skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An unstated assumption in my post is that productivity growth does not continue apace. When interest rates are low, companies are incentivized to invest in lower marginal productivity investments, because those investments still remain profitable when cost of capital is low. When rates suddenly go up, a number of these investments become unprofitable: the income streams from them don't exceed the new higher interest rates companies would have to pay to roll their bonds. Therefore the central bank is stuck unable to raise rates.

Note that there is another potential ending for this: a deflationary trap like Japan is in, or like the U.S. was in from 2009-2020.

I'm betting on hyperinflation, though. The reason is that nearly all past hyperinflationary events have come from large sector shifts in aggregate demand and aggregate supply, notably when coming down from a war or transitioning from a command economy to a market economy. COVID just provided exactly such a supply/demand shock: large quantities of production were shifted into medical devices and remote work, while demand shifted away from travel, experiences, and gasoline to home improvement & home office supplies. When demand shifts back, those industries will have significantly reduced capacity, and a lot of bargaining power to raise prices. The raised prices cascade through the economy, and that's what triggers inflation.

It's like the economy is your heater, money-printing is turning up the gas because it's not getting hot enough, low productivity is not realizing that your igniter is broken, and COVID is lighting a match. Without COVID you'd just open your windows and air out the gas (although it still wouldn't fix your broken igniter). With it, we go boom.
DOBF: A Deobfuscation Pre-Training Objective for Programming Languages
Did you read my comment? I am the citation.

Wouldn't expect a snot from HN to know better.
I hope to God there will never be an alternative App Store on iOS. You want that? Android’s your answer, and you have dozens if not hundreds of vendors to choose from.

Why does everything need to be like Android, which has way higher market share anyway? How exactly will that give us more choice, if everything has to be identical?

I buy Apple products precisely because Apple has complete control over its devices, not in spite of it. Get it through your thick head.
That in my opinion is morally equivalent to fraud, although the law sees it differently. And yes it seems to happen all the time.
If you don't need parallelism, Python's concurrency model with its GIL is good enough and not broken.
>So my reward for protecting my electronic privacy is to have my privacy violated through the USPS.

You think the USPS is reading your credit card statements?
> The root issue is that media companies no longer make $$$ from ads

Ding ding ding. This has always been about newspapers no longer being the best place to advertise. It's old media trying to hold onto the little power they have, and honestly the only reason they haven't been dismissed entirely is because as a society, we still value journalism, but the likes of Murdoch are now abusing that fact that entrench by lobbying for these outlandish laws.
Lots of good advice about continuing to learn to code for the medium- to long-term.

For the extremely short term, consider looking for a listing of ecommerce shops (maybe a high traffic Shopify listing on a blog or ecom-adjacent site) and hitting them up about customer service roles.
But those weapons don't have the same highly political negative associations as guns do. Knives are tools more than weapons; bombs can kill a lot of people (see the 2013 Boston Marathon attack or IEDs in Afghanistan), but their typical stylization is also very cartoonish and there isn't an NRA for bombs; swords are archaic and mostly shown as medieval or pirate weapons; and bows and arrows as weapons are also archaic, and they're only used today for hunting.
A better analogy is a resort. It's got beautiful beaches, gets the top acts to perform at the club, and the food is Michelin 3 star. The resort has armed security, so no one needs to worry about being mugged, or having their rooms robbed while they're out clubbing. The resort decides who can sell food, who can perform at the clubs, and who can teach you how to surf at the beach.
I'm not complaining that the cars are expensive or complicated, I am just pointing out that it is a silly solution to problem which has already been solved.

> I think an actual public transit system is undeniably more complicated and expensive, even if it's worthwhile

I'm not so sure about this. We have public transit systems figured out in a lot of places. We don't even have self driving cars that we consider safe yet, let alone laws which regulate them
They host with uberspace, that does match, seems like they maybe messed up their configuration or uberspace is doing some maintenance?

People report the same on Github (if that's not you ;)): https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28196 - maybe follow that for updates?
> Emails pixels can be used to log:

> if and when an email is opened how many times it is opened

Can someone explain to me how these work? Do you load remote content from a server so it knows that the email was opened? Does it re-download this image every time it is opened?
I don't want to derail the conversation, but I'd love to hear more about gingrapp. What made you choose this niche, what were the early days like?
Well it's not just a random "editorial", it's a position piece from the editors. That's why it makes the rest of the paper suspect.
You're missing the forest for the trees. Transaction fees aren't important. In this case, it's the ability to raise funds for a project outside of an elite class of investors, and not have to wait 5-10 years for a liquidation event.
This seems like a poor portrayal of the past. You think every attractive secretary was sleeping with her boss? Really?
I need a tool which can split code nicely across pages of a book. And obviously it should output SVG so it looks great on high DPI devices. Another requirement is that sometimes the code should start somewhere in the middle of a page.
Malbolge: A public domain esoteric programming language
Hopefully it helps motivate someone. I’m pretty astonished with how my life turned out, seeing that a partying college dropout’s trajectory isn’t exactly pointed towards the moon.
Except what does Apple do if you don’t publish software on their App Store? Oh yeah ... absolutely fuck all.

I swear, if one more idiot brings up the Mafia, as though that were an actually relevant comparison, I’m losing it.
I think the closest is the pagehide event

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsing-the-web.html...

Which appears to be supported in Safari, just like all the other browsers.
Certainly the opening weeks of the pandemic, way back in late March of 2020, traffic was virtually nonexistent in my part of the USA; just outside of Portland in Oregon. And then traffic picked up just a tiny bit, but for months it was a cyclist's paradise; miles and miles of roadway open and very little traffic. For most of the summer it was an absolute delight. We're pretty much back to normal now.
Try looking at job postings for 'technical writers' in an area you have a passing knowledge in (computers - and by extension weird industrial systems) and apply for the position even if its not a junior position and even if its not remote. These types of jobs can use someone to plow through the minutia, proof read and work on the assignments no one else wants to. when they find out you are only starting at $5 above minimum wage it should be a really small risk for them to take you on contract to see if things work. I have completely made this up on the spot (sorry) and never seen it work personally, but it is exactly what I would do if I were in your position. When I read your writing above it passes native English, which would be good enough for our team!

update: looks like same ideas as RMK. I should have read the thread farther!
> The entire process falls apart if Apple is forced to allow other App Stores.

Why? You have the choice of not using other App Stores. Just like you have the choice to not use Android, so therefore it doesn't effect you.
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this world is like a wheel with hamsters running ever faster and faster. obviously not going to end well.
Not really. Besides the obviously unsolved waste-disposal problem, one of the main problems in Texas seems to have been non-weatherproof control and distribution systems. Nuclear does nothing to solve that. Texas has nuclear plants, and they've been unable to contribute for the same reasons as every other generation technology.
I believe they are also more intense, summer temps are record breaking every year
In Texas' usual weather, an electric heat pump would be much more efficient than burning the gas for heat directly.
The US tests many of it's reactors in Idaho Falls, Idaho (fairly cold).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_National_Laboratory#Nucl...
Link is broken for some reason, use the archived one: https://web.archive.org/web/20210216231402/https://www.polit...
Glad it worked for you, shout out to Jacalz for building the gui client.

Wormhole is designed to work for when you don't already have an established secure communication channel. Once you have a contact list (and implicitly public key for your contacts) PAKEs are no longer useful.

What you have described is basically Signal Desktop.
Definitely love MaidSAFE. I asked them several times how they recover from corrupted section consensus and they say they don’t. Vitalik Buterin has a problem with that, as do I. But I guess churn eventually recovers it right?

If you have a lot of sleeper nodes coordinate a google attack the network is unrecoverable though...
I find that jokes can work out fine on HN.

The catch is that it can't be a low-effort joke. People on reddit run jokes into the ground so far that they need to bring a passport to be prepared for their arrival in China.
What is your definition of the service Facebook is a monopoly of?
> [the cars are] the most expensive, most complicated solution

> I'm not complaining that the cars are expensive or complicated
Presumably nat gas and coal can perform fine in cold weather as they are major sources of electricity in northern climes that get much worse weather much more often.

I was more commenting on the gap in the articles logic that suggested wind/solar was off the hook because nat gas went down worse. I really don’t know the systems well enough to fill that gap on my own.
Rule 1: Make sure you have your phone with you so you can search for and consult this article.
Why? Even if Google closes shop in Australia they can still use Google, web is quite big.
The trick is that a natural gas furnace needs a decent chunk of electricity to operate, and we’re not very good at shedding all non-critical residential load. So it’s really not an either-or proposition for as long as we use natural gas for power, it’s a both-or-none situation.
In a testament to how urbanised Australia is, on maximum zoom level I can put the square on Sydney's CBD and get 22,500 base stations, then without scrolling put the square on an area of bush and get 0 base stations.

It would be neat to see the gradient magnitude of the density of base stations, as it might be a measure of a country's degree of urbanization?

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Edit: Turns out it's not that hard to find areas of 0 base stations near major cities.
you can count the 'missed out on income' as a loss against your company

This is not true. At least in the US.
Right. It would be a small jump for Google to start using profile data on people to figure out who they should hire and who they should not.
Another underrated development is cheap, re-useable launch to LEO. If the US can just park a few thousand telephone-sized depleted uranium rods in orbit for cheap, and strap on a guidance system, that's a pretty big strategic advantage.
That's true to some extent, but when it hits people in their wallets, it starts to break down somewhat. Taking the wrong side of this bet could lose businesses really large amounts of money.
Prescient post from November 2019 about transitioning Texas to heat pumps and the benefits of doing so.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a-texas-sized-g...

> According to a paper from Pecan Street, an Austin-based energy research organization, the transition would reduce climate-warming pollution, save Texas households up to $452 annually on their utility bills, and flip the state from a summer-peaking to a winter-peaking system. And that winter peak would be “nothing the grid couldn’t evolve to handle,” according to co-author Joshua Rhodes.
Building products – Things I wish I knew when I started building products
Well, yes. I was provisioning a new service last week and it took me half an hour of clicking buttons in AWS. Without knowing anything about Google, I would have assumed they'd overprovison compute capacity to save developer time at least for smallish requests, since they literally run their own data centres.
> I don't even necessarily believe it was malicious (unless you consider cost cutting to make a profit malicious, which, maybe you'd have an argument there), just potentially lazy.

Playing devil's advocate here: It might not have been malicious or lazy, but actually just good judgement in avoiding unnecessary waste and getting those services deployed sooner for less cost to the customer.

Of course it looks bad now that the situation they didn't expect to happen has happened, but in the long term, were the losses worse than what they saved by not implementing extreme cold weather mitigations?
Am I missing a detail or does it seem retributive for Facebook to block Australian news sources globally? Isn't the issue with the Australian market alone?
>Personally, nobody ever told me what to do, even though I was willing to "shut up and soldier" if necessary

i wonder who at FB has the cachet to tell such thing to John Carmack. Zuck probably had the poster of John Carmack on the internal mental wall while going to middle school.
Ah, seeing an old friend on HN in the evening! I recently bought the Essential Fellini collection mentioned here (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FPJLQ4T, I great way to spend $170).

Although briefly touched here, he was surrounded by talent that boosted his vision: Giulietta Masina, Nino Rota, and, of course, Mastroianni. 8 1/2 is beyond words; for some reason I still tear up in the "circus ring" finale, but I watch it on YouTube every couple of months (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvrcRSvpI78), it is so sad and yet refreshing in some sense (I had an outfit like that when I was a kid, but it was blue!) Little known fact: Barbara Steele (of Black Sunday fame, this movie plays in the background in a scene in Matrix 2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1960_film)), who plays a sweet young thing in the movie, was dubbed, because her own voice was not found feminine enough :-)

I also love "La Città Delle Donne", although many find it overdone; unfortunately it was not included in this essential set. The "woman hunter" depicted here is really scared to death of them.

In his The Great Movies Roger Ebert writes:

"Movies do not change, but their viewers do. When I saw La Dolce Vita in 1960, I was an adolescent for whom “the sweet life” represented everything I dreamed of: sin, exotic European glamor, the weary romance of the cynical newspaperman. When I saw it again, around 1970, I was living in a version of Marcello’s world; Chicago’s North Avenue was not the Via Veneto, but at 3 a.m. the denizens were just as colorful, and I was about Marcello’s age.

When I saw the movie around 1980, Marcello was the same age, but I was 10 years older, had stopped drinking, and saw him not as a role model but as a victim, condemned to an endless search for happiness that could never be found, not that way. By 1991, when I analyzed the film a frame at a time at the University of Colorado, Marcello seemed younger still, and while I had once admired and then criticized him, now I pitied and loved him. And when I saw the movie right after Mastroianni died, I thought that Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal.”

As I also love and pity Marcello when I now watch the film, I must be getting old (Ebert was 49, I'm about that age)! No worries though: now I'm having the joy of introducing them to my son.
This may (?) be the same article, unpaywalled at msn https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/facebook-bans-aus...
From a quick google ARK seems to be an "innovation ETF".

Does that mean stay away from tech?
They should be hostile to the ABC, because their journalistic standards are terrible. I've reported 3 factual inaccuracies to them and all of them took more than a month to retract. In one case, the inaccuracy affected the entire premise of the article.

ABC's standards are that it's okay to lie as long as you retract it a month later in a tiny 10pt foot note.

On the other hand, I've personally reported a similar article inaccuracy to a News Corp writer and he replied in 10 minutes, issuing a retraction.

Similarly, I reported an article inaccuracy in a Fairfax website and they retracted in less than 2 days. No reply but as long as it's corrected I don't mind.

SBS is even worse, they actually have zero accountability for online operations.
*malboLge
The software isn't Citi-built though - it's Flexcube, which is an Oracle product. Still Citi's mistake (among multiple other mistakes along the way) for not a) throwing their weight around and demanding new features or b) building something in-house.
I’ve gone tankless and have a gas tankless water heater on a battery backup and I can also power it from a generator if needed... so from the battery I get around 90 mins of usage... highly recommended
If weights compress, they have low information, which would suggest they're either useless or the architecture is bad.
Generally images in emails are linked, and not actually sent with the email. So any time the email is opened, the email client makes a request to the image host, and this request can contain a unique identifier for the recipient.

Some email services will cache the images for a period of time but in many cases it will perform a fresh request each time the email is opened.
It's ironic that it's called traffic calming, because the effect of adding chicanes and speed bumps and similar things is often to make drivers annoyed or angry.

Ultimately though, it does result in the desired reduction in speed. So yes, it works.
dumping waste at midnight into a river is a solved problem, too .. maybe some of the actual prosecuted cases like that (plenty) should be more publicized, along with the pitch to investors for electricity "too cheap to meter"

The phrase “too cheap to meter” was used in a 1954 speech by the then-Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss. ... Chairman Strauss predicted that: “Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter…"
You see change in a government department only when the old guard retires or gets restructured out. Any new technology has to wait until the proponents of the old technology are gone.
Facebook Australian news ban hits WA election campaign
A personal anecdote isn’t enough to back the claim you made with the strength that you made it with. And, FWIW, personal attacks are not welcome on Hacker News.
> charge the original holder to license it.

Or the holder can charge so much for their idea that yours, which depends on theirs, is effectively worth nothing because it's priced above its value.
> a bunch of businesses will start requiring their users to disable "default Grandma mode". Imagine onboarding for Netflix including a pleasantly designed screen saying "Before you can use Netflix, you must Enable Third-party Stores. Go to Settings > Privacy..."

In Android, Epic (and probably tens of ISP and carriers) actually tried that strategy and miserably failed.
I always heard it attributed to Mark Twain
Why, though?

Why does everything need to become like Android? Why can’t Apple and its users do their own thing? What’s with this Borg mentality HN has when it comes to Apple?

Assimilate or perish. I genuinely think it’s deep seated envy, frankly.
The customer probably won't notice and if they do they'll walk back to the place they found the item and find the e-ink price tag has a price that matches the till. If they some how dispute it further the business will just lie like a rug until a particularly pernicious customer takes pictures of the price tag and then argues with the manager.

The eventual outcome will possibly be a class action law suit and in a few years the customers can sign up to receive a gift card.

You can see similar behavior with the same company here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaws-25-gift-card-class-...
So I’m totally unfamiliar with x32 but say that there is all kinds of 32bit apps that are just too big for a single person to port to 64bit (or simply too big too old) is this a silver bullet of being able to rebuild 32bit apps to run as 64bit ones?!

Seems like the kind of thing that OS X desperately needed...
If you squint you could argue Windows NT is basically a cousin of VMS considering its origins and principle architect.
If the financial press really wanted to profit from feigning concern, they would have just parroted the populist narrative just like Elon Musk or Mark Cuban.
Well, I had recently adopted an Australian Cattle Dog puppy but had a full time in-office job. They’re a very active breed and leaving her at home all day wasn’t an option. That prompted me to find a dog daycare, something I had never heard of (and honestly thought was slightly ridiculous). When checking out the first day, I noticed their business was a mess. Everything on paper, in messy stacks at the front desk. And then it took almost 5 minutes for them to be able to accept my card payment (one of my biggest pet peeves). That got me thinking- why isn’t there software in this niche? It turns out there was, but it was all CD-ROM software straight out of Windows 98 land. I didn’t know Jack shit about dog kennels so I emailed 10 local businesses asking if they’d beta test what I built and provide feedback. 1 wrote back so I drove over that day. The owner didn’t know anything about computers but he set me up with his manager- an aspiring product designer. We hit it off immediately and started collaborating. Eventually we became 50/50 business partners. Once we had built something we decided to show it off at a trade show. Turns out there was one in our city the following week! We bought a booth, and a shitty sign and 2 polo shirts and showed up. Every single person there lined up to see what we had built. We knew we had something. Got our first customer that day. Eventually it became more work than we could handle on nights / weekends, so I decided to pay my partner’s bills out of my own pocket (from my day job) so he could quit his and run the day to day until we had revenue to pay both our bills. We got there after a few months. After that, we worked 16 hours, 7 days a week for about a year. We started hiring people. The rest is history, as they say.

To this day, my partner is my closest and most trusted friend, even though we haven’t worked together in 2 years.

Dunno what else to share, feel free to ask!
I heard the windmills uprooted and started blasting Waco.
> puts his race squarely in the middle of the pack

Don't Ashkenazi Jews as an ethnic group have the highest average IQ?
> I mean... that's essentially what phone numbers are, and even non-technical people get by surprisingly fine with those.

That's why every person saves every number they ever call in their phone...under a name.