skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with inflation as a tax is not so much that you can't target 10% exactly. We could probably do that these days with level targeting.

No, the real problem is the deadweight cost:

The higher your inflation, the less cash people want to hold in real terms. But that amount of cash is what you collect your inflation tax on.

> An inflation rate of 10% is basically a wealth tax on currency-denominated assets of 1/1.1 ~= 9%, collected implicitly.

What makes you say so? Expected inflation would purely be a tax on cash. Currency-denominated assets like loans and bonds would just get a higher interest rate up front.

Your next paragraph describes exactly that 'dodging' of the inflation tax.

Btw, you can also simply dodge eg a USD inflation tax by holding Swiss Franks. No need for NFTs.

(Of course, if you have a capital gains tax levied on nominal gains, then inflation effectively increases the capital gains tax. The solution here is to charge capital gains taxes only on real gains. That's a real problem in the real world.)

> In reality, you never get uniform inflation across all prices; instead you get something called Cantillon Effects [1], where money pools at the places it's injected within the economy and at monopolies, and never makes it to ordinary consumers.

The Cantillon effect is controversial to say the least.

In order to work like Internet Austrians commonly describe the effect, people have to be idiots who act purely on historical data and do not form any expectations.

In the real world, when the Fed announces some future policy in advance (like a taper or a new round of QE), that announcement has effects on eg the stock market right away, even when the Fed hasn't added or removed any money yet.

In contrast, for the Cantillon effect to work as described, money would need to act sort-of like a liquid or gas and 'slosh around the economy' and get stuck in nooks and crannies.
I agree. US intellectual property law is anachronistic and at odds with the evolution of modern technology. More permissive ip countries will leave us in the dust.
His point is probably along the lines of "any machine emulating a Turing machine can compute all computable functions." Which of course doesn't mean that there aren't uncomputable functions.
I have been using this for years. I have never had the negative experiences that these people on the Reddit forum ascribe to it.
> We need to figure out how to live in The World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our attention.

There's a sense in which this statement embodies the fulcrum of the liberal/conservative divide. The liberal outlook is that scarcity is a largely solved problem, a historical artifact if only we had the political will to distribute resources intelligently. The conservative outlook is that scarcity is real, immediate, inherent in the structure of the world, and at best separated from us by a few days of disaster or revolution.

If you believe the former, you can start preparing for a world after capital, because capital has little point without scarcity. If you believe the later, the former program sounds like a formula for the manufacture of scarcity.
> As long as the E-Ink licensing remains the way it is, there won't really be an affordable competitor in this space.

"E-Ink licensing"?

Tell us more.

> I think the current fees are leaving the tech only in niche and high end markets.

What are the current fees?
The process of unlocking the managment functions on Taylor machines goes as such (see Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...):

Press the cone icon on the screen of the Taylor C602 digital ice cream machine ... then tap the buttons that show a snowflake and a milkshake to set the digits on the screen to 5, then 2, then 3, then 1. After that precise series of no fewer than 16 button presses, a menu magically unlocks.

Seems to be a fairly obvious (in the common sense, rather than the legal sense) of deliberate obfuscation to directly curtail 3rd party repair.
What is the ISO number for this standard?
Why can’t I find Amanda Huginkiss?
Computer programs require both code and space for variables and also require 'defines' that don't show up as actual variables or actual code but tell both code and variables what their working values need to be.

Or maybe to put it in another way, in terms of usefulness, is that the 'junk DNA' holds the same significance as the programming header files do. Maybe we should be calling those data sequences of DNA as 'junk.h'.

I venture to say that maybe only 0.1% of the stuff we call 'Junk DNA' (or even none of it) is irrelevant.
> I'd love to see the descriptions provided to the AI

Unless the descriptions were particularly detailed, I would expect that a lot of this comes from the training data and the descriptions are just prompts for the model to recall which film it is.

For instance, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) is clearly based on this real poster:

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Póster-Online-Willy-Chocolate-Fa...

This seems less “generate a poster from a description” and more “recall half-memorised posters“.
I intercept port 53 traffic at my router, tunnel it over to my VPS which runs an unbound instance. Overall I think this setup is better because:

1. It denies my ISP the chance to look at my DNS requests.

2. It doesn't involve yet another third party which may or may not try to monetize my dns requests.

3. It mixes my dns related traffic with that of a datacenter, which doesn't provide a compelling source of data for advertisers IMO.

DoH throws a wrench in the works. Still considering my options on how I want to address it.
That's a good question. I would guess it's because we started using zd before jira launched servicedesk, and there was too much inertia to move.
Interesting, a lot more skepticism about post-scarcity than I expected from the HN crowd.
> The research suggests somewhere between 2% and 14% still had symptoms caused by Covid 15 weeks later.

That's an awful wide spread, and even the lower bound - let alone the upper - still seems kinda worrying; anywhere from 1 in 50 to 7 in 50 kids having long-term symptoms still seems like kind of a big deal.

> The study, which has yet to be published in a medical journal

That seems like a bit of a red flag. Hasn't completed peer review yet. Ain't it a bit early to be reporting this with such an authoritative and definitive headline despite the relevant study clearly being far from validated and replicated?
No

Rogan is probably at least indirectly responsible for hundred or thousands of deaths

So far

Would anyone study how much his contribution was worth compared to the rest of the right wing death machine?

Doubt it
You may find “What Colour Are Your Bits”[1] an interesting read.

[1]: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
How Oracle discovered you're using it?
He didn't say there is nothing computers can't do. Read again.
Until legislature catches up with privacy needs of the consumer I don’t want flood gates to open at all.
Do you want to bet on the 'bubble popping' or 'inflation worsening'?

Financial markets don't seem to expect either. Inflation expectations (via TIPS spreads) are where the Fed wants them.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), as a further development of CBT, seems to be even better geared towards forgiveness, acceptance and commitment to the goals you actually deeply care about. (Haven't tried it personally though)

A great overview here: https://www.metafilter.com/182938/We-Hurt-Where-We-Care
> Apple will also help developers of reader apps protect users when they link them to an external website to make purchases.
Bacteria Storing Energy
I am preserving your and some other (more explicit) heavily-downvoted comments here that paint a disturbingly prophetic picture of where things are going to go. We know what's happening to our freedoms and what the future will look like. Too bad there's not enough of us to fight back.
Judge did not do this - - almost all plans are negotiated between both sides of lawyers, in this case prosecution and defendants.

Judge only approves if both sides agree to what seems like a reasonable deal.
> But after Kytch co-founder Jeremy O’Sullivan accused Taylor of infringing on McDonald’s franchisees’ rights to repair their own McFlurry machines and intellectual property theft in a lawsuit, the FTC reportedly stepped in.

The lawsuit mentioned above is found here (and has more details on the "jank code").

https://securityledger.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/202105...

Love how they are literally copying/pasting tweets in the prelim statement. I haven't read through a lot of lawsuits but this is the first time I've seen screenshots of tweets in them.
An Australian who had never been to USA was extradited and jailed despite not for profit too. On release, they got re jailed for being in USA illegally.

They only got deported back to Australia on the condition they never visit USA in future.

Currently, Australia's laws allow extradition if there's a jail term and we all know that sharing a picture is a jailable offence. Pirate Party Australia tried to push for non commercial+violent exemption but they never took off.
Harassing the 1% of Brits who happen to own guns isn't going to end well, is it?

Great work on making gun owners in the US even more paranoid about the government regulation of firearms as a handy bonus side effect.
They are a wildly successful monopoly so until they're broken up that's how it be.
Remember that narrow window of time when Netflix had All The TV and was the only streaming platform, which you could access for a low monthly fee?

I've always thought and argued that while money might be part of the motivation for digital piracy, ease of access and user experience is also a large component. 10 bucks a month to stream anything, without commercials, was great! For those few years I didn't download anything, because I didn't have to. It wasn't the path of least resistance.

Now I have to deal with a half dozen streaming platforms, some of them don't work on my laptop (Peacock), others which are spotty (Disney+) and others which insist on wanting me to see commercials, despite taking my money (Hulu). With increasing fragmentation and a decreasing user experience, the path of least resistance has gone back to downloading and I expect it to increase. :/

I wonder how long until the industry re-invents cable packages. It might work if Netflix handled the tech, though I admit that would never happen in the real world.
This sounds noble in theory, but in practice people make awful choices.
It takes guts to win a game of chicken on a highway, too. We don't valorize those guts.
Camera discovery reveals climber’s last images before fatal avalanche
Toy. No one's gonna use this over AWS or Cloudflare
Still, 125bps is an amazingly low rate! Nice find.
https://archive.is/91Ay6
e.e. cummings wrote a poem about this, called "Here Is Little Effie's Head"

https://www.poeticous.com/e-e-cummings/here-is-little-effie-...
Only if you read the analytic stuff.
Target also has a perfectly fine site. Their business is doing quite well the last few years, including online.
So why isn’t the world full of brilliant software written in Lisp? Surely having a powerful language like that will make developers use it? And even if the non-Lisp enthusiasts don’t “get it” how come the Lisp enthusiasts isn’t blowing the rest of us away with awesome software? Honest question.
Even if it exists, it's not something the public has true access to. These laws are not made for the benefit of the masses.
I haven’t looked at the book, but I don’t interpret that quote to mean computers “can do anything” which seems to be your interpretation. Your second link, for example, seems to be about the undecidability of some problem. The author’s quote clearly refers to computable problems so this undecidable problem is not under discussion here.

And I’m sure the author could be both highfalutin and plain wrong a lot, but you just picked a poor exemplar.
1. (2018)

2. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788996

3. This is a self-published thing by a blogger. It's doesn't even seem to be available as a book.

The author argues that there is a sufficiency of capital. He's a VC in San Francisco. From that perspective, there is more than enough capital, in that there's more money available than there are profitable investments to fund. This is an aspect of the webcrap/appcrap ecosystem - even the marginal niches have been filled.

The other side is the lack of a capability to do some obvious things and make money doing them. Such as building affordable houses. That's not about attention.

This guy may be in a bubble.
> You cannot have both

Yet, we do have both. We are at both peak piracy and peak revenue for digital content.

I think it’s false that people state that these things are exclusive.
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- Why: 1B+ people spend 36% of their time on capturing and retrieving information for their work. They deserve superpower.

- Vision: A greater productivity platform/OS with extensibility in mind.

-Role: Senior Software Engineer

-Founders: Meng Sun prev.@MIT, @Ufactory and Abtin Setyani, prev. @AWS.

-location: NYC/Berlin but fully remote.

-Our stack is built using Golang, TypeScript, Swift, and Python, on tops of technologies like React and others.

We're innovating on:

- Extension model base on social & multiplayer
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- Sync engine
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if it works, we provide an entirely new way to manage & process digital information and it's likely the most valuable company in the world. If it doesn't, we will be forever proud that we have pushed the state-of-the-art on multiple ends.
Trust me you don’t want to program in pure Lambda Calculus!
Demanding anything of a representative that goes contra to their donors, who grace both sides with their money, is a quick exercise in failure.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382081
When cable TV was introduced in the US, one selling point was 'you pay for it, so no ads.' That didn't last long.

Is there some kind of meme/law that insists that over time every product gets ads... because there probably should be.
https://archive.ph/wCRXJ
> If you owe the bank $100 billion, that's the government's problem.

- Me
So, someone made the proof of concept mockup demo, and managemt said "ship it!"?
I thought they were actually controlling it from (or via) a relay plane using UHF. But maybe I'm misunderstanding something!

Edit: actually rereading it I think you're right: seemingly they did plan to use satellites, that's crazy!
> Only a single payer system has the leverage to force the universities to decouple their cruft from their core educational expenses

That's a pretty steadfast assertion. It's untrue, and we know that because higher education used to be affordable without a single payer system.

> The irony is we essentially already have this single payer system.

I'm not sure this is ironic so much as symptomatic. Blank checks lead to waste. Students on the hook for blank checks lead to what we have now.

> why not just make it free, then?

I can think of a couple of reasons. Nothing is free in this world, for one, and beyond that, I don't want to live in a world where I have to spend another 4 years of my life in school just to get a job because it's free and therefore expected of everyone. Those are pretty big reasons why not.
China sent a cute little state execution van to execute a billionaire on the spot, and I think they billed his family for the cost of sending the van to him and the execution materials.

They really don't fuck around, and if the CCP doesn't fall apart from internal strife, they've probably got the 21st century in the bag. Might end up being the best for the survival of humanity and exploration of the universe, who knows.
Pearl Health | Data and Web Software Engineers | Full-time, NYC / Boston / Remote | https://pearlhealth.com

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We are launching Pearl Health to help PCPs who are overwhelmed by the demands of an aging population and the unpredictable business model inherent to Traditional Medicare. Over time, this solution will empower PCPs to provide better care to their entire patient population. We believe there is a need to bring humanism back to healthcare by giving physicians the ability to better allocate their time with patients, increasing their autonomy, and creating incentives that are aligned with achieving better outcomes through clinical decision-making powered by actionable intelligence. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) is launching a new value-based care program to disrupt Traditional Medicare, and we believe that this represents an opportunity to achieve the meaningful change we envision.

Senior Software Engineer, Data/Web - https://boards.greenhouse.io/pearlhealth/jobs/4582197003?t=8...
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The same for me - I got 6 correct with some thought, but three of them were instant ideas (less than a second), and those ones were always right: Cast Away, Space Jam, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Disney is already pushing a package of Hulu+Disney+espn. My family wants both Hulu and Disney+ but no one cares about espn. They are already starting and it’s only a matter of time until hbo is $15 or $14 when bundled with peacock (or whatever).
I'd say when you know of the damage you are causing but still double down to increase sales with lies & bribes. you pay a criminal fine, but the fine is far less than your profits so why not ;(

You might know you've gone too far when you have to sneak in a law change to get rid of the only enforcement mechanism DEA had to stop (pause) such an insanely huge volume of pills through distributors. Thousands upon thousands at once to tiny towns.

One feature of our for-profit marketable drug industry is they know exactly who is prescribing and where. They then go after those doctors to push more.

They also knew it was all a lie from the start. They put the FDA employee in charge of approving the label in a hotel to write it together with their corporate staff.

Relying on the most flimsy, misrepresented single scientific piece of paper to pretend their pills might be less addictive. Then using those few words to launch a marketing assault of death and pain.

It's just like this settlement! Get your own lawyers to write it up and the government will rubber stamp it.

https://archive.is/VYOeM
Wow! I'm debating between an M1 Air and this laptop. I'd love to read your thoughts after you get the frame.work.
I'm ready for the guillotines to make a come back at this point. I've lost friends to this; it's personal.
To be clear, what you're advocating for is the nationalisation (internationalisation?) of Apple's intellectual property as a reward for building a very successful product.

I'm not saying this isn't a valid opinion to hold—I'm not necessarily opposed to nationalisation in other contexts—but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of what your opinion entailed.
Us keyboard layout only :(
Medical Science & Computing (contracted to NIH/NIAID) | Back-end and devops engineers | Rockville, MD (REMOTE possible, US only) | VISA | Full-time

I'm the tech lead who's building out a new software team to build a new "hybrid" (cloud and on-prem) data management and visualization platform to support new "cryo" electronmicroscopes (https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/what-is-cryo-em) alongside existing electron microscopes and light microscopes. This new software platform will be both challenging (because of the huge amount of data produced by the new microscopes) and exciting (because of the near-atomic level of resolution that can be achieved). Feel free to reach out through the email in my profile.

The devops job posting is here: https://careers-mscweb.icims.com/jobs/10597/devops-engineer/....

The back-end job posting is here: https://careers-mscweb.icims.com/jobs/10771/software-enginee....

FYI our front-end stack is React (NextJS), Relay, TypeScript.

Medical Science & Computing (https://mscweb.com/) is a federal contractor that provides software development support to a few federal agencies. The most prominent agency and the one that the company has supported for the longest (going on 15 years) is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Within NIH, I'm part of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/bcbb-about), which basically writes software to support scientists at NIAID (the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). This position is absolutely not the typical "job placement" or "staffing agency" kind of situation. You are effectively a normal, core staff member of the branch and will work closely with and alongside federal employees and other contractors.

MSC does sponsor H1B and Green Card for foreign nationals. We are exempt from the H1B cap so you won't have to go through the H1B lottery.
Did Challenger and Columbia cause a hard reset at NASA?
I guess Columbia taught NASA to stop trying and instead yo outsource human spaceflight risk to private sector.
This is a press release by Apple, and thus sugar-coats the facts:

- Japan Fair Trade Commission forces Apple to loosen restrictions on ‘reader’ apps - https://www.macworld.com/article/354963/japan-fair-trade-com...

- Apple to Let Media Apps Avoid 30% Fee After Global Scrutiny - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-02/apple-to-...

- Apple to Allow Media Apps to Link to Own Websites for Payment Options - https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-to-allow-spotify-other-me...
More of a reason to get started now.
To me they are too glowy and they have a weird thing that looks like a mix of chromatic aberration and color bleed when the registration is off.
Wow apparently some Emacs lovers don’t like it when somebody points out that Emacs is the Ford T of editors :)
I disagree; free speech is already showing its degradation in the west: it's only a matter of time before we're left with nothing.
$500k for first offence and $1m for each next offence. At "tens", we're talking about $20-90m?

So, that means 21-91 DVDs.

In other news, if you wilfully share a copyrighted picture of an American citizen, that's a $500,000 fine and USA will extradite and jail you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_...
So why are you not using Lisp all the time? Honest question.
US does not want to deal with the problem of having a significant percentage of people who are in the US and participate in the economy who would not be able to get the ID.
> it's an ice cream machine for god sake, not a nuclear plant reactor core.

You sure? Do we know what a McFlurry is made of?
I just found NX halfway through building a new monorepo setup. I hope it's as good as it looks because I'm throwing out about a couple days of work to switch.
Two totally scummy companies that are almost made for each other.
(2017 article, updated in 2018)
Is Elon Musk Back in “Production Hell” with Tesla’s 4680 Battery?
How long until we get a video of the first officer demanding the person hand over their phone because "I just need to take this back to my cruiser to verify your ID"?
Elon's (public) motive about colonizing other planets has never been about rich people having fun. It's an existential necessity.