jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the 80s and 90s, Greek inflation was in the 15-20% range. Italy dropped to 5% more quickly but at the start of the 80s was in the 20% range.

In the 70s UK inflation was 10-20%.

that type of inflation is clearly bad for keeping cash, but not going to cause the collapse of civilisation. From about 73 - 80 US inflation was in the region of 10% per year.
> Designed for the future of work with a 13.5” 3:2 screen

I wonder if the "future" this laptop is designed for was canceled by COVID. Now that so many of us are working from home, maybe we should optimize more for a stationary work environment with no compromises on input or output. That is, a desktop machine with unconstrained monitor and keyboard sizes.
It's an exercise. See revolvingcur's link: http://www.cufon.org/pdf/4_NSA_Tech_Journal_Articles.pdf
Yes, the last bit was largely my point.
I believe he now works for the Software Freedom Law Center, which is sort of affiliated with the FSF.
This is actually a bit confusing. My guess is that talloc changed its license at some point.

The ccan version http://ccan.ozlabs.org/info/talloc.html says it is based upon svn://svnanon.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0/source/lib/talloc revision 23158 , and is LGPLv2.

I believe http://talloc.samba.org/talloc/doc/html/talloc_8h_source.htm... is the latest version, 2.0.5 from 10-Jan-2011. That version does appear to be LGPLv3.

(Note that both appear to have the "or (at your option) any later version" clause, but that's largely irrelevant in this case.)
This document is available in higher fidelity, and with greater context, here: http://www.cufon.org/pdf/4_NSA_Tech_Journal_Articles.pdf

They comprise an exercise in interpreting coded messages, and are not intended to be interpreted as a genuine ET transmission.
Having the dollar tied to oil allows the US to devalue the dollar without losing it. To understand the significance of this in terms of the bigger picture with China, watch this Charlie Rose interview with Gordon Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown) where he talks about the US/China "currency wars" and the "race to the bottom" http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11343).

Kenneth Rogoff (http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/rogoff/), a Harvard economics professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, says "A weak dollar isn’t necessarily a bad thing -- it can make the United States more competitive, bolster exports and help domestic companies that are vying against imported goods here in the United States" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-dollar-le...).

The article goes on to say, "[Devaluing the dollar] effectively would be playing the China card against China in a battle for manufacturing jobs...Many fund managers say the only way out of that box is a weaker dollar, reducing the value of the massive amount of U.S. debt held by foreigners and increasing the value of American investments abroad, such as Buffett’s.

China artificially lowers its currency so its goods are relatively cheaper ("it's pegged to the dollar"), which keeps its foreign trade prices down and therefore boosts its exports. So how does the US "compete" with an artificially-lowered foreign currency to discount its debt and keep its exports up? Or, in other words, how does the US devalue its own currency in a "race to the bottom"...?

"'Countries like the United States do race to the bottom,' said Gross (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Gross), though he added that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner would never say so. A weaker currency 'makes them more competitive and reduces the burden of debt,' Gross added. Americans own about half of the outstanding federal debt, but Gross said the rest is owed 'as Tennessee Williams would say, to strangers, outside the U.S. If the United States can devalue the value of those dollars that they owe, then all the better.'"
When I've taught and had opportunity to include an ethics discussion, Cellebrite has been the example I gave on the spectrum right before you cross into malware. AFAIK, they have no special government exemptions or other permissions to get around EULAs or library licensing, they just ignore it.

NSO group is worse after the pegasus debacle, but I think Cellebrite is only a stones throw away from being used to stalk and suppress benign soda tax advocates in Mexico...

Moxie at signal has an short writeup of the internals of Cellebrite: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Somehow this reminds me of Griffin and Sabine, doing detective work with pieces and layers.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381102.Griffin_and_Sabin...
If you described how you saw some users struggle, that would be useful observation. Saying "it sucks" is a judgement call that adds no useful information. There are always people who dislike things, so one more stranger saying they dislike it doesn't add anything.
Context https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648
Isn't that in-person and doesn't require you to purchase an actual stationary bike?
Great execution, love the juicy animations!
I'm pretty sure Skype was strategic. Lync as a unified communications platform is all the more interesting because of it.
You constantly defend authority and yell at anyone who speculates negatively, and yet here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5870726) you rather cynically jumped on the "Snowden is a Chinese spy" bandwagon, when really the spying accusations make no logical sense, and of course, there's no evidence of that at all. That makes you a hypocrite.

I'm not sure what else you expect other than blind cynicism - the NSA constantly does pedantic backflips, lies or invokes "national security" to prevent from telling anyone what they're doing, even when it's clear they're violating any sensible ethical guideline. What should we talk about, and what's wrong with speculation?

Also, the idea that we need to "see the good" in the NSA is fallacious. The NSA is a party made of volunteers who work for a government who have chosen to not only exercise authority authority over me, but to abuse it gratuitously, all while the tax dollars of myself and others fund them to do so, when most of us never asked them to. Under what moral philosophy do I have to live to ignore that context to have a peaceful discussion about the merits of a completely-broken system? On a personal note, foreign intelligence is great, which the NSA has clearly not limited themselves to in any capacity, based on the information that we actually do have.

If there's a direction the discussion should move in, perhaps you could start by leading that discussion, instead of sitting on the sidelines and complaining about other people and trying to control their thoughts and minds. As I'm sure you know, actions, intuition and insight are better teachers than whining and exercising authority.

I do agree that more critical thought (and less blind cynicism) is a good thing.

Finally, I can't help but note that your role reversal of the 1984 example is an extremely-ironic case of "Doublethink", since under no circumstance are the masses hating on the government blindly remotely applicable to the novel.
Personally I find it amusing that she mixed personal life with work - her dating Larry and all.

You lose a lot of respect from peers if you are rising fast and they find out a powerful person has soft spot for him/her.

I am wondering if that had something to do with so many Googlers hating her. She was always pain to work with - office hours etc. What changed?
In my opinion, this idea about no one can work more than 8 hours a day productively was created to discredit anyone who tries to get ahead through extra effort. It's similar to the idea that says we only need 30 minutes of exercise a day. In reality, pro athletes train for 4-6 hours a day.

Yes, a person is a fool if they do more than 8 hours in a workplace environment, but many people work longer days if it furthers their own personal goals. Pressuring coders who don't have an interest in working longer is pointless.
It rather depends what you count as "killing Hollywood".

Back in the late 90s, I used to get rather perplexed by the way geeks railed against DVD zoning, DMCA, etc. Yes, the entertainment industry was acting in fairly nasty ways to defend itself, but then drug dealers can be unpleasant too. My view was the debates around DRM circumvention didn't even touch on the root cause of the entertainment industry's power.

Michael Ventura once summarized the meaning of entertainment: "You go from a job you don't like to watching a screen on which others live more intensely than you." On that view of things, something like meetup.com is more of a threat to Hollywood than youtube could ever be.
It was like that sixty years ago, but we sacrificed a lot of that for compactness and increased sophistication of the engine management systems (which wildly increase reliability, longevity, fuel economy, and power)
I've previously heard some SEO folks say that nofollow may still play some part in rank, however diminished. What's the consensus?
Readability.js is a eyesaver, but it's behaviour with mixed-content pages can be a bit wonky. Also, slow for some reason.
How do you think he got the $50 million?
Fairly certain he's merely pimping his sequel to his last book, the pet goat.
However, a QML-based app might not be too dificult to port. It would be pretty interesting if somebody were to write something so that Qt Quick/QML based applications could run in a browser - perhaps a canvas frontend or soemthing.
James Besson of the Boston University School of Law has studied the economics of software patents and intellectual property. His Research on Innovation web site, http://www.researchoninnovation.org/, has several interesting papers.
It's the single place that Facebook holds all their media/streaming events since around the time of F8 2010 in April.

Pretty much everything that Facebook does publicly can be found in video form on Facebook Live, including product launches, tech talks, celebrity q&a's, and other stuff.
And that's assuming he isn't selling fake designer frames, which would have a lot higher margin. Either way he's pulling in quite a lot of cash.
It is effective though.
i agree, except that a commodity trader will find a way to get the parties to the table and make everyone money. religious fanaticism and money aren't mutually exclusive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilat_Ashkelon_Pipeline_Company
Being a novice programmer, what should I make of this?
In short: The start of the file is MZ but also a shell script. If you run it on linux it replaces its header with the ELF header, then execs itself.
The cryptographic randomness has practically no downside if you use it for non-cryptogrpahic purposes. Not true the other way round. And I'm inclined to say given how many misconceptions around randomness there are around, I don't think people are good at knowing whether they need secure randomness.

The only possible justification for insecure randomness would be performance, but you'd need to generate a lot of random numbers to even be able to measure that.
How did it lose more than 100% of its value?
A few years later I came across a "SelecTV" box (a competing over-the-air scrambled subscription TV service). Their box was more advanced. It had the same basic sine-wave/SCA scrambling, but they had added an additional scrambling feature that would periodically invert, or not invert the video. It also had a set of four hex thumbwheel encoders on the front panel. (Subscribers would be given their unique enable code each month after they had paid.) By this time I had my own oscilloscope and lots of computer components. I built a circuit that would decode the (22-bit) data stream (coded in the same place that now includes Closed Caption data), and fed a magnitude comparator circuit fed with 3-position toggle switches (one/zero/don't care). I could hone in on the needed enable code for the invert/normal video signal in just a few minutes. SelecTV stayed in business for a few years beyond after ON TV went bankrupt.
Totally agree! We are just starting out so haven't been able to get a video on our website yet - but you read my mind cuz we are working on that as we speak! Here is a video describing "what it is":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyuh0cQjKSU

and for a demo of the class - here is this one as well:
https://docsend.com/view/hxra3rnfevsytg4v
If I remember correctly, replace money, or at least all banks.
> Loopholes are often deliberate ways of encouraging behavior with money.

I don’t buy this. There is an easy way to encourage behavior with money. Give people money in exchange for the behavior.

If the goal is to encourage someone to buy a house, then pay them to buy a house.

The reason politicians don’t do this is because this lays bare all the costs associated with the incentive. Whereas with tax loopholes, they can understate it using whatever assumptions they want.

The tax deduction method allows for loopholes to open up, as well as discrimination by way of making it complicated, and understatement of costs. A straight cash incentive, on the other hand, reduces the avenues of corruption, has a transparent cost, and does the job just as well.
Does your central air also use a merv 10 filter? A lot of people use the cheap fiberglass ones which are not very effective
Keeping the immune system working is a viable strategy provided your immune system works properly in the first place. In today's world, that's a big if; autoimmune disorders are surprisingly common.

So with that in mind, another problem that needs solving is "curing autoimmune disorders", a thing about which we currently know sweet fuck all.

I'm sure we'll run into other totally huge, near-intractable problems that we need to solve before curing aging. So if you're in your 40s like me, it's still prudent not to get your hopes too high for a nice long extended life, let alone remaining "forever young".
I'm afraid I don't think my feedback on the experience itself would be very helpful as I'm quite outside your target audience - it's not something I'd personally go for, having gotten over the hurdle you're addressing quite a few years ago.
I'd argue that it's a special night, one of the few nights where people like to make plans in advance.

Therefore traditional push notification to get behind the wheel and start driving wouldn't work if the driver already made plans to celebrate New Year's with the family (and perhaps consume alcohol).
All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again ;)

This is basically a retelling of the cab industry origin story. The point is that this is an industry where the barriers to entry are so low, and the supply side so abundant (with the collapse of low skill labor economies across the US, ever more so) that the equilibrium state means everyone goes hungry.

And more relevantly for us silver spoon Silicon Valley types, more and more corner cutting to eke out a profit.

It's interesting watching us re-learn the motivations behind some regulations. This is why medallions were created, a far cry from the mustache twirling evil shenanigans that we'd like to paint on regulations.

The medallion system emerged from real problems. It may not be a particularly good solution, but an alternative that does not address the problem at all seems equally misguided.
Stock ubuntu here has a /proc/keys file, so I think it's generally available.
I'm hoping it's just the gateway drug. The JVM is a monster.
Ok? I bet you can figure this out and I bet it's just as easy as Ruby. http://golang.org/doc/install
You can always do your own custom thing, but you give up on leveraging anything that anyone has written and anyone trying to implement your thing has to figure out what’s going on from scratch instead of being able to understand it as a variation of something s/he has seen many times before.
Every crisis since 1929 has been manufactured. Just look at what the central bank(s) are doing and you get reliable results.

The current monetary system creates money in form of debt with interest which can only be paid by issuing even more debt.

As soon as the central banks pull the plug on liquidity (either by raising rates or fixing the balance sheet) you will have a cascade effect of bankruptcies which "clears out" all debt that could never be repaid in the first place.

Right now the central banks are increasing liquidity around the globe again hence the low probability of a recession.
As a software engineer with CS background, I first wanted to disagree, but have to say that the analogy checks out.
Yep. Exactly.

“How one can be a car mechanic without knowing how to blacksmith and forge car parts manually, from metal ore”.
> i don't think i have ever seen an effective protest app in the US

Twitter and Facebook serve protesters very well
.. by the people who started it and popularized it. I have never tried it full time because it's obviously patently moronic to do it that way, and would destroy all enjoyment of the job. I have worked with highly talented developers and can not recall any one of them wanting to pair full time. I have received huge benefits from occasional pair programming with senior developers in my less senior days. However, I need to try full time pair programming as much as I need to try jumping into a fire to verify that it's not a smart idea. If my employer forced me to do that I would quit on the spot.
All of them. With $100/ton carbon recapture, and a nuclear grid country like France could be at net zero at around $500/per person annually. (They might have to be vegetarians, but Indians have that covered.)
So block content, as always? That's not possible for NextDNS, which I guess is their concern, but then DNS blocking was always going to be a very very blunt instrument.
The nginx source code is actually very readably and very well organised; I've never programmed professionally in c, but I feel quite comfortable reading and grokking nginx source.
Very tasteful.
Shorter Kedrosky: "Goldman Sachs says that if lots of Americans start buying lots and lots of stuff -- which might or might not happen -- then the GDP will go way up."

No attempt to identify a reasonable set of underlying factors beyond private deleveraging or to consider countervailing factors. E.g., the widely predicted 10 - 20% continued fall in housing prices as larege numbers of delayed foreclosures kick in this coming year, with subsequent loss of consumer confidence.
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yeah but there's still a difference between having your name floating around for those who look for it, and plastering it on a billboard alongside vague implications that he's a very bad man(TM).
It used to be the case that doing science for most of the last 2000 years was a matter of deep curiosity and farnsworth-level application. Something , at least in the US, has changed.

What would you say is different from say 50 years ago ?

Why is it that now everything says "Made in China" while less than 40 years ago everything said "Made in USA" ?

Why does china have ~200 COVID19 vaccines while the US only has 3 or so ?

Going back to your thesis - I don't think the current situation is a fit for a government-mandated solution. I would think the exact opposite is true. I think the system today is exactly what results when you mix hard science with bureaucratic government procedure.

Science has taken several steps back due to government interference. You can't cure this patient by giving him a stronger dose of the same poison.

If anything , you simply need to think how we can remove all the bureaucracy and academia, out of science. Universities need to be decoupled from research. We need to get people to stop rewarding papers and grant-writing, and instead to start tinkering on their own, unhindered.
I’m not clear on what you define syntax macros, but the compile time evaluation that is present in Zig (based on the example and documentation I’ve seen) are an almost direct implementation of the multistage computation research done late 90s-mid 00s. The papers and such are typically ML based (with a caveat for the early Template Haskell paper in 02) and the underlying constructs of MetaML are very close to what Zig implements. All this work is retroactively semantically underpinned by Rowan Davies and Frank Pfenning work on Modal S4 logic. I don’t know if Andy based Zig on this research, but if he didn’t, the convergence toward the same theory is a great thing to see.

My current work on a visual programming compatible language also uses this strategy for meta programming, so I’m very familiar with the academic literature. It certainly seems that Zig got this right and is doing well implementing it in a way that is usable and understandable.
I think it's now worth considering The New York Times as a hostile actor, in the same category as Google and Facebook. (Of course this is a gross generalization, but the beneficent- or neutral-actor model no longer seems appropriate.)
> That still doesn't answer my question. Sounds very abstract like you are trying to evade answering the question.

I don't think your question merits answering, because framing anonymity as something one has to "deserve" makes no sense to me. Saying it needs to be "deserved" suggests it's a privilege granted to people for some merit, rather than the default on the internet until someone either surrenders it willingly, or in this case, has it stripped by another party - so it's akin to privacy in that way. Does anyone "deserve" privacy? Silly question really.

> He didn't have anonymity. He already published his name. Someone that publishes their name doesn't deserve anonymity, correct?

As far as I'm aware, he only published his full name after he knew the article was going up.

> He already admitted he was overreacting on this point.

I can still see how he would initially be worried. Shining a light on someone known for looking into controversial topics and then following it up with "by the way this is his name and he lives in such-and-such town" is vaguely threatening, and inviting people who read the article and decide he's a Nazi or something to mess with his real life.
No, I think you’re confused on the order of events. His identity was absolutely not easily revealed. The NYT reporter managed to find his identity and then told him they would dox him as part of the story. This is when he took down slatestar and we first heard about this (many months back).

In reaction, some pleasant netizens took it upon themselves to dox him as much as possible. He then ended up having to quit his job as a psychiatrist and returned to writing full time.
What I've learned from a misspent youth watching way too many kung fu movies is that all Asian art forms boil down to who has the best kung fu.
Yeah I worry about all the enterprise shit you don't think until you need it -- If one bowl goes down, will it fail over to another in a different region? In the case of a network partition, does my wife get my car?
> These replies about "uniqueness" are in response to me disclosing I use a text-only browser or some non-graphical client to access websites.

And your disclosure was in response to a CSS-based fingerprinting demo. If being fingerprinted doesn’t even matter to you, and you use a text-only browser just because you prefer the UX, then why bring it up on this article in the first place?
>I think the notion that we should sanction education (on top of the existing sanctions) is just playing by the already broken playbook we (the rest of the world) have been to date. We are feeding their propaganda machine on how evil we are.

We are not obligated in any way to provide education to North Korea. Saying we are "evil" for not educating another country is quite a stretch.
I imagine that they might have decided to actually sell these things because it's the only way people feel the implications of having these pictures online under such permissive licenses. Otherwise many would probably say "yeah,yeah well nobody does that in reality right?" and the project, as it is now, yells in their face "Yes we do this for real. Get yours".