skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll believe it when I see it. People have been so wrong about these supply chain issues that I am starting to think the whole thing is just permanently busted.

It doesn't help that the fed is literally lying out of its teeth and realistically will do everything they can to AVOID raising interest rates. They are all corrupt as hell, secretly trading stocks under our noses.
Wood is sitting at 3x it was 2 months ago (again).
I feel like they could have explained "minus times minus is a plus" using the distributive law.

-1 x -1 = -1 * (0 - 1)
= (-1 * 0) - (-1 * 1)

Presumably at this point you were happy with "anything times zero is zero" and "anything times unity is itself", so:

= 0 - (-1)

and now we can just use the additive laws of negative numbers, which hopefully were intuitive enough:

= 1
Pretty sure the name "utf8" isn't metaphysically wired to a defective physical representation. All they have to do is wait until the next minor release, add a compatibility name, make the generic name refer to a non-defective representation, and update the documentation and release notes accordingly.

If they were really conservative, they could wait until the next major release to repoint the name like that. Haven't there been four major releases since 2003?
This makes a whole lot of sense. How can a transaction happen if reputation is not vouched for or established? It is why crooks start building networks and start asking lots of questions about groups. Wherever there is a case of money , there is an angle for reputation building. For the more mature, they categorize this as acceptable losses.
I've switched to rechargables for home electronics years ago. It makes me feel better doing my share of lessening environment impact caused by disposable cells.

One notable exception for which I am still buying alkaine batteries is the August Smart Lock. When using NiMH batteries it starts complaining about depleted battery in a week, while it still Ok and works for much longer. It was reported to them and they advised to us alkaine. This is very annoying because all they need to do is to fix the software which does the voltage check and generates annoying notifications to the users. Just a few lines of code (or maybe single constant) could have an immence environment impact.
School kids live with their parents/guardians, and if they get it it will most likely mean that those guardians also will. That can be very serious for a kid who literally depends on them for everything including food, clothing, housing, essentials to life, etc. This is especially so if those guardians are older and at higher risk of death. A child is absolutely right to be more worried about it than they would be about a cold, because if it spreads to their family (and it likely will), that could well be a life ruining event.
Yeah, this will eventually go wrong. It's inevitable that someone will work out how to socially game this system.
This site used to have the diagrams embedded in applets that you could manipulate to test your intuition.

I'm hoping someone can find an alternate way to render those again.
No. There would need to be many more meetings and countless committees from groups of random people who all acclaim to hold some sort of power.
>It's strange because they have clearly spent a LOT of time pushing partner channel development and certification. But the software side, the part that the user actually interacts with, seems so under thought.

Yeah, and strategically it seems pretty important too. Even more so since that area is an important aspect to the future value of not just existing stuff like their watch or siri, but future wearables like AR. And it seems like something that should mesh fairly well with Apple's core competencies and business (unlike, for example, a frigging car). It's also an area with massive privacy and security concerns which should also be a natural extension of some of their efforts. Yet somehow it's just an unpleasant mess. Simultaneously too limiting and yet awkward to work with or troubleshoot. And even stranger, they've put real effort recently into power user automation stuff with their Shortcuts/Automation/Automator items.

Guess we're seeing the classic shadow cast by internal organizational politics, power, and attention that's all out of view. May just be another aspect of Apple's organizational structure, which is excellent at singular vertical efforts but mediocre at multitasking.
I think you're missing the context that the adage "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" dates back to the 1970s at least. It's not meant to refer to IBM as it is now, but rather to IBM as it was then, an industrial behemoth with a near monopoly on business machines, some of which happened to be general purpose computers.
It’s strange how many apple fan boys are all over this forum trying to downvote me.
> not sticky

I guess I should've clarified. Vehicle prices for equivalent vehicles probably aren't sticky, but the statistic reported here is sticky.

Electrification will increase average sale price. But the amortization schedule will lengthen, operating cost will decrease, and maintenance will plummet. So might still be a win for consumers.

But I don't think avg sale price will come down meaningfully. You'll see a big shift from ICE to E, though, and yes, ICE prices will come down a lot.

> Food price is also highly cyclical and related to supply constraints of pure commodities which always correct.

Suffice it to say that I'm not betting on commodities in either direction but I've got a huge position in Tyson.
There's a long history of hiding costs resulting in poor outcomes.

Seems insane to charge folks $8 per Kw, when the power company is buying power at commodity rates (typically a few cents per KwH), and reselling it at full price (typically $0.14 to $0.30 per KwH depending on ToU (Time of Use)).

There used to be a large subsidy, where solar users would get the full price for each KwH generated and returned to the grid. This did damage the grid, was not sustainable, and put additional costs to non-solar users.

However that's gone, so now solar production gets paid a small fraction of the value of the power, but can still decrease their power bill, decrease their grid usage, and help out everyone else on the grid by providing carbon free power.

There should be (and is) a charge for connecting to the grid, that should be paid for by all grid users (with and without solar) and those funds should help maintain the grid.

I don't get what is trying to be "fixed" by this tax. Doubly so with PG&E, which has a history of asking for billions to improve the grid, then not spending it on improving the grid.
The question is really -- what was the rent for your unit before the pandemic began and the rental market in many cities became depressed. It's difficult to answer because plenty of people had just started a lease before the pandemic began, and had to endure that for a year as others may have received great deals on rent.
I agree with your view.

I imagine the distribution curve of funding. If it shifts one way, more developers become full time open source maintainers. Those who previously received nothing might start receiving coffee money.

If we can normalize a low friction mechanism for receiving funds for developers then the curve might be shiftable.
The district heating in Brno here in Czech Republic is in the process of converting from steam to hot water, mainly due to cost savings. Modern isolated hot water pipes loose a negligible ammount of heat in transfer while there was green grass growing on top of the old buried steam pipes even in winter.

That and the old textile industry that directly used steam no longer exists.
People buying used cars.
Questioning that a well-deserved lawsuit going ahead on the basis that others would also deserve the attention is definitely whataboutism.
That is a valid and proper question for the writer to ask but alas she did not.
This inflation seems like a global thing.
Oh don't imagine I'm not sorry but HN is not a church confessional. I'm looking for ideas to move on, not lectures, or tut-tutting, about my poor previous morals.
Yes, I use a very similar setup with a three-line makefile to test and build. But the OP wanted to use the in-browser notebook interface, and this is srill possible via jupytext (while allowing collaboration with out-of-browser users).
Making prison worse is unlikely to help[0] in that harsher sentences already don't help reduce crime.

[0]: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf
Do you have a real-world example of what a license like this looks like?
Seems to me like an easy explanation is that a whole ton of firms wouldn't want to hold anything overnight because you can't respond to it until the next morning? So they pile in in the morning, and exit in the afternoon.
> this is the very point of having these charges. They relieve congestion

Yes.

>> ensuring the only people using it are the people who want it really badly

Not necessarily. People using it could just have more money.
Isn't that what the groups at the top are? You can select for it to highlight pins related to certain port like I2C, SPI, Serial or certain IO pin capabilities ADC, PWM, interrupt pins.
> The state of your application becomes your data storage.

That's honestly a worst-case scenario. Imagine an application that is permanently in RAM -- and no matter how often you kill it, it will never "reload" from a clean state.
Rayovac was bought out by Energizer not too long ago. They used to have a 10 year no leak guarantee, now they leak in a few months as I've learned the hard way.
Handshake has been co-opted by the same person who took over Freenode. That handshake has become toxic should come at no surprise.

I feel for this dev, I had a similarly unpleasant experience with the Aragon team and decided the community was not for me.
Exactly. We are going to be dealing with climate change for maybe the next 100 years. And that may be optimistic.
I have quite conscientiously never posted most of that information publicly, and yet it is for sale.
Haha yes -- I was trying to be vaguer in another comment but apparently I already said this a while back :).
Care to elaborate what you mean, or is this just vague political hand-wringing?
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The silver lining here is that most households in the U.S. own their home, so they're either shielded from a significant portion of inflation, or their mortgages are getting cheaper in real terms.

Sucks for everyone else though. Especially with the artificial housing shortage.
Is it possible that "worse" masks actually perform better in this case, because more air actually passes through the material instead of through gaps? Not advising to use flimsy masks of course, just wondering.
UI complaint - I thought the "V" was a variable, and I scrolled down a bit and started hitting buttons, and none of them seemed to do anything to affect the visual. Only later did I realize there was another visual below the controls that you're meant to be observing. Perhaps it's just me, or perhaps the placement of the "V" as a way to get users to scroll down isn't ideal.

Other than that, it does seem like a neat way to present the physics concepts!
INAL, but it seems to me that anti-trust litigation is far more complicated, costly and time consuming than passing a law that makes (for example) unauthorized data theft a crime.
Here's one example: https://sive.rs/pg
Drupal seems keep a large amount of PHP serialisation of configuration in its database (a JSONish thing), probably because it's the standard data store for the site. Noticed this in fixing a dump one time. Got to use vim's function syntax for regex to ensure the character length count of the string matched the value of the new string.

I think virtually everything generically configurable in the UI that isn't part of a small core with dedicated fields (or in the sitewide PHP config include) is handled that way.
Yeah, one might say the anarchists are forming a government.
> Through this effort, millions of dollars in ransom payments have been recovered

I'm curious about who gets this money? I certainly have never heard of a company getting their money back from the feds.
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Good article. For positive-valued quantities, such as the S&P 500 level 5 years from now, one could use a lognormal prediction, or equivalently say that the log of the quantity follows a normal distribution.
> There would need to be many more meetings and countless committees from groups of random people who all acclaim to hold some sort of power.

That's a description of our statist status quo :)
In that case, cash out your 401(K) and buy a shitload of used cars.

I've got one I'll sell you for $15K over its 2020 purchase price. Perfect condition at only 20K miles.
Theoretically, spending that is funded by new taxes shouldn't cause inflation as the money is not "new". The deficit spending of the stimulus checks under both administrations was "new" money chasing substantially fewer products (supply line shortages).

If anything, taxes could have a cooling effect and lower demand.
Thanks for following up! It got up to 23 points of interested people, which in my experience is actually a huge number of upvotes for HN.
I find this is much more often emphasized by developer interviewers.
Interestingly, Medieval Iceland had a polycentric legal system where you could sell the wrong done to you to someone who had more money to prosecute.

There's an interesting discussion/description in "The Machinery of Freedom", a book about anarchocapitalism.

It's freely available online - http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
It's true. We were expecting a decent bump in the rent offer, but not 35%.
Keep in mind that the Fed is only talking about dialing back accommodation...so right now, strictly speaking, we are still stimulating

The inflation from the stimulative policies in effect today won't even show up for six months
also relevant & more recent https://semiengineering.com/reliability-concerns-shift-left-...
So, how serious it is for current and upcoming hardware, realistically?
Maybe, but how do you distinguish it from the natural emergence of a government and legal system?
For a user of the software, free might have downsides that micropayment-funded-at-scale might not have.

If all users chip in $1/month, perhaps it adds up to something significant.

I think the challenge is to minimize the overhead costs of that process.
Fines that make such practices unprofitable and with repeated crimes, revoke their corporate charter.
I think that’s the joke
Ok, but are they shopping outside the city?

The Seattle sugar tax is flawed. It is charged per ounce not a flat percentage. Typically more expensive drinks have more sugar but are actually effected less. Throw in the fact that milk based drinks are exempt, like the sugar rich milkshake, and this is a flawed law.
If you had any stocks or equity the continuing bubble dwarfs inflation. Lower and upper class both did great in 2020-2021.

Only people that got screwed were a thin band of middle class small bussiness owners. Fuck them they're leaches anyways on what has been too-cheap unskilled labor for decades.
Closer to a gang style parallel government structure. The penalties are backed up by banishment from the group rather than violence.
This was a vulnerability in the default Grafana config [1] of https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate, which allows a Tesla owner to use the Tesla API on their own infra to log data from the vehicle. It appears Tesla deauthorized auth tokens en masse due to this [2].

[1] https://github.com/adriankumpf/teslamate/commit/fff6915e7364... (relevant commit)

[2] https://twitter.com/TezLabApp/status/1481180064926547969
Does he have seed funding for a Tesla As A Service offering?
Same but with MUDs.
Do not think raising interest rates would help in the pandemic disruption supply side issues that are the cause of this.

https://twitter.com/M_C_Klein/status/1480538926398029824 consumer spending is down, this flat-out rules out "too much money chasing too little goods" as the root cause, for surely then sellers would lower prices to sell enough more more volume to raise back consumer spending and increase total profit.
The US dollar is a global thing as well.
This just shows that people naturally gravitate toward a system of social harmony and the rule of law, as it lets you reasonably adjust your behavior, as the expectations are formalized, and everyone else is assumed to be abiding by them.

The irony is that real world is increasingly moving away from that, toward the "everyone for themselves, nothing matters" chaos.
I don't think it's naturally emergent. It's just another case of a centralized entity making some rules people need to follow or else they get banned. It's not too dissimilar from what would happen on eBay if someone complains about a seller.
Heartfuck
This isn’t what most people would term a “silver lining.” Inflation is a giant and nearly impossible-to-manage wealth transfer that afflicts everyone productive.
And reinstating access when cards or other credentials are lost?
Color me skeptical, but antibiotics could fit the bill.
Compared to doing not prosecuting anticompetitive behavior? Doubtful.
Because it should be the computer's job to aid the user, not the other way around :D

Though proper error reporting is quite hard and too many tools transfer the burden of figuring what happened to the user.
World ocean temperatures in 2021 were the hottest ever recorded
Shades of Slartibartfast: "... Anyway, the recession came, so we decided to sleep through it."
No ability to enforce makes it moot. At most you get banned from the forum.
How are wages usually managed in the US on scenarios like these? From the outside, it looks like there are no unions to push for wage inflation raises, is that correct?

I wish we had only 7% inflation here... (Argentina)
As a matter of fact, robots.txt is a well understood expression of intent which is legally meaningful in a lot of contexts.
Although inflation is global, some countries have it pretty low. For example, Portugal is at 1.16%. Two years ago it was negative. Another point is that Portugal is actively moving to renewable energy. Currently I believe they are at 28% or more.
Crystal City is filled with landlords and building owners that feel like they are entitled to price increases ever since Amazon decided to build their HQ2 there. I was there before and after the announcement and the real estate prices doubled based on pure speculation that Amazon employees would come through flush with cash, wanting their 700k+ one bedroom apartments.
This is the first I've heard of any rent going down anywhere at any time.
Quotes do work. They really, really do. Every time I look into a complaint about this, I find that the text really is on the page. It just might not be readily visible. Twitter link is in my bio here. If you ever get an example where you find quotes don't seem to be working, do pass it on.
It’s technically “most” but still just under 2 in 3.
Curious what country/region and industry you work in, and whether you have some sort of niche specialization vs. being a generalist SWE?
Doesn’t anarchism require no hierarchies? A court system is a hierarchy. So no. This isn’t anarchism.
Well, the time threshold given above was 5 years. It's been 10 since 1.0.
In France we’re storing highly radioactive items underground. Here is how dissipation works:

- After a few dozen years, the concrete is expected to breach,

- Radioactive atoms mix up with soil and dissipate both upwards and downwards, mostly thanks to water,

- After 400 years and for thousands of years, they reach the surface, where they should be diluted enough to not be dangerous,

So I guess having badly contained radioactive containers would be much worse.

One thing to remember is that pressure underground is extremely high (stone weighs a lot more than water, and light rock tends to “float” onto denser rock). If a melted reactor were squeezed, it would spread materials into the soil much quicker.
Rust was a personal project of Graydon Hoare. Mozilla jumped on the Rust train 3 years after its inception. https://web.archive.org/web/20160609195720/https://www.rust-...
None of the legal weed stores in my state take credit cards but they do have ATMs in the lobby. Cannabis is still federally illegal so, as I understand it, banks big enough to issue credit cards want nothing to do with it.
I had no idea ACDelco made anything other than car parts, huh.
It's not as simple as the government fixing the problem by simply "investing in public housing". If it were that easy, Brazil would have already done it. Singapore and Seoul created educated populations and skilled jobs that were able to fit into growing industries like tech. The government can almost never just fix a problem by pouring money into it.
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Note they are paying 6 euro/month per VPS with 40 GB disk, which probably leaves 20-30 GB for messages themselves.

A commercial email provider like Fastmail charges $5/month (less if paying annually) for mailbox with 30 GB limit, with free unlimited email aliases and free custom domains. If you are happy with a single mail storage location, this is much easier and cheaper too.
My commit messages usually just try to answer the prompt “why does this commit exist?” That’s because future me will be asking that when I open the commit after finding it in `git blame`.
It ceases to be anarchism the moment it becomes involuntary. Otherwise it's just another system of authority.
I can think perfectly clearly about executives rewarding themselves in dire times. Both rationally and emotionally.

My point, if you considered it angry, wasn't directed at your personally.
You know what makes my blood boil? My apartment complex is currently leasing me a 700 sq.ft. one bedroom for $940 a month. I decided to move because the rent is being raised to a whopping $1,524 a month before other fees. Parking used to be free but now they are charging a flat $10 for an unreserved stall, $30 for a reserved one. Oh, and they added "Valet Waste" where we are forced to pay $30 a month for someone to pick up trash at our doorway. There are no doubt other fee increases I'm not aware of yet.

What's worse is that the complex is full of unoccupied and newly vacated units. You can tell because the lights are kept on 24/7 and they installed new LED bulbs. This makes me wonder why they would treat current tenants so badly by raising rents so much when so many of those units that are being vacated remain empty?!? Surely it would be better to be less aggressive and have a higher occupancy, no?
> What takes most time when suspending a laptop now, AFAICT, is powering down various I/O devices, and giving software some time to react to that.

tbqh that's a problem with software design.

It's better to just power down devices and not let software react. That would force software to handle unexpected failures much more gracefully and we'd all be better for it.
Mute? Or moot?
Yep. Microsoft is the main reason for 2 of my favourite unicode links.
https://utf8everywhere.org/
and
https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/

And, apparently it's mildly inaccurate to say it uses UTF-16... it's more like UCS-2 with UTF-16 hacked in, with no validation. Thus WTF-8.
For others, who are interested in good faith conversations about the problem with people applying to work they call "bs jobs", the point is finding work you as an individual consider meaningful, and learning the skills to do them.

Those who tell you you're "not saving the world" and therefore your work is bs and therefore you should be as disillusioned and cynical as they are, if it's say delivering food, are also complaining that they can't get a bs job as well so they can get money so that you can deliver food to them. It's entitlement, plain and simple. Their main attack is to tell others their work is also meaningless while demanding still the outputs of that "meaningless" labor.