skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So don't make it out to be some kind of fringe hypothesis to expect inflation. It's the base case at this point.

I don't think it's a fringe hypothesis, I just don't think it's a foregone conclusion by any stretch. I don't think the folks espousing the idea have any basis either.

> They are basically hockey sticking.

You're only looking at half the equation - inflation is a function of supply and velocity. The fed has tools to adjust the supply to match velocity and it has successfully done so for 50 years.

The high asset prices (and crypto prices) are IMO more a function of supply. That doesn't mean inflation. Inflation is measured against the CPI basket -- not against he S&P.

Simply having more supply doesn't imply inflation, or even 1/10th of hyperinflation. It just indicates the supply is high. When combined with measured inflation, it also implies the velocity is low. Were velocity to increase, the Fed can contract the supply by increasing the reserve limit, selling back bonds to unwind its balance sheet and raising interest rates.

Speaking of high asset prices, you might find this twitter thread suggesting that the Dutch tulip bubble was actually caused by an oversupply of currency [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1382159296172015616?s=20
Sales and property tax don’t go to the federal government.
like Trump can’t access Twitter for violating their terms of service, now no one can. It was meant as a joke, I believe.
Yeah, if their schoolwork requires Internet/YouTube then the school should be providing access to it.
I think zero inheritance is probably not gonna work. You'll just incentivize a black market (think jewels, cash in mattresses, gold, whatever...people will get creative). You want to find the level where the benefits outweigh the costs. That's probably some significant amount of inheritance, but also a very hefty tax. I don't know where exactly it is, and it'll probably vary with a lot of factors.
Facebook ads and Google ads do not need third party cookies ?

How are they serving contextual ads if they don't know what you are doing on different websites if the myriad of trackers they offer to content websites do not track you by third party cookies ?
I think for this app, the purpose is a convenient and secure writing space that's available across devices. I've been a Standard Notes customer for several years now, and I went with it because I was looking for a secure solution for my journaling. I wanted a secure place to write my deepest thoughts at home and on the go, and also a way to quickly and easily access, edit, and review those thoughts across all of my devices. That's a tall order.

This conflict of desires lead me to the age old trade-off of security versus convenience. If I want security / privacy, I should use only local text editing tools and keep everything on an encrypted volume, preferably on an airgapped machine. If I want pure convenience, I should use any of the million great cloud-based note and document options that are available on any device. If I want to fall anywhere between those extremes on the spectrum, I'll need to decide the most convenient option I can bear that provides the most security. And for me, I landed on Standard Notes when exploring this question for myself.

It's a lightweight and easy text editing program that is encrypted and secure anytime my writing leaves my sphere of control. It allows for search of my notes, filtering by title and date created/modified, and it has great sync between all of my devices to the point that I can pick it up any device and write a thought as it comes and not worry about sync conflicts if multiple instances of my note are open across devices. There are easy options to automate encrypted local backups and even daily cloud-based ones if you're a paying customer. I can export everything to plain text quite easily - which is my preferred format - so I'm in no way dependent on their continuing to exist.

If you want to read/write notes seamlessly across all of your devices and you also want to stay private and secure, your options grow limited right away. Standard Notes is the best compromise of these competing interests that I've found so far for my own situation. So even though I have the ability to use other tools as you've described - and many of them are better writing tools than Standard Notes - I still choose to pay SN as a customer.
A piece of paper (in the USA at least) also has stronger constitutional privacy protection than digital files uploaded to cloud storage/sync services.
The first 10^1100 years of the universe
You know that the people failing to do it, do it badly. You have no idea how many people in your life succesfully do it. (Survivorship bias)
I don't mind paying, but I've never cared for this product's pricing. If you want to pay monthly, it's $10 a month, which no sane person would pay for a plain notes editor and nothing else. The reasonable price is $30/year but you have to pay for five years in advance. Sure, we all have to eat, but it's not a sign of confidence if you're trying to push me to pay for five years in advance. If you believe in what you're selling, charge me $2.50 a month and give me a reason to stay.
You obviously haven't checked in on the Ethereum ecosystem recently and looked at all the innovation there...
I was willing to let the author count Arrow, Debreu, Samuelson etc. as rational actor economists, perhaps also Savage, von Neuman&Morgenstern and so forth. Even then, that's not nearly 150 years and is - as you say - reigned in soon after by bounded rationality, experimental econ and behavioral in general.

I mean, Karl Marx and people like Veblen would also fall under this umbrella.

Truly, the author has an ego, we can say that much.
It uses a filter based on EasyList: https://github.com/chromium/chromium-ads-detection/blob/mast...
>So you could conveniently drive around in a bubble of ‘right to self defense’

Yes that is how self defense works.

The driver was an Uber driver who made a wrong turn and was mobbed by people, one of who pulled an ak-47 and pointed at him.

In most states you are allowed to use deadly force if you reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another.

Situations like this are exactly what these laws are written for.
Tragedy of the commons. Private hacker communities tend to produce higher quality content.
Honestly, I think it’s not important, but the capabilities doing it will build are better than the ones we would get by spending the money elsewhere.

I think this because you can trick most programs into handing over money without giving results, but there isn’t a way to trick physics.
Ah yes, a common refrain these days! It feels nice, but as I think carefully about it there are problems. The biggest one is: what's "enough to live"? Enough so you don't die of deprivation of something? That's not enough. But people in America would claim that millions and millions of Americans don't have "enough to live". And yet, I promise you they do. Our poor are fat.

I think the basic issue is: people will disagree vehemently about what "enough to live is", and so your sentiment, while well-meaning, becomes an empty platitude in public discourse.
hi, i'm a just stupid waffle. can someone give me the TLDR of this [nearly] impossible to understand piece of writing?
You can't create accounts to pose as separate persons in an argument, and you can't use HN for flamewar like this. Please stop creating accounts to break the site rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you referring to image inpainting? I think that's what it's usually called (please correct me if I'm wrong though!)

Although I'm not really familiar with traditional algorithms for inpainting, I've seen some ML research do some stuff with it that I found to be really impressive.

One demo that really stood out to me was the following: https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/

The algorithm they describe is able to inpaint pixels AND depth information from existing RGB-D photos, enabling images to be viewed in 3d space and be used with parallax effects. Really cool stuff!
This is an interesting idea but seems simplistic.

Certainly the peasants also need to trade with each other, regardless of the presence of an army? Money facilitates that trade. You can barter chickens or goats or whatever but at some point nobody needs more of those either. Especially because chickens have to be fed.

When the thing being traded has only abstract value it becomes money, even if the tokens are chickens.

I think an argument could be made that armies are just a jobs program. In a way money necessities jobs because of the increased economic capabilities of that abstract trade token. With more efficient trade the peasants have less to do so they need ever more complex jobs. An army (and the military-industrial complex) provide those jobs.
I use PouchDB for this exact use case and it works great. It solves the storage and replication problems both.

If you build it upon SQL, you would also need to create a CRDT schema to make replication sound. That's probably more work than just using REST/GraphQL/RPC.

Local data is king. Especially as the network connection degrades.
> BTC's price went up and it still can't be used as cash

No coiners as usual seem to ignore that Yens or Euros (or even gold bars!) can't be used as cash in the US.

To all the people complaining they can't use BTC as cash to buy food or clothes: give me just 1/10 of a bitcoin (or 5000 Euros or ...) and I will give you food (a good meal!) and clothes (I'll even throw in free shoes!)

The same offer applies for a gold bar!
For this, you might find Notesnook (https://notesnook.com/) a better alternative. I mean its still $4.49 but I suppose that's still a lot cheaper. (Disclaimer: I am the developer so this may be a shameless plug, idk).
That's the simplest and most naive implementation of a recommender. It doesn't take into account what I liked about a book and whether the one it's recommending is similar in that way or if I will dislike it for some other reason.

A better way to do recommendations is to find readers who have rated books similarly to me and tell me what books they've rated highly that I haven't already read. This is what Netflix's Cinematch once did and it was good. It used singular value decomposition and other linear algebra techniques on a giant matrix of raters.

See: https://www.netflixprize.com/
There's an improvement to seam carving using something termed "forward energy", see: https://avikdas.com/2019/07/29/improved-seam-carving-with-fo...
What he's talking about (the wealthy people of Ancient Greece voluntarily giving away some money for the greater good) sounds more like a charity.
I bought the 5 year sub and completely agree on the desktop app clunkiness, it's been so many years but there's still no right click menus. I use it once in awhile and still find myself trying to right click > archive or right click > pin or whatever.
The submitted title was "My company got pitched on anonymous sign in – curious to hear pros and cons". Submitters: please don't do that. If you want to add a question or a gloss on an article, that's fine, but do so by posting a comment to the thread.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>There's a rule about not making jokes, which already distinguishes HN from almost all other forums in the world.

There isn't actually a rule against making jokes, humor tends to get downvoted because few people are as funny as they think they are, and HN has a thin skin.

And as far as other forums go, you can find plenty of niche subreddits which moderate humor and off-topic conversation far more strictly than HN does, such as /r/askhistorians.
I wish I understood half of your words :)
> But Obsidian's mobile app is still in development, and I'm a bit iffy about buying another subscription just for encrypted sync.

Obsidian's pricing seems a bit weird to be in general, in that its publish/hosting functionality is priced around individual workspaces rather than either users or total usage.

Because of that I'm never going to actually use said publish functionality (even though I would have paid for it in an instant if it was set up differently), because my use cases for it would involve publishing from a number of different small workspaces for entirely different audiences, and the devs apparently haven't considered at all that people may want to do that.
This places the creation of FTP closer to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire than the present day
Earth after a meteor impact and a nuclear war happening at the same time would still be 100x more livable than anything we can do on Mars. Saving humanity by going to Mars is like saving yourself from the titanic by jumping into the ice-cold water.

We can barely make places like Antartica survivable! Huge chunks of "totally fine" places like Hawaii only exist thanks to massive shipping industries. If you have a way to build out a livable space on Mars, please give us Earthlings some of that technology cuz it would be pretty useful to a lot of people!
> No coiners as usual seem to ignore that Yens or Euros (or even gold bars!) can't be used as cash in the US.

Yen and Euros can be used as cash in Japan and the Eurozone, though.

And, yeah, gold bars mostly aren’t money, either (there was a time when that may have been different, but...)
You should give Notesnook[1](i am the developer) a try as well. It should solve most, if not all, of the above issues and its cheaper than every other notes app out there as well.

[1]https://app.notesnook.com/ (it has a 14 day free trial)
I actually just changed my DNS registrar to namecheap specifically because it supports U2F. I figure my domain is too important to risk losing because I use my domain for email.
Assessing Clubhouse’s Post-Pandemic Future
Will they get plenty of business? I think that's questionable, with the exception of US policy supporting multiple launcher availability for national security reasons. Otherwise, I think that if BO doesn't start demonstrating reusable orbital rockets in the next 2 years, SpaceX will gut them on cost.
> Go to a store, this is what Walmart, Albertsons/Safeway, Costco, etc have been doing for longer than any of the FAANGs have existed.

This one is substantively different. Amazon claims it is a market and not a store, and is therefore not legally responsible for things like the quality of products sold there or how they are represented. They claim that both buyers and sellers are their customers, unlike an actual store where only the buyers are the customers.

So when Amazon decides to set up its own logistics company, no problem. When they use private market data to place their own products into their market, that's a different matter.
i think it's great they found a use for Ed Sheeran
Yes!

Here's the issue: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/5022

Sorry about that, on the docket for this upcoming week.

We're currently staffed by two eng (myself included) w/ ~80 open PRs, 500 issues, just finalized a py2 to 3 migration, and reprovisioned all of our servers w/ docker so we're playing catch-up on some newly surfaced issues.

Please do open such issues so we're aware! It's a huge way to help.

The issue mentioned above is happening because our cron jobs got moved from one machine to another.

Will reply here when resolved.
Cost.

No, not the cost of construction, though that's fairly pricey.

No, not the cost of production. That's actually the best part about nuclear energy. It's remarkably cheap and safe for energy production.

The biggest, costliest and most horrific thing about nuclear energy is what you do after you have finished using that nuclear power station.

You have, quite often, thousands or even millions of tons of radioactive waste to dispose of. Where do you put that? How do you dismantle the construction without causing contamination of the site and the surroundings for miles around? What about the medical costs of looking after the demolition workers as they develop cancers later in life?

But don't take my word for it. Look at Chernobyl and Fukushima. If the task wasn't so difficult, why are those disaster areas still existing? Chernobyl was nearly forty years ago. Fukushima was ten years ago. Still causing problems.
What Would Raindrops Be Like on Other Worlds?
Readng.co is a very good one :)
100% agree, and there are a number of efforts in the space. mlpack (https://www.github.com/mlpack/mlpack/), Shogun (https://www.shogun-toolbox.org/), and Shark (https://www.shark-ml.org/) are three that have been around for over a decade now. They're a little niche because C++ is not that popular for data science, but they are generally pretty fast (especially mlpack, which focuses on speed).
An attempt incentivize desirable behavior - long-term investment.

If you invest short term it taxes like income.
SpaceX is the hare in this story, only it's not stopping to let Boeing catch up.

Blue Origin is just a company that's burning money in Bezo's pocket.
To say what tialaramex said in a different way, the OS needs to save all the user space registers to the stack when it interrupts a task, so it can do it's own thing. Floats are held in separate registers, so as an optimization it can skip saving those registers to the stack and just not use them (as long as it doesn't call any code that might use floats, and returns back to the same task afterwards). This turns out to be a substantial performance improvement, because there are lots of small syscalls that return quickly.

128 bit integers not working is a bit dumber, the compiler relies on some functions being implemented for them to work, and for whatever reason the people behind rust in linux just haven't implemented those functions (yet?). They use the normal (non floating point) registers though, so there is nothing stopping them from being implemented. https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/11#issuecomme...
Your comment is useless without proof. Give some examples.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/how-jiffy-lube-got-a...
If Facebook is not intended to be addictive, but is anyway, then it's poorly designed. Are you suggesting Facebook isn't addictive?
>Nuclear incumbents aren‘t upset that billions of dollars are thrown away on waste disposal and unnecessary cleanup projects—they are getting those contracts. For instance, 8,000 people are employed in cleanup at Hanford, Washington, costing $2.5B a year, even though the level of radiation is only a few mSv/year, well within the range of normal background radiation.

While I largely agree with the author, this misunderstands what is being cleaned up at Hanford. Hundreds of millions of gallons of nitric acid containing hundreds of tons of Plutonium are sitting in huge 70+ year old tanks that are slowly leaking. Stabilizing this waste is not throwing money away. Obviously the background radiation is no higher than anywhere else.
Why hackers in 1999 could access any Hotmail account by using the password ‘eh’
I had a boss who finished an online master's degree on his train commute every day.

It was a good way for him to timebox the work, and stay consistent day-in-day-out without having to burn through a ton of self-discipline.
That's a problem with encrypted stuff in general, and as a society we really haven't worked out any better way to manage that yet than measures like "keep a clearly-labeled master password in a safe deposit box where your estate can get at it".
Very cool to see more C++-based machine learning efforts. The language still needs a good dataframe abstraction (maybe XFrame?), but with matrix algebra provided by Armadillo/Eigen and other long-time machine learning libraries like mlpack, Shogun, Shark (and if you want to include C, Darknet), personally I think the future is bright for machine learning in C++---especially for production and deployment applications.
So you can set the current one at the start of your use and keep the secret hidden somewhere forever. Sounds like the solution to me.
So all ponzi schemes are OK because uh -> "wealth transfer?"
Won't happen in my lifetime but how long do you figure until you can look up and realize there are millionaires racing teslas on the moon every weekend (like yacht races)? 30 years? 40? Definitely under 50.

Don't get me wrong as I love the science of it all but what do we realistically expect to come out of being able to go to the moon more easily in the near future? I know it's a stepping stone but it has to support itself the first hundred years or two.
What externally-verifiable ID verification mechanism are you willing to participate, in order to demonstrate that you are not a sockpuppet? Phone numbers are crossed off the list, so at least we don't have to debate whether they're acceptable or not, and email addresses obviously aren't useful for preventing sockpuppets either. What else is left that is acceptable to you?
> You are lying.

That's a weird phrase / way to respond to someone just stating an idea, isn't it?
Why It’s Misleading to Say Apple Music Pays Twice as Much per Stream as Spotify
This is great! Thank you for the interest!

We've had a rudimentary bot system for the past 10 years or so. Let's please talk if you where others would like to get set up with a bot account and write access!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/wiki/Writing-...

Contact: mek@archive.org
It depends on the setup. Some cloud load balancers like AWS ELB require a CNAME, which DNS (RFC 1912) doesn't allow other records at that level if it has a CNAME.

So, can't put a CNAME on the apex, which probably also has MX records. I think in some cases like Exchange, if it sees a CNAME, it doesn't bother with looking at the MX.

Back in the day "CNAME flattening" or aliases (RFC draft draft-ietf-dnsop-aname) wasn't a common thing, so only real way was to redirect the domain apex to www, and then use a CNAME on the www. You'd probably need a separate service/servers to handle that redirect (at least DNS round robin would work in this case). So yea extra complexity in that case, due to the requirements. Or, give them DNS authority (eg, AWS Route 53).

Then there's the whole era of TV/radio commercials telling people "www dot <name>" that a lot of people type it anyways. You can redirect www to apex, which some sites do for a "clean brand" but now browsers are dropping the www in the UI anyways.

I've also run into plenty situations where www worked but apex didn't. Relatedly, it's a little surprising that browsers didn't default to assuming typing the apex in the browser it would try www first. And recently, now we're getting SVCB and HTTPS DNS RRs along with A/AAAA (and maybe ANAME). Indeed lots of complexity.
C800G is no longer for sale by Sony.

Famously used by Mariah Carey.
Apollo had a pretty strict deadline to minimize the chance USSR would accomplish the goal first. NASA accepted the additional risk of foregoing more unmanned tests after the launch vehicle flew successfully. And the Saturn V was itself tested all-up. The schedule had a much larger weight than than current manned programs.
1. The cost of the flight is a small part of the overall cost of getting an astronaut to the ISS, which itself is a small part of the overall cost of keeping him alive there.

2. Fifty years after the last Apollo flight, and twenty years into ISS flights, the costs of the flights have finally been brought under control. That's not exactly a shining medal for NASA's manned space program. I will say again - it's a bottomless money pit.
> Additionally as long as you've got your secret, you can reinitialize your Nano S (or another one) as a new U2F device and there's no need to reset your U2F credentials on the site as the newly initialized device shall work exactly as if it was the old one.

But isn't it the whole point that these devices never let you have the secret?