skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to tell looking at FRED but it seems like it may be due to a change in how they do their accounting starting in May of 2020 (when all the dollars “seem” to appear). From FRED:

Before May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal, or NOW, and automatic transfer service, or ATS, accounts at depository institutions, share draft accounts at credit unions, and demand deposits at thrift institutions.

Beginning May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other liquid deposits, consisting of OCDs and savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts). Seasonally adjusted M1 is constructed by summing currency, demand deposits, and OCDs (before May 2020) or other liquid deposits (beginning May 2020), each seasonally adjusted separately.
Check out fractional reserve banking - banks do indeed add to the overall money supply with every new loan.
> Maybe they just don't want to target me because my systems are so hardened?

They most likely don't want to target you in the first place.

Yes, they're doing mass surveillance, but for the targeted stuff, they still have targets, and most of us won't make the list.
Programming is, in many ways like music - it's a multi-faceted skill with elements of math, pattern recognition, abstraction, and so on. (I've been doing both on and off for 35 years now). Personally, in my experience, I think a few things are true:

A) Way more people think they are 2x or 10x or whatever than they are. When you solve a hard problem, it makes you feel like a genius. As we never get to be in other people's brains, we don't realize they all get the same feelings.

B) There ARE geniuses out there. I have met musicians and heard of students (from professor friends) who are unarguably geniuses. People who can do shit like remember an entire Keith Jarrett concert and play it to their piano teacher afterwards. Or memorize a piano concerto from the score on an airplane and then go perform it. (I think that was Rubenstein? not sure.) They are out there. There are folks who were 10x better than I'll ever be by the time they were 16 because their brains just wired totally differently from regular people when they matured. They don't necessarily have stellar careers because they are frequently total oddballs in other areas. Talk to any professional music prof and they can tell you about some very odd geniuses. I have no doubt these people exist in comp sci too, they sure do in math. (Fun fact, piano genius Glenn Gould like to do giant number arithmetic in his head for fun!)

C) There are also a lot of professional programmers who just aren't good. It's so hard to evaluate that many folks who never really took to it can muddle through a degree and hold down a job, especially on a larger team. And heck, they are probably good contributors on these large teams by virtue of their other skills - someone needs to be good at reading requirements and talking to management.

So sure, I agree, the whole "I'm a 10x" or "Be a 10x" thing is usually balogna. But 2x or 3x? For sure. And there are geniuses out there who just smoke the rest of us without blinking.
It is the author's own website, there is no contractual SLA.

In any case, with a distributed architecture there are many parts that can break. Fewer moving parts means fewer broken pieces.
This is what overengineering looks like
He's selling courses on the technology he used, so the site is both a demonstration of and lesson in what he teaches. It's a functional portfolio that seems intended to demonstrate that the author and instructor understands what he is asking you to pay him to teach.
Yes, actually. Chrome is unusable adware. Firefox is borderline unusable adware, and it takes a long time to remove all of the proprietary components and proprietary services from it. Waterfox is probably doing something to snatch your data, but it probably won't outright impede your use of the browser. Epiphany exists, but they still aren't shipping with WebExtensions a year after implementing them because it goes against the "GNOME way" or some garbage knockoff-HIG.

There really isn't a good web browser.
I've used it as my daily driver for the last 7 years.

I don't really play games that much but you can install Steam, and at that point the distro doesn't matter as much. (Though for a bunch of reasons I think NixOS would be the ideal distro to base SteamOS off of, and Valve & co. are only now closing the gap years later with some still-beta flatpak-esque stuff.)

I would say, if you can get excited with messing around with Nix instead of playing video games, you're going to have a better time. Not because you need to (though you might if this is your first time doing Linux), but because the joy lies in being able to understand "what the fuck is actually going on!" for the first time, and getting to that level of understanding will take some time.
The CDC estimated the overall US infection fatality rate at 0.6%, not 1-2%. But I would still encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
> or, equivalently I think, to define it in a non-intuitive way.

Interesting that you'd frame it that way, because empirical studies have shown that lay people intuitively agree more with Compatibilism [1].

[1] Why Compatibilist Intuitions are not Mistaken: A Reply to Feltz and Millan, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274892120_Why_Compa...
Well since this looks like a blog, either using a blogging platform, or a static website generator hosted on either a static website platform(1) or something like lambda + a cdn

(1): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/stati...
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Well, some of us who didn't have rich, white relatives in the era of the robber barons would like to leave our children our businesses and wealth intact so they can build up the family. Changing the rules when minorities are trying to build wealth is a bit problematic.
Sure. I don't like people using the infrastructures of the state and community plus community labor while privatizing their gains and socializing the costs.

Maybe we can compromise on you taking yourself to some remote spot cut off from a society and generating your wealth there? Then we can all be sure your gains are truly yours, and so nobody will mind you hoarding them.
> VSCode makes you feel like you're on the remote system locally.

In fact, you are. It runs the plugins on the remote system. Which, while nice for UX, made me upgrade my blog's droplet from 1GB to 2GB memory ($5/month -> $10/month). But I figured it's worth it because it lowers the barrier of entry to writing, and anything to make the process of writing as painless as possible is worth it (and I'm still publishing once/week so I guess it's paying off)....
Dirty stuff probably. Wouldn't want to taint the primary workhorse by association with ogling naked people and buying weed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308613
Robots are about as terrifying as a vacuum cleaner. They're fundamentally dumb machines that give an illusion of something more. Pull back the curtain and you'll see a potato brained CPU, ready to take instructions like a well trained dog.
>The gov is not your household

That's true but the funny part is that people misunderstand it in an especially contrived way. A companies job is to increase its net worth to make profits for its investors. A government's job is to increase its net worth to provide public services to its citizens.

The goal behind investments is to achieve an increase in your net worth. Whether you spend your own money or borrow money doesn't really matter, the point is that you make the investments that you think you need. Businesses should invest for obvious reasons. Governments should invest too but in traditional areas like infrastructure, health care or education.

Businesses do not do "austerity" full stop. They borrow heavily to grow. Households do not do austerity either, they borrow heavily to buy real estate. Strangely enough it is governments that should do austerity and be responsible and stop investing for future benefits. It's basically just anti government rhetoric.

When a $250k/year household borrows $2 million to buy a house nobody bats an eye even though that household has a 800% debt to household income ratio.
Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?
I was born in 1973.

My first exciting thing was my Commodore 64. I loved playing games with friends, I loved typing code from magazines, I loved creating sprites on paper and dreaming of giving them life on my Commodore 64.

My second exciting thing was my first modem and the first connections to the local BBS in my town. I loved chatting with people, I loved downloading JPGs (well, you can imagine what kind).

My third exciting thing was the internet. This was an evolution of my second exciting thing, it was BBS on steroids. I loved visiting my local newsstand and buying the new issue of .Net magazine. The final pages always included a list of cool new websites to try.

My fourth exciting thing was social media. I loved keeping in touch with friends on Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc.

My fifth exciting thing was Bitcoin. I got lost in the rabbit hole, having fun mining with my computer (when it was too late to make money), spending hours reading posts on btctalk, buying my first Bitcoin from a guy at a coffee shop for cash, mining with my first Butterfly hardware (again, not enough to make a profit), building my Raspiblitz, staring at Blockchain.info waiting for the next block to be mined.

It has now been quite a while since the last time I was excited about something. The top excitement for Bitcoin was maybe around 2015. Now it's just all about money money money on crypto or developments that are way too complex for me to understand.

What is exciting you nowadays? Any new technology, any new website, any new cool thing going on in the tech world?
I would argue the opposite is the case. What political opinion expressible in less than 500 characters can be worth listening to?
None in the default OS, it uses existing C++ build tools to build the OS, but the OS itself (inc. Kernel, GUI & default Apps) was built from scratch. Including Font Editor (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...), rendering and Crypto impl (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...).

It does maintain a large number of ports you can install as add-ons to be able to use existing software, tools, languages & games, etc in SerenityOS.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ports
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Hopsworks supports time-travel since version 2.4 and it is open-source.
It’s a tricky topic because load shedding is a last resort that kicks in when there’s already a problem. So until auto scaling catches up or the issue is mitigated some other way, we try to make as many customers happy as possible, rather than making everyone equally unhappy.
Neuter the power of Twitter mobs by not using Twitter. If you don't like a thing, don't hold your noise while doing it, just stop doing it. For many people, I know Twitter seems like it's an eternal, undying force that will never go away, and we must learn to live with it: it's not. I promise, it will die if you stop feeding it.
To get back to vaccine effectiveness within an age-group this is the approach:

Total UK pop in 30-39: 7.56 million (75.6 hundred-thousand)

(chart says vaxxed ~775/hundred-thousand unvaxxed ~750/hundred-thousand during final week)

Final week infections in age-group 30-39 had 58600 in the vaxxed and 56700 in the unvaxxed.

Now renormalize to the subpop (vaxxed vs unvaxxed) This age group was 76.5% vaccinated in the last week).

Vaxxed infections/100k = 58600.76575.6) = 1011
Unvaxxed infections/100k = 56700(1-.765)75.6 = 3203

So if you are in this age group during the latest released week you'd be 3x more likely to be infected if you were unvaccinated.
All i humorously get is:

500 - Oh no, something did not go well.

"/blog/how-i-built-a-modern-website-in-2021" is currently not working. So sorry.
Surprising that with all that infrastructure he’s not compacting/obfuscating his JS.

Also surprising, of course, that an expert isn’t doing that redirect server-side.
There was one in 2007: https://brickset.com/sets/10179-1/Ultimate-Collector-s-Mille...
Not quite it’s much easier to balance on a slack line if you can put a hand or even just a few fingers on a stationary object. The propellers offer similar benefits.
This is the type of costs-and-benefits "it's not for me" I can get behind.

(I left another comment about as a Nix user I don't mind it not being popular, but I do mind people complaining about the costs and ignoring whatever benefits might lie on the other side, as if all technology is reducible to its learning curves.)
Estate taxes are immoral, that money has already been taxed.
This guy is a snake oil salesman most likely. This is an utterly contrived and overly complicated setup to run a personal site / signup form for paid lessons. Any experienced engineer worth their salt will eye roll at this but I know junior engineers who would just eat this up.

"Hi, I'm Kent C. Dodds. I'm a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer ..." - https://kentcdodds.com/info
World renowned is an extreme stretch. I have never heard of this guy, so if he is even renowned, it is only in the frontend JS world.

https://kentcdodds.com/discord#reasons-to-join
While I personally like Discord, I have become extremely wary of people with something to sell advertising a Discord server. You see the same tactic with the crypto and NFT people, where you create what feels like an informal, fun, collaborative space, but really it is an attempt to create a self-sustaining social scene around a specific brand.

Then onto his LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds/). He worked at Paypal for a while, preceded by a bunch of no names, and has some weird Google developer certification. Not really the resume of someone who can charge $600 (!) for a course in some frontend BS that will be out of date in 6 months.

His Github has a ton of activity and to his credit it does look to actually largely be "real" and not just gamifying LOC/# of commit metrics.

This guy may well be a react/frontend expert, or at least competent in the space, but this website is just a grift targeting inexperienced engineers.
Honest question: are such nodal editors easier for you than the indented text?

If so, how do you navigate the charts? How do you organize stuff in nice planar graphs? How do you manage to see enough with such a low information density, compared to text? What are the key advantages you see?

(Disclaimer: yes, I did use OpenSCAD to describe moderately complex geometry.)
Just for funs, ran this site's package.json through npm.avanka.com: https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/https%253A%252F%252Fraw.git...

Check out the size of that dependency graph for what amounts to (mostly) a personal website.
> German commentators warned of a “Fremdenfeindschaft,” “stranger-as-enemy relationship” endemic to the Chinese. That never translated into other tongues. Instead, the French xénophobie infiltrated English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and more.

"stranger-as-enemy relationship"?! Did someone use Google Translate here? No, "Fremdenfeindschaft" or "Fremdenfeindlichkeit" ("enmity towards strangers") is actually the usual German translation of "Xenophobia" ("fear of strangers") - see https://neueswort.de/xenophobie/.
Social Media is not the purest form of democracy because the people using social media, or who have a lot of followers on social media, are not representative
Jungle fowl (from which we get chickens) can't fly long distances, they can only fly in bursts to escape predators, get to a roosting site etc.

A jungle is a good example for this, a larger, ground based animal that can boost jump (for all intents and purposes) to get out of trouble, but doesn't need to fly through dense foliage where it would be tricky for a larger animal.
So why shouldn't the person receiving the money pay tax on it?

After all it's new income for them.
Maybe unpopular opinion: Either do the same or leave if you cannot handle it.

What you're running into is mismatched incentives. Why would they even care about making the code nicer? It has mostly downsides. So the company can move faster? They don't care because they still get paid the same. It's not their company. Refactoring takes time and doesn't show up on most performance reviews. It's the gmail affect - you get promoted when you ship new features and make a "new version of something" - not by fixing old code. Cleaning up code also has the downside that the original authors are now replaceable because more people can understand it.

By trying to change this you are probably just hurting yourself. You are making enemies and annoying people and are not benefitting anyone.

This is pretty common in FAANG, but it's not like this in all teams. It depends on the team more than the company. There are some teams that are more "startup-like" where incentives are a bit more aligned. Maybe you can transfer.
Can you explain in one sentence what exactly you analyze?

Who is the target group and why would they create an account (and pay?) for seeing reports?

Clicking through the reports gives a weird feeling. Zoom has “high“ privacy, but is (arguably) not even GDPR compliant.
Me: "Leo, please bring me a cookie."

Leo hops off the table picks up a cookie and walks over. Unfortunately as it gets near the sofa one of its propellers makes contact with the cookie ...

Me, being showered in high speed crumbs: "Leo, please bring me another cookie"
I don't think it is confusing. There is a package manager Nix, and a distro built around it, NixOS. And the package repository Nixpkgs.

What is confusing however, is that the configuration language and the package manager have the same name, Nix.
A rich person already pays taxes. Also, I’m not sure about what you mean with “community labour” - a rich person also pays his employees.

This is nothing but double taxation. Ie highway robbery.
This was my first reaction. But then I can also understand why you would use your own website as either an exercise or a showcase of all these techs.

I used to host my blog on Kubernetes for a while for that specific reason, just practice how to deploy and operate it. Then after I got bored with that simply transfered that to a static hosting solution.
The moral standard is very very high, yet he works for google. The amount irony almost makes me sick.
> Being surrounded by 'people like you' feels like 'home' and that anxiety goes away.

What's familiar feels safe. Maybe the long term `solution` to living among/with many different tribe members is to mix more and more people of different origin/background/culture so that it feels normal and familiar (thus safe) to be surrounded by people who are different (actually they wouldn't be different anymore).

But somehow I don't think it's easy to set up the condition for such an environment. I think mixing implies the blending of different cultures and it leads to a new mono culture made up of common or assimilated characteristics (or one culture taking it all with just some minor details from other cultures left) rather than a patchwork of strongly differentiated (untainted) cultures.

This is the great question of "how do we live together ?".

edit: I think there should be a warning about my comment. When I was young I heard a similar reasoning used to justify `racism` because it would seem it's inherent to the humane nature. The adult I heard saying that was a complete racist and he didn't hold this explanation/theory/outlook to find how to live with others but to justify his dislike of others.
Scaling Large Production Clusters at Alibaba with Partitioned Synchronization
>Unlike the US and Europe, Canada dragged its heels on pre-ordering vaccines.

The truth is the exact opposite. But don't let that get in the way of a good jab, eh?

Headline from Dec 7, 2020: "Canada has reserved more vaccine doses per person than anywhere". https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-has-reserved-more-vaccine...
"Also, NSA is known to have modified network gear <...> they can just sniff the encrypted traffic downstream and extract the session keys from the equipment. Then they can just decrypt the traffic without having to actually break RSA/ECC."

Exactly, this fact seems to have been lost on many. There's nothing wrong with using encryption on a day-to-day basis such as when we use https web pages, or buy something online, or when we don't want Google to read our email but it's another matter altogether when the stakes are much higher such as, say, leaking human rights abuses from within the confines of a totalitarian state.

When the stakes are high there are many other considerations to address. Not only do you have to consider what happens inside a server but also think about its physical security along with the possibility that data recovery tools may be used by the State to recover a copy of a critical email you sent after which you deleted. And that's just for staters.

An important rule to always assume and to adhere to before going online is that it's a safe bet that the State will be able to access anything you say or do on your PC, smartphone and or when you are online - and that it will be able to do so long after the event.
Yes, I agree it needs to be fixed. I noted this source of confusion earlier and appreciate the confirmation. Will be working on getting a disambiguation header on the main download page soon.

You’re on the right track. Nix is a package manager you can use on just about any Linux distribution, and also MacOS. NixOS is a Linux distro built with and including Nix (and using Nixpkgs as its package repo).

Nix is also the name of the functional programming language created to describe packages in Nix the package manager.

Nix is also a pun on the word meaning “nothing”, which is a nod to how it’s all purely functional.
So, it sounds more like you have a problem with the trusts and not estate taxes. If we got rid of estate taxes then we could just pass the money on directly.
Amazon could be developing a Steam competitor called Vapour
Because that money has already paid tax before.
I'm baffled by this response. I've done my best to summarize what you seem to be saying and what I see as the blind spots. I don't even see you as an opponent. We seem to disagree on a particular PR tactic and how it plays with the public.

Is "I get what you're saying and it's reasonable" something that a person who is deliberately trying to represent your ideas in the worst possible light would say?
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Look at the M2 measure - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL - it's a (scary / steady) growth from the 80s to now with a jump in covid.

It does not show the vast leap M1 does - and mostly because the M1 metric itself has changed - not the underlying amount of money in the world.

I mean that M1 jump in "real" numbers would mean a creation of 16 Trillion dollars - insane
That's bullshit I regularly re-use old code. Let's just admit it - that's a cover for today's bad programmers.
> And how is the central bank involved in this?

Via reserve requirements and coordinating interbank lending:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/interbankrate.asp
What about sales tax? My income has already been taxed.