skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people talk about the printing money aspect, and while that's definitely true, it needs to be bought into the context of the covid19 policies that exacerbated the downfall of the economy. Printing money is one thing, but doing that to "cover costs" while also de facto slowing down to the point of stopping the economy is on another level. Add to this the fact that the white collar jobs that "seamlessly" moved to remote positions for people to work from home were kind of a bubble that kept of inflating with no corrections (especially crypto pyramids with no added value in the economy), you end up with this. From there to this day it was basically a matter of inflation spiraling out of control, because the reality is that a lot of green policies, monetary decisions, >new< regulations in the west make it really hard to do anything that's not part of the mentioned bubble.(Which hasn't fully bursted in my opinion, hoping i'm wrong)

And yes, let's also mention the stimulus checks that had more of a bad psychological impact on the working middle class. The total number wasn't that big though, compared to other gov. expenses. Let's not forget, US & Western european countries still have the "luxury" that their economies is more largely composed of industries that functioned during the lockdowns(IT, Entertainment,etc). With the exception of eastern asia, the rest of the world [where most of manufacturing & shipment takes place] did not.
That is also a valid approach but I'm not sure it is more direct. Tax policy is generally only set once a year and only affects tax payers. Interest rates can be tweaked more frequently and (I think) directly impact a larger subset of economic players. That and the Fed doesn't determine tax rates.
OK but that's a 500k LOC codebase in javascript/python that nobody understands, maybe the project doesn't even get there

everybody hates their language when they have 100k LOC of tech debt from 8 years ago

You're right that Clojure's sequence soup problem is painful at that scale (really any scale) but have you ever debugged Java? It's barely even possible, the project needs to drive $10M+/yr revenue to just not collapse once it reaches 500k+ LOC Java, 500k XML, 300k SQL ...
California doesn't print money, the Federal Reserve does. California is required to balance its budget by law, like every state but Vermont. Nearly every state has more money than normal right now (some of it from high tax revenues due to nearly full employment, some due to federal stimulus), so they're finding ways of getting rid of the money. This is a second order effect from the much too large stimulus in 2020/2021.
They're unlikely to terminate entirely, but they are likely to put a temporary stay on the proceedings which is like hitting the pause button.
Yes indeed.
Capitalism is novel in as much as it actually puts a value on many more things than other economic systems, so
you could even say that it could set the fair Net Present Value of growing a tree, or of scrubbing CO2 to stay below 400ppn: what time-discount should be applied, what level of risk is acceptable for whom (any Pakistanis here?) are just input variables...
Economies doing well wasn’t even the initial claim. The keywords were progressive, less inequality.
Writing style is subjective and I find Knuth's delightful: almost every paper of his that I've read has been fun. Even in his technical papers he writes at the level an undergraduate student with decent mathematical background (or a strong high-schooler) could mostly understand, which suits me just fine, especially compared to some other academics who write only for their peers / graduate-level and higher. And in any case, all the mathematical parts of TAOCP can be safely skipped if one is not interested.

But regarding your complaint about formatting, note that the book design of the TAOCP volumes is not Knuth's doing: someone at Addison-Wesley came up with them in the mid-1960s, and the first three volumes were published with Monotype (hot-metal) typesetting. When Knuth wrote TeX in the late 70s/early 80s, his goal was simply to retain the style of the books. (The layout was fine; the publishers were trying to move to phototypesetting and the fonts were poor https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/367058, so he needed digital fonts and wrote METAFONT to create them, and he needed TeX just to be able to use those fonts.) Perhaps the book Concrete Mathematics will be a better example for you to critique, as Knuth had more of a hand in its typesetting (though there too a book designer was involved; the article Typesetting Concrete Mathematics has some details, reprinted in the Digital Typography volume and a poor scan of its earlier publication here: https://tug.org/tugboat/tb10-1/tb23knut.pdf).

About chapter length: the initial table of contents was one book of 12 chapters; Knuth wildly underestimated the printed length of what he had written (not many people know he actually wrote the whole book, all 12 chapters, in the 1960s, amounting to about 3500 pages — since then you can say he's been updating the chapters and publishing each section when he thinks it's ready), so the plan changed to seven volumes with the same chapters. And the chapter sections' lengths have themselves grown with the growth of the subject; as you can see, the current volume 4B is just a tiny fraction of the projected Chapter 7: covers 7.2.2.1 and 7.2.2.2.

Also, about the flowchart for how to read the books: it's partly a joke about flowcharts, but the suggested reading order is very much linear: https://i.stack.imgur.com/UCsOx.png — in words, it's just something like "read the chapters in order, skipping starred sections on the first reading. Also, feel free to skip boring sections, and skim math when it gets difficult" (he addresses the mathematics in the preface on p. viii).
Since you know all the obvious answers, try these on:

1. Where does all the money come from to pay for increased gas prices?

2. When gas prices go down (and they often do go down by multiples), why doesn't deflation happen?
He literally revised his poll when he did get direct questions about it, because he obviously hadn't thought any of it through. Absolutely blows my mind how many little fanboys he has that will perform incredible feats of mental gymnastics just to lickspittle themselves at his feet.
Are airplanes more in need of cooling or heating? The outside temperature at cruising altitude is around -50° (roughly where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet, btw), is the insulation good enough to just keep the inside at acceptable temperatures for humans?
Here is Carlsen taking a move from Howell in a Lichess prize tournament, which he'd never do OTB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMcnrmb97g
The problem really comes down to data quality in disclosing vulnerabilities.

With higher quality data, better CVSS scores can be calculated. With higher quality data, affected code paths can be better disclosed. With higher quality data, unknown vulnerabilities may be found in parallel to the known ones.

I don’t think any tool or automation can solve the problem of high quality data. Humans have to discern to provide it. No amount of code analysis can solve that. But it sure can help.
Capitalism just values what people value. If nature is worth more as a tourist attraction than a farm, that is what it will be.

I am not making excuses for capitalism here. I am just saying: you can either overthrow global capitalism and replace it with some new perfect system no one knows about yet OR we can start valuing different things as a society...
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and for the others... who wants legitimate truthful stories blocked? what does that say about them?
I wouldn't say its the only way we know, rather its the only politically feasible move. Increasing taxes on the wealthy would arguably be a more effective way to take money out of the economy and wouldn't hurt non-wealthy people as bad, but good luck getting that through congress.

The only party that can act right now is the Fed, and the only move the Fed has in increasing interest rates.
This is awesome ! Thank you for creating it. I have been wanting to read about Stable Diffusion. I added this to my reading list in Safari.
Sure, but people manipulate them by hand plenty. The task is making them more amenable to solution by either A) converting it into one of the few closed form solutions, or B) converting it into a form more amenable to numerical solution.
>4k Blu-Rays' bitrates are around 128 Mb/s. For comparison, Netflix tops out around 17 Mb/s.

Surely, this is just a current business decision of Netflix. As internet speeds increase, the bit rate is almost inevitably going to catch up (most likely if Netlix et al decide to charge a premium for it!)
Basically anyone who doesn't have a motivation to twist the truth? Like the US government who can actually provide hard proof that they paid for the hardware? Why would we believe Elon in this case?
How to make anything worse: add bureaucrats.
> To be fair, rote memorization is one of the most improtant and transferable cognitive skills you can develop.

To say so is missing the whole point parent comment is trying to make. Memorization is an important skill, that is one thing but saying memorizing random stuff to build that skill is entirely a different claim. I bet there are better ways so learn and hone memory skills than memorize history place/time/dates and kill a student's interesting in learning.
yeah, saw that after posting this.. thanks
Someone help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like in this article Steve Yegge is describing a tool like Atlassian Fisheye or grepcode and talking about it like it doesn't exist. These tools are out there. I don't see what's missing.
I think it might be this paper [1] succintly described by the author in this twitter thread [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09392
[2] https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/156250381442263040...
Sure. I'm less going by "history" and more by "first principles." Crypto provably does what it says on the tin to some degree, even if that degree is low. I wouldn't use recent past performance as a strong predictor of immediate future performance; thinking more long term possibilities.
> Who would know better than him?

Knowing and being honest are not the same.

edit: Parent poster rewrote their comment.
Is there a legal definition to "buying" in consumer law? Can't Amazon be sued for this?
Overpay is relative there is no meaning-full difference between your net worth being 250 or 230 Billion. Now having control of a key political discourse platform of the world while being the richest dude that def comes with benefits.
12 is fine... 16 is iffy... it was only 3 years ago.

I'm personally a bit frustrated with the ever changing standards for adolescents. They are as responsible or naive as people want them to be for whatever their bias calls for. (not saying you btw, just in general).
What I’m seeing here is three spikes caused or exacerbated by fossil fuels. I wish we would get past the “burning stuff” era.
Second thoughts, absolutely, but also hell-or-high-water contracts that require MAEs to break, and Musk has been notably unsuccessful in making that argument (hence where we are now!). Gonna be a lot of blood on the floor when folks have to take the writedown on this.
I'm disabled and in California. I don't exactly have the physical means to manual labor.

Am I just screwed in coming years?
Soon to be the Face Back APP!
Kenneth Regan did that and came to a conclusion that there were no cheating.
I'm always surprised by how few developers ever seem to look outside their own domain. Software is everywhere. When I got bored, I used to google "software for X," trying to come up with the weirdest application for software and it never failed to generate a few hits of some company, somewhere selling software for that particular use case.
The fact that it isn't a federal law, makes it an USA thing. Were aren't talking about some states giving 1 year and other giving 10 months.

Brazil is a median income country and our society decided that every woman gets 120 days (17.14 weeks) of paid maternity leave. Good companies give 180 days.

The salary is paid by Social Security
What happens to the dollars you put into a savings account or bought stocks with? Do they disappear?
There was no lag. You just didn’t see dramatic price increases in consumer goods. But you saw substantial increases in the price of stocks and real estate for instance. Also in healthcare and education.

Now new money is being spent on consumer goods while supply of goods and services have been severely restricted during the corona panic. Of course soaring energy prices is now also contributing.
But that's not actually true in general. std::optional<int> has no such indirection issues, for example.

If you're saying that blindly calling `operator->` on a std::optional<int*> without ever checking has_value() or similar can result in dereferencing garbage then yes, sure? But calling that "explicitly memory-unsafe" seems misleading at best, and just aggressively wrong at worst. You can always use `value()` if you want an error-throwing option, just like std::vector has at(). The standard didn't just ignore that.
Correction: his tone is adjacent to personally attacking people who USE Java :P
This is my experience exactly. I love the language and ecosystem in a lot of ways. I also believe that REPL-driven-development is a ridiculously productive way to work.

But I absolutely hate maintaining an old Clojure codebase (unless it's tiny).

The REPL helps a lot with discovering what the proper way is to call any random function you have in your code, but this is still really super annoying. I really hate to get into a dynamic-versus-static-typing debate, but I've long since come to the conclusion that -- all other things being equal (hah!) -- if I have to dig into a large and old project, I'd much rather have types by my side than not. Code will not ever be adequately documented or commented (and even if it _seems_ to be at first glance, you will always have nagging doubts about how up to date that info really is). This is where type definitions help to figure out the shape of the data that any piece of code is working with. People talk about adding spec/schema definitions but that doesn't solve all the problems with not having type definitions unless you add these spec/schema definitions _everywhere_ ... and let's face it, you just aren't going to do that in any Clojure project. So, best case scenario is you still have a large collection of functions in your project that are calling each other, etc that you are left having to deduce yourself what this random map or list actually contains.
Nobody ever gives up power willingly, especially not the tyrants. It's going to be 2023 or 2025 before anything like that happens, unless the supreme court hears a surprisingly prescient case but that's unlikely before 2025 anyway.
This is very cool. But it's also spending a lot of novelty points. I thought energy density was still a huge problem, so it seems weird to try to solve the problem of electric planes with acceptable range at the same time as tackling the enormously energy intensive problem of VTOL.
> History teaches us that inflation will continue as long as the government keeps printing fiat money with no backing.

You do realize that the US has had fiat money for decades, right? Including our longest period of low inflation, a run of nearly 4 decades. So it would seem history teaches us the opposite.

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
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> it's hard to differentiate between someone genuinely playing at a level higher, and a cheater

Actually, it isn't! Great chess bots have very different play styles and there are people currently studying them. It's very unlikely someone will come out of nowhere so to speak (as in, not on some amazing rise as a young child) with these types of techniques. I'm nowhere near these levels of chess players but have played competitively for my county as a school-kid and still play a couple hundred games a year so have some idea.
I see your dedication to this topic. While I commend you on it, I don't think you're ready to have a fair discussion on it. This is a topic that, unlike Civil Engineering, has way too much complexity and nuance. We don't like it, and we all wish it were better organised and standardised and simpler and just ... generally not so fraught with frustration. But it is what it is, and it's not like you and I can settle this debate with pithy comparisons to random subfields of Civil Engineering.
I vaguely recall the announcement about this service, but can't think of any newsletters I've seen that have come out of it. Another online experiment from a big tech company that didn't work out.
I may not be an orthodox user of UML, but I like it. Especially sequence diagrams, but also classes. I like it in the AMDD fashion: quick sketches to show only important parts of a system (or part of it). Using it to generate classes or from classes is pointless to me: it must be an artifact in itself, choosing the right colors and symmetries to better represent what you're trying to convey that may not be obvious from the code, such that a bird eye view of a system or an interaction between systems, or parts of a system. Like many I was taught it, but I wasn't aware of its popularity or lack of it. I've used it and found it useful when stumbling upon it for something I have forgotten the inner workings of.

And also: use cases diagram is very useful. Thinking in terms of actors is good.
The earth and life have survived several cataclysmic events. Why would this time

> end only with the death of the living planet

Certainly the CO2 PPM will not cause this

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/02/15/co2-dip-dinosau...

> Until about 215 million years ago, the Triassic period had experienced extremely high CO2 levels, at around 4,000 parts per million — about 10 times higher than today. But between 215 and 212 million years ago, the CO2 concentration halved, dropping to about 2,000ppm.

Nor would something equivalent to the asteroid that caused the last mass extinction

The two things I know of are a solar flare that blows away the atmosphere and an astroid large enough to cause the surface to liquify (into molton rock)
Elon Musk is very good at hiring motivated people who can figure out how to make things work. It's hard to imagine that skill going to waste at Twitter, whose management didn't seem to really know or care much about the platform or the business they were in.
Honest question - why?
The U.S. has purchased more than 1,330 terminals from SpaceX, while SpaceX “donated” 3,670 terminals. However, the USAID is paying $1,500 for each terminal, while it normally costs $600.

Knowing that the military is interested in the terminals, this seems to be SpaceX selling those terminal at cost to showcase their stuff in action. Of course, hoping meanwhile for a future government contract and being smug about helping Ukraine.

> Gwynne Shotwell said at a public event last month, later telling CNBC, “I don’t think the U.S. has given us any money to give terminals to Ukraine.”

Why do all Musk companies lie about trivial stuff like that?
std::optional is not limited to pointers, and it has the safety if you want it - use value().
Having done basically this I can say I highly recommend not doing it. Reading your post brings up really awful feelings. Those two years were horribly stressful - I'm not sure I've fully recovered to be honest.

Furthermore, the kid has needs too, and one of those is to occasionally get your full attention, and for you to not be stressed out. I'm not sure my kids have fully recovered either.

I would use all the vacation, family leave, and sick time first, and then consider going into debt to get your wife through school.
This is the end of Twitter in my view. I am betting it will be replaced by a couple of services within a few years.
We don't know that for sure (though I believe it). He is responsible for defending people who covered it up.
My rear view camera regularly gets covered with dirt and grime after a highway run during the monsoons. The car has both camera and radar so that I can have reliable assistance while reversing. With this experience in mind I fail to see how Tesla’s camera-only move is reliable for the use cases that they have mentioned.
>> In order to maximize the reproducibility of our results, we provide code in JAX (Bradbury et al.,
2018) for our proposed X-UNet neural architecture from Section 2.3

Nice.

OpenAI shitting their pants even more.
Oh man, this reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend:

Me: How was your weekend?

Her: Really annoying. I want out to the neighborhood bar with my girlfriend and this guy kept hitting on me.

Me: Did you tell him that the girl you were with is your girlfriend and that you're not interested in guys?

Her: Oh hell no! If I do that, then it becomes a challenge for them and they want to prove to me they can convert me to being straight.

Me: ...

I mean has this ever worked in the history of humanity?
They had a newsletter subscription service?

Most of these efforts fail because generally people have no idea about them. For such big companies they can't market for shit.
If he discloses the moderation algorithms it'll make gaming them that much easier and the bot problem that much larger.
Allowing them to legalize their annexation of Crimea would just encourage doing the same thing all over again in a few years.
Nothing fishy going on at all.
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I haven't been the same, in the best way possible, ever since reading it.

Anthony was well-read and traveled and his background as an Indian, Jesuit Priest and practicing psychologist put him at the perfect intersection of experience to deliver such a life-changing work that encompasses religion, science, relationships, your psyche, career, money, philosophy, spirituality, etc.

It's telling and (to me) validating of his mastery of life that, after his death, he was excommunicated from the church due to his 'blasphemous' works.

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One more question, if you don't mind. 1 image is generated in 0.7 seconds (25 steps ) and the same single image with 50 steps will be generated in 1.3 seconds. So it's much cheaper to generate more images for the same promt. Am I right or am I missing something ? Thanks in advance for your answer.

P.S.
Though it should be 1.4 seconds. 0.7*2=14.If you think twice the speps, twice the time.
Very similar approach is taken by the Lua developers.