skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But a purpose as desired by one entity is not necessarily a good purpose for another.

Inflation is a very basic and proved tool to not only stabilize the value of a currency (you know, what a currency is supposed to be) but also to provide incentives to avoid stockpiling production potential and lower unemployment rates.

Crypto speculators might desire to exploit their first-mover advantage to speculate their way into riches without creating anything of value to a society, but that does not mean that the interests of these speculators are aligned with society's best interests.
Then montero is way undervalued compared to others
This also shows that quality of the technology matters. Like the discussion on the business value of Amazon's "use APIs always," using git is using a superior source code technology, designed from the ground up for distributed development by a master of distributed development; good things are enabled automatically. Linus' naming and UX choices and inconsistencies aside, the tool is awesome. That's why it wins in distributed development environments - the bazaar not the cathedral and not the bespoke engineering team hidden away in the corporation.
Like I said, my objection was based on the way you had phrased that last sentence in your comment.

> It's probably not as important in places where it's still cheaper to hire humans than it is to install a robot in most cases.

The reason universal basic income does not work in India is not because people here still have their $3/day jobs. It doesn't work because there is simply not enough wealth here to restribute, so the problem here is still one of creation of wealth.
You'll have to ask an economist.
Yes, I would edit title if I could, thanks!
In purely 'technical' terms, as an activist tactic - wildly effective.

In terms of achieving actual aims - not really.

Kony 2012 is a perfect, textbook example of vacuous meme activism (as the article discusses).
This article identifies three problems with meme activism, all different:

- Sometimes, meme activism is too effective at the goal the activists want, as in the case of Andrew Yang or Black Lives Matter. (At other times it is effective, but not too effective, as in the case of abolitionism.)

- Sometimes, meme activism is too ineffective at the goals the activists want, as in the case of Joseph Kony. (At other times it is ineffective, but not too ineffective, as in the case of the Hong Kong protests.)

- Sometimes, meme activism allows its proponents to argue for shallow ideas that they claim to want probably don't actually want were they to reflect on the ideas, as in the case of Lock Her Up.

Those are... pretty much all over the place, and only the last one seems directly connected to the meme-ness (an idea optimizes for ease of spread) of the meme activism.

And, fundamentally, no one is going to listen - nor should they - to the idea that their activism is too effective, and it is somehow unfair for them to engage in such means. This isn't a board game with rules, where everyone shows up to have fun even if they're being competitive at the table. The goal of an activist is to get what they want; the goal of the opposing activists is the same. Voluntarily giving up "unfair" advantages is just a good way to ensure that your side doesn't win.
> Except what do you call an actual ponzi scheme now?

Yeah, that's the problem with bandying words around without care to their meaning.

This is happening with fascists/ Nazis more often lately in society. I feel that's a bad thing because there are still torch carrying Nazis out there, they're dangerous, and now we don't have a word for them that carries the same weight. It gets watered down when you use it to refer to anyone center or right of center politically.

Jordan Peterson is a Canadian, mostly liberal, left of center academic and the press frequently refers to him as fascist. That just doesn't work.
This is a really great way of summarizing it.
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As reserve banks print more money, the money supply expands, this means more fiat chasing fewer goods. This is what makes house prices go up, which leads to increasing rent prices (real estate investors need the rental income to cover their mortgage repayments).

Salaries, on the other hand, are negotiated up front and sometimes not re-negotiated for years... In the meantime, the currency is inflating (losing value, prices of everything going up). So by the end of the year, your salary buys you less than what you had negotiated at the start of the year. Some companies offer 2% salary increase per year; this is not enough to cover real inflation. By many accounts, the real inflation is much higher than that; the basket of goods to measure inflation has been manipulated over the years to make inflation seem smaller than it actually is. So even in those cases, employees are losing buying power over time.

Besides, inflation is not a single number. Different items inflate at different rates. Money printing is creating wealth inequality which means that goods which appeal to wealthier individuals (such as real estate and other assets which provide financial independence) inflate faster than goods which appeal to the average person (which merely have survival utility).
I mostly agree with your logic chain with the exception of (3) in that it was a valid resignation (it wasn't). I also wouldn't read too much into Timnit not suing Google (she does not seem to be treating this situation strategically).

I don't know if a lawyer didn't look at the firing, but Megan has a tight relationship with HR, and if she told HR to resignate the employee because they were damaging to the company, it would be done immediately as a special-case override. I'm 100% certain Megan has had to terminate employees for cause in the past (think: ads engineer who threatens to steal money from google) so I think she has an expedited path.
It always seems to me the Federal Reserve is largest Ponzi scheme that has gone unreported since 1913?
Just call the consistent one "ggit" and the inconsistent one "git."
It can be effective in real activism especially if it's capable of shutting down dissent. Whether it's effective for activism you agree with or activism you disagree with is a separate matter.

To stay away from politics and stick to the programming domain, the phrase "structured programming" was chosen because who would want to say they're for "unstructured programming". It worked, the languages and language features we use today were largely shifted away from goto-heavy code (and computed goto in Fortran and some others) because of this kind of meme activism.
Work from home is great and should be kept as an option.
I am a little surprise though that noone mentions this option must be earned by trust and experience over time.
Doge is a joke that you can own, just like a Weird Al Yankovic CD. It has the same value.
"The reason that the dollar has value is because the US government has a legal monopoly on producing the dollar."

That's a completely ridiculous statement, coming from none other than Neel Kashkari. These are the people in charge of your currency, desperately trying to convince you that the money they created out of thin air is more sound than a joke currency created after an image of a dog.
> without creating anything of value to a society,

Can be true, but is not necessarily always true:

They might already have created value for society by working, and now want to save their thereby hard-earned money without getting the fruit of their work stolen by inflation.

What's bad about not wanting to be deprived of your retirement savings?

Governments have a long track record of providing poor pensions, of course people want to protect themselves against that.
This is an interesting article I'm, but I'm not sure any of this is particularly new in politics and political activism. Using short, simplistic slogans, using word games to try to make your opponents look bad without really engaging with their argument, faddish movements that burn brightly but briefly - these have been around for a lot longer than twitter.
> it will be the absolute death of virtually every other men's sport at the college level

Why's that?
The fed has nukes and a blue water navy. Not to mention millions of hard-working citizens solving the world's problems.
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I believe his position is that irresponsible money printing is causing rampant inflation, which gets reflected into rent. Honestly, its not the worst logic in the world...

The fear of inflation motivated me to purchase a property this year. My mortgage payment will stay the same for the life of the loan regardless of the value of USD.

Hypothetically, wages should also raise with inflation but I suppose OP is saying that hasn't been his experience.
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Speaking of yeasts, I guess it's not something that's on everyone's minds, but the reason bread rises is because yeasts die in the heat of the oven and, reacting to the deadly environmental conditions, radically increase their rate of fermentation of the carbohydrates in the dough thus releasing abnormally large amounts of CO2 in a very short time.

Essentially, bread rises because of the the death throes of tiny, microscopic unicellular fungi.
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There's a reason I invented this saying: "The very best machine learning models in biology are distilled from postdoc tears".
New commands 'git switch' (git switch -c for new branch) and ' git restore' address exactly that issue and are available on newer git versions, so it's being worked on!

I do agree with the second example. Pulling and merging with remote after a rebase makes a terrible mess!
Maybe your government provides more/better services...
Isn't that what any investment is? Okay, maybe not debt issuance, but secondary market maybe?
This allows us to focus our investment on one layer and have it apply to all applications on top "for free". I'm not saying this specific implementation is the right one, but having it below the app layer makes a ton of sense.
How would one go about making an inflationary currency? Eth already has infinite issuance
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> early investors are paid by later investors

but they don't, if you bought doge at multiple points in its history you wouldn't have gotten anything and would have lost money.

This is just _speculation_, if you call it a Ponzi scheme then buying any precious metal is a Ponzi scheme.
So like the great Beanie Baby ponzi scheme of the mid-90s, then? Or baseball cards? Or art investment?
"Extreme right activists/terrorists with Nazi sympathies"?
yeah it’s just an “open” or decentralized ponzi in which every participant knows it’s a ponzi without the need for a central administrator
I'm not speaking to whether or not he's correct.

It's all about the fact that there's a not insignificant number of people who won't regard his comments at all due to his position. In fact will assume that he's being intentionally harmful due to his position.

Also, how do we measure "skin in the game" with crypto.

Is holding Doge skin in the game? What about crypto in general? What about currency? If the most fantastic promises of crypto come to pass, it'll replace fiat currency. So the success of crypto kind of comes at the expense of fiat. So by holding fiat, we could consider that skin in the game on some level.
> Dogecoin adds a fixed number of coins per year. At this point that fixed number is less inflationary than the USD by a large margin.

That, alone, renders dogecoin unsuited as money. Money is, by definition, expected to be stable, not only to serve its purpose as a store of value but also as a standard of deferred payment.
I've been through this multiple times. Plenty of good advice here about getting lawyers and getting your industry together to fight the suit in a joint action.

Having said and tried all that personally, I've usually got my lawyer to negotiate it down to a smaller sum of a few thousand dollars and paid it. It simply wasn't worth paying orders of magnitude more than that for a legal process in which the outcome was unsure and that would take years.

Did I like it? Hell no but it was the best possible outcome at the time.

The secret to a good negotiation is getting your lawyers to call them and basically plead poverty. If you don't have substantial revenue or assets in your corporation, the NPE isn't dumb enough to keep spending time chasing you. In my case they were suing massive multinational corporations and also tiny startups with the same sized lawsuit.

The NPE are usually some random inventor who sold their 90's era patent to some shitty lawyers, with an equally random person trying to 'negotiate' the settlements. It's better to let your lawyers deal with them than getting your hands dirty yourself.
Yes, JPEG XL lossy and lossless formats both enable parallel and region of interest decoding by splitting the image into "groups"/tiles.

The parallel speedup for lossless mode depends on the speed setting.
It's very simple, it's a graph, and you can reason what changes you want to make to the graph, and then google for the commands. Re-writing history is really only reserved for binary checkins, and that task should be assigned to whomever checked them in, so you should never need to do a destructive change. Even credentials checked in should be rotated so they aren't valid, not re-written.
Are you sure about that? I don't think that's true, not for everyone at least.
This is sometimes referred to as digital humanities.

Guy I knew was doing some really cool history work around German settlers in early America based on data collected by early life insurance companies.
The traditional definition doesn't fit; I prefer to think of it as a distributed con.
True, but is this the fault of memes, or perhaps more so due to the fact that an internet platform specifically designed for nuanced, accurate, high quality conversations about complex topics does not exist (and is rarely discussed)...not to mention the questionable availability of a sufficiently skilled in thinking and discussion userbase?
So what's the problem? Is that unethical or illegal?
I also noticed the noise aspect with induction hobs. My gas supply provides good pressure for my gas cooker, but despite that I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly foods cook using induction compared to gas.
YES! you learn the happy-path commands you use all the time and the handful of "sadder-path" approaches you try when things go south, but there is a dramatic fall-off in knowledge and understanding from there that leaves otherwise clever and confident people feeling stupid and frustrated. This is not a silver-bullet for productivity but still a very worthy problem to address that could have meaningful impact for a lot of people.
It’s only madness if local wages don’t pay well enough to compensate. In reality, the sixth digit of a six figure salary is less meaningful than it used to be. That’s the reality of normal and expected currency inflation.

I’d like to see less hysteria over home prices and “a bar of soap used to be five cents, everything is so expensive now!!”

The average home is larger with more amenities than it was during the mid-century. You can get roommates, your kids can share bedrooms. You don’t need two bathrooms: my parents grew up with four kids sharing one bathroom.

And, yes, parents always had to make lifestyle sacrifices to raise kids. My parents weren’t going out to eat and traveling to exotic locations when they were raising me.

By the way, people don’t shop on home prices, they shop on monthly payment. That’s a large reason why home values increased during Covid: interest rates plummeted, so everyone can afford a higher priced home.
You might be taking this a tad bit too personal. OP described how your argument sounded to them. They didn't condemn your entire personhood because of it.
Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?
Just like IPOs
Seems like a narrow understanding of a ponzi scheme based on a particular execution of the concept.

I think Doge could still be correctly branded a ponzi scheme, since the returns for an investor is essentially tied to the number of suckers that buy into it after them. An early investor can take a "structured payout" by selling off the asset once the hype-cycle is creating more and more suckers who buy into the idea.

The fact that it was a joke has been diluted from the mass media, mostly due to irresponsible messaging by idiots like Elon.
Exactly, it’s disingenuous to pretend we don’t know what people are talking about when they call it a Ponzi scheme. If on end of the value-creation spectrum we have a local, family-owned shoe factory and at the other we have Ponzi’s scheme itself where would you place Dogecoin? It’s not at the extreme, but it’s definitely closer to the latter. The question is how close it needs to be for it to be illegal.
The reason "defund the police" meme activism had to shift gears and re-define it mid-flight was because it was such a spectacular failure, and took so much wind out of legitimate calls for police reform. I recall angry pontification to the effect that "reform" is a dirty word, we must get more radical, hence "defund". Conservative media nodded furiously in agreement and multiplied the message, since they knew full well that it's a self-defeating one.
no buying amazon stock pre profit wasn’t a ponzi. because actual value was being created and there is even physical assets backing the value. and presumably some future cash flow to justify the current price.

(which it has more than justified)

crypto has none of this
So... yeah, you're ignoring supply and demand.

We haven't tied the value of money to the value of land. Land has value. If you want it, you have to pay for it. (Unless you are advocating for the government to seize all property.)

If the value of money goes down (which is what you said to let happen), then the cost of land goes up. On what basis do you claim that hard assets will decrease in value as cash decreases in value? Can you name some examples where this has happened?

Edit: I don't think you can, because the definition of inflation means that the costs of things are going up.
He said the dollar has value, not that it is sound.

If you think you understand better than a leading professional in the field, you might be the mistaken one.
I'm in Berlin and haven't changed a thing in my social life besides the occasional bar/restaurant

I still enjoyed drinks and meals with friends outside. People made it much worse to themselves than they had to.

There was a few weeks of crazy lockdown rules but even during these the police never bothered me when I was walking out at night with a friend. Most laws were passed so that they could have the legal rights to break up parties and large groups.

Besides France I don't know a lot of places that enforced a "stay at home and don't meet anyone at any time for any reasons" lockdown for very long
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It's worth noting that the quote from Kashkari isn't even included, so without looking at some other source we don't know whether he even used the word Ponzi. Or for that matter, whether he illiterately said "a Ponzi" like this article does, or please-for-the-love-of-god included the word "scheme." This article is kind of crap in other ways too, and I have branded it a shitty (sic). On Twitter so-and-so said this and then so-and-so said this (not quoted), and a year ago he also said this!
> like the great Beanie Baby ponzi scheme of the mid-90s, then? Or baseball cards? Or art investment?

The quantity of paid promotion for cryptocurrencies is unrivaled by each of those examples save, perhaps, for art.
The only way to get a raise is to change companies. Pretty much everyone in the software industry will agree on this.

Also, the way employees are hired and the way salaries are negotiated is totally unfair. There is often no logic behind it other than pedigree/family connections.
Literally, it used the words “powerful”, “widespread”, “helpful”, “dark”, and “destructive”.

Not the word “effective”.
Depends on the country. When we lived in Saudi, during Ramadan most stores took the morning off and were open well into the night (like midnight). Many businesses (banks etc) did a morning shift (9-1) and then an evening shift (6-10).

e.g. here's a Facebook Post from IKEA Qatar on their store hours during Ramadan: https://m.facebook.com/IKEAQatar/photos/pb.577718508978609.-...
The basic entitlement of “staying alive” requires somebody else to produce something and give it to you.

Why should they use up their finite life for your benefit - unless you are prepared to do the same in return.

If human life has inherent value why do you believe that you should have command of a chunk of somebody else’s?

The capital endowment of society is already used up paying for those who are retired, so you can’t call in that.
> I'd prefer if the language only had a single number type

> But if you talk about the general problem of naming functions differently according to their types, I feel that it's perfectly OK.

You and I have nothing in common in this entire world.

Why on earth would you even want to touch Julia with 12 lightyear stick? The whole point of Julia is diametrically opposite to your preferences.

Being opposed to multiple dispatch, polymorphism and generic programming, while 'liking' Julia, is similar to loving bycicles, but abhorring wheels.
The only issue I've had with stopping is when it decides to update, and just hangs there with a completion percentage and the message "This could take a while." I almost always end up holding down the power button because it'll sit on the same percentage, sometimes 100%, for hours.
I just bought Usernames.com
History does not repeat itself but it rhymes.
Rhymes with witch hunt and lynch mob.
That is so wrong. It is dog money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbI31x3FpS0

But in all seriousness, what are the odds that all the various pump-up schemes, from tesla to coins are another trick of the US to funnel the worlds money into their territory?
This is a fundamental supply and demand problem for history PhD degrees which is out of balance by at least a factor of 4 or 5. There is nothing anyone can do to fix that, nor do I think we should (further subsidize tulips). Encouraging everyone to go to college who possibly can and to get a PhD is dystopian! The faster we correct the actual problem the better for everyone.
Great blog-post. I find it pointless for this 'cancelling-cult' to even be a thing. It achieves nothing but destruction and it is beyond medieval standards.

It's like the mob wants to find a new villain every week, because of a somewhat past 'crime' on Twitter or a mistake that we disavowed our younger-self online and they still force us to apologise for it.

Even when we begin to apologise, it is never enough and they go to great lengths to cancel anyone who either doesn't agree with them or basically just want to be part of pushing 'this game' too far. No point in apologising or reasoning with them if they aren't go to accept the apology. They'll just continue the witch-hunt and move on to the next villain to be thrown into the lost and banned.

This cancelling-cult has got to stop. It has gotten out of control.
The UX philosophy is radically different. One presupposes that you understand a lot more of the underlying system. The other tries to focus on what it is what you want to do, as opposed to how.

Mercurial is less intimidating if you don't know much about internals. But tbh, when I use Mercurial I still find myself searching which command to do things. As a frequent power user, I find the Git CLI to be more useable.