skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's either ignorance or a plain lie

Ooh, boy. I had an incredibly long post with all the links to support my claim. Sadly, I am struggling to find it.

In the meantime, here is another comment I found, that makes the same points (just unsourced for now).

Every economic survey since 2011 said we need these laws. InterMinisterial Task Force during Vajpayee, Manmohan and Modi Sarkaars said we need these laws.

Multiple Dept of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare reports said we need these laws.

BKU leader said we need these laws. Today protesting BKU won’t accept that guy mediating. 2008 BKU protested FOR these reforms.

Most of the Farmers outside of Punjab/Haryana said we need these laws and support these laws.

PM Dr. Manmohan Singh, the best Finance Minister India has had, tried to implement these laws.

CPIM said we need these laws n got rid of APMC in Kerala. Congress said we needed these laws n put it in their 2019 manifesto.

For now, I can lay my reputation on the line and assure you that I have a fully sourced comment somewhere that makes these exact point. I will try to find it by tonight, and comment under here. (remind me if I forget)
It may be hard to find if you aren’t use to it. Normally you would call your doctor/clinic and schedule a test for the next day or so. A lot of times you can get into an office for a test same day (this is how you get sick notes for school) although it may not be with your preferred doctor and may just be a nurse giving the test. For covid, since it’s so widespread, there have been testing centers setup almost everywhere and a quick Google should give you a list of the closest ones. Again you can always go to a regular clinic for testing but they may not have same day service.

The emergency room is the last place you’d go for a simple test. The only reason you should go to the emergency for a test is if it’s heart related or you think you may die (an emergency.)
I'm very happy with the matias ergopro and am finishing up a design for a slightly larger than full size split keyboard using matias (alps style) switches. I'm adding an extra inner column on the left and right sides with duplicated keys from the other side. I got used to using either hand for those central keys on a normal keyboard so being able to use them that way on a split seems like a good thing to me. Since it's bigger, it'll be a bit pricey to build so I'm tempted to throw together one of those tiny keyboards with the reversible PCBs just for fun.
The affluent are invested in companies. Maybe I’m wrong but I’m going to guess American companies have multiple orders of magnitude more debt then the bottom 50% you’re referring to; just not nearly as much relevant to their greater assets. Some percentage of each company value is linked to their ability to take cheap debt, use that for further investments/acquisitions, and have inflation mitigate the damage (directly) or risk (indirectly via bailouts).

None of the above conflicts with your point about wealth but they seem like completely different metrics that aren’t inherently related.
"I like your Widget Max Pro, it's better than the Rival X1 I had last year. But I dropped it in the toilet and now it won't turn on, so I suspect you're lying about its IP56 rating".

Let's says that 1 out of every 3 product / service reviews is like this. Do you (a) block/filter them out and treat the remaining ones as non-personal data, or (b) treat your feedback pipelines/database as personal data regardless of whether some of the reviews are, somehow, devoid of personal data?

(Or (c), do you not think the example above contains personal data?)
> PIM (partner in mischief)

What do you mean? I haven't seen that expression anywhere and google wasn't helpful.
Agree with doing all 3.

Additional thoughts:
1. Can you ask to chat informally with the person leaving and see if there's a reason they all left? Might be interesting to know. Is this only on the one team or across the company?

2. Do you know if it's the type of culture that would punish you for holding the bag if things go south or one that would reward you? If the former, I would definitely change teams/companies. If the latter, it sounds like a great opportunity. If you aren't sure, maybe chat with other people to find out.

3. As mentioned, this could be a big opportunity. You could for example say that you'd be happy to run the team if they give you 2 engineers (or whatever you think you need). I wouldn't ask for a raise/promotion in the first conversation, but it's definitely something you want to discuss fairly early.

4. Definitely set up time with your higher level manager and see what their thoughts are. I would just be really up front with them, tell them how this definitely a unique situation, find out what their plans are, and let them know what you want to do. The worst thing is if they are hand wavy and give you a vague deadline for resolving things. Try to get to specifics, and even if they don't know, they should be able to give you a plan and a rough timeline for figuring out the resolution.

Also want to mention that I'm hiring, feel free to reach out to me if you're interested (see my profile).
It depends on the mindset I guess. I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been great, if a bit pricey.

Some things I’ve used it for, so far:

- As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice.

- Reading PDFs. Kindle won’t quite cut it, even with k2pdfopt – the screen size makes a difference. Plus, you can annotate them!

- Reading code. `npx repo-to-pdf some-repo` and then proceed as above. Great for getting oneself into a full-focus mode.

- Live-sketching at conference calls. I just share the reMarkable screen to my Mac and then share the companion app’s window on Zoom. Tried it out twice during internal brown-bags, worked very nice.

- As an actual toy. Getting grandma’s picture onto an e-ink screen and being able to draw a moustache lights up a big smile on my 8yo niece’s face.
This seems interesting but the rendering bugs on the website don’t give me much confidence.

https://ibb.co/DfNw2GV
https://ibb.co/FgW3jQb
When you look at how fraternal organizations with chapters are organized, from masons to motorcycle clubs, in aggregate they are pretty much the same. You could easily extend it to include the parish model of churches. A federation of small, rules and competence based hierarchies, who recognize one another and their implementation of the rules in a process called "concordance." They're distinct from the affinity and cell structure of movements because they have charters, rules, and consistency.

It's not unlike a franchise model, or the hybrid franchise/state model in Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash, which featured Greater Hong Kong as a franchise model.
What sounds different in this is these "new" network states are electronic.
If you have control of any resource though, one could trivially create their own crypto token so that to buy the resource, you have to buy the token to transact in it. It's really just like buying a call option on the underlying commodity.

A cartel could conceivably launch a narcodollar where the only way to buy narcotics would be by using it, and you would buy narcodollars with other currencies. The relationship between the demand for the tokens and the availability of the underlying would float. Anyone selling narcotics for anything other than narcodollars would be embargoed and sanctioned by a cartel, etc.

Might be interesting if the same could be done with a variation of agile story points in an organization, or even transferrable between FOSS projects to make determinations of what developer/user preferences for the tool is, with the underlying tokenized resource being contributor time. Someone may want to buy some clout with a FOSS project, and might bid for their story tokens in another currency. A contract on whether a given patch had a vulnerability in it could use the tokens as a bounty for a lockup period for anyone who wanted to win it, etc.

While I'm not quite sure, I think this is what DAO's were supposed to be, and the catastrophic failure mode of crypto has a kind of Hindenburg effect, where all anybody knows about airships is their failure mode is an inferno plumeting from the sky. Perhaps I'm missing what's distinct and net new about this Network State, but I suspect its success will depend on the resource it can tokenize.
The article states that this is a primarily Aboriginal area, who are vaccine hesitant. The Aboriginies clearly do no trust the Australian government and the vaccines:

Gunner said Binjari was a “low-vaccination community” and urged people to get vaccinated against Covid.

...

All 10 are Indigenous Australians aged between 17 and 78 and bring the territory’s cluster to 31 cases.
> Maybe it's because inflation is actually bad for the moderately affluent who made a disproportionate share of their income early in life and want to live off that nest egg while no longer working (which I assume to be overrepresented on HN).

But I am guessing that group has equities, which are somewhat inflation proof (especially if growth focused).
It's not very complicated when you remember that seafood kitchens don't hire anesthesiologists to drug up crabs.

Listen, I'm no vegan, I eat meat and I don't condemn others who do the same. But "X animal can't actually feel pain" is blatant cope and I don't go for that. If you can't stomach the reality of animals feeling pain, then stop eating them.
Maybe Matt Damon pushed his likability over the top.

If Willem Dafoe was cast, it could seem different :)
Ask HN: What's “the best” or your preferred platform to build ecommerce sites on
Repositories, DataSources, and USeCases as Flutter Best Practices
The create npx command has a typescript option, the entire framework seems to be typed nicely, the demo was all typescript. I’d be surprised if they didn’t write the whole thing in it.
X-ray time lapse of fluid movement in plants, and more
the prompts were removed a few hours ago
Same here. My M1 Air is good, and I use it for light purposes, but once Asahi becomes viable, OMG.
NVIDIA should hire the guy, then hire whoever he says he wants on the team and let them rip. That's what I'd do if I were in their shoes. Viable paths off C/C++ are badly needed, and currently the only real viable path with an ecosystem and community is Rust.
https://archive.md/8exQJ
Just hit the power button 5 times on my iPhone 13 Pro, and it locked down FaceID as I'd expect (while bringing up the Reset/Power Off screen). You've described an alternative method, not the only.
> $81,376 average wage

This statistic is insufficient. One also needs to calculate wage per unit time ($/h), work schedule (Mon to Fri 8AM to 5PM or evenings/nights/weekends/holidays), constantly changing work schedules, mortality/morbidity risk including wear and tear, work atmosphere (dealing with volatile or rude people in general public facing role versus working only with other professionals).

All the people who work in positions where they have to physically show up must be aware that they need to be charging extra for being in a position where they have to physically show up relative to others got the benefit of sitting at home.
If we had asked people thirty years ago whether a single company, not a police department or other government agency, could, with consent, collect the most human fingerprints in history, would people have been likely to point out various obstacles and/or doubt it was even possible. Further, would they ever agree that these prints could be collected not for employee access to company resources but for access to people's own personal effects! (Company retains remote access to devices storing personal effects.)
Package Updater: Handle everything related to package versioning
Introducing Package Updater, an app that gives you everything you need to reliably update the npm package versions your projects depend on.
I think the goal here is to avoid needing something like react query. The loader functions you write execute on the server and pull data that is needed by the component.

You can of course still use react query/swr/redux tool kit etc if you want. Remix doesn't limit what you can do and still fully supports any of these and other client side tools.

Remix just encourages to make better use of server side code instead of shoveling everything into the client.
> combined with that audience creates a lot of "nostalgia" for lack of a better term.

Memberberries
Yea hindsight is 20/20

But even 10 years ago, I think Apple/Google/Microsoft were pretty safe bets
Turn those rocks into rockets or rocketfuel, launch elsewhere in the solar system, rinse and repeat
Network issues, diagnosed or not, should not affect the performance of local UI operations. "Don't perform I/O on the UI thread" has been a maxim for decades.
My 3 Favorite this year:
418: I Am a Teapot by Edgar Scott
Automatic Reload: A Novel by Ferrett Steinmetz
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow

After Meta I had to re-read:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
We're in the same boat. Wouldn't give up Phoenix on the backend for anything. We are gradually adopting LiveView with great support for components. Have you tried it?

Agree Remix looks good though!
In the Lisp world... it is ambiguous if functions or macros are called at compile time or runtime.

I'm not sure if this is kosher in the world of Rust, but...

static RAY_STACK: [Shared<Ray>; 2000] = [Shared::new(Ray::default()); 2000];

This could still work, if Shared::new(...) were a compile-time function. Or a language-extension that looked like a compile-time function.

EDIT: You wouldn't be allowed to have Shared::new inside of a loop or a recursive function though. But as long as you had assurances that any such Shared::new instance ran exactly once throughout the code, it might work?

Or maybe that's too ugly. "static" probably captures the idea better
some people are responsible with their money and make enough to allow that responsibility to occur.

not many anymore, but some.
How does that feedback loop work?

People not spending money decreases the velocity of money, which effectively reduces the money supply, causing deflation. Similarly, the drop in demand itself acts as a counter pressure to inflation by simple supply and demand.

Not only does this not make sense as a feedback loop, but until the 1970s, the economic consensus was that it was impossible to have both high inflation and a recession at the same time. This view was only overturned when it happened, and the phenomena came to be known as stagflation.
> I'm hoping this comment doesn't summon him

This is extremely odious. HN is a public forum and everyone has the right to reply to your comments, especially if you mention them.
For a lot of it this comes down to mortgages. Someone who has a $4million mansion with a $1million loan has more debt in an absolute nominal number sense than someone with no assets and a $10k credit card debt. That said as household debt increases (due to things like credit cards) we are having a shift whereby many people on net own less than zero. For this group higher inflation won't be as bad as the impact on wealth as far as the debt/assets side of things goes. However it will still likely be bad for the poorest because wages tend to lag behind inflation and if the poorest people need their wages to service their debts they might still be falling behind more as a result of inflation. As always inflation will still be bad for anyone who is attempting to save money. On top of all this we have things like the Cantillon effect, so I just don't think higher inflation is as good for the poor - even with their newfound indebtedness - as people might be claiming.
Show HN: Caf.js-Give superpowers to IoT devices/Web Apps with a cloud assistant
There's a great video about that too. "The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" by Oh The Urbanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E

One of the interesting points is that there is a commonality between those suburbans and people who want walkable urban areas: few of us want to deal with the problems of lots of cars driving around us.
A self sustaining colony in Antarctica would be a good blueprint for a similar one on the Moon or Mars. Remember Biosphere 2?
still i think any company not doing usb-pd over usb-c is basically actively hostile & malignant. it shouldnt be necessary that companies need regulation to use it. companies should just play nice & do it.

it is slightly irksome that usb-if certification is an arbitrary regulator & gate; i like in principle the eu's attempt to usurp control & allow "compatible" alternatives, allow them to not certify. byt in practice companys will take liberty & we'll end up with a bunch of almost compliant Switches, proprietary inaccessible hacks like QuickCharge, or worse just deliberately obstructionist nonsense.

i also think there's a certain brilliance though. simply insisting the connector fit, be the same, brings expectations. disobeying the expectation- usb charging not working, usb peripherals not working- invites in erath of consumers. who dares put type-c on a device but fails to become usb-c compliant? we will not forgive this. nintendo loses a lot of face for messing up. rpi barely squeaked a pass when they messed up.

oh, and... we're right on the cusp. usb3 is a legacy product, a legacy idea. usb4 is technically way way way better, far more sensible a consumer experience. but it's not really here yet. it's only available in high end/luxury compute right now. if usb4 had arrived in force if device chips were starting to be usb4, if usb4 werent an expensive & good new nervous system but something fully available, i'd be far more of a believer in a standardizable, regulated world.

if usb-c & usb-pd are not your company's plan today, it should be in the future & you should declare yourself for it, say how long we have to wait before you do the right thing.

usb, remarkably, really is universal. anyone pretending otherwise pretends to be a god of their own universe.
Ah i missed those cause this is different from the demo they showed. But the point still stands. There’s not a useDtate per form field which is how react normally handles forms
Yeah, kind of weird there's no smart ARC class, although I suppose you need a way to override it when you need a weak reference. I guess it would be trivial to add one?
Only some equities are inflation proof. Other equities will be crushed by inflation because inflation will put pressure on higher interest rates and companies with high debt loads will get crushed by higher rates.
I think people will be happier about turning the rest of the solar system into o'neil cylinders than they would of Earth. There's plenty of potential volume, it's just not in the right form yet.
>Side project is turning into a startup and I can't legally work on it anymore because of visa rules.

These things drive me nuts. Example: We're in Algeria. We're in the process of hiring an engineer who happens to be Algerian, but is going to move abroad. We work remotely so no biggie, we'll just wire the money in Euros. Nope...The law forbids a company registered in Algeria to pay an employee holding an Algerian citizenship in any other currency than DZD. DZD is unusable anywhere else than in Algeria. You can't transfer it.

You know what the bank and accounting firm (big 4) told us ? "the employee could come back once a year to Algeria and withdraw their salary from their local bank account". Are you fucking kidding me ?

They also said "if the employee holds another citizenship, you could hire him as a foreigner in an expat capacity".

Sometimes you wish legislators and bureaucrats had worked a day in their life in the real world.
Made me think of Ethereum's remix, an amazing IDE all-in experience to write smart contracts: https://remix.ethereum.org/
Apple's entire USP is vertical integration. The fact that Linux is significantly more responsive than Mac on the same hardware is an embarrassment to Apple.
I learned to program in a similarish vein (different languages), but with monocolor screen and reference books. However, now when I login to a system where vi is not mapped to vim so that the syntax highlight is not brightly colored, I quickly exit, create that alias to vim, and go again. Coding without syntax highlighting is caveman style to me. It can be done, but I really don't like how it slows things down now.

I do agree that quickly jumping to an online reference because you can't remember the order of the parameters for a particular method is a crutch that if you were forced to remember would remove that slow down. But at least I'm able to remember the correct method vs having to search for which method is needed and when.
It doesn't really promote its use, but it's exceedingly easy to use cache headers with Next.js if you're using getInitialProps or getServerSideProps.

My issue with Next.js (alongside lack of nested routes) is that it has a handful of weird light abstractions which make things marginally easier for developers for the most common cases, but completely tie the hands of people who know what they're doing. To that end, Remix is a little more appealing.
The flip side of patent expiration is that a rival company would need the infrastructure and capability of manufacturing the drug.

For something like Aspirin, that's not a high bar to clear, an avid experimenter could probably do that in their basement, but for gene therapy drugs I feel confident in saying that it's orders of magnitude higher.

Then again, they could kickstarter it and say that if they get X orders or raise Y money they'll do it, make and sell the 20-30k doses for everyone and then close up shop with a healthy profit.
You’d like to think that, but we’ve had multiple beagle rescues who would disagree. And they were the control population because the actual test subjects get killed.
I think your analysis is largely correct. Fundamentally, the idea of a network state is a relatively inductive synthesis of the plausible emergent dynamics of several new technologies. Specifically, crypto and VR/AR seem to be important pillars given the degree they will allow you to "shim" and inductively hill climb many of the moving parts of a country-scale society before the country needs to go physical. (For example, a fully modelled 3D world citizens are already de facto living in, as well as a robust, well developed economy among them and external trade partners.)

It's really hard (for me) to predict what the terminal stable state looks like. Trying to predict for example just the current tokenization going on in crypto at the time of the Bitcoin genesis block would have been extremely difficult. (Not to mention DeFi and other downstream financial implications.)
They won't notice because the dopamine reinforcement of media-reality is too large. Media and marketing is just hacking the circuits of the brain that we all have.
Not that I know of, but my memories may be fake.
Given that Japan is mysteriously inflation-proof, why doesn’t the government take advantage of that by monetizing the debt? Just directly pay government expenses with new money instead of selling bonds. There’s huge risks to doing that, of course, but they could start small.

Japan’s nominal GDP has barely grown over the past 30 years, and the debt-GDP ratio is huge. This would help in two ways: reduce the deficit, and increase nominal GDP.
It would be interesting to see if these results replicated when the target was "home encyclopedia set" or "university library"

Probably not possible these days since it would be hard to test when people already have internet access l, and part of that access can include these things.

But I suspect this phenomenon is not unique to the internet, and would be more generalizable to any readily available source of information. Though the effect would probably increase with ease of access, so the internet would produce a larger effect. I acknowledge this is just speculation though.