skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Friedman's model is now considered false, or at least only very conditional. It fits only certain economies.

Is Inflation Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3441104

>The relation between long-run inflation and the money growth rate is not proportional. The strong link between inflation and money growth is almost wholly due to the presence of high- (or hyper-) inflation countries in the sample. The relationship between inflation and money growth for low-inflation countries (on average less than 10% per annum over the last 30 years) is weak.
Whole-house air filtering costs me around 100-200 watts depending on filter state. It runs continuously roughly from the end of June to mid-November (particulates season).
What a beautiful and realistic reply.
Incentivising users to associate real world identities with their crypto identities by paying them $30 isn't a terrible idea. That's more than you get when some advertising giant builds a profile for you based on your browser characteristics. But preloading wallets and saying "use this wallet with you government ID to claim the money" fails to scratch the itch in so many ways:

- Users need to understand public/private keys so that the can rotate keys whenever necessary. They should have had users generate the wallets empty and then have them authenticate as a second step to get the payout.

- Maybe you need government-authored software to carry out the business of government, but since the chain is public and the keys can be used for signing things other than transactions there's no need for that software to ever see your private key. You ought to be able to handle everything you need by sending signed messages to the government app or having the government app examine the chain.

- Pairing an ID number with a photo of a face is not a valid authentication step. Neither of these things are secrets. You're going to need a government employee to look at the ID and the face before they accept the key, that way when skulduggery ensues, that employee can be found and questioned. Relying on non-secrets to do the job of secrets is a bad idea--as everybody who has a ssn knows.
So it sounds like $8k per month for a child is pretty reasonable, but then you hit economies of scale so the next kid will be a bit cheaper than the first to have.
> Look at nearly every 12v car or boat battery. You don't see those being replaced every 3-5 years. It is old reliable tech that just works.

I actually do see this all of the time. In decades of owning multiple cars I've found the batteries tend to fail so regularly at about the 5 year mark that you could set a watch to it.

They are easy to find and inexpensive to replace, but they absolutely do have a limited lifespan.
There’s also “levels” to the scale of stuff you wanna learn. You can learn deployments, testing etc that will carry over from small teams up to huge big tech size teams, but I’ve worked on projects with 200+ active maintainers and the problems there are different than problems and architecture you would find in a team of 10
I think it’s a reference to US leaders with European heritage use Swedish immigrants as exemplary prospects versus people from non-white nations.
HOMM3 had some pretty extensive custom maps and mods available - lots of time playing those.

Never really got into the sequels as much, HOMM3 always felt like a local maximum.

Fun fact: one of the modded scripts for HOMM3 was written by the developer of Dominion: https://opinionatedgamers.com/2012/05/11/the-art-of-design-i... and https://youtu.be/i6Uc1-AR4rM
Regarding screenshots, just crop the window borders. That way no one platform feels like "the main one".
What would be the benefit of moving from one mega billion dollar company’s server to another?
> People are fighting the wrong fight when they attack this guy

Point of order: author is a female and a housekeeper ("maid")
What can and cannot work on a small scale is generally an indication of how it would perform on a larger scale.

When trying to make a micro macro comparison, I tend to think of governance of nation states as very similar to governance of corporations.

When we think of the small scale that is governance of companies, we know intuitively that a company is best served by having sharp minded decision makers and having smooth talking sales people as a middle layer between company-wide strategy and the public... To put it another way, we intuit the following: A company where all decisions are decided by a diverse comitee of both the dumbest and the smartest would be a bit of a disaster.

The founding fathers of America's republic kind of knew all of this. They tried to put limits to voting in place that would serve to promote a sort of Proof-of-Stake in Democracy (land-owning family men vote, etc). Unpopular as the founders may be in the current attempted corporate neo-marxist zeitgeist, I do believe the founding fathers were on the right track to be limiting voting rights.
I actually find those pretty easy to block, by just not engaging with them at all. Being polite is only for gentlefolk, riff-raff have no requirement for it.
I think we are not in the same context as Europe after bubonic plague.
Another difference not mentioned by sibling comments is that ads are purchased. They are necessarily the domain of the well-funded and therefore already-powerful, and whose purpose is to typically to enhance their purchasers wealth or power. They are a tool for inequality.
I’d even go so far as to say ADHD folks have little to no choice on focusing on things that are exciting for inordinate amounts of time. Sometimes it’s something that resolves quickly (a squirrel! moment), sometimes it’s weeks of coding with little to no self care instead of doing the taxes.

A lot of the common comorbid issues of anxiety or depression can come from the anxiousness and self abuse that comes from doing the exciting/interesting thing despite their every attempt to do what they know they should be doing.

Add in little external beatings in some environments, and it isn’t a pleasant existence.
There's also an awfully short list of places in the US that sprawl more than Houston.

I'm not arguing that sprawl is inherently bad, but it definitely does add the need to own a car (for most people) and spend a lot of time in it (ditto).
The opportunity described is only common in a handful of companies in handful of cities. Outside of this it is going to be rare even in the US. Since Sweden doesn't have a large presence of these companies you are going to have to move to for example Zurich or London for it to be common. It isn't a Sweden versus US thing, it's a "achieving a high level in a major company that gives you stock" versus not. The opportunity still exists in Stockholm but requires more achievement, effort and luck because it is less common in absolute terms.

That said it sucks to work in Sweden because it's all about making money through inheritance, housing, stocks or contacts. But I guess that is how it is in many places these days.
This is my hypothesis. Severely reduced spending due to restrictions, combined with massive stimulus/Covid support leaves a lot of people with a lot of surplus dollars.

Even lower income people can sock away a few months of expenses and say “nah, I’m not going back to my old job, I’m going to take some time to figure out my next steps”.

Hell, I read that Vietnam’s economy was propped up by US Covid support that was sent to Vietnam by relatives.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/life/remittances-help-covid-hit...
This is a really good point, but my car batteries last between 3-5 years. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
I read a single dystopian book, and I care.

This is why I have never had a passport, drivers licence, bank account, utility, healthcare, education or had a job and paid taxes.
> it’s nonsense to claim this doesn’t happen. I am Swedish and have made significantly more in tech than the author. So has many of my friends

You state further down that you made this money from RSUs.

I’m not sure which bubble you/friends live in, but the absolute majority of tech workers do NOT get RSUs, even less often in the EU.
Heroes of Might and Magic is such a great long form gaming experience, whether you played solo or with some friends. GOG does provide access to new copies if you'd like it, but I have to highly recommend if you want to play on modern hardware to grab the open source VCMI Project engine for Heroes 3. Heroes 3 is often touted as the best of the series, and the cross platform engine allows you to play on modern Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

https://vcmi.eu/
Maybe, but I doubt it. It wasn't throwing any codes and I notice other Priuses also sagging by 5-8 mph on uphill sections of 280. Nowadays I habitually change lanes if I see a Prius in front of me just prior to an incline.
I don’t think anyone said that. Lots of people _do_ think you should feel guilt for privilege. Pretending those people don’t exist isn’t helping the progressive movement. It’s important for progressives to acknowledge and counter the people who wave the progressive flag but espouse the opposite of progressive ideals.
I'm curious what sort of tables you have in mind. At large, tables that I would use for a report don't seem that hard.

Now, as soon as I'm reaching for packages outside of core, things change. But, again, as soon as I do that in any other package, heaven help me. We still haven't made our tables on our tools site align the numbers on the decimal point.
Have not had to deal with spam on my personal Gmail address in the 10 years I've been using it, and I'm having the same experience running a big Workspace organization. Their spam/fishing detection is making my job a lot easier.
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. I’d rather encounter the occasional negative comment than have people treat me like an alien because they’re afraid of legal consequences.
Five times "why" tends to give us more answers.

1) Why is the labor supply so low? Workers are not interested in the relatively low salary for relatively bad working conditions.

2) Why do salaries not rise? Mid-term the hard cap for salary increases is the increase in worker productivity.

3) Why does worker productivity not rise? It does rise, but far less than inflation (about 1% p.a. for the last ten years). Mostly due to micro-optimizations of existing jobs.

4) Why can't we increase productivity significantly? It would require a shift in how we structure work, i.e. stop doing things that shouldn't be done in the first place instead of optimizing them. Existing jobs will barely change, new ones will.

5) Why is this process not faster? Because both institutions and people are unwilling to change behavior on a large scale. Institutions because they did not need to (before the great resignation) and worker mostly out of habit and complete lack of economic understanding, aka. salary must be earned in form of generating revenue, not in the form of passing time.
I'm missing what they did that denies others opportunity. Buying a couple houses in another state?

And sure, any wealth story has some piece that involves luck and/or timing. Nothing wrong with that.
How is it any different than determining if a credit card charge was fraudulent? Either way, someone "figured out a way" to extract funds.
Digital Ocean sends so much bad traffic in the form of bots trying to run cars numbers we’ve had their entire AS blocked for several years.
I would love to have found that magical car battery that doesn't die after 5 years or so. But the real comedy is that my EV is required to have one of them independent of all the lithium batteries, and if it discharges/fails, it's a whole fan dance to get into the car.
What Are the Causes of Inflation?
QOL staying the same is quite attractive.

Out of curiosity, how many millions of dollars-equivalent does it cost to buy heath insurance in retirement?

Isn’t that more attractive than what you need in the states?
'Language learning advice is conflicting,' 'Stick with a language, Whatever your method is, don't give up.'
'If your method doesn't work for you, change it.'

I agree with the author. I think a lot of language learning advice is of poor quality, or it's hard to establish complex behaviours simply from reading an article. It's hard to write stuff down that you could expect to improve the odds of the student. Learning a language on your own is a kind of a funny hack, it's like learning to program without access to a computer, it can be done but it needs specific techniques. I make software for learning languages, writing proper instructions for using it is something that I consider difficult and I don't attempt it. :)
Credit cards are centralized and it's trivial because of that.
No, but good to buy those too. You can buy these uncapped: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...
In the case of lossless files, the takeout files are empathically not the same files that were uploaded. Google Music would allow a user to upload lossless FLAC files, but internally it converted them to 320 kpbs MP3 files. So, GPM certainly transcoded a portion of uploaded files. I'm not sure to what extent it left files alone if they met Google's formatting specifications. Perhaps someone else knows.
“CEO of El Salvador”

This would be hilarious satire if the man wasn’t in charge of peoples lives.
Your TMZ article is about the Los Angeles DA filing a lawsuit on behalf of the property owners who lost value on their property when Banksy's work was defaced. It doesn't appear that Banksy, himself, is involved with the lawsuit at all.
AppStore is the default package manager in macOS since 2008, released fully mature a full year before Homebrew was conceived. Homebrew is still not mature, and only works for one user on a multiuser system. Every other available package manager doesn't have this flaw. Homebrew is worse than forgoing package management and just using git. Homebrew is pure hype, and without the hype, it has nothing.
Fixed url: https://www.eltis.org/in-brief/news/e-scooters-allowed-back-...
Being anti-mimetic and following lists is kind of... mimetic, ain't it?
Your savings account is getting drained every year. The mechanism is called quantitative easing.
At first I thought this was about Antimemetic tactics which would be far more useful as a lot of time and potential for original thoughts is wasted through the absorption of memes these days. Memes tend to stay in my head far longer than what seems healthy and makes it harder to be truly creative and imagine novel ideas.
Exactly. Saving $200k per kid for private college is not a “need” its a luxury. But a lot of upper class Americans see it as the “baseline”.
This is yet another social signal. You've created a group D by harping about Groups A, B and C.
I have definitely looked into getting the costs down, we’re not doing anything truly special.

Making use of best practice costs a lot more than most people expect, interzonal networking is charged, for example; a lot of people also assume that redundancies are built in to things like RDS or CloudSQL, but they’re not, and you should be having replicas.

And of course traffic to databases is interzonal networking.

It adds up, not a lot can be done In Many cases.
In software engineering there are always trade offs between approaches. There are no silver bullets. Context matters. OOP vs Functional, Monolith vs micro services, DRY vs duplication, Unit tests vs integration tests, and on and on. Don’t blindly adhere to what is claimed to be the best way or the right way to build software
Fat acceptance is particularly hard on the poor, minorities, and other groups that are over represented in obesity.
I've got my own novel fusion reactor design that really needs to be tested.

What do you do when you have an idea that could change the world? I wish I could drop it, but I can't. It haunts me with it's elegance and simplicity, and has defied all of my attempts to find flaws in the theory.

I'm trying to move forward on my own. I'm not comfortable selling a promise. I have no guarantee that my device will work, but I have no reason to believe that it won't.

It's great that all this money is being thrown at fusion recently, but that's almost the easy part.
The reason that motivated me to run a mailserver is best described as an artisanal choice, not a practical one[0]. After all, I'm running this on a constrained system and certainly don't have ambitious to scale this to corporate scales.

Like some other commentors here the point is mostly to learn and have something semi-useful at the same time (I've had some pleasant exchanges over my own email already.)

[0] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EmailServe...
I think this is a good point.

In the upper end, people don't need to work anymore. On the lower end, people don't see a reason to try anymore.

I'm in the top 30% percent bracket of income (despite being at the beginning of my career). I save more than 30% of my income. This year, the house prices increased so fast, that the downpayment roses by more than I could save in a year.

I can see people who are in the lower 30% bracket just giving up facing these numbers. What's the point? They could try all they want and work as hard they can and still not be able to make it. Might just as well do the minimum to scrape by and try to get ahold of some VR googles.
> Why? Is this guy some sort of nut job they are trying to ignore or is he playing nefarious games that might catch the ire of ad platforms for misbehavior?

Neither. Here's 'dang's comment when 'djsumdog was banned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25743498
Sure, but someone still makes a decision “yes this rent is worth it” or “no I’ll go somewhere else”.
And they could only produce a single gun bomb. The other one had to be Plutonium, meaning it had to have a neutron trigger, IIRC that involved Bohr. It took two bombs to end the war.
I love gas, I had a propane tank buried and migrated my range and hot water heater to gas. You can’t beat cooking with gas. I’m forced to use gas hot water since my electric service is a little too small to support on demand.

Electric is cool but I’m not tribal about it. We should all use what makes sense, in some cases that’s gas.
If it took a banner for you to realize people used Google analytics or similar services, then the banner isn't helping you avoid it.

You should've been running a blocker already. I run third party blockers as much as possible, but these banners are just excessive and useless.
Tankless is different, for obvious reasons.
How is it trivial to determine if a charge was fraudulent? Fraudulent charges are made in the exact same way as genuine ones.
Thats a nice improvement for them

Bitcoin would be calculated by value deemed as being defeauded from users onchain as payments and on exchanges, that year, and compared to a portion of its.. marketcap? or by quantity of non-fraudulent transactions?

Since bitcoin is all one kind of payment method (well lightning would be different), it would have to be compared to the other kinds mentioned in the nacha article too, ACH + ATM + Card fraud

For bitcoin I would say the data doesnt exist, but even with the headlines trying to break down just bitcoin for that year, it would be fairly low I’m thinking, even $1bn in fraudulent irrecoverable transactions would be a single digit. Percent or maybe down to a couple basis points as well just like NACHA brags about
And are into D&D? I'm going to have better luck finding that half a million job.
Your solution makes a lot of sense if sending emails through AWS is acceptable, but I'm not sure we can say it's self-hosted.
Sticking to an American frame and the principle of freedom of speech from the federal government, if the premier league or another private organization wanted to enforce this from the boundaries of their stadium, that's fine.(banning people from being racist at football matches). Having legislation create a system of using the top level government resources to patrol the internet for what they deem to be racist should be concerning to a statesman that holds the original principles of the federal goverment to be law. This is because not only could they liberally enforce this onto people who are not being racist, but also to decide some forms of actual racism isn't racist and create a class of people who are above justice without any check on this power at the country level(except a slow bureaucracy/judicial system). Of course, England can do what ever it wants. If this is across the board what english want for themselves, great for them!
This is what Yahoo was doing before Google took over.

(But of course it wasn't a volunteer public benefit effort like you describe.)
You'd have to ask them. I don't do anything deliberate myself to avoid that perception. Fortunately, 30+ years gives you time to go broad and deep, if you care to.
The US government subsidizes advertising on tax so that taxpayers pay for the privilege of being propogandanized to.
I wondered why this bug wouldn't raise itself as a data corruption problem, where url parameter keys or values had a semicolon in them on purpose, which would then corrupt the data.

It seems it's because you're supposed to encode semicolons. So while urllib.parse is doing the wrong thing, it doesn't come up much in practice because urllib.parse.urlencode() encodes the semi-colon as %3B.
> As an engineer, she's more bound by reality and reasons from first principles.

Reasoning from first principles (applying a priori dogma) and being bound by reality (responding to empirical cues) are generally opposed, the exception is when the dogmas are laid down by people who are bound by reality.

Much (but not all) engineering work is bounded by reality inherently because there is quick and non-murky feedback when it is wrong; this is a feature of the work, not the worker. Engineers working in economics (and even moreso in economic punditry than actual policy, though it's true either way) don't get that. And the available “first principle” dogmas they can choose to apply are either intentional pedagogical simplifications, poorly tested against reality by comparison to anything in most domains of engineering, or flatly falsified, often ideologically motivated, ideas.
"I do not understand why articles like these consistently score poorly on HN?"

Because the article pisses me off. This is not something helpful to us average peasants. No shit you can become a multimillionaire if you're pulling in over half a million per year. Maybe some of the advice I'd good, but it would be worth more coming from someone who actually is average so we can see it as evidence. Otherwise it's some rich person telling us what works based on their theory and an experience that's nothing like our's.
I have to tell you -- being patronized by a GPL advocate isn't a new or unusual experience for me, but, I'm still amazed people believe this is the way to win converts.

FOSS means Free and Open Source Software. And there are many views about that freedom. Not just Mr. Stallman's.

Yes, I'm aware of Android (ask yourself -- where are we having this discussion?). No, I don't think "The tech industry would be 99.999% owned and operated by Microsoft today if not for the efforts of the FSF and Stallman" is a reasonable view of the history.
FWIW, if I can offer you anything, it's a hint as to what you probably took.

The only thing I've ever taken + know of with even remotely a 24-hour duration is the "DOx" series, like "DOM", and "DOI", etc.

I felt like I had been dragged through hell and back after the time I willingly + knowingly took a single dose of DOI. No idea who thinks 24 hours awake tripping is a good time.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DOx

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DOM

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DOI

NBOMe wasn't discovered until 2003, and not popularized/available until ~2010. I've done my fair share of NBOMe and it lasts only ~5-6 hours.