skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are resources outside the CPI or individual verticals, to measure inflation.

No, there are not. CPI is about measuring consumables that one needs to live: food, shelter (either rent or mortgage carrying costs), utilities, clothing, etc. If you want to measure something outside of this basket of goods, then use another word, because "inflation" / CPI is already taken and you're overloading it and causing confusion by conflating different things.

This "index" is garbage. Please see "Inflation Truthers":

> But if we take away the outlier 2020 data points, the average real annual GDP growth from 2010-2019 was 2.3%. The inflation rate in that time averaged roughly 1.8% per year.

> If you’re one of the conspiracy people who believe inflation has actually been running at 5-6% per year, that would assume the economy has been contracting by 1-3% per year over the past 10 years.

> And if you’re a full tinfoil hat person who assumes inflation is actually 10-12% per year, that’s like saying we’ve been in a full-blown depression and the economy has lost 80% of its value.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644580

So if the GDP grew "only" ~2.5%, then any inflation above that (as the 'truthers' claim), would mean were actually in a recession/depression for the last decade… which makes no sense. If inflation is >5% (per the truthers), then the economic growth would have had to been on top of that, for a nominal growth rate of >7%.

Has anyone been claiming a US GDP growth of 7% or more?
Another misconception that has to die is that governments can get away with printing money indefinitely. The concept itself is not new: Roman Empire also did the same, shortly before its fall. Soviet block countries did that before 1989. Venezuela and Zimbabwe also did it. See the common theme here?
But I took 10 samples.

Let's take it to the extreme. Lets say the test had 100 questions.

If out of all the people who took the test, one person got a score of 100/100 out of 10 million people who took the test it means that there are meaningful differences, it's just that most people can't identify those differences.
Yes. Protecting innocent people from getting caught in the fallout.

It seems the idea is to make (extended) phone tracking unviable and therefore stop the practice; not to enable criminals, but to avoid the side effect, which are perceived not worth the risk (in GPs opinion).
There’s likely enough people continuing to support. As well: if needed there’s exercising the option to set the next feature at the next highest MRR goal.
> over time they become valuable contributors

That's the hope is to bring some more people into OS contributions who haven't tried it out before.

I have funded a couple issues at like $25 that were marked "Good First Issue". And I've had people reach out saying they were excited to have done their first pull request.
Don't most neural networks already do free energy minimization? Just about any information theoretic objective can be interpreted that way...
Semantic Linefeeds
Yea, that was my understanding. But its not an error of omission, the article specifically stresses its the API for 32 bits twice in the first two sentences of the article.
I do wonder what will really end up as the alternative though. The yuan and euro both have major structural issues of their own.
Will dig into this. Thanks for the heads up.
There is one significant thing that C has and C++ has not; a stable ABI. This is particularly important if you want to create a library that can be shared and used by everyone. You cannot do that with C++ without a lot of caveats. Google, for instance, forbid creating libraries in C++ for good reasons. Creating a C++ library with a C ABI sounds stupid. I.e. if the library’s functions and types can be presented as simple C, you have already folded down to C and C++ is just an implementation detail and you will probably also have to static link libstdc++. That’s no longer a small, simple library anymore. The stable ABI makes C also famously easy to include and inter opt with other languages and frameworks. Swift for example can easily utilize C libraries and code but cannot inter opt with C++ (yet, apparently it’s wip)
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What is "it"? If you punched the mayor in a bar would you be surprised all the local establishments kick you out as well?
Isn't the Washington Post owned by Bezos? It seems like it would be better to have another news outlet for this particular story.
Yes implementing it shortly!
That one email from Datos looking pretty professional. I don't know what their business is about, but they don't necessarily seem like scammers per se.
The true increase in the cost of living is much higher than the official CPI.

CPI is nearly completely worthless for identifying inflation in the cost of living, which is what actually matters.
In the early months of quarantine, I sat down and created a new Pen and Paper RPG I had in mind. Months have passed and life has moved on, but I wanted to release it to the public so it didn't just on my harddrive, lost to eternity.

Smiley vs. Karla is an espionage role-playing game for 3 to 5 players set in the world of John Le Carré's cold war spy novels.

Unlike most pen and paper role playing games, Smiley vs. Karla is not a strictly collaborative game. Each player has a private objective which may conflict with the objectives of other players.

The game is played by 3-4 player characters, who play as spies employed by the British intelligence services ("The Circus"), and one Spy Master, who controls the context of the adventure and plays as the non-player characters, some of whom will be assets of the Russian intelligence services ("Moscow Centre").

Collectively, players are trying to achieve the assignments ordered by Smiley, the British spymaster and to foil the objectives of Karla, the Russian spymaster.

However, each player also has a private goal that only they know about. These goals may conflict with and supersede the collective goal, particularly if their role is as a double-agent for Karla.

The group wins if they successfully complete Smiley's mission and an individual wins if they complete their own.

Prelude in London, a complete one-shot campaign, based in the 1960's criminal underworld of London, is available here:

https://github.com/Miserlou/Karla/blob/master/Prelude_in_Lon...

My group ran it as a one shot-campaign and had a lot of fun, especially with accents and moments where we got to try to betray and undermine each other.

Anyway, I know it's not super hackery, but I thought there might be some community overlap, so I wanted to share.

Cheers!
Well, that sounds worrying.
Space craft are run at much less than 1 atm.
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This is untrue. Housing is part of the CPI, and you can see everything that's included here:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2019.txt
Is there a specific reason Procs weren’t used? I didn’t see a reason mentioned in the article.
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Noise from vehicles in North America is incessant and pretty much not regulated/enforced whatsoever. Even electric vehicles are just as loud at speeds greater than about ~30 mph. You can hear it all hours of the day if you are within several miles of an interstate.
So, computers are getting closer to human-like mistakes.
Haha, on our country we get things like this from japan. It's FUN mixing and matching parts that work. Some are hard to find drivers (LOOKING AT YOU NEC) but a good positive is most parts are durable / quality parts.
GitHub Sponsors community[0] now performs suggestions based on project dependencies on an organization/personal level, which is a start.

----

Other platforms have better discoverability UX than GitHub, but nowhere near the standard proposed by your post:

Open Collective[1] - supports one-time donations

Liberapay[2] - Recurrent, but supports "manual" renewal of donations

IssueHunt[3] - one time payment for issue sponsorship

[0]: https://github.com/sponsors/community

[1]: https://opencollective.com/discover?show=open%20source

[2]: https://liberapay.com/explore/

[3]: https://issuehunt.io/r
Funny, I did that, too. This was right about when the IBM XT came out, and the company's spares room was a mixture of original IBM PC's, IBM minicomputers of various vintages, dumb terminals, and teletype machines.

I remember putting together a bunch of IBM PC systems, loaded up with all kinds of things they didn't need like SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Communicator) cards "just in case."
I still have the original VisualAge for Java installation CD. Came from Smalltalk and wanted to have a similar IDE for Java. After initial releases IBM didn't make any new version for a long time... they built the Eclipse in "stealth mode" and released it as open-source... and made VisualAge for Java obsolete...
> Stopping the influx of bots before they do damage is important.

Why?
Erich Gamma worked for Object Technology when VisualAge was being developed so using XP/Agile before the XP book does not surprise me.

I worked with Erich before Visual Age when he developed the Presentation Framework. He came up with a process identical to XP. When XP came out I realized that Erich and Kent Beck were friends.

Erich is so prolific that he doesn't remember everything he invented. He is also generous.
Does your company log every select query you do on your prod db? If yes, does it automatically raise alerts when PII is accessed?

I'm genuinely asking, I have never seen such a setup.
Are these methods actually used by police, or are these speculations based on the sort of inferences police could draw?
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> Don't ever, ever admit that you protest something the left does

What does the political issue (left or right) have to do with this? Isn’t this a discussion about the surveillance state?

In this case that people become suspects because they happened to be near a riot.
That’s a good point. Sadly COTA doesn’t host a lot of amateur or public events. I would love to drive around it. I’ve driven around a few international tracks, like Spa, Zandvoort, Silverstone... it’s amazing how accessible to the public some of those famous tracks are.
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I didn't use JBuilder, perhaps it was wonderful. Until IDEA (and Eclipse) most people I knew were using their favorite text editor, such as Emacs, vi, or Notepad++. Each one had some benefits, but I never had that ease of use I had when IDEA came out. This is all subjective, but I'm surprised people thought that the ergonomics of the language were pretty good before 2000.
Yes my underwear is going to offset the rising prices of homes, education, healthcare, etc. Also even your example is incorrect, the iphone price keeps rising at a healthy clip. They can now be $1300.
Depends on whether you consider the people doing warrantless tracking to be criminals.

Obviously people doing tracking with warrants will have useless data too and stop asking for that kind of dataset.
Fantastic!! I had a feeling that if I posted this, someone would point me to a tool that does exactly that. Just signed up, thanks!
It’s pretty obvious what infatica is doing and while I agree it’s shady, I wouldn’t call it a scam.

Peer-to-peer proxy doesn’t mean a botnet, at least not how I think most people think that to mean. Rather they are routing traffic through residential IPs for a number of customers. $25-45/1000 users sounds exactly within the margins of a VPN provider (they even mention hola.org in the 3rd email, which is $2.99/m per ‘premium’ user or free if you become a node in the network) and residential proxies are also commonly used for scraping and other IP-sensitive work, again within those margins.

I didn’t find the code sample to be obfuscated, it was actually quite clear. It establishes a web socket with a server and simply passes requests through an endpoint, I.e. literally just a proxy.

All that said, it’s definitely shady to put this in your extension without users knowing. But, if you need to monetize something free, and make at least a good effort to inform users or allow them to opt out, and we trust infatica doesn’t allow illegal use of its proxy network, then I don’t really see the problem.

There’s a real need for residential IPs, no market to give each user $.025 and I can’t really fault someone for making a business out of this.

Edit: I also find irony that the author labels datos.live a “scammer” when in fact they are a very legitimate business engaged in similar data collection to what Google already does. ...The same author who published an extension (in the Chrome Store) for YouTube
> What happens to your currency in that process is debasement/hyperinflation.

Japan may disagree with that assessment:

* Interest rate: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRJPM193N

* Inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN

* YEN-USD: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXJPUS
The biggest thing I see missing from other platforms are event pages and groups: the one/many-to-many style posting. This combination is what facebook essentially has a monopoly on. The ability to make these private or public is essential as well. I think mastodon would be a good replacement if they added groups and event pages, but I'm not sure.
I believe the "scammer" parts comes from them wanting to leech data off the users of the given extensions. They are upfront about their intentions, I think, so scammer is maybe not the appropriate term. "Scummer" maybe.
Loom question: I gather that it basically has implicit awaits, so how do you “force no-await” so you can run operations concurrently?
Kubernetes API Structure Visualised
Should be feasible to track all contacts for covid cases through existing intelligence infrastructure. But we don't.
Not sure if that is relevant for you, but npm hints to dependencies which are looking for funding. There is even a command „npm fund“ I think?
I guess I was also guilty of jumping to stereotypes. But looking at OP instagram, it looks like he/she is a woodworker. So I guess it's pretty reasonable he's taking a knife with him (and being picky about it too).
I find it resembles the techniques we find ourselves doing in software engineering. Given good practice clear logs of events for traceability. As in a mass outage which everyone sees, which can be tracked backwards for root cause analysis and well as interviews with anyone connected to systems or vicinity at the time of event.

As in cases of anyone possibly interacting with a production server, there may be interviews with those who may have "logged in" or accessed to such systems to help find a root cause.
I'm sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't take the bait but, hey, you played a GAME that was structured such that you'd have a 50/50 shot of being right. Rather than assume that the balance of demographics in the photos were waited towards that game's premise, 50/50 split, you used your own biased heuristic and happened to get a good score. You happened to get a set of 10 that included no female language developers. I had a mixed set. 8 coin flips out of 10 of heads is not special. I had a heuristic too and I'm probably equally wrong about it meaning something. I'm being honest with myself, though.
Banking as is depending upon, not financial services.
The sad part is NextGen was supposed to allow planes to approach at higher altitudes and descend with engines idled to reduce noise.
Could it be that systematic cross-posting is rated unfavorably by the moderator bot? I think this is what harms the most the platform.
> But you can encode fulfilment into a smart contract for physical goods, assuming that those physical goods have some digital representation on-chain.

But why would I want to? Unlike a smart contract for some verifiable code-based outcome it doesn't offer any guarantees I get paid, which I still rely on the courts for, it just adds complexity and unfamiliar risk.

> An alternative viewpoint is that a centralized database manager can be seen as a potential risk

Sure, in theory it can be. But relative to all the other potential supply chain risks, the ERP cloud vendor colluding with a part of the supply chain to remove records from or silently update a datastore is pretty near the bottom of the list in terms of likelihood, expected cost and chances of it not being glaringly obvious to other parties and used as evidence of bad faith on their part in court.

To be clear, I'm not saying blockchain can't be used as a datastore, I'm saying that overall its about as useful for mitigating supply chain risk as insurance against your spouse committing identity fraud is for mitigating potential problems with marriage.
For what it's worth, some kit planes are now using the Rotax 915iS (Newer injected variant of the 914) for 4-seaters [1]. This engine puts out 135 continous up to 15,000 ft. For comparison, a given Lycoming 161HP non-turbo engine (requiring 100LL) shouldn't run above 75% continous (120HP), and can't put out more than this above 9,000 ft [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_Aircraft_Sling_TSi
[2] https://encoreflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Piper-Wa... Page 100
The article is extremly US centric. This is also the rrason I no longer watch the 8bit guy. Im getting older and am annoyed by this history rewriting.
I like to think of it as phantom cloning. You physically could be where you normally are at home, or out somewhere else with no phone, or out somewhere else with a burner. All while what people normally use to identify you is moving around randomly.

There are plenty of times I wish I was connected but not tracked all the time because I get distracted with my device easily while Im just not used to being with no connectivity any more. Hiking, running errands, you name it.

Might as well pollute the data set for everyone else while you’re at.
I'm always puzzled by posts like this.

What is your purpose in posting this kind of extreme message claiming privacy is dead? Do you want people to give up on privacy and surrender themselves? Or, do you want people to be inspired to fight for more privacy? I would like to know what you intend for me as the reader to take away from this message, if you wouldn't mind clarifying.
Didn’t JNI allow that kind of integration?
> Most of the people who went to DC did so peacefully and lawfully.

The story is about phones near the capitol building, not attendees at the Trump rally near the White House and certainly not the entirety of DC.

Most of the people at the capitol seem to have breached the perimeter, in fact. I haven't seen any coverage of a static demonstration that stayed outside the barricades anywhere. Once those fences went down the whole mob went across.

Can you point to the people at the capitol you think were incorrectly snared by this surveillance?
Malware found on laptops given out by government
I found a couple pages, apparently an embedded focused language, appears to just be C with Classes.

https://www.embedded.com/b-a-programming-language-for-small-...
> As long as much of the world’s trade is settled in US dollars, there is a demand for them, and some demand for US treasuries.

Which is also why the US tends to have a trade deficit:

> The Triffin dilemma or Triffin paradox is the conflict of economic interests that arises between short-term domestic and long-term international objectives for countries whose currencies serve as global reserve currencies. This dilemma was identified in the 1960s by Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin,[1] who pointed out that the country whose currency, being the global reserve currency, foreign nations wish to hold, must be willing to supply the world with an extra supply of its currency to fulfill world demand for these foreign exchange reserves, thus leading to a trade deficit.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
The question is what the non-crime use case is. I can't think of such a thing. In any event, having your phone in an uber with a bunch of other phones and not following "normal" uber ride patterns would be yet another detectable pattern.
Yeah I get that. That was the case at my last job as well. But I also said "can you ask in foo channel?" several times a day, every day. It truly got old and was a pretty big distraction. That's why whenever nohello comes up, I make my original comment.
I used superglue because the special rearview mirror glue was pretty expensive. And the latter failed anyway, which is why I was looking to glue it back on.

I was also suspicious of the special rearview mirror glue being special. For example, I have a VHS head cleaner tape that comes with magic head cleaner fluid, refills cost $$$$. One sniff told me what it was - alcohol. I use alcohol with it, and it works just great.

I also remember years ago you could buy special vinyl record cleaning fluid for $$$$. It's just vinyl. I use liquid dish detergent, which does a superb job. Doesn't hurt the vinyl one bit, and all the grease, dirt, hair, and who-knows-what-that-is is all gone. (I buy old records at the thrift store because I like the easy listening style from the 60s and 70s.)
changed with some urgency descriptor like "when you get time" or "boss wants it by COB, will call in a couple hours in case you haven't seen this". I agree that Hi is not enough. Have a purpose and convey it. We're all adults here. Email is probably still better for this and less "conversational"
This would make a great vlog...

how did he source them? and what is the script to diagnose each PI?
Thanks for the feedback. I went ahead and opened an issue to pull together some better detail in the FAQ: https://github.com/rysolv/rysolv/issues/20

> RSS, Newsletter
Definitely something we want to pull together. And I think it would be a great way to keep people engaged on the site.

Something like: "10 new Python bounties posted this week" based on what languages people choose.
Wow that is unspeakably horrible. Truly inexcusable.
Under the conventional definition, "inflation" exclusively refers to an increase in the general price level, so it doesn't make a ton of sense to talk about "finding" the inflation or one sector or another. An increase in prices within specific industries isn't inflation, just a price increase.

(Of course, you're free to use nonstandard definitions if you'd like, but you can't just toss other perspectives out the window because they use the conventional ones.)
More districts just means more opportunities to gerrymander.

We need multi-member districts to achieve something closer to proportional votes and reduced polarization.
Prices vary. While the price of a McD's meal may have doubled over some period of time (or space -- compare your neighborhood McD vs the one at OHare airport), MIT's billion prices project shows pretty conclusively that prices on average have been going up very slowly (< 2%/year) since the 2008 Great Recession.
Can you elaborate why? Would love to know where it falls behind and how to fix these without going the Firecracker route.
Mahatma Gandhi?

https://english.cdn.zeenews.com/sites/default/files/2020/10/...
I don't know about "better" but Maven has been the standard in my company. Personally, I like it better, call me crazy.
My macbook pro 2015 is getting slower. Its already SSD. I wonder why. Is it the OS? Maybe its the fan that I need to clean? If it is both I’m going to just make this into a Linux laptop.
Not the space faring ones for sure.
And how do you propose to unilaterally and absolutely define what a "bad actor" is?
> The fact that all protestors are being tracked

If the riotors in Portland decided to travel to DC en masse to take down the US government, to hang members of Congress, you betchya it would be the same.

I condemn all violence but there is a major difference of the context.