skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only problem with signal is they way it announces when a contact gets it. It should be opt in. Many people might not want every contact they've put into their phone over the last decade to know that they got or have signal. It's a nice idea to think that everyone has only contacts they would want to share signal with bit that's not the reality on the ground.

Aside from that, it's really gotten pretty good. I've been running it since the red phone days or what ever that app was called before signal.
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> When you travel to Iran you need to make sure you don't get arrested by iranian regime because they have a history of taking dual nationals as hostage.

Isn't it trivial for them to catch you at the border if they wanted to do it?
This is appropriate for Reddit, not HN.
Love this just for the Sandwich videos alone!

No I gave it 15 minutes and it's amazing. Congratulations!
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If there is one thing that the UK government gets praise for by the general public, it has to be gov.uk (secretly).

Everything else, they're at the top of the Tower of Blame.
It's a bit confusing what he's arguing against. But his 2nd-last graph is the good one, [1]. That's only 20 years but [2] is the same thing since 1950.

Some things have become much cheaper, other things have become more expensive. Attempting to summarize that in one number seems like it hides more than it exposes, no matter what number you pick.

[1] https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/...

[2] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wh...
It is my understanding that the biggest issue with Control Panel is 3rd party control panel widgets that would be incompatible with any wholesale changes. That may of course just be the official party line too...
I found the “Price Changes” graph about 2/3 down the page really alarming.

Virtually all of the gains in the form of lowered prices are purely in discretionary consumption and subsistence goods. Cheap entertainment, toys, staple foods.

Meanwhile the insane price increases are in critical needs, medical care, housing, college education.

In my mind that graph is pretty strong evidence that there really is massive inflation and the idea of “asset inflation” does exist, contrary to the author’s lead point that it should be seen as normal growth of value.

For most people, if you show them this data and said, “see, low inflation, don’t worry...” they are rightfully going to be pissed off. “Low inflation” except in everything that really matters for health, home ownership and betterment for my children.

I guess I should just thank the monetary policy overlords for my cheap Netflix while we all die of cancer under the thumb of landlords and all our economic participation from labor dwindles and continues to lose purchasing power for what we most need.
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Talk about making a news story out of nothing! Here's the job ad directly from Microsoft (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/922184/Senior-Softwa...):

> The Windows Core User Experiences team builds interfaces for Windows and Surface Hub customers around the world, and we’re looking for a collaborative, inclusive and customer obsessed engineer to help us build the future of Windows Experiences!

> On this team, you’ll orchestrate and deliver experiences that ensure Windows is a great user experience for our customers.

> You will have the opportunity to build delightful, polished, experiences for Windows as well as for our Surface Hub product line. You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and identifying business opportunities for Windows experiences. We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical acumen to help us accomplish these goals.

> We have a wide spectrum of fantastic opportunities to further advance your career and expand your skillset – from building UI using the latest cutting-edge XAML technologies, designing new APIs in conjunction with the our platform team partners, to interfacing with hardware teams to build the essential platform and infrastructure in our OS - as well as working directly with our customers to understand their needs and deliver magical software that exceeds their expectations!

How do they get from that to "This UI refresh will reportedly include an overhaul to the Start Menu, Action Center and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps" is my question?

Sounds like a normal job ad for any UI or design related engineer.
Maybe we'll get lucky and create an API that allows you to use Linux desktop environments.
> Those two rights deal with determining citizenship at birth.

Citizenship is always first determined at birth. This isn't relevant to the discussion.

> The common sense idea deals with the probability of someone (already born) being of a certain citizenship given their parents' location.

That would be "ius soli". As opposed to "ius sanguinis".

It's also not a "probability". These are principles which are formally enshrined in nationality laws and very much determine travel, migration and national security policies in different nations. Including the United States.

These are not "common sense" either.

These are laws which come with a long historical pedigree which includes identity politics, economic policies, moral and ideological values, and so on.

They are also very much subject to change through the dominant politics of the day.

> Not allegiance, citizenship. Different, but similar concept again.

I'm not willing to engage in a semantic discussion.
In 2019, I would have guessed wrong about how a hypothetical COVID-19 would play out.

I'd have pointed out that the US would unequivocally be one of the best nations at recovering from such a challenge:

- Spent the prior 4 years warning the world that something like this could happen
- Well prepared for this eventuality (stockpiles), have recently conducted dry run rehearsals for this exact eventuality, until recently had a funded unit of government for exactly this scenario
- Has world leading healthcare
- Has world leading pharma industry
- Has money, scientists, doctors & other resources out the wazoo
- Is a competent nation with a history of excellent execution in almost all theatres

Conversely i'd have argued totalitarian regimes would have performed the worst because of the politics of a regime like that - everything gets covered up. You'd have insufficient visibility to even begin to mount an effective response.
And gov.uk's clear design looks better than most of the wild wild web out there, to be honest.
Github fixes the problem that most users have with git (but are ashamed / too ignorant to admit): That it is de-centralized.
Why not? They use Stripe in some places.
Does string theory only have one parameter? I was under the impression that you also had to insert some very complicated underlying geometry into spacetime (the extra dimensions), which I would count as more parameters.
This is the same in the US, yes. And it's still the correct thing to do.

Inflation can't be a measure of every dimension of economic hardship at once. As the article points out, healthcare has risen in cost dramatically more than most other things. Does that mean that somehow the inflation rate must reflect the pains of those households not in the average and aggregate?

Less capable goods may no longer be available. You can no longer purchase a Model T, and must purchase a car that's faster, safer, more comfortable, and more reliable. Even if you don't particularly value that, your car objectively is faster, safer, more comfortable, and more reliable. The inflation rate can't change because your preferences are for a cheaper, but inferior good.
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The Google play version was crippled beyond being practical anyway. Can't SMS, can't GPS, no access to address book.

The usable version is from F-Droid. And I had to install that one just to install Termux. No need to root your phone. Simply install F-Droid app store, and install from there.
that was an interesting rabbit hole you sent me into, thanks for sharing!
Look for Kelly criterion for the whole field on how to cook entropy
Tried both, Adobe Scan and Office Lens, and liked MS one more, because its default “auto” filter produced more legible documents (better contrast and brigthness) than the Adobe’s “auto”, IMO.
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Unlikely to happen soon and also happen all at once. Device manager, Log viewer and a bunch of other system tools basically look the same as they've done since I think the 90s. Nothing wrong with that, the stuff works and changing it will just incur extra costs for everyone involved.
> reportedly

They reported it. It's now reportedly. And all other sites can also mention "reportedly" as well now too.
> Sure, please let me know how the EU plans to build Office 365, AWS, GitHub competitors of similar scale, quality and success.

There are no such plans. EU wields a lot of regulatory power. The most likely path of action would be to force MS/Amazon/etc. to spin-off their EU side of the business. And I believe that the companies have already prepared for this.
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Huh... This is interesting. Can I install packages using it?

Because AFAIK Apple doesn't allow installation of packages.
The easiest way is probably to define a private subtype of string (type small_string = private string) with smart constructors that enforces the restriction at runtime. This often means that creating such values may fail, but if you have a value of this type you are assured that the constraint on the size holds.
Windows just adds this stuff and keeps the old cruft (in some cases it’s necessary because the Win 10 network settings are so awfully lacking you need the legacy option). We now have settings dating back to Win 95 with no uniform guideline concept or lack of vision.
> Talk about making a news story out of nothing! ....

The article states your post is the job posting after it was edited. The original had the text:

"On this team, you'll work with our key platform, Surface, and OEM partners to orchestrate and deliver a sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences to signal to our customers that Windows is BACK and ensure that Windows is considered the best user OS experience for customers"
While there are things to improve—better UI scaling, type rendering, dark mode, touch compatibility—I personally would like to see a return to simplicity.

The Windows UI has been inconsistent and weird since Windows 2000 (or XP if you turned off the Sesame Street theme).
Why is it okay to say South African virus variant but not Wuhan virus, or even just Chinese virus?
Yeah, I'm fine with phone numbers. It's skating to the puck in the world we live(d) in when they built it out.

The way they inform which users in your contacts have signal should be opt.
The final graph on median home mortgage payments is misleading too. That can be propped up by REITs and increasing institutional ownership of consumer homes.

There’s also the issue of more millennials living with parents and relatives, unable to afford their own homes, which can be hidden in that.

Definitely can’t conclude from it that wages and purchasing power have kept up with mortgage costs.
> Dog inherits from Animal. Cat inherits from Animal. Just override .eat() and BAM! Dinner's served!

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This is a fundamental problem with inflation calculation. How much would an iPhone be worth in the 1800's? How much would the Federal government have paid for a gigabit internet connection 100 years ago? Considering they spent tens of millions of dollars developing the Arpanet, I would say that the cost of internet has fallen dramatically.

Inflation calculations are only meaningful over short time periods. When chained over decades and centuries, we may as well be comparing two foreign currencies and societies.
I don't think the hardware will change much in the future anymore.
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I think his point is that the same source numbers are used to calculate both inflation and GDP. If you suppress inflation by undervaluing goods and services you also suppress GDP. You could get away with divergence if your didn't provide your data, but at least in the US, you can see all the input data.
I'm hoping they finally bring native tabs to their file explorer. It's annoying to have to open multiple windows if you want to browse multiple directories. In addition, I'm hoping for a "column view" like mac has.
It shouldn't be surprising that an economy will grow to depend on copyright if it exists and is enforceable.

It's really a strange, indirect way to go about it, though. It doesn't in itself incentivize further work (a lot of the music I still regularly pay for was recorded by dead artists in defunct studios, so no incentive short of Frankenstein will compel them to make more) and it may or may not cover the investment the artist/studio made in terms of actual work and equipment costs.

The up front costs is in creating and recording the music, which consumers could pay for instead of copies. A lot of creative artists are already taking this approach with crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Patreon.

Even now, it's probably true for most musicians that sales of copies isn't particularly lucrative compared to concerts/work for hire/project contracts, while recordings have an ever increasing number of pockets to line before the artists get their take. It's a potentially infinite revenue source, so why not?
All of the low inflation items are also goods that can be manufactured overseas.
This looks wonderful.

I may be missing it from the description, but when I think "procedural" I think that I should be able to change the variables with math, or at the very least increment variables. Are there any examples of that?

For example, I would think I could play a scale with something like

save myPlayable = C1 for 1b
do
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For anyone that's tried them both - how does it compare to krisp.ai?

I've been using Krisp since the start of 2020 and have been really happy with both its audio performance and that it doesn't seem to use excessive CPU/GPU, not to mention that it doesn't require nvidia hardware. Krisp is a paid, closed source product however.
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Not again. Now, anno 2021, it's so messy with all different UI-kits they've standardized in the past 20+ years that a Linux desktop looks clean in comparison.
I would absolutely use this for work and personal projects. But, couldn't one easily manipulate another person's work and falsely present it?
I think it's the opposite. When you're FANG or a nation state preparedness doesn't matter. You have strings to pull to get fair treatment.

If you're a small guy you get screwed and have no practical means of recourse. The little people are the ones who need to care about this kind of stuff.
This is the main advantage of western democracies, right? Institutions and the day to day running of the country are separate to the executive.
GitLab, Gitea or others provide most, if not all, and in some cases even more features than GitHub. Theiy are fully or partially Open Source and they are easy to host.

You need to compare the cost of self-hosting to the cost of SaaS - INCLUDING the risk of getting locked out.

One downside of the SaaS model is that you are just a very small customer in the bigger scheme and they can't really justify spending money on servicing you. Let's say you are company of 5 people, paying 50 bucks a month for a service - how many hours per year can they spend on servicing you before you become a net-negative account? You much power do you have in a negotiation if you are a net-negative account?
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Yeah, the distributed part failed because of economies of scale and how they apply to the miners.
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Terrorist acts are only part of it though. Sure 9/11 was cheap but implementing punitive sanctions across countries hundreds officials requires an awful lot of tracking and monitoring.

As regulators catch up you can expect same forms and reporting for any crypto account as a regular account. If you ignore the rules expect big penalties until you comply- just like how banks have been paying billions in fines and are now tarpits of paperwork.
> https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/...

Also: the items in the category with decreasing prices are almost all automatically mass-producable and will have the advantage of learning (i.e. increased production efficiency and decreased cost with increasing number of items produced) while the ones in the other category aren’t necessarily. Childcare/nursery isn’t going to become cheaper just because you’ve more experience with the job.

College textbooks really stand out though. These should not have to become more expensive. They are written once and printed cheaply thereafter. I wonder what the curve for other types of books looks like but my guess is that other books have not seen these increases and this is purely money-making.