific way, the collective should provide a way to comply with the law. Anything else is unjust.

Being upset that people dirty public restrooms, shoot up in them or over occupy them is not a justification for creating a situation which takes people's freedom away.
I'd argue in favor of Blender. While complex, it uses very strong features and gives you lots of freedom to do as you wish.
Urban sprawl, among other considerations, was seen in 1950s as a way to save more lives in an event of a possible nuclear war. It is easy to destroy the entire Manhattan with a couple of nukes, but it won't have the same effect over Houston or Bay Area.

Now this consideration is moot, but the planning decisions made back then took root. Powerful interests like car makers, NIMBYism, white flight, etc all played to that same hand.
I always do my best to finish the book, including the foreword and any other additional texts that the book may have. To me, it feels disrespectful to the author to not read the whole book, even if they've been dead for 2000 years, they still deserve respect for the work that they've done.

To me, not finishing a book is like looking at only half of a painting - you can't see the whole picture. ^^

But I do understand that these days people are obsessed over not wasting time, even though I disagree with the "must not waste time" mentality.

You know, sometimes I quite enjoy pressing the Snooze button and just taking in the cold fresh morning air while enjoying the warmth of my blanket.
I get the feeling you don't really understand how racism works. It doesn't mean "I think everyone from a different ethnic background is somehow a worse person". It's often completely subconscious - your reaction to the observed behaviour of another person is nearly always coloured to some extent by the degree you consider them part of some category largely based on their superficial physical appearance (skin colour, hair colour/style, eye or nose shape etc.). Racism is when you let that colouring adversely affect the way you treat such individuals. It might even be assuming that because they look, say, Jewish you treat them with an expectation of being more intelligent than average.
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This certainly depends on the genre. There are a number of major genres that do not age well. Older readers can be happy reading the fiction that reflects the world they grew up in, but to new readers reactions can rank between 'quaint' and 'appalling'.
Ask HN: Free Tier Alternatives for Postgres
I have a free tier Postgres in heroku to test some ideas and prototype. Does anyone know a good alternative?
Long covid is mainly about microclotting and its 1000 downstream effects which can cause MANY different symptoms. Most times root cause is microclotting though, this can be shown by diagnostics as well.
Having heard this kind of argument since the late 90s, I’m amused that it’s three HN links up from GIMP finally getting some CMYK support after ~25 years.
It's being advertised as new as in, "it's not not used"; not new as in, "it's not old".

The edition being sold is 39 years old.
Except when we test them, they don’t seem to work after all. Would you fly on an airplane engineered by someone trained in engineering, or a plane engineered by someone who relied only on inspiration from a deity? Would you go to the hospital with doctors who practice typical Western medicine, or a hospital in which the doctors only pray over you? Etc.
Why do they need to be nice? It's a place to shit. I get it. We all like a dandified street but people's right to a place to do what they biologically have to do trumps anyone's right to aesthetic purity, IMO.
Everything around you in the physical world