jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The amount of money being circulated absolutely does affect inflation (almost by definition).

No, money supply ≠ inflation. E.g., Japan M2:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2JPM189S

Japan inflation:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN

Why do Friedman-esqe Monetarists continue to ignore velocity?

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

I personally like Cullen Roche's analogy:

> But this is what so much of the money supply represents – money that has been issued and is just sitting around unused. Why is this useful? It’s like calculating your weight changes by counting how much food you have in your refrigerator. No. That’s potential calories consumed and potential weight gain. The amount of food in your fridge tells you little about your future weight changes just like the amount of money in the economy tells us little about the actual price changes in the economy.

* https://www.pragcap.com/three-things-i-think-i-think-i-see-d...

> The Fed interest rate affects the amount of money in circulation because the Fed credit money is simply printed. This printed credit money gets spent and ends up circulating. The lower the interest rate, the easier it is to borrow, the more borrowing gets done, the more money is printed and enters circulation, which leads to inflation.

Things do not work like this. Money gets created through private banks by credit creation, and the only limit on that is the the risk they see in their loans being defaulted on. The Bank of England put out a primer a few years ago:

> The reality of how money is created today differs from the description found in some economics textbooks: Rather than banks receiving deposits when households save and then lending them out, bank lending creates deposits. In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount of money in circulation, nor is central bank money ‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits.

* https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

Roche again from a 2011 paper, "Understanding the Modern Monetary System":

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625

Banks create (hopefully) viable loans first, and then look for reserves after—assuming reserve requirements even exist, as many countries removed them decades ago.
I was really expecting a better quality of troll on this one, to be honest.

If a man was convicted on charges of (consensual adult) sodomy, indecent exposure, murder, and littering, he should be pardoned of the sodomy charge but not the others. Obviously. But you knew that, didn't you?
Nice. I tried asking a similar question on corporate violence a ways back and got moderated out.
Yeah I noticed that too. I'm always struggling with Space (my work only gave me a 128G MacBook :S ), and using DiskInventoryX I found that these wallpapers occupied a non-trivial amount of space.

This is especially weird considering Apple has been pushing HEIF so much which is mainly intended to reduce space occupied by images, really they shouldn't be this large.
“ Less than 2% of the anonymous ownership accounts that can be tracked on Bitcoin’s blockchain control 95% of the digital asset, according to researcher Flipside Crypto.”

It’s kind of ironic that BTC pollutes more than any prior monetary invention while simultaneously having higher levels of internal income inequality.
They probably don't have the time. Next time report with timestamp?
Sure, disambiguation is important, but do we need to do that at the serialization level? We increase the parsing and transformation costs in DNS, when it seems like what we really need is clear rules about what unicode values are legal and which are not.

The example of umlaut is really good one though, as the umlaut can be an extra code point, or part of the actual character. I can see why we'd want to be explicit that both are not allowed in DNS...

It still feels like we're solving this issue at the wrong layer, i.e. the protocol layer, as opposed to the application layer. I'm 100% in agreement on needing solutions here, but I think your example illustrates that it's a higher-order issue for applications, and not the protocol.
> And for those perhaps Apple, a premium brand, is not the best solution.

It's not a question of paying for better internet. There are places in the US where the best internet you can get has a 10GB/Month cap.
I certainly defer to HN's expertise on community, but I always took an upvote with no comment as a "yes I agree with the facts or feeling as they were stated."

I usually took a downvote with no comment as an information dead end. There are many reasons one would downvote, maybe factual error, in which case the correct answer is greatly appreciated.

On the HN guidelines page the word "down" is not mentioned. Just curious, do you all feel that up and downvotes are not different beasts? Or is that page just for users who cannot downvote?
I'm skeptical that there's any amount of investing in children that can make up the gap between those with engaged and invested parents and those without. Adding in raw ability does not make closing any gaps easier. And, obviously, how much money a family has has a strong influence on whose parents are engaged and invested.

I attended a form of magnet school, funded by a dozen or so school districts in the county. It was able to offer classes that none of the districts could have afforded by themselves. Even there you had implicit tracking - you could do lots of calculus or lots of chemistry or lots of physics, but not all of them. Dismantling it might have improved funding a bit at the home schools, but at the cost of shutting down all the advanced courses entirely.

Letting people opt in to gifted programs is a wonderful idea! A great many children only wait for the chance to succeed. That said, it might be worth considering carefully the resources requires and consequences. There will inevitably be children who are not up to the task. Opting them in to programs they are not ready for is setting them up for emotionally devastating failure as you grow class sizes.

I am uncomfortably reminded of how many colleges use lower division courses as weeders. They let anyone opt in to 101 and 102, but 301 is dependent on making it past those.

I love the idea of public schools. Education can, should, must be for everyone. However, this belief often sits awkwardly with the reality. Ultimately, if you want to keep higher income families in public schools you have to offer them something compelling. Dismantling gifted programs for anti-racist reasons may not always make the grade.
The question is : Is that hardwired or is programmable?

I discovered early in my life that by changing the perspective of a problem you could transform something dull and tedious into something exciting and highly interesting.

For example , when I learned to visualize mathematical problems I become much better at solving them.

Mindmaps, and memory tools can make someone who struggle(and suffers as for example when he does not pass an exam) in something to fly around it.

I had a history teacher that went to wars in his youth as a news reporter, learned languages and traveled the world, studied history by correspondence(from a distance University), went back and settled with a young lady as a teacher.

History for us (the class he teached) changed forever. It was not about words on paper, but about real people, real places, interest and fights, and winners and losses, consequences. We saw photographs of the victims of the wars, some of them taked by him,the stories on how politics and decisions affected their lives and their families', other pics taken by his friends.

After that course, even with completely different teachers History was so easy to study, to remember.

About debugging. I believe the best programmer is the one who hates so much debugging that is able to work terribly hard in automating it and not have to debug EVER again.

People who loves debugging is a problem for me. I want things so well documented and well designed that debugging becomes almost non necessary.

The fact that people believe it is ok to have crappy documentation, crappy design, and spend months trying to catch problems(because they enjoy it) is a misfortune.
Because Asians broadly speaking do not depend on favors from the ruling elite for their position, thus they are politically unreliable (although currently mostly aligned with them).

https://spandrell.com/2017/11/14/biological-leninism/
>nobody has blogged yet about having crushed themselves

you could have just searched "van life reality" on youtube. i mean, it's not that hard:

- The reality of van life on social media @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOHjIGi30Y

- The Reality of #VanLife - Full Documentary Movie - 2018 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6McizBPKaE

I watched the first one, from somebody that has been actually living in a van.

A lot of the problems highlighted in those video are about (dumb?) people that expect to get free money in exchange of likes and things like that. Yeah you can live in a van or whatever, but do you really expect a misterious hand to give out money every month for you to go surfing and exploring the wilderness?

The youtubers that blog about working full time are a minority, of course, becasue they are mostly busy working (full time) and making a living.

If i was living in a van while having a full-time job and earning a proper salary, I'd probably be spending my time enjoying life more than informing strangers on the internet about my whereabouts. Yeah I might be posting updates from time to time, but the "algorithm" wouldn't pick me up that much.
Just thought I'd point out that this is an old repo from 2013.

Probably should update the title before people starting submitting PRs in a doomed attempt to "not skip on anything".
The Family Medical Leave Act only applies to companies with 50 or more employees.

http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/Title_29/Part_825/29CFR825.111...

I agree with all of your sentiments, however.
Vague complaints about "inflation tax" do not contribute anything constructive to monetary policy discussions. No one disputes that excessive inflation is a regressive and unsustainable tax. Currency collapse is almost always caused by, or at least mediated through, governments using inflation to pay debt (or, more accurately, to partially default on debt). Preventing this is the primary reason modern central banking exists. Even those opposed to this solution still support its goal; the "End the Fed" movement wants less inflation, not more.

Nobody--whether left, right, liberal, or fascist--thinks inflation is a good way to finance government. The only disputes are how to prevent it from doing so, as those in office have constant incentive to favor short-term stimulus over long-term stability, and how to balance such restraints against other goals like preventing deflationary shocks and making monetary inflation reflect growth in the real economy.

Suggesting we stop taxing with inflation instead of minimizing its drawbacks is no more helpful than saying, "We should start preventing murders instead of building prisons," or, "Let's reduce the violence in Afghanistan instead of endangering more of our soldiers."
I'm partial, because I shot the video, but The Verge did a large feature/report on this back in April that I think explains both sides of this pretty well:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/5/4162478/tasers-axon-flex-co...
He is in fact extremely authoritarian.

E.g. he has written:

"Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no liberty without dependency."

Sunstein has a deep-seated belief in the power of government to improve society. He would point to something like the Civil Rights movement, where Congress pushed racial equality down the throats of the states and banned private conduct that discriminated on the basis of race, as a archetypal example of how government can force society to overcome its own failings.

It's the total opposite of the anarchist/libertarian viewpoint, but it's a self-consistent view of the world that he holds in good faith.
Hardware wasn't powerful enough because Vista was terrible. At the time of Vista's launch I had a 2yr old PC running ubuntu with compiz with full 3D effects (but more importantly generally working window composition) while adverts on TV were trying to tell me Vista had "WOW!" while it ran poorly on new machines but actually had not much in the way of wow! like visuals.

And even if many changes between vista and 7 were "cosmetic", that's how people interact with their PCs, and things like having different UI styles all over the place is a huge dealbreaker that puts people off using it. (See also: Windows 8).
WP7 was released in 2010. Three years later they now have an estimated 3.3% market share. If that's not a failure for company the size of Microsoft, and with the millions spent on marketing, I don't know what is.

I'll never say never, but it's looking pretty much like the Zune. Nice and solid product with some nifty features, but not different enough to dethrone the dominant players.

The problem is that Apple dominates the high-end and calls the shots regarding the operators (that by experience knows that they will lose customers if they don't offer the iPhone), while Google panders to all the OEMs by giving away a very capable operating system with top notch apps, and to operators by allowing them to customize it with crapware.
Even the $3000+ laptops from Sony or other oems were littered with crapware. When consumers shifted from desktops to mobile all of the hardware innovation was moved to the oems' suppliers, which led them to drop all of their technical talent. Now the likes of dell and hp are full of mbas whose job is to make deals with companies like McAfee to squeeze an extra penny out of each sale and to annoy clueless consumers who buy that shit.
Sure - let me answer that with my post for the "Everyone does not need to learn to code" thread. When I say getting more non-programmers programming, I mean it from more of a practical standpoint.

My previous post:

"From a practical standpoint, I really wish everyone was taught enough programming to know how to automate basic manipulation of text data. I see way too many people editing long lists of data by hand, when there are much better ways to go about it (even Excel works great for this kind of stuff).

Just knowing this setup below can let you do some really power automation of manual tasks and can save you a lot of time.

Example template in Python:

import csv
with open('mydata.csv', 'r') as csvfile:
reader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
for row in reader:
# Data manipulation here

"

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6237430

I'd also recommend looking at Jach's post (the child post of my post in the link) - I thought he made some really good points/critiques about 'tool-based' vs 'concept-based' teaching.
Perhaps because that guy is the partner of the journalist that first revealed all the things NSA has being doing
Collapsing becomes useful when nested comments have many siblings.

It is indeed easier to collapse a tree of comments and read the next sibling than to scroll through many comments looking for a specific indentation level.
Imagine a world in which most of the important ideas are in printed form, and only a priestly elite can read or write. Wouldn't you want to increase the base of literate citizens?

Today, most of the important ideas -- their genesis and dissemination -- are in computer form. I would argue that making everyone a programmer is not the goal, but widespread computer literacy, a familiarity and comfort with computer use, database searches, research skills, is the modern parallel to encouraging print literacy in years past.
They're not being conflated, the claim is that they share a common cause (men are good at faking competence).
Switching an existing project to a new VCS loses history or at minimum causes a new layer of "identifiers in the old system don't match the new one", no?

In general, I've found value in figuring out how to improve existing systems where feasible rather than trying to migrate to a new system, since the existing system probably has advantages the new one won't. At minimum, people are already familiar with the existing system.
While the essay's main drive is on climate, can we put that aside for a minute and talk about the orwellian surveillance apparatus talk in the central section of the essay? Or am I supposed to take the lack of comments on that as a combination of apathy and the increasing acceptance of persistent surveillance?

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> When I reflect back on this meeting, it was a surreal experience. Everyone present discussed the idea of building a workplace panopticon with complete normalcy.

I get being uncomfortable working with Big Oil when you care about climate, but that kind of discussion spooks me way more. That goes way beyond climate and uncaptured externalities - that's pretty much a direct line on helping repress a people (in the service of ossifying existing power structures, ofc); potentially an attempt to utilize technology to help enforce a modern day kind of class slavery. Is that not the most obviously wrong new piece of information here? Isn't that that most notable component of this essay? Big Oil seeks to extract more Oil - that's to be expected, given their profit motivations, however unfortunate. You feel about that how you feel about that, and with respect to this essay, I don't think it's putting up much new information. But the surveillance goals of the management there? Those feel _new_ - like, if some engineer made the mistake of agreeing to assist creating those tools, that seems like it'd be _much_ more likely to goad people to anger. Me, at least, clearly.

> In particular, they wanted to implement computer vision algorithms that could detect suspicious activity and then identify the worker engaging in that activity.

Using ML to pick people out of a crowd for enforcement before they actually do anything seriously wrong... Literally the plot of a bunch of fictional dystopian thrillers, no? I find the concept that we'd actively seek to build such a thing quite disconcerting.
I guess you/someone could try a re-implementation.
Thanks, you made my day :-)
I'd say it is an unnecessary position to take but would not call it especially partisan. There is no symmetry in the amount of election meddling that has been done by both parties. Saying the GOP may be a party interested in election meddling is like saying Iran may be interested in funding islamist terror groups. An unnecessary accusation, but hardly a partisan one.
If they're so easy, why haven't Apple implemented them?
Rather of the opinion that Twitter should have an annual Big Reset.
AFAIK there is no easy way to do it: I would like to too!
I feel that you are over thinking this. The email I received (apparently I have a lot of accounts I registered for demos but no longer use) says this:

"you need to log in and follow the on-screen prompts before Dec. 11, 2019, otherwise your account will be removed from Twitter."

So they are sending the email to all inactive accounts, and leaving it up to the owner to perform an action if they want to continue to using it. Apart from the rather short timeframe, it seems like a good way to handle it.
IR is profoundly more interesting, precisely because it is able to penetrate all sorts of media, most especially interstellar dust and gasses, allowing JWST (and others) to see stars that can't be seen by their visible light.

Regarding our atmosphere filtering IR: do you feel the heat of the sun when it shines on you? That's light. Infrared.

Edit: Additional point of fact: our atmosphere interferes with light by scattering it away from its angle of incidence. Light with a longer wavelength is able to get through without scattering (IR, red, orange, yellow, etc) light with a shorter wavelength (blue) is more likely to collide with a molecule of something on the way in, and it gets bounced around so frantically that all those blue light waves seem to kind of pile up and come from everywhere. No, our atmosphere's light transmission woes are much more deleterious to the smaller wavelengths of light than to IR.
Thanks for commenting. So:
- Replicating success: It's quite niche and not entirely one-size fits all my successes (e.g. wouldn't work with fintech or more "serious" "deep tech" products) and marketing is only one slice of what I'm passionate about, others being startups, tech, music etc, so wouldn't call myself a master marketer like Nir or Neil Patel)
- Why following: great point. Someone said this to me at a community management conference in San Francisco in November. The accounts I have are great but I could have amazing accounts if I put more effort into building/maintaing them

May email you also, thank you!
I, also, would like for Mark Dominus to have a job coding Haskell.
I play the banjo, which is way less popular and has a specific quirk : you don't havea single tuning but dozens ! You swap then and retune the instrument according to the current song/type of music. That's additionnal burden on memory, so the help of a tool can be tremendous.

Most sites/app (this on included) let you change the tuning but I'd love to find one that can handle a list of presets, so I don't have to wrestle the GUI to change each string when I want to play another song.

Any recommendations ?
> some people don’t even know that the Olympics are even happening.

Partly because we just had the ~real~ summer Olympics a few months ago and you don't normally expect another one that soon.
The Cardano blockchain system is heavily based on Haskel. It is one of the largest ecosystems in this space and is growing rapidly. The author can try to find work with IOHK ( https://iohk.io/ ), the Cardano foundation ( https://cardano.org/ ) or one of several other companies doing commercial or research work around Cardano.
The last stage is ->it's happening, but it's too late and were all doomed anyway so lets just have a good time while we still can.
Indeed. It would hardly be more clear if a little flag popped out reading "I am still dangerous." I wonder what sort of misunderstanding causes a person to think this is reasonable.
Very common in rural areas. Electric fences are cheap and easy to relocate.

But these are not the lethal electric fences that you see in trashy science fiction movies.

These are specially designed to put out a high voltage pulse which gives a nasty bite, but is basically harmless.
> But what can you do

you can try to convince people that buybacks are evil, and if enough concensus is reached, it will be outlawed.

The problem is that there's no good evidence that it's evil in the general case, and it's hard to convince large portions of shareholders that it is.
What about wealthy individuals that want to divest some of their wealth from the influence of nation states. When a country struggles that has direct impact on the currency and we're seeing that even in the US as the money supply increased 22% last year and will be up to 40% with the recent stimulus. This also isn't just and issue with the US. I think it was Belgium (?) that recently reported negative interest rates. Countries have also started divesting away from USD in their reserves since Trump was president. So this is a real concern that people/governments have that this offers a solution to.

BTW gold doesn't solve this because when you buy it it's being held by someone else, whom is tied to the country it resides in, and you're back to square one. Even if you were to buy it physically and keep it in your own safe you're still stuck with the same problems because it's not portable. Bitcoin is portable.
I just came to say thank you, Beej! Your guide helped me learn networking and network programming. I love learning by example. Your guide was instrumental in my learning.