skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CPI shows higher inflation than the PCE, which would seem to contradict your claim that PCE is better measure for capturing those categories.

Given the large errors I have observed in measurement of electronics and wireless plans (biased towards overstating inflation) it wouldn’t necessarily surprise me if the CPI or PCE erred in measuring the prices of housing, healthcare etc in the opposite direction (biased towards understating inflation). That said, the whole point of such measures is to record the prices of these services over time, and the measurement seems much more straightforward than for personal electronic devices(no need to account for large quality changes or changing product categories except in medicine). So if the CPI were mismeasuring such areas, it would be a fairly embarrassing mistake.
Thank you! I have covered this question in a different comment:

> In short, GCSF tends to be faster in several cases (listing files recursively, reading large files from Drive). The caching strategy it uses also leads to very fast reads (x4-7 improvement compared to google-drive-ocamlfuse) for files that have been cached, at the cost of using more RAM.

> On the other hand, I arrived at the conclusion that google-drive-ocamlfuse provides a better overall experience, as it already has an active community behind it. My goal with GCSF is to more or less close the gap between the two projects and reach the same level of functionality.
Yes, because you can split IDE tabs within the IDE still. 120 may be good too with increased resolutions but I like to keep my IDE on the same monitor.
To paraphrase: "if it were a good idea, my books would have discussed it." Are we done here?
[1] is an interesting recent article, sketching the mainland's multi-pronged strategy for taking over Taiwan.

[1] https://sentinel.tw/china-threatens-essence-taiwans-statehoo...
A wired ISP's costs are primarily determined by capital improvements to their network, and increasing the reach of their network. The marginal cost of providing service to someone in a neighborhood that already has cables built is effectively zero - unless that households additional usage at peak hours causes congestion at the trunk.

The econ 101 solution to this is variable pricing based on hours of the day, to shift consumption to off peak hours. However, that's not attractive to ISPs for a few reasons:

1. Customers don't have a good understanding of how much data various activities use.

2. Just like airline tickets, you may be paying substantially more or less than your neighbor for the same service. ISPs do not want to add additional pricing transparency or control - they would much rather adjust the rate as high as they can regardless of usage, then lower it for individuals newly signing up for service or when existing customers threaten to cancel.

3. Many large ISPs also own media and cable TV businesses that are in direct competition with high bandwidth services like Netflix. Putting caps on that apply regardless of time of day directs users to their own offerings, which do not count towards the cap. It's also a hedge to gain revenue as cable dies, and extract rents from it's replacement.

4. If you run a gym, your best customers are the ones who show up least often - the same is true for the current ISP model. A cap is a good way to shed heavy users and provides a chilling effect on existing users who don't have a good grasp of computer networking.
Lol, loving this all out press panic about China all of a sudden.

Zzzzzzz.
Why don't you follow those dependencies until you arrive at the "leaves" of the tree? There you'll find Swift projects without dependencies.
Jesus. I wanted to keep reading that article but half way through my phone was hot enough it was burning my fingers and 20% of my battery had disappeared. What on earth is Politico doing.
In three different companies across three countries within the last decade I've seen development teams all settle on a 120 character limit with no protest from anyone. And this is a very good thing: it allows for descriptive names (extremely helpful for readability) and avoids unnatural line breaks such as within a comparison expression.
For what it's worth, what the Maya families are doing is a version of the central principle of Montessori early education (and what my company is trying to scale). That is, build a capacity for deep concentration in early childhood using (1) high autonomy pedagogical practices and (2) an environment with a structure that makes it possible for children to contribute to practical life.
Reminds me of this recently posted article, which talks about current life, postmodernism, and moderism: https://philosophynow.org/issues/58/The_Death_of_Postmoderni...

Comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17358825
Thanks for the warning. This is why we made 2 ;-)
Anyone Using Fearless Salary Negotiation?
One can judge from the distance and think he has better understanding of the problem, than a person who is immersed in it most of his waking hours and surrounded by people specialized at solving it.
After trying a few different brands of mechanical keyboard, I found WASD Keyboards to be very sturdy and customizable. I have my configuration setup in a Model M style, but with Cherry clear switches.

Although, I would love doubleshot PBT caps for the colemak layout, but that is not available. Other caps tend to fade quickly.

I'm also interested in trying other switches.
If we built more housing, SV would be a lot better positioned to help. Instead, they can't even move the needle on housing. Too many obstinant city councils. Much of VC capital goes to rent, as a few VCs recently lamented.
few different prices points and curious about experience with any of them

my touchstone on this topic is Patrick McKenzie's article on salary negotiation (http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/)
Objects from dried up riverbed in Amsterdam catalogued and presented online
Not OP but I read it as prohibition of the autonomy (of children by today's culture) that they used to have. I can relate, as a child I was expected to be self-sufficient in a way that would be unrecognisable to modern children.

Rather than being ferried by car to the school, and taxied to a series of child appointments, I walked to school alone or with friends. That including crossing a 4 lane highway, at the lights, in a major city. I must have been doing that at age 5 and 6 as at 7 we went to a different school. I don't remember my parents ever taking me apart from the very first time. Maybe a couple more times at most then. Same for everyone else - we all walked. Now every school is near unreachable thanks to the hundreds of cars from parents who are usually near enough to walk.

When playing out I was often told not to come back until dinner, so we'd go off and do stuff.

Every adult around, and everyone else's parent would give us a telling off if we were being out of line. A shopkeeper or stranger might come out to yell. Everyone seemed to have half an eye out for all the kids.

The individualism of today's adults all around has led to them ignoring, or putting up with the excesses of, everyone else's kids. Few would dare say anything, and would probably get a torrent of abuse from the parent if they did.

The over-hype of abuse and stranger danger hasn't helped either - serious things, but not exactly as common as the media imply. Adult males have double the reason not to speak to or tell off someone's child.
> I could have gotten there without the acid trip

... by simply asking your parents to list their reasons of why they are against your LSD "self-education".

You did not have to open your mind with LSD in order to understand your parents at age 15.
Key word is “urban”.
Gotta say, it’s been amazing not having these all over the place in SF.

Hope they don’t come back. Or if they do, they’re confined to the GoBike areas or a very limited number per company.
Most lines are like 20-30 characters wide, no matter the limit. So the wasted space will be almost the same, no matter the limit.

On the other hand with 120 limit every once in a while you have to read very long line, and with merge tools or big fonts you can have problems and have to scroll.

IMHO it's not worth it. 80 is ok.
120 on an 11 inch screen might be highly eyesight-dependent, especially if there is anything else on the screen at the same time. Not everyone worth hiring in the industry has optimal vision.
And the world would probably be a better place if you kept shitty & unconstructive opinions like this to yourself.
Isn't that the entire purpose of measuring inflation?
The comment said “urban”. Silicon Valley is not an urban area, it is suburbs.
Haven't read the paper yet, but even it is data-center only, it is still very relevant for science, e.g. DAQ in nuclear physics, especially if it doesn't need custom hardware.
I think this is no longer about NTP but all the stack below it including hardware.
> “Eliminating slack” means encouraging employers to raise wages (which can cause inflation) to fill productive jobs.

If you reallocate money without creating new currency, what you get isn't really inflation. Prices may adjust because the demand for things lower income people buy increases and the demand for things higher income people buy decreases, and prices follow demand. But supply and demand isn't inflation.

And that effect is present for any method of reducing wealth inequality. If we had less inequality, people who are currently poor would then have more money and use it to buy things. If those things are scarce then their prices will increase.

It's like saying we shouldn't decrease homelessness because it may increase energy prices when the new homeowners have to heat their new homes. Even if it's nominally true, the implication that the cost outweighs the benefit is ridiculous.

And if you're really worried about high prices, the way to combat them isn't to denigrate efforts to increase middle class wages, it's to address artificial scarcity in markets like housing.
Until Tesla goes bankrupt (which I believe is sooner rather than later - Tesla is sitting on a Wells Notice), the charade continues.
Oh, I get what you're saying now. Thanks for the clarification. You're right that without anything in place to prevent it, universal basic income can fall prey to something similar to a tragedy of the commons. You're also right that its vulnerable to changes in population, with both huge swings up and down turning into a tax with low projected benefit once its split among the population. Definitely a severe structural problem, which would make putting more explicit population control mechanics into the system important if it were widely adopted.
> One example of this can be seen in the attitude of worship of some Native American societies towards peyote or psychedelic mushrooms.

Yes, rituals. When something is important, powerful, dangerous, but it's not wise to ban it, a society creates a ritual around that, to signal importance and danger. Western societies have rituals too. Not much to do with the truth.

> Even if they are "just chemicals" that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't show you truth.

That may be, but in this case it does mean exactly that. There is Charles Manson or the odd baby-killing ayahuasca cult brainwashing its disciples with psychedelics and propaganda to prove this.

> That itself does not diminish the possibility of finding truth in it or through it.

Or maybe it does... :)
But that's pretty far from the original point I was trying to make.
For the record:

Parent puts A and B on the same point of his value™ scale (his scale, his choice)[0].

But you put A on top of your scale and B a little lower (your scale, your choice).

But now you are saying that since parent equals A and B it means parent equals his A to your lower B ? That's where your argument is weak. It's your scale, not parent's.

[0] I assume it's near the top but the demonstration works the same if it's on the bottom.
I actually thought he was underpromising, and that Tesla would surprise the world by blowing past 5K weeks early. That they pulled out all the stops in the final weeks and still missed the deadline feels like a bad sign.
"visited a prostitute"

That's pretty fringe...
Can you clarify, did Tesla announce this, or are you announcing this?
This doesn't solve the problem. There are multiple exchanges. If a real time exchange experiences a price drop then you could quickly sell stock on the quantized exchange with the hope of being randomly chosen.
We discovered three poisonous books in our university library
> It ceases to be about building something, and begins to be about understanding and managing people. That's what I challenge Musk is still learning, and far too slowly.

Hmm. This strikes me as somewhat implausible or at least uncharitable.

Are there other example of doing something as complex, in a 'new' field, at a scale to compete with incumbent operators AND vertically integrating both design and manufacture?

If one zooms out a little to place what Tesla is doing in context, or Musks 'performance', it doesn't seem they've been particularly bad per se, more that they've faced difficulties that are inevitable. It's somewhat of a testament to them 'doing well' and learning to do it pretty damn quickly that we here can continue to talk about how bad they continue to be - namely because they're still around and not dead and disbanded.

I may, of course, be talking rubbish seeing as I don't know much about this subject nor do I have a horse in the race. But it just strikes me that Tesla is doing something extraordinarily hard (I know about the logistics of supply chain management and that's hard enough in the auto industry) and being played out in public view with intense competition.
Tesla pulled people from the S&X lines to reach their 5000 Model 3 goal. No way they also produced 2000 S&X cars in the past 7 days. In addition, their current death march schedule isn't sustainable. They won't come close to producing 7k cars in any week in July.

Tesla needs to spend billions in capex in order to get to 5000 M3 and beyond if they want to produce at a sustainable pace with acceptable quality. Billions they don't have.
>> 3. Eliminates fee diversion ....

The USPTO is one of the few agencies of the US federal govt that are profitable. Congress diverts the funds away from the USPTO funding its own improvements (more examiners, better technology, etc) to unrelated programs.

Your analysis of the other points doesn't match your conclusion.
My biggest issue with this project is that more than half of the contributions are from people who have failed to record correctly, or who are not fluent in English.
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if you have access to this, it's your moral responsibility to leak it
Google has a large office in Ann Arbor, so Grand Rapids was an odd choice here.
Imagine that today is July 1, 2020. Looking back I see three scenarios.

1) It's clear now that the company is a sham and Musk is a snake-oil salesman. It's all smoke, mirrors, bubblegum and baling wire. After hitting 5000 cars per week one time, they never reached that level again. The company had to do a punishingly dilutive capital raise just to get 6 months more runway, and the company's market cap is now $6 billion (down 90% from 2018).

2) The company has continued to stumble from failure to failure with just enough successes to delay the day of reckoning. Musk is still sleeping in the factory trying to iron out kinks in the manufacturing process and automation. They're producing 3000 cars per week, but the quality is so poor that 30% of cars must be returned to the factory for rework. Competitors are likely to match Tesla's battery technology in the next 3 years, and the company's market cap is down by 50% from 2018.

3) After many delays and billions of dollars of cost overruns, Tesla has perfected the "machine that builds the machine". It's producing 40,000 cars per week in three factories in the US, Europe and China, and a fourth factory in South Korea opens next year. Tesla is cash-flow positive and the company's market cap is $600B (up 10x from 2018). In hindsight, all the delays people anguished about in 2018 proved to be nothing but amusing anecdotes in the company's history.

I assign probabilities of 10%, 50% and 40% to these scenarios, which equates to an expected market cap of $250B in two years. At $60B today, it looks like a bargain.
Legalization by itself has been shown to reduce the usage and prevalence among the youth. Many kids seek it out because it is forbidden and people lie about what it is and its effects. Once somebodies 80 year old grandpa can openly smoke it it no long becomes this forbidden fruit that is 'cool' to try out, it becomes grandpas funny smelling medicine mixed with the negative image of smokers. Not as many kids feel the need to emulate their arthritis riddled grandpa as they did the 'cool kid' who was previously the only person they knew that toked.
I recently met someone who gave up meat but was planning to eat some again only if she killed the animal herself.

I haven't given it enough thoughts yet but it seems closer to a guilty trip than a concern for the environment or animal suffering.
Awesome macOS open source applications
Even later stage companies should wise up. It costs a fortune to recruit talent into a company. Any small bumps in pay you can offer to increase retention is a good idea.
Nobody actually cares about any of this. And no country is going to form any sort of coalition with the US right now.

It’s just shifting power centers and really all comes down to corporate profits.
It's more about the perception than the reality. People won't let their kids out because it appears to be rather dangerous. They drive them everywhere instead.

The dig at Americans' self image as "rich" is a reference to the famous line by Enrique Peñalosa: a developed country is not a place where the poor have cars; it's a place where the wealthy ride the bus. I live part-time in Switzerland where the traffic violence rate is a small fraction of what it is here in the US. I let my kids roam the city because it's safe. I won't let them roam around in Oakland where we don't even have sidewalks. My neighbors consider themselves to be very rich compared to my neighbors in Zurich. They have a huge tacky mansion and two Porsche SUVs, and their kids are stupid and fat and have diabetes.
I hadn't, thanks for the link.

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about filesystems, or indeed of deep Linux matters in general, but the idea of layering ZFS and ext4 strikes me as the bad kind of 'cute' solution. If you want compression, ext4 surely isn't the place to start.
Your comment reminded me about this article "The War on Tesla, Musk, and the Fight for the Future"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/29/1767826/-The-War-...
sorry, frenchism, I meant endurent
Then Apple products are banned in China tomorrow and Apple loses half its value.

Let’s see how that goes. ;)
I just checked. I have a 17 inch laptop screen (uncommon and has to be sought for these days). To hit 120 characters on two terminals side-by-side requires 9pt font. That's definitely not something everyone can manage.

I think 120 might even be pushing the limits of conscientiousness.
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Musk's future compensation directly hinges on your third scenario (well market cap of $650 billion, but close enough!):

http://fortune.com/2018/03/22/elon-musk-compensation-tesla/
It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.
The proximate cause is the oil price. As the price of Brent crude oil, a benchmark, fell from over $110 a barrel in mid-2014 to under $30 a barrel by January 2016, inflation tumbled, even turning negative in Europe.

It makes sense that oil prices would affect the price of everything else, but I didn't realize it was so volatile. 75% down seems like a huge drop, and then it increased 150% shortly afterward. Is this normal? Was this due to the discovery of fracking?
Tesla is most overpriced startup currently on the market. It will crash in a spectacular way in near future. They are constatly missing deadlines, have quality issues, troubles to manufacture spare parts in sufficient quantity and have terrible work environment yet everybody are coming up with excuses for them. This will end at some point and that even beside the fact that electric car in reality create more pollution in vast majority of the world more than modern engines.
That thought is literally older than computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
GDB can do that already.

(gdb) help set scheduler-locking
Set mode for locking scheduler during execution.
off == no locking (threads may preempt at any time)
on == full locking (no thread except the current thread may run)
step == scheduler locked during every single-step operation.
In this mode, no other thread may run during a step command.
Other threads may run while stepping over a function call ('next').
Its discussed towards the bottom of that Bloomberg link.
But perhaps even more true today, as the profession of journalism has become even younger and lower paid than it was before.

Without the steady subscription revenue of the past, you can't afford to hire big name writers with decades of experience anymore.
See also: The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat

http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
I didn't mean it this way. I believe Musk has enough self confidence and college education to think he can crack through things like he did with SpaceX (remember they almost died and now vertical reusable landing is almost the new normal). So if he manages to keep Tesla growing, he'll fix things on the way. Maybe he'll have time to read about Toyota :)
I'm unsure why that would be unexpected. I suppose the word vegan brings forth the idea of a large variety of fruits, grains, and vegetables however vegan itself doesn't mean eating a variety of plants, it means not consuming animal products in any form.

Additionally, since bacteria strains tend to be specific to their environment, i.e. the plant that they're living on (which the plant itself thrives better in particular environments), it makes sense that a diverse diet would lead to a more diverse gut biom.
A huge percentage of this quarter’s cars went to Canada to avoid triggering the tax credit sunset
That's from [1], which seems bogus. I sent a query into EIA.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=32&t=6
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If someone has problems seeing small text, why are they using a such a small screen?
Versus: The Amiga Demo Chart – Issue 8 Has Been Released
Despite its humble size, this is a pretty sophisticated Lisp implementation. Not that one that can only do some additions, but also macros and stuff.

Kudos for doing the Lisp thing right.

UPDATE: Took one more look, this implementation is really impressive. It does stuff like 'defmacro', the whole code is just 1400 lines of C#. Never saw anything that effective in terms of functionality per line of code till this day. Impressive, very impressive. Also thanks for sharing.
The server generates the content, so he knows the file hash in advance.
We do know that things get built because of a desire to ratify prestige. Things like Easter Island's moai are described as "mana-works", mana being a Polynesian word adopted by anthropologists to describe notions of abstract efficacy. It's worth reading about, though the concept has lost credibility in anthropology. But, essentially, the Autobahn network is similar to these megalithic works, built out of a collective and mostly consensual desire to demonstrate/affirm the efficacy of a certain social order. The connection I'm making with totalitarianism is intentional, with no value judgement attached to that (sometimes totalitarianism happens).