skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> literally everything

A service, isolated from the rest of the code, fully written in a week by a programmer without experience on the language. If that shakes literally everything, your place has a problem.

And it's the kind of problem a single developer or small skunkworks team can help you move out of, if they are given some freedom to experiment with architecture and settle on some good guidelines.
How can the OS influence L3 access times? I would have thought this to be entirely internal to the CPU.
These devices were unsecured for a reason: there wasn't money to hire competent people who would make all services secure.

Finding a vulnerability in the grade tracking system is much different than in IPTV: the first can have real-life implications, the latter only gives the attacker bragging rights. Only students would benefit from hacking IPTV (for funsies), but patching it requires funds nonetheless, and then further effort from staff when the default user/pass doesn't work. And then we complain about the hidden costs of low-trust societies.

If the guy had written to the admins about it, they probably would've replied "yeah we know about it, please don't do it".

"But I want to because I can and you're too lazy and incompetent to fix it."

"Okay then here's 50 bucks, please fix it for us, we don't have time for this nonsense."

"F off", and then proceeds to rick roll because that can get him to HN front page.
If you aren't a doctor your "own critical thinking" will have little bearing on the correct treatment or prevention of a disease/illness/injury, doubly so for complex ailments for viruses, cancers and genetic diseases.

Pretty much the same goes for civil engineering, particle physics and any other highly trained field that requires vast quantities of knowledge to even intuit probable outcomes.

Why is economics any different? I don't believe it is, I would say economics falls into a similar bucket as weather science where there are always large unknowns that make broad predictions imprecise but that doesn't invalidate their expertise and ignoring it is definitely foolish.

Experts are experts for a reason. If you could intuit all difficult problems as a layman we would have already advanced science far beyond where we currently stand.
How long does a ball heating session work for?
Look, I get it, YMMV and all that.

What I am saying is that in this case, I put it to you that this is more than simply a matter of opinion and personal preference.

There are demonstrable, measurable advantages to this approach. Knowledgeable users can work on unfamiliar programs immediately by using standard keystrokes and via prior knowledge of how the menus will work.

Unskilled users, so long as the machine has a mouse configured, can simply use the console/terminal app in the same way as they're used to, by point-and-click.

I get that you hate it. What I am trying to tell you is that I _really_ like it. It is a _strong_ preference of mine, I find it asthetically pleasing as well as convenient, and I hate and refuse to fight with non-compliant apps that don't use it. Including _both_ of the xNix world's favourite editors, Vim and Emacs -- I hate both -- *and* all the alternatives people recommend: Joe, Pico, Nano, etc.

I get that you have a preference. That is your choice. But you are trying to make out that it's a universal truth, that your opinion is an objective fact, and it's not.

Whether you, or anyone, likes it is neither here nor there. It helps. It works. It's useful. It makes life easier.

And if the price of that is that some people's aesthetic sensibilities are offended, well... sorry dude, tough.
> This isn't true at all. The majority of soy produced all over the world is feed grade soy which isn't destined for human consumption.

Yeah because that’s how soy beans work dude. I think there must be some miscommunication here - the majority of the harvested soy bean is physically not palatable to humans.

Perhaps you are misunderstanding what “70 percent of the soybeans” means. 70 percent of the harvested soy material is not salable to humans. It’s called “soy meal”, look it up. It’s not like if you count all the beans that get picked, 70% of them go to cows. Each harvest is mechanically separated into its component parts and shipped to different consumers, and only a minority of the mass is suitable for oil production or direct consumption.
You could make the exact same argument about nuclear energy. The same promises were made, and it has failed to deliver.

It doesn't address the main issue of nuclear — it's incredibly dangerous. For nuclear to be safe you need human security, human experts, funding, you need to not have tsunamis, earthquakes, pandemics, wars, terrorism, economic collapse.

That's not a promise nuclear can make — especially given that we've almost certaintly have passed tipping points that will make unrest and extreme weather likely.

At this point it's not about stopping the climate crisis, it's about limiting the damage, and preparing society for the inevitable consequences.
You can right click on the start menu and get (most of?) the old menu
But that's precisely the point...they -don't-want-you- to have control or moderate the stream. They want to sell your attention and getting more of your attention makes them more money. Letting you turn off the annoying stuff is antithetical to their business model.

And things like Youtube have honed it to a fine degree. They're a single source for certain kinds of content and using a roku, you CAN'T skip some adds. The Ad delivery is 'well, you can skip some, but you have to watch this Liberty commercial, and hey, skip now skips both ads, but since you've done that, now you're doing to sit through both of the next ads.

Not to mention the video producers have sponsors, and the small ones are forced to shill theirselves through patreon to stand a chance of making a living at it...or at least breaking even on the costs of the content.
It seems more like you're the one imposing politics on it. Everyone knows the inflation is occurring, the debates are all around what to do about it and those debates all depend on why the inflation is occurring. Right now those in control think that the inflation is a short, steep spike due to the costs of stopping and then restarting a global economy based on JIT inventories and so we shouldn't let it affect policy. Aka it comes much closer to the alien raygun and Jupiter alignment scenarios in your comment (in the sense that they are unavoidable realities that policy can't change), neither of which we would think to raise rates or cut public assistance to prevent.
Describing procrastination as a habit can be risky, but I can totally see it now.
What?

Both are included;

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/college-tuition.htm

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
Obligatory mention of Gtk-Server: https://www.gtk-server.org

Can communicate using nine IPC mechanisms AND as a loadable library with a small C API.

Also, if you're running a Gtk desktop, it obviously obeys your Gtk theme.
I read that the kernel has been in trial for a lot more, as it had been deployed to Windows 10 Insiders for almost a year; so they’ve “only” been testing the new shell. They already went RTM some time ago and made sure the OOBE would update the shell to the latest version.
Since most government software is written in Java, the QR codes on PDF check-in posters are probably being generated with ZXing [1].

[1] https://github.com/zxing/zxing
>buying all kinds of stuff with their insane pandemic checks

When is this meme going to stop? How is a couple of $1200 checks over the course of 6 months enough to let people buy every home on the market all of the sudden?
The TPM and UEFI upgrade in base requirements led to a version fork. Nothing more.
Has anyone used both Livewire and Hotwire/turbolinks and can compare their experiences?
The flummery language makes me wary. So many words to say so little. Long unnecessary words chosen to sound smart. Run.
You know, a non-trivial amount of the distrust in science comes from science publications that find some fringe theory, even respectable fringe theories like this one, and then publish articles about how they're 100% right and imbued with the full confidence of science.

It's an interesting article, but the tone is terribly wrong.
On the other hand if we know something will break one use case totally, to provide marginal utility in another, then it's probably not a good trade off.
The Tether fraud has inflated BTC far more than 5.4% in the last year.
Lead isn't a bad investment either.
I did not know William Shatner is 90. Kudos old man.
Sadly all you list sounds very plausible. Maybe in addition to a trashed economy!
I grew up on margarine, butter always tasted a bit too rich for me, but I've started using it again because I don't each much of either and I've heard margarine is terrible for you, but I don't know much about it.
Why does the entrepreneur not just setup their own website, and sell everything themselves?
So what you are essentially saying is, regardless of inflation, we should be long BTC?
You mean all those Chinese goods that are (at best) sitting & rotting in a huge fleet of container ships, parked off the U.S. West coast, waiting to be unloaded "eventually"?
Pretty sure Google hasn't used 'bitshift puzzle' interview questions for ~10y now. It really is just a meme thing from long ago. My interview there ~6y ago was basically the same as ones I've done at a handful of other companies
They pay Amazon for that middle-man position already. And then Amazon gets to determine that it's more profitable for them to also compete with you in addition to taking the cut from your sales.
sigh, you're getting downvoted but you're right - and don't forget "Build Back Better" while the pandemic is far from over. Even if one agrees with the Biden administration decisions, the execution and messaging is unquestionably messy.

I fear time has run out to save the Democrats in the midterms, which means more Congressional inaction, more polarizing executive actions and a 2024 anyone-but-Biden election outcome.
How does this have baring on this article? Are you just out to try and take down Krugman? Are you targeting Krugman because he works at NYT? Feels like a bit of a hit from the right/libertarian wing here.

I will posit that almost every individual who makes future predictions on anything related to humanity is going to make some serious mistakes. That and our economy is beyond the capability for any people (or machines) on our planet to fully understand all the impacts maybe only the large flows. It's highly dynamic made up of many intelligent (and unintelligent) actors and national groups with sophisticated needs/wants.

Let's not try and take down economists for trying to help understand the economy when they clearly do understand it at a greater level then most people.

I also don't necessarily just put all my trust at the feet of any individual who says they know the future - thats a huge red flag.
Don't be coy, Nostradamus, tell us the future.
I always jokingly called windows 7 vista service pack 3. Vista added in windows defender, really ramped up how aggressive superfetch was, and search indexing. Turn those 3 things off and vista worked decently as it was too much for most CPUs/HD of the time. They fixed most of that in sp2 of vista. But win7 is when everyone really got most of the fixes. One dude I know managed to 'fix' Windows ME. He figured out it was the plug and play system aggressively scanning the inf files. He narrowed them down to just the ones that were needed for his hardware and it worked pretty good for him.
It's still true a lot of the the time.
This article was great.

If you want to understand the IoT better, I can recommend this article: https://girlsplaining.substack.com/p/internet-of-things-and-...
> for a phenomenon this simple

While what you describe might be one factor contributing to higher inflation, it certainly isn't the only one.

Supply chain pipeline bubbles are likely another.

Unbridled dollar printing and massive govt. debt probably contributes as well.

The US quickly losing ground as a superpower thereby undermining the status of the USD as a reserve currency probably a factor.

etc ...
> we've fared MUCH better than the 30s.

Didn't it take years to feel the effects of the 1929 crash (just as it _may_ with our current crisis), and didn't FDR's Keynesian economic polices actually make things worse, albeit while providing hope of recovery to those affected? What might have actually got us out of that decade long slump towards the end?

I am also hopeful that it won't be as bad this time around, and who's to say since we're all still in the middle of this.
Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (2017)
Are there details on how it works? How is CLIP being used here?
Ulam has a result in measure theory the French mathematician LeCam called tightness. The result is in

Patrick Billingsley,
Convergence of Probability Measures,
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1968.

The result was used in a course I took in measure theory based probability theory. Later
I used the result in one paper to show that a goofy statistical hypothesis test was not trivial.

The URL I've had of the picture of Ulam, von Neumann, and Feynman at Los Alamos during WWII moved, but another copy is at

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PRA6JxXrePw/Trm_LwKgxyI/AAAAAAAAC...
You’re right - “helicoptering” is no longer accurate - “airlifting” might be more appropriate.

Remember, the Fed is buying $120,000,000,000 of bonds per month.

That’s well beyond a helicopter’s capability!
I’m trying to draw the silence of lamb poster with Jodie foster but it keeps returning pictures of bearded men. Lol. Let me know if anyone is successful with that poster.
> If we judged all the many enormously influential and sometimes celebrated figures of civilization's history by modern moral standards, there would be virtually none left to applaud who were born before the 1960s.

Good! We have a major issue with hero worship in our society. We should not be naming anything after anyone. It serves no purpose other than to create cults of personality.
It does serve a way to bear boredom and get things done.
This could be a movie with Dinesh from Silicon Valley as Microsoft’s CEO

Edit: ok wait this could be an episode of Silicon Valley although I haven’t see the last season
Its the Minto Pyramid Principle / Situation Complication Question Answer:

https://www.richardhare.com/2007/09/03/the-minto-pyramid-pri...
I haven't really kept up, but haven't those essentially stopped now, leaving only regular unemployment? I am curious what that will cause because I have heard conflicting information on whether people saved their money or spent it all, not to mention people who have just stopped paying their rent … a whole other ticking time bomb.
Thousands of passwords are potenially leaked through public Google docs
Take a look at BTCUSD over the 2011-2021 period and make your own call.
The US government has made over $3.4 trillion in budgetary outlays in response to the pandemic. It comes in many forms, not just $1,200 checks.

$3.4 trillion is a lot of money to add to the economy in 2 years.
Are you sure? I'm not a lawyer, but it seems copyright is basically "whatever you can prove in court".

The family of "Charlie Bit My Finger" sold that video through an NFT. So I wonder if the family would still use that video, and the NFT owner would sue them... who would win. I would actually think the NFT owner.

See https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57227290
That same thread says they're rebuilding it with Xamarin.mac. Is that native? I would have thought native would be Swift.
You might be right but I doubt it. There's been QE of various forms for the last 12-13 years without this happening.

But in the last 12 month energy prices have jumped 25% in the US. That's going to have both a direct and indirect impact on CPI inflation.

There is still likely to be some underlying inflation, not attributable to energy prices, but it's only going to be a couple of percent.

Now if your argument is that the energy price rise is a direct consequence of QE, I don't see the link. And it would need to explain why energy prices have gone ballistic everywhere else too. But there may be a link I'm not aware of.
The US is still the comparative military powerhouse of the planet in every way but raw troop count.

A nation can launch a nuke from a carrier, a silo, a submarine, a mobile platform. Those aren't used right now, obviously.

Carrier groups are the current state-of-the-art for regional modern warfare. They aren't for invasion, but are useful for activity suppression and area control (derived from air superiority). The US has 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers with 2 more on the way. The next largest fleet is China with 2 + 3 lesser ships they call carriers (but they are more like troop carriers, battleships, depending on how you want to classify them) with 2 more aircraft carriers on the way.
the folks that run these websites arent helping. hn and any of these organizations gaslighting legitimate concerns are complicit in the anger buildup

hn is actively censoring posts
Inflation is also positive for those in large amounts of debt since their debt is “worth less”.
Understanding why something is happening is essential to deciding what, if anything to do about it. If your customer can't access your site due to a momentary network glitch, i.e. a transient issue, then you're not going to worry about it much. If many of your customers can't access your site and you've determined the network is fine, then you're going to look into doing something about it. So it's not just "explaining away" inflation. The Central Banks are keenly interested in whether this is a transient issue not warranting action or whether this is something for which they need to take action.
On Postgres, yes.

I wouldn't count on every DBMS correctly implement the standard. Specifically, I would expect Oracle to have some crazy concept of "closed" on specific contexts that don't align with anybody's.

Anyway, in my opinion it shouldn't be used because the boundaries are both closed, and that's an incredibly bad choice. Even when it doesn't matter you have to go and confirm it doesn't matter.
The housing market dynamic has been (not enough) building for decades.
> couple of $1200 checks

100s of millions of checks, amounting to trillions of dollars. This is economics 101 that directly printing the money increases inflation. These kind of money accumulates in the hands of few and the market had been quick to act on concentrating the $1200 checks.
It’s only Me/Vista/8 that people didn’t like.

Me was just a buggy piece of trash, maybe it would have gotten fixed, but XP was around the corner. Speaking purely from personal experience—had a desktop running Me, it’s the only time I ever saw Explorer crash.

Vista’s actually a decent Windows. The changes to security that broke a bunch of apps and made pop-ups everywhere stuck around, they just got polished a bit in later Windows, it would have been fine if Vista had a longer life.

Windows 8 had the Metro UI and introduced a ton of misguided changes around the assumption that people will be using touch—changes which were often half-implemented at best, so even if you had a touchscreen (I developed for these), you had to constantly switch between the Metro and desktop interfaces. A lot of those changes got unwound in 8.1 and 10.

IMO the bad ones are Me and 8. Anything that fixed 8’s problems would have gotten a new version number.
This is actually a big part of Modern Monetary theory: From the wikipedia page

...the primary risk once the economy reaches full
employment is inflation, which can be addressed by
gathering taxes...
> I don't get why now they are calling it Windows 11?

It could just be a coincidence that macOS went from being version 10 to 11 last year, but it could very well not be.
Sorry, I clicked on wrong tab, when responding.

It was a sane choice, to use local timezone for dates, in the past, but it's no longer a sane choice in today's world, because a database can be at another continent, while users can be all around the world.

«Timestamp» is somewhat different from «date». Timestamps can be represented by different dates in different time zones or different chronicle. «Local timestamps» with time zone are prone to error when time zone shifts.
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The typical driver has no idea what a safe speed feels like. They routinely travel beyond the safe speed for a given environment. Charitably, they are unaware of the connection between their actions and the increased risk to pedestrians and cyclists. Uncharitably, they just don't care.

For example, did you know that the risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a moving vehicle is about 25% at 23 MPH but jumps all the way to 75% at 39 MPH. Do the people who routinely travel down my street at or near 40 MPH know this? They do not behave like they know this. They behave like they think 39 MPH is more or less the same as 23 MPH. They behave like they aren't aware of the non-linear increase in risk to everyone around them (because they aren't and they're operating climate-controlled machines that are designed to abstract away the environment outside the car).

Not to mention just how goddamn unpleasant it is to be around cars driving that fast on residential streets, even if they never hit anyone. It's loud, aggressive, and just downright uncomfortable for everyone not also in a car.
Skepticism of medical practice isn't a stupid Steve-Jobs-like trust in woo over science. It's getting multiple opinions, reading the underlying papers, asking "does this explanation make sense?", and checking for obvious mistakes --- as medicine, like any other human endeavor, is full of human error.

Plenty of people have found cures for their medical problems only after they kept doggedly pressing medical people for things that made sense and actually worked for them. Something didn't seem right to them, and they pulled and pulled at threads to find out what it was. You don't need a medical degree to do that: you just need a brain.

It's gravely concerning to see hostility directed at people who tell others to think for themselves, question experts, and adopt a general attitude of informed skepticism. Too many people get genuinely offended when you indicate that you're going to do your own thinking and not just follow "experts". They bring out cliches like "experts are experts for a reason" and "look at this one guy who did something stupid" and neglect, or even suppress, the idea that we at all, each and every one of us, scientists of our lives and competent to make our own decisions and form our own opinions.
No bank can operate on the international market without USD. Therefore the US can impose any regulation it wants on those banks. Look at the two largest banks in Switzerland. UBS and Credit Suisse both use the USD as their primary currency. Not much Switzerland left in those two banks other than their location.
No one is saying inflation is not happening, they're saying hold off on taking action to address this particular type of inflation.

It's like if you have a tumor, but it's not cancerous, then there is no reason to prescribe anti-cancer medication. Of course it's still a tumor, but understanding why that tumor exists determines whether and how you deal with it.
> The Tether fraud has inflated BTC far more than 5.4% in the last year.

Tether is a concern. What happens to BTC when (not if) it blows up is unclear, there is a whole spectrum of opinion on the topic. It will certainly create huge ripples in the BTCUSD curve. I personally believe Tether's implosion will be a very good thing for Bitcoin if you have a long term horizon.

With regard to "inflating BTC", I'm not sure I understand why it's a bad thing.
Because Amazon offers logistics in exchange for (allegedly) a reasonable fee, not for "steal my trade secrets and undermine my business"