skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But no one is “selling” you anything here. CPI is just data with a very public methodology. Some things go up, others go down. The Fed uses it as one input in decision making to manage inflation over long time horizons.

You can look at what is measured in CPI and how it’s measured. You can have a conversation about whether that’s the most precise way to measure inflation etc. but just waving your hands about your “lived experience” and making allusions to a conspiratorial “they” doesn’t pass for analysis.

Show your work. What is the motive here for the “Fed and U.S. government are rigging our economic system to backdoor tax the middle class while gaslighting all of us into thinking that this is normal”? How do they do it? What’s in it for them? I’m genuinely curious how you get there from looking at CPI.
Is Matrix really that widely used? I'm a fan—I want to set up my own server one of these days when I get the time—but I get the feeling that it's still kinda niche. Who's using it? This is exciting!
Thanks for the questions!

> How is session state kept?

It's kept as encrypted blobs in redis that times out after some amount of inactivity (to clean up stale sessions)

> Is /event required (as data would be sent in /next?).

Nope! Not necessarily required — although there are some features (client side event tracking, location-in-graph updates on the backend) that benefit from it. We've hooked it up but no feature currently _depends_ on it being called.

> Also as I understand, Processors won't be involved until they are needed. E.g. if we have 2 panes but only the result of the first was required to be processed, would the processor be invoked after just the first pane was complete?

This is true — processors are only invoked as needed. In other words, they are only invoked if the user is traversing an edge that touches a processor. When a processor is invoked depends completely on its location within the graph. The diagram I linked to above in this thread has a stage for "invoke processor" that's only triggered if the backend walks an edge and sees a processor.

There is actually no strict correlation between a pane and a processor. Each can have any pieces of session state they want as input or output. In other words a processor declares "I want Foo ID as my input" not "I want the output of Bar Pane as my input". This helps composability.
read-receipt isnt handled well by gmail?
Well, you can certainly blog using just email: https://PublicEmails.com.

Disclaimer: it's one of my side projects.
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GGP's point is that in some circumstances, Gmail will simply disappear emails, with no trace, instead of quarantining them.
I doubt the police will give a shit.
Thank you, but there’s hardly any point in arguing with a rock. You might be making great points, but at the end of the day, observers see a man talking to a rock. The rock may roll at some point, through forces beyond yourself
I don't think the only options are "rewrite in Rust" or "don't". There are other options than Rust.
We are trying the roll back, will update this comment if it is effective:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462

Update: This cleared up the problem. Took about an hour to revert.
Read the article, it's in the first few paragraphs. Arduino switched its internals to use Go (with a new Arduino builder CLI tool) two years ago, then started building a new IDE experience with Theia and Electron (JS-based) last year. There's zero Java in the future of Arduino.
This isn’t universally true, although your broader point (it could change at any time!) is a risk.

As a data point, I have run my own email servers for years. Both professionally (couple million transactional emails per year) and for my personal.

If you follow best practices (which is a pain to setup!), deliver ability is generally on par with other providers, unless you got unlucky and got a bad IP.
Why would a serious publication take statements of the police at face value much less as evidence of anything?

> It was "strongly implied" because no one was in the driver's seat. Now there is evidence there was a driver, after an investigation. Why should they retract anything?

A publication which does not retract or correct misinformation is a key part of the problem.
This is exactly where the government should operate with emergency stockpiles.

Buy stuff and sit on it for half it's shelf life, and when it's done sell it at just a little bit under fair market cost.

E.G. Buy N95 masks with a 5 year shelf life, hold them for 2, and rotate it out of the warehouse so the warehouse always has newer stuff and places that use it like construction and hospitals have a price stabilized source.
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Great tool! I was a bit confused at first what was going on, especially when I clicked on an instrument. I think part of the disconnect is that the instruments are squares in a grid, but you see oval shapes in the sequencer itself. It may make more sense to show them as rounded rectangles in the sequencer so it's more obvious that each instrument maps to a colored shape in the sequence.

The interface is also begging to be used in both directions: it feels like I should be able to click on a square in the sequencer and see the instruments light up on the right, so that I can change multiple instruments at a time for a given square!
I don’t think comparing number of publications says anything.
We've already done one of these! This is the second introduction of a new edition, and therefore, our third overall: 2015, 2018, and now 2021. If you want to see how it works, you can create a new project, which defaults to Rust 2018, and depend on https://crates.io/crates/semver, which is on Rust 2015, and see that interop works just fine!

Yeah don't worry we'll fuck up for sure, haha. One could argue we've made a few of those already...
In addition to that, you might want/need to use only wired connections to your router and rip out any components that enable wireless.
It's YouTube Face, except written.
My whole family have this sharing on Google Maps. It's becoming more common.
That said, it makes me really hate paying with cash (because then I have to deal with a lot of random change).
Aren’t “quality adjustments” by definition “hedonic adjustments”? How are these not hedonic adjustments? From the linked PDF:

“BLS adjusts for structural and engineering quality changes such as:

• Changes that affect the safety of occupants of the vehicle as mandated by legislated federal or state standards, and for purposes of IPP export items, applicable foreign market standards. Changes in safety features not required by legislated standards will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

• Changes in mechanical or electrical features that affect the overall operation or efficiency of the vehicle, or the ability of a component to perform its function, such as changes affecting steering, braking, stability, engine horsepower, traction control, transmission, battery life, and fuel systems and/or electrical systems.

• Changes in design or materials that affect the length of service, durability, need for repairs, or strength or performance of the item, such as stronger bumpers, HID headlamps, flexible body panels, platinum-tipped spark plugs, or warranty changes.

• Changes that affect comfort or convenience, if supported by evidence of a functional or software improvement, such as redesigned seat belts, remote door locks, theft deterrent systems, navigation and communication systems, satellite radio hardware, drive assist systems, backup cameras, sensors or changes in storage capacity.”
"I need this specific platform to succeed for some reason" does not somehow make that platform a monopoly that should be subject to regulatory action.

Apple's management of their platform is not unique, is not meaningfully different from their competitors, and not meaningfully different from the management of similar stores in different industries. Even assuming they actually have built a strong enough brand that people are judged for having a competing product, I fail to see how requiring changes to the App Store solves that problem.
I think it's reasonable for the average internet user to expect that some creep isn't archiving the whole internet. Public or not. We are indeed talking about the same thing, you are just denying that it's a problem.
All of that sounds like the availability heuristic in play. You buy groceries and fill up your car every week, but those two only make up 15.157% and 2.875% of the CPI respectively. If those went up 100% and everything stayed the same, you might conclude that inflation is 80-100%, even though the CPI would only be up 18%.
Yes, you are right that they allow their own JIT. Their position would be that they spend a great deal of time hardening that JIT and don't trust others to take that time. Their JIT isn't perfect of course, but they control it and can fix it fast if needed. (In their opinion.) They are really saying that they aren't willing to take the time to exhaustively test other JITs. That is a frustrating choice, but I do understand the thinking.

You raise the bigger point. Is there no way for their platform sandbox to handle the concerns? That is a great question.

>Plus, it’s not like normal code doesn’t have buffer overflows or other security issues.

I think normal code on an M1 only runs in rx memory blocks [0,1], so no buffer overflow attacks. At least not without another attack to remap the blocks. This might go back to A12 processors. M1 strengthened the model.

Perhaps with these newer processors, the hardware support can harden the sandbox enough to allow more flexibility. One can hope...

[0] https://blog.svenpeter.dev/posts/m1_sprr_gxf/
[1] https://siguza.github.io/APRR/
Airtag opens the possibility for normal people to easily track you. With Android is just the tech companies and entities that have control over them.
Don't negotiate. Dictate.

I'm not joking either. I tried negotiating this (pre-covid), only to get a "final offer" of a measly couple of remote days etc. Being on the spectrum, I took their word at face value, found another job that does 100% remote, and put in my resignation. Surprisingly that "absolutely final" position wasn't that final anymore, and they'd've rather had me remote than not at all. Had the new job not been a lot better substance-wise, the whole exercise would have been total waste of time.

Of course you'll want to dictate from a position where you can follow your ultimatum if need be.

The nearing end of Covid is where people like us can - indeed must - make a stand against the returning suffocating madness of boring commutes, noisy open plan offices, incessant context switches; against sacrificing one's creativity, flow and personal space to placate the emotional instincts and biases of the excessively social who rarely do the heavy lifting in our sector.

Stay determined and keep up the good work.
The price of homes skyrockets. The interest on loans craters. The monthly payments stay the same. This is because the demand curve on buying houses is sensitive to the monthly payment, not the total price. So it all evens out...

... until you need the down payment. Then the higher prices/lower interest rates combo locks people out. It especially locks out first-time buyers.
I'm with you, I absolutely cannot stand using email unless I absolutely have to, which is mostly just at work.

And it's a fine way for government or businesses to contact me, just like mail was.

But just like mail letter writing declined after the invention of the telephone, e-mail has declined after the invention of IM
10 years ago I would agree without challenge that the US would defend Taiwan if necessary. Less sure about that these days.

Even if we would go to war, its probably a war we would prefer not to have to fight even if the weapons used stay conventional. It's the kind of situation that changes the course of history in a big way for the loser.

Nobody wants to be the Spanish after the defeat of the Armada of the 21st century.
> The CEO of Amazon just can't be associated with such public failures.

I see no reason for this. I think the opposite is true, having high profile test would actually improve the image of the public figure.

Maybe if it was Amazon himself you would have a point, but a totally separate company? Sorry, not buying it.

It seems to me you are just making up excuses to explain away Bezos failure.

> These are not software margins we are talking about, to channel my inner Ricky Bobby: If you ain't software, you are last.

So first of all Branson is a terrible source.

Second of all, of course they don't get software margin. They are capital intensive business. But that is just terrible analysis, based on this logic no company before 1960 could ever be a good business because its not software?

So I guess anybody not selling software should just go home and start drinking because apparently its not worth it. If the market is large and you compare favorably in terms of competition they are good business by literally any objective measure.

That is other then haters who clearly have personal dislike for the CEO.
Wow that site is super fun :) As far as the sequencer, head over to the save menu. If you 'share' your sequence it actually generates a link you can save. (It's not storing the data in the link as the full sequence data is too long at once for a url string.)
Oil is still under $70 a barrel though. It's gone up since being at some historical very low prices but compared to the times it's been north of $100, especially if you factor for 2021 dollars.
I want to point out something from one of the articles which is so far from the truth that it somewhat undercuts the authors credibility:

> For instance, if WhatsApp goes down, not only can you not send/receive messages, you won’t be able to see your old ones, and no one else on your network will be able to either. You could argue that a single email provider has the same effect, but you’d be wrong. If Gmail goes down, I can still send emails to Gmail recipients and I can still see past messages from Gmail users.

Obviously you will be able to see all your WhatsApp messages when WhatsApp goes down. The same is true for Facebook Messenger and many other applications, because everything is saved locally. It's even possible to send WhatsApp messages while being offline which will then be delivered later on.
I'd disagree. E-Mail is useful for invoices, customer contact, first point of contact or 2nd point of contact if someone tried to reach out per Facebook etc. and a serious business relation needs to be formed. However at work we switched to Slack a while back and it was such a relieve! Trying to organize projects per mail was just horrible. Especially when you got non technical staff involved that doesn't correctly forward or answer email and uses reply-all and reply interchangeably, or switches between personal and shared accounts without noticing it. Slack is not perfect but for us it did the job and still does.
But not exactly keeping up with Moore's Law, is it? (Or Dennard scaling, if you're a righteous nerd).

I remember when we yawned at any new CPU that wasn't at least 100% faster. Now 50% faster is "insanely great"?

Well, it could be worse. At least, we're no longer bedeviled by growing bloatware or slowing languages...
Java and Javascript are in no way related. Compared to an Electron app something written in Java is likely to be fast and RAM efficient. Java might have been slow in the 90s, but the world caught up and overtook it years ago.
> requires physical access

What? You just need a high enough gain antenna and you can carry it out much further away than it appears your wifi reaches. Isn't physical access, being able to touch the computer?
> Audi instrument clusters, for 2021 models [1] — Audi appear to be willing to sell these to me, even though I don't own a car.

GP didn’t say that Audi doesn’t sell it, but that you can’t “second source” it:

> You can't get a dash display replacement for a 2021 Audi or whatever from anyone but Audi, etc...
Yeah, I almost feel pity for that wheat, corn or microalgae that nobody studies...

(And the theory that claims that any article starting with "scientists do this or that" is bullshit, wins again).
Shopify CEO sent an essay to managers to remind them that they are a sports team
Lights turn on and off automatically, I rarely have to do anything and they are how I want them when I want them / and don’t turn on when I’m
Not at home and turn on when I arrive home. Turning on in the morning during winter helps a ton and when I do need a light on/off on demand it’s a voice command or the tap of a wireless battery less switch
Attacking mainland China seems like a great way to end up in a very bad Nuclear conflict.
I hadn't thought about that direction of interaction. Very interesting. I agree, now that I think about it, that there are definitely a lot more interactions that can come off of the grid cells. Great suggestion.
The article on the college's website has a few pictures: https://news.wcmo.edu/campus-life/westminster-college-underg...
I think you misunderstood the tone of my comment. I'm not saying that that is the case, but that I imagine that kind of victim blaming or whatever you want to call it is what a hiring manager would use with an applicant claiming burnout.
I've been using Cloudflare for many many years now, I like it a lot. I like that I mostly set it up once and forgot about it.

I just found about Durable Objects and can't wait to try them on a new project for a client that has a use case like: few days per year has a huge traffic spike (tens of thousands concurrent users) while the rest of the year is pretty much dead. I think DOs could be a perfect fit for this.

Cheers and let's hope for another 10 great years, :D.
I think we have the same understanding of the case then. We seem to have a different conclusion on derivative works based on the original Mickey Mouse once it enters the public domain. I agree with you that modern Mickey would still be under copyright.

It's a bit of a moot point in my opinion, because I don't think anyone outside of Disney would even want to make more of 1928 Mickey. It's old. It's not popular. Maybe they'd use him for a cameo or for parody, but shows already do that anyway, regardless of the copyright [1].

[1] https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
> Oh lookie, someone has been calculating the numbers using the old methodology.

They have been doing no such thing. They have not put any effort into "calculating" anything. They simply take the official BLS and add a constant. They say so themselves:

> Responding to prior criticisms made by economist James Hamilton, John Williams explained in a private phone call that Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers.[25]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com

The number at that site will always be higher than the BLS number because the people who run that site think it should be higher. They publish no methodology to recreate their number. Whereas if you want to look at what BLS is doing you can download code:

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

Also, the official Shadowstats.com report costs $175 today (2021-05-11). However:

> Shadowstats doesn’t come cheap: currently, an annual subscription costs $175.

> Six years ago, an annual subscription cost … $175.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/another-alterna...

$175. Huh. Where's that inflation?
It would be a sad day when that happens. Internet still allows an ability for whistleblowers from ole country to be able to reach out to others. If virtual borders start getting enforced even harder than what we already have, those whistleblowers will be forever silenced.
With the exception of a few brands (e.g. Honda, Toyota), I’m not sure the dismal mechanical quality of many 1990-quality cars would save people money versus buying a 10 year old used car for the same money.

Remember, 1990 is still the era of the 5 digit odometer. Cars have gotten hugely more reliable over the years. A 2010 car hitting 200k miles is routine and expected; a 1990 car hitting 200k miles would be exceptional.

Also, no 1990 car would pass modern safety standards. Few would pass emission standards. A big reason for the increase in engine performance (and thus complexity/cost) is due to the weight of all the safety equipment that’s required today.
But iPads are faster!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUST...
Indeed, I'd need to explicitly address each point to explain exactly why and how I disagree.

They're not exactly wrong in a general sense (which I know sounds a little contradictory given I said "every single point is completely inaccurate, irrelevant, and/or nonsensical"), but I think they're wrong in a fundamental way when talking about the ransomware problem. And point 1 is a total non-sequitur in at least three different ways.

It's a complex topic. Basically, I just think that even though a ton of cynicism (about this, about the infosec industry, about companies' approach to security) is absolutely and overwhelmingly warranted, they're being too cynical.
> A big part of the upside of this will be cheaper rents for the rest of us, because right now, ultimately, real estate owners just pass the property tax responsibility to us in the form of higher rents.

In the short term, maybe, but in the long term this will just drive property values up even further, and I imagine it will make people more likely to hold onto property they aren't actively using.
Sucking up 4% of revenue is catastrophic enough (that is probably double digits of profit). The goal of fines isn't to make be an extinction level event for a company.
Tesla puts brake on Shanghai land buy as U.S.-China tensions weigh
If people came with a label that says "Idea Person" or "Execution Person" we could just read their label and do like you say. But what do we do when candidates claim to be both, and there is no label?
Going to Mars carries risks, and not all medical emergencies will be able to be dealt with there. Is that, by itself, going to stop people from wanting to go there? Probably not.

We could reasonably expect any humans going to Mars to bring a lot of medical equipment, supplies, and trained personnel with them. If you need an emergency organ transplant, though, you're probably out of luck.

This isn't substantially different than the risks many people face on Earth, including tens of millions of people in the United States who lack medical insurance. Most people wouldn't accept those kinds of risks voluntarily, but if someone really wants to go to Mars they might decide the risks are acceptable.

If a Mars colony becomes well established with a substantial population, then the risks become less, as the colony would have the infrastructure and full-time expert staff one would expect to find in a typical hospital, and a larger population would mean more potential blood and organ donors.
What is serverless how does it Work?
A printer?
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That's exactly what they are doing right now...https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/05/11/whatsapp-limit-fea...
The idea that China has a 100% chance of winning is laughable and plain wrong.

There are so many dynamics involved e.g. Japan needing to defend the Senkaku Islands, India, UK and EU member states being involved and the fact that you an increasingly united front within APAC.

Also China's military is a lot of smoke and mirrors. They simply can't match the F-22 and F-35 in the air or the Ford class aircraft carriers in the sea. And US is looking to build a missile defence system on Guam to prevent long range attacks.

There are simply too many factors in play to give any percentage of winning.