skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold value (https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-prices)

Apr 2000: $274/oz
Apr 2005: $425/oz (+55%)
Apr 2010: $1132/oz (+166% in 5 years, +313% in 10 years)
Apr 2015: $1175/oz (+3% in 5 years, +176% in 10 years)
Apr 2020: $1647/oz (+40% in 5 years, +45% in 10 years)

So we can see that Gold was massively inflating until 2010, when you say the fed started printing money, since then it's stabilised, even with the current panic

House prices in the US (https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/)

Apr 2000: $134k
Apr 2005: $199k
Apr 2010: $183k
Apr 2015: $210k
Apr 2019: $269k

So 2010-2019 is a 46% increase, or 4.5% per year, so about 50% for 10 years. 2000 to 2010 is 36%, but the charts indicate we're nearing the top of another house price bubble (1998-2007 was an 80% increase over 9 years, or 7.5% increase per year)

So I'm not sure your assertions that the increase of these values are due to quantitive easing over the last 10 years holds.
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K-pop is changing, too
Speculation time! Chris Lattner designed Swift while he was at Apple. Apple seems committed to it, and Chris seems to spend his time making it a language that isn't Apple-only. His stint at Tesla was maybe short because Tesla didn't want to adopt Swift. At Google, he got to start a project with it, but him leaving suggests it didn't catch on. SiFive is small and hardware ramps are slow, so maybe he's given up on the Swift-world-domination plan. Again, this is all speculation.
Wow! What's in the strip? Does it remain there or gets dissolved?
I don't believe that is the real pain point. The Company could resolve it easily by paying contributors in exchange for signing the CLA. What is more likely is that they can't afford to do this.
DroidCam, but the video quality is kind of terrible, even with the paid version
Can a Battery of New Covid Tests Stem the US Debacle?
How to use Amazon Alexa to make calls and send messages outside of the US?
> Software is still the most well paid, expanding industry of the last 40 years.

In a lot of the world it's nowhere near as well paid as most of the professions which have comparable requirements in terms of the amount academic study, vocational apprenticeship and natural aptitude needed.
Honestly I haven't found those things to be problems at all. ".await" really isn't confusing. I think you meant "adding 'async'" to a function declaration --- it seems fine, but I personally don't use it.
If your only goal is to pay devs fairly and do the best for the project, the best way for a library is MIT (for an app, GPL) and having a Foundation that companies support with money and development efforts. Examples: Linux, Blender.

If you want to make actual profits, then it is the same license choice but with a company that sells valuable long-term support, development and perhaps proprietary extra features. Examples: RedHat, Canonical, GitLab.
Universe expansion may not be uniform
I never talked about a blank check.

> We may suffer much greater loss

I don't think the economy is that much of a risk, when you consider the heath risk. As long as there's food, water and electricity, I don't see how the economy is a problem. If restaurants are closed, it's not such a big issue. I don't think there are problems of food security in modern, developed countries. And if there are, it means it was already being fragile in the first place.
Well it does take some fertilizer to grow mushrooms.

Simple rf energy education in high school proves its baseless.

Oh right. We're screwed
Yes, we consider ourselves an “open core” company. Timely and differential, the core compute engine, are fully open source projects, but the Materialize layer atop is licensed under the “Business Source License” (BSL).

We think the BSL strikes a good balance between giving back to the community—four years after every release, the code is automatically relicensed under Apache 2—and ensuring we can build a viable business. And you’re free to use Materialize for any purpose in a non-distributed (i.e., single node) deployment without paying for an enterprise license.
> (Can someone name a 20th century country with hyperinflation that wasn't under sanctions or involved in a war?)

But in contrast, can anyone name a 20th century country with deflationary policy who broke under sanctions or came off badly when involved in a war?

Flirting with deflation is much safer policy than flirting with inflation. Although a fair point that hyperinflation is associated with cascades of failures that still suggests that flirting with high inflation is more destabilising than flirting with very low credit levels. If anyone responded to cascades of failures by highly deflationary policy they don't seem to have made it into the well-known-failed-states pile.

Japan is a pretty classic tried-deflation example and they ended up a really stable, well organised society that honestly looks like a pretty nice place to live. Well educated. Modern. One of the leading countries on the Asian continent in fact. People complain that the rich aren't getting rich fast enough in Japan which I don't think is a great complaint.
What makes you say that? They're still not making much of a profit, but their revenue has doubled since 2015.
https://mb.cision.com/Public/14183/3035372/be360a13ae94ae9d....
Absolutely, but it's unlikely a situation like that will be improved by trying to emulate Google etc!
If you really want the historically accurate colors there are some interesting resources online:

https://www.colodore.com/
https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/
https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/2001/
The strip is made of a natural fruit. The strip dissolves, but the effect stays there for the next 30-60 minutes so no matter how much you eat you won't need another strip ;)
> (Can someone name a 20th century country with hyperinflation that wasn't under sanctions or involved in a war?)

Maybe not hyperinflation, but Turkish inflation was rarely below 60% from the late 70s until 2002, and in the last few years has been in the 15-25% range.
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I don't think I'm ready to listen to a libertarian during a pandemic.
> The same world that was all "Meh, not my problem" when I was homeless also doesn't want to hear "The world can, in fact, get through this." So I find it hugely personally grating to read this overwrought nonsense, frankly.

I know this was somewhat of a rant, but I still found this statement thought provoking and it clicked with me.

It can be exhausting to deal with this type of neglect and self limitation at times.

Being consistently empathic and positive is challenging to say the least.
My gripe with Swift (and I've written a lot of it) for purposes requiring a lot of number crunching is the performance issues associated with default use of copy-on-write types/ease of accidentally writing O(N^2) code. In Objective C the behavior was more obvious with NSMutable* types being front and center.
> What i find annoying about Rust's changes is that some of them are so trivial - they change the language for such small improvements. async/await is not in that category, for sure. But Ok-wrapping actually is. The need to Ok-wrap results is a minor annoyance at most. Ditto a bunch of the problems solved by match ergonomics changes.

So what? Then don't use them. The whole point of full backward compatibility is that you don't have to use new features. This perceived need to always use the newest feature is only in the head of some developers.

Neither in the blog post nor here do I see any reason to not make the experience better for people who want it. Even if it's just a "minor" (very subjective, I love the match ergonomics enhancements) annoyance that's fixed by it.
"The only way to make their prices go up is to reduce the amount of tomatoes produced per year, or increase people's willingness to eat them"

Or influence other people into thinking that either of those are going to happen?
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The point is that the statement in the article is just plain wrong. You are advancing quite a different argument. Some junkies do in fact clean up their act, so saying that becoming a junkie is an irreversible process is also wrong.
Yeah, look at many countries in latin america with the prime example being Argentina.

Just the same way you see drug dealers "cutting" down their product to skim some off the top and pass it on to the unknowing consumer, the newly created money becomes a way to skim money without the citizenry knowing exactly whats going on.

Monetary inflation isn't a natural law. If you don't do it, it doesn't happen.
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Ah, another attempt to attack the law of unintended consequences, I recall how this was tried in some countries and google stopped linking and desperate beggars hammered at Google's doors when their web traffic headed towards zero...
Take care of what you wish for - you may get it...
FWIW generally exploiting the government is a source of value for a lot of companies. I wouldn’t limit this to just gig economy start-ups (although it’s a fascinating case).

Take Wal-mart, whose employees are paid so low and have so few benefits they may require government assistance from housing, food, to healthcare. [1]

Additionally season businesses like construction and landscaping business dynamics are essentially built on government subsidies. Every summer they hire hourly workers during peak building season and then in the winter lay them off so they can cut costs during the less busy season. Since the employees get laid off, they collect unemployment. [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

[2] https://www.zenefits.com/workest/firing-vs-layoff-know-the-d...
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Also, annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2010 to april 2020 are 9.694% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1].

[0]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Performance
The entire gig economy is finding legal (and in the case of Uber they didn’t even bother with that) ways to evade regulations.
This is a good read: Oyo Ruined My Anniversary: https://oyo-ruined-my-anniversary.com/
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That assumes that everyone who wants to buy tomatoes is able to buy them at current prices, and that everyone who is buying tomatoes now would no longer buy them if the price went up.

If there are more dollars floating around in the economy, more people may be able to afford to buy tomatoes and more people become price insenstive (e.g. software engineers in SV do not care if tomaatoes are $2/kilo or $4/kilo, they'll still buy). As a seller you'll raise prices and see no drop in demand, ergo prices go up.
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Just what we need, blockchain crowbarred into something else it's entirely unsuited for.
`match` ergonomics don't affect already working code.

Ok-wrapping isn't a change that's been made. At best it's a hypothetical change that one person wanted to have a calm, rational discussion about with the community. Instead we get this.
My life is one long string of latching-ons, it sometimes feels like. Often at the expense of everything else.

I can't give any recommendations as far as medication goes, but for me personally this has helped:

1. therapy (or perhaps a coach) to help me jump out of my obsessions, reframe the way I see things, etc.
2. to some extent, leaning into it with a stoic/nihilistic/buddhist perspective. Basically, I get obsessed about things, sometimes these are worrying things, but instead of letting my obsession lead to depression, by reframing it as this thing that ultimately doesn't matter to me (even if it does, somehow), but also this thing I cannot stop obsessing over, it loses at least some of it's power and becomes just another obsessive 'hobby'.

So, for example, I'm obsessively following the current crisis. That is probably not very healthy to do, so I do try to not let it control my days. But practically speaking often that doesn't work. So I 'lean into it'.

I try to apply the stoic 'dichotomy of control' ("to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control"). I consider who in my surroundings I can legitimately worry about, and how I can help them (parents, calling them in their isolation, etc.).

I try to apply the stoic idea of negative visualization: what if I get infected, or a loved one does? how would I deal with it. like, in detail and practically. how would I feel about it in a few years? what, if anything, could result from that that is positive? Bittersweet at best?

I try to apply the zen/buddhist/(nihilist) thoughts: what does any of it matter anyways? what can I do today, or right now, that feels like a good thing to do, without the what-ifs and buts. I can do the dishes. I can listen to a corona-centered podcast while I do it if I feel like, but at least I can do the dishes. or send a message to a friend abroad and ask them how things are (just reminded myself and did this while I'm writing this comment).

None of this solves anything, but I find it can often help. And the better I can help myself deal with these obsessions and anxieties (or panic), the more useful I can be to others. or at least less pointlessly destructive to myself.
Honest question. Why are languages like C# and Java not more heavily considered?
> go1.14.2 includes fixes to cgo, the go command, the runtime, os/exec, and testing packages

Nothing interesting in these releases
So your company prevents you from downloading vetted apps from the AppStore but will let you install random apps downloaded on the internet? Well that’s a good one!
App Store is disabled on my enterprise mac, same for my last job. I think it's fairly common.
Qt has a commercial license. So what is the issue with big money again? They don't want to pay up?
Goodhart's law says that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - This is what happened with inflation. The government's dual goal of attempting to measure inflation while at the same time keeping it low cannot possibly work.

In our fiat monetary system, there are plenty of incentives for people to hide the real inflation numbers. The kind of inflation we have right now mostly affects the stock market - That's why speculative investments like Bitcoin, Snapchat and Uber are so valuable; not being backed by any net intrinsic value makes them a good benchmark against which to measure real inflation. You could even argue that Bitcoin is backed by negative value (since it costs Bitcoin owners money to keep miners and the network running). So the problem is worse than you think.

Stocks are also a good measure of inflation. Many public companies are backed by real economic value but the value of this activity is often greatly exaggerated... Also, some stocks produce net negative value for society.

Being able to earn revenue or even profits doesn't necessarily mean that a company delivers net positive value to the economy. If the money is obtained through trickery or coercion, then the company adds net negative value. For example, companies like Oracle which derive most of their earnings from socially counterproductive litigation and ill-gotten government contracts add significant negative value to society and yet they are highly profitable. I would argue that companies like Facebook add close to 0 net value; they add a lot of positive value and also a lot of negative value.

There is no doubt that the fiat monetary system is to blame. big companies are essentially getting free money from the rest of us; when the Fed injects new money into the economy, big corporations are the first to get their hands into the pot. Big companies know where the newly printed Fed credit is flowing and they have the political and business connections to extract it. If we don't do something it will get worse. Big companies have shown over and over again that they cannot be trusted.

It's deeply frustrating that, as an honest working citizen, I constantly have to bear witness to the elites receiving free credit over and over while I am enslaved to them under some pretext that they somehow deserve their share. The fact that the information is out there in the public domain and yet nobody seems to be doing anything about it is disturbing.

My conclusion is that people are either evil, stupid or both. I guess people have not changed much since the time of slavery or the holocaust. Exactly the same kind of people running the show it seems. Even if you disagree with what I'm saying, you should at least support the intent.

Unfortunately, I don't have any research to back my claims... Can you think of a single corporation who would sponsor such research? Exactly. This perspective that I'm sharing is doomed to remain in the domain of 'fake news'. The idea of 'fake news' is a weapon invented by the elites to discredit any information that is not aligned with hypercapitalist incentives.
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Look again. The 2015-2020 increases dwarf the 2010-2015 increases. What changed?
For learning layouts using flexbox I highly recommend Wes Bos https://flexbox.io/
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Russian mercy mission to Italy is a front for intelligence gathering
This might be the most HN on-brand comment I've ever seen
To be fair, Apple has rectified this flaw by writing the Mac App Store, where applications can't pull these shenanigans and are properly sandboxed from one another.
This is exactly what Focusmate does (founder here).

If you check it out I'd love to know what you think!
Assuming the project is a library or a tool that people will need to somehow embed in their program I wouldn't go with GPL. It has some restrictions that are for various reasons hard to accept for a large amount of clients. People try arguing that "you could do this or that to accommodate" but the fact is that many for-profit corporations, even those working with open projects, will have a no-GPL policy. Also with the current trend for web services and what not GPL can be worked around, hence the AGPL.

I'd probably go with LGPL and commercial plugins that enhance the functionality. But this depends on the product having some features that could be mainly useful for companies but not really for individuals.
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well that's interesting! i have to look that up again. i have it in our on boarding manual to not install it from the app store for that specific reason. thanks for the update
I agree which is why I write SNAFU

https://docs.rs/snafu/0.6.6/snafu/
There's quite a difference of scale between the staff of a particular shop knowing what I'm up to when at that shop, but nothing else, and what amounts to automated surveillance tracking me around vast swathes of my (online) life and trying to aggregate everything together in one single profile.
The point isn’t about what you think the economy “cares about”. You mention commodity products which are a part of the picture, but they are all depreciating assets.

In the end, there is an increased amount of money in the system. That money is looking for returns. Investors flood into the asset classes where they think they can find returns. This means collectibles increase in prices, but other (more common) assets like education, housing, and stocks have also increase considerably.
> without punishing failure

Why not punish failure?
Does anyone here use Copperspice? Saw it mentioned elsewhere as a possible alternative. Theyre a kind of fork of Qt5, ditched the moc, and seem to be ran as a regular Floss project. I have no experience with it, but I do with Qt, which I like very much, so if there are users of Copperspice here I'd be very interested in your experience.
By the way, what’s the status of ristretto255? The latest version of the internet-draft [0] expired a while ago.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hdevalence-cfrg-ristr...
Here is a succinct case by a smart economist about why we didn't get inflation after the GFC, but will get it this time:

https://voxeu.org/article/future-imperfect-after-coronavirus
Face shields also stop you from accidentally touching your face through habit which is the main transmission vector
How come you can get the flu twice?

This makes no sense. It's not the antibodies, it's the virus itself - it can mutate.
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The height for me was when Chris talked about the Python integration, somewhere after 0:24:30. Marco asks jokingly: "can you also do PHP integration?" Chris is silent for two seconds, then continues as though nobody said anything :-)

To be fair, he does answer the question a minute later.
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The State governments did it intentionally. Every govenor that locked down will lose reelection. Maybe even lose their life.
Maybe versioning for models?
AD still explodes for “interesting” derivatives: efficiently computing the adjoint of the Jacobian is NP-complete. And, naturally, the Jacobian is what you want when doing machine learning. There’s papers from the mid-90’s discussing the difficulties in adding AD Jacobian operators to programming languages to support neural networks. This article is just rehashing 25 year old problems.
The actual joke was the reference to Prince -- the only artist to consistently refuse Al's requests to parody his music.
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A modest ergonomic desk, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Helf_yrTn0
Syntactic sugar has been a big point of confusion in my path to learning Rust.

Often I think I have understood something, try to verify by doing the wrong thing, but then because of sy tactic sugar it still works.

Two recent things come to mind:

- Automatic dereferencing, which can dereference arbitrarily long chains of indirection. This makes it hard to figure out which types I have.

- That `match` somehow accepts a reference to an enum, and then magically turns it into an enum over references.

Not that I don't think these will be worth it in the long run, but it makes the language harder to learn.
How long we have to stay in quarantine?
Material ui uses flexbox for it's grid. You can learn all about flexbox here[1]. In material-ui a <Grid /> can either be a container or an item. Check the documentation for the Grid element which has all the props available which should translate pretty well to the css in the webpage above i.e. flex-direction will be the "direction" prop in the Grid element if I'm not mistaken (on mobile, don't have access to the documentation rn)

[1] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
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It would be easy enough to create a fold-down wrist rest at the front of the box to alleviate some of the comfort issues he mentions.
2010, when you say the fed
started printing money

I did not say the FED started printing money in 2010. I said nothing about the time before 2010 or about the future.

Your argument would have been much more precise and useful if you focussed on the same timeframe as I did: 2010-2020. Mixing it with the time before and what you read in the charts for the future muddled it to a degree that I find it hard to reply.
It is not fully backwards compatible between editions, though.
A lot of issues come with recessions. Hospitals get underfunded. Poverty generates problems such as addiction, health issues, depression. Crime raises. And so on...
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