skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's "inflation targeting at 0%"

So when you think a random walk around 0, you think of an ever-increasing positive trend? Because that isn't what a random walk looks like.

> And you can't avoid external shocks: if you embargo Russian gas, prices are going to go up, and that's inflation regardless of money supply issues.

Later on it would go down. It is a commodity market, and trade will normalise.

The issue here isn't that prices rise and fall, it is that the people who make prices rise continuously are forcing everyone to use their system. They shouldn't do that. And if there were any choices, it'd be a rare bird indeed who voluntarily signs up for a system where prices always trend up.

> Quite hard to find a safer asset, though.

I mean, maybe I've badly misunderstood what a "margin call" means, but my feeling on this one is it suggests margin is involved. It is not a conservative financial decision if they involve buying safe assets for someone's retirement on margin, because they aren't safe assets any more.

Bond prices go down and I'm at no risk whatsoever of being sent bankrupt by that, because I'm not stupid enough to start using debt in my retirement savings. To claim they're buying "safe assets" while simultaneously they are in need of assistance due to playing around in the gilt market derivatives is an impressive take.

> Which people? Which loans? Please please be specific.

When someone (A) lends money to another person (B), that person becomes a counterparty. So if B goes bankrupt, A loses money. If B is about to go bankrupt, gets big loans from a central bank then pays back A, A has effectively gotten a handout. What should happen is A loses money for taking on a risky gamble.

> Again, which loans? What are the collateralization rules for them? What are the interest rates? Do you think an individual and a bank have the same credit score?

Yeah, good point, that part doesn't actually make any sense. I was thinking about QE1 when I wrote that, but the issue there wasn't really any deals getting done as much as the general money printing.

> Please distinguish between "default" and "rollover". There is nothing wrong with rollover unless the risk has changed?

There absolutely is something wrong with rollover. If entities can perpetually roll over their debt, and the entity issuing the debt is a government entity or bankrolled by a government entity - ie, risk insensitive and unable to go bankrupt because of policy - then all the usual economic controls to make sure the money is well spent are removed.

> Example of "wasting"?

If a banking entity goes bankrupt due to enormous losses it has effectively wasted all the money it was given. Which is fine, happens from time to time, but the people responsible shouldn't get a chance to try again because the regulators like them.

> ...if you just allege "crime"...

Sorry, I missed a step here. What crime are you talking about? I don't think anything criminal is happening.
It's free for the first 20 devices, I guess there is no limit if you want to selfhost the server part (called headscale). They are committed to the free tier though, they wrote a lot about that. I like the company a lot, I hope they don't change. They are very freedom/opensource oriented, for now :)

Once you use Tailscale you realize this is how a VPN should be, it's really something.
I owned a Firefox phone and it was awesome. It had understandably few apps, but it worked really well.

One thing I really appreciated was that it was conceived as an appliance rather than as an attention grabber. We tolerate our phones being attention grabbers, but unrightfully so, it doesn't have to be this way. The default UI even had the saturation toned down, to not be so much in your face.

It was pretty capable for an 80 Euro phone. It was the only smartphone I owned that I could feel vibrate in my pocket. I concede that Android ran better on it, but it's not like FirefoxOS ran bad, on the contrary.

I unfortunately lost it, and it was about the time it was being discontinued. I would probably get another one. Heck, I would get one now, if they were still around.

Anecdote: friend had a KaiOS and it was pretty aweful.
Not needed because "women are wonderful" is to some degree mostly orthogonal to "men are more professional/deserve more/"... wonderful good attributes are not needed or even to some degree counter to "high performance" (but depends a lot where we look at, sure!)

Also pay-gap has likely also to do with the current men-bias also? Wonder if that would be the same if we had 90% woman throughout in these decising positions..

In the end all mine assumptions, what I actually want to say is: I don't think those two contradict or relate at all.. what GP already said well with "biases swing in all sorts of directions depending on the context"
That would imply that the input array given to qsort was misaligned. I don't think alignment is an issue in the comparator.
What’s a good guide to learn IAM?
Sounds like russian propaganda.
I feel old when I see a question like this.

Also, we used to call them "programs", not "apps".
Not GP, but:

From your wikipedia link

> There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted versus adjusted pay gap. The latter typically takes into account differences in hours worked, occupations chosen, education and job experience.[1] In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average woman's annual salary is 79% of the average man's salary, compared to 95% for the adjusted average salary.[2][3][4][5]

The remaining 5% could be from the "women are wonderful" positive attributes not being the narrow selection of ones that are highly sought after in well-renumerated jobs, or (spitballing here) psychosocial (Expectations of a pay gap driving negotiation behavior or something).
This feels like a good hook to me. Imagine how many executives and team leaders have heard “hydration” as an excuse for why a particular feature is difficult/late/complicated.

Bypass hydration, problems go away. It doesn’t matter what the solution is.

Plus, giving the usually-non-techy manager a good buzzword (which, let’s be fair, “resumable” is because it is a real programming term that is not well-defined and could somehow play a role in the design of an alternative to hydration) gives… uh, what was I talking about?

Plus, giving the manager a good buzzword that they can drop in meetings and catch the others participants unaware makes them feel powerful, and they will mention Qwik as part of that buzzword-droppage.

Good salesmanship in my eyes, even if accidental.
This is not coming from motd, but part of the apt output.
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Not to mention they snapified stuff like the calculator app: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1039411/how-can-i-replace-sn...

Need to multiply two numbers, it's faster to do on paper than to wait the app to launch.

Thankfully they walked back on that one.
I had to scroll down to the bottom to understand what Qwik was, because it suddenly compares it with react, and I know what react is.

“Framework reimagined for the edge”

that does not tell me anything about what Qwik is. It’s not even a proper sentence, is it? A framework for what? Is it software? A methodology? Some device? No clue.
The details still escape me as I feel like I read the words but didn't get the meaning, which is by no means a knock on the write-up, I'm just a complete fool when it comes to musical technology and recording.

However, it is a delightfully formatted experience and I spent several minutes playing with the randomize buttons on the site. Don't think any of the resulting mixes sounded bad, but Eno's original is, of course, unmatched. Would be interesting to see something similar for more traditional genres, where a song is picked apart and you can then randomize its bits and see if anything beautiful comes out.
As if non-profits wouldn't have any agendas...

Publicly-run (= by government) open source script would be most transparent I guess. Otherwise some sort of algorithm would sneak in sooner or later.
The article concludes: "poorer countries are not a dumping ground for the rich."

They are indeed a dumping ground for the rich. Whether they should they be so is another question.
A language, its stdlib, and its package ecosystem all relate, but are also distinct. It's not hard to do your own TLS/SLS wrapper with whatever defaults you like. When I run `nimble search ssl`, it seems at least 4 people have done such.

This is just to pick on your example. There is surely much other technical debt in the compiler itself. The solution to low manpower, if you otherwise like Nim (or D), is to try to help the open source effort at whatever level you can: do your own packages, tutorials/documentation, etc.
Does not work on my Galaxy Note 9 unfortunately(I granted the recording permission, but it can't pick up any sound). However, it works fine on desktop Firefox.
I think a try before you buy option would be useful.
You might not have understood how this works. The prover shows the fact that they know Waldo's position by showing the page covered in foil to the verifier in person (or by taking a picture). The verifier does not manipulate anything.

Obviously, there's no way to verify that the page under the foil is the page you think it is. This is more of an analogy / tool to explain things vs an actual secure protocol.
Oh yeah, everyone in those countries are the same ethnicity, gender, the same relationship and family status, the same interests and personality type etc etc?

Literally no diversity proponents are saying tech teams in Taiwan must have 20% African Americans or whatever and you'd have to be completely missing the point, or willfully missing it, to think so. In any case, it's pretty telling of your level of understanding of the topic that you seem to think that's what we're saying.

Likewise using friggin India and Nigeria as examples of "fully homogenous" countries is also very telling of your knowledge about other countries from your own. Just wow.
Would you want your kid to have a device that gets quickly abandoned by its manufacturer with unpatched security holes?
I am using this editor for months now. Really happy, his strength is customization, the source code is so simple (c and lua). I have adapted it to my work perfectly, easier than (neo)vim or emacs.
Sorry, I just don't get the consumer application. I see a bunch of people sitting around a living room wearing dorky glasses, when they could be sitting around the same living room with a TV, and it's much more convenient. Was there something else I was supposed to see from that landing page?

I think there are transformative / killer applications of AR to certain industries like traditional engineering, aviation, construction, logistics, etc. Microsoft Hololens could be a killer product if they could get it under $1k and open up the software stack a bit.

But as a consumer device, outside of gaming? Or a productivity tool? I don't see it. Keep in mind just how difficult a sell 3D movies were, and that just required putting on some plastic sunglasses.
If Nokia wasn't gone use Android, using its own much, much better MeGoo OS would have been much better. That's what the later Lumina hardware was initially designed for.

And MeGoo was better then Windows Phone as well.

> Then the Microsoft-Nokia joke happened.

The real joke and borderline criminal act was for Nokia to adopt Windows when they had a much better open OS already.
Daily movie theater ticket sales can predict stock market returns
I worked for a company that did these kind of performance reviews and it was exactly as you describe. I found it basically "unworkable" because you end up with 2 jobs- (1) the actual technical job you were hired to do and (2) trying to not be screwed by the performance process. So you have to play politics, constantly watch what others do, try to advertise and sell the work you've done to managers. What if you're only interested in writing good code, not bragging about it? Especially if you're in tech because your skills are technical, not the schmoozing stuff. Some of the best developers are either introverted (which is fine :) ) or simply more interested in elegant technical solutions to real actual problems, than political BS. This performance process also makes people become rivals. They have to show they're better than their peers. Which is 100% destructive to teamwork. Then there's the unpredictability. In a good workplace, someone can work hard, deliver, forge relationships and as time goes on they become very trusted. What you don't want is that person constantly distracted by having to prove themselves. You don't want the situation where years of good work suddenly for no apparent reason comes up against something in performance management and get marked down. Another case, I saw 2 colleagues have misunderstandings due to geographical distance, culture, possible mental health issues by 1 of them. It all got worked out and fixed amicably, no lingering grudges, but one of them still I believe got a sub-par end of year, thus blocking a way to leave that situation behind. That cannot be helpful. Also such performance systems promote those more skilled at gaming the system than those who would do best in the more senior role. Thus you end up with incompetent managers, and technical staff that are good at stealing ideas and flogging them as their own, but can't really code well. I'm glad I got the ** out of there, into a workplace that values friendship and collaboration instead !! Is this the norm in big tech these days? If so.. well to me it just adds a big random element to everything. You can try to work hard, gain skills, deliver, but other factors can mean you aren't recognised. This was always true to some extent, you need a decent boss , company needs to be doing well etc, but my feeling is the "good old days" were more predictable. I wonder if this performance cr*p ultimately drives away good engineers, and it'll all come full circle when companies realise its a a bad idea. But then, I thought that happened years ago at Microsoft when they ditched "stack ranking"? Maybe this keeps bubbling up? I mean , some daft managers think its a good idea, it looks like its working for a while, then anyone decent gets hacked off and leaves to competitors, then they abandon it, till later some so-called bright spark re-invents it?
Zuck, has wanted to build VR social world for years. How do you see that relating to his other visions /ambitions ? What do you think people will really find meaningful in this VR product 10 years in future?
Damn Wix looks so bad.
What's the added value when compared to more mature solutions like mutt or neomutt?
But there's lots of other stuff going on here.

Inflation is high. That €2000 payment will only be equivalent to €1900 next year. And long term, house prices grow at least with inflation so if you can afford it, now is a better time.

So I'm playing my Uno reverse card and proposing that you aren't seeing the forest for the trees.
If you go the data science / machine learning route, your academic knowledge (applied maths, formulating and running experiments, etc.) will be a lot more valuable than if you go for standard software developer roles. Also, no reason you'd start at the bottom.
ASPnet webforms kept the state serialized in a hidden field in on the page
Pretty sure that ship has sailed, dude.

The last time I was in a starbucks (in Tokyo) well over 50% of the people were holding highres video cameras in their hands, swiping away in solitude. I couldn't see what they were looking at, nor could I know if they were recording — but who gives a shit? It's a public place. If I cared about that, I'd have to play it safe and assume they all were.

So I think you have it backwards. It's 2022; if you want to make sure you aren't recorded while out in public, then you stay home. (That starbucks also has its own cameras, mounted on the ceiling.)

P.S.
Google Glass failed because it didn't provide sufficient utility and value to its users. Not because it freaked out a certain subset of the population, or because John Gruber called them glassholes.

If it had provided real enduring value, then tons of people would wear them and nobody would give a shit about some subgroup's Luddite anxieties — my great grandpa and some of his buddies had similar feelings about the Sony Walkman. But nobody stopped using walkmans because those old guys didn't like them shutting out the outside world with their headphones; they stopped because eventually minidisc players and ipods were invented.
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aiohttp is too new for the time I'm talking about. And no, I would not say that the stdlib was fine and requests was absolutley worth using in Python 2 :)
I'm probably in that camp.

I believe in climate change, but seeing what "we" did during coronavirus just made me think, sod it.

I gave up 2 years of my youth for literally no reason, no difference in outcome aside from wrecking the economy and killing off my career.

Trying to shame me doesn't work any more.
is this really a bad strategy though? Assuming we have enough jobs to apply to (in tech),
why not walk away once you feel your counterpart is not excited, and switch to the next one?
Your only contribution here is "whataboutism". It's a low effort attempt at skirting the main point of my post in order to advance your propaganda.
Look for jobs with certain keywords like “remote” or “wfh”. Remove location filters. Only engage with recruiters or companies that offer remote jobs.

I did these things and landed a fully remote job.
Too much effort to be a joke. I see several possibilities

1. Non deliberate poisoning

Meat is hard to find in war times. A diet with too much legumes or spinach is rich in vegetable toxins that the plants use as defense. Expecting humble substandard quality food seems appropriate when living in a small village vicar's house, unable to even afford accurate heating in the church.

Meat is rich in zinc. If we combine a meatless diet with plant toxins that block zinc absorption and all of this with paint, we can end with paint poisoning. Calcium dust could raise the calcium intake and calcium competes with zinc absorption. Chrome salts in the paint may mess also somehow with the capability to absorb zinc.

Altered levels of zinc in the blood are directly linked with schizophrenia.

2. Revenge

Not the type of "you scammed and didn't pay me, so I will work for two years more in miserable conditions". Maybe a serious grunt or a strong dislike for the priest in charge would lead to a statement of "this church is not a good place and is filled with demons forever now". The higher number of demons, the better. Could be related with something that happened to him, or to his son, or with some rumors circulating about the priest .

Is unclear how the priest would not notice even the bigger figures. Either the didn't, or prefer not to sue him or disclose the case, for several reasons.

There are also other two hypothetical explanations, very unlikely but not impossible

3. Disguise

The draw is a disguise. Maybe with the complicity of the priest. The elaborate and dense figures in some places mixed with bigger and less dense figures in other would be hiding chunks of an hypothetical previous text that could be seen as a shame, politically dangerous just before 1940, or blasphemous but without destroying it entirely for a possible historical value.

Maybe a statement in jewish marking the church as a sanctuary place, or a few phrases in cyrillic, runes or other foreign language that would be not evident to spot for a non native. Some alphabet with a lot of pairs of circles that could be refactored logically as eyes. Lots and lots of them.

The priest would not want it disclosed as would harm his reputation as caretaker of an historical building or reduce his income, but just painting white over the previous religious picture would guarantee a lot of undesirable interest. Claiming that they were restoring it and drawing over it to achieve a grey effect would be a "safer" compromise solution.

4. Deliberate poisoning

By himself (Amanita mushrooms?) is unlikely as is an isolated case in his career and would not lead to such meticulous work. His son would have noticed also that something was not right. The figures are strange but still realistic and not distorted. If by a third part there is not an obvious reason to do it, and he would not voluntarily return to the place after this.
> For a simple way to understand this idea, let’s suppose you want to show your friend that you know how to get through a maze, without divulging any details about the path. You could simply traverse the maze within a time limit, while your friend was forbidden from watching. (The time limit is necessary because given enough time, anyone can eventually find their way out through trial and error.) Your friend would know you could do it, but they wouldn’t know how.

How would your friend know you solved it though? Does he have to take your word for it? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? This analogy seems flawed, correct me if I'm wrong

Edit: I misunderstood the kind of maze the article is talking about. Apparently it's not the pen and paper version.
I never even slightly thought FirefoxOS would be successful. We had MeGoo, a much better mobile OS. That was the real chance of having an open mobile OS.
This feature is surprisingly polished. Your keyboard is tracked by the headset and it renders a high quality model in place of it, and when the headset sees your hands go over the keyboard, it overlays the video of your hands into the scene.
What if I don't know any C (and not interested in learning)? Should I still choose C over Rust then, provided I do want to learn Rust?
It gets hot and humid, but not that hot and humid. Your car ac wasn't working properly and it sounds like you might be... prone to sweat a lot more than an average person?
You'd think the eXTra sMarT kEYboArD would have learned in all these years at least how to spell my own name correctly but guess what...
>And best part: phone can be serviced on the cheap in almost any mall in the world. Everyone got spare screens, batteries,cases sell in dollar store.

Swapping parts like that on an iPhone doesn't work (anymore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WhU77ihw8