skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that some inflation is beneficial clearly is the commonly received wisdom, including by whatever experts I could find; I couldn't find any trustworthy source arguing the opposite. A casual dismissal of inflation being necessary is therefore warranted - at least unless there's some extraordinary level of evidence provided, or if my skimming of publically available opinion is somehow wrong (sure, could be!). It's the official policy of the Fed, for instance.

Additionally, note that the money supply is ever growing - faster than inflation because the economy is growing. Now, there are apparently extra factors to consider here, including concepts like the velocity of money, which mean that money supply isn't trivially linked 1-to-1 to the economy's expansion and inflation. I'm no expert on the matter, to be clear, but that's my impression trying to search even for refutations of that stance - if your impression of commonly held expert opinion is different, it'd be interesting to compare links to check whether our media bubbles differ somewhere.

We cannot rule out that stablecoins might serve us well. But just because we have imperfect information does not mean all possibilities are equally risking; the risks from conventional monetary policy (including variations such as modern monetary theory) are simply much better understood because we have examples and history to learn from. The original article makes the case that stablecoins aren't really all that novel as a financial instrument (even though their technical underpinnings might be), and the argument appears sound to me (a non expert) and the source reliable (with a reputation at risk were their analysis clearly wrong).

As such, why should we ignore risks we understand, and take on additional risks we don't understand? At issue here isn't really the fact that it's a cryptocoin, but rather how it functions in the financial market. The article explicitly calls out that the technical implementation may have benefits, and a knee-jerk ban could be overzealous.

The issue is essentially financial, not crypto related, and I don't see any clearly open questions that might argue for allowing unregulated stablecoins, let alone a refutation of the premise that stablecoins have risks.

Posing questions makes it sound like we should wait and see; but we should not wait to answer those questions given what we do know. Policy could _always_ be better informed in the future; that does not mean delay is _always_ the best choice.
Wasn't LLVM reinventing the wheel at the time? They could just collaborate to GCC.
Um... you're joking, right?

Billionaires are only rich because people buy what they sell (abstractly speaking, there is a lot of nuances here).

If there are no people, then money/wealth becomes moot.
I am saying that because the Linux version of Thunderbird 91 does not seem to be available.

If I go to the download page and download the Linux version, I end up with a Thunderbird 78 tarball. Not the 91 one.
From https://asmcss.com/docs/1.x/

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<div x-style="text:lg; color:black; font-weight:700">Fresh veggies</div>
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A brilliant parody. Full marks.
Use what you have.

Start where you are.

Keep a notebook for notes, goals, ideas, and daily progress.

Take each day one at a time and do a little each day.
I think that was intentional as they really wanted to reach back into the golden age of Hollywood as something of a reaction to the “new Hollywood” styles of the 1970’s.

Interesting it was filmed on location way back then as that must have been very expensive and difficult with the tech they had in the 50’s.
Having worked for both, I would dispute the hiring bar point - but I'm sure it is team dependent.
I wish I was joking.

But our versioning scheme doesn't include zero.

Not even for minor version numbers.

As we (rightly) believe our customers don't trust them (for good reasons).
Aforza raises $22M Series A
It's easy to see why they wouldn't reintroduce power user tools once removed. It's sucky, but all mass-market tech is like this, constantly adapting to fit some lowest common denominator. Power users just aren't that.
Here are some examples I'm aware of, I haven't personally verified these.

Uniswap: https://uniswap.org/audit.html

Sushi Swap:
https://github.com/peckshield/publications/blob/master/audit...

Alpaca Finance (high complexity in my opinion):
https://docs.alpacafinance.org/transparency

A lot of projects provide their source and you can verify that what you're interacting with matches the source.
I dunno. Isn't this how Chrome became so popular, and Firefox before that?

"We" are the people that support, recommend and install this stuff. Hardware just has longer life cycles.
It’s quite telling that my story described graphic sexual assault of children and you immediately forgot about the victims and made it about the perpetrators. Probably because if you had instead asked:

“So, just because children are being raped, we should give away our freedom and privacy?”

...your ground wouldn’t be as perceptibly firm, even though it’s exactly the question you’re asking. I’m also not going to respond because of the obvious incongruity and false dichotomy of the question, that aside. To be honest, I’d rather you have kept that question to yourself, and I’d go further and speculate that sentiment would apply to most opinions you hold.
The South Park guys became billionaires by anticipating the streaming wars
I think even dramatically simpler might be an understatement. Neurons are cells, living organisms capable of growth, movement, and some fairly intelligent interaction with their environment. A transistor doesn’t even approach that, it’s more on the level of a single protein within a neuron and not a very complex one.
It has $175 M locked in the protocol, it is also featured on https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/, and is one of the oldest DeFI projects. By my definition, it is both "first tier" and "high quality". We can of course have the philosophical debate of objectivity and if such thing even exists, not sure if it's needed here though.

The audits of this protocol is also continuous.
Evidence – DAN DALTON [cannabis grow in former prison]
WE GROW WEED AT A PRISON TO HELP GET PEOPLE OUT OF PRISON FOR GROWING WEED

On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel talks with music and entertainment industry veteran, Dan Dalton. Dan co-founded Ocean Grown Extracts along with his 2 siblings, which is housed in a very unique location in Coalinga, California... a former prison. The company is deeply committed to social justice. Their motto is “WE GROW WEED AT A PRISON TO HELP GET PEOPLE OUT OF PRISON FOR GROWING WEED”. They have recently launched their new cannabis brand, Evidence, which is packaged in evidence bags to highlight the irony of legal cannabis sales while over 40,000 prisoners are still serving time for cannabis convictions. $1 from every sale of Evidence is donated to The Last Prisoner Project.
Proper semantic versioning gives you certain guarantees.

Consider you’re on v1.2.1 of some package, pinned to your requirements as ”^1.2.1”.

A security issue gets fixed, v1.2.2 is released, your CI/CD can manage this upgrade automatically.

A new feature is introduced, v1.3.0 is released, your CI/CD can still manage this upgrade automatically. Developers know that there are new features because the minor version was incremented.

But then, some core API refactoring is done to support new integrations, which happens to break backwards compatibility. Now, v2.0.0 is released, and it is obvious to developers that something major has changed. Your CI/CD does not do this upgrade automatically.
I lost it while reading your comment...

Honestly, I get how the sentiment of "suck it up, you are privileged" is sometimes annoying.
They were individualist. Some fought slavery, some helped it. No one can make a blanket statement either way.
It's so you can tell your users that the bugs aren't going to be fixed yet. It'll be ready by v1.
Also, sensations and feelings are not a logical/mathematical byproduct of the neurons; no matter how "well" you simulate "neurons", feelings and sensations will not emerge.
Even if the algorithm was correct, the remaining staff will now focus on gaming the perceived productivity metrics. We all know what that means for actual productivity.
> Apple should just scan the pictures that are in iCloud (their servers). They just assumed that if you have the iCloud option enabled on your device that it gave them the right to do the scan on your phone/computer.

End result is the same. Difference is, that now Apple has very limited access to your images. You can only trust in closed systems. When you step into the Apple ecosystem, you are giving a lot of trust.

> I want to also point out that A/V companies never said they were going to scan for child abuse images on your computer and report you if they found any.

Why would they say, if it is perfectly legal to do anyway. They literally scan every file, so no need to mention anything specific which could lead only for negative PR.
Will add that to my queue for later

Do you have a TL;DL?
I don't think they have a way for users to fund individual features, but you can help feature development in general by donating: https://give.thunderbird.net

Since the most recent comments indicate that they have it on the roadmap, I think that would also help the specific feature you care about.
Stroustrup was another big Simula fan of course and drew a lot of ideas from it for C++ - it is certainly a very influential language it would seem.
One example, the Gates family is pretty active [1].

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_a_Climate_Disas...
I thought I was very clever registering `justthetippett.com`.
Honestly, you should take negative comments about technology on HN (and elsewhere) with a pinch of salt. By reading HN, I have learned that the language I earn a living with is unfit for industry use. I also frequently encounter claims that the stuff I do is impossible, etc.

From what I have seen however, industry is much more technologically diverse than people imagine.

Event sourcing is an amazing tool. The failing projects are usually the ones that want to use it without acknowledging that it offers different tradeoffs from more traditional data modeling/storing solutions, and not adapting to meet different ups and downs.

There are also many projects that want to use event sourcing, but actually end up picking up event sourcing, reactive programming and a host of frameworks or even languages to do the second. That's a lot of technical baggage to learn at once, and people making the switch in a production context with tight deadlines and without deep pockets to hire experienced people usually don't fare so well.
Book Review: Your Computer Is on Fire
I grabbed 10x.guru back in the day, so that the next time someone said they need a 10x engineer, they can just ask their computer whois 10x.guru
I didn't mean legally. I meant culturally. Are they able to be just as culturally connected as everyone else, or would some people assume they are a foreigner even if they were born there?
> Though, it will be probably still quite a lot of time before the libraries like MathJax and KaTeX became redundant for basic use cases.

I think that libraries like MathJax and Katex will always be used for translating TeX notation to MathML. Stil, I look forward to day when will have native rendering on all browsers.
While it is true that most things that get used have people with grievances, using that as an argument to dismiss complaints is not productive.

> Plus for Firefox to grow in popularity/stay relevant you need people to care

Yes, and people care more when the browser developers care about them. Mozilla is intent on showing that only their design vision matters and customizability will go as soon as it slightly inconveniences them.

> and you need the browser to improve

But not all changes are an improvement.
> Climate change is going to lead to nationalist isolation as countries try to preserve their resources as they start to run out.

War is likely as well.
Not sure what you mean by source, but its fairly easy to find out if any official audits were done as this is always announced and documented by the involved parties (for example, I couldn't find any detailed audit info for Poly).
It's not like the audit is mandated by law, its initiated by the SC owners to put the investors at ease. A lot of companies like Certik, Consensys, ZK Labs, etc. provide auditing services for this purpose explicitly.
There's an Italian podcast, Power Pizza, which also does a similar thing, but the domains have a silly/surreal vibe rather than an offensive one. Their website is called unpodcastveramentebellissimoguardaveloconsiglioproprio.com ("A really beautiful podcast, look, I warmly recommend it").

Other examples:

cheschifoesserenudo.online: "Being naked sucks", for merchandise such as T-Shirts, etc. (now offline)

datecideisoldi.com: "Give us money", their Patreon

nondatecideisoldi.com: "Don't give us money", same as above
It's bad storytelling. In stories you break up routines by introducing characters and problems which then eventually get reintegrated.

If a big part of the story cancels out during reintegration it doesn't feel right and the ending won't feel satisfying.

Obviously in this case the story doesn't get ruined, but in general it's a good idea to not introduce things into a story that won't be needed later on.
I don't even have twitter and I don't live in the US.

Also: the consequence of your study shouldn't be not to wear masks, but to wear masks that work (the study just shows evidence for plain cloth masks, which at least everybody on central europe stopped wearing in the second wave).

Also: there are manyfold reason to do something of course. I'd be highly interested in the rational explaination of the GOP policy on all things covid tho (first the virus didn't exist and simulataneously was just like the flu for example). This might not have been the common joes opinion, but watching capa it certainly painted a clear picture
> You have to be an absolute tool to use the poly network for anything serious ever again.

Such a weak take. I guess we are also tools for using Ethereum after The DAO.

An error like this in the contract stack should have been caught by the auditor, Certik. It's not a fundamental flaw in PolyNet's system, just a very unfortunate oversight.
One more proprietary compiler suite [1] bites the dust. Hopefully this will mean improvements will flow to the open source upstream, rather than just being a cost-cutting measure for the vendors with all improvements kept proprietary.

[1] A year ago IBM announced they are switching their "XL" compilers over to LLVM: https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-power/blogs/c-and-f... . (I haven't followed up what has happened since that announcement.)
It's not about protecting one guy, but about stopping the spread as early as possible.
Lol, even 1% of $600M is $6M. That's a lot of money. You'd have to have garbage liquidity to only get back 1%.
The production will happen with or without tech, not much you can do about it.

> If we want to avoid a dystopian tech slavery, we have to actively provide positive alternatives to “just more invigilation“.

No, you should always block any form of "cooperation" right there. Don't ever provide material so that some moderately talented official can build a profile. Basic lesson of pedagogy is to deny these attempts in the first place. It is what Apple should have done because it probably won't help child abuse anyway and it won't stop with this kind of content.

Always defer them to investments in child care and defect their unproductive ambitions with real means.
The New York Times Doubles Down on Subscription Newsletters
Biology/biochemistry can squeeze a good amount of computation from just 20 watts.

Even if we could get equal computation from silicon and have an algorithm to run near human-level general AI, humans can maintain the comparative advantage as long as the cost of hardware is more than the cost of raising and educating a human, and the operating cost is more than wages for the same task.
Someone else commented here in a past thread that the biggest cliff happened when Amit Singhal left Google and the AI lead John Giannandrea replaced him.

John Giannandrea brought about more AI heavy search and forced 'natural language' queries down the throat of everyone.

It obviously makes google money and is the right tool for popular queries. But for anyone doing more 'power user' searches it is just inept and I agree with GGP duckduckgo is now a better search engine for more complex queries.
Reddit used to go down all the time but in the last 3 years it has been very stable and hardly ever goes down.
At the risk of sucking the fun out of a pretty funny joke, I think the underlying subtext is that established projects are failing to "grow up" -- i.e., that established, depended-on projects are hiding under the shield shield of a youthful 0.x version, when really, given how popular, old, and depended-on they are, they should embrace that responsibility and grow into 1.something.

(Though, on the other hand, maybe it's more just honest signaling of expectations. "We are a 0.x project, we value developer speed and a clean code-base more than backcompat or stability for users. We will NEVER grow up!" We could call it Peter Pan versioning.)
If you open an Excel file on different platforms (Windows vs. Mac), date/time values will be four years off if the value was entered on the other platform.
"Modern developers use IDEs, like NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, or even Visual Studio Code. "

I'm curious how can Eclipse, one of the greatest java projects, be omitted? Then I saw the name of JetBrains at the end of the article, and realized that I just read another soft advertisement.

The last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886575
Because their prices weren’t competitive, it’s that simple. Shopping at Walmart is not fun. People flock there because it’s cheaper than everyone else.

You’re suggesting that poor people lose more money by going to Walmart than they would shopping locally, which is just ridiculous. It implies poor people have no basic math skills on a average, which isn’t the case.

Walmart doesn’t crush local competitors with shitty warehouse lighting and angsty employee vibes. They do it by being far cheaper with their massive logistics.

Poor people shop where the money will go the furthest, full stop.
That's an awesome law! I doubt the copyright industry will allow it to pass...
I run a B2B marketplaces and when we were just starting out I got lordofordering.com
> you were not always present at the workplace when you worked remotely.

no duh.
China’s crypto cowboys are fleeing to Texas
Why would I be sarcastic? Literally every online service would be affected if suddenly all Five Eyes traffic was being routed through Australia.

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Look at the sheer amount of backhaul between just the US and Japan. Now take all that traffic, stuff it down 1/10 of the amount of fiber pairs, with a fuckload more hops. You're telling me nothing will be affected and none will notice?
The going rate for bulk DVDs on Ebay is 36 American cents[1] a piece. My recommendation (and what I do) would be to set up a Plex server[2], buy 2000 DVDs, rip the DVDs to your server, and import any needed subs from online[3]. You can also upscale the DVDs to 720p quality using FFMPEG's implementation of the nnedi3 neural network AI[4] (example script[5]).

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/itm/332587500166?hash=item4d6fc28286:g:...
[2]:https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/official-hp-290-p0043w-own...
[3]:https://support.plex.tv/articles/200471133-adding-local-subt...
[4]:https://github.com/dubhater/vapoursynth-nnedi3
[5]:https://github.com/frypatch/plex-media-optimizer
Bartender loses job, learns to code, builds cocktail app
built by a bartender. A cocktail app with over 400 recipes, including specialty syrups, historical variations, non-alcoholic drinks, punches, and more..... dude knocked it out of the park with a highly visual format....
This was the last straw for me. I’ve started looking around at alternatives (iCloud photos, literally no decent alternatives soo ok far to sync 400gb of photos) and have removed iCloud files to sub for just a simple NAS at home with tailscale.

I doubt I’ll buy a new iPhone next.
> If the droplets from me don't reach to the first person in the cinema I cannot infect them.

It would be nice if that was true. In a small study here in Sweden they tested for covid particles in the AC system, and found particles in every single place they tested. This in a major hospital where everyone are wearing masks, and where the AC is located in the ceiling. The finding was not what the researcher was expecting, especially not in the AC system located on the roof.

How much interference a mask has is determined by the leak rating, but for most surgical masks there are no protection for the finer droplets in coughs and sneezes.

In a similar style, people though initially that bath houses and saunas would be safe against covid because the large droplets in the humid air would drop quickly to the ground. Later it was generally agreed here that the conclusion was incorrect and all public bath houses and saunas closed. Like with masks, humid air might be better than nothing but you really do not want to be near a person who are sick unless you got yourself an air filter and face shield.
OpenSSL went to double-letter patch versions in their 0.9.x days, for example 0.9.8zh.
I got an upgrade to Firefox 91 today. Immediately went back to 90. Proton is not an option - will be looking for a different browser once 90 becomes untenable.
> I suspect employees want their work to make them feel good in terms of alignment with their bedrock principles.

if it makes you feel good to play with words I am not sure if thats a good energy expenditure for your activism. it feels like a cheap way to value signal instead of doing something actually meaningful.
The chargeback returning the money to the rightful owner doesn't help the merchant who shipped $6,000 of hardware to some stranger. Certain types of electronic sales simply can't be done online because of the high rates of fraud. When you add crypto, these sales become possible.

Yes, they become possible at the cost of putting the counterparty risk onto the consumer, but that's better than the sale being entirely non-viable.
Yes. Through a combination of increased network-dependence of apps, increased pace in general of updates, system-level updates that are required for security, app updates that are required for system updates and/or security, or simply because the app just ceases to function at all without the updates, and SaaS, we have in many ways lost the ability to say "no" to updates by remaining on older software.
One of the bad managers I've recently shifted jobs away from, achieved tons of "productivity" by shifting Confluence pages written by others, so he appears as the author.
But it doesn't happen over night. The cracks are forming though.

Duckduckgo.com is now at 93,533,476 searches daily.

My non-technical brother just purchased a 3 year Fastmail account and switched from Chrome to Firefox. For added effect, he bought a subscription to Bitwarden. I didn't push him to do any of this, I just told him what I'm using.

His wife refused to put an internet enabled webcam in their new babies room, citing security concerns.

It's happening. But Rome wasn't built in a day.