skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're kind of underselling Stallman's vision. He realized early on (80s) that the users' control over the software running on their machines was intimately related to their personal freedom. Most of society has only started to notice this when rumors about apps and websites secretly accessing your microphone and camera started to spread in the late 2010s.

For Stallman, and the rest of us inspired by the copyleft movement, writing GPL software wasn't merely a way to impact the profits of capitalists. He would have been scarcely more satisfied with closed-source software written by a democratically organized cooperative and released for free. The goal was and is to ensure that users have the freedom to know what the code running on their machines is doing, and to alter its behavior if they wish.

That dream seems so distant today that people worry it may never be satisfied, but I have a more optimistic view. Someday, hardware generations will not be so rapid or represent such major improvements. That will create an opportunity for the GPL ecosystem to close the gap in functionality and provide alternatives that run on the hardware most people own. Mostly, the GNU project is always running behind on the hardware treadmill; keeping up with software functionality is easy by comparison.
Fees for what should be a standard feature in a few years? That sets an anti-consumer precedent. Hard pass
These types of monster-chips are probably sold as part of a solution for a specific problem so they probably don't actually have a fixed price in the sense that no one buys just a chip.
What's wrong with canopy?
The dialpad for the Phone app was absolute perfection.
How do you figure that one? Any company sell a lot of cars, would it really be thousands more ? How big would the dev & Q/A team need to be for this to accumulate to thousands more?
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Yeah, it's very good. I will bookmark it, thanks.
Though, compare also (2015):

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-d...

> But if all the savings from water rationing amounted to 20% of our residential water use, then that equals about 0.5 MAF, which is about 10% of the water used to irrigate alfalfa. The California alfalfa industry makes a total of $860 million worth of alfalfa hay per year. So if you calculate it out, a California resident who wants to spend her fair share of money to solve the water crisis without worrying about cutting back could do it by paying the alfalfa industry $2 to not grow $2 worth of alfalfa, thus saving as much water as if she very carefully rationed her own use.

> If you were to offer California residents the opportunity to not have to go through the whole gigantic water-rationing rigamarole for $2 a head, I think even the poorest people in the state would be pretty excited about that.
Although I am not completely sure I agree with the thesis, I think it's worth pointing out that one of the largest software projects in existence, Linux kernel, doesn't have software managers either.

In any case, when I first read the headline, I thought, well, in a worker cooperative, the developers can fix the bad management. :-)
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of inflation and you should be aware of the adjustments it makes to accurately interpret the measure. It uses "owner equivalent rent" instead of housing prices and makes substitutions for example. Rob Arnott poked fun at the index a few years ago when they substituted chicken for beef.

It's incredible to reflect on how different the macro landscape is now compared to the last time inflation was this high. In 1984, inflation was 4%, the long bond yield was 14%, and the cyclically adjusted priced to earning ratio was 10.

Now, the long bond yield is 2.3% and the CAPE is 37.4.

Real long bond yields (nominal yield minus inflation) have gone from 10% in 1984 to -2.7% now. The yield on Treasury Inflation Protected Securities is negative, see the government website: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
1-2% over-capacity.

""Both Cerebras’ first and second generation chips are created by removing the largest possible square from a 300 mm wafer to create 46,000 square millimeter chips roughly the size of a dinner plate. An array of repeated identical tiles (84 of them) is built into the wafer, enabling redundancy.""
My honest feedback on pricing was "expensive but we would only want to apply it on non-US users." Also, we wouldn't want to have to pay for invoicing, which is honestly much much worse of a value prop. For someone with a 20% margin business, the combination of these and payments products is about 4%, or 20% of all profit.

While this is the first product since payments I have liked (so good work there) it would be nice to see Stripe work on reducing the transaction costs, particularly on the payments side. Right now for me I consider Stripe a part of the "credit card processing tax cabal". Payment processing fees are a huge tax on the world, and if stripe could help solve that and genuinely reduce it to the level it should be (nearly free marginally), I would have the utmost respect for them. I honestly think this should be the main company focus if they actually want to help customers.
I'm not even sure it's that. The stated metric is how much prices have risen since May 2020. So it is the year-over-year change, but the baseline is a very weird covid-May.
oof selective memory in action. I apparently recalled the peak years and assumed that was a typical year.
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Seems like most of them are enterprise apps that users are forced to install.
It's not for lack of trying. A large part of developer culture is spent on working against or around bad management. Agile, XP, scrum, etc. Piles of books on it. Youtube channels and blogs dedicated to advice on how to navigate bad management.

Bad management is everywhere. We humans are not very good at managing knowledge work. Worse at software in my experience. And all too often I see software developers taking the blame or blaming themselves.

A good deal of software errors are enabled by poor management practices.

When you let off the management reigns and trust developers to understand the importance and impact of their decisions you get a lot better results.
> "nor are there any per transaction fixed fees either"

Why not? Wouldn't fixed fees be preferable to a relative basis for something like this?
Right so then the bad habits are not tied to mobile but is rather a cousin issue. Most people use mobile and, independently, longform discourse does not have mass appeal.
My guess is because with the rise of telework/distributed people don’t need to live in urban centers, therefore they are more flexible on where to live, therefore want houses and walkable neighborhoods. Since it’s hard to make more of these quickly, demand will rise.

If more companies come out of COVID with liberal remote work policies, and I think they will to compete, this will make demand for these houses go way up as people start making long term plans (eg, “I can’t move the kids to a new school until I find out if work sticks with telework”).

I also wonder if there are more exurb dev deals breaking ground with planned communities 1 hour away from large metro areas. I think it’s good time to invest in semi-remote small towns with fiber to the home.
Mimicking birds wasn't necessary for flight.

However, understanding them absolutely was; we didn't end up taking exactly the same route to the sky, but we absolutely learnt from birds on the way.
My office before the pandemic was basically people looking at screens and slacking each other rather than lifting their head up an inch to speak - literally even if the person was one chair over from them.

When we went remote, nothing changed other than people no longer had to commute. The feedback from the team has been overwhelmingly and consistently positive. Nobody wants to go back full time - ever. The most they’ll concede is a day or two per week, but I strongly suspect reality will be less than that.
One potential solution is graduated rate increases for utility consumption above a baseline. Everybody deserves cheap equal access to utilities but above the baseline the price rate per gallon or kilowatt hour should increase 7% for every 10% quantity usage above baseline from residences.
Yep the title should be edited as it's misleading.

It's not even annualized, according to the WSJ title it's 5% from May 2020.
Anyone could choose to pay to fly in big roomy seats. It’s called business and first class. People do not want to do that, which is why people not only keep buying tickets in economy, but buy tickets on budget airlines that are even more cramped, less comfortable, and have less amenities. You are renting space on the plane for the duration of your trip. If you want more space, you are free to purchase it.

If you deliberately chose to purchase a seat you know does not fit your needs, then attempt to steal space from the person next to you, then you are the bad guy. Not the airline. If you think you deserve to be gifted free additional space you did not pay for, then you are the bad guy.
Since this chip is a whole wafer we can make some back-off the-envelope calculations.

Let's pretend this was an Intel product and Intel's typical yield was like 150 CPUs / wafer. Using high-end Intel CPUs as a price-point, we would already be in the $300,000 price range for this chip.

But this isn't an Intel product and not made at scale, more likely to-order. Further they don't just sell you the wafer/chip, but a complete solution. They have to recoup development costs with much fewer units sold.

I wouldn't be surprised if this goes for $2m - $5m.

Edit: The previous generation of this product was sold "for a couple million" according to some voices on the internet.
The comment you replied to gestures at but doesn't outright say this, but I think you have a good point.

I genuinely think that many engineering managers see their most important skill as "getting engineers to do things for reasons they don't understand".
You make good points - The pricing is still a good example of how it's a tax on hobbyist developers.

Is there any 'free' Authenticode cert providers out there? Doing the same job as LetsEncrypt but for code?
The problem is that people will collectively make this mistake (even if some fraction does pick up on this subtlety). Consequently, markets may react as though it raised 5%.
You're one of today's lucky ten thousand!

https://www.hboehm.info/gc/
or local strawberries?
Another choice line: “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”

Which I guess makes sense. We're all nowhere near equal when it comes to food or shelter, so why would anybody expect equality for any other basic human necessity?

This is where some form of government has to step in to prevent this from turning into a Prisoner's Dilemma. Well, actually, we're already way past that. We're already at the point where prisoner A and B betray eachother.
Billing alerts. That should be the second thing you set up with AWS after MFA on the root.

For managed services, never put them into production until you understand the cost structure. Unlimited scalability == unlimited cost.
Wow, the people interviewed in this article are wildly out of touch.

“What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?” -- if there is a drought, then yes. there are other ways to landscape, and these people can afford to pay someone to make a pretty rock garden for them.
> If we dismiss all corporate criticism as just another inevitability, then corporations will run unchecked without any criticism

Who needs criticism when you are in control of B2 bombers? Let corporations play, let them compete and give them free reign, while remaining chill knowing that you always have the last resort option to tame them: violence in the form of B2 bombers

I'd be worried much more about the public officials who are in control of the aforementioned B2 bombers and should use them for the benefit of Americans.
The thing that stikes me about the naming of variants, is that to your standard person on the street, referring to the variants by the place they were first identified is going to be considerably more meaningful than calling them a greek letter, especially with the less common letters. It's also easier to mentally track the variant's progress if you know where it "originated".
Similar situation. My solution was to rent a tiny office in my town. It’s awesome! Three minute commute.
The article has a few brilliant ideas, for sure. In particular asking if the time was well spent. This can be truly valuable and it makes sense inside the "screen time" feature apple already provides. Including the score in the app store could be a good idea, specially if sharing your "well spent" opinion is opt-in and only local on the device by default.

On the other hand, Apple is not and should not be punishing anything for being persuasive or any other subjective measure, and should not ever have a method of punishing anymore financially. Any rules to tax or otherwise punish based on opinion can also be used as censorship, and not company should go there.

Yes, it is Apples interest to help us manage our preferences with ease. This is providing a good service. It is not Apples duty or right to impose a view/opinion on its users, neither is their role to be our savior or bastion on the mess the internet is becoming.
These guys' models can have multiple solutions. To me, that would indicate a problem with the model. But they are happy enough just to select the most optimistic solution.
Well my writing style has been the subject of abuse on this website in the precise form that it resembles words generated by a bad algorithm.

"Only a true AI would deny their being."
It's also worth noting that 1 out of every 4 dollars in circulation has been created in the last year. The money has to go somewhere. So far its gone to assets not measured in inflation (stocks, real estate, etc), so its natural that it will eventually show up in consumer prices.

Personal savings rate jumped to over 30% in mid 2020 and again above 25% recently (lines up w/ stimulus payments). Historically this value has been 3 - 10% for the last 30 years or so. So there's a lot of money on the sidelines

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savings
A decade ago or more I played a lot of action quake and I remember when I travelled to Europe how awesome some of the locations would be as levels.

A future fun FPS mod would be to take the output from a project like this and randomly throw you in various small parts of the world for team competitions.

People could play their whole lives and learn every major city’s layout. :)
What is the point here?
Inflation erodes the value of debt.
It's the only legal way.

Have you had a look at the healthcare industry in the US vs healthcare in the rest of the world?
[1] should be https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri... I think
I always just done:

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;

Well at least for CSS on the web. When designing posters I usually visit dafont.com to find something suitable. Remote webfonts don't even load for me since I turned them off in uBlock Origin. The web looks less stylized and fancy (just the way I like it).
I really like the ideation here (and in the HN comments!). They're not the first to come up with most of these ideas though, the Nudge extension (https://nudgeware.io/) already has nudges against infinite scroll & other interventions for Twitter/Facebook/, and there are plenty of "app blocker" apps out there (for App Conditions). Still, I liked to see concrete designs on how Apple could make improvements that only they have the power to implement: the persuasive design settings, the Time Well Spent/Regret Tax.

But the problem is broader and more systemic than Apple can address I'm afraid. "persuasive design" is a direct result of ad-based attention-seeking business models. We need purposeful social apps like https://readup.com or Strava, whose business model incentives are directly aligned with our wellbeing. I'm spending 4-10 hours reading on Readup weekly, and I invariably consider that Time Well Spent (https://readup.com/@thorgalle).
A common statement on short-term inflation is that most suppliers have roughly year long contracts which lock in prices.

There have been large liquidity injections since April of 2020, it's possible that we're looking at a very weird covid April/May + inflation.
> you could have hired an accountant to figure all of that out for you on an ongoing basis, but for the actual price that's a pretty good deal to not have to think about it.

Even if you have accountants on tap, they may disagree. I did some work on a project where we were needing to deal with tax calculations (was using taxjar). At least one of the questions was about when we should be charging tax on certain 'extras', like... shipping. Their accounting firm said "no, you don't charge tax on shipping". Taxjar was automatically making that charge, and throwing off the expected numbers. After some digging, I found, at least in their primary state, they should have been collecting tax on shipping, but I don't think it was uniform across all the other states.

So... they had an accounting/books person on staff, and this question went up to their 'tax person'. I think it was either a general attorney or a tax specialist or something - this was their 'oracle/decision maker', and they were just flat out wrong.

This probably wasn't the case 20 years ago, when they were putting all their records in to an electronic system the first time, but... rules change. Keeping up with them is not a trivial thing, and when millions of dollars are on the line... you can make expensive mistakes.
That lead developer was effectively the manager then.

But you can't just leave all choices to developers, there has to be a commercial point to it all - that isn't something a lot of devs even consider. Technical changes may be great, but the time spent on that has to paid for somehow, not just in 'job satisfaction' for the techies working on it...
The domains you listed are not really disproving my point.
I'm certain that programs could be made in JavaScript for these domains but, like I said in my first comment, it's probably a bad fit.

For example: Espruino is a platform for embedded JavaScript.

I just think about it this way: Just because you wouldn't doesn't mean you couldn't
The problem is often that the whole workflow of a user needs change to leverage things like version control and development environments. For example, when the whole company is doing everything in Microsoft Office, there is not much benefit in introducing git.
Inflation makes existing debt easier to pay off. It doesn’t make acquiring new debt easier.
"Only we have valuable specific timely data to accurately link it to the users general interests via the FLOC ID which is a gradual, general indication of users interests. This is how you beat your competitors."

"Better than retargeting?"

"For sure, because general interests combined with accuracy will bring the best performance."

"Reup me please."
When "vertebrates have evolved mechanisms to guard against this specific scenario", it hardly sounds "improbable."
This is such a good point, Its a bit like how developers neglect to write documentation, developers often neglenct to communicate effectively or create 'communication artefacts' like diagrams, etc that make their work more comprehensible
The article could do with more substance overall but this is one of my biggest pet peeves and I appreciate it being pointed out. I think the tendency of some tech articles/tutorials to refer to things as simple is part of the faux-friendly-jokey attitude that a lot of tech writing adopts—especially on sites like Medium. That and emojis and gifs. I tend to close an article/tutorial as soon as I see an emoji or a gif.
I used to harshly judge anyone who didn't use the debugger in their IDE, but it turns out that it's most people.
Though the plot of the 1982 film was pretty clear that the Norwegians dug up an alien space craft, and a smaller "human sized" dig that was presumed to be its occupant.
Maybe it's not necessary. It's my understanding there's different types of antibodies the body can create. I've already had Covid but I'm still taking the vaccine. My reasoning is that the vaccine offers a hack to ensure those specific antibodies are boosted that target the spike protein. I'm assuming it will further strengthen my immune system. Provide better protection against future variants.
> I wouldn't expect network costs to go to zero. If computing gets distributed we'll only get more bandwidth usage - especially in P2P gossiping situations. Having a few services using that will add non-trivial load to existing infrastructure which really likes the existing CDN pop solution.

But that bandwidth usage will localize more and more and may start going over really non-traditional mediums that weren't fully integrated into the "network mesh" before. If there are 200 people in a shopping mall, with 50 of them with some LocalCDNEdge app enabled and acting as beacons -- the request may never leave the shopping mall and return data that is fresh-enough (depending on the use case of course). Yeah there's now kind of a P2P gossip storm going inside the shopping mall, but I don't think that can't be solved with some more intelligent algorithms and at the worst case, just another wifi-router-as-pop.

I mean unless I'm thinking about this wrong -- what I'm envisioning is the CDN pop solution, just with WAY more pops. Yeah you have to coordinate the pops, but delivering the same payload to two people who are right next to each other (same apartment building let's say) from the far away CDN pop is less efficient than delivering it to one of the people, and P2P for the last mile so to speak.

Also, I think I can lean on innovation emerging in the network space for how to manage this kind of thing -- "Edge" is a buzzword now but I think there's a more innovation to be had.
Nice idea. I’m more of a merge fan than rebase except for some cases (cases where there are more than a few conflicts and you want to deal with them on a commit by commit basis)
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448175 from yesterday
It's possible some new paradigm will come along which makes the mathematical model of quantum computation obsolete and renders irrelevant the question of interpretation (QC uses naive Copenhagen by convention) but I wouldn't hold my breath. And even then, like Newtonian mechanics, the mathematical model would probably still be worth learning.
Interestingly, it's about 5% annualized over the last month, 5% versus May 2020, and 5% growth vs May 2019. Not that any of those three numbers means much because pandemic.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL#0

May 2019: 255.371
May 2020: 255.942
Apr 2021: 266.832
May 2021: 268.551
Maybe on restricted access highways, but self driving isn't coming to dirt and gravel roads any time soon.
>It's not even annualized, according to the WSJ title it's 5% from May 2020.

Thanks, edited my comment reflect that.
I am curious about where things broke down with the 301 based solution y'all used earlier.
Facebook/messaging app/etc creates a sense of friendship that minimizes risk. It allows us to control the level of engagement so that it optimizes our own personal Goldilocks zone of immediate comfort.

Because it wasn't an issue yet, our mothers didn't put an arm around our shoulders and say "aw honey, the ingredients of friendship include awkward movements, inconvenience, sacrifice, vulnerability. You can't do it without those essential ingredients."
They're fabbing it at a 7nm process, too! This is really exciting stuff.

This rabbit hole got me to this Anandtech article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/cerebras-unveils-wafer-...