skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that American lawmakers also have ties with the Unification Church. A couple of decades ago its founder, Sun Myung Moon, actually had a coronation in a U.S. Senate office building that was attended by numerous U.S. Senators and Congressmembers. He was declared humanity's messiah in the ceremony:

> Mr. Davis says he held the wife's crown and was ''a bit surprised'' by Mr. Moon's Messiah remarks, which were delivered in Korean but accompanied by a written translation. In them, he said emperors, kings and presidents had ''declared to all heaven and earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.''

> By Wednesday, after news of the event had been reported in the online magazine Salon and various newspapers, Capitol Hill was in full-blown backpedaling mode, as lawmakers who attended but missed the coronation -- or saw it and did not think much of it -- struggled to explain themselves.

The Washington Times, a conservative D.C. newspaper that has many prominent conservatives on its staff (Tony Blankly, Larry Kudlow, Tony Snow) was also founded by Sun Myung Moon and owned by the Unification Church[2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/a-crowning-at-the-capi...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/sun-myung-...
Money Creation in the Modern Economy. By Michael McLeay, Amar Radia and Ryland Thomas of the Bank’s Monetary Analysis Directorate. Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin. Q1, 2014.

The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan. By Sebastian Mallaby.

The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath. By Ben Bernanke.

Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market. By Walter Bagehot.

The Future of Money. By Eswar Prasad.

(The following two are mentioned at the end of the article)

“A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960” by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz.

“The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster” by Lawrence Ball.
There's a lot to criticize the last 10-20 years of silicon valley for, but I don't inherently see it as negative that there's a continued concentration of diverse high-value labor in an area which has a lot of capital to deploy. It's worked out great in the past whenever areas pulled in a lot of smart people to work together.

I do hope that we move the goalposts closer to "value-creation" rather than "capturing value" but I think the way to do this is to glorify stories of value-creation and apply high taxes to rentiering wherever we find it. Although there is some non-global local value in supporting domestic rentiering of global products/services and ensuring that the outsized/unfair international revenues are re-deployed to domestic initiatives to chase novel value creation.
It's not universally true though, in Japan the equivalent of the FCC requires an active contract in order to be licensed to broadcast so emergency calls are not available without a valid SIM card
My Airpods work great with my Windows laptop.
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at school, or singing national anthems at non-national events come to mind as rituals not affiliated with the supernatural[1]

I hazard a majority of Americans (religious or not) voluntarily partake in those rituals.

1. I suppose rituals require venerated objects/subjects, and this is often religious, but does not have to be
Anyone pursuing this further might be interested in Lobster Magazine's 1991 piece by Jeffrey M Bale: The Moonies, WACL and the Korean CIA (see [1])

Regards Japan, though it's primarily concerned with "the links between the UC and the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)" and "the intimate
connection between the UC and the World Anti-Communist League, an international umbrella organization encompassing numerous extreme right and neo-Nazi groups", the article finds that "the real key to the WACL-Moon link probably lies in Japan, and I must therefore trace the development of the Japanese UC before trying to clarify this link."

And trace it he does, over several dense but fascinating paragraphs detailing relationships between UC precursor Genri Undo, "kuromaku"[2], Japanese ultranationalists and organized crime figures, including Yoshio Kodama [3], whose two lieutenants Ryoichi Sasagama and Osami Kuboki "took an early interest in [Genri Undo]" with Kuboki becoming president of the "World Christian Unification Holy Ghost Church", spearheading the UC presence in Japan.

To give a taster, here's Bale on Kodama (the numbers in parens are footnotes):

> To cite just one example, he provided 6.5 million yen through an intermediary -- ultranationalist gangster Karoku Tsuji -- to his Sugamo cellmate Ichiro Hatoyama for the purpose of establishing the Minshu To (Democratic Party), a new conservative party controlled by depurged prewar rightist politicians who were unable to obtain a dominant position in Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's bureaucrat-controlled Jiyu To (Liberal Party). (212)

> Following the election of Hatoyama as Prime Minister, the two parties merged in 1955 to become the Jiyuminshu To (Liberal Democratic Party or LDP), the highly conservative pro-American party which has almost single-handedly ruled Japan up to the present day.

> Since then, Kodama has often brought decisive pressure to bear on the
factional struggles within the LDP, including arranging for the reelection of Nobusuke Kishi, another Sugamo cellmate, in 1959, as well as helping Eisaku Sato become Prime Minister in 1964. He also maintained close relations with other LDP politicians, such as the yakusa-connected LDP Vice President Bamboku Ono, (213) and his influence did not suffer a major setback until he was identified as the key 'fixer' in the Lockheed Corporation bribery scandal. (214)

> In addition to these political activities and his 'legitimate' business operations, Kodama also became involved with numerous postwar ultranationalist and yakuza organisations, including the Matsuba Kai (Pine Needles Society), the Kokusiu Kai (National Essence Society), and the Gijin To (Righteous Men's or Martyrs' Party). (215) He served as an advisor to the predominantly Korean yakuza group led by Hisayuki Machii (born Gon-Yong Chong), the Tosei Kai (Eastern Voice Society), and organized the Kofu Kurabu (Friendly Relations Club) in 1965. (216)

1: http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster21.pdf

2: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kuromaku

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Kodama
Couldn't agree more.

I believe this falls into the 'Results Oriented' mindset of delivering value. This means figuring out your desired outcome ahead of time, then measure it over time. In addition, overtime, you may determine that your desired outcome has changed and you need to measure differently. Yes, iterating is not just for software.

IMHO pure quantitative metrics are of little value for customer experience. I believe metrics should be a little squishy and subjective. The value in the subjectivity is that it spurns conversation and actual thought instead of simple counting.
I’ve toyed with seeing about adding a feature to finl_unicode to extend or replace the bstr implementations of segmentation, etc. but I don’t need it so I probably won’t. You’re welcome to steal my code though. (And hi from reddit-land!)
You can't really shrink a phased array.

If you use smaller antenna elements you must use a higher frequency, and higher frequencies are more attenuated by the earth's atmosphere (generally, when you get to THz there is a window or else visible light wouldn't be able to penetrate) so they have no chance of making it to a satellite.

If you use less elements you lose all your gain in the side lobes, as the other commenter mentioned
> I seriously doubt diesels were ever bought to "lower their CO2 emissions". At no point in time there was ever doubt that diesels were the more polluting option.

That's two entirely independent statements. VW Diesels do produce lower CO2 emissions. But when building an engine, there's a tradeoff: the leaner it burns, the lower the CO2 emissions and the higher the NOx emissions.

The Diesel scandal was about NOx.
I don't subscribe to the AI Boogeyman theories. Consciousness is some made up philosophical macguffin. I don't care if a bunch of phds can align on a definition for hokum and then tell me if one robot has it or not.

Asking things to draw themselves is fun, I could just as easily ask an elephant holding a paint brush to paint itself and then enjoy the outcome. That's pretty much all there is to it.
> Most notably, the Berkeley rubric explicitly punishes any candidate… requiring a low score for anyone who “states the intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and ‘treat everyone the same.’”

Reading you would think that this is ridiculous but no, it’s right on their website: https://ofew.berkeley.edu/recruitment/contributions-diversit...
How do you know it’s astroturfing? I see this claim about comments on Reddit all the time. Most of the time it is just fan boys in my experience.

Shit, I’ve been called a troll for X-cause or a corporate shill for company-Y.

If I disagree with this person, they most be a troll.

If this person is defending a COMPANY they must be a shill.

Not saying it doesn’t happen ever, but I think people are a lot worse at identifying that stuff than they think they are.
Is it smooth? Often you would like to add it with just one or two clicks, like you do natively on each app. Otherwise it's a bit annoying.
Yes in the sense that all religion has a dose of magical thinking, but not in the sense that cults are a specific set of practices that set them aside from mainstream religion.

Shunning of members, cutting ties to non-cult people, taking over the finances of their members (and forcing them to donate).

There are some gray areas and some mainstream congregations can cross into cult-like behavior, but in general, there is a demarcation.
Fair enough. I do have a little over a decade of experience, so perhaps that gives my opinion some bias. But regardless of the app, the premise behind Svelte feels as close to native as you can possibly manage. If you know html/css/js, it really shouldn't be hard to pick up the basics.
Not Your Grandfather’s Perl
Thanks!

I wasn't aware of the intricacies of this stuff - I'll have to do some more reading in my free time.
The study was commissioned by the NHS and led by Dr. Hilary Cass, past president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-c...

It shut Tavistock, highlighted diagnostic overshadowing of co-morbind conditions such as abuse, trauma, and autism, found gross evidentiary gaps in the medical arguments for puberty blockers and youth HRT, and recommended the curtailment of medical youth transition. The move to multiple clinics is one part trans activists highlight while ignoring the rest.
In Spain, because fifty year ago we had a right-Catholic dictatorship (there is a article in spanish wikipedia about this: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacionalismo_cat%C3%B3lico ).

Now, we have a lot of lawyers who are in christian/catholic dangerous/psychopaths sects such as Opus Dei (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_Dei), Kikos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocatechumenal_Way), Yunque (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Yunque_(organization)) and other far right christian sects.

It is a serious situation for the Human Rights in Spain.
This is pretty amazing; were these single attempts?
The best simple way to prioritize a backlog. Engineering team is responsible for assigning "effort" dimension; product/stakeholder team is responsible for assigning "impact" dimension. Then we see what's in high impact/low effort, and that's what we're gonna work on.
> conquest, diplomacy, and economics can be practiced to perfection

This is a ridiculous analogy. The vast majority of video games have so little application to the real world as to be effectively useless. This is relevant in the particular case of Dota 2, which, while an incredibly interesting game, has virtually no relevance to the real world.

"Virtually" because if I say "no relevance" then pedants will quickly point out that you can learn some basic economics by looking at the skin marketplace, or something. Yeah, sure, and you can learn more about human anatomy by having sex. The ratios of learning for those things compared to doing dedicated learning (textbooks, classes, internet research, practice) are at least in the ratio of 100 to 1, if not more, for all but the tiny minority of games explicitly designed to have a significantly amount of learning potential (e.g. Kerbal Space Program).

Using your own analogy, if you told said king that using this crystal took you 100 to 1000 times longer to learn about things than the magical libraries that we also have available to us, which also only cost your own personal time, and then advocated for their use, he'd definitely think that you were crazy - and you would be.

> It is the design of one of our era's greatest minds, in the pursuit of understanding the systems underlying our Earthly existence, and the democratization of that research to the fingertips of all.

Sid Meyer is not "one of our era's greatest minds" even in the particularly narrow field of video game development.

> For someone who enjoys balancing the needs of a kingdom, you've yet to learn to balance the needs of your own body.

There is no "balancing the needs of a kingdom" going on. The Civilization games are optimized for entertainment first, and if educational value is optimized for at all, it's definitely not in the top 5. If you take someone who has put thousands of hours of Civilization into any position of authority (and no other relevant training), they'll a pathetic, miserable mess, and not able to keep up with someone who's read a just few dozen hours' worth of well-chosen history, economics, and military strategy books.

If you could learn to rule merely by playing Civ, then American anime enthusiasts would be able to learn Japanese merely by watching anime, which virtually never happens, and it's pretty well known that it's not a feasible learning strategy.
The software industry has made me very aware that being metric-driven can be a terrible thing as easily as a good thing. Software has been getting substantially worse over time (in my opinion) in large part because of the use of metrics.
GP's point is that you don't have to be superstitious to perform religious rituals. Many Japanese people are superstitious though, just not in the pray to a deity form that we are used to in the West.
Maybe unpopular, but like socialism, I think rent control is a good idea. It's always the implementation that falls apart (because politicians). If you have a fixed income (disabled and/or over retirement age), fix away.
One version of this is in the lobster article I linked in my other, longish, comment here.
Less bending overall results in less failures?

Also it would be hard to talk on a floppy phone
Am in a top PhD program in economics, can confirm for the most part, although the past two years have been relatively tough. Hopefully the Job Market the next couple years will return to trend.
I think a decent historical model would be the relationship between Spain's fascist government under Generalísimo Francisco Franco and the Opus Dei sect founded by Josemaría Escrivá:

> "Many newly published Spanish history textbooks agree that the Opus Dei had a strong influence in the Franco regime. Moreover, Opus Dei developed itself in its early days during the Franco regime. According to these books, Opus Dei was not only linked but also tightly interwoven with the power structures of the Francoist authoritarian government soon after the Spanish Civil War, although its stronger involvement in the government came only in the late 1950s. It had at least 8 ministers during Franco's rule. This was in keeping with the organization's aim of influencing the development of society indirectly..."

https://www.primidi.com/opus_dei_and_politics/francisco_fran...
"Economy" being a made up term , makes no sense in that question.

"why have economics" makes a better question.

it being a made up field, with terrible history of accuracy, poor reasoning, virtually no way to replicate and test theories, interests only those that participate (willingly, out of curiosity or due to poor career choices) in that field of pseudo-science.

Why have it at all tho? Politics.
I’ve had projectors ever since I was 14 years old but there’s no getting around the fact that the darkest their black level can get is however dark the screen is.

Dark screens help but until we can project on something that’s essentially black they won’t be great for daytime viewing.
Yeah, a lot of value is that in these "recommend a product to me" threads, there are genuine comments. I don't really care that some are from marketers, I get some good suggestions and can go look for myself if they're right for me. OTOH, finding out if a product is good has become almost impossible.
why would prior lowness explain present values better than present demand would?

is the temperature in summer driven by the coldness of winter?
May be it’s time discover and read Jacques Ellul.
Also Michel Glouscard
Ask HN: Calendly but with a Credit Card Form?
I occasionally get people contacting me for advice in my field. Random startups and whatnot. Usually I ignore them.

I had a thought - it would be great to send them a calendly link to my schedule with a credit card form attached. Pay $X for 30 mins or an hour of my time.

Does such a thing exist?
Thank you for this detail!
Old school Linux administration – my next homelab generation
Eats data platform: Empowering businesses with data
I'm still very skeptical of the random templating syntax, of the weird reactivity with gotchas and most of all, of two way databinding. Wasn't two way databinding one of the reasons we got react (and one of the reasons i bought into it) back when angular was the go-to? I feel like every time i try to use two-way-databinding it ends up in a jumbled unintelligible mess where I'm chasing mutations around... Personally, if I have to try out a new framework, I'll probably try out solid instead.
I was thinking, a function that checks for preconditions (assertions) will be necessarily slower than one that skips those checks. The code will be smaller, but not necessarily easier to read if data quality assertions are omitted. Graceful failure also can be handled on a case by case basis - something assertions don't solve.

There's also a large but not unbounded search space when it comes to numerical values. Some things (like division by zero) are easy to check, but other things like valid strings or checking that a graph data structure is shaped a certain way - the search space is potentially enormous. That's why some invariants (ex: assert i <= 0) are easier to define than others (ex: i is prime)

That's not to say data invariants aren't useful - our function would not work if the assumptions it depends upon aren't true.

Point is, proving an invariant involves executing code, either at compile or at runtime - and there's no guaranteeing that code coming from user input or databases or remote API calls satisfy the invariant.
But... How? It's missing how to do it (measure value) in the article.
Haha no, almost no onboarding. They did have the longest hiring process I've ever seen. Something like 3 months from first interview to offer letter.
I am bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years. We are at $100M+ ARR and almost a hundred people.
Still enjoying it. We've slowly built a strong team during these years and it is a real pleasure to participate and see them solve problems, innovate and iterate. There is nothing VC funding can offer that would make my life better or my work more enjoyable.

I am thankful to myself for ignoring VC funds and acquisition offers.

My advice would be to listen to yourself.
The author has provided a type operator for sets (and other datatypes) that let's one compute fixpoints of monotone operations like transitive closure on directed graphs
with a minimum of effort. While the implementation uses unsafe primitives, the resulting interface is safe and pure. Quite impressive and hopepully something I can make use of in the future...

Btw, regarding the introductory example

> fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)

I prefer the more straightforward

fibs = f 0 1 where f a b = a : f b (a+b)
> Have you tried talking to your manager about your performance and future at the company?

I did. I go well out of my way (and comfort zone) to make very open conversations with him. I can't get any answers or feedback at all related to my future. He says my performance is not meeting his expectations and points to multiple examples -- subjective but he rationalizes and sells it well.

I believe he wants to get rid of me but needs corporate buy-in to make it happen. I've never been a manager before so I could be wrong.
Stop killing whales.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2019/12/nat...

> When it comes to saving the planet, one whale is worth thousands of trees.

> Marine biologists have recently discovered that whales—especially the great whales—play a significant role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere.

> In recent years, scientists have discovered that whales have a multiplier effect of increasing phytoplankton production wherever they go. How? It turns out that whales’ waste products contain exactly the substances—notably iron and nitrogen—phytoplankton need to grow.
In the UK they're making it so that from Jan-March all bus journeys will be £2. I live just outside of a city (in a different county) and a single ticket is about £4 at the moment to where I work. I'll definitely be getting the bus for that period.
On what grounds do you base your assertion that Civ is hyper-optimized to be addictive?
Interactive Machine Learning and Data Science Websites
Fixing Python Import Resolution in Nix with Direnv
Agreed about Christianity, disagreed that it's the only difference.

There is a set of cult-like behavior that distinguishes modern cults from mainstream established religions. Those practices are an important distinction.

Also, the mindset required to join a fringe or secretive cult today that shuns the rest of society, and is shunned by society in turn, seems relevant to me.
I'm not an embedded software guy so I don't have a use case for this. However, I want to give major credit to the people who made the website. The second thing you see is a reasonably sized chunk of real code. This is what every single programming language website/README should do
America’s Fake Caste War
Profiling JavaScript/TypeScript in Bun 0.1.11
Direct air capture hasn't been proven to work at scale. And the key thing we need to do is to reduce emissions, which is done exactly by incentives like this. Was the €9 ticket perfect? No, but it was a good first shot, now we have data and can improve.

Furthermore, as others have stated, this was not even the primary goal of this program.
Growing a DSL with Clojure
How does LightVM compare to Firecracker VMs? Could it be used for on-demand cloud VMs?
>Most innovation will be outside the US.

Nice, it's about time someone else had a go at it. Maybe they'll have visa programs and we can escape the rest of the US's problems
Of course this isn't the whole story.

- You need to subtract the cost of road maintenance that may have been saved with less cars driving.

- You need to add gas tax that wasn't collected.

- You need to add the sales tax for trips that people took that they may not have otherwise.

- You need to subtract the healthcare costs of reduced pollution and accidents.

- Capturing carbon is less efficient that preventing it begin produced in the first place because that ignores the carbon emitted in the production of fuels and materials.

Basically the word is incredibly complicated. It is hard to equate this "nearly free" far with direct carbon capture.
It's adorable! Lego man for scale.
Harnessing the wisdom of the Reddit crowd.