skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a separate report, the Labor Department said real wages after inflation fell 0.5% from September to October, the product of a 0.4% increase in average hourly earnings that was more than offset by the CPI surge.

This is the thing to watch. Inflation beaten by wage increases is sustainable. Inflation not beaten by wage increases ends with higher prices being rejected and a recession at least.

Given the hyper-inflated nature of just about every asset, including housing, far worse is on deck.

> Escalating inflation could cause the Fed to tighten policy more quickly than it has indicated. The central bank has indicated that it will within the next few weeks start reducing the amount of bonds it buys each month, though officials have indicated that interest rate hikes are still off in the future.

The Fed has been on the transitory bandwagon since the beginning of this mess. The idea that it would act to cause a recession by either tapering or raising rates is hard to believe right now. They will talk the tough talk for now. But they will not walk the tough walk.

Why not? Consider the positions at the Fed that have been vacated. Consider that Powell's term ends soon. There was already a meeting at the White House with Powell and one of his most likely successors. The last thing the administration will tolerate is a recession and asset price collapse at this point.

Also consider the effect of raising interest rates on the precarious US fiscal position. The entire Build Back Better initiative is based on the availability of low interest rates. Raising them means even less money to spend into the economy, not to mention resistance within the Democratic Party.

Bottom line: something is going to break. There will be massive resistance to this idea for a time. Rates will not rise. QE will not be scaled back. Asset and CPI inflation will shoot higher. Consumer prices will be rejected and to stave off the inevitable collapse, still more government transfers ("helicopter money") will be injected.

The result will be something common in third-world countries which follow this playbook with boring regularity, but quite new to the US. But the IMF won't be able to fix this.
Adversarial thoughts that get misclassified into something safe.
The thing about this that always shocks me is that when they calculate prices to then compute inflation they always forget to report on quantities sold.

It's not the case with inflation, but for example with deflation economists are very scared about prices collapsing , but if that's due to a positive supply shock with quantities sold rising then it's a good news which doesn't warrant any correction.

An example is cars. Sure the price of cars maybe is rising slightly compared to the 70s-80s-90s-00s....but you are buying a totally different animal in terms of metal mass, semiconductors mass and so forth.

The term "car" is just not enough to properly describe a vehicle in 2021, because it's the exact same term used in 1970 but the they are not the same thing.
(…Here comes the wizard of…) Just hide those system specific components behind a factory and make sure all components conform to a polymorphic API/contract.

The situation described above, abstracted, happens all the time in software. Littering the code with these system specific conditionals is a pain so encapsulate those system specific concerns in objects/components/whatever-you-call-your-lego-blocks and then use a factory to encapsulate which system specific thing you get.

The trade off is your code is a little harder to understand, but the benefit is now you can design a common ‘core’ and contain the platform specific details in bundles.

That’s ((just)) my two cents!
I see this point made a lot, and people seem to think they are disagreeing when they say it but the fact that some people have abusive parents is the exact same point the poster made.

Kid has rich parents -> has privilege compared with those that have poor parents

Kid has non-abusive parents -> has privilege compared with kids with abusive parents

Has parent with some skill or trait to model -> privileged compared with kids that don't who in turn are privileged compared with kids who model bad behaviour from their parents.

Kid has parents -> privileged compared to those without parents.

There lots of things that make you who you are that you don't immediately consider to be contributing to your relative success in life, that's what the concept of privilege tried to remind people of.
I worked on Maps for a while. The 6000 number must surely include the contractor army that was authoring the maps themselves. Google is a lot bigger than it once was, but when I worked on it there were perhaps "only" 300-500 engineers working on the project. Still an enormous effort. However there were thousands more people in India working around the clock tracing satellite photos and using street view imagery to create in-house maps. So I can believe the raw number.
Congratulations on publishing the game. I do have a giggle on your privacy policy.
A credit card machine! I remember those - you secure the card under a clip, put carbon paper form on top, run a little roller on a track across... I can still hear the sound it made in my head, would recognize it instantly if I heard it across a room. Nostalgia.
It depends on whether you’re displaying real information or not and how stale it is. If you list something which sold out last week because you’ll have more next week, that’s not unreasonable. If it’s something you stopped carrying 6 months ago, that’s sleazy. If you do the thing many booking sites do where it displays fake “n people are looking at this!” and “quantity just dropped to x!” notifications, it’s deeply unethical.
I don't think forum posts require citations, especially when they're correct. This isn't a peer-reviewed paper, it's a forum comment.
> Almost 150,000 calls were made to emergency services from phone boxes in the year to May 2020, while 25,000 calls were made to Childline and 20,000 to Samaritans.

Of course, there’s no way to know which of the boxes that are about to close _would_ have been used to make a call to childline if only it hadn’t been disconnected.

Fuck how much it costs to maintain these, just keep them open.
I think the long term more profitable stance Apple could take is: “sorry it’s broken and it’s not physically possible for the technicians or even our engineers or cryptographers to bypass its security due to the genius impenetrable design. Buy another one” the problem is Apple and all the other major tech companies have been trading back and forth the same people who worked at Facebook and other places that see nothing wrong with compromising the integrity of their product for reasons as dumb as servicing it by a third party.
I believe most of the couriers have ”residence permit for an entrepreneur”. That means you get emergency care but thats about it. As your link states ” Jos olet tullut Suomeen tilapäisesti muualta kuin EU- tai Eta-maasta, Sveitsistä, Isosta-Britanniasta tai Pohjois-Irlannista, sinulla on oikeus vain kiireelliseen sairaanhoitoon. Hoidon kustannukset voidaan laskuttaa sinulta jälkikäteen. ”
Ok, compiled. How do I scale the window?
Security through obscurity does work after all.
A quantum entangled communication system wouldn't have any 'transmission' issues (through mediums, etc), correct?
the main statistic is homocide and the police are not going to let that crime slide or use discretion when arresting for that
I'm pretty sure using PS5 for mining is probably not a profitable approach. Especially with the current shortages and the number of scalpers.
My take is that there are two factors at play here:

* Third party requests from the browser are problematic in general for technical and privacy reasons: it's impossible for the browser to know whether the request is privacy-preserving or not. And they need to be enabled in tooling like CSP. It's much easier not to have any.

* Third-party requests from my server don't give me any more information than I had before. I could store my logs and process them, or I can engage a third-party to aggregate my data for me. Plausible have no way to know that the requests I'm sending aren't entirely fictitious, and I can sleep slightly more soundly knowing that there's one less moving part that I need to maintain myself.
> non-native coders do not take security / compatibility seriously

That's not what I said at all. I don't see how you came to this conclusion.

> With all the problems eliminated by the use of English and ASCII, it would strike me as amateurish to not use English and ASCII wherever possible.

Not everybody speaks english. I've taught programming to quite a few people and they all attempted to use normal characters while writing code. There's absolutely no reason why that shouldn't work. I don't see how characters like ç or ã or ü could possibly cause security issues. Go ahead and ban the invisible unicode stuff but there's absolutely no reason why these common letters shouldn't work.
Amen to that! Sadly, it's easier to persuade the population (and hence squeeze the $$$ out of them) when they are kept docile, unknowing, and unquestioning. Knowledge is power, and they don't want you to have too much.
Really wouldn't surprise me if they figured out a way to do this in an unsupervised way though. (We might be decades from that though who knows.)
I actually was thinking of one of those little devices that talks to your phone over bluetooth when I wrote that, but I actually remember the carbon paper ones too! Used to use one when I worked as a street trader (jewelery stall in a touristy part of town) as a student.
It has been standard in the US for a few years now that the “basic economy” or otherwise cheapest price does not include carry on luggage.
Something even more impressive, IMHO, from the same source: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-brain-implant-has-allowed-a-b...

It's Star Trek like technology (think TNG series' Geordi La Forge).
Apple uses (and contributes back to) OSM in many places.
Check out the interrogation scene in "Ghost Fleet" (2015).

It's excerpted here if you don't want to read the whole book:

https://gizmodo.com/how-ghost-fleet-nails-the-perfect-vision...
AMD has been using place names for their CPUs for several years, particularly since the K8/Athlon 64 era. They just seem to be using Italian cities this time around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_AMD_processors
Study Guide for students who hope to eventually work on agency and AI alignment
You're making it seem like it's a travesty that Apple doesn't allow you to do whatever you want with your phone, but you're dodging everyone who correctly points out that Apple is far and away in the minority of smartphones in the world. People who want to run whatever they want on a mobile device have their choice: they can buy Android phones and sideload APKs, or buy experimental cutting edge devices running Linux. If anything, the example you cite - that of Apple removing apps in Russia or China - should be in your favour: if people in Russia and China want to run apps without their Government's approval, they should not buy iPhones, thereby hurting Apple's position in the market. Those who don't clearly don't care, and who are you to decide what they should care about?
Hey Tim - I checked out your blog. Your writing is solid.

NeoActuary sounds interesting - I like the name. What’s needed to make it reality? When someone we admire expresses their goals and needs, other people feel subconsciously driven to help them. You could try it out here…
> There’s a fundamentally new ideology taking shape

This is where I disagree. It's the same old (Lockean) liberalism adapting to an increasingly decentralized and connected (i.e. diverse) setting.
Indeed, Python was already the main scripting language at CERN when I was there during the early 2000's.
Why should AirBnb be responsible for covering issues that arise between stays? I mean, it would be nice if I could just sign up as a host for my condo, set it as unavailable for most of the year and get free insurance.
I am using Google Drive, so Office Lens won't help me. Google Drive on iPhone doesn't have a built-in scanning function (the Android app does). You need a different app for scanning. Genius Scan can export directly to Google Drive, that's why I am using it.
link is dead.
The next time someone tries to tell me that a true screen reader should use computer vision and machine learning (including OCR) rather than requiring applications to implement accessibility APIs, I will bring up this case.
Something that is mentioned here and not on the main page: the devices form a mesh network and can relay messages between each other.

Seems strange, feels like a pretty big selling point.
A Three.js camera toolkit for creating interactive 3D stories
Huh, i guess i learned some new things today. I heard about allegations of them being criminal. Usually i'd file such claims under "conspiracy crap", because until now nobody bothered to explain why.

Also i didn't know that being in a union can be mandatory. Here in Germany it's up to you if you want to be part of it or not. With it comes plenty of advantages, like legal protection insurance for work related legal issues. You can go to a consultant that will look up your case and - if necessary - give it to a lawyer. They even offer help to people who want to become self-employed. All for a quite low monthly fee.
The issue is even more complicated. The absorbtion at the red end of the visual spectrum is two magnitudes larger than at the blue end. This is why water appears often blue, even against a white background.

Wikipedia has some more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_by_...
I’d imagine you’d need an extended executive fact-finding trip to decide whether it’s a place you want to associate your company with.
Jobs soldered?
He was a psycho but given his motives I doubt he would have whipped out his police firearm and shot her in the middle of a busy street in south London.
I think you are overestimating the power this kind of stuff has.

Quite a big leap from being able to identify a letter someone is thinking of REALLY HARD with the express purpose of making the software recognize it to randomly implanting something in someones brain and being able to browse through their thoughts.
Discord's Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart
> They should have known better

In most of these cases, I actually suspect malice over ignorance. They figure they can squeeze some unpaid overtime out of an unsuspecting junior by pressuring them to "commit" to an unreasonable deadline and then trying to hold them to it.
Security through scarcity haha
I think that this is a valuable lesson for CS students. I used to underestimate time for the same reasons these students did. The core technology (in this case, listening for the clipboard events) fits in the estimate. Making a product that can actually be useful will take much longer.

Estimating effort is important. Work is an investment, so the decision to invest changes with the amount of work.

I think this lesson can only be learned the hard way: create a new application and try to get users. You’ll learn where you spend time and get better at estimating. You’ll also appreciate why “simple” features appear slowly in software you use.
I'd say selecting the candidate who will work for 2 days and only claim 2 hours is the system working perfectly.
I put way too much faith in Airbnb's "million dollar coverage" when I was a host.

I had an Airbnb guest steal all the electronics from my apartment -- Sonos speakers, wifi router, everything. They also left behind a large stack of obviously stolen credit cards, social security cards, and driver licenses.

When I called up Airbnb support to tell them what happened they responded by saying "We've found that most disputes between hosts are just misunderstandings. Have you tried talking to them about it?"

Then when I tried to claim they needed original receipts (which I obviously didn't have for everything) and ultimately only paid out a small fraction of the original cost (because the items were no longer new).
Very insightful and true. Even during a conversation, many people "translate" what they hear into something else, and will quote back, a few seconds later, a totally different sentence and think that's exactly what you said.

Kids in school often don't read assignments properly either, and skip everything until the first question. I don't know if they think it saves them time or fear there's a trick somewhere that they will avoid that way.

In life in general, people like ambiguity; it helps to smooth things out. But in programming it's a problem.
>> Just hide those system specific components behind a factory and make sure all components conform to a polymorphic API/contract.

But the entire point of having a "cross-platform" GUI toolkit is that you don't have to do that. This guy wrote two bits of code for a text input box which is one of the most basic GUI components there is after buttons.
This doesn't always work. I've had managers tell me that I was supposed to give a "real" estimate and we'd figure out the buffer together. Obviously it led to me working late hours to meet an unreasonable deadline.
Because the goal of the quiz is to test math knowledge, not software bypassing knowledge.
Wrong. Apple often just gives up on design work and shits out another obscure, overly complicated, and defective “solution” to simple problems.

Try copying some styled text from somewhere and pasting it at the end of a Mail message. Then try to get out of the pasted style and continue typing in “normal” style.

Pathetic.
Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid for Independence?
The "crime rate" or "index" counts the number of Uniform Crime Report Part I "index crimes". These "serious" crimes are the following: aggravated assault, forcible rape, murder, and robbery (violent), and arson, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft (property).

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/criminal-justice/cr...
I wouldn't call it bulletproof. I might as well fake my identity as someone who bought the game. Sure they can prevent things like an account being connected to multiple servers/games at the same time, but you can still cheap out by just looking for interested people in different time zones. Probably even automated by a platform if you want to go the extra mile.

Fast forward to today: That's how it's done at the moment.
A Guide to Load Testing Node.js APIs with Artillery
Ask HN: Fitness while doing knowledge work?
I've been reading up on dealing with stress and maintaining mental health, and exercise comes up as the number one solution. Scientists believe our hunter-gatherer ancestors walked at least five kilometres a day, and that, clearly, is not a feature or modern life.

In thinking about Brett Victor's amazing talk, "The Humane Representation of Thought" ( http://worrydream.com/#!/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThoughtTalk ), I was wondering: what is the cutting edge of doing knowledge work while not being stationary all day long?
I too had Photoshop running on IRIX way back when. As a matter of fact, it saved my butt on a job where I had a massive file for a poster design, and it would keep crashing on my PC whereas on the O2 with an older version of photoshop it just chugged along slowly but surely. It was an exercise in patience, for sure, but it also ensured I could deliver on the job and ultimately get paid!

Man those were the days...
A portable kite turbine, tested on the field and that is a finished product, not a prototype. 24V DC, 100 watts guaranteed with 25 km/h winds, a very conservative estimate

https://kitewinder.fr/
It is common practice to leave out of stock items on e-commerce sites for some time at least. It drives organic traffic if for no other reason.
> On the other hand, my dad was a plumber and his union seemed to bring him real benefit.

Unions for licensed professionals are more lobbying organizations than labor representation. Their goal (which they often achieve) is, effectively, regulatory capture to create a barrier to entry into that labor market and drive up scarcity to increase prices.

It's a similar dynamic to public sector unions -- they're really negotiating with the government, and if the union is large enough then they're a significant voting constituency, so it's like a large shareholder in a publicly traded company using their influence over the organization to have the organization engage in self-dealing with the shareholder's other business.
Sure, you can keep things common with one codebase, but why does that codebase have to be flutter? IMO dart is a pretty meh language, and as others have pointed out flutter doesn't even use native controls. There's tons of options for common logic in native apps these days that don't mandate a choice of view layer.
Worth checking your stock trading skills
This is just a woke person going berzerk about opinions and expressions they don't like. There is of course no actual harm.
Apple incorporates OSM data into its maps for some regions, and Apple is also the most prolific corporate data contributor to OSM,* so I agree that Apple Maps is a great alternative to Google Maps. Unfortunately, it's not available on Android or as a web app.

* https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-mom...
> The only complicated thing is the push timing loop.

... and producing the chart in the first place.
these gig economy type startups only work if a monopoly is established. Competition results in users being subsidized by venture capital, so the logical option for both parties is to join forces and basically create a cartel
> you shouldn't make people have to copy/paste your variable names

The people working on a non-english codebase don't have to. Their keyboards have the symbols they're typing.
I for one can't take "EPYC Bergamo" seriously.

Come on, Bergamo? For real? I guess it could sound "cool" to non-Italian speakers, but here in Italy I think that Bergamo is one of the most forgettable cities ever. Which is sad, because its historical city centre is very beautiful, but the rest of the city is kind of dull and boring.
He didn't design it; Woz did all of that. Jobs was just the marketing face. But when the order from Byte Shop for ~50 came, they obtained parts with a net-30 payment. To be able to pay that, I could swear I read that Jobs helped assemble them so they could finish in two weeks.
You want to look for jobs outside the fullstack/web space . Look for engineering companies that aren’t tech companies.
Yeah, sounds like a law the state/country would need to make.
That's a car with "Android OS" -- it's not just some random car.

Complaining about Google Maps on that car is like complaining about Google Maps on your Google Home screen. If you buy a car that is advertised as having Google software, you're going to get Google software.
Explain please how you would go about flagrantly violating the laws of China or Russia without going to jail, or worse.

Should Apple leave China? Would the net effect be positive or negative for Chinese people? Ambiguous at best.

Of course it would have an enormous impact on Apple's financials and manufacturing abilities, with negative consequences worldwide.

Serenity for the things I can not change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.