skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible that all the things in the consumer price index and other measures of inflation rise overall faster than the headline inflation measures - they do some weird things with weighting and so-called hedonistic adjustments which means that it's probably literally impossible for someone to experience inflation that low. For example, they compensate for the supposed increase in values from, say, flash drives increasing in size, computers in speed, and TVs in size in a way that doesn't make sense if you can't even save money by buying a smaller flash drive or slower computer, or you need a faster PC to do the same things, or if the 32 inch TVs have the same resolution, sound and picture quality as a 24 inch of yesteryear and you have to go up to 40-50 inches to get something actually equivalent in quality to a 32 inch TV from years ago.

For a while, one of the key US inflation measures even assumed that if people's medication went up in price massively they'd substitute it for whatever medicine hadn't exploded in price even if it was for some completely different condition! And I'm not convinced that, even for things which genuinely are substitutable like different kinds of food, it's actually possible over the long term to substitute your spending in a way that matches up with official inflation figures.
imo, the best part of this pattern is the use of git as a backend (gitlab/github pages support) democratizing deployment pipelines and git history/branching for your every day CMS users

we need more things like this... netlifycms, etc...

if anyone is looking for an idea of something to build, i think a web framework for providing configuration pages for... anything... via a git based workflow, where committing and branching are first class citizens would be incredibly useful, i've heard that many configuration systems are designed this way at FAANG
> Nintendo isn't a tech company

I wasn't restricting myself to thinking about tech companies.

> This is why they'll still be around in 100 years, and Microsoft and Apple most likely won't.

You never know. Just like Nokia once made rubber boots, maybe 100 years from now Apple and Microsoft will be doing something entirely different than now. That's my point - companies survive by adapting.
We always let out a warning before it happens too. Good guy America.
>> rely on neighborhood generators

I often wonder if places like this are where real green energy revolution will start. Perhaps the greatest motivation for off-grid solar is not having access to a grid in the first place. The first targets in many wars are the power plants, plants fed by fossil fuel deliveries. A country powered by widespread small "gridless" solar power solutions would be very resilient in a crisis, much more difficult a target in a war. Maybe Lebanon can move forward without a reliable national grid.
Just a question about English, why is it "physically based", as in "physically based rendering", instead of "physics based"? To me it sounds like "physically" should be followed by some other word than "based", like "physically correct". But yet it's used this way.
I don't think so, people are def aware of these projects. The problem is the stuff you mentioned (at least YT, gmail chrome, maps) are in a pretty rough spot.

And while Waymo might have an insane potential, it is just that, a potential.
Human Resources is there to protect the company, not the employee. It can never be said enough: HR is NOT your friend.
The tool you used appears to be a browser plug-in, meaning it operates by scraping the Instagram website from the client side. Instagram (and most sites) forbid scraping tools like this.

For future reference: Don’t use 3rd-party scraping tools on your social media accounts. They will generate thousands of API requests and trigger bot detection. You obviously didn’t intend for this to happen, but from the company’s perspective it’s equivalent to bot/scraper abuse.
Middling. He keeps making decisions based on how he thinks (and I emphasize _thinks_, because this sort of evaluation of mass public reaction is not really his core expertise) they will play out in the media and politically. The most recent example is him basically saying "yeah, it makes sense for the UK to do first-doses-first, but it doesn't make sense for the US, because people here would not stand for it" and completely dodging the actual question at hand, which is which vaccination regime is better for most rapidly decreasing SARS-Cov-2 infection and COVID-19 deaths. Which is first-doses-first, from everything I can tell of the actual scientific evidence, and I am quite sure he knows that.

So basically, he's walking a line between making the right scientific decisions and protecting his position enough (in his estimation) that he gets to make decisions at all, which is compromising some of the decisions he's making.
While this is good to know, Spirit is also the worst airline I've ever had the misfortune of flying with.
> Which is mostly an advertisement. Probably the main author is linked to the Euroasia Interconnector.

Maybe, but judging by the history page(https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EuroAsia_Intercon...), it was initially created by someone in the US and later edited by a diverse set of editors. So unlikely the entire page is an advertisement. If you see some specific snippets you think don't fit on Wikipedia, Be Bold and delete them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold)
Fair point, although this example is ephemeral by necessity rather than by design. If you could experience those shows again whenever you felt like it, maybe via some improved VR setup, and share them with your friends/kids/postman, wouldn't that be strictly better?
> None of this would be possible without ads. No one is going to pay for all that.

Recipes and guides would not be possible without ads???

YouTube, TikTok, Twitter is mostly user generated content. You really can't imagine a world were hosting for user-generated content is not funded with ads???
Where do you get 1.8%? Do you mean 1.8% over inflation? Because the nominal increase is of 4.3%, and that was during a pandemic year with a rent moratorium, it seems to be increasing even faster.

But 2% per year faster than inflation is already quite bad. Remember, this is exponential.
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This is becoming true in South Africa due to the unreliable power supply from state-owned Eskom.
> In what sense is unpacking a bottleneck?

Performance wise, I can't recall the exact scenario though.
answering to your other comments as well,
Israel fulfils American interest in the area as I understand it. It is the best freedom-per-dollar the US can get, except maybe south-Korea. between all of American attempts to establish their dominance and their believes in the world, you pointed to one of their more successful investments.
for this topic. If you want to reduce the violence in the area of the middle east, joint local economical ventures are a perfectly good start. hopefully one day with Lebanon too.
disclaimer I'm Israeli.
You are confusing who is attacking who.

If China invades Taiwan, US will defend it*

You would need to ask China if it's worth the trouble.

* that is if China doesn't fail as miserably as it did with Vietnam where it declared victory after retreating
In Poland software engineers are able to pay 5% linear income tax if they can proove they do R&D and sell copyrights to their code. The rules seem to be quite loose in this regard and thus lots of developers qualify for the discount.
> The Python problem is that you cannot reuse the same function name easily for different types. Hence instead of creating one abstraction across many different types you need to invent all these different names which can be hard to guess. In Julia there are often far fewer core concepts to learn which can be re-applied in far more ways.

At least there's `functools.singledispatch` in the standard library. There's apparently also multiple dispatch libraries. I've never used either, duck typing with some try/except (and some isinstance) has served me well so far, but I agree it's not as clean.

> There are not like 4 different ways of doing it.

Yet.

> Package management and environment management is much simpler and elegantly done.

Yeah, it's a nightmare in Python. After setting up projects dozens of times now I still don't grok it.
Bullshit. Targeted advertising makes them more profitable.
For many people (myself included), there is a distinction: A sum type is a tagged union. Using ‘|’ for union types and ‘+’ for sum types, the difference is that for a type T the type T | T is simply T again, whereas T + T is two copies of T. That is, given an element x of T + T, I can tell whether x comes from the first or the second copy of T. This means, for example, that T + null always adds a new null element to your type, whereas T | null only adds a null element if none existed before.

If your type system has a different way of turning one type into two different (but isomorphic) types (for example by wrapping them in records with a single field), you can simulate sum types with union types. Hence union types are more general than sum types.

However, in my experience you (almost?) always want sum types anyways. In this case union types being the basic construction tends to be a disadvantage because the basic construct it usually more convenient and therefore gets used. Union types tend to work fine for a while and once you realize that sum types would be better, you have quite a bit of refactoring to do.
> Outside of the nationalist far right, I never hear people saying anything of the sort. How are we "declining and sinking"?

You don’t have to be a far-right nationalist in order to have an objective look at the situation in EU, although I understand your temptation to resort to such low-effort arguments, it’s fashionable after all.

As a non far-right European, the EU is falling behind by failing to drive any tech innovation, by relying on non-EU countries for vaccine production, by not importing any external tech talent by having extremely unattractive wages in the tech sector. Every major tech innovation happened outside of EU, and this is something I’m not proud about. If your only metric for success is having decent public healthcare and social benefits, then I guess EU is doing fine, but I’m skeptical this will do us any good in the long run.
Yes, but the user doesn't have control of what to subscribe to. They can't add a new RSS URL, it needs to be submitted from the creator to these services. I guess the nice thing is that for people who know RSS and have a "full featured" podcast client they can find that backend and subscribe however it isn't really the same as an RSS reader.
You should look at enterprise value, not market capitalization.
True. Putting that in a header file will lead to linker errors if the file is included more than once.
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I don't think the paragraph quoted was implying that all men and all women converse in this way, merely that in the author's experience they tend to.

Probably if you divided the data further, by sexual orientation and upbringing, cultural background, and power-relationships you could find more nuanced distinctions, although probably recognizing such conversational styles is already so subjective that trying to divide the groups finely would lead to their being no more observable differences.

I think that there are some average conversational differences based on gender, although the bell curves are probably so overlapping that it's almost meaningless to try and apply it to any individual case.
Tack så mycket! Your detailed explanation cleared things up.

>I don't like the idea that you have to establish an asymmetrical relationship with a foreign conglomerate to be able to identify yourself in your own country and use digital services.

The general acceptance of this in Swedish society boggles my mind. But hey, I am not a Swedish citizen, so it's not my job to tell people what to do.
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ah, i mean it is still ok to try to read arguments of both sides ... it's not like Hayek or people like us know it all
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errr....

https://www.timesofisrael.com/rebuffed-by-lebanon-israelis-s...
You're right but that doesn't mean we should accept it. Why we didn't accept it when Saddam invaded Koweit or when Russia annexed Crimea?
Colonization of Palestine has very negative direct and indirect consequences on our world.
Interesting take, which seems highly plausible in retrospect. Will have go go back and read for the backing data.

> [...] according to the new hypothesis.

> “This key moment when we decide whether or not to use fire has, at its core, just the tastiness of food and the pleasure it provides. That is the moment in which our ancestors confront a choice between cooking things and not cooking things,” said Rob Dunn, a professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University. “And they chose flavour.”

> Cooked food tasted more delicious than uncooked food – and that’s why we opted to continue cooking it, he says: not just because, as academics have argued, cooked roots and meat were easier and safer to digest, and rewarded us with more calories.
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Portal has failed? That's a shame.
I have been aware of the phenomenon since I was a teenager. I have no idea if I am accurately aware.
Wow I always assumed you needed a business bank account to receive payouts from Stripe et al. Thanks for this info!
Qubes provides a very specific product. Whether it helps to "protect journalists and others who would greatly benefit from enhanced security" depends on user level of knowledge and the ways he uses the computer. If the user does not know much about security, Qubes may help to isolate different tasks in VMs, but that is not a panacea. He may still use it wrong in single VM, for example leave the passwordless sudo on.

Serious security-seeking user needs to educate himself about how the computer and internet works, about operational security, pervasive tracking, typical attacks etc, not just use a product and call it a day. Only so educated user can decide if the Qubes with its benefits/drawbacks is worth it.
As an American I don't want my interests fulfilled at the expense of other's human rights, basic peace and sovereignty.
More to the point, it's a movie that doesn't seem to have anything positive to say about sexuality. So it's a weird film to bring up in this context.

It's not a sexy movie. Yes, there's sex and nudity. It seems to hate both.
So only the Magnesium?
>"If you think it's not a value, you're mistaken."

I am not mistaken. I do what I want how I want where possible and that alone is of great value to me. And they would not be squeezing me later when they think that there are enough people on the hook and the alternatives are few so lets raise the price.
The US's military expansion (and by extension its defense budget) is directly correlated to its domestic industrial expansion and its need to keep supply lines flowing. They basically spend a lot because they need to jump over two oceans to afford the economic model they chose. That wasn't the case when the US was still content with self-isolation, before the Spanish–American War.
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I agree that for statistics and data exploration R is certainly not clunky. My use case is more discrete PDE, where the R capabilities for sparse matrices and advanced linear algebra are a bit limited (but this may be just because I'm more used to the annoyances of numpy).
Nike's FuelBand is the first one the comes to mind. Why make a wearable with (maybe) low double digit percentage margins when shoes just rake in money?
I had a dream recently on this topic. Price of food inflating. And clothing too. And inversely housing prices dropping.

And then it made sense to me. When the cost of everyday goods go up, there is more money flowing in meager industries.

That means more money for the average joe. (Or it used to be before robot corporations overtook farming.)

And that means more concentration of resources for the normal guy. Which means smaller housing compared to McMansions. And smaller cost of living all around. The problem is that today’s large rich population become not so well off. And poor people hit a better standard of living.

Higher food prices may be a good thing.
I haven't personally been on an infra team but I've seen Infra / Dev tools teams being overwhelmed with requests. This seems like a really helpful and elegant solution!
NHS faces backlog of six million patients awaiting treatment due to restrictions
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This isn't even university level stuff.

I remember the application of this rule being taught in 12th or 13th grade.
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> Of course the US gives Israel some money still, mostly related to its on-going military relationship with Israel in developing weapons systems and technology

This is the problem I have with funding Israel. We're literally giving them money to commit war crimes and illegal military action. We should be sanctioning them (if we want to be consistent), not funding them.
Good stuff, hugged to death [1]:

> In the end, code doesn’t make software – people and communities do... It’s hard to beat an incumbent, and even harder to do so without having a large target user community you can capture with a compelling use case.

We need a better name for the category of Machine Learning Workbench tools that include Julia, R, and NumPy+ (the ML ecosystem that uses Python as an Internal DSL). The compelling use case for Julia is that it is a modern language built on top of the LLVM platform (like Rust and Swift). There is no shame in not winning when you were late out of the gate; see the story of ARM. The value proposition hasn't disappeared it just didn't outpace the evolving bricolage of NumPy+ and its new complementers (Jupyter, PyTorch, TensorFlow).

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Awfh5p8...
It's a manual process, but I read there are tools that try to automate it.

But as far as I understood it, if you know TLA+ and the target language well, it's like writing an article from a good outline.
> Certainly with more and more power coming from renewables that can’t be switched on or off at will, that’s a gain for all.

Just today there was a story in the news here in Norway how the windmills in Sweden is causing a massive price disparity between north and south of Norway, due to lack of transmission capability.

These days the price disparity can be over 50%, and Sweden is planning to massively expand their windmill generation up north.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/urix/tror-svensk-vindkraftsatsing-vil-gi-...
here's a better link, i think (Sam i am).

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
I don't really have a dog in this fight other than to point out your initial post was neither civil nor reasoned - and included not citations or facts.

I'm starting to understand what you're insinuating I think, but you still haven't made your point.
Meta: I would prefer if this was posted when it is is actually released.

Some minor observations:
- The carousel sliders parent container doesn't have a fixed height so all the content (including the buttons themselves) jitter around a bit when progressing onto the next carousel entry - not a great UX.
- Clicking on the buttons has a strange "double flicker" like animation when you click on them, I could see this getting very annoying.
Considering the shift to AMD from Intel that has happened over the last couple years it will be interesting to see if we'll see AMD as more of a priority target in the future. AMD has certainly been leading in sales in most demographics for the last year or two, and there's little sign of Intel closing that gap. AMD has even made some moves recently that indicate some desire to chase Intel out of the lead in the few niches they still control, like the x86 low power/cost device market that has been dominated by atom/celeron.
> Talking about inflation seems to have turned into some sort of political issue.

It is political. The method in which inflation is created benefits bankers via interest. Further, higher inflation widens the divide between the asset class and the rest of us.

However, the mainline (I would say propaganda) is that `...they know better than you` where `they` are unelected technocrats.
A live remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show aired on Fox in 2016 during normal viewing hours with Frank N Furter played by a trans actress. I disagree with your general point, but also, you're explicitly wrong on that front.
A Social Network Without Ads? Discord Defies Convention
Stepfn.dev – JSFiddle for AWS Step Functions
Ask HN: My backup email was pwned and my SoundCloud URL was stolen
This morning I woke up to a bunch of security notifications on my phone, only to find out that my backup email had been hacked into. It looked like a very coordinated and sophisticated attack on my email, and so I went through to try and figure out what was stolen, thinking my bank accounts were probably emptied or huge paypal transactions. Nope, nope nope. My email was hacked because someone wanted to (and did) steal my SoundCloud url. Yup, someone hacked my email and stole http://soundcloud.com/john from me. If anyone knows anyone who works at SoundCloud and can help me get it back, that would be GREATLY appreciated. (People have offered me up to $20k for my soundcloud url before and I never sold it because I was using my soundcloud, so to have it stolen....ugh)
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Launch App Store: Alinea (YC W21) – Invest in Stocks You Believe In
Anam, Eve, and Nikhil here, co-founders of Alinea (https://alinea-invest.com/). Alinea is an investing app for those who want to understand the companies they are investing in. We explain how each company makes money, how they treat their stakeholders, and their environmental impact on the world so customers can buy stock in companies they believe in.
Despite our different backgrounds, the three of us struggled with the same problem. We knew we had to invest our money to build wealth, but when we tried, we felt intimidated and lost. We had so many questions - What kind of stocks do we invest in? Where do we find accurate information? And quickly realized we’re not alone, our friends and other people were also experiencing the same problem.

So in early 2020 we started working on a new approach to investing. We wanted to build an experience without the hassle and complexity of charts and financial jargon. We also wanted to move away from a gamified experience which tends to cause stress and anxiety around investing - so we’ve gone as far as removing red and green from the app entirely.

There’s a lot of misinformation and confusion around how to start investing in stocks so we guide our users through the process. First, we match you to stocks based on your interests so you can better understand a company. Second, we simplify hard to find research into bite-sized formats, so you can evaluate if it's a good investment. Lastly, we show you the impact of your investment on our environment, society, and workplace. We do the homework, so you can make an informed decision.

In the past months, we’ve seen the power of retail investors who want more choices than just putting their money in ETFs, we provide the tools for them to make informed stock investments. We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on what we’re building!
Lolll. Dang is literally cringe. Signed up to reply to him, the message has been moved or deleted loll, so nevermind. Also not sure he realizes that nowadays half the "hn'ers" are just simple redditor; he keeps implying hners are somehow elite lol. Dog we are redditors, you live in your own world dang.