skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandemic response: tech has continued to distract society from simply learning its needs and creating covid bubbles large enough to meet everyone's needs within the bubble so people don't have a reason to leave the bubble.

Instead, we have mass isolation, instead of population-density diminishing tactics that respect human needs, and mandates for behaviors.

So much for freedom.

Anyway, where's the app for building a big covid bubble or quickly joining one after following quarantine procedures for that bubble?
Then AWS isn't really targeting you as a customer though. Most of the web really isn't that critical and can survive a few hours outage occasionally.
Another recent example: the Cuomo brothers, one politics, one media.
The EU runs bug bounty programs for open-source software. But I'm not sure if the EU directly funds open-source projects.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/eu-fossa-bug-bounties-full-fo...
Unnecessary tech in kitchen appliances. Ovens, dishwashers and washer/dryers. I spend most of my time battling the user interface or dealing with obscure bugs.
It has split screen multiplayer, I did it last night
My feeling is that businesses might be way more sensitive to that given current unprecedented conditions. I’d like to know if they’ve modelled a scenario where interest rate rises actually make inflation worse by hitting supply.
Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care
That tweet has since been deleted. I haven't seen anything so far to indicate that log4j v1 is affected.
Speaking of destroying desktops: there was a nice screensaver for Windows : Gates does Windows 95.
You are describing a professional society.

Typically engineers for example will join something like IEEE, ASME, or AIChE.

The reason for this difference is that in the case of well paid, in demand professions like engineering, it is typically a better strategy to just have enough money stored to to bridge the gap and move on to another job quickly if your employer is shitty.

Laborers don't typically have those privileges, so they form organizations that help them defend their current jobs.
But you log strings, not bytes, meaning that the escape sequences are escaped, unless there's a severe bug in the logger.
Imagine having this stance on employees striking for a better compensation.

Yeah fuck it if this is bad, then I definitely don't want to be good.
No:

* https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
Just a smattering of articles from the last week:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/science/robots-pancake-ju...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/travel/biometrics-airport...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilo...

Which is the sort of thing they had in Wired and Omni. (We should be careful not to romanticize the omni/wired days. They weren't deep technical articles like HN has, but still interesting new tech that was somewhat hyped up.)
> populist dumb inflation from printing too much money

Inflation doesn't work that way. Nor does "printing money"

This inflation is caused by actual short supply of goods seemingly from putting multiple chips on everything.
There's no audio in MIDI - midi is like a machine readable sheet of notes.
1995 Radio Shack Catalog
> but half of them break after a few years or less

One of the biggest downsides is that these type of things contribute to pollute our world twice: when they are made, when they need to be trashed away. Brands that have products that in average break after a very short time should be banned or shouldn't be sold at all.
This is called the "Silurian hypothesis" and is named after the Doctor Who episode that showed an advanced dinosaur race called the "Silurians" that went into cryo millions of years ago.

Some real geologists explored the idea (someone could find the paper and subsequent news articles) and I think the conclusion was that on geological time periods, there might not be much left for us to find.
I'm not so sure a Sanders presidency with a Republican congress would have been super different. He promised to also crack down on immigration, impose tariffs, end trade deals, and pull out of Afghanistan. He is/was also very skeptical of longstanding alliances and NATO. With not power to legislate, he'd have likely done some similar things as an executive.

Would he have been as embarrassing and corrupt, probably not, but there more to an administration than all of that.
Same with restaurant or bars. More and more use some scummy third-party platform that requires an account, asks for more personal information than necessary and will no doubt use said information for nefarious purposes such as spam.

Similarly, since the pandemic, paper menus have been replaced by a stupid QR code that often loads a bloated page or PDF and may contain trackers. Doesn't help that phone service is usually terrible, and Wi-Fi (if it exists) has a captive portal with its own set of problems.

Worse, some venues actually did ordering over the mobile website, so what used to take 10 seconds of telling the barman what you wanted now takes a minute of trying to load a terrible website, filling out a form with way too much personal information, waiting for the payment to process, etc.
Based on my anecdotal experience this seems to very much understate inflation.
How is housing up only 3.8%? This site says over 17% rent increase nationally over the last year: https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/national-rent-data which seems to be more accurate. Anyone with a web browser knows that home prices have experienced a monumental increase.

Also a trip to the grocery store appears to cost me 50% more now for essentially the same goods. Every trip to the store pre-covid cost me around $100, now its $150. I do buy primarily proteins so that is the source of the increase but to ignore that seems ill advised.

Not generally a conspiracy theorist but unless the people that built this report are using some accepted formula that is very different than the real world this report seems to be intentionally underselling inflation.
I agree intent matters. But if the intent is to strike, which is what my posts are in the context of, the intent is obviously to cause headaches. That's what strikes do - cause inconvenience (less production, picket lines slowing traffic into/out of the workplace, etc.) so that demands can be heard.

>Put another way, if I and a group of friends coordinate to call your office and tie up all of your phone lines, should there be legal consequences for my group?

I think this is somewhat detached - your friends aren't striking workers trying to make a point - but I think it somewhat depends on what easily available mitigations I could employ. Can I simply block the numbers? Then I should do that. Can I rate-limit the number of times a certain number can call me? Then I should do that as well.

More illustratively, if my phone system is poorly designed and only accepts 1 phone call every 5 minutes or it crashes, should there be legal consequences for someone who calls twice in that 5 minute period? I say this, because if a website has no rate-limiting, no captcha, and can easily fall over -- is it really solely the fault of the striking workers who manually submit applications?
Again: intent. If your intent is to harm/sabotage the company, it's beyond a protest.
I've heard this a few times but I haven't heard any of the economists I follow on Twitter talk about it (which doesn't necessarily mean anything). Are there any more well-known sources of discussion for this?
> Taking one of those jobs does nothing to advance a person’s position

I don't believe that anyone taking these positions are doing it in order to advance their career.

> will probably leave them worse off

Worse than homeless, starving, and possibly dead?
Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (2018)
Exactly.

> This is a huge drain on the economic productivity of the younger generations

Economists have attempted to quantify the effects of this, and the numbers are huge: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
I also have a hunch that people on the autism spectrum / Aspergers would end up gravitating towards monastic life in the past.
Tell that to the people writing PS modules. :) Put, Update, Update, Put? PS is a good example of overdesign imho. Also, one can compare for instance Az CLI with Az PS. Takes at least 5 times longer to do anything in Az PS.
bash has a couple of shell options [1] which can improve handling of unmatched globs:

> failglob

> If set, patterns which fail to match filenames during filename expansion result in an expansion error.

> nullglob

> If set, Bash allows filename patterns which match no files to expand to a null string, rather than themselves.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Shopt...
Ethics is dependent on the context of what system or culture you are asking about. For example, medical or legal ethics, the ethics of modern American software developers living in an urban area in the US. Or London? So you can't say whether it's ethical or not without that context. It's the rules, laws, and even generally accepted behavior of that society, culture, or organization that tells you what is ethical.

Having morals might actually be about the only thing unethical for a lawyer.

If you were Amish, it would definitely be unethical to own a car even if you needed it for some good reason.

I can't think of too many other situations where simply owning a car would be outright unethical - generally and widely frowned upon, illegal, or against norms or rules.

Moral? that's up to you.
How many Code of Conducts have been added to repository since people have been asking for them?

The collective bargaining I was suggesting was to talk with your own companies which have a business relationship to Kellog.

Work in a hotel that has minicereal boxes? Get with purchasing to stock a different brand. Work in a grocery? Ask the owners to stock a different brand on a public forum.

See Kellogg flakes at a friend's or family's house? Ask them politely not to support union busting.

Daily call one local business until they agree not to stock Kelloggs.
It's also traditional to hold vigil for an Orthodox Christian who has died for the first three days after their death, where someone is reading aloud the Psalms in the same room as their body the entire time.
That will disproportionately affect lower income households who can't as easily withstand these rising costs, which further drives income inequality.

> Rising oil prices makes the market naturally move away

This is trivialization of the transition as the worlds depends oil in many ways: development of cars (electric or otherwise), airplanes, solar panels, vaccines, acetaminophen, etc. -- these are all petroleum-derived products.

I recommend this article on the difficulty of the transition
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/11/en...

Given this dependence, axing our production just means we have to rely more on other countries and given that climate change is a global problem -- what's the difference? If we do it here, perhaps we innovate on making its extraction more eco friendly (which has been the case for the last 20 years)
GOAT or something, tbh Caruana was better challenger.
It will depend on your use cases. Better to check updated roadmaps too. The final gap won’t be too big IMHO
When I say more freedom, I primarily mean freedom to focus on the problem domain and freedom to contribute in a major way more quickly. Upon reflection, I realize that my expression about optimal solution was about optimality in modeling and understanding the problem domain vs. wrestling organizational programming pattern you're trying to learn / hold in your mind while also trying to solve the domain (which you don't have to do as much with scala's compiler)

And in terms of morale, I view almost the opposite of what you're saying. Because types and the compiler enforce correctness in the program and
compatibility within our systems I can have a relatively junior person thinking more about the domain and knowing that they can get something "real" into prod much more quickly with almost no risk to the org. They can move on to bigger blocks of work more quickly. Solving real, big problems and making impact gets engineers jazzed up. Regarding compilation, I find the "this won't compile" phase is almost non-existent in practice. People quickly adapt from "this thing doesn't compile [insert sad longing for python]" to "this thing won't compile - somewhere there's a misalignment with what I said I'm going to do (via types) and what I'm actually doing, [insert silent acknowledgement that they would have shipped an error in python and not known it]."

I'm not seeing where the gap is between A and B except that in option A it appears that there is no compiler involved, which per the above, means that I have to ask them to focus more on exercising mental discipline about coding conventions (boring, low value add work) and also I can't allow them to contribute as quickly because the risk they threw an exception somewhere they shouldn't have (e.g.) is higher.
There are better ways to write the pattern but the idea is having the elements in one place so if the site changes you can update them quickly, and then in your code accessing them by variable name. It's much cleaner, easier to edit if they change the UI (which happens) or if they use a web framework like React that has strange elements to access.
Might and Magic
Agreed. It's way too early to say that this inflation is not transitory. Check back in a year and if it's still at this level then it's not transitory, but for now it's too early to make that call.
Since there's currently an article about quaternions on the front page, it felt like a good time to bring up bivectors, which in my opinion are a much more elegant way to do rotations.

Particularly, I think this part is insightful:

> In 3D, a bivector has three coordinates, one per plane: (xy, xz, and yz). Vectors also have three coordinates, one per axis (x, y and z). Each plane is perpendicular to one axis. This is a coincidence that only happens in three dimensions and it is why historically we have been confusing bivectors with vectors.
Unfortunately, this category of misinformation they are trying to solve for does not appear to include things like p-value hacking, sample bias, n=few, publication bias, obfuscated code and models, irreproducible results that support talking points, working the ref, noble lies, narrative control, blackmail, and diversion and other activism tactics.

There is this game of chicken, where people affiliated with authorities (like the authors) are lying to sustain a narrative, and when you call them on it, their reaction is to shrug as though they are merely a prosecutor advocating on behalf of their just case, and as though they are not being held to standards of truth or civil discourse. The people concerned about fighting misinformation should probably admit they belong to a class of people who have also been complicit in producing it in the first place. I don't think this is a question of science, it's one of reconciliation.

The kernel of truth of every conspiracy theory is that you are being lied to by someone, and it's just a quesiton of whether you think that matters or not. Above a certain level of education, there is a belief that if you just protect the narrative, the narrative will protect you, but for people who can sense when they are being decieved, this is an evil worth courting civil conflict over. I can only assume the talking heads and censors know this and don't care, which of course, exacerbates the conflict, because it just confirms the suspicions of people who know they are being lied to.

The people lying don't think they're lying because that presupposes the existence of truth - a premise they reject, because when all is narrative, power, and perception, it doesn't matter. Maybe they know they're nihilists, maybe they don't. The consequences of this conflict over whether Truth exists at all have only been relatively cold and non-violent because the people being lied to don't want to escalate it, because they understand the consequences, and so they have contorted themselves into believing that the people lying to them are just idiots. The moment they detect the self awareness on the part of the people lying to them, and the utter mendacity can no longer be ignored, it's going to go up in flames really fast.

This article is just an example of rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
That site only does apartments for rent not purchased condos or houses right?
There are tools that use their own metacharacters (mmv(1) comes to mind).

The issue with find here is that globs act consistently, but the returned behaviour is dependent on when the evaluation is performed.

find(1) treats * just as the shell does, but only if the shell hasn't got to the * first. So to prevent the shell from pattern-matching any * characters, you've got to quote or escape them using single quotes (') or backstrokes (\).

Quoting to prevent interpretation of metacharacters is actually commonly encountered in computer contexts. I'm having to quote instances of * but not \ for example in this comment to HN as both have semantic meaning to the content parser. Note that the escape character '\' is only significant when used immediately preceding a *.
Wage inflation that never has come since half a century. Also, it's delusional to think that immigration is related to national inflation.
From the article:

"The US had offered four assurances, including that Mr Assange would not be subject to solitary confinement pre or post-trial or detained at the ADX Florence Supermax jail - a maximum security prison in Colorado - if extradited.

Lawyers for the US said he would be allowed to transfer to Australia to serve any prison sentence he may be given closer to home.

And they argued Mr Assange's mental illness "does not even come close" to being severe enough to prevent him from being extradited."

So assuming that the international community cannot avoid his extradition, to make sure that those assurances are true and can be hold, would be already a win, no?
Almost all "moar housing" discussions, at least on HN, call for building medium-and-dense urban apartments, which tend to be smaller than average sizes of housing. You never hear YIMBY advocates calling for building more 3500 sq.ft. single family suburban or rural homes.
Not to mention fairly regular extrajudicial lynchings. The rule of law is respected far more today than it was in the 1770s.
That seems like an oversimplification because gas prices are at a 2012 level.
> the housing just isn’t there

If only it were possible to stack dwellings on top of one another. Perhaps someone like Elon Musk will figure out a way!
Patrick Collison’s Advice
I think legislatures and code bodies will workaround this by removing references to particular codes and adding requirement to carry insurance. And before an insurer will cover a dangerous piece of equipment, they are going to insist on an engineering inspection and report declaring the equipment is safe to operate and inspectors and engineers mostly rely on the published codes.
Meanwhile, in Brazil: 10.74%. Now, the pandemic first made consumption decrease and it created deflation in the beginning. As people start buying again, and employment still hasn't fully recovered, it is normal for inflation to become stronger.

The next year pandemic will hopefully be over, but if employment still hasn't fully recovered, we can see even more inflation.
Just to show how far we've come, here is Spacewar (1963) running on a PDP-1:

https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw?t=780
Maybe not advertising completely but at least targeted advertising. Many problems and borderline unethical business models stem from targeting.
What’s a Time Crystal? how do Google use quantum computers to make them
Due to selection effects, I wouldn't find it too surprising that the "middle of the road" (ie. 50th percentile) of developers with a job is equal to the 80th percentile of developers seeking a job.
That's what a poorly articulated propaganda campaign looks like.

The better ones you can't tell so easily.
If something is so obvious as to need no explanation, it just might be worth understanding what about it is causal. What can be done given the predisposition to obesity in a time of abundant necessities? It seems your conclusion is to let it go to the joint processes of sin and natural selection, which would tend to call into question your moral certainty.

EDIT: Another post today titled "Causal Information Affects Decisions" seems relevant here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509236
Delightful program, another oldie but a goodie is the 'melt' app which melts down all of the ui elements on your screen. I remember, back in the day, setting my display variable to that of my colleagues and surreptitously running melt.
>> Plenty of people live quite well in denser environments

> Very few do.

So the people living in NYC, LA, Chicago, etc are not living well? That's news. Tell me how else I'm not living.

Outside of the very core of these cities, you can live, and live well while benefitting off of all the things large urban centers provide (culturally, financially, etc).
I'm saying that

>> I can go to a warehouse here in cheap Central PA and have a job tomorrow making $30-35/hr working on the loading dock. You can live on that here

isn't going to get you enough to live in the Bay Area.

> Is it really a lack of jobs driving these young people to crime, like the essay claims?

No, it's their own moral weakness plus perceived opportunity. I thought I made that clear in my previous comment.
Use old and sadly insecure hardware/software?

I think "security" is used as a crutch and an excuse too much.

As a retro hardware enthusiast, very often the hardware isn't insecure. It's just that someone somewhere got lazy or greedy or both and decided to do something that makes the hardware not work right anymore. Things like billion-dollar game companies that shut down servers that cost them all of $5,000 a year to run. It's less than is spent on a single coffee maker, but the company decides to cut off all of its existing customers because they only number in the hundreds, not the millions.

As to "security" — Keeping financial records on a 1982 TRS-80 is far more secure than keeping them on any modern laptop.
Th narrative of "the west doesn't manufacture anything" is greatly oversold. The US makes more steel than it did 40 years ago, for example. Sure, we make fewer hairs and t-shirts, but it's natural for that stuff to chase lower labor costs. We're also an agricultural powerhouse.

Now, for sure we have fallen a bit behind in making chips, but that may change.
Well, they've written their reasons down: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/19/federal-reserve-powells-5-ke...

Basically they can only control inflation in the future, and they believe the inflation we've just seen is a result of the one-off of the pandemic response. Given that the interest rate mechanism affects inflation by increasing unemployment and harming the economy, they don't want to do that until it's necessary.

(I should note that it's theoretically possible to do inflation control by fiscal policy, i.e. mop up some of the spare money by taxation, but that's obviously not going to happen)
It's not too early to call it transitory, but it's too early to call it not transitory? Why does the counter view have a higher standard of evidence?
How feasible would it be to do a pilgrimage there without knowing Greek?
> I would love to understand why the fed hasn't increased interest rates to counter the rapid increase of inflation..?

Will increased interest rates unclog ports and reduce transportation costs? Will it reduce gas prices? Will it shift spending from goods to services?

It is necessary to look at the components of the CPI to see where the increases came from instead of looking at just the headlines.