jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When they say inflation is 8.5%. It's an average of a bunch of different things, but also excluding other things that are inelastic to usage. Energy is one of the big increases at like 40%, which also drives up the costs of everything else because everything uses energy.

Food inflation is 8.8% and rising faster than regular inflation. However even that is an average. Meats are much higher at like 15%. Eggs at 11%. Cereals and coffee at 10%. It's important to note, food inflation is typically only a few months in cycle. Afterall, foods do expire. Fruits and veg are still pretty low on the otherhand. Much of fruit production doesn't require a ton of energy to produce.

My guess is that you have a personal makeup that is a slow inflationary cycle. Electric car? Probably lagged behind via the grid cycle. Food? Guess it depends on what you eat. Given meats are way up... you might be a raw food vegan, you probably wont see the inflation for some time and then it's going to hit like a truck.

The thing about inflation is that it's here and is deriving out of the currency being devalued. You're doing business with various entities who are on slow cycles and that's to your benefit but ultimately they are doing business. Someone else's paycheque comes from your spending. They will want their paycheque to rise. Nobody will just not raise rates out of the kindness of their hearts.
“The government” is what caused the taxi system to be such a mess.
At the time we debuted the question, it was actually a recruiting advantage for us. People would interview with us and other "big tech" firms, and get excited about the opportunity because we asked this question.
Hah, that's what I get for skimming the article and assuming I knew what was going on here.

With that said, I guess the quickest thing that comes to mind is wanting to run my Jupyter notebooks on a machine with much beefier CPU and memory than my laptop. I was recently working on some lightweight ML stuff, which required training 3 SVR models. Each model really only took 30 seconds to train on my laptop (with a small, synthetic training set), but if cpu was in my workflow, I would have just done it on a beefier machine and saved a minute or two of time every time I wanted to test a new iteration.
So I assume when Jeff Bezos complains about the cost of milk you're right there to back him up?
I did something similar w/VMware nearly 8-10 years ago, just separate storage from OS in your thinking and automate provisioning as needed.

It’s possible to do something similar with ec2 but if you want speed then move your build farm on-prem to utilise storage provider technologies eg https://tintri.com/blog/. Portworx+Stork would probably get you most of the way if you went down the k8 route but not something I’ve seen or look at in detail.

In my experience if your OS boot time is your main bottle neck then you are likely over optimising before expanding your testing environments. Fun but not the best use of development time, it is easier to have a minimum amount of system online before they are needed and just attach new storage to them as needed.
It kind of works on iPad. Someone else commented that the trick to make it work was to show the pulldown panel, and the keyboard would show up.
Comcast's subscriber base has been relatively stagnant, they've had circa 23 million subscribers since for the last half-decade. Netflix has been growing at 10-15% per year for the last several years. Netflix is still vastly under appreciated as a major player in media distribution, and has only started to gain more attention lately. The fact that they will likely continue to grow larger than any single cable company is significant.
I wonder if cable companies have higher revenues because customers have upgraded internet connection speeds. I know basic internet plans (< 10 Mbps) are not good enough to stream HS content from Netflux and other devices.
Backend is done with Ruby on Rails. Front end is the standard html5/css3/js
Dude this is awesome. Being a H1B myself, I always used to wonder why Americans wouldnt mine this information for themselves.

If Techcrunch gets a hold of this I think your post could snowball into something big!
Here you go http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/01/xbo...

The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server problems."
"indefinitely" is linkbait more than anything. It's not "indefinitely" in terms of "forever", which is how it's usually used - it's "an un-specified amount of time".

It's technically correct, but when you hear about something "shutting down indefinitely" you don't think "oh, that's all right, they'll be back up soon".
I agree completely, the DVD-mail rentals are a stop gap measure and trojan horse in one---it's training the customer to use Netflix.com, which will ultimately become the front-stage for their business. Netflix is genius.

|IANAL, but I think major laws would have to change to prevent Netflix from buying DVD titles and renting them by mail.

IANAL either, but I think you're referring to the First Sale Doctrine: The "first sale" doctrine says that a person who buys a legally produced copyrighted work may "sell or otherwise dispose" of the work as he sees fit, subject to some important conditions and exceptions. Section 109(a). In other words, if you legally buy a book or CD, "first sale" gives you the right to loan that book or CD to your friend. Libraries heavily depend on the first sale doctrine to lend books and other items to patrons.

Although studios and record labels could side-step this by selling the dvds as 'licenses.' Not sure though, would love a lawyer to explain this more.

"What remains to be seen is whether the studios will still take kindly to this sort of disintermediation."

I always wonder what's keeping ESPN, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, HBO, AMC, FX etc from just setting up websites. I realize most of these companies rely heavily on advertising, but why not just charge like $5/month and buy your shows a la carte. I couldn't careless about 99% of what is on cable tv, but I'm railroaded into paying for it. It would seem obvious that someone, especially HBO since they do not need advertising money, could go straight to the customer with quality content and their customers have already shown a willingness to pony up cash.
Man, I feel old, I remember when Sony was The Brand Name in consumer electronics. Between rootkits and intrusive behavior and this sort of thing... I can't think of the last time I bought something with the Sony brand on it. (To be fair, it was probably either a DVD... or a DVD burner.)
Sick Building Syndrome is probably much more common than is generally appreciated. I hope they figure this out, whatever the actual answer or answers turn out to be.
> you don't understand what suppressing wages involves.

Please tell me what it involves then, because throughout my entire career, all I've been seeing is heavily increasing salaries for software devs all across the board, from juniors to seniors. 5-10 years ago, $200k/yr starting salary out of college was either extremely rare or almost unheard of. These days, it is pretty commonplace at bigger tech companies or unicorns.

Also, I don't see how one can suppress wages at the same time as the entire industry is struggling with hiring competent people. At the previous company I worked at, we had to interview about 50 people to fill 1 position on my team. It wasn't limited, if all 50 qualified, we would have hired them all, just spread them out to other parts of the company. They weren't competing for one single spot against each other. And yet, it took us around 50 people just to find a single qualified person. And that's not counting those who got filtered out at the resume stage.

Cannot comment on other industries, but in tech, imo H1B tends to fulfill its intended purpose by addressing the shortage of qualified candidates (exceptions apply where fraud and abuse is involved, like in the OP or certain consultancy places like Infosys).
> to choose a totem

I thought totems were to test if you were in the real world or the dream world. Who knew totems had so many uses.
I wouldn't assume malicious intent here, as this exact clause shows up word for word in dozens of privacy policies. It appears to just be a stock part of a generic privacy policy that made it past their initial edits.

I'm also unsure if its absence would really change anything. If a data broker acquires the company, what's to stop them from just changing the privacy policy to be compatible with their uses?
I dunno, I deleted my twitter when they banned the sitting president for being too hyperbolic.

A social network complaining about hyperbolism and outrageous claims being made on it's platform is like complaining people are breathing too much air.

Twitter is not a place grownups should be participating.
I wasn't trying to criticize you article, per se.

My comment was more in the philosophical sense of disconnecting from the constant stream of interference that is the media (social and otherwise).

If you can manage to filter this info to mine the "valuable" stuff, you'll have an idea for a great company.
None of the problems he listed are caused by X, they're caused by various decisions in GTK+, Gnome, and Synaptic. Moving to Wayland won't fix any of those things.

It will get you slightly faster compositing, though.
Breaking down the problem into steps so small that each is trivial to do: is there anything this technique can't solve?
I take my comment back, I apologise. I've just realised that the Apple App Store does not clearly tell users what permissions a given application requires.

Go to any application on the Android Market, e.g.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.groceryking&fe...

and then click on "Permissions". Before installing anything on an Android you can immediately and clearly tell what it's going to do. Do I want my shopping list application to be able to directly make phone calls? I don't think so, hence I won't install this app.

Does this exist on the Apple App Store? Honest question, I've never used it.
Hi all,

I'm the author of The Node Beginner Book. Thanks for discussing it here.

Your input is a great help. I see the points WA makes regarding the bad things.

It's true that it's yet another Node tutorial chewing around on the web server / web app stuff; but I think for the people I'm addressing it's still the most useful scenario because it allows to understand how a full fledged app is put together, and is a great example to explain all of the fundamental concepts, new JavaScript ones and conventional ones (because it might makes sense to understand what stuff is done differently and what is done in a known fashion).

So nothing really new here - I hope where this tutorial differs is that it (arguably) might be the first "one-stop" tutorial for Node to get beginners started. Not more not less.

Every other resource I could find forced me to google around to fill the gaps - while this is not a bad thing per se, I think sometimes it's nice to have something that really guides you from A to Z.

Like, for example, http://ruby.railstutorial.org/. If I manage to create something that's only 10% as cool, I'm going to be very happy :-)
Are you for real? It's easy. Look at prices and services from all major carriers in the US over the past 5 years. the prices are going down and you're getting more for less. It's a tough back and forth and every month or two they try to one up each other. So that's how prices are going down.

What you got in a different market doesn't matter. It's inarguable that prices are going down and it's inarguable that there is no monopoly. There isn't even a duopoly. What is arguable is that you should perhaps get more for what you pay. But the velocity is still down, even if it's not yet as low as it should be.
"Oh great, now we don't have a reason to go out"... SAID NO ONE EVER.
Care to elaborate what is stupid about it?
Just want to share a personal anecdote. My dad, when he was in his 40s and 50s, use to dig a big hole in his backyard every second autumn. This is his landfill where he puts all the biodegradable material from his household and his garden. This includes the autumn leaves, kitchen waste and lawns cuttings. Now his plants and flowers that are growing on top of it are thriving and looks great.

I guess these were the days the local councils were less concern on what we were putting into the environment. Nowadays, I won't be surprise if he would get a big fine for doing this.
http://www.cdotson.com/2014/08/nodejs-vs-python-vs-pypy-a-si...
Updatable List of Open-Source Projects Checked with PVS-Studio: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0084/
I currently attend a university in the UK and would like to request this information. But I'm not sure what the best way to do so is, who should I contact at my university (I presume the admissions department) and how should I request this information? Should I quote the Data Protection Act? Does anybody have experience doing this?
I've been interested in these database query frontend services/apps for ahwile (e.g., Looker, periscope, chartio) but every single one of them has only a Free Trial and no mention of pricing anywhere on their sites–-which makes me think its a multi-thousand dollar/month investment.

Is this true? If so, is there anything a little more cost-effective for running, visualizing, and saving database queries?
Zen 3 is effectively 8 wide with their micro-op cache. Intel similarly has been 6 wide for ages.
Or one lost election.
Thank goodness I don't work at either of those companies being the moderator of the internet cleaning up that mess.
Exactly. Censorship, which is done by the government, prevents speech on all platforms.

If a person cannot tweet they can still blog, newsletter, email, and even whisper their truth via their free speech to the next person all they like.
God damn, I'd have this discussion any other day but not today.

The President is inciting violence by spreading dangerous misinformation and not condemning domestic terrorists.

Our sacred democratic institutions and world standing have taken a big hit. And, even worse - American lives were lost today due to this rhetoric.

We can't continue acting like this is a matter of hurr durr censorship anymore. It's time to move past idealism and into reality: people are in danger. Words have consequences.

We saw today what happens when people with immense power spout extremist ideology for years without consequence.

Let today's action by Twitter be part of the consequence. It's not censorship: it's consequence. Trump will not be arrested or chased for his rhetoric. He simply won't be able to spout it to the masses on a privately owned platform.

A life was lost today. There should be some consequence.
Censorship doesn't need to be done by the government

From Oxford dictionary: "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security."

Silicon valley has done a lot of harm over the last few years, and redefining words to mean things that benefit big tech companies is one of the worst things they have done.

The first ammendment only applies to the government, however the government is not the only institution capable of censorship.
> People pay taxes that pay for healthcare for every single citizen. No person is without care.

There's a bit more variation than that. The main things is: "No person is without health care", but how that care is paid for, varies quite a bit.

Netherland, for example, still has privatized health insurance. Care is paid for through that insurance. The big difference is that, contrary to the US, that insurance is regulated and compulsory. Everybody has to have insurance, and insurers have to accept anyone.

What exactly is covered by the insurance also varies somewhat, but generally prolonged hospital stays and expensive life-saving procedures are completely covered. And that's the big thing, because that's what drives people into bankruptcy.
One of the "just say no" sayer here. I do understand, that the author is from Pakistan and currently studying in Spain. But, even though I think family is important, sometimes you have to value your own will over that of the family, no matter the cost.
My father lost almost all of his friends, decades of relations, and didn't had contact with his family for years, because he decided to leave the "sect" and marry a woman from Finland whom he loved instead of the 2nd degree cousin the family has designated for him.
This was in Christian Switzerland not Pakistan, but still a lot of pressure to handle.
> assuming all of HN only knows english
Jet Streams are a factor but their position varies.

The appearance as a northbound curve is the effect of the straight Orthodrome/Great Circle line projected into Mercator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight#Transatlan...

[edit] I think it's fair to assume the winds are relatively stable and more intense further north so eastbound (US > Europe) flights might deviate even further to the north.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Tracks#Route_Pla...

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/ove...
A half-million batteries a year means they need raw materials to support that production. Are there suppliers that can do that? After all, these are car-sized batteries, not phone-sized ones.
That sounds plausible. If they did cover it up, then I can see fraud charges. But if they were just stupid...
>Neither of those is likely to happen on the first trips to Mars.

It doesn't have to happen on the first trip. They could send the truck to Mars on one of the current rockets and just have it sit there until they're ready to use it. It's an electric vehicle. There's plenty of solar exposure on Mars, they can charge it over the course of weeks if they needed to, even though they don't, and the durability would guarantee that it could serve up there for years. It could literally just sit there and do nothing for the 3-5 years it takes them to build out a basic hab and a dock for it.
Array filling shares syntax with array typing and array declaration:

[0; 10] // ten-element array filled with zeros
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] // equivalent array with ten zeroes typed out
[i32; 10] // type of ten-element i32 array

Because the "filling" syntax is optional, it makes sense to place it after the fill value. The array typing syntax follows. Essentially you specify the value and say "copy this X times" (it only works with types that implement Copy IIRC)

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
>He's making fun of people's fears.

I must've missed that facet in 'Da Ali G Show'. Aside from the occasional accidentally poignant political interview, he mostly just made fun of people who were similar to his character, and the trope of British 'chavs'.

>His movies are ridiculous social commentary.

I agree, but much like Michael Moore, the ridiculousness of your person limits your credibility in 'Real Life' at a certain point.
Quoting philipov here on HN: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
The aesthetics of the Multipla didn't look out of place in China, where it was sold as the Zotye Multiplan and
Zotye M300 Langyue.

As China's economy grew a number of American truck/van designs started looking more weird to western eyes like the Multipla than anything the likes of Dodge had previously designed. Designs target intended markets first and foremost.
I deleted my linkedin a few years back when they had some bug where I would randomly get page views as some other person, with all their connections and account details and whatnot. It would only last a few minutes then switch me back to my account, but they aggressively ignored my attempts to reach out to them about this bug so I just gave up.
> mostly it seems to be a "I like Rust and Haskell, and don't like Go" type of articles

The mentions of Rust, Haskell, and Go are limited to a single section of the article, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Most of the article seems to stay abstract with concrete cases brought as examples.
Cancelled by the mob will be this century’s version
We could skip the random permutation. There will still be no universe where the list is unsorted.
Escaping file naming hierarchies was the original motivation of Namesys aka ReiserFS[1].

1- http://reference.kfupm.edu.sa/content/n/a/the_naming_system_...
You missed the important part of my point, the part that came before the "15 years" part. If your business model involves teaching the whole world how to spell, you're doomed from the start.
There needs to be some kind of solution for the problem of really confidential files to be packaged. The second example in the video packaged the machines /etc/passwd for example (granted, it doesn't contain the passwords, but still).

The third example was showing some real bloat in that it also packaged the kernel and the initramd. I really don't see how these two can be of any use on the target machine.

Still. Very interesting idea and impressively easy to use.
He needs a "good" graphic designer. Crowd-sourcing is the worst idea.
True, but what about when you have multiple copies of the same source tree? (though I guess this could be less of an issue of everything was using a dvcs)
Extend it to how you interact with other people and it'll do weird (good) things.

It's really easy to tell other people that they're doing something wrong, or that they should do something you want. If you expect them to say JFDI back, you'll start out with the opinion that their time is worth quite a bit.
Reminds me of a bug with the Myth II uninstaller immortalized by the following Penny Arcade cartoon:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/01/06

Basically, they called delete tree. If the user installed or moved the game to a different location, say, the root, it would delete tree away somebody's whole computer. Fun times.
I already answered this below...
I read in some interview with him or some piece about him that one of people’s biggest criticisms of New Sun was the elaborate prose. So he consciously chose to write more simply after that.

In my own view, Long Sun is as good as New Sun: I don’t think the simpler prose detracts from it, it fits the tale and Silk’s personality (to say more threatens spoilers). We see a huge yet mostly stable set of characters evolve throughout the tale. Compare with New Sun which is mostly just Severian wandering around, having adventures and occasional encounters with characters from earlier. They are very different stories. After reading both series many times, Long Sun grew to be my favorite. This could change again.

I agree that Fifth Head is fantastic, but when I tried to reread Peace I couldn’t get through it (it was apparently his own favorite). And I agree with your assessment of his post-2000 novels. I did enjoy The Sorcerer’s House and The Land Across, but neither is calling out to be read again, and their details are vague in my mind.
Hmm. Didn’t everyone say the icebergs melting would add to a positive feedback loop of not reflecting sunlight -> more ice melting -> absorbing more sunlight -> repeat?