skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm skeptical of elected officials sending money to constituents right before elections.

There seems to have been a lot of very suspiciously-timed policy announcements like that recently. Of the top of my head: the student loan forgiveness plan, the Federal marijuana possession pardons, and now this.
Thanks! I'll take a look, those do look interesting.
> By my understanding, the case for stimulus checks leading to inflation comes when the stimulus checks are paid for by printing more money (thus increasing the overall money supply).

Money supply isn't the only factor in the monetary side of inflation. The velocity of money[1] is also important. If you "printed" a load of new fiat currency but it all stayed in say for example savings accounts, then its pressure on inflation would be greatly diminished. The spending of that money is what bids up prices when more goods and services can't be produced fast enough.

The fear here is that the stimulus checks will increase the velocity of money. Tax dollars sitting in CA's coffers is effectively not part of the money supply. As soon as the check go out, it reenters the money supply and probably gets spent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
People seem to be missing the obvious here. What are people going out and buying with their stimulus checks? iPhones, TVs, used cars, etc. We need to be curbing demand significantly not stimulating it.

States only have a surplus from the all the free federal money they got from Covid. Either send it back, or use it for infrastructure. Maybe fire prevention and suppression?Maybe build some nuclear power plants again? Homeless programs and shelters? Anything but stimulating consumer demand.
A Signal support claims "The Signal service does not have any knowledge of your contacts."

Can someone explain how this is possible? How does my phone know when to notify me that a friend has joined signal?

Edit: apparently it's "private contact discovery", I need to give this a proper read later.

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
I think the conceit that exists in business schools today, and what riles up people too, is that managing people could be taught. This is why many case studies are performed in B-schools, so students can imbibe successful habits. But I have worked with successful and unsuccessful managers, and successful ones combine experience with creativity. You need both. And experience, or even creativity, cannot really be taught.
Curious though, mastadadon owners can potentially be like that too, no? And stakes are too low to do mischief with mastadon vs. Twitter.
Killer whales eating white sharks in Mossel Bay, South Africa [video]
Sold my Amiga 500 to one of the game’s graphic designers back in the 90s. He told me his image was used for one of the characters.

Oddity of that night… I was in Chicago and I had a very old car at the time (Olds Omega). It konked out on me as I was leaving. So I had go back up to his apartment and ask to use his phone. He (and his wife/gf) let me, but they acted very odd like I was somehow up to something. I couldn’t find anyone to pick me up either and I didn’t want spend the money I just made on that crap car! Luckily I went out and tried again and the car started.

It always struck me how he and his girl seemed so… well almost elitist — maybe they were so isolated they were just scared of lower class strangers.
well in my country (maybe just my state?) science education is required in grades 2-12 I believe.
It’s strange. Whenever I take liquid Omega-3s, I feel… off. It seems to make me feel mentally lethargic. I know that’s super vague but I’m not sure how else to describe it.
I think it's not that hard:

- Number of scams/crimes enabled by crypto in the last decade: a ton
- Number of constructive, noncriminal use-cases observed in the last decade: zero

By "constructive", I mean a use-case for which it is the best solution, which rules out every single blockchain use that is not a cryptocurrency. And the cryptocurrencies are the ones enabling the crime and scams.
Lots of people use it every day: myself, the people I follow, a lot of people who follow me, countless others I don’t interact with. Yes, the network has few users compared to twitter, but it’s a far cry from “little to no-one”.
I tried bringing them to a few relatively small codebases and the most frequent feedback is “why introduce this complexity when you can write a for loop in place”. 
Must be some sort of Stockholm syndrome that affects people “writing go for 13 years”.
Is Google a vital service or is email a vital service?
More people ought to read this: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth....

Google is already providing a free service to homeless people. It's not empathy to tell someone else to solve a problem that you care about. That's virtue signaling. If he cares, he should take matters into his own hands.

Is it too much to ask a single person to build a free email service for all homeless people? Perhaps, but the good news is that he doesn't have to. Google already allows you to disable 2FA [1]. He could have started a campaign to disable 2FA on homeless people's phones, but instead he uses this as an opportunity to shame Google to boost his own Twitter follower count.

I think that empathy is highly overrated. I doubt anyone notorious for flashing their big Johnson is particularly empathetic, yet LBJ expanded social services more than any other President. The problem isn't that people have too little empathy these days. It's that people are too easily impressed by broadcasting their intentions rather than actually trying to solve a problem.

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203
It's outsourcing verification, and it mostly works, but "small tidbits" like you find in Hacker News comments now and then will likely never make it.
"DVD and BD (read-only, such as a DVD or Blu-ray movie) 10 to 20 years"

This is literally unbelievable to me. I have yet to encounter or hear about a single instance of a commercial disc failure, and that goes all the way back to double-sided DVDs in the old paper cases with a clip.
Right on the money ! Most deals these “spent fuel” companies do are for acquiring the Rolodex of the acquisition target.
"Precision bombing" can use a little scrutiny of its own. The USAAF killed General McNair and quite a few of his troops in broad daylight.
Words Against Strangers
With all due respect, reread the comment I replied to. It is not an argument about inflationary pressures. It is a value judgment of the economically disadvantaged.
Config as code is fine as long as it results in a fully realized config that is then consumed by other code. All the big companies have almost certainly done it.

I would make sure when implementing it you have someone who is very opinionated review all configs to ensure that the same behavior is always implemented in the same way until a linter can enforce idioms. I would avoid explicit conditionals and explicit loops, instead relying on implied conditionals and implied loops. I would absolutely not use any "live" data, meaning the code should be relatively pure without any dependencies.

Pystachio is not a bad choice in python land:

https://github.com/wickman/pystachio
"But history from things happening hundreds to thousands of years ago, predating modern media... sorry historians, it might as well be fiction."

What? I'm confused on what you're saying here. Are you stating there are no primary sources on history from more than a few hundred years ago? All history is made up? I'm sure there are poor quality historical articles, but I wouldn't go so far to call all history "fiction".
Could be that content creation tools are hard to do and the need for moderation. Second Life had a problem of easily accessible penises, while Minecraft servers have an issue with swasticas.
Ummm. I’ve def been unable to do anything for entire days because our AWS region went down and we had to rebuild the database from scratch. AWS goes down, you twiddle your thumbs and the people you report to are going to be asking why, for how long, etc. and you can’t give them an answer until AWS comes back to see how fubar things are.

When your own hardware rack goes down. You know the problem, how much it costs to fix it, and when it will come back up; usually within a few hours (or minutes) of it going down.

Do things catch fire, yes. But I think you’re over-estimating how often. In my entire life, I’ve had a single SATA connector catch fire and it just melted plastic before going out.
> citations must be written in Comic Sans size 11 font with every third word italicized

TBH, after having to follow MLA style guides and various other citation styles over my career, I feel like this isn't as out there as you intended! I hated having to put together citations because the rules always seemed entirely arbitrary and never seemed to capture what I thought was relevant info.
Somehow this usecase completely eluded me when I've sought about how easy it is to setup a way for publishing updates / receiving updates from people you're subscribed to. I can't think of a way for getting content from random commenters in a discussion with a passive RSS-like subscription. At least not without forcing OP to host links to everyone's comments, or involving a third party.
I would not call what the GP describes as ”guess and check”, but as “backtracking”.

That is just making logic observations, using the grid as a memory aid (“let’s see, if foo is a 1 and bar is a 2, then that’s a 7, and then that must be a 4, and that a 3, and then we hit a dead end, so the claim “this is a 1 and this is a 2” in’s true. Maybe foo is a 1 and bar is a 3? No, that’s clearly incorrect. Maybe foo is a 1 and bar is a 4? Etc)

I think human Sudoku solving is different, though. Humans don’t do a depth-first search, but a breadth-first one for paths that soon lead to being able to fill in some squares. Experienced solvers probably have heuristics for finding them.

I think I would rate the difficulty of a puzzle by the ¿average? depth needed in such a depth-first search to permanently place a new digit in a new cell, with correction factors for the number of paths at that depth that do that and the number of cells to fill in.
The government will ask you where you got the crypto from. This is why NFTs became huge. It's conceivable enough that you bought some for $100 and sold them for $10,000. When in reality you're just wash trading between your clean and dirty wallets.
1. This isn't printing money.

2. Even if it was printing money, the mechanism by which printing money causes inflation is by making the currency weaker relative to other currencies. The US dollar is stronger than ever, so "printing money" has nothing to do with the inflation we're facing right now.

3. Giving people money can absolutely help combat inflation because it means people can pay for the food/gas/energy that they couldn't otherwise, especially if the inflation is the result of a supply shock, which is what appears to be happening right now. Combating inflation doesn't just mean reducing inflation. It also means helping people navigate the effects of inflation. And giving people additional money helps do the latter.
These aren't syntactic sugar, but formatters. I rather like Ormolu for Haskell and elm-format for Elm. I occasionally type a bunch of parenthesis so that I'll for sure have the right order of operations. Then the format on save removes the redundant ones. It's delightful. The typecheckers and tendency to wrap primitives in a semantically significant constructor help with that.
NIH has recommended Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19. It may not be approved but it’s recommended.

2022 Clinical trial results of Ivermectin (truly unbiased funding):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/

Withdrewed 2020 clinical trial white paper touting that Ivermectin does not help (funded by Moderna)

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-100956/v4?redirect...

And the recommended treatment still listed Ivermectin on official US government website:

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/ant...

Maybe tune out some mainstream media and social media too?
> Buying votes is illegal basically everywhere I think. Paying for prior votes, probably not illegal?

What's the difference? If you're buying someone's vote, you're almost certainly going to pay after they've voted.
>If I told my mom to install some app and we'd connect to each other using some random IDs, we'd probably still be using SMS

This is surprising to me, since it was my mother's generation that got me into Skype (where you have to manually add the other person by their username), almost twenty years ago.

(Even worse, not long before that you had to manually punch the other person's "ID" into the device every time you wanted to talk to them!)
That is a bold claim. In my experience school gave me exposure to subjects I would not have thought or been interested to explore on my own, and put structure around dedicated learning time.

I have kids. I send them to school. They are learning!

You might have a leg to stand on if your argument weren't so incredibly absolutist. I could certainly concede that American schools may be a less than optimal way to learn with some outmoded practices. There are certainly variances in educational quality.

But school rarely helps with learning? School almost always harms learning? I reject those claims as false on their face.
So you generate a handle, maybe even a key pair and upload the public half to a server. Then someone you know joins next week and does the same.

How do you find each other?

If it's feasible for an end user, say 30 seconds of a phone's CPU, you can be sure that a spammer could generate millions.
The reason printing money causes inflation is because people spend the extra money. It increases demand for things, and suppliers raise prices in response to that.

Giving everyone money, regardless of whether it’s a tax refund or printed out of thin air, will have the same effect.
1. You’re contradicting yourself ie “sure there is some growth”

2. Stability doesn’t imply that growth isn’t necessary

3. A return on investment requires growth. Otherwise people wouldn’t invest
Hmm, on that 2004 Wikipedia page it lists the atomic weight of carbon as 12.0107, and the one link in the reference section (Los Alamos National Laboratory) lists it as 12.011.

That's the correct number for the molar mass of carbon, as far as I know, it doesn't look off by 3x!
It's not a different system, it's the exact same algorithm. In both rounds it is argmax(sum(candidates)) (identical to FPTP btw) but the first round you take two elements instead of 1 and second round you use one hot vectors restricted to the top 2. That's it.
Really weak article. Your typical bothsidesism and unity nonsense. He's talking about how the country was united to face the enemy after 9/11. Talk about fish memory. What enemy is he talking about? Did he forget about the disastrous Iraq war and the division it made? The patriot act!? NSA surveillance, the 2008 economic crisis, etc.
Most of the problems today can be traced to the Bush administration, and the aftermath of 9/11.
>This can make it more difficult for things that nobody ever bothered reporting.

My dad is wrapping up the first monograph on a not too obscure New Deal artist who had a long career and plenty of notable works (at least in his niche).

The entire wikipedia page was written by my dad. If you search the artist there's plenty of hits on art for sale by him, but not much on the man himself.

My father who was a journalist and now a researcher has done several projects and he's been the first 'story' written for a lot of these projects.

When the Philadelphia Union started a feeder team named after the historical club in Bethlehem - they called him up and asked him if he owned the copyright! In fact, basically all of the pictures and details, later written into a book done by another local soccer journo type, was dug up by him. A lot of this information was either in microfiche or in dusty piles in the Bethlehem area library. Now it's diligently organized and stored online.

One of the things he's told me about his work is it's immensely difficult to put a story together that is cohesive. Even for someone who's relatives are still alive, and for the soccer club? He could probably have made up half of the articles and didn't.

All of these things to find out that wikipedia will delete your article for non-importance because there's a lack of recent news links online to it.
Estonia does this for their eResidents.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”

― Alexander Fraser Tytler
If greater parameterization leads to memorization rather than generalisation it's likely a failure in our current architectures and loss formulations rather than an inherent benefit of "fewer parameters" improving generalizaiton. Other animals do not generalize better than humans despite having fewer neurons (or their generalizaitons betray a misunderstanding of the number and depth of subcategories there are for things, like when a dog barks at everything that passes by the window).
The queue then just turns into the bank account. The queue doesn’t magically go away.
I think it is fair to interpret that as: Signal is not storing messages on their servers, also Signal is not storing them on someone else's servers.

Whether or not a 3rd party, outside Signal's knowledge and/or control, is storing messages is entirely out of their control.
I think your point could be rephrased around the business model being to turn jobs into low skill jobs (basically by removing any human agency) so that labor becomes a pure commodity. Uber is the closest I've seen to that I'm practice. I suspect some warehouse jobs are like that too. Most of the time it doesn't work, which is why Uber for X never really caught on, because you can't commodify e.g. a handyman the way you can a car ride
More like fighting fire with gasoline. And emptying the state coffers right before a recession when California tax revenues will be amongst the hardest hit of any state is an additional stupidity. This should all go into the rainy day fund
The confusion around the term was a running joke in a Seinfeld episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wx77L9_D84
And it may be technically correct depending on the topic. Not all workers are employees.
In effect it increases the amount of money circulating in the economy, particularly in the parts of the economy where inflation is high e.g. groceries, rents, etc. Basically CA is taking money (via taxes) that would likely sit in some form of savings or equities and transferring it to people who will spend it.

As a value neutral take, it simply moves cash into the economy and increases the velocity of money. If the production of goods and services can't keep up, there will be more inflation.
> work their way up

Or their way beside? I mean it's getting more and more expected that management and IC are parallel tracks with the same level of compensations.
Just stop being poor or mentally ill, easy.
I'm actually really glad that schools are sending the message "don't use Wikipedia as a trusted source". Students and parents naturally being contrarians will ... use Wikipedia, or learn to read primary sources and re-cite them, which is a step towards primary source research and a step in the direction of critical media consumption.

If students and teachers happen to notice that the Wikipedia consensus is close to reality … that's a great side effect. Teaching them that the raw consensus of most Internet users is generally trustworthy is a pro-social exercise (even if you do it in a sneaky way by triggering students' rebellious instincts). And teaching them that their teachers are misguided in the way they talk about Wikipedia is, arguably, also a good critical-thinking exercise.

An alternate exercise that schools or parents could do is to have their kid try to introduce a false fact into Wikipedia and see how long it lasts or whether it can enter reality via citogenesis. It's better that kids are not introduced to this concept. I'm glad that it's not done.
Binance’s BSC chain implementation is not open source, however - it would be relatively straightforward for them to make a new release that arbitrarily rewrites history (like ethereum did).

It’s not like the people running the BSC daemon are critical about the code. It’s a blockchain run by a central dictatorial authority, if there is a “critical update release” then the nodes will upgrade.
all you need is plausible deniability . If the govt. cannot prove you stole, then they cannot just prosecute you for using tornado cash (as far as the US is concered). Of course, exchanges may refuse to accept your coins if they are tied to tornado cash.
> Lowering taxes for the wealthiest does not impact the basket of goods that generally composes the inflation index.

That depends on what they do with it. For example, in my country rent and house prices are a part of the CPI, and if wealthy people decide to invest their tax cut gains in real estate, that will raise those prices.

Of course, you can debate how large the effect of lower taxes/stimulus checks is on the current inflation event. Personally I believe that the current situation is mostly caused by supply-side problems, and that demand-side measures will have only a limited effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_differential_equatio...

Repetitive content, written at several levels simultaneously, weird fixations on tangential topics.
As someone who reads a lot of history, please head over to r/AskHistorians

It has very strong moderation, and low quality answers are deleted. Their papers cite methods and hypothesis which removes a lot of "fiction" from the equation.

Also, they get quoted in mainstream media too. The content quality is out of this world.
ah, so training to trigger people's fears from a young age... you know, for safety.
The distinction is in the intention of the designers, and the expected behavior of an average person, and both matter to the court.

Hackers tend to overemphasize the technical aspects of an issue, whereas courts mostly care about the human aspects.
Elon Musk’s foray into geopolitics has Ukraine worried
Used to be people would follow blogs through RSS as people made posts, response posts, etc. The quality of discussion was much higher.
Searching for and finding relevant information is a skill all unto itself.

Telling people outright to not use the two most common starting tools (Google and Wikipedia) is probably a bad idea.

Telling people that they can definitely do better than JUST using the starter tools definitely seems like the right path.
fuck capitalism
Happy to hear they’re still touring. I agree you definitely should have seen them :D

I was visiting NYC years ago and realized the day of my departure that Dave Brubeck was playing at the Blue Note. I regret not canceling my flight.
I think Wikipedia is a great start to finding content at a general level.

Though, vertical specific niches often have better sources of information. For e.g. Examine.com currently seems better for nutrition and supplement information. Or even an old school reference book like The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth is better for algorithms.
Deleting for non-notoriety is one of the saddest parts of Wikipedia. Flag it as "meh" but deleting it entire, ouch.
Banana republic