skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of measuring prices of a basket of goods as opposed to a BigMac Index is to diversify the subjects to measure inflation.

Inflation is the generalized increase in prices which means that supply/demand shocks that change the prices of some goods but not others are not inflation by definition. Goods change prices all the time relatively (a new technology makes something cheaper, a climate disaster makes a produce more expensive, etc).

Changes in MW are not going to impact all goods: for starters it will not impact goods you import.

It is a bad habit of news to call inflation to a subset of goods (asset inflation, healthcare inflation, etc) but that is just plain incorrect in terms of economic terminology. The Fed is not concerned for healthcare costs rising, they are concerned for inflation which is when everything rises because the money supply outpaces economic output growth.

Going deeper: before the Milton friedman era, the Keynesian era had the argument that inflation was a problem of the cost of production of goods. So if you could stop that from happening you could stop inflation, resulting in price control policies, collective union bargaining for fixed prices, etc. It was considered and thought that fiscal policy and regulation could stop inflation and even Nixon got into that. Milton Friedman ushered the new era with the phrase from another comment: Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Countries today that use the old model, that price controls could fix inflation, include Venezuela and Argentina, that have the worst inflations in the world. Argentina has taken this concept that inflation is on the measuring of the basket of goods that they manipulate the statistic two ways: first, the agree to price controls and make sure the controler products are in the basket of goods, to claim lower inflation than real. Second, to actually fudge the numbers of inflation as measured. Naturally, neither strategy works, because as long as you have a monetary imbalance, you have inflation.

Hopefully you are at least amused by my expose!
Yuck, you clearly don't live next to projects.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I thought it was purely Facebook users.
But he leased the leaf. they don't degrade much in 3 years. truly not his worry.
Pull out my phone and lookup the password in the mobile app.
Oh my god. I have used Jupyter notebooks for 7 years and never knew this. I just had to fire one up to verify -- and yep; exactly as described. How amazing! Thank you!
> premature optimization is root of all evil

Aka the first refuge of the intellectually lazy.
Fusion reactors cannot melt down, if the containment fails, the plasma will be cold by the time it reaches the walls. Wikipedia has a decent rundown of the various failure modes and resulting effects.
I get that. However, the DOT has used the approach in other areas with great success. In many cases, the concrete roadways were put in before finite element analysis models were available or even remotely realistic. A lot of research has gone into how to repair these after the fact so that money is saved and you don't get the thumpity thump, etc.

States make their own choices, though. The DOT can only cajole them by dangling money. If the only competency in a state DOT is to cut a check, and there is not going to be any price to be paid for putting in a road that is unsafe or that does not last or that costs too much, then it is more likely that too much money will be spent.

Another related story is this relative went to Germany to confer with counterparts over there and compare notes. The Germans were laughing at them because they use the US research, but the US doesn't. We have great research spanning multiple decades, but political concerns are what end up determining how roads are built.
Casey's posts that this mentions:

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0035
https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0036
And then they get comfy and loosen their standards... and when someone new comes along with a better technique it takes forever to hire them. As anybody with industry experience should know, that does not work.
Police Departments have _successfully_ argued in court that they have neither a legal or moral obligation to serve, or protect, the public.
I've been out of that game for 5-6 years, but I was managing about 1K accounts at my peak.

Their fraud prevention stuff flagged a bunch of them but >50% of them are still active.
> If you've a gram of experience you should realise it's generally in your own best interests not to tell your colleagues what you're on.

Don't patronize me. I'll decide what is in my best interests thanks.

> I don't see where the exploitation comes from.

exploit - 2nd definition from google:

> make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.

The company is taking advantage of the fact they are the only party that has access to the information on what everyone is paid in order to benefit by paying some people less than others.

The company has a maximum that they will pay but is not telling the workers what that is, and even going so far as to make rules to prevent the workers discussing amongst themselves.

You are arguing that these circumstances are somehow a free market while simultaneously accepting that one party is artificially and unfairly impeding the free flow of information.

A free market requires informed consumers and the company is well aware of that.

The workers should be able to decide for themselves if they agree that "preventing jealousy" is a strong enough argument to justify manipulating the market. If they think it is, then fine, they are free to decide to keep their pay private.

As a party that stands to benefit, it is not up to the company to mandate what is in the best interest of the workers. That is the definition of a conflict of interest.

In my opinion, any rule that attempts to stifle communication between workers is overstepping a company's authority.
Cannot edit the link. :(
> I consider it a very interesting thread where someone went looking for proof of shadow mode and couldn't find it.

This seems to be assuming that it's something that exists entirely within the car, whereas the more sensible implementation is that the car uploads the sensor data and driver choices to a server in a datacenter somewhere and "shadow mode" happens there by running the autopilot code against the data.

That way you can continue to use the data even with newer or experimental versions of the autopilot code that didn't exist when some of the data was collected, compare different versions to see which ones do better and when, etc.
Does Twitter really publish its test selectors in production?
> That's nice, but the Model 3 was supposed to be $35,000.

I'm sorry, this part is really misleading. The entry price for a 220 mile model was supposed to be $35k.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/04/the-post-model-3-reveal...

Now a much nicer vehicle than originally announced with 240 miles of range is ~39k and the top end is right around the anticipated 60k.

The base model is $35.5k.
When you say "doxing isn't inherently evil or good", you're putting us on the same page.

We do not agree about the particulars. For instance: the extramarital partners of politicians? To me, fair game. Kids who commit crimes on the Internet? To me, fair game.

Counterexamples? Sure. Undocumented immigrants who could be forcibly deported. I have a special obligation not to help ICE find those people. Iranian democracy activists. I have a special obligation not to subvert advocacy for democracy in authoritarian regimes.

But I don't have a general obligation to help maintain someone's pseudonymity, nor does anyone have the general right to restrain my own speech to protect their pseudonymity.

I understand that the rule exists on Reddit, and, to a lesser extent, here. And I respect the rule... on Reddit. And here. But in real life? I have a problem with message board norms leaking into the real world.
At the same time people who are self taught typically have more time and energy to attack things in more depth. My cs classes are pretty 'standard' and on my free time I can go on long tangents where I really learn. I learned about assembly programming and the bacics of how cpu's work from self learning rather than getting a very simplified understanding from a class. There are many things in cs that can not be learned in 1 semester and people who are self taught have the ability to take things at their own pace and jump to different topics, something that busy college studens have little time to do
Tesla has 11bn in debt, alongside other obligations like warranties.

If they can't make the car thing work, and their autopilot tech sells for as much as mobileye, shareholders are going to be wiped out in the event of liquidation.

How the cars are selling and what margins they're getting matters a great deal, even if you believe that the long term value comes from autopilot.
Haven't Republicans traditionally trended older? If there are enough voters who change parties as they age, does it matter that one party tends older while the other trends younger?
Yeah, I can't downvote people either.
I assume you're talking about celiac disease?
If you have already sought professional help I don't think there's anything new I can tell you besides the usual suspects like "grit your teeth and stick to the diet" or "find someone who can keep you on track like wife, siblings or friends".

That said, if I was in your position and if I couldn't tackle the problem in any of the standard ways, I'd take an NSAID like aspirin¹ on "cheat" days to temporarily suppress the immune system as an experiment and see how that works. I found a 1982 issue² of The Lancet where someone had the same idea and reports success with this strategy but I'm not even close to a medical professional and this is just one data point so YMMV, caveat emptor etc, etc.

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¹But not ibuprofen or other NSAIDs, those seem to worsen the problem — https://www.thedailybeast.com/research-shows-link-between-ns.... Aspirin however has its own set of side-effects (bleeding risk, may interact with medication you are already taking etc) so strict diet is still the safest, long-term solution for now.

²http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/s0140-6736(82)90024-1: 650mg Aspirin, 5-15 mins before meals, not after. Again, this is NOT medical advice, it is just one data point.
Net Income == Net Profit
It would be awesome if the fourth estate executed their role in society proper. But outlets like the WSJ have to push out an article per minute to remain relevant in the search ranking.

Maybe news is more important than just supplying entertainment and should the world take notice of UK's model with the BBC.
Meritocracy.... a concept that sounds good in principle but ends up being disastrous. The problem is the roots of the word itself.
Password reuse on other sites is not your problem. It is your user's problem.
Cheap toilet paper from wood pulp is only about 150 years old. Before then there was not a lot of spare paper around. Woodpulp paper can be made quickly biodegradable.
Wait, are we back to talking about how to organize programming teams again?
Is it a problem? Older people are more likely to vote and spend more time on Facebook. Older people have more money to donate to parties and spend on products they are advertised.

If it is a problem, it sounds like a great one to have. What's best: new old people are being made every day and they are a huge cohort right now.

This will also surprise the youth-o-philes in SV, but young people eventually grow up to be old people and they almost always change drastically in political views, media consumption, and purchase decisions. Sure, they probably won't be on Facebook and the current Republican party will change, but that just means Instagram will be the new old people place and the future Republicans will have made their mark.
I used a Cray Y-MP back then but you're still right... My iPhone is faster than that hardware now, which is pretty neat.

It wasn't so much "thumb twiddling" though, there was a lot of work being done on systems which were more focused on knowledge representation (like Cyc [1], which still exists). Also a lot of work was being done from a more Psychological direction (mental models, scripts etc) and from a physical/neuro-science direction (brainz!).

These were all happening simultaneously and it wasn't clear (partly because of the MIPS issue you mention) that ML was the winning pony (for now) and I still appreciate the broad spectrum of knowledge covered in my particular Cognitive Science program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
Can anyone comment how this compares / contrasts with these projects?

https://stellarium.org/

https://celestia.space/
This is insightful. The other part is that some ideas matter and most don’t.
http://genieframework.com/
I got an email this morning that my hulu had been logged into... my hulu and my robinhood did in fact share a password. I have no evidence that these are connected, but better safe than sorry. (And I do use 1password now, I just didn't back when I used robinhood and hulu).
>> do I understand your argument correctly?

No. My argument (one of my arguments) is that the company cannot change the definition of what it considers to be fraud after the contract is signed.

Prior to purchasing the pass, Mr. Rothstein asked if it was acceptable to use the companion seat for non-human passengers, i.e. just to keep his luggage. AA said it was ok, and it promoted Mr. Ma and his cello as an example of the practice. I am not privy to the logistics of how Mr. Ma books his cello's reservations, what name he uses when booking a seat for the cello, or how his situation differs from Mr. Rothstein's. In any case, post-purchase, AA changed its mind and decided that when Mr. Rothstein did this, it was fraud.

And the judge agreed with AA. I just happen to disagree with the company and the judge, based on its previous position on the matter.

>> you don't know it's fraud

But AA did know what he was doing. The reservation was named "Bag." Gate agents checked him and his bag (not a person) in, hundreds of times. The flight attendants, equipped with passenger manifests, also counted a non-person in order to match up, hundreds of times. And as stated above, he specifically asked about the practice, and was granted permission, before he even bought the pass.
Talent isn't inherited, money is. Inheritance usually starts from birth, as children are raised on their parents' money, so they get superb schooling, opportunities to fail and learn, and entry to reserved clubs/credentials/connections, which can be mistaken for talent.

(And for a nontrivial number of fields, talent is knowing the language of its business, more than creative output)
This is a politicized article and doesn't belong on hacker news. As someone who used to live in the bay area but no longer does, I can't help but think a lot of the people there have some major issues where they take every normal thing that other cities do to keep quality of life high and berate any attempts to do the same in the bay area as if every decision made for public health, safety and overall cleanliness of an urban area has to be optimized for the homeless and drug addicts. It's honestly pretty strange and seems sick to me.
We get a Go pass (free monthly pass for the Caltrain that runs from San Francisco to San Jose)
What's the issue with it?
I read, some GraphQL caching implementations relon canonicalization.
++ for Insomnia
I hear that claim a lot but if you look at the link I posted under the "A wide – and growing – generational divide in partisanship" heading, it doesn't appear to actually be the case. If that were true you'd likely see a much bigger pull to republicans as Gen X aged during the studied period (94-17). Also doesn't explain the sharp millennial pull to democrats at all.
This was a wonderful book. As I recall, it catalogs a lot of convincing evidence that things come into conscious awareness basically upon a certain level of global activation in the brain -- when enough parts of the brain are "talking" about it, typically when different parts of the brain are having conflicting activation patterns. It likens this to the "workspace model" of awareness. And it's clear why the brain would need to resolve such a conflict, why it would need something like focus or attention to do so, and how this would relate to all sorts of information processing needs of organisms that behave in ways that keep them alive.

But there's just nothing that I recall in that book that suggests or even hints at any reason for this to result in a subjective experience. And I don't believe it rules out an electron having a nano-unit of subjective experience, for example.

The book suggests that something is a subjective experience if an organism can report it as one, and goes to great detail about what's going on in the brain when an organism is able to report a subjective experience, and makes the very reasonable suggestion that something is probably a subjective experience in a brained organism that can't report it as one so long as it exhibits all the same patterns in that organism's brain (infants, other animals).

But I don't think it does any work at all to show that there is no subjective experience in plants, or rocks, or even nano-units of subjective experience in individual electrons. It can't do this, because, as far as I recall, there is simply no progress on the problem of why this global activation in the brain would produce a subjective experience.
Sidenote: I remember when people said the same thing about idrive and avoiding the brand because of it.
am pretty sure Bart is operating on a deficit. Highway maintenance comes out of tax payer's pocket, so that's part of the money you spend riding on a freeway
I would agree. Although technically if they were accidentally in a log (the likely scenario) that does mean they were being stored.
Why not 80 hours a week, then? Or 120?

It's because I'm not trying to increase the amount of crap we produce. I simply postulate that we could get the same work done, by a better distribution of labour. Whether or not we need to produce more is another question entirely.

> than somehow thinking that having me work ten hours less a week is going to provide anything for anyone.

Take three people in your position, and you'll create a job for a fourth. And, after all, in our society, job creation is some holy grail that we need to bend over backwards on laws, regulations, and smart business sense for. Instead of compromising on those things, why not compromise on 'normal' working hours, instead?
You might like to check distill [1], it's a journal with a limited amount of content for now, but of very high quality, and C. Olah is one of the editor.

[1] https://distill.pub/
Windows 95 runs on a 386 with 4 MB of RAM. No wonder it flies on a Pentium 4.
Armchair opinion: I believe the fuel isn't radioactive, and neither is the reaction. So while it could blow up, it's not going to have a ton of radioactive fallout.

Sort of like a fusion bomb, the fusion bomb doesn't produce radioactive fallout, but the fission bomb necessary to start the fusion bomb does.
Depends on your philosophy. You could effect greater change outside the country for example. Or you could stay inside and create a revolution. I think the creative difference would be your resources and network.
> Everything that people desire is underpinned by GDP

That's a very extreme position. People desire more than what can be bought at the market.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/24/robert...
I know many tech companies in the Bay Area consider commute times when re-locating offices, but wonder if this is based on corporate climate goal and how much weight it has in the decision process.
It seems contradictory to me that there is going to be a driver shortage at the same time that transport volumes are dropping disastrously.

https://www.joc.com/trucking-logistics/truckload-freight/us-...
Jonesforth.S forth compiler in assembly and tutorial
Quality bartenders generate increased revenue for businesses by either being more efficient and/or driving additional business. If a bartender excels at their job this can be objectively measured and their pay rate increased vs their peers as a reward.
I can't recall the last time I heard someone say "premature optimization is root of all evil" as a sanity check to someone who was overdoing things. In fact it may have been more than 20 years ago.

For one, there are usually better arguments around code comprehension.

Pretty much the only time I hear this statement is as a response to criticism. That should raise some questions about the motivations of the speaker. Quite often it comes off as a dodge, and why and what are they dodging? Additionally, the whole quote is often at odds with the point the speaker is trying to make. It's not small inefficiencies, it's factors of 5, or 10, or an extra 6 months before we run out of headroom on something.
Where do politics belong?
It's disingenuous to ask us to accept this data alone as a reason to disregard the risks that American police face in the course of their work. Whether their job is safer today than at the height of the so-called 'crack epidemic' is irrelevant to the reality of the day to day risks that they face.
For starters, this data doesn't include the numbers of police non-fatally harmed in the course of their work. Even still, their risk of being fatally shot is 5x higher on average than the general citizen.
No IO? As in at all?

xor eax, eax here we come.
> I'm trying to explain why de-escalation is not the preferred tactical response from the police when it comes to active shooter scenarios.

As a first responder who has trained with, and documented photographically, multiple active shooter scenarios (training, at high schools, community colleges and even malls) and responded to more than one...

These scenarios are not active shooter events. That is someone well, actively shooting. Usually with confirmation from 911 dispatchers ("we have gunshots in the background of the call").

Usually these situations are highly Hollywood-ized. One caller described "I can see from the street through the window - they have the whole family on their knees, hands on heads and have guns to their heads, about to execute them all".

More worryingly are stories of sending quantities of drugs (often possession, not even supply levels) to a residence - that shouldn't be able to evoke a no-knock SWAT response in the first place.
I don't think you're completely wrong, although you may be exaggerating the magnitude of the effect. But this is actually a reason to support a higher minimum wage.

If you make vastly more than minimum and are a consumer of fast food, then don't you think that you will get better service from the one person making $15/hr? Plus, they're less likely to spit on the burger.

The thing about the minimum wage is that there is a market determined wage for a minimally effective employee, but if the official minimum is lower, and it generally is these days, business owners and managers will keep trying to hire at the legal minimum instead. You'd think the invisible hand, etc. but it doesn't work that way. The rule is "the law says X, so we do Y, the minimum required".
It's not a viewpoint I personally hold, but it is a viewpoint ~half the citizenry holds. (Including the folks who, without a shred of irony, personally benefit from this state of affairs.)
Yep! That works, but it's essentially the first option ("How to sign a JSON object") but with JSON as the outer serialization format instead of a comma in the middle.

You also correctly identified why that is different from the other schemes: they don't change the structure of the outer object.
Jonesforth Git Repository
and, if past experience is correct, it will be 30 years away for the next two or three decades.
“The graphics, networking, and audio layers for example are NOT written in Python.” - so...the game’s code is not written in Python at all, except some gameplay scripting.
It’s more like the fuel pump of your car breaking.