skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one keeps track of inflation for anything other than consumer goods.

Yes they do. The Producer Price Index (https://www.bls.gov/ppi/) tracks price levels of goods used for production; the PCE index (https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-p...) avoids basket effects by re-weighting using current expenditures rather than baskets that might drift out of date; the GDP Deflator (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPDEF) uses all goods produced rather than just a producer/consumer basket.

All such indices show the same broad inflation trends, usually shifted by a small amount. These trends are also consistent with private replication efforts such as the Billion Prices Project (http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/), which uses directly-sampled retail-price data.

> They conveniently don't track things like fuel prices or food because they are too "volatile".

They do in fact track these things. They are excluded from core price indices because of their volatility; setting monetary policy based on gas or food prices would result in wild swings from month to month. Core CPI changes show the same broad trends as the full CPI (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Dtzv), without a persistent level difference.

> But the reality is that upper income people have 401ks with stocks in them and lower income people live paycheck to paycheck.

... and your policy prescription would hurt just this category of people the most. The only lever the Fed has on inflation is to raise interest rates, which also acts to reduce demand in the economy. All other things equal, that throws people out of work and risks causing a recession.

Your concern for ordinary people is admirable, but focus on so-called "asset price inflation" would exactly put the interests of capital-owners (seeking larger risk-free return) over people without existing assets. In fact, unexpected inflation is better for those without financial wealth than those with it.
I see the exact opposite, lack of state intervention has been the biggest problem so far. Fiscal stimulus has become extremely unpopular in the last 10 years.

Why is state intervention necessary? Because the private sector is too healthy, it's making profits but it isn't investing. The hornets are hibernating in the summer, you gotta poke the nest. If you cut taxes they are just going to hibernate even deeper.

The easiest answer is to just do helicopter money or universal basic income if you want to call it that. The better answer is to let the state invest, except the EU has failed to do so and when it did, each time the money disappeared via corruption, why even bother? So a EU UBI is our last hope.
Totally get that. The journey here wasn't straightforward. I've tried dual-writing in production to many databases including Cassandra, RethinkDB, CockroachDB, TimescaleDB, and more. Haven't tried ClickHouse/VictoriaMetrics, but probably won't now because S3 scales beautifully. The main reason not using EC2 is compute and attached SSD IOPs costs. This balance of DO compute and AWS S3 is the best combination so far.
> it's arbitrary code downloaded from the internet

That's a huge caveat though.

How far does that restriction extend? Can I share or import Pythonista projects from other people?

What's the difference between interpreting a file I downloaded from the Internet and visiting a website?
Are you suggesting that this whole building be set on fire? Because unfired bricks are crap.
Our evaluation using off-the-shelf applications such as nginx, SQLite, and Redis shows that running them on Unikraft results in a 1.7x-2.7x performance improvement compared to Linux guests

AFAIK MirageOS only supports OCaml and thus not any of those applications. That is an intentional design decision to get dead code elimination, global program optimization, etc.

(And FWIW I think "monoglot" OSes are a mistake for this reason; Unix is polyglot and that's a feature, not a bug. Even in contexts where a unikernel would make sense, you may need to inspect the node dynamically.)
That's a Radeon Pro 580, AFAIK this eGPU offering hasn't been updated in several years.
Having tried neither, Flutter sounds like the polar opposite of both the experience and capability that GP mentioned. I'm sure it's nice but can it be developed interactively in a PC browser as described above?
Exactly. You have almost complete control over it which is exactly why trucks can last so long IRL. If your radio stops working you don't need to buy a new truck.
It’s got a better GPU than anything which uses less than 35W, probably even higher than that.
> I believe that 90% of the industry sees diving akin to a roller coaster ride instead of Skydiving

As a licensed skydiver who got out of the sport partially because I didn't like the culture, I assure you that a huge amount of the skydiving industry also views it like a roller coaster ride.
simple solution for anyone considering funding their apps with advertising.

Don't.
I'm not going to defend UML, but it's disappointing to skim the recent walls of UML headlines and comments on HN, and assume that these posts are going to determine what most HN people think about UML, modeling, CASE, etc.

(This assumption I think is sorta analogous to how we knew waterfall and even spiral were hard, and that many teams would need help to deliver successfully... then someone told those teams they don't have to work that hard, if they instead operated more like situated action reactive agents instead of planning ones... and then the default impression became that people who did waterfall/spiral must not have been as enlightened as ourselves, and we have nothing to learn from them. :)

I could yammer for hours on methods and tools, but I'm more passionate about other topics right now. I'll just quickly point out one barrier to uptake of UML...

One of the barriers to the modeling methodologies was that many people didn't know how to use them, and so presumably didn't see benefit. That they didn't get it was obvious when you'd see diagrams that were simply wrong, or that expressed no information other than being a not-very-helpful transliteration of code. And a lot of the examples people saw also had this problem.

A memorable epiphany I had was shortly after joining an R&D group for next-gen OO CASE. One of the senior people was describing some complicated unfamiliar thing we had to understand, and using an OMT diagram to do so, pointing to things on the diagram as he explained... and it clicked: I was understanding so much from a diagram, and we couldn't have gotten that from code.

I then learned all the other modeling things, and set about to design an approach to make it practical to use them all sorts of places (roundtrip, methodology flexibility, better HCI, etc.). Then business things happened, maybe because Rational was locking in an industry shift with what was turning into UML, and so I instead went to work on Web and HCI&AI hybrids.
> Pretty sure this isn’t within the spirit of site rules.

Then don't do it.

I guess this is the 'attack how you say it stage'.

You said "Your claim he's not actively working them into a froth is certainly at best a generous take. "

Show me where I said that.

You said a tweet saying they would accept bitcoin is 'blatant illegal market manipulation' and a 'pump and dump'. All I did was quote your own source to show that there are no laws being broken. Someone saying they accept a currency is not illegal no matter what happens to the price or how much it upsets you.

Quoting your own words and pointing out that you are for some reason fabricating arguments is the opposite of being uncivil. Don't make false hyperbolic statements out of frustration if you don't like having to back them up.
Greater than 60% of their profit is still from one-offs which are likely to go away soon (or even become liabilities like the bitcoin), their PE ratio is > 1000, and they have only just turned the corner and started profiting from car sales; in previous years they made a loss, which is fine in a growing company, but they are not some super-profitable company which justifies their valuation - their valuation is a projection of future growth, and I don't think it's unreasonable to say their valuation is very optimistic given their sales and position in the market.
Completely arbitrary
I'm curious about the date tag (2013)?

Wayback Machine does indeed has archives of the page from 2013 onwards, but while googling "Vinyl-ROM" (inspired by comments in this thread) I found a reference to this exact huji.ac.il page in a comment thread on Halfbakery dating back to 2003:

https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Vinyl-ROM

In fact the parent URL does have WayBack archives going back to the early 2000s, which include this content. dang: I nominate the date for this item should be listed as 2003.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030221050553/http://www.cs.huji...
Well the other way to approach the problem is to basically craft out a whole framework: create classes/interfaces/tests and slowly fill them in.

Occasionally I will code that way when I'm fairly certain of what I'm doing but you have to be very careful that you're not painting yourself into a corner.

In my experience, new programmers tend to build a lot of structure for their code that it's not clear they even need yet or will ever need and then often end up solving a problem with much more code than was necessary. It's usually my advice to get something (anything) working end-to-end first and then expand on that rather than the more linear approach.
It just doesn't sound very friendly to the open source community.

"If they won’t then we will." sounds harsh imho.
I read edible :(
I think it's unlikely that anyone at Intel thinks -20% Q1 datacenter revenue YOY is doing well.

The question is what options do they have to deal with this?
I think they will soon, but only for a specific use-case: MacOS and iOS development. Devops in cloud is expected these days for development and the only offerings available for it are basically mac minis jammed into a rack, often with grey-area virtual machines running. A new Xserve model and Xserve cloud service would be great!
> We used to make homes out of bricks, and we could do that again

Not in areas with earthquake building codes.
Pretty insane situation! I can only guess that she is hiding something. Some possibilities, maybe: She lost the code and can't access it, but it's till running in prod; She hired someone else to write the code and doesn't want to be exposed as a fraud; She has some personal history or a contract dispute with Max that you are not aware of.

Regardless of her motivation, it seems your priority should be getting access to whatever code or binaries you can, and quickly. You mentioned the code is on AWS. What's protecting it there? Can you SSH into the box? Is she holding the AWS account hostage? Even if you do get in, can you extract the code from the server? What's the architecture/language?

Sounds like an amusing situation anyway, I hope you're at least getting paid well.
The decision on the ethics of this experiment isn't up to us, nor was it up to the researchers. It should have been left to an IRB for an approval, which most likely wouldn't have approved of this research in its current state.

The lack of oversight is the problem. Because now it calls into question the work of the grad students, the papers sponsor who oversaw the work, the department, and the school as a whole. It is a significant damage to their reputation.

At some of the research places, doing unapproved research is grounds for immediate termination, regardless of tenure. As for the students, they would have been investigated, most likely expelled for ignoring protocol or denied their credits for the semesters the research took placed and put on academic probation. The department as a whole would also be looked into.
As a part of my work, I do UI/UX design for our products and post some snippets of the process to the development blog. Being able to show things _in action_ is a must, but I couldn't find a tool that was convenient for doing multiple back to back screen captures of the same sequence. Record, review, tweak this, change that, record again, review, rinse and repeat. Captures are short, so they must be perfect, so it usually takes a dozen of tries to get them right.

So I made a tool for the job. It is tailored to this specific workflow, but I think it's generic enough to be useful in other cases too.

I thought it'd be complicated, but it turned out to be dead simple - get the device context of the desktop, bitblt it on timer to a bitmap, draw the mouse cursor, see if it changed from the last time, save to the disk. Once the capture is done, go through the images and pack them into a GIF. The rest is just some UI work, to make things convenient, but out of the way at the same time.

For the reference, GifCam [1] was close, but it has palette encoding issues that create visible artifacts in the output. ScreenToGif [2] is a .Net app, asked to install 4.8, that asked to reboot the computer, etc. It also comes with a lot of extra stuff (it has a ribbon-style menu bar!) and requires quite a bit of clicking to get things done. Others were even worse off in comparison. So, as per usual, you want things to be done your way, you do it yourself.

[1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam

[2] https://www.screentogif.com
They already have. Their integrated graphics now rival that of discrete gaming laptops.
It won't become so without your help, join the fight and make a stand. Every user lost by proprietary platforms tilts the scales more in FLOSS/H's favor. Scale makes all the difference.
A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia? (2009)
Again: that simply saves me the time it takes to add logging to trace the value of that variable. It fails to account for the much larger amount of time needed to understand which variable to trace.

By all means, use fancy tools like replay debuggers (of which Pernosco is only one example) if they make you happy. I'm just saying that (1) there is a hard cap on the value that tooling can provide, because the real limitation is between our ears. And so (2) I'm going to spend the limited learning bandwidth between my ears on things like genuine new technology and not better tools that might provide a mildly incremental improvement to tasks I do already.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/ podcast #70 is a very good story on how someone use the prepaid cash on the dark side.

All other stories on that podcast list are very interesting.
Then add in 'agile'. Which for some people seem to translate into just throw some code down and work out the details later. Oh then keep your docs up to date (many devs detest doc work). Then add in the cost for a RR seat (wasnt it like 20k per dev at one point?). Then add in the agile is a strict set of rules people (5 stages before story creation) while you were getting your UML just right for your story we finished the epic and the user signed off already.

A few boxes on a whiteboard and some lines usually is more than sufficient for many things.
I use https://sequencediagram.org/ quite frequently these days, I like how you can get a link with the actual diagram encoded in it, makes it trivial to store and share.
A few hot takes:

- Library is under the GPL 3, vastly more restrictive than most existing GUI toolkits

- WebAssembly rendering in Firefox most certainly not living up to the name. I think the slide animations on the print example are managing around 5-10 fps

- Keyboard input / control focus seems absent in the demos. This would also suggest the much more important detail of accessibility also missing

- Compiles layouts to code. Is this really necessary? Visual cortex places severe restraint on how much complexity can go into a UI. Code generation on the other hand says a lot about how painful the dev-build-debug cycle is likely to be.
The Fed is the source of the problem.

They purchase assets to prevent those assets from declining, and encourage consumer behavior that exposes citizens to economic risk. Remember Greenspan extolling the virtues of tapping into your home equity? Or more recently, Bernanke describing QE as a permanent tool? Last year, Yellen even suggested that Congress should revisit the rules around Fed purchases of equities.

The Fed also encourages fiscal policy that reinforces a widening wealth gap and perpetuates moral hazards. We live in a society where the "experts" repeatedly push the notion that governments should stay out of growing sectors and inject life into collapsing sectors. Contrast this with what China does, where they back new enterprises in growing sectors while allowing deadwood firms to go under in lethargic sectors. [0] We in the USA have bailed out automakers that can't keep up with their foreign competition. We have bailed out banks that were too stupid to avoid buying billions of dollars of junk. We have even bailed out airlines during a period when business and international travel are at a deep nadir. Yet we find it difficult to spur new growth in the digital economy, whether by enabling competition against Big Tech or by investing in the infrastructure that supports semiconductor fabrication.

Don't look to the Fed for a solution.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/china-tel...
> I still think there's a lot we can do with CASE (computer-aided software engineering)

I'm pretty biased towards minimal upfront design. At least of the formal variety. But I'd like to make sure I'm not missing some low hanging fruit for easy improvements. Do you have any recommended reading for what you're talking about w.r.t. to CASE?
I bet I could code up a site that has a link to a different colour palette generator in 20 minutes.
> I don't think this article does a good job at explaining the scandal.

I think that's because of their use of "origin". Both the title here and that of the article ("The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal") can be taken two ways:

1. How the Wirecard scandal transpired

I think this is what you took it to mean. Where "origin" means the beginnings of the scandal itself. Much like saying "the origins of my success" when talking about my business career.

2. The environment that led to the Wirecard scandal being possible

I believe this is what the author actually sets out to do. In this the article didn't really look at the scandal itself, but rather the atmosphere -or place and time- from which Wirecard could have come happened in. This would be like saying "my origins" when describing that my family came from Wales.
So... Redis is a read-primary system, but this is faster than Redis using SSDB/LevelDB for reads?

That's a bombshell that deserves the graphs to back it up, way hotter of a take than the article.
But if we take an ethics class, how can we justify spending 8-10 hours a day coming up with dark patterns to trick people to click on ads? /sarcasm
I am afraid your friend is a professional liar. You seem to be trying to justify it with arguments that are hardly persuasive. (Seriously, it's fine because she got rich?) Be aware that while unashamedly bad guys can remain smart, people who want to keep their bad behaviour from themselves inevitably make themselves stupid by doing so.
I don't know about you, but for my tests on a curve where I might not be able to answer all the questions, doing the quick skim to answer the low hanging fruit before getting to the harder problems is a good way to make sure you don't run out of time and lose out.
I'm curious where the $37 number comes from? I just did a quick search and came up with $13.64 for a "high priority" transaction (higher than normal fee to get included in a block sooner)[0]. It's still high, but not $37 high.

[0] https://mempool.space/
Do you actually know how much a sub-10nm mask set costs? There’s a lot of speculation from people who don’t have access to those numbers. Those who do are bound by NDAs.
I'm not playing any game. the goal post is not to compare apples with oranges. if the position is that Bellingcat (which markets itself as a citizen journalist type of outfit) is independent as they claim then they should be measured as such.

Nobody is moving any goalposts. Your assertion that they are independent but also are unable to highlight crimes committed by the US then they are simply not independent.

FWIW I'm not highlighting any side being bad or good but that the claim of independence needs to be viewed in relation to their alliances.
Yes. I talked to a builder, he thought he was going to have to do R22 insulation across the entire thing because it’s not clear whether it is a wall or ceiling. Ridiculous because the engineering for domes has been around for 70 years. Most lenders won’t help you. Appraisal for resale is problematic.

I concluded it is best done as a DIY project in a location where you know the inspector, or know he won’t care, with cash. Here are some of the stories I was going from:

http://www.domehome.com/scrapbook.html
> people wish could be fixed (but can't due to backwards compatibility)

This is actually not completely true. The only example I can think of right now is how C++20 deprecated some uses of volatile, but the standards definitely do deprecate features and break backwards compatibility. This is done with care, only when it makes sense. The standards and individual papers/proposals are public, so feel free to take a look, they include rationales in such cases.

> My question is why the need to keep adding features? Sure if something comes out that C++ is desperately lacking, add it in.

Well, that already is how it works. Just because you don't know about some change doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile.

There are often some complaints regarding the standardization process itself though, I think that, e.g., the coroutines proposals situation with the multiple competing proposals was pretty controversial. But that's just how it is with C, C++ (and Ada, Pascal, Basic, ...). It seems like the days of ISO reigning over programming languages are over though, in that newer programming languages aren't given over to ISO.
Plenty of users run f droid.
That’s for a bank crash or some other shit.
What is a population growth rate that is sustainable? I guess I fall into a camp who finds the idea that we need less people around to help out the planet preposterous, without people around what is the point? I find it's well worth the risk to make those technological improvements. People are amazing, let's go to Mars, let's go lasso asteroids and mine them, let's journey to the center of the earth. Full speed ahead!!! Damn the torpedos!!
draw.io is open-source and easily self-hostable, too.
The economics don't work out on that... we migrated away from our $3k/mo AWS bill back in the day to save $2k/mo with DO. Going back to EC2 would save $200/mo but cost $2,000/mo in compute.
You're overestimating the generosity of unemployment benefits, and you're underestimating people's work ethic when given unrestricted (strings-free) transfers.

In the first instance, unemployment benefits do not typically replace "half to 3/4 of your salary," and under ordinary circumstances US benefits are greatly limited in duration. Those for whom the "half to 3/4 of salary" replacement is more correct are also those who started on the low end of the salary scale, and I daresay the working poor should not be the subject of your ire.

On the second point, your assumption -- while common enough -- has not been replicated in modern-day UBI trials. On the balance, those have shown somewhere between no change and small positive changes to work intention over the existing set of social benefits, which on one hand tend to require demonstrating job-search effort but on the other hand tend to be withdrawn beginning with a low earned salary level.

In particular, I have seen no modern-day research demonstrating that providing a fixed benefit creates an indolent class.
off topic, but the example (printer panel showing ink levels) took me down a rabbit hole looking for open source printers.

and sure enough, i was right back in HN after a few clicks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786721