skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father-in-law was a Finn, born and raised, and had to pay for everything out of pocket because he owned his own home business fabricating HVAC ductwork, and of course got no sick leave if he did get injured and couldn't work.

It's possible to buy private insurance of course, a common solution for tech freelancers here is to make your own business and then hire yourself as an employee, so at least you can get an occupational health care plan.

But private health insurance here is a joke anyway, they don't cover a ton of things because they assume they can just refer you to the public care for any of the complicated stuff. Mine wouldn't even cover a CPAP machine, I had to get on a public waiting list and borrow one from the state, and it took months.
If you want to make the case that's loosely "bad stuff happening to you during childhood and adolescence will make you more prone to criminal behavior" (a completely reasonable one btw) there are better ways to go about testing that hypothesis than working backwards from FBI crime statistics.
That presumes your pay is rising with inflation, or some tangible asset you hold.
Stateful hot reload is pretty awesome when doing UI work. On desktop that is pretty hard to find.

Also, as a TypeScript/Swift/Kotlin person, Dart is fine; sure I’d like algebraic data types but overall it is good. The tooling (auto completion etc) is great. And it has a few cool unique(ish?) features like cascade and every class is an ‘interface’.
Same way autospell is not working with 100% accuracy and you're still managing to express yourself, I believe
> I recommend people focus on the long term trends rather than looking at outliers to predict the future.

Both short and long term trends are important. Short term trends help us understand current situation that is different from what was happening maybe a year ago. If you only look at long terms you are blind to a lot of important processes.
What about games installed from disc? No account has purchased the game in that scenario.
If an attacker has access to your computer, he should not be able to directly log into your bank account or insurance contracts.
For me, both of those logins require the attacker having access to my 1Password account AND somehow have access to my phone (2fa). Please rethink your strategy if an attacker having access to your computer equals having access to your digital life.
Thanks for the kind words!

Building can be a hassle, as you can only produce the release version on the host machine. This means there is a bit of back and forth between my Windows laptop and my iMac, but it's expected.

I haven't looked for an automation process for this, but I believe Codemagic are building a solution for Flutter desktop as well: https://blog.codemagic.io/codemagic-ci-cd-releases-support-f...
They are a very simple concept and it would be possible to teach a highschooler their basic properties and the proofs. But with parking functions the iceberg goes extremely deep
>> But the entire point of having a "cross-platform" GUI toolkit is that you don't have to do that.

That's still true for flutter but it all depends on the requirements of the project. In the OP article, the point was to make something that is "native-looking" to Mac OS and Windows OS. This requirement does imply a requirement for different looking and behaving UI. Lose that requirement and then you can get the non-fractured code base back.

Perhaps you may reply "the framework should do that translation for you," to which I would respond "maybe you're right." It would be nice as a framework user to offload this type of work to the framework authors. Conversely, from the perspective of the framework authors they get to work on other features if they offload this type of work to the framework users.

I suspect the deeper questions for both framework users and authors is "who owns this work?" "what tradeoffs are users willing to make to gain this framework features?" and "what does joint ownership of this requirement look like?" Different framework communities will arrive at different answers.

At the end of the day as a pragmatic programmer you just kinda have to hack around the edges to smooth everything out for the end user.
Prices did go down! Oil was negative last year.
I don't know enough about immunology to say whether "binding more broadly" confers more immunity or not.

It would certainly go against prior knowledge about human immune responses for a single spike protein (vaccine) to elicit a greater immune response than _the actual virus_.

That CDC study is so bad I'm surprised they had the gall to publish it with the conclusion they did. Testing positive says nothing about severity of infection.

> were about five times more likely to test positive for the infection than people who had been vaccinated

Testing positive is not a very good metric. Were they hospitalized? Was it severe? Did they even get sick, or just test positive?

They even admit to a sampling flaw in the discussion:

> Second, persons who have been vaccinated are possibly less likely to get tested. Therefore, the association of reinfection and lack of vaccination might be overestimated.

The best study on this so far is from Israel with a much larger sample in a highly vaccinated country. Here's a Harvard doctor discussing the contradictory studies.

https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-...

> For a low-risk person, which includes most people with natural immunity, a 35% risk reduction is more marginal in terms of absolute risk.

> Based on the solid evidence from the Israeli study, the Covid recovered have stronger and longer-lasting immunity against Covid disease than the vaccinated. Hence, there is no reason to prevent them from activities that are permitted to the vaccinated. In fact, it is discriminatory.
How would it look on other desktop platforms?
Is there a plugin for detecting homoglyphs like these genderless vs. male zombies I made:
https://kingcharles.one/unistrange.html
Try this project I work on, https://perspective.finos.org/ . It comes with a Python library (that runs the exact same engine/code as in the wasm version), and even a JupyterLab plugin. You can run the engine fully in-python, in-Javascript (via wasm), or replicated between the two.

Standalone Python virtual server example https://github.com/finos/perspective/tree/master/examples/to...

JupyterLab demo on Binder https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/finos/perspective/master?urlpath=...
Whether prices or wages are the true measure of inflation is a class marker. If you are a (0.)1%er making most of your money from stocks, it's wages. If you are working for a living, it's prices. Guess which side dominates the US public discourse.
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I'd guess that the restaurant is paying for all of it, and it offsets having to pay more money for more physical dining space.
@bananabat This is awesome, your write up put the biggest freaking smile on my face. Like you, it is something I've always wanted to do and put off, now 43 and still got to get back to my dream. I love that you've got your first game out, that is epic! - I'm off to go grab a copy, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you release next!
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If you're likely to work with an international team, it makes sense to use english. That's not always the case though. Plenty of those low-paid brazilian programmers you cited will never do that. Many of them don't speak english to begin with.

For example, the school I went to had a simple web application for student feedback. Attachments were allowed. People started running into issues due to non-ASCII characters in file names. I reported the issue to the IT department and even helped them fix it. The Python code was written in portuguese, accents and everything. Why shouldn't accents be used in this case? It's unlikely this code will ever be used in an international context.
It seems like this inflation is not broad-based:

“In the quarter to August used cars, hotel rooms and airfares made up less than 5% of America’s consumer-price index, but together accounted for the majority of overall inflation”

If we’re having inflation due to a tiny number of goods having large price spikes, it might be too early to predict disaster

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/06/a-handfu...
Interesting I’ve had this happen with strace and/or gdb before when hitting control-c a few times.
Demand went down during covid, prices absouletly went down as well.

For hardware: Demand goes up, supply goes down, prices go up. Inflation, but not related to monetary policy.
Moore's Law is Dead (a very accurate leaker) said zen 3 threadripper was cancelled except maybe a limited launch of TR Pro, IIRC. Which makes sense since there are severe EPYC shortages and those are more important and profitable products. Intel doesn't have any workstation competition at the moment anyway.
If there were a open band somewhere else, that is what we would have evolved to see.

Is just the dynamics of how light interacts with the atom and its bonds.
> I believe most of the couriers have ”residence permit for an entrepreneur”. That means you get emergency care but thats about it.

This is not true, for Finland. Residence permit for an entrepreneur [1] is still a residence permit. You get residency, home municipality, and everything that goes with it.

[1] https://migri.fi/en/entrepreneur
This is a very very good point. If the short-term effects are supply-side (including labour) crisis and massive resource misallocation, how is it going to get any better once demoralisation, loss of trust kick, etc in?
Yes, you're right. I was only calling out that the parent poster incorrectly referred to the COVID related demand slump of 2020 as a deflationary period. It wasn't.
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Ok this snapscan thing -- I've seen it mentioned a couple times. Why is it so good?
I've been struggling with eye strain and have considered trying to approach development in a fashion similar to that takeb by blind devs. Any suggestions for guides or overviews for how I can get setup?
What's interesting about this is that it seems that certain products are changing in price due to the bull-whip effect in supply chains. This is rather than the traditional form of inflation where it's a monetary effect of more money being in circulation.

It's one of those times where viewing economics in terms of its steady state behaviors missed out on the true dynamics.
And you've deftly moved past the question "How do you determine if the police are being successful?"

Is your metric only homicide statistics?

geofft commented "police refusing to take police reports or saying that something is a civil matter". My examples were meant to reinforce that issue, where crime statistics place far less weight on theft of services than theft of property, even when the monetary amounts involved are similar.

FWIW, wage theft isn't only a corporate crime. If I promise to pay someone to mow my lawn, and he does it, and I don't pay him (perhaps threatening to call the police because I suspect he's an immigrant without work papers), then that's also wage theft, even though I am not a corporation.
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> I mean you've written it yourself: "almost"

Nope. I was quoting you (with the '>' sign, just as you do). Please re-read.

> And then you're leaving out secial-security costs

False, once more. France is clearly way ahead of Germany, and for quite a long time (and until now I thought it is well-known): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we...
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Yep. I've been learning the same lesson. I'm actually rediscovering all the things I loved and hated about Linux 10-15 years ago when I was on Ubuntu full time. The janky, unpolished, hodge-podge look and feel, but super snappy and configurable apps are more endearing this time. The inconsistent UIs between Qt, GTK, etc don't bother me so much after a decade of web-first UIs.
It's funny you mention YouTube: I think the Lisa may now be the only classic Apple model that has not been reviewed in detail by the 8-Bit Guy, since he can't get his hands on one.

He doesn't have an actual Apple-1 either, of course, but this year he was finally able to build an accurate replica.[0] (It still wasn't cheap or easy.)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36NgkpctW6k
That attitude depends on your station in life and gender (not many women will wish for that). Regardless of country or race, most people, if they had the means would move to less chaotic neighborhoods. It's not like quiet neighborhoods and suburbs don't exist in Nairobi or Sao Paolo or Moscow, etc., where people seek a quieter life.

Getting there is a matter of slow transformation. Even in Beijing or Tokyo, life wasn't always quiet and peaceful. It happened gradually as society evolved to a point where minor crime was more or less eliminated.

I'm sure there is always a small group of people who wish for wild-west frontier like chaos, it has some appeal, but after a while the majority of people just want peace and quiet and to be left alone.
People in Russia trusted Apple to allow apps to run when they were buying the phones, but THEN found out that Apple decided to cooperate with Putin and removed certain apps they were using.

It IS a travesty. Apple didn't advertise beforehand that they would cooperate with dictators and block apps which dictators don't like.
>Here is what CPI would look like today without all the changes to the formula

...which they undid, by adding a constant number?

>Responding to prior criticisms made by economist James Hamilton, John Williams explained in a private phone call that Shadowstats does not actually recalculate BLS data, rather, the Shadowstats CPI merely adds a constant to the officially reported numbers.[25]

>I’m not going back and recalculating the CPI. All I’m doing is going back to the government’s estimates of what the effect would be and using that as an add factor to the reported statistics.
> 1920s Germany

I don't want to be the guy who looks past an argument to make a needling correction, but... couldn't you use a better example here? These GSEs/CNIs that you advocate for could not possibly have protected 1920s Germany from hyperinflation -- war reparations were forcibly imposed onto a puppet government installed by outside powers.

> government sponsored entity, like the Post Office

I don't believe this is a good model. If you give a single entity a monopoly on a critical service, you are implictly agreeing to prevent it from failing, because there is no backup plan. Just look at the Post Office... it's not allowed to go bankrupt, so instead it just accumulates more and more debt forever. The incentives are all out of whack and it all amounts to the worst of both worlds.
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Sounds like every interaction I've had with insurance. Sorry to hear that.
Conversely, T5 is 65 years old and just adapting to a completely new way of communicating at retirement age. Comparing that to the neuroplasticity of a far younger subject, I can see a high chance of this outperforming mobile typing. 10 fingers, I'm not so sure.
I have a 2000 4Runner that has provided a nice return on investment from when I bought it 12 years ago!
I wonder if it’d be faster if you imagined typing instead of writing (obviously would require the patient to be a proficient typist).
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What do you mean? There's only Mac and Windows. /s
One of the amazing things about Reddit is how different communities compete with each other.

Allowing individual subreddits to enable anonymous posting lets the market decide if the pros outweigh the cons. (If the subreddit has a history of bad moderation, ban the subreddit)

I feel like giving communities more options in customizing the algorithm that dictates the discussion is powerful.
Why would this make sense?

If price rises are beaten by wage inflation, or if wage increases beat price inflation, the measure of inflation is that the value of the currency weakens.

If both price & wage go up, currency is losing its value either way.
There are no web standards in the era of WHATWG. It’s just a living spec composed of whatever vendors build and convince other vendors to add to their own products. Chrome is constantly spitting out new proposals that are already half-baked-but-live in their browser and then people start using them and complain they aren’t yet in other browsers. Yet when Safari or Firefox add new features we don’t act like Chrome is slow? Chrome’s rapid pace is almost surely an effort by Google to overwhelm the competition so they can make more ad money through dark patterns via Chrome dominance.
Doesn't look like it. The URLS variable could more appropriately be named CURRENT_URL. Singular, not plural.
Interesting: they have a cellphone using it: https://mudita.com/community/blog/october-mudita-pure-produc...

Maybe we'll see a RYF-capable phone?
I have not seen a distribution where updating Gnome wasn't an issue. I hope that System76 is serious about their DE, and that if their development approach is more inclusive and better planned, other distributions will follow them.

In my opinion Gnome is a big reason why Linux Desktop is struggling to gain traction. It is not friendly to people migrating from other OS (the features are not there without tons of extensions) and it is not friendly to app and extension developers (things break after every small update and Gnome and GTK documentation is terrible).

People should stop expecting that Gnome will improve in those fronts, and similarly as Wayland is replacing Xorg, something better should replace the Gnome and gnome-shell desktop experience.
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I figured it was related to COVID, but thanks for giving a few words to what it might be.
I have lots of data on home services, and can say with confidence they average a 20-40% increase since 2019 (they were pretty stable the prior 10 years). Housing is 20-50% more expensive since the same period. Labor costs have increased a ton. It's very hard to price as a business owner right now.

I agree it's an odd year, but it's fairly clear that the Jan 2020 to Jan 2023 inflation will be materially higher in the US than any other 3 year period since the 70s. I think most likely it will land about 40% increase over that period.
But generally this isn't what happens right? Often the waste gets dumped in surrounding oceans of Europe.

Nuclear is an amazing source of cheap and clean energy, but the problem has always been the management of Nuclear plants and waste that has resulted in environmental disasters.

I'm honestly not confident in anyone to handle the Nuclear properly, not private enterprise or government. As history tells us, nobody can seem to get it right 100% of the time.

Maybe advancement in technology means safer Nuclear plants and easier to manage waste, but maybe they thought the same thing when they built the Fukushima or Chernobyl plants.

History has a knack for repeating itself.
That's fantastic! I have the opposite story - we sold opinionated Mac software bundles, and one of the perks was we could use the latest Apple-only Safari CSS tricks (this was before Chrome forked from WebKit and Safari was actually leading the way with stuff like CSS transitions/animations and Canvas). Microsoft released free VMs for browser testing in IE and I tried it for kicks, and indeed, our page would literally crash IE when loaded (of course Windows had protected memory so the OS wouldn't crash). We wore it as a badge of honor.
It wasn't deflationary because of the unprecedented stimulus.

It would have been.
Most documents are digital. When they aren't I scan them. Then I store them per year of creation, except for a few special folders like house related and job related.
> It's become apparent for a while they are running scared, and running out of money.

In he meantime it seems that their executive + lead level salaries took quite a hike between 2019 and 2020. At the sametime there were stories about how cost conscious they are. Funny.
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Interesting, on both my phone and computer tabs stay until I close them? Sometimes they need to manually be "recovered" if crash.
Things I know I will need in the next month get scanned and sent to Notion - Tax Docs go to a folder on my desk

Everything else I place in a large pile on the side of my desk - once it looks like it's going to fall over I go through everything, throw out what looks useless and put the rest in a separate pile. Every once in a while I scan the separate pile documents to OneNote and shred them. It's worked surprisingly well for the past 15 years or so.
I imagine there's way less of that on the Espoo side.
“Crypto bros”, “crypto stans”, misunderstanding about transaction costs, loads of fear. Really just, such a fresh and new take.

Who are these articles for?
Right. To me you come across as a coward unwilling to be racist in the open. What is intellectual about what you said exactly? You’re ignoring history and the underlying reasons for things to support your cowardly worldview. And please, how did “we” all agree that it’s a “nonsensical assertion” that crime rates only appear to be higher because of overpolicing”? Are you saying there is overpolicing but that it doesn’t artificially raise crime rates? Are you saying there’s no under policing in higher socioeconomic neighborhoods? Are you saying every crime by a white person is policed and accounted for? And every crime by a Black person is policed and accounted for? How do you know all this? You must have a great dataset.
Kind of puts the labor strikes in perspective. Next week's nurses' strike is over a proposed three-year, 1% annual wage increase. Price levels are sticky, so inflation is a fast way to erase real income.

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/576456-more-than-100... (edit: better source)

The nursing union's own ask is +4% per year, and even that would have been real-negative over the past 12 months (according to OP's +6.2% CPI figure).
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Oops, link seems to have lost part of its path.

Should be https://www.kevinwmcconnell.com/aws/faster-referer-service-c...
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Anyone wanting to evade such audits can just write down the password somewhere else such as a piece of paper.
I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim. It’s just surprising to me that a base level feature would work so differently. I’d expect some variation in models (like that old Feynman video about counting), but if you can speak and use language it’s hard for me to accept literally no internal voice is going on.

I’ve always kinda suspected people making this claim are lacking introspection to such an extreme extent that they don’t even recognize the inner voice that’s omnipresent.
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Half the time the devs don't even underestimate, it's just that they're the easiest to blame them because it'll never hurt them (according to the people shifting the blame).

One time, I had to estimate a UI migration. I made the estimate and added the disclaimer that the estimation assumed X was true and Y and Z were provided. Of course, X wasn't true, because the supplier sucked and Y and Z weren't provided by the business. So it ended up taking way more time than estimated.

Guess who got the blame anyway.
Well, you could say that current political situation in US is an outlier. Nothing to worry about, US has had a stable democracy for centuries, the recent data is just abnormal and can be ignored.