skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How governments actually measure and compute inflation is a complex and fascinating topic on its own. Here's a great overview of how it's done in the USA: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/28/how-does-...

Basically, each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hires people to manually look up the price (online, in person, of by telephone) of 80 thousand different items, then computes a weighted average price change. The weights come from the Consumer Expenditures Survey (conducted by the Census Bureau on behalf of the BLS) of 8 thousand households to collect data on how much they spend on what.
need i remind you iran had a coup organized by cia and british inteligence because the ruler decided to nationalize oil and not give in to shell? what happened in 79? there was no nuclear threat back then. it was just oil and control.

funny you mention nuclear tech. the iran deal was supposed to prevent that and it was usa who shot that down, not iran and you blame them for trying?

you may not know this but the reason for sanctions on iran is to specifically install a government that is kind to israel because israel lobbies for that in us congress and they have installed the whole "oppose israel=support holocaust=hitler bad".
they could not do arab spring there so more sanctions.
Oh I love the Chrome example, that could mean that one can watch Netflix in 4K under Linux.
We've seen massive supply chain disruptions over the past two years. It's seems incredibly obvious that that would have an impact on available supply
This strikes me weird. This software seems to be under the "Apache" umbrella. But this guys last plea for support is on his own blog. Beyond the "how do we fund open source" thing in the piece, I'm left with too many "what's going on" questions around this. Does Apache support it? Why or why not?

Getting back to the blog, he says the comms piece is his unique selling point. OK, so people don't want to support the open part but yet it's missing a rather important piece. Is that correct? The whole thing just left me a bit confused.
2008 called, they want their comment back
Thanks so much for that, Bart!

Never met you, but it sounds like you are a decent sort.

In some cases, being an ex-con can actually be an advantage. I know quite a few, and some of them are amazingly clever folks (some are total dumbasses, too). Seeing what Savanta does, it might be a great idea to consider a non-standard (but also highly educated, and highly experienced) content expert.

Good luck to everyone.
The official CPI for "Food at home"[1] rose 10.6% in the past two years, so that accounts for a quarter of the difference. As for the rest, my guess it's a combination of your numbers not being reflective of the nation-wide average, your basket subtly changing (ie. buying more premium goods), and you spending more on "food at home" because you no longer go out to eat.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAF11
Disabling USB in BIOS only disables the emulation of classic PS2 keyboards and IDE storage so that old OSes or bootloaders without USB stacks can work with modern equipment. As soon as the OS kernel initializes the PCI bus, USB will work again - however they could go and remove the xHCI modules from the kernel and image.
Less goods were produced during the pandemic, the ones available are sold at higher prices. Even worse, tech products, that used to be cheaper by the year and drive down inflation, are now in high demand as employees work from home driving prices up.

And just wait for people to travel again and catch up with lost trips. Hotels are going to be quite expensive, and that industry is in need of money so do not expect them to moderate that increase.
The "95" in N95 represents the filtration effectiveness.

So _any_ leakage means the mask fails in it purpose of filtration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Async/await#History

F# in 2007

C# in 2012

Python in 2015

Typescript in 2015

Javascript in 2017

Rust in 2019

C++ in 2020

Swift in 2021
Participated in a lot of hiring at a hyper growth startup in London.

The recruiters get your CV, go to your linkedin. See if it matches good enough. Look throug your linked to see if there is something they can use (they are human resource after all) and then maybe push you one up in the hiring pipeline process. Next step is reading / skimming the other stuff you sent over.

Without linkedin you and they have more work in the first step, so even though I hate linkedin with a passion and use its stream mostly as an art project, for jobsearches you should use it.
Not a good example, since the Firefox experiment is going to be way more tolerant if rust's shortcomings than the rest of the industry.
Lawsuit aiming to break up Facebook group Meta can go ahead, US court rules
I did the same. My schedule was:

- leave home at 7:30am to arrive to work at 9am

- work from 9am to 16 (so 7h, my company allowed me to do so with the corresponding pay decrease)

- university from 16 to 18 (sometimes 16 to 19)

- back at home between 20 and 21

- go to bed at around midnight

I did this for a year (I was 25 years old). It was hard. Main reason to do it was: don't lose a year of work experience, don't lose a year of salary.
Why would code dependent on third party libraries break? It’s not like crates.io is going to stop hosting them when they become unmaintained. Barring security vulnerabilities, a library that does a well encapsulated task like parsing json might work just fine without updates for ten or more years.

In cases where libraries don’t keep up with changes in standards or whatever, yeah, you’re going to have to find another library. This is a part of our job that is pretty much unavoidable no matter the language. We should learn lessons like sticking dependencies you’re not certain about behind an interface to minimize the cost of switching if possible.
The Volckering 2
> This is why my very first comment called out your misleading comparison of flu deaths before mitigations vs. Covid deaths after mitigations.

We are talking about how severe covid is for children. A comparison to a normal flu year is very relevant, because people in a normal year is not worried about the flu for children. When are you going to admit pediatric flu deaths in a normal year is around 190 and not 1?

Yes, you can lock a kid inside to avoid the flu and car accidents. But that is not a way to live and not worth the reward in mitigating a low risk.

> We could expect the number of pediatric Covid deaths to be higher still without those mitigations.

A lot of kids already had covid due to how infectious it is. How much more severe than 400 deaths amongst 73 million US kids over 1.5 years do you claim it would be and on what grounds? 20 or 20k more deaths?

Your proposed policy of vaccinating kids severely increase young kids risk for severe conditions such as heart issues including stroke and long term risks are unknown. How do you know the reward outweigh the risk of vaccinating kids that are at low risk for covid?
They have people running around with "Reichsflagge". There are people from 3. Weg, a known Neo-Nazi party. There are people from AfD, another Ultra-Conservative right extremist party. There are people from "Die Basis", a party full of Nazis and conspiracy nutjobs. There are people holding anti-vaxx signs. They are calling to bring in children as human shields. They are calling for disassembly of the government.

But sure, it's just a "difference in opinion".
The immediate source - palm civets at a local market was found almost as soon as they looked, about four months after the outbreak. Tracing back where they got it from took longer.
I had to click through and read because I thought you were saying Google added crypto mining to their chat client.
##AmishMacbeth

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We are talking about software here, don't change the subject please. My language preference won't make me unhealthy.
What others have said about the onboarding process so far sounds pretty spot on for a startup that is growing faster than its processes. Tbh, the onboarding process sounds exactly like my current workplace's process when I was onboarded.

However, your manager sounds dismissive of your concerns which potentially is a red flag. I'd try not to focus on the messy onboarding process but rather pay attention to whether your manager is someone you would like to be working under. Maybe these vendor calls might be a blessing in disguise.
> needing only a fraction of some provided library.

In a compiled language like Rust, that should not matter, isn't it? The binary-size, performance or attack-surface should not increase from code that is unused as it won't be in the resulting binary. Or did I understand it completely wrong?
Glasses person here: yes. Way less fogging.
Doesn't Techstars have a program which specifically trains people to code while they are still in jail, and then helps them find work afterwards?

You could get in touch with the people who run that program, they could certainly provide leads.

Which is a great idea; because by giving someone a viable non-criminal way to make a living, they are under much less pressure to resort to non-legally sanctioned employment after release, i.e. after they have PAID their debt to society (assuming that they were actually guilty, and guilty of something which would incur a debt to society... neither of which is necessarily true for any given prisoner).
100% agree, when scraping it should always be done respectfully.

- If they provide a API, then use it.

- Don't slam a website, ideally spread it out over hours of the day when there target audience is least active (night time).

- If you can get cached data from somewhere that works, then use that.

Most developers are respectful and only scrape what they really need, not only from an ethical point of view but also a cost and resources point of view. Scraping data is resource intensive and proxy costs can quickly rise to $1,000-$10,000 per month. So most only scrape the minimum they need.

The other thing here as well, is that a lot of the most popular sites being scraped, are also massive scrapers themselves. The big ecommerce sites are being scraped, but they are also scraping their competitors too.
Can confirm they are much better for glasses than surgical masks, the air that does leave goes downwards and outwards from the mask far more than up to the eyes.
My gripe with mask mandates is this. Those cloth masks do almost nothing. The holes in cloth are like a gaping barn door to a virus. Same goes with those bandana over the nose masks. Cheap surgical masks are a bit better but not great.

I guess the goal was to do something rather than nothing, but unless you are at least using a medical grade mask you're not accomplishing very much.

It's like mandating seatbelts but not specifying type so a shoestring tied across your chest is considered a seatbelt.
Could it be that you passed the lice on to your new human companions? Fickle friends indeed!
I switched to N95 some months ago after being called back into the office. It is incredibly clear upon first wear that air has a much great chance of going through this style mask instead of around it. Basically, if the mask fabric isn't slightly inflating and deflating on each breath, you're wearing it wrong.

It's stunning to me that literally billions of pounds are being spent on now futile testing without getting this basic stuff right.
NumPy Homomorphic Encryption Library
I agree that TS eases the transition from JS, but I'd qualify your statement by saying it's not the toolchain that's a source of headache.

Ideally, one should compile TS with `--strict`, otherwise there's little difference with JS. With this in mind, it's quick and easy to switch to TS tooling. Afterwards, one can incrementally adopt stricter typing, culminating in adding `--strict` to your `tsconfig`.

In reality, since `--strict` is false by default, I'm concerned people erroneously assume that their JS code is type-safe after the first step, when it really isn't. In other words, it's no different than JS, except in name only!
People get compromised with MFA all the time. It’s like 1/10th of a societal level solution. The real biggest part is also the hardest and that is education. Password managers, spotting phishing, spotting scam calls, using MFA, updating your software regularly, patching your ancient home router, etc. It takes a lot and these are all likely vectors you will get popped as a regular user in home equipment. There is no cure all and even as someone with 15 years of experience in the most technical parts of information security I have no simple solutions. Don’t use computers lol.
Get vaccinated yes, but that's not how the pandemic will end. It will end when most people have had this thing. Essentially it's probably over now but the media is going to hold on to it for a little while longer.
To be fair, C++ has std::map and iostream/printf, so two of the examples given here as "in Rust's standard library and not in C++'s" are wrong.

Now there are reasons many people choose not to use the built in C++ std::map, and very nearly this ended up the case for Rust's HashMap, until they switched the implementation to the crate that was becoming popular. But even there's design decisions, like Rust using more compute to have a strong hash to avoid DoS attacks, that some may feel are inappropriate for their use cases.
Tech job market is a bad proxy for the job market as a whole. The whole job market is basically completely broken now - tons of terrible jobs with no career prospects, but very little progress on "career" jobs unless you are in tech and graduated from a respectable university (which becoming more and more equiv. to having rich parents).
> It establishes quick connection with server (maybe because it uses wireguard)

I'm actually kind of curious about what Wireguard does here. I think Wireguard says it's connected almost immediately even when it isn't, presumably holding traffic back locally while it waits for the connection to be active. I was wondering because I spent some time confused by a non-Mullvad Wireguard connection that wasn't working (turns out the server wasn't available at all) that nonetheless appeared as "connected".
Isn't that what they said? Less severe, more widespread.
The key quote from the study:

"To calculate exposure and infection risk, we use a comprehensive database on respiratory particle size distribution; exhalation flow physics; leakage from face masks of various types and fits measured on human subjects; consideration of ambient particle shrinkage due to evaporation; and rehydration, inhalability, and deposition in the susceptible airways. "
And I'm amazed at how gold-bug conservatives so conveniently ignore the previous 13 years of furious money-printing that accompanied near-zero inflation levels.

I run a business. For years I held off on price increases (or kept them to a minimum) because my competitors and vendors weren't raising theirs and the labor market wasn't insanely competitive.

Now, all my vendors are raising prices, all my competitors are raising prices, and all my employees can easily command big raises due to the power they wield in the job market, so I'm raising mine. And all my clients are raising their prices for the exact same reason as me, so I don't have to worry about losing them as clients, I know they can absorb my costs.

This is the viscous-cycle of inflation as it's actually experienced.

Now, that being said, we agree that the "corporate greed" storyline is lame. You see this also in places like Reddit r/antiwork where all companies and bosses are perceived as greedy, malicious labor exploiters. I just feel that behavioral economics is more a cause here than the money-supply forces you're describing.
I keep a monthly accounting of my grocery costs (along with all other expenses) in a spreadsheet. I haven't seen my grocery bill increase by anywhere close to 40% over the past two years.

edit: My bill went from ~$600 to ~$650 using a 4 month window rolling average.
Ebola didn't break out in a modern city of 10m + people.
"With some official support" generally means that the library in question is in the stdlib.
> serious refactoring of Python's stdlib.

My hands start to sweat at the idea of this becoming The Python 4 Debacle.
Yes and it's actually a sensitive test for fit. If you get fog then air is leaking out unfiltered, so when you breathe in, it's also not filtering that part.

It's imperfect bc you can have gaps around your chin which won't fog up. But it's one of the nice parts of the good filtered masks. And in the winter it helps keep the bite of cold away
It really should be:

Is inflation negative? (will never be true anymore)
Is inflation 0-5%? (somewhat acceptable)
Is inflation 5-10%? (dangerous level)
Is inflation 10-100%? (critical level)
Some ideas...

Language that represent numbers as rationals and always gives you precise calculations (unless you explicitly want to round them up).

Language that can tell apart 1 meter from 1 second (units like in Frink lang).

Language that has various data structures with consistent interface (like Scala) up to and including relational tables and graphs.

That has structural composable declarative query language that can reach into arbitrary nesting of those data structures with features that allow to build indexes to perform those queries efficiently.

That has features for serializing those structures and indexes into files and using them live from disk instead of ram. (why not have 1TB set in my program?).

Language that can pick a data structure or combination of them that provide capabilities you specify. For example if I want a structure that is fast at inserting elements, checking their presence and taking smallest element (with respect to some measure) I should get sorted linked list combined with a set.
That brings back memories. Long ago my family had an AMG Hornet and in the engine compartment was a large red button. Ever so often we had to hold the button down to "reset the engine" or it would not function.

I had higher hopes for Tesla. Can you imagine if SpaceX rockets had these issues?
Sadly this is true in low income countries. My country cannot afford N95 masks, we used to use textile masks, now we have access to some filtered ones. We didn't have timely access to vaccines. Now that we are vaccinated the government pushes for herd immunity, because we cannot afford lockdowns.
So we had a stockpile that wasn't a stockpile, that wasn't effective? That ran out in no time at all? That's some great spin. Thanks.
I’m not sure voting on something universal at that scale would be practical, but I do think your underlying point that the people should be deciding what information is “better” is the right thing to emphasize. Allowing people to have more control over the types of networks that advertise to them and what they want to opt in and out of would I think be a lot safer and more practical than trying to come up with some universal criteria for what is and isn’t “better” advertising.

My point in advocating the DoD should maybe try counter signaling with better info was meant to imply that the people receiving the advertisements are the ones deciding what information is better. If the DoD can’t make an honest counter against certain types of alleged information warfare, that should prompt them to ask “whats wrong with our message”, not “what do we do to make sure users only see our message”.
The two questions I'd look at:

1. What was the total excess mortality during that period? In many countries, the official totals are significantly lower because they only include lab-verified cases or don't cover things like, say, someone dying of a heart condition they had been successfully managing before contracting COVID.

2. How many people would have died without safety measures being in place, especially people who would have been unable to get unrelated medical care they needed because the medical system is over capacity.

The second number is obviously fuzzy but it touches on the biggest factor for ending it in my opinion: vaccination rates. If you have a high percentage of the population vaccinated, you are still going to see spread but that shifts it closer to something like influenza where you might still want additional measures for some high-risk activities (e.g. indoor dining without good ventilation) but you're not looking at ICUs being flooded. The current vaccines appear to give something like an order of magnitude reduction in that risk so those are what I'd tie re-opening to those rates.
>"Ignore the Human Factor at your peril"

Indeed. Why bother with weapons (kinetic AND cyber) at all, when the both the spread and the pseudo-anonymous nature of online communication has left the thoughts, desires and opinions of the Western world wide open for study and manipulation.

I used to have strong opinions about the necessity for a fully free, open, anonymous, untracked, etc etc, internet. However, from a national security point of view, countries like Russia and China have it right. Why would you allow the above to happen to your citizens?
Generally yes, but once certain people get violent or disobey specific rules, it is the job of the government to stop that. Otherwise things escalate badly.
Normal behavior in many countries in Asia. I wash my hands several times a day, as, I have done since I was a kid.

Are you expecting nature to adapt to your first world expectations on comfort?
But hospitalizations are higher than last year's winter peak, so hospitals are still slammed (not everywhere, but in a lot of places).

Also there's been a lot of doctors and nurses that have left the profession this past year from burnout (and not enough people champing at the bit to take their place...for obvious reasons) so many places were short-staffed to begin with.
Inflation does not measure value. It only measures price.
I heard they work on a curly brace variant of ada.
Are you vaccinated?
> Requiring encryption might be okay, but requiring CA based TLS is not okay. It is another strong force of centralization and shortly thereafter, control.

CA-based TLS is a requirement that a client can enforce on the servers, not viceversa (except for client certificates which are obviously not the case here).

When a server (Github in this case) chooses to acquire a CA-based TLS, the client isn't forced to depend on the CA in any way - it can even choose not to verify the certificate authenticity.

If the official git implementation started requiring TLS, thus forcing free private git servers (including your personal selfhosted gitea or whatever) to centralize under a recognized root CA, then your comment would make sense.
Challenging and questioning the assumptions behind a question makes for much more interesting fodder than a dozen lists of context-free requirements.
The cost of keeping software up to date (e.g. latest practices) increases exponentially as the size of the software grows. When you have a company with over 100 contributors, and/or with many years of code, the value of maintaining some ugly bits becomes excessively high but the value of upgrading that software is not always quantifiable.

A rule of thumb is that you'll always have at least 2x or more code than engineers to maintain it. When setting priorities, you have to be pragmatic about which code to update, and which features to build.

That's probably why you're seeing so much old code.

By the way, as a freelancer, you may also be hired to maintain the ugly bits of a system. Full time employees generally work on building value, whereas freelancers are hired to take care of things that people generally don't want to hire full time employees to do.
Our local Cheesecake Factory won't sell any food that isn't pasta or cheesecake due to shortages in necessary ingredients. The grocery stores in my area (Portland, Oregon) have inconsistent inventory -- lots of some things, practically zero of others. And some I don't really understand -- I had to go to three different stores to find heavy cream a week ago. WTF?

I expect this disruption is driving a lot of the spike in grocery prices.