skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a textbook example of confirmation bias. You have certain conviction, and you dig deep until you find some references to it, and then declare that your conviction is vindicated.

My conviction is that the growth in corporate profits is driven primarily by technology advance and globalization. And no, globalization is not a one way street, only benefiting corporates. China achieve their economy growth and their status as superpower, lifting a billion people out of poverty, thank in no small part to the large and rich market of developed countries they've been able to access.

The growth is slow down because temporary roadblocks such as the pandemic and financial measures countries adopted to counter it. Geopolitics also play a role. Globalization is well and alive still, and while it will evolve, it is not reversible. We will not go back to the world pre-1990s.
Hobbies are almost by definition not cost optimized!
I guess this is also true for Hackernews repl
How's the Gender Ratio?
The “File JIRA tickets” advice is ingenious. The system is so cruel and arbitrary - so finding the parts with any kind of process you can use to your advantage, it’s just ingenious.
I've had seen this from a number of companies: Datadog, Snyk, and Mongo are the most recognizable offenders, but I get this from dozens of companies every week. They ignore unsubscribe requests and my requests to stop contacting me when they call my personal number. I just report them to FTC now for not respecting the do not call list (which my number is on). Other than that, their tactics ensure their products don't even make it onto the list when we are considering a solution. We've gone with competitors in each applicable category.
Bonds are back. TIPS bonds are now yielding around 2% real (not nominal). Treasury bills/notes are yielding above 4% nominal across much of the yield curve.
I Write – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Title should be "The Forgotten Lens" though as a fan of the 50mm just "The" Lens works for me :)

The 50mm f/1.8 Z lens for Nikon is really magical, I love any chance to use it.
Apple flexes its control over the App Store
Soviets had EMF regulations far more cautious than we do today, for good reason.
All of the things mentioned in the article impact the Fed's mandate.

It is like saying that the GFC didn't impact the Fed's mandate...but, ofc, we know it did because they cut rates to zero and gave hundreds of billions out. Funny how that works: the Fed has no responsibility when stock prices go up, but when they go down...immediate action.

And 2008 happened, in part, because of the cut to 1% in 03-04 (no-one understand this today, synthetic CDO issuance pre that cut cycle was non-existent and suddenly went to tens of billions overnight because there was insufficient AAA securities with yields that could fund liabilities). We are just going through the same stuff over and over.

These things have very real economic effects, they lead to massive volatility in employment, instability in prices, and have led to financial distortions that undermine basic aspects of how an economy functions (interest rates/the price of money no longer means anything outside of what the govt says it does, the result has been the most epic misallocation of capital in the history of the US economy).
Duder needs to read his Boyd.
The middle east has not been in any more or less conflicts than rest of the world. You have provided no statistics to prove this. By 1912, Maroc, Algerie, and Tunisie was under French control; Libye was under Italian control, Egypt, Sudan, Oman and Eastern Iran was under English control; and Northern Iran was under Russian control.

In Iran specifically, Allies caused 2 great famines in Iran(1917-1919, 1942-1943); Reza Shah was deposed in 1941 by the allies; democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in 1953 by CIA/MI6; Germany built Iraq's chemical weapon program and to prevent an Iranian victory, the United States supported the Iraqi army in their use of chemical weapons.

How can operate I with a bare minimum of good faith with someone who denies oppression and injustice? You're just being called out.
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Ah yes, you see it’s really quite simple. You start with the file “twitter.rb” and just start following the function calls from there.
I'm not sure how this deal works behind the scenes, but AWS already rented access to D-Wave devices previously via AWS Braket. I wonder if they're continuing to operate the hardware for this. I agree it would be an odd choice to put this in the AWS Marketplace if they're not.
The nato expansion argument is garbage because in the face of it Russia did the one move nearly guaranteed to strengthen nato.

Guess what, now historically averse to joining nato countries are rushing to sign up.
> Figure 2 makes clear that a key driver was the decline in corporate interest rates—which itself largely reflects the steady, decades-long march down in Treasury yields.

This is a direct reference to QE.
> JS is a security risk IMO.

A network connection is a security risk.

The question is whether the benefits outweighs the risk added by enabling it.

For me the benefit of disabling JS is more in privacy and disabling annoying user experience. JavaScriot runtimes are quite well audited meanwhile.
> learning to program is generalization, and learning martial arts is motor control

I disagree; both programming and martial arts require a level of technical motor control. Its easier to define and connect in a physical skill since that is where motor control is studied. However, programming as a technical skill involves familiarity with syntax, familiarity with the tools (literally keyboard and mouse), and translating plans into valid syntax. Likewise, sparring in martial art is as much a problem solving skill as it is in programming - you need to evaluate the problem at hand and do problem decomposition to create subgoals until you produce an actionable item.

> There's no reason for them to be connected

The connection to martial arts works for me because that's something I've done for over a decade. It doesn't immediate click with everyone if they don't have that same history with it. However, many people have seen parallels when I describe this through learning music, dance, chess, or second language acquisition. They recognize the skill was a combination of lower level technical knowledge and higher level problem-solving/creativity. My base thesis is "if you're struggling, why not focus on refining the lower level skill you seem to be having trouble with"?
Good points. A commenter in this thread [1] said that's what agile is
for (to make mistakes), but people are aftraid of doing real agile.

What I wanted to advocate for is little pathfinder "probe teams" that
can scout ahead with rapid POCs and find the pitfalls.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=33392241
Huh? We are using std as a module, but still not std::println?!
Swindler is a mind game for two or more players
In the huge lines of Disneyland, my friend and I eventually ran out of things to talk about, so I created a game that doesn't require any cards, dice, chips, etc. I later refined it thanks to some help on StackExchange (https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/202999/1v1-bartering-brain-game-see-any-problems/203018?noredirect=1#comment369702_203018).

Here's how it goes:

1. Find two or more players. For each round, designate one player as the buyer and one as the seller. All other players (if any) spectate.

2. Each player, think of two numbers from 0 to 49 inclusive. Say one aloud. Add the number the other person said to your secret one, and mod by 50. If you're the buyer, add 50. Keep this one number in mind. Basically this step generates a random number for each player; you're incentivized to make these as random as possible.

3. You are negotiating over the price of an item. If you're the buyer, your number is the maximum B you will pay for the item. If you're the seller, it's the minimum S you will sell it for. Haggle until either a deal is reached at price P or someone walks away. You can enforce a reasonable time or bid limit.

4. Reveal S and B to all players. If a deal was reached, the buyer scores B - P points, and the seller scores P - S points, aka the "profit." If no deal was reached, the buyer loses B - 50 points, and the seller loses 50 - S points, aka the "desperation."

5. Change sides, or rotate peers if there are more than two players. Keep track of points.

There are some parallels to poker. There's bluffing. Getting a low B or a high S is like drawing a strong hand, where you have more hidden power to exert. The no-deal penalty forces players to put skin in the game, except it's much heavier than the typical poker blinds/antes. In two-player mode, it's effectively a zero-sum game.

But unlike poker, >2 player games are not zero-sum. If there are enough rounds, players may feel incentivized to cooperate with each other so they reach fair deals instead of hurting each other with no-deal penalties.
>But outside of that, getting rid of unused pills is good practice. These pills are going to expire. Once they do, you can no longer rely on them doing what you expect.

Disagree completely.

Source: retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist (38 years practice)

Reasons:

1) When you need those pills you won't have them

2) Properly stored pills (dark shelf/cabinet) lose potency/efficacy VERY slowly: perhaps 10%/year. So 5-year-old pills will still work fine. Take one, see if does what it did originally; if not, take another.

3) If you're traveling and need that medication, good luck. You'll wish you'd saved them.
200A is common for newer construction in the US. Many small post-war homes are 100A. It is common to upgrade these homes when it’s time for a new panel.
I once deployed linux-next in production, it reflects poorly on linux.....

But yeah dont use pfsense but opnsense...but everyone should know that already....right?
Well... Whoever was in charge of those decisions made bad choices then I've done it twice now in tiny companies. Only takes a couple days to hack together a script
The F-12 cancelation is also why SR-71 producing ended: part of the cancelation order from the SecDef was to destroy the tooling for the YF-12. Which is the same as the tooling for the SR-71.

Though: this is actually beside the point because the Navy wasn't ever going to operate the F-12. The predecessors of the F-14 were the F-111B (rejected because it wasn't actually going to be carrier qualifiable) and the F6D (rejected because it was useless once the missiles were launched)
He's just talking about using std::vector everywhere.
I've watched the video and I still don't understand how you get the wire through the conduit though. Part of the video seemed to happen through telekinesis: the part where a wire magically came out of the wall, allowing you to pull from the other side.
I dunno that "lighter cars" is a realistic thing to hope for at this point. I do hope to see better bumper crush zone designs, more protected bike lanes, blinking crosswalks, better in-vehicle collision detection systems, etc.

Even if a "lighter" car hits you, it's gonna be a bad day. Better to avoid the collision altogether, no? :)
So... How does it work then?
10Gb normal CAT whatever Ethernet works but the SPF adapters get quite hot.

I have a 10Gb backbone for my “servers” and then a single 10Gb Ethernet cable to my main Mac- works well enough for now and probably not worth upgrading until I have internet beyond 10Gb.
Between the two, I prefer Dynatrace. Just a bit simpler user interface
I enjoy staying in hostels when I travel, specifically because I always meet someone interesting. There’s always someone from another country, or going to an interesting event, or from a religion I hadn’t had exposure to, or something else new and novel.

You’re sharing a room by default, and people willing to do that seem more likely to be fascinating and willing to tell you about it.

I am also a massive introvert, so it works well for me to know that once we’re done sharing stories I will never have to see them again.
> Gitea was created by Lunny Xiao, who was also a founder of the self-hosted Git service Gogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea
> easy money policies that were only possible because..

I would push back a bit. First, I think these easy money policies are basically "possible" whenever the Fed mandates them (and the markets simply react accordingly). My point here is that they actually don't have to be rooted in any kind of fundamentals. Even now, the Fed is basically willing to blow up foreign markets (which might seem irrational) because it doesn't want Americans to go through inflation.

Second, while I do agree that cheap labor has enabled some of this, it's mostly due to China's insistence on treating its citizens like chattel; and, yes, to some extent the West being complicit, though calling it colonialism deflects blame from the true architects of this evil: the CCP.

> and if American labor had been able to demand a greater share of the wealth

The way I see things, wealth demanded is a function of leverage. American labor has no leverage when compared to Chinese labor (maybe apart from quality), and therefore always loses out.
Why? It stays open source, not open core, and they will provide consulting and bespoke changes for paying customers.
This is true. Corporate tax is just a tax on consumers, workers, or investors, with extra steps.
I know what to say… how about… “don’t murder people if you want to live a good life”
I'm guessing you're in the UK. Even in my relatively new house (80's), almost all cables are chased in, no conduit anywhere. Standard construction in the UK could be improved by just doing basic obvious things that other countries do.
I don't see problems that can be fixed by buying something. Or rather, by buying abstractions in hopes of being able to sell them for more more later on (i.e. gambling).

Personally, I think that the declining state of privacy is increasingly incompatible with democracy. I want to live in a democracy when I'm old, so I'm saving up to take a few years "off" and work on some ideas that I have which I think will help.

So I suppose I will be buying things along the way. Food. Healthcare. Energy. Internet access. But I'll be doing it because I want to live in the world that I'll be creating (i.e. I'm investing time in creating that world). Not because I think I'll end up with more money when it's all said and done.

So maybe I'm putting words in ferdowski's mouth here but I really think that by "buy" they meant "allocate my money under the expectation that it will grow without me having to do any extra useful work along the way".
Glad to see you've returned to the forum!
Well there's Tokamak. If enough people start contributing to Tokamak, it would actually be viable to write cross-platform apps in Swift. (Especially since Swift itself is already cross-platform).
I assume they mean the buttons on steering wheel spokes (the parts which connect the wheel to the center).
> Im thinking parents should have 1 lesson imprinted on them at the mat ward: your #1 job in 15 years will be to steer your immature yet independent son/daughter away from life-altering decisions that have no "UNDO" button.

Unfortunately I think most parents don't support this and believe in vague hand-wavy styles like "I need to let my child have space to grow and be his/her best self!"

While that's partly true, there's a difference between raising your child to become an adult and helicopter parenting.
I blame all typos nowadays on the sorry state of autocorrect on phones. Nine out ten “typos” from me are bad autocorrects that I missed.
I'd say the #1 job you have as a parent is to make sure your child feels loved. This will create a sense of self worth, which is the best protection against bad decisions.

Some parents get so wrapped up in the steering part that they come down on their kids like a ton of bricks whenever they make a bad decision. These are often the times when your kid needs some understanding. You'd be amazed how much it means.
I hope I’m not hijacking this thread, but if anyone knows what is the best way to start a react app (web) in 2022, can you share?

I build in angular but looking to switch to react since it’s more popular and I find it confusing what libraries to use and patterns to follow. Eg: class based or functional components
The zero-sum model bears no relation at all to reality.

Consider the total planetary economy. We get many inputs from outside. We get free sunlight powering some solar panels and the whole ecosystem. We tap that ecosystem for many valuable resources. We get vast troves of pre-existing minerals that can dig up at will.

We also have innovators that come up with inventions and systems and are compensated for their contributions, but never to the full extent that they benefit society. (Nobody can capture all of the value they add.)

Growth seems almost inevitable.
Now imagine you were an American soldier captured during the Vietnam War and lived like this (but in filth) for 10 years. And survived.
Human languages are ~5,000 years old while human intuition for quantity (enough heat, food, water), spatial geometry has evolved along with us from the start. GabeN has discussed how relatively easy it is to make tech that can engage with the cortex, but seemingly impossible to read when a person “is cold” because more than the cortex is involved; spatial awareness and consciousness rely on full body sensory data not just the brain.

There’s no substance to the idea English is responsible for humans engaging in human things; we built tribal life and tools before they existed. Anglo history has largely relied on the ambiguity of the language to manipulate the masses, externalize the work to prop up a minority “educated in language.”

I’d go a step further than this article and call human language a historical barnacle that spreads mind viruses and empowers inept ideas, leading to fascist police state behavior; language comes along, humanity develops religion and violent nation states, vain figurative identity to defend through violence.

Our “natural language” is math as it’s a necessary intuition to survive the real world.

https://nautil.us/are-all-brains-good-at-math-238539/
Something which hasn't been discussed much in this kerfuffle is the role that copyleft can play in protecting projects from this kind of problem. The MIT license is the "default" for many people but it's honestly pretty irresponsible to use it without thinking these cases through.

I represent a similar project (which I shall leave unnamed) and we use copyleft licenses without asking for a copyright assignment from contributors. The result is that the project's copyright is legally held by its contributors and each one licenses their work to everyone else under copyleft terms, requiring everyone involved to commit to keeping it free and open source. Even the project leadership, as it were, is not allowed to take the code and run off with it. Changing the license would involve getting each contributor to agree to a new license, or rewriting the contributions from anyone who does not agree.

As the saying goes: show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome. Design your incentives with care to achieve the desired outcomes. If you make something valuable without considering this, someone will eventually try to take advantage of that value without you.
Not really. The Second Life wanna be app is a bonus if it becomes popular. Just like Safari and other Apple apps on iOS. Meta bet it's VR ecosystem will become the next iPhone/ios ecosystem(hardware and software). So if someone builds a "killer" app on Oculus Meta wins anyway.
I guess multiple technicians work on the aircraft at the same time. Still a lot of man hours.
It was a new house. The 18 AP locations serve a couple of different long run purposes and reasons:

The first is to have direct nearly-line of sight locations for the majority of the house which is primarily to support higher frequency(60GHz) and beyond which have poor wall penetration.

The second is to provide good wifi coverage due to signal attenuation from the construction techniques. I did many of the walls in double 5/8s drywall, some in green wall, all insulated, and all solid hard doors. Steel cross structures as well. As a result wifi propagation is surprisingly bad across rooms.

The third is to provide lots of locations to aid in flexibility of having the best locations. I do not use all 18 locations right now, but I may use more in the future.

It is also a somewhat large (>10,000 sq ft, ~ 1000 sq meters) house, so that facilitates a need for a bit more coverage.
The United States is also a 240V country. It’s just split phase. But yes, mains at the wall would be 120V.
Failing simultaneously can be the most freeing and most gut wrenching experience, gut wrenching because of the looming threat of the consequences, but freeing because now that a verdict has been rendered it's a brand new adventure, even if it's a crawl.

Though homelessness really is a crawl, one that more and more people will have to experience. At some point we will really have to question who is failing here, the individual or the system.
How about building a space shuttle carrying 7 humans to space but it fails because of a <$1 o-ring? Then knowing that engineers had sounded specific warnings prior that were ignored by management.

We've seen these failure stories time and again to various repercussions, but they seem to all come down to some form of greed whether it be reputational or monetary.
Yes, I wrote one bootloader for a SoC, and read through several other bootloaders to be able to make modifications to them. I've also reverse engineered several binary only bootloaders for undocumented MCUs to be able to write sane Linux based flashing tools for them.

Kinda know what bootloader is. And, while I don't care about the naming, I know several people who would vehemently disagree with you that grub is not a bootloader. They'd say that only grub is a bootloader, and anything else running prior to that is platform firmware.

Cortex-A is not typically used in MCUs, so I don't see what you mean by "The MCU is the first thing to boot".
Honestly, I think it’s the “mysterious beige box.”

When I was a teen in the nineties, I was the go-to guy in the neighborhood for fixing computers (beats mowing lawns). One trick I figured out was, I could demonstrate something like plug in a RAM chip or CD-ROM drive, take the parts back out, and then tell them to do it.

Even though their problems were invariably software-driven (fcking windows), just having that hands-on experience — not much different from changing your oil — would usually be all it took. The fear would be gone.
> who are not patients but insurers (or the federal government).

Or state government, in the case of Medicaid.
Agreed. In most US homes, by code, there needs to be a fire-stop between floors but also for practical reasons there are often cross-bracing mid way up each wall, therefore going from one place to another often involves multiple holes in drywall (which is relatively inexpensive, but also a dusty/annoying nightmare to patch).

If I built a home I'd add conduit, but that's an extremely niche idea.
It seems there would be a trade-off with folks going faster through checkouts, but I guess that benefit only extends to busy stores.
Although this stuff is all mundane to me (network engineer), it was a long, fun read about a layman dipping his toe^W entire leg up to the armpits in networking.
If I find them attractive, sure, but that might just be because I'm bi. It doesn't affect what I say to them, though.
One thing I've never understood is how stocks are expected to grow at ~8% annually indefinitely if the economy is expected to grow at ~3%.
My EOBs have always stated what the healthcare provider is owed per the insurance price. It shows what was billed (the fantasy number), then the insurance price (or the discount), and patient responsibility (dependent upon an individual’s deductible/copay/oop max).

Is that not true?