skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hedonic adjustment" is meant to control for the 'quality' of some (limited) products sampled in the CPI such as rent, computers and automobiles. 'quality-adjusted' means that they run a standard linear regression across the features of sampled items to normalize the variation in the sample. For example, the sampled rent of apartments would be modeled as (in the simplest example I can think of) :

y = rent, b = slope, x = sqft

y ~ b + x is the extent of the 'hedonic adjustment'

There don't really exist any control variables for 'better'. Nobody at CPI is subjectively saying toiler paper is better. What they will stochastically estimate is the per-unit price. So if for $10 you get 9 double roles, and last year you got 9 single roles for $10, then the price went down. But I assure you as someone who has looked at row-level data of what the CPI samples and does, there are no cases that are this extreme in the aggregate. They could drop the hedonic adjustments and it would make no practical difference. Private companies use similar sampling methods with better data and don't show wildly different headline inflation (see: Billion Prices Project http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/)

There is no doubt however that the CPI data is inadequate, has a non-trivial lag, and does not capture true regional differences in prices. Just try using it to adjust your salary if you move from Birmingham to New York City and see how comfortable you'd be. But there is no conspiracy; that would presume far more competency than they have hired for.
Are there any actual benefits to this over current methods of interbank transfers?
I think I understand your perspective, but I disagree, and this might highlight why emotional labor disparity is such a big problem for so many relationships -- because each side sees things from a different perspective.

You're right, adding just one expectation/consequence would be a real problem, because a lot of the fallout would eventually end up in your lap. To make this work, it would have to be part of a larger system. The consequences have to be set up to make things more fair, not less fair.

throwing out his clothes will come out of the family budget to replace

Alternatively, if the family had a "fun" budget set aside for his and hers, the consequence would be much more effective and fair if it came out of his fun budget -- he was saving up for an Xbox and now he has to wait two more months to afford it because he just blew $100 replacing dress shirts which were thrown away.

So, I do what? Pick them and put them in the trash can, then go shopping for more

This would definitely be unfair to you -- he needs to be the one to shop for the replacement clothes. This also highlights a similar issue from the article -- many of the burdens were essentially volunteered for, because one party preemptively took it upon themselves to take on the burden, without discussing it or setting up a system ahead of time. For example, the burden of constantly keeping track of which groceries were running low was mentioned. If the chore of shopping for groceries rotated between both partners, this wouldn't be a problem. If its his turn to deal with groceries, OP doesn't need to worry about it that week.

Third, it is just bitchy and hostile

I strongly disagree here, and I think this is the root of how our perspectives differ. I deal very well with rules and consequences. I don't see that as bitchy and hostile -- that's good communication and honoring an agreement. If I agreed to the rules and the consequences, I have only myself to blame. From my perspective, nagging is the thing which is bitchy.

Also, this can cause an unhealthy blame shift for me too -- instead of blaming myself for breaking the rules, I'm tempted
to shift blame onto her for perceiving the clutter (leading to the "why is this such a big deal?" argument, which is the worst possible button I could push at that time).

You don't create a more loving, caring environment by seeing just how much you can piss on your lover before they decide to file for divorce.

Here, I agree, but just from a different perspective. I cannot imagine being in a relationship with the author of the article. Navigating a minefield of poorly defined expectations and responsibilities, with a healthy dose of nagging, and its just a matter of time before I'd reach for the divorce lever.
I freaking LOVE Bazel. Convert every library I use from CMake to Bazel on first use. Fork + BUILD and you're good to go.
People that can buy a $1000 phone can’t afford a $4 FM radio, is that what they’re saying? Besides, Apple already gave you an emergency flashlight, don’t get greedy.
Thanks for the recommendation.

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This is not actually true anymore, Fidelity has responded. Their pure index funds are extremely competitive with Vanguard.
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Can anyone who's read the Feynman Lectures comment on how good they are? I started reading them, but after a few chapters I didn't feel that I was actually learning physics. I get the feeling that the Feynman Lectures are like Knuth's Art of Computer Programming: few people have read it, but it's widely known as being amazing. I'd be interested in hearing if this is correct.
It's is an old meme that gets pull out regularly on reddit.

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/953476-thomas-the-tank-engine

Not to say it wasn't this particular thread that caught the persons attention.
Children's shows generally teach lessons, which is why I assumed that children are meant to identify with the trains.
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Compared to ...the political agenda and hidden sexual innuendo in the alternatives?
It matches my vague recollections. But with today’s kids increasingly using streaming services, both YouTube and the paid kind (e.g. Sesame Street on HBO), it’s probably becoming more common for them to watch a series in order, just like it is for adults.
I got removed from a project because I was raining on everyone's blockchain fantasy. Later they begrudgingly admitted that blockchain wasn't going to solve the hard interoperability problem we were facing (bog standard need to pull & analyze data from multiple incompatible data stores held by multiple independent parties).

I can forgive all the business guys for that thinking given articles like these, but the tech guys who were fanning the fires of that fantasy and telling me I didn't understand blockchain....

I got the distinct impression that there is a growing cottage industry of tech consultants and outsource companies that realize that if they can get their clients to "do it on the blockchain" they will be able to bill 10x as much for a project that has a current very good solution (and relatively fast to implement solution). And for which blockchain won't be a benefit. But the client may very well be able to get more VC money, so it's starting to turn blockchain 'skeptics' into martyrs.

And the most frustrating thing is that the innovation in Satoshi's paper (bringing together in a unique way prior known solutions) is really exciting and there are very good uses for blockchain. The international shipping companies using blockchain to track shipping container provenance strikes me as really, really perfect.

The bad uses of blockchain is going to kill the tech before it's had time to mature naturally and find its place.
Docker doesn't help when developing desktop apps.
Agreed. I'm not sure where the misconception of their furniture being difficult to build comes from. In my experience their instructions are unambiguous and well-designed.
I love 1Password - though my team is less than 100 people.
Not only that, but there's also ex which was an improved version of ed. ex later got a visual mode called vi. In vim, you can run it in ex mode with the -e parameter. You can also enter ex mode using Q or gQ depending on your vim configuration.
So what about this data:
http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/datasets/

I think to support the argument that CPI is cooked you need to show that you have some reasonable sampling of prices of some reasonable basket across the entire country. You can search online for rent prices, you can see real estate prices, you can see product/produce prices... You can find out what % of the population rents vs. owns and factor that in. Let's see that data that shows us that CPI is really wrong and not some anecdotes. I think there's enough data in the public domain to be able to form a pretty good estimate. Also we need to see that over a long period since some prices go through big cycles, real-estate can crash 40% and then go up, so we may want to reduce the impact of that...
As it stands, the rich have already co-opted cryptocurrencies.

Minting algorithms have mostly generated the majority of the entire supply in the first few months, allowing anyone with existing capital to purchase majority stakes or mining power.
Not all work involves people being treated like tools. Much work involves people being treated like magicians.

By finding "someone else" to treat like a tool (a robot) you are not only solving the wrong problem, you are keeping yourself stuck in the mindset that allows the problem to persist.
Yes. My kids may love me and trust me more than other people do, but getting them to do a thing takes work. You can also do it through coercion, threats, or violence, but that... tends to fuck kids up.
Hmm those videos look nothing like what I remember playing it felt like on my old 286 with CGA.

Maybe faded memories? I guess I'll have to set up a DOSbox and try it.
The point I was making is the lack of easy to use native features to perform typical administrative operations. When all is said and done, you may end up with a multitude of 3rd party tools to achieve feature parity with SQL Server , which is the particular comparison, and would be a limiting factor to implementing the platform in an enterprise that cannot withstand down time or tight RPO/RTO requirements.

In regards to SQL Server on Linux, I have just spun up (for testing) a three node AlwaysOn cluster with Pacemaker/Corosync, which is working quite well. Failover works as expected, however it is a tad slower than a Windows Failover Cluster. First impressions are very good and I would not hesitate to recommend the solution over a PostgreSQL or MySQL implementation. It is far less complicated and provides excellent HA and recoverability options.
Even so ... if we've supplanted manufacturing with non-tangible good production, what impact does that have on economic reality?
Micro is very good. I've been using it for a few months as my default Git commit editor, and it works wonderfully.
Why?

Artificial and delusional scarcity of software derived database entries, of which a multitude of newer alternative service networks are being created every day?
Aak HN: What time series metrics API should I emulate?
I need to design a time series metrics API. The API will be read only, needs to support some but not extensive query flexibility, and will be used with a relatively limited number of metrics.

Are there any existing APIs you like that I could use for inspiration?

Are there any you hate that you hope I avoid emulating?!
Now compare total market capitalization of equity markets to Bitcoin. I doubt you could liquidate millions of dollars of bitcoin in a day and not make the market plummet. You can do that in the last 30 minutes of the stock trading day with no very little price fluctuation.

There are equities that are up triple digits, including Nvidia...who is realistically the biggest winner in crypto mining.
One of the boldest design decisions they made was to make the URL bar and search bar into one whereas every other browser (can't remember what Opera did) separated the two. That immediately hooked me from using Safari/Firefox. That and it felt faster.
> But there is no conspiracy; that would presume far more competency than they have hired for.

This seems to be the case almost universally, but I guess it's easier to jump to the 'malice' conclusion than to attribute it to lack of competency.

Perhaps more succinctly: if you think the world is out to get you, then it is.
These paths are not mutually exclusive, which should probably be noted in the article as well. I know many who have done some combination of them, myself included.
> The 0.2% of people that do might actually be really good [2] but these consultancies don't tend to put their employees on improving the internal state of affairs.

I think your percentages are off (over ~60% of the firm's revenue is now consulting, a large part digital), but this hits the nail on the head. On the external consulting side, I was regularly in fruitless heated argument with internal IT.

As bad as it is, I think the recovery spin to clients (it's an important point and true) is the the engineers they are getting in a consulting capacity are completely separate to the people managing the laptops.

I do think your second footnote is important too, these are totally separate companies. This is a Deloitte US breach, the IT systems are totally separate. The brand damage (the value of the information in the audit records if unreleased is astronomical) will be shared, but at least the scope of the actual leak will be limited to that member firm.
I didn't mention a "new banking system". I suggested rather that anyone with the money to do so could provide short- and medium-term liquidity to firms that require it. Apple, for example, would be just as capable of buying bonds as Goldman Sachs is, and for the right yield they would.
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@nreece suggested our StorageVPS. Delimiter's storage VPS are HDD based but NVMe accelerated. We run ZFS with the ZIL/Cache on the NVMe. The storage performance is great, but CPU isn't overly generous. They are optimised to get data to/from disk.

I would recommend you look at our Cloud Compute product. Its based on Cloudstack, highly distributed Ceph backend - HDD with NVMe fronting the disks. It uses Cloudstack's advanced networking so you have a router/firewall by default as well as internal networking should you want to have more than just the DB locally.

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A 1TB Ceph disk with 1GB RAM, 1 CPU will cost you $20.40/month

I am not sure what DB you are running but even if boost that up to 4GB RAM, 2 CPUs, 1TB Disk that is $34.62/month

Dedicated cores on the CPUs, 10Gbps uplink. We have a variety of customers running MongoDB clusters, MySQL/MariaDB, Couchbase and so on. Internal networks lets you keep the cluster network private. Just punch through the firewall for the ports you need publicly accessible or even limit the source address to stop non-authorised users.

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I'm not claiming a conspiracy, its more a confederacy of dunces staffed by people who have a vested interest in reaching conclusions that affirm the wishes of their bosses. Any such system that includes a bunch of very complex algorithms filled with uncertain data and arbitrary variables that can be tweaked by the people crunching the numbers you are going to come out with a garbage result. The FED is literally engaged in voodoo economics. Scarily they even acknowledge this simple fact, but still people take their tea-leaf readings seriously.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
I'm sorry to hear that, and I share your hope that I can avoid any such nightmare by being sure to talk about those dangers to kids (in my case that would be my teenage siblings just starting to drive cars).

But at the same time, I like to think there's a reasonable amount of breathing space between noting the show's excessively haunting atmosphere and indulging in a fantasy of a world completely free from consequences, and that with sufficient good faith I can do the former without having to disavow the latter.

But I definitely share your observation about the show's tone, and it's interesting to note that different people can see value in the show for opposite reasons. Some see it as wholesome, others as delivering needed lessons on the severity of life.
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I have HIGH hopes that flatpak or snap will gain traction in Linux. This would in turn move Mac OS and Windows to a more container type system. (Mac OS is by far the closest right now)
You can’t evaluate it as a percentage of all housing. By that standard, even new construction is a “tiny” percentage of the whole.

SF doesn’t have much infill development left. That’s the point. Arguing about what people did in the past isn’t relevant today.
The comparison with Mr. Rogers is instructive. Both shows seem rooted in a minister's desire to encapsulate ideals derived from the Bible. But while Mr. Rogers is New Testament, the Thomas books are Old Testament.

Henry, for example, gets punished for the sin of VANITY -- he doesn't stop in the tunnel in order to shirk work, but rather to avoid getting his nice new paint messed up.

To see the difference between the shows, just try to imagine Mr. Rogers presenting a puppet show about bricking a character up in his room as punishment for not wanting to get his new suit wet in the rain. And imagine him, in that Mr Rogers voice, saying "I think he deserved that punishment, don't you?"
Yes, jordigh did post, mistakenly or deliberately, an incomplete explanation of IEEE754 single precision floats. A number line with alternative labels showing an approximate mantissa and exponent for a given float is certainly one possible way to explain the application of the spec, but obviously, not only does it give less information than the specification, it is not obvious that it is a generally better explanatory tool. For example, it certainly helps Fabien, I assume it helps you and coldtea, but it leaves me completely bewildered (I know what it says, but on it's own, I'm completely lost as to why).

edit: jordigh, not coldtea, first brought up the formula in his argument
how big of a customer is OmniCorp?
Unless he was a hermit living in a cave, he was well immersed in society. And in fact his stories are about one of the main symbols of modern corporate industrial society: The train.
What do you mine?
With Kubernetes and other container schedulers gaining popularity and the host OS requiring less effort to be production ready, there is much less need for configuration management tooling. I don't see a lot of appeal for another tool in this space.
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I should also say that the key thing about this approach is the conversations which it forces both parties to have. Once you enter the game of consequences, the negotiation of the rules becomes a high priority for both parties. These conversations will churn up all sorts of faulty assumptions and bring to light hidden expectations and burdens which the other partner had long been unaware of.

With luck, this system will sharpen the subject of arguments to being solely about re-negotiating the rules, rather than the anger, resentment, guilt and blame which come from a system of unstated expectations and silent burdens.
One benefit is that someone from outside the household does the cleaning, which means that everyone else is available for other household tasks, like watching the kids (which the author had to do while her husband was cleaning).
A mother who has cancer tells the kids what they need to hear. You tell the kids too much, and they grow up thinking there is no point to life. Which is not right or good for them.
If you were in her position or the FED's you would do the same.
Some weeks ago someone posted a very useful interactive demo of a bloom filter (implemented in js) that you might want to play with after reading this article:
https://www.jasondavies.com/bloomfilter/
Indeed, it would not have passed even a cursory due diligence.
Just as people who didn’t immigrate from a poor country might not completely understand your circumstances, I don’t think you fully grasp the circumstances of those who have failed to succeed despite being in the US for generations. If it were so simple for those people to just delay having children and invest more in education, they would have already done it.
Ask HN: How would you repurpose bulk old computers?
Say you had access to a bunch of old xboxes, bought a bunch of computers at auction or otherwise had access to a bunch of old computers. Would mining cryptocurrencies be a good use of these resources? If not, how else could you get value out of them?
The Miranda warning is "Anything you say MAY be used against you in a court of law." It may not...

But it definitely won't be used in your favor so keep silent and never answer questions from law enforcement without a lawyer present.
Fidelity is not a "mutual fund company," they are a pretty full scale financial services company. They offer more than just index funds, including (but not limited to) actively managed funds, life insurance, a checking account, a credit card, etc...
A variety of organizations have already done this. One of the better known is Shadowstats.

http://www.shadowstats.com/
I can't agree more, for the furniture I have bought, Ikea's instructions are pretty exemplary.

Without any written words, the instructions are very clear on how to assemble the furniture.

If you pay attention when reading them, it is not possible to make a mistake.

On the other hand, I have also bought from other RDA furnitures and have encountered some obscure instructions.
First for a bit of background.

How much data will you be pushing across? Things are easier if you can send full objects instead of partial objects.

How much does latency matter? If this has to be as close to real time as possible (ie. stock prices etc), or can this be 1 second updates?

Using Protocol Buffers works well if you need to be very optimized, JSON is really nice for being extremely widely supported but special care needs to be taken for having API versions if you make drastic changes to the API

I think what would be nice would be to know a little bit more about your intended use case, I would say I typically like to build web apps more than native apps because then the server code and client code can be updated as a single unit, instead of having older native clients out in the wild and having to support then until the users decide to update, but some use cases it's better to have a native client.
The Miranda warning says "Anything you say MAY be used against you in a court of law." They don't have to tell the court, judge or anyone else... but they may.
To quote Dave Barry, from 1982 but still relevant:

"Now the problem poor people have is obvious: they don't have enough money. They can't afford food, housing, or medical care. The simple, obvious, efficient way for the government to help them is to give them money so they can buy these things. So that is not how the government does it."

This is basically the libertarian argument for a basic income: if we're going to have an expensive welfare state, it should be efficient and it should actually accomplish its stated goals.

poverty is often directly correlated with the level of education.

It's even more directly correlated with the level of money.
IIRC Bloomberg terminals have pretty extensive information regarding shipping.
I wouldn't go so far as to say enjoy.

Unless you get one of the few pieces that are all steel (eg their kitchen wall shelves are quite good) or the even rarer solid timber pieces, its not really that great, it's just cheap (by western standards)

However I also find it weird that there are people who can't put together IKEA furniture. Then again, in Thailand everything that needs assembly will get you a "would you like that assembled (for free)?", usually in-store. This goes for furniture, gardening equipment, you name it.
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