skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that's a great point, as long as debt interest rates are fixed, inflation is good for people in debt. It's especially great for most home owners, but home ownership is largely a middle-class luxury.

But that said a lot of the really bad debt that poor people have is variable rate anyway (and usually outrageous) like credit cards, payday loans, etc.

Re wages: they tend to be sticky. Wages will get bumped up but it's almost always after the fact as a result of government reported inflation rates. So people have been feeling the inflation for a while by the time wages "catch up." And the government inflation rates are notoriously underestimates so in reality wages tend to stagnate and "drop" (they are the same number but buying power has dropped) until market pressures force them to rise.

It would definitely be interesting to hear about past examples where income inequality improved under inflation. In Weimar and Venezuela that doesn't seem to have happened. The poor there end up starving and using leaves for toilet paper. The really wealthy have access to international investing so they're protecting against inflation.
I have a few commercial-grade WAPs, but they are about four years old and do not do MIMO. I wonder if any of the current hardware records RTT to sufficient accuracy so the distance from the antenna to the client is recorded/available. I also wonder if the phased-array antenna processor records the vector to the client. Such information is available from the hardware, but can anyone tell me if ANY WAP vendors are providing it via their management interface?

Such features could alleviate some of the parent poster's concerns.
New Hampshire HB1273 Testimony: Free Software vs. Commercial Software
>I am confident that somewhere between 10% and 50% of papers published in good journals are wrong, meaningless or fraudulent.

This is entirely unsurprising to me. On top of this, reporters will see something interesting in a big name journal and report on it yet that usually adds a whole 'nother layer of incorrectness that the general public picks up as "fact"
See that's the problem. The author is using the "color our eyes would actually see" thing but only in arbitrary ways that generate pageviews. It's inconsistent and dishonest.
> I did make an explicit conjecture that was based on hard facts but then you made a statement out of thin air with nothing to back it up.

"And now I just received a recruitment pamphlet from the government for a "citizen digital identity" which will be used on smart phones. Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?"

This is the conjecture, you assume that "citizen digital identity" is part of a wider trend or pattern and not simply a modernization effort. Your comment was made under a post about government overreach using covid tracking apps.

You can't just say I am building a strawman because you didn't explicitly write "CDI will be used for tracking". It is still very much the implication of your comment.

> I never mentioned anything about tracking.

Idem

> Our government was just caught collecting "de-identified" location data (which is bullshit given location easily translates into address of residence and work) https://globalnews.ca/news/8503895/watchdog-probing-official... Canada admitted they spied

This is so far removed from CDI that I don't understand why you think this is relevant... Yes Canada is also part of the five eyes and violates the rights of its citizens often, that's not what we are discussing at all.
A debate about CRT would be fine, just dont expect that CRT axioms will be taken as gospel. The line was crossed when some teachers started coercing white kids into saying that they're inherently racist oppressors solely because of their skin color. Texas, if I remember correctly, promptly banned teaching kids that they're inheretnly racist, without naming CRT anywhere. And that's what I think other states should do: dont ban CRT, ban its core tenets. And again, it's fine to discuss CRT, so long as nobody is forced to accept it.
perfect is the enemy of the good. it's not an infallible process, but some checking is better than zero
Or they can have most of the population in really deplorable conditions, which is what happened after the revolution.
Have you tried Python 3.10? They've significantly improved the error messages:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#better-error-me...
At $100+, you're looking at a hand wash and detail, potentially going up to hundreds of dollars for different aftercare options.

It's also worth mentioning that you've jumped from menial to skilled labor at this point. There's a big difference between hosing off a Prius for the owner's commute and detailing a McLaren for an auto show. The latter is far more satisfying work.
Ahhh now I get you. Yes that is indeed very likely. I tend to focus too much on keeping my own yard safe and forget I'm walking through everyone else's too.
>Also it's basically impossible to verify.

There's this, which tries to do something about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903695
I think this might be a good thing in the long run. It may force us back to smaller social communities, where we get recommendations by asking our friends and their friends, rather than trusting search engines to curate the internet for us.

There are risks. You don't want people to get into echo chambers. But that's happening anyway.
Certainly does not have a layout that makes me think HN
When you start seeing devs make the same mistakes over and over again with relational databases in certain contexts, that increase the costs of operational maintainance and scaling (e.g. by requiring them to sit around analyzing query plans, lock contention, sharding, etc.), then it makes sense to consider building a DB with constraints that prevents those mistakes and ensures that every DB instance can meet those requirements with a lower overall cost. That is how I view NoSQL, graph databases, etc.

It is similar IMO to the diversity in programming languages. They are all Turing complete, at the end of the day. The difference is in the patterns they encourage and the constraints they impose.
For me, as a fan of other kinds of escapist entertainment, the feeling of "ugh why am I not just doing this" is really easy to trigger, and it ruins the immersion and the fun. I need the fantasy to be not just attractive, but also unattainable, so that I don't start wondering, "If I'm so excited about this, why don't I take the relatively straightforward steps to experience it for myself?"

For example, imagine watching a Top Gear episode about the latest Ford Fiesta. Most of the fun of the show is the presenters, how they talk about the cars, and how much fun they seem to be having. I'm sure watching them I could get pretty excited about the Ford Fiesta. It could be a great episode! Except the fact that I could rent one for a day for $35 would force me to think about why I don't actually want to do that, why I would rather watch a TV show about driving it rather than driving it for myself, and the difference between fantasy and reality, and then the excitement evaporates pretty fast.
ROFL. Yup. When I look at application level codes those are nice. Looking at stdlib makes me want to walk away immediately.
> Are you saying Harry Potter himself was nerdy?

Yes, in a certain sense, although a slightly more accurate characterization might be that Harry Potter is a nerd's idea of a hero. Although I have to admit my knowledge of the series is rather superficial, so perhaps I'm wrong.

> he definitely never did homework or studied and lucked into every solution he ran into by dumb luck.

Nerdy doesn't necessarily imply industrious or studious. I wouldn't say the average MtG or DnD player was a particularly good student at my high school.
This was somewhat common with Alps, actually. They made a rubber dome slider that was compatible with their mechanical mount.

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_dome_with_slider
That's ridiculous for reading some blog post.
This is actually a missing piece in Postgres. It was neatly blogged here. https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/05/21/failover-of-logical-...
I wonder what effect treating legal adults as children has on their maturity trajectory.
No RSS feed - so straight into the bitbucket as far as I'm concerned
There could be an app for that -- a clearing house that lets you submit an issue and have it taken up by an employee, with anonymity, for a fee. It could be the Uber for access to insider support.
The only reason people care about reducing the amount of plaque in the brain is the belief that that ameliorates Alzheimer's. This was of course the primary intended endpoint of Biogen's trials, but (like other plaque-reducing drugs) the fact that it hasn't ameliorated Alzheimer's has caused many to abandon that belief.
> With Windows 11 requiring a TPM, and with the Pluton chip available to provide TPM features, this missing piece can now fall into place. ... The first place you will see this enforced is likely in video games.

I'm glad to see this astute observation that we are reaching the endgame in terms of locking down general purpose computers. The enemy has slowly encircled us with overwhelming weaponry, and now it can quietly pick off our freedoms one by one. Even if someone raises the alarm, it will be too late.

> The primary goal for all of these vendors is to have an app store on laptops and desktops that can act as the sole gatekeeper for what software is allowed on their platforms.

What is missing, though, is consideration of Level 10 of the OSI model, namely politics. If a vendor has an interest in exercising control over their platform, consider how much more interest a government has in exercising control over all platforms.

Of course, in democracies we should all be delighted that the government will be able to use the law to control all software in a way that is beneficial for society, but people in countries where the government doesn't reflect the wishes of the population might not look forward to the sort of policies that will be forced on vendors.
That's basically a normal tax question at that point.
>I think one must instead ask themselves "where the hell did I get this notion of what critical race theory means?".

I provided the exact quote from Ibram X. Kendi, if you don't accept the description from the foremost expert on CRT on how it requires racial discrimination, I'm not sure it's a truth you would ever be willing to accept.

In the interests of not turning this place into Reddit, it's probably best to take Mr. Kendi at his word, and leave the rest up to the reader :)
Apparently this is a copy of the storyboards for a failed Dune movie adaptation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune. Apparently a lot of famous artists were involved.

This site has scans/photos of most of the content: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNGBuasYa_WETf7sF6Q9W3S... (from https://www.muddycolors.com/2020/03/moebius-dune/).

Apparently it envisioned Gurney Halleck as a dwarf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNGBuasYa_WETf7sF6Q9W3S...
Unfortunately, again; my girlfriend purchased it for me months ago - it doesn’t appear to have any sort of branding on it, unfortunately. :(

It looks like a very thin GBC with four buttons instead of two and two shoulder buttons, if that helps.
I think this is an honest perspective, but it directly contradicts the article which is saying "basic income would not reduce people's willingness to work." Menial labor or being berated by customers rather clear-cut example, but most jobs have moderate amounts of unpleasantness, and given the choice many people would opt out of working altogether. There's a lot of unpleasant work that needs to be done to keep civilization going!
How to Get Your Job Offer Deadline Extended
If you want less stress and better pay, you have two options: join a growth/later stage startup as engineer or take on consulting work enough to pay your bills while you figure out your path.
> I am 20 and I'm majoring in Creative Writing, because I want to write comic books for a living.

Can't wait to read those, if they're as insightful and creative as this article.
There should exist an incentive to do the dirty and hard jobs in the society.
If there is a UBI, those jobs should offer a significant economic reward.
I think the gullible take is to imagine that the wealthy and powerful maximize their gains in an unstable system. They don't care about stupid people, but they care about the instability that comes with people getting taken in by scams or bad deals.

People who are currently at the top of a power structure have an interest in stability. One way of doing that is allowing people further down the power structure to profit in a limited way from the system. This both won't change anyone's relative position, and is a genuine improvement for all parties.

My other critique of "rules are about protecting the rich" is that the counter-factual of no rules does hurt the rich, but it hurts everyone else as well. It just doesn't seem true that striking down rules against manipulating markets is helpful to the non-rich, so it feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I had an unusual experience this weekend while I was sick. After laying around for 2 days with brain fog, I woke up early Sunday morning and watched TV, checked social media, etc, but was sick of consuming information and had the strangest feeling that I wanted to work on something productive but my body aches wouldn't let me concentrate. I also felt like.. playing video games? I haven't had the urge to play video games since my first semester of college in 1995 before I discovered partying and dating.

I was bored.

It finally hit me that I haven't been bored in over 25 years. I've been hopeless, exhausted, overworked, financially destitute, depressed, burned out, lost in countless ways. But never bored.

Now, I meditate often, I've learned a great deal about the higher self on neurodivergent TikTok, and I'm mindful of my contribution in service to others. But I can't really emphasize enough how much this shook me. I'm still processing it.

I wonder if getting life goals done could be as simple as carving out large blocks of time where you aren't allowed to work on them. I don't mean filling the time with something else like work or other obligations. But literal you-time, with a rule that you can't exert yourself in any way or you'll risk relapsing into nonprogress. This is more like transmuting one form of attentive energy (negative) into another (positive) by dwelling on the opposite thing than you're used to.

For example, I perceive every stoplight as being red. Since I started commuting a half hour to work a few days per week, I've been bringing coffee. Now I find that I never get a chance to drink it, because every light is green.
> Taken as a whole, those aren't the most lucrative investments. They're the riskiest.

I'm not an accredited investor but I did mountains of research on it years ago, and most of the time risk does correlate with reward. Also most of the most lucrative investments where people can get really rich are startup investments, which are off limits to most people who aren't already rich. There is definitely a ton of risk in startups, but also so much reward.

I think a better system for protecting people would be education/certification based. If the person truly understands the risk, they shouldn't be stopped by the government from investing IMHO.

I think the reason many of the richest people want inflation to stop is because it forces them into riskier investments in order to stay ahead of inflation. They care a great deal about maintaining wealth and high inflation erases a big class of "safer" investments from their list of options.
> I view it as a negative for a candidate to have multiple short term stints (less than a year).

Do you mind explaining why? I would personally be seen like that by you, but I personally consider it a good thing that I was able to "rise" so quickly in my career. I'd like to hear your take on this if possible.
This seems much more sensible than extra money to those already comfortably off.
Migrant labourers mostly, and in places where these are not available (like Japan), strawberries cost a lot more, making them a "special occasion" treat for middle classes, and putting them mostly out of reach of poorer people.
That’s, like, your opinion dude.
Something like this is less likely to be noticed:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/the-p...
More importantly: it would not reduce the NEED to work. Giving everybody free money would just cause prices of everything to skyrocket, and you would still need to work your ass off all the same, to make the ends meet.

You don't see that effect in the small-scale experiments, because they are too small to affect economy as whole.
Try writing rhymes and poetry on your phone, I've found low filter mode great works well for that and is more rewarding than most alternatives.
I have my doubts that anything changes by adding another dimension, does the distance really change from 2d to 3d?
I'm no good at activley imagining larger dimensions than that tho.

None the less, it's a fun thought excercise! Thanks
I'd add a number of additional complications.

* Is the material copyrightable? A novel is copyrightable, but a recipe is not. The layout format of a telephone book is copyrightable, but the contents of it are not.

* Is the copyright still in effect? Unfortunately, this is a less relevant question now, as anything written within living memory is under copyright, but it is still a required step.

* Is permission from the copyright holder required? If I am sold a copy of a computer program, I'm allowed to make whatever copies are necessary (e.g. copying from the hard drive to RAM) that are necessary to execute the program, without the permission of the copyright holder.

* What is being done with the copy? If I buy a work, the copyright owner has no right to prevent me from selling it, nor are they entitled to any portion of the proceeds. Re-sale of authorized copies, regardless of permission, are not infringements.
Exclamation marks are the usual give away but yes, not everyone gets it. Nor should they in a community this big
I think Japan is one country I know of where RE isn't considered an investment. Not sure if there are other places. Might be worthwhile to find out how they do it.
This is a great use of extra compute overhead! If you don't know how to get into doing computational research yourself, this is definitely the next best thing
I was focused on the "no network access" aspect of formerly_proven's comment. "no network access" would make CI nearly pointless from my perspective.

I agree that there are tokens and variables that are dangerous to expose via CI, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater confused me.
Google is possibly the most evil company that has ever existed. Avoid like the plague and degoogle everything.
whoops, can't edit it now unfortunately. Didn't know that that's what indenting did
Love it, was a masterstroke. Less is more. Needs trivial editor support, however.

If you’re having trouble I suggest showing leading whitespace in the editor with a very low contrast grey highlight color. Ended all issues for me a decade or two ago. Indentation guides help any language as well. Simple editors like Geany can handle it well.

Unfortunately, Python has gone backwards with the adding of colons everywhere. Pseudocode aspect has sadly been lost imho.
thank you for sharing such a detailed and simple workflow!
This doesn't seems to have any sense to me. Removing that feature won't give any hardware advantage, because if they remove the camera microphone, then the audio in videos will be worsr, and won't be any software advantage, because it's pretty improbable that affect any other part of software in any way.

Some people could say "that is done to force users to buy AirPods", but what happens to those people (like me) who use their phone without any headphones? And I won't buy any of them because I don't feel comfortable using the phone in that way.

If this ends to be true, and not that noise cancellation is on by default and you can't turn it off (a thing that can be true for an Apple product), it would be Apple laughing to their customers and not anything else.
Signal Warning?: Why Moxie’s Departure Is Not the End of Signal
GitHub doesn't = open source community. Quite the opposite actually. It is a closed system designed to take open source software and put it behind a closed-source ecosystem, and apparently to moderate open source developers and taking away their individual freedoms.
> Money doesnt just have some "value" you can share like a pie.

The trillions of dollars printed by the Federal Reserve in the past two years beg to differ.

Honestly, if the country is going into deficit, you might as well give it directly to people instead of injecting it via financial institutes.

Society in general may greatly benefit from having people not HAVING to work.
Regarding the update at the bottom of the article, I also just got the email about needing to provide login info so they can review my app. An offline game that has no login functionality...
After seeing some of my party photos from 15 years ago on Facebook I got nostalgic for the excessive flash type photos that the digital pocket cameras of that era took. Picked up a Canon Ixus (3 Megapixal) for 10 Euros and have been having a lot of fun with it.

This article makes me want to buy something even older.
I would love to buy a new "instant" camera, but it's hard for me to find something at the prosumer level.

The Instax Mini by Fujifilm is a relatively "cheap" consumer solution [0].

What's its equivalent in the $600-$1,000 price range?

[0]: https://petapixel.com/2022/01/14/fujifilms-market-share-in-j...
Super hero comics are not. These super hero comics might be?
The energy use of proof of work crypto is terrible for the environment, that's at least the best argument I hear.

Better to use the energy for research imo
The questions still seems reasonable? Maybe there exists some geological processes minerals deposits that absorbed moisture? Some kind of geothermal heating (although maybe that would just make steam permeate the surrounding area), an asteroid fragment from the Chicxulub impact that carried DNA into space??
Yeah, it's like everyone fell in love with the X/Athena widgets all of a sudden. I'd never have guessed that after all these years we'd go back to UIs looking like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets#/media/File:S...
Would be even broader than that (run-of-the-mill junior dev in high CoL ara to lower middle class homeowner that fancies early retirement)
I actually still use a quad core G5 with 16GB(!) of RAM, and 2x1TB SSDs for some audio production work in Logic 9.

64-bit started for me back when the G5 came out, and today that G5 screams, easily feeling as responsive as my girlfriend’s M1 MacBook Air most of the time.

It’s almost unbelievable how the G5 performs like it’s got bloody Sonic the Hedgehog trapped in there on a hamster wheel generator. My Intel machines never came close, and a lot of it seemed to have to do with major bloat as the OS moved along. Probably also bloat in Logic. My G5 can handle the hell of a lot more effects and VSTs with about 50% the impact they have on my Intel machines. It’s surreal.

I also find it absolutely pathetic and astounding that up until this year (16 inch MBP excluded) the maximum RAM a MacBook could have was the equivalent of a computer I got in 2005. 15 years later I still couldn’t get even 32GB RAM in a MacBook. And it was soldered so it couldn’t be upgraded. Shameful.
Can you give me one such example of someone made permanently redundant by automation?
No need to divide it along political boundaries: vigilantism is a power-fantasy for everyone that has ever been at the receiving end of someone or agency with authority over them.
You are arguing that all Visa cards in UK are credit cards. My DEBIT card is Visa. So is my credit card. Both from HSBC.