skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coding editors also often show this kind of thing intentionally, as those characters are meaningful for interpretation purposes. Many of them are very UTF friendly, but they still show zero-width spaces as e.g. "<zwsp>" on purpose.

They've also often shown non-printable ASCII control characters for basically forever. Null bytes and \bel and whatnot are very important despite being "invisible", and they've been around for decades.
I would much rather have an old fashioned dumb tv than a spying, adverising injecting, sluggish smart tv with crappy apps that never get updated. So the hedonic adjustment should definitely be negative.
This makes me wonder about competition. Theoretically if there's competition, one food provider could offer food for the old price, or halfway in between and attract all the consumers and make extra money from the additional business.
My favorite part was when he knee-jerk reacted to the towers being bombed by invading 2 countries that we knew had nothing to do with it.
Imagine someone comes along and insists that your native language is discriminative on something totally innocuous. Like, say, “a” vs “the”. Dunno, because you can make some nouns special this way. It lets you say “the man” and “a woman” which shows, allegedly, disrespect to one of the genders. You must integrate them into one “tha”. Never mind you lose a key mechanism for expression: surely, you’re not sexist, are you?

You may find it a bit silly or ridiculous, but perhaps, like other people, you may find the very suggestion offensive: that unless you put an axe to the language you speak, according to someone’s half-baked ideas, you’re a bigoted misogynist.

Languages evolve, we change bits to better fit the zeitgeist and that’s normal. But these “though shalt change your language because I say so and I know better” wars are ridiculous.
That's true although if you're spending all of your income on debt service and basic living costs, then reducing the real value of the nominal of your debt doesn't in fact increase your standard of living at all. Theoretically you're better off, but all of your income still goes on debt service and basic living costs. The basic living costs have gone up in nominal terms while the debt service is still the same. It's depreciated in real value but the nominal is still the same.
If you want to see or hear what this language sounds like I can highly recommend this website: https://www.jw.org/wes-x-pgw/

There are other Pidgin versions on there as well by the way.
I'm not a native speaker. The article regularly mentions 'the Git porcelain', or just 'the porcelain', what is meant by this? Do they mean it's fragile or something?
Everything is relative, a $(true) is on the order of 0.1 milliseconds. If this makes something ridiculously slow, you may be implementing a too big part of your work in bash!
Yet HR1 is still seen as the godsend of voting rights under the same assumption.

Bills imo shouldn't be able to be named something akin to propaganda for smear campaigns
> one of my frustrations with visiting hacker news are these threads on non-tech topics

Then you proceed to learn about CPI in detail for the first time, and use your incomplete understanding to refute mine.

I've been down the rabbit-hole on CPI and learned a lot (partially from someone else on HN, who also probably wasn't an economist). The Wikipedia page is pretty thorough for US CPI [0]. The high-level idea is pretty simple, and seems reasonable.

The problem is the survey itself [1]. The people contributing to the survey are one segment of Americans, not America as a whole. They are the middle class. Those are the 65% of people who actually fill out the forms and mail them back. And those forms are a lot of work, so accuracy is a whole other issue (Visa would probably be better equipped than the BLS to determine inflation). And if wealth inequality increases and inflation also increases (but money is moving into items that the middle class no longer can afford), that will not be reflected in the survey. The opposite is also true, but wealth inequality hasn't decreased much during the CPI's history. If wealth inequality remains constant, I would say CPI is not a "load of crap." Hyperbole, sure. But when so much is at stake, its nontrivial shortcomings do demand a bit of emphasis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_I...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Expenditure_Survey
An interesting point raised in the NPR piece is that sometimes your basket stays the same at the same price, but the content is actually inferior in subtle and not so subtle ways.

My personal observation on the snacks I buy: they are the same volume and taste mostly the same, but the ingredients shifted over time, in particular relating to flavor (e.g. less sugar and more "sugary stuff")

BTW In parallel they introduced "rich" versions that are more "luxury", clearly distinct from the standard product, and contain better ingredients overall. I'd expect a number of people to have switched to the pricer version, even if they were really seeking the "old" standard version.
This is because labor is much more expensive than food. So the cost of a $15 meal is maybe $5 food. If you make the meal 20% larger and charge 10% more for it, you do it, since then your costs go up by $1 but your revenue goes by $1.50. That process ends up in huge portions as people think they are getting a 20% more value for 20% more food (which they are) and so you may even sell more of the 20% bigger $16.50 meal.

As with anything else, to get smaller meals the food/wage price ratio needs to be larger. Food in America is absurdly cheap compared to most other nations.
Is the effect really that significant? A cursory Google search suggests not. [1] Either way I don't see most Americans getting jacked any time soon.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-may-16-la-he-fitn...
Five Steps to Reduce SRE Toil and Add More Value
I think service discovery is typically related to e.g., request routing in a way that DNS isn't. DNS could probably replace a lot of the ways service discovery is used today, but it would be a very non-typical setup, which is arguably worse than the custom things people use for it today.
any resources or tutorials that were very helpful for you ? would love to get in on that.
Why is bidirectionality handled when text is being rendered onto the screen, instead of when it's being input from the keyboard? Why not render every single character in LTR order, and have RTL support instead be handled by text input fields moving the cursor in the opposite direction after each RTL character is typed? (I know it's too late to change this now. I'm asking why we didn't do it this way from the beginning.)
> For someone like my family, I wouldn't believe any number less than 20%.

For that to be true, on average the price of every single item in your groceries list has to increase over 20%.

Can you provide a single example of an item in your groceries list whose price increased over 20% during 2021? And which item increased in price the most?
The criticism I’ve read of ShadowStats is that they don’t actually recompute inflation using different methodology—they just add a constant of their own choosing to all the official inflation figures.
Isn't that basically the status quo from Apple and Google as well? Not to mention Steam. 30% feels high but at least for Roblox they built the game, I feel like that's much more justified than Google and Apple where they're just collecting a huge chunk because they have a captive market. With Roblox's ecosystem it doesn't feel quite as usurious as Google or Apple doing it on their app stores.
Terrific, thank you!

TIL that Cannada has its own writing script!

abg n glcb.
Wolfram also streams on twitch and sometimes has open design review sessions of new features in his software
> Literally billions of people already took vaccines for covid

It's got to be billions of people + 5..10 years wait (and all the death caused in the meantime) to satisfy them.
The more you supress something - the stronger it becomes.

I suggest you tackle the source of the issue, not the surface manifestations.

May be you have some limiting beliefs so deep that you don’t even realize them, maybe you have some level of narcissistic personality etc.

Good therapist and some degree of deep self inquiry might help.
>What then was lockdown and mass vaccination for, if not to reduce spread?

To reduce death and serious illness.
If the only branch you have is master/trunk then maybe.

But as soon as you have multiple maintenance/feature branches I find git superior to SVN by orders of magnitude even for solo development.

Merge that usually just works, can be easily aborted, rebase, cherry-pick ...

Also having a local copy results in much nicer history, especially when combined with rebase.
Just tell them if they don’t find anyone in x months you wouldn’t mind rejoining. I don’t see why they would say no to that, unless they want to get rid of you.
You can spin off negativity into positivity if you frame it as opportunities and potential for improvement.
The taliban are the legitimate government of Afghanistan and were never terrorists. Ironically, the United States seems to love shipping in terrorists to destabilize afghanistan.
How to Own the World by Andrew Craig explains this in the inflation chapter.
Changelog – https://github.blog/changelog/2021-10-31-warning-about-bidir...
> Alan Cole first woke up to what we're calling skimpflation this summer.

What? Everything the article mentions became noticeable a year ago, sometime in July of 2020.
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You felt compelled to speak out in their defense, but your choice of comparisons and rhetoric is precisely why I felt compelled to clarify as well and what made me raise an eyebrow on the logic in it. That is to say I think you chose your example, and to make it in a intentionally hyperbolic way with things like "banned from civil society" and "horrific, dystopian, nasty, bullying" because you saw that it would make the most emotional impact to compare to your acquaintances' situation, but that's precisely where I felt it was becoming absurd.

Having just now re-confirmed that levels of nasal virus drop faster in vaccinated people to make sure I'm not being illogical, the creation of laws that allow businesses, schools, and others to legally stop you from entering isn't "horrific, dystopian, nasty, bullying" the way you characterize it at all, like banning obese people due to their burden on healthcare costs would be.

To me, it really does come off as a trying to point out the issues with mandates by drawing it to the absurd conclusion of excluding overweight people from society. So hopefully that clears up why I saw it that way, but maybe I'm incorrect definitionally.

There are always going to be mandates or policies that conflict with what parents, or people in general want to do. To me that doesn't make it nasty or bullying, though they may feel horribly bullied if it affects them. If anything I'd say those feelings (and most examples of nasty bullying I've seen) extend from the acts of anti-science politicization of masks and vaccines, which in my opinion is a great disservice to the public. We now people who now feel like nasty bullies are creating new mandates in a nasty dystopian nightmare world, which I think is extremely unfortunate.
I need a really really compelling why book

Only your own life can be that book, you just have to re-read it and see where it went wrong, by your own standards. It’s very good that you’re not humble and can draw clear lines (afaiu), but along with that you have to check flaws in your reasoning and only draw lines where you can see the canvas clearly.

professionals can figure it out for me

A smart move, but be careful to not “outsource” it to them. You are the decision maker, because you are the one responsible (as in “will experience all of the consequences”). They will just go home and eat their dinner.
Too late, fuck Oracle.
Still waiting on Saudi Arabia invasion (not that I believe that would be the proper answer either, but still).
Seth Lochen on ownership,bystander effect,plat eng,and frogs in boiling water
Git is split into two parts: the plumbing, and the porcelain. It's a toilet metaphor. You don't directly work with the plumbing unless you really know what you're doing.
>>That includes a rise in wages.

That's not how it works either.

When the price of fuel increases, the cost to send a worker from point A to point B increases. However the worker salaries don't change all that much, or at-least not uniformly.
Also,

> fatties

Come on. What is this, primary school?
Because the page source is more annoying, thanks to thinks like Vue and React, which generate the DOM on the browser, rather than building an actual web page on the server.

Take Twitter for example. The elements don't exist until the page loads, and none of the classes have any useful meaning, which makes user styles impossible, and user scripts need to rely on a DOM observer or a timer to find attributes or (even more often) element text to locate some elements to hide or modify.
It includes food and housing/shelter.

But it's important to distinguish between a house and housing.

A house is a capital good that provides housing/shelter. So if the prices of houses got really expensive but rent stayed the same that wouldn't show up as inflation.
It’s jargon. There are two layers of cli commands in Git. One - user friendly like “git commit”, that does abstract things like commits, diffs, etc. It is called “porcelain”. Another level is low level commands. They are used by “porcelain” level commands to actually manipulate Git’s database. They allow to create objects, change objects, cause re-packing, manipulate refs (branches and tags but more than just that), manipulate object types and look inside objects.
The very fact that we call this behavior 'gambling' and approve of it is why I hate capitalism with a burning passion.
This is EXACTLY how mobile proxy companies like Luminati and OxyLabs acquire their ip address pool. They pay devs to embed a lib inside their app.
“Reading Comprehension” by Adrian J. Williams
> even if you don't love a lot

That's a good typo there :)
> The Fed massages the inflation rate by throwing out "extreme" deviations.

The rationale is valid though. Price-conscious consumers would simply switch brands, stores, or even go for substitute goods if the price of a particular product they chose happened to skyrocket for no reason while the price of all other alternatives barely changed.
That Unicode with its extremely large character set would become a solution to any and all character encoding problems in itself was never the case. Usually, for a given document you'll want to declare the subset that's actually in use such that a particular font with necessarily limited coverage can be used to render it. That's what's available for SGML markup documents eg in an SGML declaration, where you can declare and construct a document character set from planes or arbitrary code point ranges, and an SGML parser can verify actual content against that subset.
Ahh, just like greater North Western Taiwan.

Northern Alliance must've been some pretty bad dudes too.

Ironically, if we want to go by your definitions, Afghanistan doesn't exist, therefore nor does a government. It's a construct of the West.

In the reality you're trying to suggest, that entire region exists as a bunch of regional tribes, perhaps more like the Emir(ates). Unfortunately, they are not United.
https://github.com/google/angle

angle have vulkan backend
So I took a weekend off to visit another city just for the heck of it, to figure out how inflation and COVID have impacted the travel industry. I am surprised.

I flew to Mumbai on a low cost airline and stayed at a 5 star property. The rates and service levels are at per-COVID levels. The flight was packed, but expensive compared to pre-COVID levels. The hotel a totally different story. The crowds are marginally thinner. On a Monday morning what would otherwise be a bustling morning at one of the flagship hotels in SoBo, there are a handful of guests. Yet the service levels are top notch, food is fabulous.

So I guess companies that are hard pressed to show profits at any expense are skimping on stuff to show profits but there are others who are not sacrificing service and quality levels for profits. Though the latter are far and few.

My reading is that, sadly the skimping will continue for a long long time. Once companies discover a new path to profitability, it’s very hard for them to give up on that unless there are several market and demand forces which act against the skimping. For instance, volume. Once volume picks up, there will be no option to but get rid of the skimping in order to save time. But volume picking up is a huge if. I doubt the travel and leisure volumes will ever reach pre-pandemic levels.
Can we separate being endurance sports from being sports that can be practiced individually? E.g. I'd say climbing is not really an endurance sport but attracts a lot of the same kind of people (money-rich but time-poor, frequent travellers, ...).
Five-P factors for root cause analysis
Why didn't they do that before the pandemic?
Unvaccinated people per se don't create hospital shortages either.

> You can argue that obesity is a huge expense overall but it's a predictable and manageable one.

I can argue that it is a huge expense that costs society and impacts service to others, and may absolutely contribute to shortages, and therefore is a fine analogy to use when exploring the merits of the covid response.
My thesis is that it just takes certain optimism, perservence and luck to suceed massively.
The most succesful polish startup founder (Booksy) is guy who after 6 months of training ran 5x maraton in desert (he thought it would be just single one but continued anyway).

I also know some milioneres and they either don't care much and drop work on others or care and also do sports to unload. Those who don't are usually fat (eating from stess). This is my anecdotal experience.

IMO first strat is best as luck is dominating factor anyway.
We need more in the way of peer-to-peer and/or switchable USB (though I'm not quite sure how charging/power switching should work.) I remember reading about how to get USB to work peer-to-peer (e.g. like a simple bidirectional serial or ethernet cable) but practically it seems very hard.

Perhaps USB-C can do it as you suggest?
I think you're confused about why some unvaccinated people are being fired. It's not to be mean to them, it's to get them away from customers and employees so they don't pass it on and cause another shutdown. We've had fat people in the US for hundreds of years, and they still haven't caused a national shutdown.
What about things that don't really have a replacement like housing, medical insurance, child care costs etc?
Everybody is (rightfully) addressing the article and the current status, which seems to be: inflation has risen.

Now, let’s discuss possible scenarios. Do you think they’d do a shock measure to reduce monetary offer and reduce inflation, highly raising interest rates?
Or it’d be more gradual and we have to get used to live with inflation for the next ~5 years?
"Would now be a good time for a colorful metaphor?"
Sadly, it's a moving target. After a number of months VE against infection falls off a cliff. VE against severe infection has decreased some 10%, but has not fell off a cliff. I don't know what the future will bring, I'm keeping a nervous eye on the situation. That Israel and FDA/CDC are clearly pushing for boosters is definitely not helping increase the confidence. They are in a much better position to glimpse at the future, and have decided for reasons they are not candidly sharing with the public that the vaccines as-is are not sufficient.
-r makes it pass all control characters to the terminal. To quote less's man page:

> Warning: when the -r option is used, less cannot keep track of the actual appearance of the screen (since this depends on how the screen responds to each type of control character).

This is not the same as actually supporting (i.e. being able to keep track of the screen state for) bidirectional text that may legitimately use those characters.

For that matter, the terminal may not support it either, as I mentioned.

Though, today I learned there has been some effort in recent years to improve bidirectional text handling in terminals and terminal applications, generally:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dn8uka/bidirectional...
> include revenue-generating spyware

Is this what you believe happened with Wacom in this case? How could these tracking points be converted into revenue?

Personally I think this was a good case of "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice", but maybe my imagination is just insufficient.
You'd actually need to make more like 125k to maintain a 100k standard of living through a 20% inflation event since you're taxed on the "extra" income.
The cognitive dissonance your comment created reaped undeserved downvotes. It's a legitimate concern: massive amounts of money fund these ventures and massive amounts of money in turn get guaranteed to the concerns which funded the ventures. The efficacy of the procedure is irrelevant: this is clearly corruption at a massive scale with perverse incentives which guarantee it repeats itself.
> If batteries fill the need we can ramp up production of batteries.

No we can't. Not in the amounts required. We're not talking about 100kW Tesla batteries.

> There are multiple utility scale competing battery technologies becoming quite mature

You mean, there are multiple competing battery technologies that are barely at the theoretical level with multiple significant challenges and no implementations beyond theoretical or impractical for the use case in question.

Flow batteries: low energy density, requires large tanks to be anywhere useful. Low charge and discharge rates, so are not practical for load following applications

Iron-air: only theoretical so far with first small plant potentially in operation by 2023, and its efficiency is yet to be seen (so far it's mostly marketing materials and hype).

> t’s almost certainly easier and faster to scale battery tech than it has been nuclear.

Ah yes, it's certainly easier to scale non-existent and non-scalable tech.
Brightdata is formerly known as as Luminati who is owned by same company as Hola VPN.

Similarly NordVPN owns Oxylabs (who mostly hack routers and cameras and sell those as residential IP’s).
There is this immense pressure if your code isn’t perfect it will have negative side effects for your career when open sourcing it. So understandably people choose not to.
I don't believe it does, and I think it's a fine analogy. I don't see why confirming levels of nasal virus dropping faster in vaccinated people would have anything to do with it. The actual question is the wide scale, end to end cost benefit analysis of all this and whether it justifies medical coercion.

I've never seen anywhere that case has been made, certainly not made in a comprehensive and compelling way that you couldn't reasonably disagree with.
Frankly I’m disappointed you didn’t call me a “sheeple,” but I’ll let it go because I’m excited to meet the one person in the United States who still must like Dick Cheney. Hi!

(Or are you referring to the person I replied to…?)
They hack IP cams and routers too…
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A reference to Duke, the Java mascot.