skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monetary inflation increases inequality because the well-connected interests (banks, large corporations, governments) have access to the new money first. They have better financing terms. They have special arrangements. They can spend the new money into the economy before general price levels rise.

Asset prices rise as people flee from cash, so those with assets see their wealth outpace those without assets.

Inflationary economies based on debt are inherently levered relative to underlying assets, thus are prone to collapse and require more bailouts.

General price inflation hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder, since it makes their cost of living rise and prevents them from saving to accumulate capital.

"But wages rise to keep track of inflation."

No, they don't: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
What I mean by that statement is that the visual traits used to anchor race are a very small number of relatively trivial genes.

But more importantly, an accurate historical reading of racial categorization as practiced particularly in the 19th and 20th century in the US reveals that the definition of race isn't even contingent on visible differences. If you go read the writing of our founding fathers you'll find ample examples of how "white" was only applied to Anglo, Norman, Saxon, and similar ethnic groups. Germans, Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans... All of these groups were initially considered not white in US history, only to later be assimilated as white in proximate rapid reactions to immigration waves and resulting xenophobia, or similar political/social winds.

A similar assimilation is currently emerging with latino Americans.

The point is, yes, Japanese folk recognize you as other readily, but that other is based on what are superficial and trivial biological variations in appearance. Japan is pretty infamous for its xenophobia so I'm not quite sure why you'd bring that up as rebuttal of what I'm saying fundamentally, which remains that race is a social construct with a tenuous connection to biology.
I was more thinking that you could buy a cheaper pension plan if you're expected to die at 70 rather than 85, on average.

The pension company can handle the uncertainty, since it averages out.
past discussions:

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7161566

2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964665

A small (and objective) taste of Objective-Smalltalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113476

Presenting (in) Objective-Smalltalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552264

2020: Embedding Objective-Smalltalk:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23176942
but it used public money
Combination of two factors:

1. Efficiency wages. Highly motivated and skilled programmers are so much better at their jobs than unmotivated and unskilled replacements that it's best to "overpay" above the market-clearing price, giving employers meaningful choice in applicants and regain some of the negotiating power in the relationship.

2. Tournament theory of compensation. Quantifying performance of engineers is difficult, but rank-ordering them (especially without an explicit stack-ranking) is relatively easy. So an efficient solution is to overpay the best-performing "winners" and underpay the rest, getting the same incentive effects as piece work without the cost of quantifying work output.
I'm currently reading The Dead Hand, and I think this matches what you're talking about:

> Rather than roll up the Line X officers and expel them, Reagan approved a secret plan to exploit the Farewell dossier for economic warfare against the Soviet Union. The plan was to secretly feed the Line X officers with technology rigged to self-destruct after a certain interval. The idea came from Weiss, who approached Casey, who took it to Reagan. The CIA worked with American industry to alter products to be slipped to the KGB, matching the KGB’s shopping list. “Contrived computer chips found their way into Soviet military equipment, flawed turbines were installed on a gas pipeline, and defective plans disturbed the output of chemical plants and a tractor factory,” Weiss said. “The Pentagon introduced misleading information pertinent to stealth aircraft, space defense, and tactical aircraft.”

> Oil and gas equipment was at the top of the Soviet wish list, and the Soviets needed sophisticated control systems to automate the valves, compressors and storage facilities for a huge new pipeline to Europe. When the pipeline technology could not be purchased in the United States, the KGB shopped it from a Canadian firm. However, tipped by Vetrov, the CIA rigged the software sold from Canada to go haywire after a while, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to create pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. One day, the system exploded. “The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,” Reed recalled. The blast was starting to trigger worried looks in the U.S. government that day, he recalled, when, at the National Security Council, “Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry.” The explosion had been one of the first fruits of the Reagan confrontation.
I don’t see an analogy to drug laws. Is your point simply that such a law is impractical to enforce?

Paying extortionists begets more extortion. The only argument I’m seeing is a bunch of hand waving and people telling me I’m being hopelessly naive. I don’t think I am.
if you ignore infant mortality, life expectancy was late 50s during Ancient Rome times.

not too bad.
Sure, you have to go through a middleman. Does the middleman stop you from copying a texture to the screen?
Then we'd need a .status.status to tell if the SaaS is down :)
What would really help me accumulate fewer tabs is an extension that makes the back button actually work (say using Firefox's tab hiding API) that every time I click a link it hides my current tab, and opens the page in a new tab and let's me navigate through my tabs temporally using back/forward just like the back/forward buttons are supposed to.
Jim Weirich wrote rspec-given. This gem allows one to write really nice assertions:

Given { @stack = Stack.new }
When { @stack.push(1) }
Then { @stack.peek == 1 }
And { @stack.size == 1 }

What you wish for is embedded in When and And. Check it out: https://github.com/jimweirich/rspec-given
I don't see this being called a "State of Emergency" anywhere but that BBC article. There's nothing on the Whitehouse.Gov briefing room, google news, etc.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/
The behavior I observed in this particular case is that their server would timeout on requests, especially writes, then come back with a quick 502, then time out again. Their status page displayed the same kind of behavior and the same status page. I wouldn’t be surprised if the issue with the status page is that it might also even share the webservers with their main service.
The reason I used it was because Uber and Lyft offered clean, modern cars that didn’t smell like smoke.
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But users don't need to run those, right?

Just contributors.

(Unless you have some complicated install to perform which is good to avoid for multiple reasons.)
Ah, relief. Thank you.
Clearly we need to put this on a blockchain.
A single ethereum is $4k
this seems way overvalued

POS has not even happened yet
For sure, and worse because there's no stock grants that subsequently go up several times in value after distribution. I get that it's a compensation problem as well as a supply problem: software engineering talent is hard to come by and world class software security talent is even harder to come by.
I agree with that. As soon as I switched to i3 on linux, I stopped using any tabs/windows splits in Terminator (my terminal emulator of choice at a time). I still use tmux on remote ssh, but locally i3 does much better deal than terminator/kitty/you name it
Canada has socialized healthcare.

200 to 300 thousand travel to the US for healthcare every year. That's with population of ~30 million. Extremely common.

Which begs the question, why do they travel to the terrible USA, when wonderful social care in Canada is so amazing on paper, with wait lists measured in years?
If you're doing this then you assume your signal is stationary in the window length. Many times, it's not...
SpaceX enables Dogecoin payment, ready to push coin to $1
but those $50 million of subscription revenue means there's $50 million less spent on something else. And those $50 million paid to employees are for producing value for netflix (presumably, more than $50 millions worth).

So no, this will not increase inflation. The goods produced matches the money spent, so demand and supply continue to match up.

Inflation would occur if production ceases, but demand continues to remain the same (or higher).
This basically describes the Iranian nuclear system that was hit by stuxnet, which, as I recall, was spread via USB drive.

The airgap certainly reduces the chances of getting hit with a joe-random ransomware attack, though. Defense in depth...
>If crimes using computers were taken seriously, we might have a chance at actually reducing their rate as well.

They often are taken seriously. The problem is most of the ransomware gangs operate out of Russia, and Russian law enforcement permits the activity if Russian citizens aren't targeted. (There may be a short blacklist for citizens of some other countries allied with Russia, as well, but targeting and profiting from citizens and companies in America and Western Europe is explicitly allowed.)

If you're the FBI, there's absolutely nothing you can do about that if the ransomware operators never leave the country. You can try to lure them out of the country - and this does happen sometimes - but if they're smart enough to never leave, they're basically immune to all repercussions.

The Justice Department can publicly indict them, and they sometimes do, but they're just going to laugh at it; it simply increases their street cred and respect among their peers. "I'm on the FBI's Most Wanted lol." You can go after the infrastructure, but as long as the people involved are allowed to operate freely and continue to have lucrative incentivizes, it's only a minor annoyance at most.
it's always means it is (or it was); it's never possessive.
I work at a decent-sized electronics company with several dozen products on the market at any one time. Lead times for chips were usually 12 weeks in normal times. We have forecast sales going off at least 6 months or a year away. We have known where the shortages will be for some months now.

We have already re-spun PCB designs to work in alternate ICs for some of the ones that we know will become unavailable; dual-footprint in case the originals come back. This took time and effort to design and verify and all that work could have gone into the design of new products, but it had to be done. This has put us some number of months behind our original planned dates for our new products.

The problem is that we can see shortages coming up which we cannot work around. We cannot buy enough parts, the lead-times are astonishing. At some point we are going to have to get lucky or halt production.
Another example. http://gpu.pizza/#love
Don’t offer checks nor overdraft protection. That way, you’re not offering credit and don’t need to gate them from a deposit account because of a previous bad check or other derogatory credit event.

Simple did not offer checks (at least pre BBVA acquisition, when I had an account with them), for example.

The Fed is rolling out instant payments in 2023, after which I expect checks to be obsolete and no longer offered by financial institutions.
This is a bit of a facile analysis. The germans killed out of a desire to kill -- e.g. to exterminate undesireable elements, primarily jews, gypsies, gays, jehovah's witnesses, and mentally ill, plus of course political resisters.

The Russians killed in order to terrorize the domestic populations. They terrorized everyone.

When you see public displays like the husband of a farm impaled on his front porch and all the women raped and murdered inside, that is a very public act of terrorism meant to frighten the general population and let them know that their lives had zero value to the new occupying forces. When you see that happen in every single village, in every neighborhood, it spreads terror across the entire nation. It was not violence focused at undesirable groups, it was violence focused at anyone, arbitrarily, and very publicly. E.g. 20% of Hungary's female population was raped, and many were murdered afterwards. That touches basically everyone in society, to let them know that no one is safe, and that anyone can be gotten at any time and for arbitrary reasons, and if you had 5 women in your extended family, odds are the Russians raped one of them. That is something that terrorizes the entire nation. Things like the repeated public gangrape of nuns in Poland, a very catholic country, that terrorizes a large proportion of the population, as does the execution of random ordinary villagers in gruesome spectacles.

Is it so surprising that a policy of terrorism succeeds in terrorizing the population? Do you really think it's just about numbers?
When your CEO makes stupid crucial decisions. What to do?
I am a VP at a global startup (operations), high tech applied to low-tech industry.

We have 1 very charismatic person in charge of sales who ofter persuades the CEO (and founder) to make stupid decisions.

The latest is to amend a multi-million dollar contract with a supplier by means os "a phone conversation" between said Director or Sales and the Director of Sale of the supplier; unbeknown to the CFO/CEO? and legal department of this supplier.

My pleads to amend the existing contract in writing, as called for by the original contract have been ignored and I am now effectively been cut off from the discussion.

So, what is the proper:

* response

* reaction

* behavior

going forward?
If you believe this is somehow unprecedented, or that the United States does not also exploit extralegal methods for proxy conflict/geopolitical subterfuge when convenient, you need to read more
Czech researchers develop revolutionary nuclear heating plant
Just in case I wasn't clear, I think we both agree that message being unauthentic is a different matter from the incident itself. Just that angry people often can't/wont distinguish the two.

I pointed this out because GP seems to not be affected, so his view won't be obscured by this; but the phenomenon should be noted.
You meme, but having status updates on a widely distributed network already being used for other things would make it incredibly resilient. You can already sign messages without involving currency malarkey in most blockchains that matter.
> This has been happening everywhere over the last decade or so, and it's the result of super loose fiscal policy.

It’s not just loose fiscal policy, it’s also technology’s role in reducing marginal costs. It’s basically impossible for a smaller player to compete in commodity markets like consumer banking because the bigger player has lower marginal costs and can offer a more attractive price.

The same as Walmart/Target/Home Depot/Lowes/Best Buy dominating retail.
Can’t find anything about the SWISS ships but curious to learn more, if you could provide a link.
Tradeoffs. Air gaps come with other costs of their own.
OP's comments apply just as well to the Linux communitIES.
This article is from 2012, but still relevant.
Yes, that's a major point in Weber's original formulation of the Protestant work ethic—the secularization of those values and practices. In other words, the puritans wanted to live this way; we have to.

If the phenomenon seems like it's global now—even appearing in parts of the world that Protestantism never touched—then that's because, well, capitalism is global.
Can You Handle an Argument?
Is there a way to ‘train’ for emotional stability?
The difference isn't in material usage. Larger dice translate into lower yield per wafer and less throughput for a fab.
Dan Kaminsky spent an enormous amount of time and effort on creating a secure hardware framework 10 years ago. It went nowhere for a lot of the same reasons you discuss in this comment.

The government and industry are all talk. Until we see actual enforcement / incentives for secure hardware, just assume everything (and I mean everything) can get shut down at any time. The only people who think this is an exaggeration are those who haven’t seen what things actually look like on the inside.
You can move them as well.
And yet the punchline is still valid because surely they have no concept of numbers that large without any sort of base system involved.
No, but it can tell you when those things happen to minimize the number of unnecessary trips to the machines.

Ages ago I interviewed with these folks who were early in the space: https://www.cantaloupe.com/
I like your sense of humor
Oh you hit the nail on the head!

I have written some really basic shell scripts, and I try to use common shell modules/commands whenever it makes sense. It's just so confusing sometimes.

The main challenges I faced in the beginning where caused by MacOS. MacOS comes with an older version of Bash, its default shell ZSH comes with its own slight variations on how it expects you to do things, and the utilities that come with MacOS aren't Gnu so the available options/arguments are not what you would find online.

Then there is so much conflicting information online! A lot of it is also ancient, as in newsgroup archives from the 90s.

String manipulation. When I look up how to do some specific replacement again, I come across all these massive inline awk scripts. But then I remember I could also just use sed and regex, or in some cases even just standard variable tricks, and achieve the desired result with 90% fewer code.

The bigger scripts I've written are a mess.. I think. I still haven't been able to figure out how to error exit out of the entire script from a function that was called within it... :)
This is one of the best comments I’ve read on this site. I’m sorry for the hardship, but I so appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned.
Per the article, BBVA is “reassessing its goals”. This is amusing given that the original goal was “to be a bank that doesn’t suck.”
Reminds me of Junju Ito’s manga, Uzumaki, a masterful horror piece which involves a town becoming consumed with spirals, anyone else read/seen it?
There's a big difference between the capabilities of a criminal organization (like the one involved here) and that of a nation state. Such attacks are also responded to differently, and it's not going to be send some Bitcoin to this address.
The problem with buying cashflow through ETF investment is you have to make so much money to get to any real level of cashflow.

Buying $30k of index funds will set you back ~$50k pre tax, which is 25% of our doctors income. If you subscribe to the 4% rule, you've "bought" a perpetual cashflow of $1200 annually.

To get a passive income of $200k annually, you need $5m in index funds which is going to take either ~30 years with compounding interest at 10% (assuming you are investing a continuous $30k after tax) every year.

Realistically, to make any sort of actual money (I'm defining this as $200k + annually in passive/semi-passive income), you need an ownership stake in a business or in another asset (likely property).

The vending machine example is stupid for a doctor to do, because it's the sort of opportunity that rewards someone with a lot of hustle and low opportunity cost - good luck competing with an entrepreneurial college student who has a lot more free time. Same thing with the website.
Node JS based instead of running a full LAMP stack. I believe ghost supports sqlite for low traffic.
Ally bank has very similar features to simple. Their buckets/goals are a bit more configurable too
Fed accounts allow for rapid stimulus payments directly into citizen deposit accounts, instead of the Rube Goldberg IRS payments dance we’re currently doing. Stimulus payments then become a batch job.
Banks already use secured credit cards to help people with no credit or bad credit build it. People with spotty banking history can do the same.
I used to work for Fanatics.com. Together with UnderArmor, they outbid Majestic for the MLB jersey contract. Majestic had had the contract since the 70s.

Majestic immediately filed for bankruptcy. Which was good news for UnderArmor and Fanatics, because they didn’t have any ability to make baseball jerseys. So they bought Majestic for a dime on the dollar since it was bankrupt.
The Biggest Myths About World War II, According to a Military Historian
Myth: President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor in advance

Myth: Erwin Rommel a.k.a. “the Desert Fox” was the greatest German general of all time

Myth: Hitler was solely to blame for the German defeat in World War

Myth: Japan could have won World War II, if only the Japanese had bombed the oil depots at Pearl Harbor in addition to the ships

Myth: There was a turning point in World War II
Large corporate or state media outlets are unlikely to provide the historical context or the epistemic humility required to follow geopolitics with nuance
Well, it should be on a different domain, so status.com or statusstatus.com
I also have a small son currently into dinosaurs and now I'm curious what this recent paper is that you mentioned.
Thank you! That'd be immensely helpful.
Link to actual paper (preprint, that is): https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148
It's not clear to me that this is actually a "state of emergency". The BBC has now quietly amended their headline to say "US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack." (The web page calls it a "Regional emergency declaration.")
Nokia X50 is approaching, The specifications of Nokia X50
> gold's lackluster performance so far say about the future direction of inflation?

some of the gold bugs who would've pushed up the price of gold has switched over to bitcoin (and other cryptos).
By the time Protestantism came about, this type of life was only present in the countryside and receding fast.
According to https://discordstatus.com/, there isn’t an outage. Are you suggesting that there’s currently an ongoing outage, and their status page is useless? (Wouldn’t be the first time, but it’s surprising that an otherwise excellent engineering team would make such a mistake.)

Disclosure: not a Discord user
> The C-ecosystem build tools you refer to are pretty far behind those of pretty much every other langauge.

For developers, maybe. But as a user, I love compiling and installing Autoconf software (compared to the alternatives).
If you give an animal random rewords for a task, they will do that task until they die. B.F. Skinner was the unwitting father of modern management.
Adding ANSI C11 C compiler to D so it can import and compile C files directly
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