skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A normal household has to pay rent or make mortgage payments. To arbitrarily exclude the biggest expense to consumers from CPI is pretty misleading.

"How the CPI measures price change of Owners’ equivalent rent of primary residence (OER) and Rent of primary residence (Rent)":

* https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

> The whole argument for printing money being OK is dumb. If it's OK to print money to pay for some things why are you not doing it more? Why not make everyone a millionaire?

Because while it may be "OK to print money to pay for some things" it may not be OK for others. Making "everyone a millionaire" may be one of those times when it is not-OK.

> Ultimately, printing money doesn't make anyone more productive or produce anything.

Money printing helps with liquidity, which helps the economy to keep running, which can (but is not guaranteed to) help with more "productive" aspects of the economy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation

You've managed to fit quite a few straw men in one post.
Ask HN: What are your experiences with DuckDB?
I found out about DuckDB (https://duckdb.org) a few days ago and I wonder if you guys have any experience with this rather new database.
I like the "sqlite-like" idea of having all data in one file and no central database server as a single point of failure.
Is the project mature enough for productive use? My use case is mainly as a data storage format (reading, writing, filtering) and adding data as new columns. JOINs are not that important for me.
"MY team"? I hope you aren't implying some form of ownership over your black friend? You'll be refering to yourself as "his boss" next.

Please check your privilege.
Cannibalism was widespread well into historical times.
Judge rules Google to face lawsuit that claims it tracks users in Incognito mode
data.table is basically a highly optimized C library

https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table
Wasn't that kind of thing an intentional part of its design?

My understanding was that Tanenbaum made it as a teaching tool and always resisted attempts to modernize it too much, lest it becomes too complicated for students to understand. The lack of SMP support may well be one of those things.
The abstraction that docker provides you is simpler, but the whole system has gotten more complex.

>Run something with no, or very specific, network access

If this was such a problem in linux then why didn't people focus on improving this instead? We could have solved this problem in linux and made the whole system better for everyone.

Instead people left the problem there and just piled more crud ontop.
We added an entire new layer of abstraction that everyone now has to spend weeks learning how to use instead of just fixing the original problem. The whole system is now far more complex, and the original problem is still there.
You should switch to FreeBSD, because imho it’s great.

However, you should probably switch to FreeBSD because you think it’s great too, not because you hate systemd.
Master agumonkey, (oops) how would you like to pay your student loans for that Masters degree? (oops.)

Would you like to pay by Mastercard? (oops.)
In case somebody stumbles upon this conversation in the future: I just migrated a project to use smartstrings and it works a bit differently from smallvec. Smallvec lets you decide how big you want to make the static buffer before it allocates, whereas smartstring's static buffer size is alsways `size_of::<String>() - 1`, that is 23 bytes on 64 bit architectures and 11 on 32 bits. If I want, say, a static 128B string smartstring won't do any better than std::string::String.

It's still a very nice lib though, and a smart optimization, but it doesn't cover all of my use cases for small string buffers.
There’s a newer fork of Spectacle out there called “Rectangle” that is actively maintained. You can find it on GitHub. Same shortcut keys by default and more options for other stuff.
They keep on discontinuing politically inconvenient data that shows what a terrible job they are doing. But otherwise it’s a goldmine.
I'm testing it now. Fixed my USB audio issues. Much better than pulse.
For everyone interested in what I've told in the GP, can you please register via the form [0]. This Sunday took a different turn but, I don't want to leave this on the table.

Thanks.

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I was not impressed with the article despite his status as a professor. For one example, he either seemed to have a very basic understanding of price elasticity of supply or he dumbed the article down to the point of being not possible to understand what his argument is.

He also seems to not truly understand the scope of quantitative easing that has gone on. The $1.9 trillion in stimulus just passed in the US is a drop in the bucket compared to the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented $7 trillion balance sheet:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

And setting the bank reserve rate to 0% from its normal 10%. There are literally tens of trillions of dollars of stimulus that have been created. This money is finding its way into everything except ironically the items that are tracked by CPI.

When a crypto currency created as a joke reaches a market cap > $7.5 billion you may have an inflationary bubble on your hands.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/
> I'd recommend prioritizing getting those numbers.

I'm also at Google. I know a few L7s/L8s who lead these sorts of engineering productivity teams and organizations. It isn't just that they aren't prioritizing getting precise numbers. It is that the entire industry has very little idea how to measure engineering productivity. This is a stupendously difficult problem and an area of active research.

The metrics you describe here are okay (build times are easy to measure and can be directly valuable) but they really do represent a limited view. They don't capture all sorts of important stuff. What is the measured value of transitioning to a new C++ version? What is the measured value of best practices documentation and training courses?

Measurements are stupendously valuable when they are feasible and meaningful. But there is real work that should be done that is almost impossible to convert to numbers, let alone dollars.
Because it's a waste of money and time
Yes for me the weather requires AC for most of the year in addition to significant periods of cold weather. There's also the significant lack of charging infrastructure.
>"The state is what the inflation fetishists really hate. And what they know is that society wants a bigger state right now."

The author of course knows perfectly what the "society wants". To me this whole article reads like it's been written in a state of delirium.
Yes, there is: Through Pipewire (xdg-desktop-portal), wlr-screencopy (wlrobs) or a virtual webcam (wf-recorder) :-)

Pipewire has the brightest future long term, but wlrobs seems to be the easiest to get started with if "Wayland" means wlroots based compositor (Sway, Wayfire, etc) in this instance.
> Read “Tending the Wilds”, for a start.

Searching for that exact phrase isn't leading me to the resource. Is it "Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources"?

If not, do you have a link?
Cromwell was a monster reacting to a monstrous system. History is quick to pass judgement the former while ignoring - and in the case of England unlike France, perpetuating - the latter.
Economically speaking, increasing base money supply (giving money directly to people) does in fact increase inflation, where increasing m2 (giving money directly to banks) seems to not have the same effect, based on decades of similar policies in Japan. Some prices will still (real estate) increase but staples do not. Or so I read in various places...

Not sure if I personally subscribe to the above, but as long as we don’t experience collapse of currency/dollar and ensuing hyperinflation, we should be ok.
It also doesn't allow upper-case in the owner field.
I think I multiplied the W range settings by 10?
I think Wayland, and the modern desktop in general too, has forgot about a few good ideas that the original X system had. I will miss them once Wayland has taken over:

- A unified way to change applications settings. All old X apps used to read the X resources database (xrdb): you could set a global color scheme, fonts, window geometry and what not, all in one place using a simple but powerful text format.

- The simplicity of the window managers, hotkey daemons and other X clients. You can implement a functional wm in a few hundred lines of C[1] because the X server takes care of most of the stuff. In comparison a compositor has much more work to do and it's difficult to implement one, unless using a big library like wl_roots.

- A base graphics API based on drawing primitives like the original X, SVG or Cairo, rather than just bitmaps. This would make writing a simple application without importing huge frameworks feasible again. Also sending the drawing calls over the network would probably be less bandwidth intensive.

[1]: https://github.com/vardy/aphelia
But you (plural form if you wish) are part of the system. Without you the system would not exist.
I'm just getting an Access Denied error.

<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>H6WGJ1ECP646DYJ0</RequestId>
> If it's OK to print money to pay for some things why are you not doing it more? Why not make everyone a millionaire?

If one slice of cake tastes nice why wouldn't you enjoy eating a million slices of cake?
I have yet to hear of anyone being actually offended by this.

> The cost to you of renaming is near zero

Not true. I just had to update a load of tests for a git client I'm working on that assume the default branch name is `master` (I wrote them before this mess), and now I have to configure Git on every system I use to use a default name of master. It's not a huge pain, sure, but it isn't nothing and I don't get any benefit from it either.
Worth reading this post on how section 230 is often misunderstood:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Tuna is hunted wildlife, an international commons. It's clearly evident that no regulation will happen anytime soon that will actually make a difference. If you buy it, you are part of the problem, either ignorantly or knowingly.

Occasionally I find myself in some gastronomy setting were nothing in the menu appeals to me other than the dishes containing tuna and then I eat it, and enjoy it a lot. It happens less than once a year.

(I do actually share your position wrt farmed meat, those farms are infinitely more regulateable than international fishing and I think we should regulate it hard, hard enough to solve big parts of the inherent inefficiency of putting nutrients though animals before they reach a human mouth by price)
The fact that you never mention debt a single time shows me that you're pushing an agenda and not offering a full analysis.
> I go to the store and buy some tuna I expect that it was responsibly fished. If it wasn't then it's the fault of our government and regulation

I eat canned tuna also, but that logic doesn’t work generally.

By the same logic you could say that if you could buy a BB gun, it’s ok to shoot people with it, because it must not be harmful.

Come to think of it, that’s what kids did to each other when I was growing up.
To the contrary, it shows that most (n-1) complaints get lost over time, so why care? /s
If inflation’s not a threat then moving away from inflationary assets isn’t a threat either. And that’s precisely what lots of people are trying to do right now.
There's not surprisingly a lively debate about Ireland in these comments. A quick reminder about some other aspects to Cromwell's political career:

* Lobbying to allow Jews back into England (officially, there probably were unofficial Jewish residents already).

* Pushing for religious toleration.

* A big expansion in primary education, which was later reversed under Charles II.

* The development of science by the Invisible College around Samuel Hartlib, later to become the Royal Society.

* Fighting the Dutch and Spanish.
When Bari Weiss was a student at Columbia, she was part of a group that targeted Arab professors that criticized Israel, like Joseph Massad. She did a lot to foster "cancel culture", but it seems to be backfiring on her now.
It’s nowhere near 90%
I don’t disagree that house prices are too high, but...

House prices are up, but most people don’t pay the price of a house - they pay the mortgage on it. Because interest rates are rock bottom the inflation of the price of a 25 year mortgage is just about in-line with most other goods. If house prices increase by 100% while interest goes from 6% to 2%, cost of a mortgage only increases by about 25%. (One complication here is that the down payment is not affected by interest rates, as so is much larger today in real dollars.)
American Option pricing under the Black-Scholes model
What exact service is the CFTC providing to the US citizen here?
And a cute branded website, treat it like one of those named exploits perhaps?
> Complaints about the british monarchy don't excuse Cromwell his actions.

But it does mean reacting to this article purely for its ambivalence about Cromwell's actions is probably the least curious thing you can do.
Covid-19 tests on migrants dropped in Texas town find 25% infected
It works but the experience was suboptimal. Usable but much slower than x11.
"native threads switching overhead is extremely low, probably lower than usermode Go thread overhead"

This is most likely very wrong.
I would say that 80-95% of journalism is working as intended to report what happening in the world and be investigative/critical.

If people want to watch Fox/read yellow press, that is not the journalists fault.
As much as I appreciate Noveau, it's not really practically usable with recent cards (due to Nvidias faults!).
> The world used gold/silver for its currency for most of human history until 1970 when we entered this period of worldwide fiat currencies. Our current situation is pretty remarkable.

This much is patently false, and probably even still false once you account for the accepted exaggeration in most appeals to the entirety of human history.

There was no unified monetary system for the vast majority of human history, never mind one based on gold and silver.

And for the smaller, more recent portion of human history it is again probably largely untrue. I'd point to Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber [0]. I'm sure many people have many opinions on the work, particularly around these parts, but I believe it at least does a good job of refuting this particular statement.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
3D printing 2k-square-foot homes
So water heaters are inefficient? I’m confused, they save time.
> The poor don't have savings in cash. Inflation loss on a nonexistent savings account is virtually zero.

The poor are also often in debt, and inflation helps eat away at that. Especially if they can get wage increases based on the CPI.

Which is why minimum wage should (IMHO) be linked to inflation/CPI.
> The document also states that "mom and dad" should be replaced with words like "grown-ups, folks, or family."

Then "mother and father" should be replaced with "birth giver" and "conception facilitator" /s

That is until we as a species achieve parthenogenesis by the year 2044, as described by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexmission movie.
> it was hardcoded all over a bunch of tooling

But that was fine because everyone used it. I agree "main" would have made more sense from the start, but changing it now is just a waste of effort and makes things more difficult (e.g. before you could have hard-coded "master" but now you have to figure out if it is "master" or "main").
> What a strange thing to claim, when both this thread and the original post talk about things that need to update based on the change, such as CI/CD scripts, git aliases, and so on.

I believe I've said something that's easy to understand, at least without bad faith.

Git end users create repos only rarely, but creating preconfigured Git repos is gitlab's business. This discussion is about gitlab's announcement. Do you have a hard time understanding any of this?

> Yes, I'm just saying it's strange that git added support to customize the name, but then didn't add a way to ask it what it's configured to, given that things will depend on knowing what that name is.

It's called software development best practices, particularly adding changes in a backward-compatible way so that not to change the expected behavior.
Hard disagree. Scalability and reliability, and SSO[0] are basic features any piece of software should have. Even a one-person startup shouldn't have to accept a tool being down for a month or all of their data lost due to a fire in a datacenter. Charging extra for any of these is a very shitty business model.

0 - sso.tax
You would think it would be easy to implement ... technically ... but one has to remember that as well as being businesses many Telcos are large hulking great slow moving monsters draped with red tape and politics - anything that changes the existing ways of doing things is often a Herculean act and that strips any dynamism in the market. Don’t misunderstand me there are many discussions in the industry around realising the kind of utopian vision you espouse but these are all bound up in committees with a typical lifespan of > 10 years ...
19 of those are open and most of them not terribly relevant. Considering the ubiquity of the package, I'd say the total number of issues is shockingly low.

As for NSE, DT uses NSE as well, but differently of course. I guess it all comes to what we "mean" by tidyverse. If we mean integration with the cast majority of packages, then yeah, it will work, but of course certain things are out of bounds. If you just want to use data table like dplyr, then tidytable is your ticket.

I'd argue the beast thing to do though is to just get used to the syntax. Data table looks like line noise until you're really comfortable with it, then the terse syntax comes across as really expressive and short. I've come to like writing data table in locally scoped blocks, pretty much without the pipe, and using mostly vanilla R (aside from data table). I think it looks pretty good actually, and I think less line noise than pandas with its endless lambda lambda lambda lambda.
You don't need to know the how sausages are made to know that double digit of "AI industry" is complete fraud.

Safe "AI" driving is in principle unsolvable.

Blow the whistle.
I don’t see anything in this comment thread that was specifically referring to Tesla self driving cars. I think the sentiment is for self-driving cars in general, achieved however.
What advantages does NetBSD have that distinguish it from other BSDs and other existing OS options?
That makes it pretty clear that Fortran is set up to be the perfect foe to "latest has to be greatest" programmers.
Farmland has also been valuable that long
I feel sorry for these people that can afford to send their kids literally anywhere have to make the decision about whether they should continue supporting the elitist system that they rode to the top, now that they found something they disagree with.

You don’t like that the school is teaching that capitalism is wrong? Do the capitalist thing and vote with your wallet, send your kids somewhere else. If you don’t like that the school is teaching that racism is a problem, then find a school where that isn’t an emphasis. I strongly suspect (based on me knowing how these articles get written and how parents groups misinterpret everything) that the racism curriculum is exaggerated in this article anyway. But regardless, if you don’t like the elite curriculum in California and New York, there are 48 other states you could move to and find a good school. I’m sure some states have fine institutions of learning without all that progressive nonsense, if you could be bothered to disgrace yourself and move there.

Edit, rather than making another comment: and maybe it’s a good thing the school is indirectly teaching kids to shut their mouths and not share a viewpoint that they know is unpopular. I share my opinion freely on the internet but at work I have to pick and choose what I say about our projects. This is good education.
Nvidia have been extremely bad to work with in the past (hasn't Linus said something about this?), but their recent efforts are giving me some hope. They seem somewhat interested in supporting the Linux desktop nowadays.
Chomsky has more citations to his peer-reviewed work, than your whole former department or maybe university.

I don’t agree with him on numerous topics, but that doesn’t mean that I have a credible critic of his work.
In this way it's like the stock market to the Nth power.

As money accumulates in larger and larger sums, and is abstracted farther and farther from tangible real-world power and resources, you get this. Things get increasingly weird.

There's got to be some kind of equilibrium point between this stuff, and your basic anti-fiat-currency gold bug, but I'm not sure what it is, particularly since modern macroeconomics acknowledges the capacity to just print money and make it up pretty quickly in the increased economic activity that makes possible: austerity isn't really a functional solution. This crypto stuff really works by the same principle: if you get enough people into it, they CAN'T crash because the important people are too deeply enmeshed in the system and will cheat to any degree to preserve the value of their properties.

I think it depends what is done with it. With macroeconomics, you can have entire countries spurred to activity and producing goods and services because they can transact with resources. With this crypto stuff, I very much wonder if it ends up being a small number of very privileged people demanding rights to increasingly silly abstractions that are said to be the value of entire cities, or countries.

I'm not sure that's sustainable, politically. I'd ask, how convenient is it for the first crypto trillionaires to buy real-world mercenaries? Things could get very dark, albeit in a peculiarly cyberpunk sort of way that might appeal to some.