skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, we had high interest rates in the 90s and it worked out. Also, involving politicians is a huge mistake, the Fed needs to recapture its independence so it can make tough decisions. As for the rest, we as a society have become too petulant, expecting a forever boom and doing hardly anything to mellow out the boom bust cycle. And it’s not just the USA either.
"People", in this case mostly the media I think, seem to just pick something random.

I watch the stock market which is even worse for this. Every day you'd see "Stocks down as investors weigh COVID", followed by "Stocks up as investor COVID fears wane". Which may be true, but not alternating seemingly every single day for a while.

It's like someone sees something happen, wants to write an article, and the boss says "nope, put something catchy on the title."
That’s an amusing take given that proponents of the new ideology would say “Locke was a dead white guy and investor in the slave trade, who cares what he said.” But I agree the new ideology is Lockean in the sense of presupposing minds are tabula rasa.

I disagree that the prevailing American liberalism is especially Lockean, though there is a strong thread of that. It’s a bit of a conceit, similar to people saying “the founding fathers were deists” by pointing to Jefferson.

For example, the Constitutional structure of government takes a very Christian view of humans being inherently sinful and needing checks and balances, rather than a Lockean view of perfectible man.
In my projects when I need independent UI per platform I just extract the logic to a new component that renders the right thing for each platform. That way my views aren’t filled with conditionals the component handles it.
> ITER will require about 200 MW of energy input in total running as it creates 500 MW of heat. But the exergy of heat means that if it were tapped, it would only return about 200 MW of electricity.

So it's a machine which turns expensive fuel into useless heat? Not exactly what we need to solve global warming.
Show HN: CirclesGallery/Art with parametric patterns of circles
Hello HN

Circles.gallery is a parametric art generator using circles and quarter circles. It was a weekend hack, but I thought it got quite neat!

Future plans include better SSR, mobile support, lower bundle size and I have quite a lot of ideas for cool ideas for randomizing the parameters for pretty cool patterns! (I realize current presets are kind of out of Alice in Wonderland. It's because of the random color algorithm I currently use)

Feedbacks welcome!
> these days is there any good reason to back up the rest of your system

From experience, there is definite need. I spilled some water on my work laptop and it died. I was able to get a replacement in maybe 3 hours, but setting everything up again was a major pain.

A Time Machine backup would have let me continue more or less where I left off in a matter of an hour or two, vs. many hours/days (and some lost work). (not that Time Machine is perfect either, but much better than just iCloud)

I agree that getting rid of system cruft can be good, but it's better handled proactively than on machine failure IMO.
The studies are obviously done with external groups like College students.
> the fine must be more costly than the benefit of the anti-competitive behavior in order to be effective.

That might be up for debate. According to Google Finance [1] Alphabet received income of $18.94B in September! So the fine is 15% of ONE quarter of their income.

I don't think that is sufficient and qualifies to more like a slap on the wrist.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=alphabet+revenue

edit: I should have said quarter, not month. Revised, sorry
for the confusion.
ScanSnap is good because you can set a stack of papers (dozens) in the paper feed tray, push a button, and all the papers will be scanned, OCR'd and a PDF created for you. It takes the pain away from scanning because all you have to do is insert stack of papers press 1 button, done. If you compare to a flat bed scanner (do people still use those?) or even a mobile device app scanner it is still faster every time.
Because a thing may have value beyond its utility?

Because it's a unique, historically significant artefact?

Because you can afford to, it hurts literally no one, and it will make you happy?
It probably very much depends on what you are using your computer for. If you are just living in Chrome and use Google Docs and Mail there this will work just fine.

If you are someone who has tools set up, apps not from the app store, come custom dot files, your shell history and environment variables this will not help you at all and getting up and running after a device got lost / destroyed will take you a day. Even if it's just simple things like your system theme / Dock positions of your apps.

You could probably fiddle and symlink things and hope everything works but it's not a "log in and have your device be in the same condition as before" like you'd get from an iOS "Restore from iCloud" functionality.
Paperless periodically looks for and reads PDFs dumped into a folder. However it gets there (scanner writes to network drive, you copy a PDF to it, cloud storage daemon syncs a cloud folder's contents with it) does not matter to Paperless.
Given the content of this answer:

How hard would it be to create a forgery of an original Apple I?

Asking for a friend...
Clickbaity title aside, this discussion makes some good points regarding states with Democratic majorities that fail to live up to their values.
If it uses SDL I can set it by hand I guess (SDL_VIDEO_RENDERER and friends), I can't remember it now. But I'd prefer an official patch.

EDIT: Ctrl+Return doesn't work, and the default resolution makes the UI garbled and impossible to read.
I also have a song playing in my head most of the time (even while reading but not writing , like you). I’m a hobbyist musician; maybe that’s part of it.

But I also have an inner voice . I think the music stops when the voice starts, not sure.

For the last week I’ve had “right down the line” by Gerry Raferty (70s pop song) playing.
No, I have used only US commodity prices, except crude and a global energy figure, which is why I also added US kwh prices. All food prices mentioned are US-only figures.
Yes, most "Would" questions are absolutely worthless:

> "Finally, the word “would” taps into a special place in people’s minds. At the end of the day people are optimistic. I’m sure of it! Think of the most negative person you know and ask them “would you like to be healthier?” They will say “Yes” and then come up with a bunch of reasons they’re not."

My post: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/the-problem-with-would
This is the right approach. You don't disqualify based on the take home (unless it doesn't work at all).
Thanks - something for me to think about. These HN threads do have a history of changing my mind (or at least softening my position) on topics where the true answer can be harder to know.
That's what I'm saying... the EU could probably double or triple these fine levels, easy, before Google decides this isn't worth just factoring into cost-of-business.

Of course, if the laws are structured fairly, such steep fine levels would absolutely cripple domestic software companies that ran afoul of them...
Interesting, since all the reports and reviews have indicated blooming was not an issue on these, compared to iPad Pro.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/28/macbook-pro-display-blo...
I'll take your numbers at face value though they seem high to me as take home pay. So $15k/mo at around 35% taxes, and let's skip marginal rate, as that will round numbers in favor of health insurance being negligible. So total pay around $240k/yr. I spend $600/mo or around $7k/yr on health insurance. 7/240 ~= 3%.

So even for a very well paid software engineer, health insurance could effectively push you up 3% as your effective tax rate. Plus all the headaches that go with it.
Inflation reduces the value of debt and an era of increased inflation stands to benefit a lot of households. Of course, it helps if wages go up alongside prices, and they have. But even without wage increases, the value of debt lost to inflation is likely worth more than the value of salary lost to inflation for many households.
Fine should probably much higher honestly.
If it's a document that occurs once a month or less often, I put it into "yearly" folder, if I know that's something that fits into specific "context" (like, company bills or something) I put it into that specific contextual folder (which is also stacked per year).
All of them I put into dedicated steel cabinet for documents.
got a link to those videos in particular?
I've been working with printers for 35 years and they still find ways to destroy my soul.

This week I discovered my Canon printer has some way to detect "plain [white] paper" and absolutely refuses to print on the high quality "cream" coloured paper instead. No matter what tricks I tried in swapping the paper, as soon as I put the better paper in the tray it would freak out.
Yea, I actually consider the smaller FOV a feature. Doesn't necessarily have to be 45 degrees, but I'm not interested in covering my entire field of view. I want a monitor for work, not for games and movies. Immersion doesn't matter, but the comfort of not needing to cup my eyes sure does.
I totally agree with your sentiment. It's sad that a 2.8 Billion USD fine should be considered a big win against a company, but in a regulatory environment where a 10 million USD fine often makes headlines (and is even more often overturned), 2.8B comes a lot closer to being meaningful than one would expect in our current situation.
It's very sad to consider young men dying for their country while old men are too afraid to risk four years off their political career for it.
And with insanely aggressive share repurchases:

> The company is aggressively buying back stock, having repurchased a record $12.8 billion in the second quarter, bringing the total so far in 2021 to $24.2 billion.

> The company is on pace to buy back around $50 billion of stock this year. It’s a testament to Alphabet’s earnings power that its cash and equivalents were down less than $1 billion in the first half of the year to $135.9 billion despite the heavy repurchases.

So they "only" have $120 Billion on hand while already spending $25 billion of their cash buying back stock and planning on spending another $25 billion this year.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/alphabets-voting-shares-are...
Relevant book:

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Yes there was lots of data in favor of that actually.
I linked a clip from this movie to OP before I saw your reference. Great minds think alike!
I use Backblaze, and aside from the cost, it's great. It's fine for 1 computer, but oof, there's no multi-computer discount. Most of my machines aren't backing up terabytes of storage either. We're talking like ~100gb a machine and there's two of them.

Businesses like to talk up "unlimited" but it's a pain when you're using less storage but have to subsidize those using a ton of storage.
When I do have it, it does have a sound and sounds mostly like me.
Why not? It's not like there's a switch somewhere which instantly restored the entire global economy to 2019. Things like shipping or the semiconductor shortage have widespread impacts which are often not obvious if you aren't following a particular field enough to be aware of the dependency web and they can take months to resolve because that has to happen at each bottleneck and things like contractual agreements and labor shortages are not trivial to resolve.

That last part is a key one to remember: the pandemic isn't even close to over. Ignoring the people who are dead or suffering long-term health problems, there are a ton of people who either left the workforce for various reasons (childcare, health, etc.) or switched fields and/or locations. That directly increases costs to businesses which have to pay more in wages but it also will have ripple effects for years anywhere buyers are chasing a supply chain which is limited by worker shortages.
> 2. I have had multiple employers in Silicon Valley who had the BYOD (Bring you own device) policy implemented but then they attached a SECONDARY DEVICE to my iCloud account and were slurping all personal records from that.

I don't think MDM allow the admin to hijack your icloud account.
Are you sure it's your employer, not some other?
Same here, when i made the decision to go paperless I knew i wouldn't have the discipline to organize it all. So instead i opted to scan everything I thought i might want a record of and make it fully searchable. This way i can still find stuff easily and never have to organize it.
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I scan all documents to searchable PDFs and file them by year. MacOS lets me easily search a group of folders by their contents, so I just use keywords to find the document(s) I am looking for.
I'm told that NYT, WaPost and others are all solidly Blue Team and yet they seem to be running stories about inflation and how much it's risen daily.

It's not a good thing in my opinion, but who's to say it's not transitory?
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So you prefer backward looking to forward looking metrics then. That's not useful from a policy perspective.

The Fed is meant to head off inflationary pressures. If they take a full year to materialize in the data, that's a flawed metric IMO. A 20% market rate rent increase will almost by definition feed into a 20% rent increase for everybody in the longer run.

The market rate rent will dictate rents for all over the longer run. Yes, maybe 10% of the population got a good deal on their renewal or whatever. Including that information is not useful or helpful from a policy perspective.

At the very least, they should produce two figures. Market rate CPI and existing tenant CPI.
That's because too much power overloads the power wires. You can only get that by making surplus, and when surplus occurs a lot of that power is lost from overload. And before you say to upgrade the wires, that would cost a lot of money and be an infrastructural nightmare.
The small print, for posterity:

> Plans with AppleCare+ for Business Essentials will be available in spring 2022.
The fastest way to get the answer in a organization is to send a email/slack with a wildly inaccurate answer to the question no one wants to answer/respond to. It is even more effective when you attribute the wrong person to it. This is a anti-pattern but it does work.

"Hey everyone, I just heard the Phoenix Project that Jim is leading is going to be completed next week and will be under budget by $5m. I will go ahead and report that up to the VP in my 1x1 today"

You may look stupid but people will get really emotional and give you the real answer you need very quickly.
My introspection is quite good on this; I've been doing meditation on and off for decades. Sorry, but I don't have an internal narrator. Instead, the meditative interruptions that come with words are generally imagined discussions with other people or things to write about.

Like you, I had a hard time believing people were different in this. The whole idea of an internal narrator seemed absurd to me. Why would anybody need a narrator for themselves? They're right there! But enough people claim that this is their real life that I'm willing to believe it, however tedious and exhausting that sounds to me.
Ive been using macs for 11 years, probably half a dozen in that time. Ive never had a problem with crashing. And the usual uptime is months.
They are you; they are a part of you, but they are not all of you. They are as much you as your foot or your eye is you. You are not an atomic entity.
When games required CDs to run - I had to apply No-CDs. Because CDs were fragile and expensive.
When games started to require online DRM - I had to apply No-Steam patches. Because I am rarely online and value my privacy.
Even though I legally bought those games, DRM causes so much inconvenience, so I'd actually donate to pirates for making my life easier. News like this prove me right.
For a real case of someone making integrated circuits at home, this boy did it: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/ for real.
Average market rent represents a segment of rent prices that responds much more quickly to market price shocks than rent prices as a whole. Your link is effectively the price change for people moving into a new apartment. The other 50-60% of the market (people renewing their lease or continuing tenancy at will) has much smoother price growth over time.

Doesn't square 17% and 3%, but it could definitely mean the lagging CPI rent growth we see over the coming year is more like 9 or 10%.
Keep in mind Apple is a hardware company. The software is their moat (not core competency).
Any sufficiently large discussion of software complexity will spawn a large sub-thread about printers.

Any sufficiently large discussion of printers will beget a number of ad-hoc support sub-threads.
Yeah same here. Had our hardwood floors damaged by guests to the tune of thousands in repairs. Airbnb paid out about $80 after months of hassling them. Their "talk directly to the guests to get them to pay damages" is obviously a non-started as hosts have zero leverage.
Are you still arguing on behalf of the Russian people? Putin has arrested Navalny and is branding him a terrorist, and Google employees were also threatened with arrest. Imagining that Apple or Google can make Putin budge on matters of Russian political liberty is fantasy.
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> What would winning this "culture war" even look like?

Easy: opposition gets the firing squad.
That really depends on the user.

As a developer, I’ve modified quite a few system files and would like those things backed up. It’s one reason I don’t use Backblaze – they refuse to backup system files.

As an employer, I can imagine a situation in which those “cruft” files contain information about the actions of an employee that might be valuable in legal proceedings, or just providing they were terminated for cause.

But 98% of the time you’re totally right about not needing to backup every little config file.
Prime Contractor.

It is a company that is responsible for the final integration of a system, but often fans out subcomponents to a large assortment of other companies.
I came here to mention that one! It was a really critical moment that helped me realize I will never please 100% of people all the time. As soon as I have that (silly) idea up, I started really creating…
I think you might find these topics useful, especially Jonathan Blow's as he notes changes (we have more abstractions that take us away from gaming progamming which was easier before).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127098

One interesting note was that TempleOS which is called a religious OS had a Commadore64 structure and it was apparently easy to make games on it. You mentioned learning unity, the old game programmers would make ISA games that had no OS overhead, ran on all hardware that supported the instructions which happens less when the engines are abstractions that are designed to run on more abstractions like the OS, which of course costs performance, has more bugs, and basically filters your intentions, as well as every version of the engine, OS and other factors a game developer can't control will degrade their software through no fault of their own.

Check out this game made on TempleOS. https://scumgames.neocities.org/blazeitfgt.html
> For national security, we need a state of affairs wherein it is profitable to build and run a plant in the U.S.

The way to do that is massive tariffs, not pork. They will be met with retaliatory tariffs.
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A closely related story that will also resonate with you: early microphones were tuned for male voices, which led to truly a lot of harm to women. It's just a matter of physics, as people are fond of saying. Mediocre technologists make mediocre products that were only validated for people like them.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-century...
Honestly as an end-user that's my preference.
Make an appointment 2 weeks from now, go there to hand it in, return in another 2 weeks to be handed a refurbished machine with your data gone?

Sorry to say, that's not competitive with what other vendors offer as business support.
It reminds me of the concept of government in exile, similar to how there's been a Tibetan "government" in India since China took Tibet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_in_exile
If you never stop drinking, you never get a hangover?

If we get hyperinflation, maybe housing will be affordable again?

Tough time for retirees and folks who put money in the bank already (and not the stock market), but what else is new.
I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers. Food prices are 30% above where they were in 2010 in the CPI for example.
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The major defense contractors.
29.1% effective

Headline could be more informative by including this number.
Now I feel like I need to read the study to better understand the definition.
> Criminy. Do I have to design it, too? Most homes have a basement or a crawl space.

In Europe at least, the vast majority of people live in high-rise blocks, which barely have adequate parking space, never mind any room for electricity storage. None of your solutions are even close to practical from this point of view alone.

Not to mention, relying on the market to be rational really can't be the solution to keeping the grid functional. Blackouts are massively disruptive and potentially life threatening.
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Amazon and Facebook when?
That’s not how this worked though. The guy focused on individual letters and imagined himself writing them.
User grants in Maria/MySQL drive me nuts. I hope it is better in Postgres
Seems like a work in progress over the past year-ish:

https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-buys-mdm-specialist-to-...
Reliable OSs were a thing for quite a while by the 90s. Didn’t have to contend with the variety of input from today however.
What is their crime?
I've always been curious how someone gets into this line of work. Is it all via college / post education and your directly recruited by these companies? Obviously, this is a very hard (impossible?) thing to teach yourself. I can't imagine more than a few universities offer this type of education? Where would you start / what path would you go down to be a chip designer / work for an Intel / AMD ???
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Whee, and I'm getting FDN'd at work, so there's no chance I get a 6.2% raise/adjustment over the past year. Looks like I'm taking a pay cut.
> There are people who have worked like crazy their whole lives and they just had their hopes and dreams set on fire by runaway money creation and the resulting inflation.

Would they be happier under a repeat of 2008 or 1928 instead?
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No. One could probably get away with saying that a decade ago, but not today. They're every bit a software company as they are a hardware company.
Meanwhile, tons of reports and reviews have indicated that blooming very much is an issue. And how could it ever not be, with this type of display.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/qgkhku/noticeab...
Isn't Everest typically covered in snow?[0] That doesn't exactly scream dry to me the same way an arrid desert screams dry. At some point, moisture had to be around to creat that snow. Also, not very flat which makes building things like large buildings to house telescopes not practical.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mt.+everest&t=h_&iax=images&ia=ima...