skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we could have negative interest rates, deflation would still happen, and people would still label it as a harbinger of bad economic times. Why? Because price deflation of a monetarily inflating currency is a symptom of an unhealthy economy. When the currency becomes a more attractive place to keep your money, it means the rest of the economy has become significantly less attractive - ie unhealthy. Deflation itself isn't what's a big deal, its the cause of deflation that is a big deal.

> The bias towards inflation exists because it can reduce the real interest rate below 0%

And why would we want such a thing? With real interest rates below 0, everyone could take a loan out, sit around and do nothing, and then collect money from the "lender" later.
I used to love Kenji but recently have become less interested in his recipes because they are very meat focused. I'd love to see more vegetarian/vegan stuff from him because his approach to food and communication style is great.
That's certainly a valid take, though not the only one. Another "hacker's do anything RPG" is GURPS and it certainly doesn't fit on one page.
There is also a question of who exactly is doing this. I am willfully ignorant of conditions in the lowest 20% of society by wealth and status.

It isn't self-evident that life in the real world at the bottom of society is better than a videogame. Imaginary worlds are a lot more fun than reality. Throw in a minimum wage freezing out very low skill jobs, parental willingness to support, no particular prospect of a girlfriend and maybe a bit of access to some welfare programs. Then maybe the real world just doesn't offer very much.
When compensation comes after effort as a reward, it incentives completion of tasks, but it requires someone to be willing to pay for that task to be done.

There is an imbalance between "worthwhile tasks" and "things someone will pay for".

This leaves many good actions undone, or done only by volunteers. Also investigating new and unexplored ideas is often a long and unrewarded task until a breakthrough occurs. I believe some people would prefer to live without money worries, and to explore their passions. Not enough of us have that luxury, but I believe that in the future we could all have that opportunity.
Google animations that get in the way
> would almost certainly not fit within the footprint that ordinary drives do

Yes. You'd probably need to use 2.5" platters for a 3.5" enclosure. Also not sure if the mechanics would be precise enough to allow one head to read what the other wrote. When IBM did this, densities were MUCH lower.

As for capacity vs IOPS, 10K and 15K RPM drives rarely have the same densities as the slower large capacity units. I don't think I ever saw a 10+TB drive faster than 7200 RPM.
Yep. Also note that ENS is a generic naming system, not just .eth names. You can also import in DNS names you already use, e.g. I own brantly.xyz on DNS and also imported it into to ENS: https://app.ens.domains/name/brantly.xyz
Of course outside the bubble. It's really only on HN that social media is assumed to have no redeeming value beyond acting as a platform for corporate mind control, propaganda and culture war, but for most people social media is just a way to communicate and stay entertained. My mother, who can barely even use a computer, keeps in touch with her relatives and gets pictures of her grandkids and keeps up with her COPD support group on Facebook. Obviously social media has value to her and many, many other people.
And the price tag of the drug itself. Something to consider when there is doubt about the effectiveness.
Tax the machines
Is this a new phenomenon in any real sense, I wonder. All through history, haven’t there always been many “surplus men” who didn’t find a place in their surrounding society.
Not who you replied to, but it's consistent with basically other source I can find. I'm inclined to believe that the root for year is indeed different, based on the suggested cognates in other languages.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annual
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anus

https://www.etymonline.com/word/annual
https://www.etymonline.com/word/anus
I like to hope that cetaceans are sentient. Given that, I can imagine the poor whale being completely grossed out by whatever it just got in its mouth and tried to spit it out as fast as possible. I've definitely had that experience before.
Fair. From ~40% share of global gdp in the 60s to ~25% now
Why does storing a set take the same space as storing a list?
Why are European companies so unambitious? My whole civilian career I've had to work for North American companies because the European alternatives aren't even attempting to be competitive.
Right on! I was thinking of suggesting something like minikanren. My likes can get a bit niche at this point so I’ll leave it at that.
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Or they'll be fine, marry loving partners, get into doing something lax like flipping cars or real estate, spend more than they probably should on entertainment, have a kid or two, pay off their $100k home by retirement age, and live like most of the bottom 40% of the US.

Not everywhere has money. I'm from a place where mortgages (with PMI) plus property tax are under $600/mo, families mostly own one vehicle (a van or truck), and people outside of regular blue collar either work six months out of the year trucking, at one of two local corporate offices, or hold multiple jobs part time (30-32 hours per so they don't ever get benefits).

That's how a lot of America lives, and that's who Medicare4All, free higher ed, and federal funding for K12 helps the most, which would do a lot to build and reinforce our lower middle class.
The opening paragraph:

In 1984 a besuited 20-something American executive on a visit to France offered Europeans a few tips for corporate success. Entrepreneurs needed to be given a second chance if they failed and government bureaucrats made for lousy investors, he told a television interviewer. His advice was sage. But European companies ruled the global corporate roost alongside those of America and, occasionally, Japan. Why should they take advice from this uppity Californian newcomer? Nearly four decades later the company founded by that young upstart, Steve Jobs, is worth more than the 30 firms in the German blue-chip dax index combined.

As someone who grew up in the California Bay Area and programmed Macs and other computers my whole life, reading that gave me great enjoyment.
> imposing restrictions on the quantity of new assets the rich have already have lots of and the poor don't and need to borrow them would benefit the poor

Honestly its too hard to figure out what you mean by that to really respond. How is this related to what I said?
It's probably not healthy, or recommended, but I take Benadryl for sleep, it works so well, I'm surprised it's not suggested that often. Like others I've tried and actively try everything. Melatonin gives me horrible nightmares.
There's benefits to larger companies, such as being willing and able to fund bigger research and development projects. There's opportunities at companies like Google that just aren't available at any European company.
No need to push together so much straw. I think the folks at Apple now are doing great things that push things like differential privacy and other techniques in a direction I agree with and I think is better than many other companies. I’ve personally sought out their products since running System 6.0.8 on a PB100’s persisting RAM disk.

At the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...
> when one cobsiders the effects of inflation alone, which is hard, because its never the only real factor

To me, that's the real thing I think it missing from a lot of the discussions going on here. There are so many things that go into these as inputs, and over this time period, so many large global changes. It's hard for me to take some of the claimed causal relationships at face value without even lip service to some of those other things (globalization, increase in population but unevenly, social upheavals, etc).

> and (absent pushes like minimum wage increases) may entirely not occur in some segments.

Yeah, I don't expect it to be simple. In fact, the assumption that it's not simple is why I'm having trouble accepting some of the direct claims presented as they have been so far (which is without much analysis of additional factors).
Interesting startup idea to digitize the blueprints/floor plans by working with counties. I'd imagine if you offer them some money they won't refuse.
Yeah, TV and related is a pretty big psyop and always has been. I'm going to invoke Godwin's Law but even the Nazis knew how to use movies back then to brainwash people into doing their bidding.

The audience here is (wrongly) responding to you by thinking that you're somehow targeting women in your questioning, but I get what you're trying to say - you see a strange imbalance of personalities being portrayed in popular media and it's setting off alarms in your head, like someone is trying to sell you something or they're trying to push an agenda on you that you don't quite buy into. They are, but you're resisting. Keep doing this. Eventually, find out who the owners are of all these channels and products that are being pushed on you. What do they have in common, and what would they stand to gain from this. Follow the money.
That's a good, concise description. My particular beef with this happening with respect to insurance is that it "nudges" us to all be risk averse and boring, and artificially prioritize safety over all kinds of other outcomes.
As the article demonstrates, all you really need is a boot loader.

On early machines (large and small) with front panel hardware, you could use switches to manually enter the boot loader into memory and then start it.
Until 8000 years ago most of the present Persian Gulf was fertile valley. It is a good bet that archaeological sites critically important to understanding the rise of civilization are under it now.

Deforestation is a common cause of desertification worldwide. Trees help to capture moisture from the air and bring it to ground. Cut them down, and the moist air blows past. Trees are commonly cleared for farmland, and then the farmland has to be abandoned when it gets too dry.

In the Amazon basin and along the northwest coast of North America, trees were the basis of productive agriculture, carefully chosen mixes of trees of different sizes and species. To this day the Amazon basin is dominated by tree species that were once cultivated throughout, supporting tens of millions until they were wiped out by smallpox and other pandemics. In North America, such tree gardens can still be found centuries after they were abandoned.
How to Become a Data Engineer: From Analyst to Data Engineer
I live in a small EU country, sometimes it feels like I live in a total state. Government and universities glued together by big consulting firms following some innovation management framework with people that don't know what they are talking about ranking stuff by points scored on some technology readiness index. It just laks any soul, feels like i'm stuck here, would move if I could but where would I go.
Does the paper itself have figures for increased casualties? The abstract only has specifics for $$$ cost.
See a psychiatrist, if it's an option. They'll ask you to do one or more diagnostic questionnaires, I was given the Weiss functional impairment scale and the CADDRA questionnaire to fill out. Your partner or a close acquaintance will also be required to answer some questions to give an outside view. Answer as honestly as possible (there's no effort at blinding so it's embarrassingly easy to guess the 'right' answers... they really need to work on this).

I don't know about other countries but in Australia if you meet the criteria on the above questionnaires and your psychiatrist's assessment agrees with that then you'll likely be prescribed stimulant medication (Ritalin or dexamfetamine, or the long acting variants Concerta or Vyvanse). I started on dexies and while not everyone's so lucky, for me they were life changing. I can sit down and choose to do a thing... and just do the thing! It's the first time in my life I've been able to do that. I was surviving before but... life just doesn't have to be that hard.
> Could you please link to any documentation or HOWTO?

Here you go:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation...

> if I attempted to re-install software with Guix in parallel, would that lead to namespace collisions?

It shouldn't. That's one thing Guix (and Nix) excel at: packages only refer to specific versions of their inputs, so you can even install multiple versions of the same package at once if you want.

In terms of Guix shadowing packages installed by Arch, you can put $HOME/.guix-profile either at the front or the end of your $PATH depending on whether you want to prioritize Guix or Arch packages. When I was getting my feet wet with Guix, I ran Guix on top of Gentoo (doing basically what you suggested, gradually shadowing Gentoo packages with Guix ones) for a few months without any significant problems.
Relevant link https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/19/sperm-co...
Reminds me of using the machine email addresses for Zendesk tickets and other helpdesks where you can reply to the ticket via email to join domain-restricted services like slack, notion, etc. So many clever ways to get in without an explicit technical vuln.
This is a good survey that shows the impact of availability bias on people's perceptions about this topic:

https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/reports/Research-Rep...
Thank you! Strange bug.
Go outside. Stop using apps. Unless youre incredibly attractive you always will get beaten by the person who makes a move in the real world. Hetero dating is gendered and apps remove the steps that a hetero man has to take, theres not much incentive for a woman who is already hit on regularly to use a dating app.
> A person who does nothing with their life when they could be doing something is really a narcissist

Nah, lots of people just tend to follow the path of least resistance at the moment. They don't assume that others will support them forever, they just aren't thinking about it since it is bothersome. If they were forced to do other things then they will do other things, since the force changed what path has the least resistance.
That kind of labor is ultra expensive these days. You need 500K or more for this to be realistic to have done for you at anywhere approaching 24/7 levels
This article doesn't do a good job of explaining why having many huge corporations is a boon. My guess is that many Europeans are perfectly fine with that.
Gaining empowerment doesn’t mean you expect less from a provider, it means you stack the two together for an even better life. At least that’s a major philosophy out there. “What’s mine is hers, what’s hers is hers.”
I think while the average European is fine, as the article alludes to European politicians aren't.

In fact the last tech darling from Europe ended up as a massive scam - Wirecard.
> normal people haven't benefited from that increase unless they've been able to pump their money into things like stocks.

Except that the U.S. isn't cut off from the world economy, and over a billion people have moved out of extreme poverty. How much of the difference in what we expect buying power should be compared to what it is is on account of globalization and sharing some of that wealth with other countries? It seems a bit suspect to assume monetary policy is the only or the majority of the reason for these observations without considering things such as that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#...

> The Chinese had apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Hellenistic system by the 4th century, although by which route is not entirely clear. It was again transmitted to China in the 8th century by Manichaeans, via the country of Kang (a Central Asian polity near Samarkand).[20] The 4th-century date, according to the Cihai encyclopedia,[year needed] is due to a reference to Fan Ning (范寧), an astrologer of the Jin Dynasty. The renewed adoption from Manichaeans in the 8th century (Tang Dynasty) is documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing and the Ceylonese Buddhist monk Bu Kong.

> The Chinese transliteration of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan by the Japanese monk Kobo Daishi; surviving diaries of the Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga show the seven-day system in use in Heian Period Japan as early as 1007. In Japan, the seven-day system was kept in use (for astrological purposes) until its promotion to a full-fledged (Western-style) calendrical basis during the Meiji era. In China, with the founding of the Republic of China in 1911, Monday through Saturday in China are now named after the luminaries implicitly with the numbers.
> Hopefully we can improve at that while keeping worker protections

This is how Europeans defend their system - better worker protections. But I get far better pay, conditions, and work-life balance at a North American company than I could possibly expect working for a local company. I'm not sure this defence really works anymore.
well, it can at least be summed up in the last file change: `templates/index.html` with the removal of `supporting free and open source communities since 1998`
This article hasn't ruled out the easy answer - EU stocks might be taxed differently so the stock prices are lower.

I'm personally sure there are problems with their policies, but this article is leaping ahead a little bit linking cause and effect.
Somewhat unrelated, but most (I didn't check the ones that required me to log in) links in your profile seem to be broken.
Lol. I blame autocorrect :)
Some nitpicks:
* IVF involves retrieval and then fertilization of eggs. There’s not usually leftover unfertilized eggs unless the woman is banking her eggs.
* The success rates my partner and I have been quoted mean that we want to keep as many embryos as possible in case we need to try again. I think it would be really unethical to ask a woman to give up any good eggs or euploid embryos as they can be hard to get in some cases.

The shots a woman has to give herself daily to stimulate follicle production are no joke. That would be a lot to put someone through purely for research. It’s not as simple as that. And it’s wishful thinking to expect any woman to do that.
Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon
Dave is 95% theatrics (faux shock jockey?) and usually those are around technique (though sometimes a food is inseparable from technique) so maybe I am more forgiving in that scenario.

Cooking Issues is fundamentally a podcast about failures and attempts first and foremost, so it tends to skew a bit more towards scientific method I suppose.
So when deciding on the policies of a nation of 350 million people, you look at the top 10?

That's a completely arbitrary cut off. Why not look at the top 1, and then tell me that I should extrapolate that out to say that every billionaire is bald and owns Amazon.com ?

Surely you see how choosing top 10 is a completely arbitrary cut off that you invented.
> if you mainly live in a web browser and don't do GPGPU

For what it's worth, I use Guix and I've been able to do everything but CUDA just fine. (CUDA will never be supported in Guix as it requires proprietary drivers to function.) There are opencl packages, for example. It works well enough to run an Ethereum miner, Blender, and even games in WINE. I've been meaning to package AMD ROCm for better GPU compute support.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Installation.html

Namespacing in this case is just adding the guix bin directory to your PATH; put it in front of your existing path to default to guix programs, or at the end to default to Arch. You can also just use an ad-hoc environment (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-envir...) to call guix packages at will without really installing them.
looks great! I may have to give it a try.

BTW you have a typo on the homepage. CTRL-F for "slinghow"
Has anyone had experience with Kopia and restic?

If so any opinions?
tldr: Whale has gag reflex to seamen
Mozart's full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (Johann Goldmund Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart).

Theophilus (Gottlieb) is Amadeus in Latin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%27s_name
Actually making children is by far the least exhausting part of the process.
Government programs that benefit the poor and middle class benefit the poor and middle class, by definition really. But since the government is taking this money out as a loan, they need to pay interest on it. The interest they pay is certainly higher than any Seigniorage benefit they get. So the loan (where paying interest is required) is essentially the wall past which Seigniorage no longer benefits the receiver - unless they're getting a below-market-rate loan. Even if the loans were below-market-rate, or 0% interest, this government spending of money that isn't collected in taxes is a recipe for disaster. Eventually, the tax payers (who are primarily the middle class) will pay for it. And often the things the government spends money on are not very efficient, so deficit spending is extra bad in those situations.
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People would spend very conservatively and nothing particularly interesting would happen. It would be virtually impossible to raise money for new businesses.
Do you get to keep your other equipment when you quit? The same people who setup your desk would take the desk and your computer at the same time? They are just movers, so its not like they need repo men or something.
Is the median the right central tendency estimator to use? We're talking about a distribution with a huge amount of skewness. The top 20% of the class could all be from billionaire families and it wouldn't impact that chart.

I'm not surprised that Yale picked the median to plot, though, since it paints themselves in the best light.
>then what exactly is a man buying into with a relationship with said woman?

Jack Donovan has a great corollary to this in "The Way Of Men" where he says that society is nowadays trying to "fix" men as if they are "imperfect women."
There should be a standard for replaceable boards for major appliances. Compressors in fridges and motors in washers ultimately do not change. The front interface changes but that's ultimately just programming the on/off cycle for that motor.
True. American tech and telecom is increasingly being looked at as being monopolistic. And this feeling is bipartisan, even if the starting arguments are different for each party.
Programmers inherently know that doing anything requires a lot of detailed knowledge, because working out how to express it explicitly is their job.

But decent programmers get a lot of reinforcement of the idea that they are entitled to be spoon fed with the details of whatever needs to be worked on. They get treated as machines that can be pointed at any problem in any domain.

I know intuitively why this attitude of entitlement bothers people, but I don't have the right words at the moment.
I found it very interesting during college I drove a beater car. I got pulled over by cops ALL THE TIME. For some reason all that magically changed when I managed to purchase something nice. Curious? no?
I'm Romanian and I had no idea parts of Oltenia look like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Sahara+Olteniei%22&t=ffcm&iar=i...

Better stock up on turbans because there's no chance we can fix anything.
debt is likely acquired with the degree; fields that skew female are also low-paying.

that's basically it: debt is not attractive.
Until CGNAT cripples your concept.
Taildrop was kind of easy