skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimpflation is one problem with CPI -- falling under the umbrella of somewhat arbitrary hedonic adjustments. But the main problem is more fundamental.

CPI is calculated by surveying what a bunch of median Americans bought, and weights it by HOW MUCH OF IT they bought. For example, the weight of gasoline oscillated ~100% from its low from 2003-2007 because oil prices increased significantly during this time (median Americans drove less/bought more fuel efficient cars). And therein lies the problem. If you poll the median, and the median tends to spend all of their money (just reallocating it according to priorities), what you are really measuring is the median household budget. Which is why any chart of "real wages" is a flat line, which is obviously not accurate.

So CPI is a load of crap. Real inflation over the last 40 years has probably averaged closer to 3% (see the Big Mac index) than the <2% quoted by bureaucrats and politicians. To improve it, they could look at the 1000 highest volume items in the economy and measure changes in prices of those. Many of those are raw materials, so this would make hedonic adjustments a bit easier, too.
You missed the part where they described the root issue:

> Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenters.

Their config server ran out of sockets and screwed up everything. Or something like that. Too many servers = nothing works has many ways to unfold and isn't obvious the first time.
As much as I hate the copyright model used by the scientific journals, they do have a valid raison-d-etre. It's about prioritization due to limited capacity. If you artificially limit the number of published articles to X per month, you are forced to pick X best ones (according to whichever metric you choose). If you just publish anything that gets a decent peer review score, you'll get voting rings, generated articles, and all sorts of junk.

Has anybody noticed how the quality of journalism plummeted with the transition from physical copies (that had an implied limit on the number of articles) to the online "portals" (that are incentivized to churn out as much clickbait as possible)?

That said, the financial streams should go the other way. Pay a non-refundable fee to get considered for publishing, but otherwise if it's a tax-funded research, it must be public domain.
I worked at a place with a few thousand servers.

Because the business had been around for a while, there was two separate ways to deploy and manage apps: old and new.

We reconfigured how code was deployed within and between racks for increase resistance to racks or even whole colos dying. This change was made in the new deployment system. And all was well for most of a year. Software and services gradually migrated from old to new as people had the time and inclination.

The new deployment also packed services more tightly, so most computers kept copies of most binaries on them.

Then we crossed one of those tipping points. On a code update, several thousand servers across the world demanded a small set of binaries from a distributed data node via the newer deployment method. Which would be fine, except we had degraded service from a couple TOR routers due to a separate bug. And so the distributed data nodes hosting this particular set of binaries were less "distributed" and more "just one poor about to be overloaded machine and network."

So a few thousand machines demanded a couple hundred megs nearly simultaneously. And when they didn't get it in a timely fashion, all triggered a rollback. Simultaneously. Which demanded another couple hundred mb of code. Simultaneously. And then the freakouts started.

And because other deploys were in flight, there was more than one service deploy ongoing. And they all started fighting each other for bandwidth.
What happens when the 1000 highest volume items change under your proposal?
tim cook was obviously lying in that instance, as is shown by the amount of heavy metals he personally has coaxed out of the ground in pursuit of plausible deniability, oh no i meant, planned obsolescence and the apple app store tax.
That high percentage doesn’t mean they do or do not respect the community.

Saying this as someone who doesn’t know much about Roblox but does give 15-30% to Apple and Google. Google definitely doesn’t respect their developers. Apple kind of does.
In the larger companies, you do have janitorial staff that actually does most of the cleaning and other upkeep, but the employees still don’t want to embarrass themselves in front of their co-workers. If the janitorial staff doesn’t respond quickly enough, then the situation can rapidly deteriorate.

I was always quick to call them if I spotted anything amiss, and I made sure to always thank them if I saw them in person.

But maybe that’s just me.
Why are these things not mutually exclusive?
> That comparatively freer markets make people better off in the real world is an empirical observation, and doesn't rely on theorems.

It's not empirically true in all cases; lemon laws are broadly in the same category as what I'm advocating, and empirically make people better off.

> Eh, there's a simple fix that people intuitively implement already: trust brands more that have been around longer.

> Assume the delay between the review being written and you buying stuff is eg a quarter of a year. Then, simplified, someone who goes only for brands that have been around for at least ten years only runs at most a 1 in 40 chance of getting duped like this.

That's a lot less practical now than it used to be; the pace of innovation is higher, which is good, but has brought a lot of churn and it's hard for reviewers to keep up.
Pretty sure it's been admitted that many programs viable because of the Patriot Act have stopped absolutely zero terrorist attacks and have indeed completely infringed upon your freedoms.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/nsa-phone-surveillance-illeg...
Although that PSN downtime probably fails into a different category as it was a response to being hacked. Sony intentionally took the service down and kept it down to investigate and fix their security holes. Basically the equivalent of temporarily closing a brick and mortar store after a robbery compared to being involuntarily closed because no one could find the right set of keys to unlock the store's front door.
You can get aeskulap on Linux. It's not anything that would be usable by a radiologist, but I've used it on occasion to look at some images.
Pareto law effects on the consumption of drugs, and network effects that result from the fact that the majority of street level dealers are doing it for the sole purpose of supporting their habit? No life ruining class A felony is worth the money you get selling drugs, but people do it it all the time because they are sick with a disease and feel they must.

New people will still be introduced to drugs, but there are definitely network effects in opiate addiction that can be mitigated when supply is transferred from an illegal source that requires people to organize and recruit new users with cash, to one that is organized and paid for by the government.

It's not perfect, but even decriminalization has had a pretty remarkable effect on Portugal, at least that's what the latest studies are saying.
> performance tuning, re-configuration, and scaling back of some load.

That seems to be a great thing if you can sit at the edge and scale the number of connections coming in. I just wish our system could do that.
Same thing they do with the current system. Normalize and replace, and don't expect much of a shock from relatively low volume items breaking in and out of the 900-1000 rank.
Both Tesla and Amazon have never payed out a dividend even though they have had profitable quarters. Plenty other companies have never even had a profitable quarter. Yet the stock price keeps going up.
I've been getting recruiting emails from Roblox recently.... Maybe they really do need my help.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but over the long run it does very little to protect the person who's working next to you.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Where nuclear stands for nucleus, atom, not for radiation or radioactive decay... In German language is called "Kernspintomographie", "Kern"=nucleus or nuclear, and people happily use both the word and the device.
The correct behavior for a compiler: whenever an expression contains operators that could be interpreted ambiguously, administer mild electric shocks until the programmer responsible puts in enough parentheses.
Yes, this is driving the massive proliferation of journals that keep spamming me to publish with them. Never heard of the journal, but there is a USD$2400 fee for 'processing'. It's a good business model, particularly if all your staff are in countries with cheap labour.

The people funding science should cap publication related payments to some nominal sum. Whole swarms of predatory journals would instantly die.
and we know the virus is fat shaming the whole population from day one, everyone knows now

there is no use worrying about how blasphemous it is to point that out because its already working - “at risk people” (of obvious risk we shall not name) are sheltering in place as if it was March 2020 - at least in my part of the US

you can just talk to people online and tell there is a wide gulf of what reality is. there are people that have no idea that the worlds been opened up for most of the year and that gigantic hundred thousand+ music festivals are occurring

have you been to a big event? its all lean young people

it doesnt have to be said, its working on its own as people always had a choice to shelter without government instruction, government has helped lessened the consequence of that choice with subsidies

at this point there is only a marginal utility in public policy adjusting to say “yeah only fat people and diabetics and hypertensioned should or should have followed these lockdown procedures while the rest of society never needed to”. Theres no point now. There would have been some theoretically optimal way for the economy to not disrupt but thats a moot point now. No official is ever going to say “oh whoops”, there is just maybe going to be some obscure paper modeling an optimal mitigation measure that never was.
Then it doesn't map with the present scenario. Because none of these companies have ever payed out a dividend and voting power is almost non existent too.
although i do love watching those fancy hydrofoil boats out on the bay
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That’s not how it really works in many fields. Most of CS doesn’t care about journals, just conferences, and physics and other hard sciences rely primarily on the arXiv. Meritocracy survives just fine without journals.
Let's reserve this level of vitriol for medical systems or powerplants, shall we?
> In seriousness, the whole point of vaccination is public health, which means you're not doing it just for yourself but the person who's working next to you.

9/23/2021: 99.7% of Waterford adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40704104.html

10/11/2021: Waterford Now Has Highest Incidence of Covid in Ireland https://waterford-news.ie/2021/10/11/waterford-now-has-highe...

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

Covid cases hit records in South Korea and Singapore despite widespread vaccinations https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/covid-cases-hit-rec...

Chile sees Covid surge despite vaccination success https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56731801

World's Most Vaccinated Nation Is Spooked by Covid Spike https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/business/economy/covid-se...

Vermont sees the biggest surge in COVID cases despite having the country's highest vaccination rate https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/vermont-covid-cases-vaccinati...

Iceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/iceland-covid-su...

Nearly 60% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Israel fully vaccinated, data shows https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/nearly-6...

Virus surge hits New England despite high vaccination rates https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pande...
That's right! in 2011 they switched the formulation of OxyContin. The opiate crisis didn't start then, but it got a whole lot worse!

The Sackler decision had a pretty big effect on me. It's hard not to grow up when I did, lose people you know to the opiate crisis, and not feel a deep sense of unfairness and wrong when the people responsible for so much suffering stay out of jail with a million dollars.

As much as you can blame them for that one act, it's the iron law of drug prohibition at play: Meth becomes Crystal, and opiates become more concentrated. Easier to smuggle, better profit margins, it really only goes one direction: the drugs get more potent every year prohibition is in effect.
The point is that both can be required. You can have the most sophisticated user emulating browser, bit if all you have access to run it on are low quality IPs that have been blocked or that are often used for abuse, you won't get far. You can have residential IPs and if you're just wrapping curl, you also might find you're blocked.

Together, there's little to detect different than a regular user. The reason why the residential IPs is given heavy importance though is that it's the one part that costs a lot of money if you need enough of them you need to use a proxy service and you transfer a lot of data. Entry level pricing is over $15/GB for high quality services.
Both Tesla and Amazon have never payed out a dividend. If profitable companies are not giving any money how can I expect unprofitable ones to give me money in the future?
First a redirect loop

Now, a header image that takes up my entire 15" laptop screen before I can even see the title of the blog post. Impressive

https://imgur.com/256LkYb
looks familiar to me also. was roblox also hacked?
I recently deleted facebook. I hadn't actively used the platform in years, but actually deleting it was a difficult decision because there's some people I interact with using Facebook (but don't care enough about to connect through other means). I get invited to parties through facebook. I invite people to parties through facebook.

The network effect is part of the drug. I know it's bad for me. I know it's bad for society. That provided the push for me to delete it, but it didn't make it less painful.

I still have instagram, for similar reasons as to why I had facebook. It's going to be difficult to delete that for the same reason, especially since I still somewhat actively use the product itself.

Like drugs, it's easier for some people to quit than others. You shouldn't lessen other people's experiences and assume that everyone can quit as easily as you.

Most people aren't advocating for Facebook to be illegal, but want some of their practices to be illegal. Yes, this should also apply to Youtube, Twitter, etc. My feeling is that the recommendation systems should be removed, and that they should only be allowed to show you content you've explicitly subscribed to.

Facebook is the whipping boy because they've expanded knowing they're doing harm, having internal research that shows they're doing harm, and ignoring the consequences. Twitter is as much to blame for Trump as Facebook. Youtube is as to blame for QAnon as Facebook. All of them have algorithms that make people more politically extreme.
> Anyways, I plan to eventually open source it. There's a lot of stuff in the code I want to clean up (things like setting up the build environment, some of the uglier hacks, etc.) before I feel comfortable releasing it to the public

I hate seeing this. We all write some ugly hacks. Just release it and work on it in public, it's fine.
Entirely serious question; is this intended to work over text? It might just be me, but seeing the same text highly visible in two comments by two people makes it stick out in an awkward way.
Pro-Environmental Behavior
> IOCCC entries will absolutely become more fun though.

IOCCC doesn't allow unescaped octets with high bit set [1], so even that's no go.

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2020/rules.txt (rule 13)
Yep bash is not a real language.

If anything you are saying it should be deprecated in place for a real language. If people want to do more advanced things why does the basic language of their shell not support it? Why should you not care about the correctness of your shell scripts which can run important things? Seems a perfect place for a functional language. It’s high level, you can just declare what you want. I imagine your interpreter can add in all sorts of checks to help make your scripting more correct.
I'm going to buck the trend of most responses and say that we don't fully know. Some good obvious guesses, but a very hard field to study, all told.

I say this as someone that was gaining weight while biking twenty miles a day. Easy to chalk it up to previous years over eating. But I don't do most fast food that we love to demonize.
And put higher demand on housing, inflating home and rental prices even further?
That's hard to believe, we essentialy won the war on terror

here's a real report not a political charged blog: https://www.justice.gov/archive/olp/pdf/patriot_report_from_...
Here is an example, open it in an appropriate editor (vi) and you can see how easy it is to 'exploit' (if you can call it that?).

https://github.com/nickboucher/trojan-source/blob/main/JavaS...

Seams like a layer 8 problem?
The top comment thread from the last time this was posted[1] pretty succinctly explains why the premise of the article is wrong.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025386
I'm not an economist. I am a consumer, though. And I'm older, so I have 'habits' that don't tend to change.

My rent has gone up 30%. What used to cost me 100 something in groceries now regularly goes into the 200s.

I'm nothing if not an observationalist, but this CPI is horse dung.

For someone like my family, I wouldn't believe any number less than 20%.

The sad thing is, I've never talked to a single friend or family member that said otherwise.

So what is the government reporting?
It's easy to criticize BMI as a metric, and it's certainly not perfect, but for research and public health purposes it's good enough.

The real COVID-19 risk isn't from BMI or even obesity in general, but specifically from excess visceral fat.

https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(20)3030...

However measuring visceral fat is slow and expensive since it requires something like a DXA scan. We don't have enough equipment to scan everyone. So we usually rely on BMI as a proxy.
Tech people love to talk about how everyone in the world at all times are living tech lives, forgetting all the people that have a balanced relationship with technology and place value on real world experiences.

I am someone who has had an imbalanced relationship with technology and am becoming happier and healthier limiting my engagement and placing focus on real world relationships, activities and experiences over virtual ones. It will be a veeeeeery long time until VR can simulate the sensory experience of eating a good meal, and even then such an experience would have little benefit over the real thing. Perhaps letting someone who medically has no sense of taste experience a simulacrum of the pleasure is a worth aspiration, but saying the virtual world will become more meaningful than the real one is in my view dystopian at best. I am thoroughly hoping for a tech backlash and focus on real world community and friendships.
Why does an article titled...

"WORLD PREMIERE The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images!"

... have only a single (crappy) image. Sigh.
A few more:

Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v...

Covid-19: Fully vaccinated people can carry as much delta virus as unvaccinated people, data indicate https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2074

No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v...
Merriam-Webster added 455 new words to the dictionary, here are the oddest ones
Overweight people put a huge strain on the healthcare system, maybe 30% of the entire health expenditure in the USA can be attributed to obesity. Which creates shortages and drives up costs for others who need it.

So yes, overweight people should be banned from civil society (and certainly restaurants) because the risk of them catching covid and causing even more strain on the healthcare system would be very bad even if they are vaccinated. Not until they get low risk and effective gastric bypass surgery at least. It's for the greater good.

That is to say, I don't believe such a horrific, dystopian, nasty, bullying attitude as this, but I can see how people who believe the unvaccinated should be given the same treatment for the alleged greater good would also think this about overweight people if they were to be logically consistent in their positions.
>But it seems like the sunsetting of those sections received very very little coverage

Because the left didn't want to bring attention to something good that Trump did, and neither did the neocons on the right. Only the libertarian wing of the right and the privacy advocate wing of the left cared to talk about it.
Works fine on Windows. Linux only makes up 3% of Firefox users so it's no surprise they haven't prioritized it.
I think it happens all the time. There just aren't that many services, relatively speaking, that you'd hear about when this happens. The more-popular services (that you'd hear about) probably already have a bias toward having their stuff better in order, since it's often also really just a matter of making the right investments.
Great link. I read it. The body of work is not conclusive. Yes we need boosters, according to the CDC so I guess that makes sense.

But, have you heard of herd immunity?
Sorry, I caught your comment only a few days later. What do you mean by "infinite number of irrationals"? We are talking about a deterministic machine here, so surely it describes only one number?
What makes it funny is that the two people at the table are laughing themselves silly as the description goes on. The unfolding disaster as it is told is all too real.

They talk about Machine Learning, so you’d think this is relatively recent stuff. But the video is 4x3 format, and looks like it’s pretty old NTSC style broadcast TV, so might be from the 80s or 90s. And I don’t think we had ML back then, did we?