skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Replicas are constantly replicating live data from your leader. All of it, in its raw form. A query against a replica isn't inherently faster than a query against the leader, the data is likely just a bit old.

A cache stores the output of an operation to avoid needing to perform the same operation again. You deliberately put data into a cache to avoid needing to create that data a second time—it won't magically appear there.
Gokul Rajaram with a post you can bookmark and copy ideas to try out in your company. There is a lot to gain from iterating on this format as you have your entire company there (which is extremely expensive).
Nearly all of those aren't true.

> -Causes people to pay taxes on capital gains even when their purchasing power hasn’t risen.

This one is actually true. We could easily fix it by calculating capital gains as adjusted for inflation (and make up the revenue by using the ordinary income rate instead of the capital gains rate).

> -Causes borrowers to get ahead of savers and lenders.

Savers who don't stupidly hold their savings in cash are unaffected, since securities prices increase with inflation.

Lenders are affected, but most lenders are banks, who are lending using fractional reserve banking, i.e. the money they lend is created when they make the loan and destroyed when it's paid back. The fact that it's worth less when it's paid back doesn't really affect them.

> -Allows governments to spend more than drunken sailors.

This is generally the cause rather than the consequence.

> -Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).

The primary thing it erodes is contracts (i.e. loans) denominated in nominal dollars. In other words, it devalues nominal debts. This is generally good for the poor and bad for any rich lenders who aren't lending using fractional reserve banking.

> -Causes both the wealth of the rich, middle class, and poor to be eroded away at different rates.

This is true of nearly anything, but who comes out ahead depends more on factors like "are you a net borrow or lender" than your annual income or net worth.

> -Erodes away the middle class and makes them feel like wage slaves.

This is caused by low interest rates more than inflation, though they're somewhat related. The basic problem is that if money is cheap to borrow, people borrow it and bid up asset prices, and then people who don't already have assets (e.g. a home) are forced to buy high.
> I carry a reusable water bottle

Every so often I think about this. I use a 32 ounce insulated stainless steel bottle, no disposable bottles. However, every time I have to wash it I take note of the fact that it take several fill-swish-dump cycles to clean it. If I use soap it take even more to get it all out.

In other words, someone could make an argument that I am wasting water. I haven't quantified it yet, so I don't have a really good metric from which to judge this. I probably rinse the bottle every couple of days.
I haven't done any low Unix level filesystem stuff since the System V days. My recollection is that back then directories were just files that contained name to inode mappings. All the magic that made them directories was in how the system interpreted the data in them and in the access rules the system imposed on them.

Allocating space for a directory was the same as allocating space for any other file, and the same for shrinking a directory.

It sounds like the ext family of Linux filesystems didn't work that way, with directory storage managed in some manner completely separate from file storage. If that is the case I'm curious why.
Positive in the sense that eating a giant bag of candy and cookies is positive. Unfortunately that positivity is rather short lived as the consequences play out over time.
This sounds surprising similar to Republican strategy, just substitute things like abortion.
> You sure about that low inflation?

Yes.

> Certain assets have been growing much faster than purchasing power.

Assets aren't part of inflation.

> And wages aren’t growing all that much.

Yes, that's typical with low inflation, since inflation both pushes wages up and is pushed by wage rises. It would be weird to have low inflation without nominal wages that are stagnant.
My father refused to read Time for decades - decades - because they'd manipulated their cover photo of OJ Simpson to make him look darker-skinned than he actually is. It was, I'm told, A Thing, along with All-American restaurant Denny's having to pay out millions in damages over racial discrimination (Wells Fargo having to do the same 20 years later does much for my suspicion that the 2010s are something of an echo of the 90s). This is what is on my personal radar; I'm sure someone with other priorities can name similar, fact-based grievances with other institutions that ostensibly design their products for general American consumption.

For news, in many cases, the issue isn't so much the veracity of what's being reported, but... what's being reported. You only have so many pages and only so much reader mental bandwidth.
That’s not survivorship bias. And the measures of success in the article I cited are universal. The way you’re describing success (not going out of business) is included in those sources.
IANAL, but your experience sounds like bait and switch, which IS considered deceptive advertising.
Aesthetically, it bothers me that you compute x by calling remdr two extra times, as opposed to computing it as the sum of y and z... or the bitwise OR of y and z...

What's the difference between :(label) / :s(label) / :f(label) / :s(label1)f(label2) ?
50 years after going off gold, the dollar must go for crypto
>Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).

This is such a weird and oft repeated lie [0], when in reality the poor are mostly net-debtors (even the ones who seem well off, given their mortgage) who benefit from inflation.

0: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
I'm not aware of a data store which populates its replicas with data from a cache. Surely there are caches within any given data store, but the whole point of a replica is to have the data replicated (for scaling reads, redundancy in case your leader fails).

If you're using caches, you're deliberately sending old data to the replicas. I can't think of why you'd do that. I guess you could have replicas of your caches, but I'm referring specifically to data store replicas.
LISP is a family of languages. Some LISPs are functional (Scheme languages), some are not (Common Lisp).
The money supply should track the economy.

If the economy expands, the money supply should expand. If the economy contracts, in a secular way and not a cyclical way, the money supply should contract.

Inflation is not bad per se. It's necessary, as others have pointed out, to prevent incumbents from being pointlessly enriched by rents.

What's bad is monetary inflation that raises the prices of everything. This means the growth in the money supply is outstripping productivity growth.

We appear to be tipping over into monetary inflation after four decades of good monetary policy. The last time this happened it took ten years to sort out.
In my opinion this is entirely unreadable. Not for what it has to say, but how it says it.

The word "bullshit" is a burden. It is a painful, unscientific term that chips away our objective neutrality every time we encounter it.

The author knows. The author is emotional. The author is trying to make US emotional. I don't want to be rashly emotional, I want to be neutral, cautious, objective, thoughtful, and deliberate. Every point I take from a piece I want to double-check the reasonableness and the implications of, to build an objectively more accurate picture of reality.

But not if it requires wading through so much frustration.
if you think that a pretty limited and easy to avoid danger from snakes warrants that, imagine what almost every animal in existence should think about humans, the source of unlimited and unavoidable danger to almost everything living.
If you don't mind sharing, where do you get current events info and narratives?
When I was younger I thought the McDonald's prank was cool. Being older, not so much.
Automate Co-authored-by on commits when pairing
Developer here frim the Ruby world (although I wrote extensively Elixir and now Go).
I can't even begin to describe the amount of damage ORMs repeatedly do (ActiveRecord being particularly magical). Our team writes sql rather than ORM and we have way less problems, not to mention we get better at SQL, so our team is also the one you refer to when you need to optimize things.

We do use query builders when we need to, usually the scenario is: a form with incremental filtering (multiple conditions), but not a full fledged ORM.
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As a programmer you should know that sorting generally requires everything to be buffered and therefore affects performance / stops streaming from working. Agreed that the stuff about knowing how many columns etc. is not obvious though.
They're not really the same thing anymore though, the second is only an approximation of the first?
> It lowers exiting debts if the inflation is sudden and comes as a surprise, but interest on new debt will be adjusted accordingly to take into account rising expected inflation

Not necessarily. Interest rates tend to be higher during times of inflation because if inflation is expected then more people are eager to borrow today with the expectation that they'll be able to pay back the loan in the future with devalued currency, and then the banks hit their reserve ratio and are unable to lend more money. Then banks can charge higher interest rates for the now-scarce supply of loans.

But notice the current reserve requirements. Consequently loan interest rates are still very low.
> "Why are these local power lines up in the air on such low poles?"

Power lines suspended on poles are common throughout North American and Asian countries in my experience, even in urban areas.

Burying power lines by default in towns and cities seems to be a more UK/European thing.
Ask HN: Professional devs, what has been your experience using Codex/Co-pilot?
I haven't had a chance to use either of these tools yet, but I'm interested to learn from those who have. All I see are articles and tweets saying how amazing they both are, but I haven't really heard updates from software development professionals about how well (or not) this is working for them on a daily basis. What has your experience been like? How has it impacted your workflow? Is this a fad or will it have staying power in your opinion?
It should be obvious, but I suspect it isn't too many people... common sense isn't common.
Sure, if theoretical new policies come into effect that fit the description of the parent, then there will be policies that fit the description of the parent.

We are in agreement.
Open sourcing client project (gov sector)
Hi hackers. It is legal to open source our work we had made in our client ?. our client are gov organization.

Our intent to eliminate yearly expensive software budget in other orgs (same business model) that need exact solutions which we have solved.

there is no single terms about source code license in our contract.
> On the JVM, native threads are really expensive, especially in terms of memory.

I don't think this is true if you create have approximately 1 thread for each CPU core (which is the ideal scenario in a non-async app - why would you create more threads than CPUs?).

A JVM thread is basically an OS thread. So on a 64-core server you'd have 64 threads, give or take. While a server can handle a few thousands threads quite seamlessly.
This kid is awesome
As a former US Navy Sailor, port and starboard are pretty clear. Along with Forward and Aft. These are things relative to the ship and points in which everyone is aware of on a ship. If I say starboard, that is right of the center of the ship. Port is left of center line of the ship.
>The US is on shaky ground.

If Treasury rates are an indicator, this doesn’t seem to be the conclusion of the market. As of 8/13, a 10-year note is listed at 1.29% indicating a fairly high level of confidence. If those rates start approaching junk bond returns, then I’d say your claim has merit
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I’ve stopped going to several restaurants from which I used to pretty regularly order takeout (and post-vaccine, dine in) over their crazy price increases since spring.

It’s interesting to hear that this is driven by supply chain increases, but those seem much higher than what I see at my local grocer. Is there something particular to restaurant supply that makes it sticky enough to pay these doubled prices?
This would only be the case if wages rose with inflation which they don't.
My theory is decriminalization of cannabis would deal a blow to the cheap supply of prison labor and hence, isn't frequently considered at any level
The word is race. Many drugs in the US are associated with particular races. America used to get much of its weed from South America, hence it is associated with Mexicans and border smugglers. Conversely, in Canada, weed was once controlled by biker gangs. Bikers gangs being predominantly white organizations, weed in Canada is not now associated with minority groups.
I'm not really seeing what's silly about what you're linking. I'm seeing Java blowing the doors off of PHP, which matches my previous assertion.
Yes, and this is why grid-tied solar installations go out when the power goes out. You need a battery backup for energy independence. This catches a lot of first-time solar owners by surprise if they don't do their research; they think that solar will mean they don't lose power if there's a daytime power outage, but unless they also get a battery they lose it anyway.
https://www.npr.org/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
In Soviet Russia, the boat can step forward to any side of YOU!
We need to raise the minimum wage because some specific items have grown much faster than inflation. Housing, healthcare, and education specifically.

The idea that it’s because of inflation that we need to raise the minimum wage does not hold water when housing is increasing in cost at a much faster rate.
A bold claim they are happy To make when Amazon pays the bills.

All the let’s plays point to a buggy laggy but ok mmo that’s mostly just ok. A disappointing showing considering the amount of money spent and that they are the world leader in cloud
Tesla pushes Full Self-Driving Beta update, don’t hold your breath for download
The Grace sounds just like a hash join as performed on the Hadoop map-reduce.
Agree that the framework issnt the bottleneck here but asset loading is!

We have been investing in building ourselves a asset pipeline backend and it’s been a dramatic improvement.

Simply scripting Blender and other tools on a EC2 instance to optimize assets and then deliver them via cloudfront. Works really well
Not really. If you look at the C code there are a bunch of executable steps that are straightforward to carry out, but it gives no clue at all about why they do what they do. A human after reading them doesn't come out any smarter than a compiler. The equation on the other hand makes reasonable sense if you know something about stochastic PDE's. Of course just looking at the symbols without any context won't help much, but you can read the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes_equation

That in turn might not be easily understandable either, but it's written in terms of well-known concepts that they teach in math classes. You can get textbooks about that stuff and all that sort of thing. At the end of the day, making sense of it will take a level of mental effort comparable (not by coincidence) to taking a couple of years of math classes (starting from basic calculus) and doing all the assignments. Making the equations look more like code won't help with that. It's about developing understanding and facility with the mathematical ideas.
Wait asking Codex to change something on the third item in the list is hard when you have tr tags? I feel like tables are the quintessential way of listing rows of items in HTML, what am I missing?
The article's last paragraph is more in line with what I've been reading from actual economists online.*

Just how long the steep rise in inflation will last remains a subject of debate....The Federal Reserve is arguing that it won't be a long-term issue... If the inflation growth rate starts to ease, workers will be better able to enjoy their boost in pay.

"To the extent that inflation is transitory, this dip in real wages is also transitory," said Tim Duy, chief US economist at SGH Macro Advisors, a research firm for the financial industry and policymakers.

* For example, Paul Krugman points out "July’s inflation was substantially lower than June’s..." and took the numbers CNN is citing as proving that "Recent price increases reflect temporary disruptions as we recover from the pandemic rather than an underlying inflation problem."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opinion/inflation-infrast...
Americans aren't aware they're tracked with facial recognition while shopping
I agree completely, but convincing the broader population to get on board to switch to renewables and a renewably powered electric lifestyle is challenging, especially in places like the US where use of fossil fuels is a cultural identity issue for many.

Redefining a high standard of living doesn't mean having a low standard of living, but it often means living differently than we have in recent decades.

For example, you can live a luxurious lifestyle in an energy efficient way by living in a smaller and efficient house. If it's an all electric house your standard of living can even increase due to better indoor air quality.

Multifamily and village style walkable neighborhoods, whether in rural or urban areas, and where people make fewer long drives for work and groceries, can also improve quality of life.

But unfortunately those kinds of lifestyles are not very attainable, and rarely affordable in places in the US.
> not a great sign that Carvana was banned from selling cars in a mid-market due to title delivery issues

My girlfriend bought from Shift. They didn't get anything to the DOL for nearly 4 months from purchase.

At one point, with expiry of temporary tags, Shift put her in a rental car for _a month_ while they "dealt with it".

Apparently not uncommon.
Just to point out that this isn't ready as a consumer device quite yet. This is from down the page:

> We’re seeing a lot of excitement and “shut up and take my money, I’ll throw out my other e-ink devices tomorrow!” responses to this post, but remember that we are a community of developers first and foremost. If you’re looking to buy a PineNote in the first batch, you must expect to write software for it, not to write notes on it. The software shipping from the factory for the first batch will not be suitable for taking notes, reading e-books, or writing your dissertation. It may not even boot to a graphical environment. However, we are excited for what you’ll create with this device and we’re ready to take the journey with you. We’ll be posting more updates on software progress on this blog as they come in.
Instant nostalgia hit - thanks for sharing!
> I’m not sure what the real inflation is

You can, you know, look it up: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
> -Causes borrowers to get ahead of savers and lenders.

Poor people tend to be borrowers.

> -Allows governments to spend more than drunken sailors.

Government spends stuff for people, including imopratant future investments. Also its silly to compare government spending to personal spending

> -Causes the wealth of the rich to be eroded less than the wealth of the poor (who don’t own any assets).

Except poor people are more likely to be badly in debt.

> -Erodes away the middle class and makes them feel like wage slaves.

A healthy inflation rate helps drive the economy. Loss of union power is responsible for poor and middle class not getting their fair share.

> -Caused Satoshi Nakamoto to release Bitcoin.

Isn't really useful for anything other then speculation. The fact that it's inherently deflationary prevents it from being a useful currency.

> -Isn’t stopping anytime soon.

Inflation for the year isn't likely to be much higher then normal and a constant rate of inflation is good for the economy.
Assets aren't part of consumer price inflation, which is the most politically sensitive because everyone buys food, etc.

But asset price inflation can have negative effects on some, while it has positive effects for others. The murkier political calculus of winners vs losers makes asset price inflation less of a hot topic, but it does happen.
Do whatever works for you. I used to do notion for tasks, then went to paper & finally landed on markdown with [] & [*] against TODOs
'Don’t Let Inflation Anxiety Undermine Our Future'
I do, though not at the level of those mentioned in OP or parent; My products have crossed trough of sorrow and so if I stay consistent I could get to a comfortable state eventually.

But consistency is the key which is especially hard for some with OCD to build, So I try to put my maximum energy on couple of main products and the rest on fast to fail side projects.
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Are you not enjoying the disruption?
/s
> You sure about that low inflation? Certain assets have been growing much faster than purchasing power. And wages aren’t growing all that much.

Yes
I bought a BMW i8 through Carvana recently. Having gone through the full purchasing flow (and afterward re-financing their loan because their rate was insane) this makes total sense to me.
> The point strcat brought about impersonation was that a person from the Calyx community went and impersonated the Bromite developer, attempting to start conflict between Bromite and GrapheneOS.

The chat logs[0] say different.

I don't see how one person joining a room on Telegram somehow implicates the whole project in some sort of conspiracy to attack / spread misinformation about Bromite or GrapheneOS.

[0]: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/discussions/1186#discussi...
You don’t have to get so exotic. One of the devil researchers in Tasmania has been trying to get domestic cats banned from the island. With all the unique wildlife and already strict quarantine laws, I don’t know why cats don’t have to be registered in some areas.
> For example, the simplest way to write a network server that can handle more than one client at a time is to fork a new thread for every client.

This seems much debatable. For me the simplest way is creating a thread-per-core pool, and have clients integrate with said pool via a queue. It's a well-understood paradigm that has worked for a long time.

I get the sense of abstraction of having a "thread" per client, but is it really the simplest choice if it needed creating a multi-year project like Loom first?

A precedent that comes to mind is Clojure core.async. It pursues the same sense of abstraction. But does one gain much if the implementation has its own quirks, flaws, etc? Any given abstraction is one bug away from leaking.

So, it's well plausible that the same can happen with Loom - more stuff to learn, more underlying complexity, bigger surface area for bugs.

It all seems too gratuitous too me, so my high-bar question/questioning remains :)
Inflation hurts banks and helps lenders especially poor lenders

A small constant rate of inflation also helps drive the economy
Inflation does not cause wages to go up (at least it’s not always the case). I lived in a place with high inflation and wages did go down at that time because the economy was bad. (Stagflation)

Not only it hurts the poor more; it basically roasts them as they can’t pay for necessities.
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