skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is bad in the sense it punishes people that made the right decisions and saved money for their retirement. Inflation eats away at the savings they made in their working life and makes them a pauper in old age.

The argument that they should have been invested fully into the market is fine for educated people. But many uneducated people save cash because they do not have access to all the financial tools that educated people do.

Inflation also empowers elites who have had access to debt. Inflation reduces the value of that debt in real terms and cements their wealth ... because they use debt to acquire real assets: real estate, companies, stock, etc.

Inflation rewards the elites and punishes the working savers. It is a tool that is used to transfer wealth from the many to the few.

So I oppose these periodic debasements of currency.

Look at the examples of Venezuela and Argentina to understand the true dynamics of inflation.
> technical-debt comes from things that were done properly the first time

So its not tech debt, its a complex system that takes longer to do things in future. "Bad tech debt" is like credit card debt, short term decisions made at expense of the future to impulsively satisfy immediate needs. "Requirements change over time but it was done right at the time" is like a mortgage and you need to move to a new town. Its entirely reasonable to have a slightly cumbersome payoff process because it was well chosen decisions. Still harder to pay off, and may incur more debt, but as long as its reasonable.
Yeah, this is my experience too, at least in the UK. We had a close family friend whose father, the patriarch of the family, worked for 'the Army' his whole life. It was only after he died that they discovered - somehow - that it was actually 'intelligence' work.

I'm sure it's different for secretarial roles, leadership roles, etc, but for the bulk of people it seems like the usual career path is up through the normal military, and officially they remain in the military. (I also knew some linguists - normally of somewhat exotic languages like Arabic or Russian – who were taken aside at Oxford or Cambridge and asked if they were interested in working in intelligence.)
For youtube on android, also see Newpipe.

Only downside for my usecase is that it doesn't support chromecast, but that only comes up once in a blue moon.
Plenty of countries with highly educated population are corrupt.

Education is probably quite important, but it seems there are other important components.

Are there any countries where level of corruption is much lower, adjusted for education?

I'd wager most high-trust countries would do better on measures of corruption, adjusted for education levels.
The only thing I could see it being good for is to monetize websites via client-side mining instead of ads. Without web3, Google would just crush you (as they have to all legit web-mining startups), and with it, you don't need some central company to administer their 30% cut.
Is there an eta or public wip of a python query builder?
> I literally find it impossible to believe this

According to the article, there were hundreds of complaints from workers. But based on reputation you are willing to disbelieve them all and conclude that the state shouldn't follow up?
The best one-sentence description of inflation I've heard is: inflation is a hidden tax on savings. People who save money are hurt the most. It's as if the newly printed money is generated by taking a bit from anyone according to how much cash he/she has stored away.
Has anyone messed with their developer apis recently?

Curious if anything has gotten better on that front.
Is there an RCS client for Android that doesn't involve a connection to Google or a Google account?
> real value standpoint

What does this even mean, if you ignore low supply and high demand?
(Responding more to the title than the well written article itself:)

The question is never what would be good to add to a curriculum; the question is what we should remove.

Students _could_ have classes on statistics, critical thinking, physical education, some sort of art, the "classics", religion, emotional intelligence, resilience, entrepreneurship, ...

Share a point-of-view on which parts of the high school curriculum should be dropped to make room for these and then we can have a _real_ debate (slash argument).
Twitter it's actually on a better path for generating revenue nowadays:

- Spaces have successfully siphoned users out of Clubhouse
- Audio ads could be next
- The crypto integration they've done is just the tip of the iceberg
As someone with an abnormal amount of Neanderthal DNA (relatively speaking for modern populations), I do seem to run a higher metabolic rate. I'd never thought to associate the two though.
The funny thing about all these articles about missed growth is that all the mission statements are just arbitrary numbers. Spotify, Twitter, Facebook none of them said anything about building something new or trying to be the best at something, nope. "Our Mission is XXX with YYY growth trajectory."
I always liked Bill Hicks's content but couldn't get past the deadpan, unenergetic delivery. I know this is kind of heresy in Bill Hicks circles, but I think Denis Leary did Bill Hicks (from which he admittedly cribbed a lot) much better than Bill did. When I see a comedian, I guess I expect a better blend of visual humor and content. Unfortunately, YouTube videos of Bill's performances are as comedic as their text transcripts. The content is so good though, biting and sarcastic!
TWTR investors seem unfazed, at least so far. Stock is essentially flat on the news.
... and automatically opening that window, Neanderthal!

/jk
I have a couple of these cameras. How difficult is it to get an OpenSX70 circuit PCB printed and installed? Is this something achievable by an average tinkerer?
Sure - no one thinks Twitter (or anyone) knows the exact count for real users, etc. But fraudulent activity and bot development is also driven by the underlying success of the website (scammers don't scam where there's no one to scam) so there's reason to pay attention to relative changes (or lack of change) in overall patterns.
> I guess tracking and monetizing your users earns a lot more than displaying ads for everyone.

During a gold rush, sell shovels.
How about switching to one or more among Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger etc? Basically it's what everybody does in Europe. I'm getting SMSes only from banks, credit card companies and (sadly) 2FA. MMS, maybe one in the last 20 years because they used to be insanely expensive.
Technology isn't the hard part, for example Mastodon exists and works fine. Funding a sustained product delivery effort is expensive, developing a value prop big enough to overcome network effects is really hard, etc.
Yes, and our response was pretty strong. How does my comment run counter to that? If it were even worse than it was, a Chinese-level lockdown response would have been necessary, but it wasn't, at least here in the USA.
Why would you not expect stocks to increase with inflation? Most of the time, stocks have far outpaced inflation for several decades now.
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If the cost of preventing additional hundreds of thousands of dead Americans is a year or two of substantial inflation increases, this administration did right by me.
How do you suppose to quantify that? How do you suppose the Fed should quantify that? How do you suppose the parent poster can justifiably say we're at full employment without a hand-wavy appeal to authority?

I won't agree or disagree with your comment, I will just say that the parent poster's comments are all unsupported by data. Clearly, we had a realm only two years ago with (1) millions of people more in the labor market, (2) inflation at 1/4 of what it is now.

We also have been told for two years that inflation like this was impossible, despite editorial after editorial from non-Keynesians saying that we should expect high inflation and supply shocks. This is because supply shocks inevitably happen when capital is mispriced and aggregate demand is forced via government spending. The notoriously smooth supply chains (ha ha) of Soviet command economies was not a historical aberration generated via inflation.

So I won't be listening to the people who have been wrong for two years. Their economic model is wrong, and we can expect their predictions to look like the "Cloud of Points" section of the Phillips curve from the 1970s [1].

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2020/january/what-is-p...
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It seems to me there are three possible ways law on the internet can work, to include ill-defined hybrids between them. Please let me know if I've missed any:

1. The law where a service is hosted applies. Entities in other legal jurisdictions may not be allowed to do business with the service (e.g. run ads on it) if it doesn't follow the law where they're located. Cost: people may be able to access content that's illegal where they live.

2. The law where the user is located applies. Anyone putting up a website must familiarize themselves with the laws of 195 countries where users could be and comply with all of them, or at least the ones that have a friendly relationship to the host's country. Service operators must block users from jurisdictions with laws they can't obey. Cost: this is a nightmarish compliance landscape only large companies can deal with; the internet becomes much less global.

3. Countries put up a Great Firewall of X. Cost: the hacker community has traditionally considered censorship bad; the internet becomes much less global.
To be honest engineers's earn so much because they're doing multiple jobs. They're also usually doing project management if there's no dedicated project manager.
To add to that, Github reads Arduino code as C++.

I know it's not truly this simple, but if the file extension is ".ino", I feel like your detection algorithm should be free to use that as a massive indication it is Arduino code.
I think Netflix should be removed, MAGA.
That's is an interesting take, because the company I work for is the exact opposite. Revenue is useless, because you can just create all the revenue you want.

Among other things, we resell hardware and software. The basic idea is that customers can get a Dell, or Oracle server and a license for an Oracle database from us, when buying hosting. This saves them the trouble of dealing with multiple suppliers. The hardware and software business is just sort of a side thing, but we can generate crazy amounts of revenue by losing money on hardware. The idea is that we make the money back longterm on hosting. We never use revenue as a meaningful KPI, because we know that some years it will be inflated like crazy by hardware or software sales (which aren't profitable).

So I don't really see revenue as useful figure either, not without also knowing if you're profitable.
> Because advertising is manufactured demand

Not at all. When there's something I need, how am I supposed to find it without looking at advertising and marketing materials? How am I supposed to even find out a product I could use exists?

If you need your roof fixed, whatcha going to do? If your favorite band is coming to town, how would you know? If your bank is now offering a cash back credit card you want, how are you going to find out about it? If you're on a road trip and you're hungry, which exit has your favorite burgers?
JSF and GWT were rightly abandoned, but the new frameworks are different in ways that might be relevant. One of the main problems with JSF is the mismatch between it's stateful programming model, and HTTP's statelessness; as I understand it, LiveView uses a persistent websocket connection to a stateful server process, so that mismatch doesn't apply. Another JSF problem is it involves a component-based templating system that abstracts quite a long way from HTML, making it hard to figure out what's actually going on. LiveView, Hotwire, and htmx all seem to be much closer to HTML, which might make them easier to work with.

I admit I'm still to scarred by JSF to be keen to try out these new frameworks and find out if they've actually solved these problems, but I'd love to read an evaluation of the new server-side frameworks from someone who experienced the problems with the old ones.
> How is it we don't have a simple micro-blogging protocol. Like we do for email. Twitter didn't invent it, neither did Unix for that matter. Twtxt and others are doing some great things, but why don't we move from innovation to standardized protocols to enhance the user experience of the internet.

I read an interesting point somewhere: empirically, platforms can change an innovate far faster than protocols. The example given was encryption: email doesn't have it, even though people have been talking about it for literally decades, but WhatsApp added it in a relatively short time (a year? less?).

It makes sense. With a protocol, once it gets popular, change becomes really hard. It's like herding cats to get everyone to update, so things stagnate at the lowest common denominator for interoperability reasons. When all the software and installs are controlled by one entity, that entity can make a decision to change and just execute it, no herding needed.
The fact that everyone thinks that PHP is terrible is really good at keeping the ecosystem healthy. No one is swooping in and overcomplicating the stack for internet brownie points. If something exists, it exists to solve a real problem.
Last I heard, the NSA was a governmental agency, not a corporation.
I loathe how often BrooklynDad_Defiant!, DutyToWarn, OccupyDemocrats, Palmer Report, Gravel Institute, Jeff Tiedrich, and many others always end up being the top tweet of whatever trending topic there happens to be. I refuse to believe this is a coincidence or the result of organic participation. Their appearance is far too consistent, predictable, and durable. Politically motivated trends also start appearing around a paltry 2,000 mentions, which seems absurdly low.

But also, in terms of non-politics, I am so tired of seeing "JUST ANNOUNCED".
This is partly true, but lower income individuals also tend to have a higher % of their net worth eaten up by debt (via credit cards, loans, mortgages, medical debt, etc). The burden of this debt decreases with inflation, since wages can grow to match inflation but past debt + fixed rates do not.

Combatting inflation by raising rates can also lead to more inequality -- wealthy investors can get higher return on "risk-free" products like treasuries and savings, which leads to lower investment in the economy, slower growth, and fewer jobs.
I completely understand. Kudos to you and everyone who got it all working on Android, given its ridiculous fragmentation *before* you even start talking about NFC and reasoning about about device security :) - I'm guessing the chances are you're probably streaming/proxying the crypto I/O straight from the card into the cloud, thin-client style - basically taking what happens over NFC (which is man-in-the-middle resistant), sending that to the cloud directly without modification, then sending whatever comes back straight into the card. That approach could resonate with a shifting of work from payment terminals to the cloud.

Probably the most interesting story I read about the payment terminal space was about someone who happened to be working on an application/middleware integration and had figured out a cute way to use coroutines in C to (presumably/extrapolating a bit) multiplex the payment-online step while simultaneously settling the payment-offline step, so both could move forward simultaneously and the receipt could print almost immediately (in an era of dialup and maybe ISDN). The auditor who came out to validate and approve the middleware had a brain-BSOD and loudly protested that what he was seeing with his own eyes was not possible, and had to be convinced that the solution wasn't playing fast and loose with the spec requirements to do its thing :D

The payment terminal space seems like it was (and will probably remain for some time) an interesting engineering niche to work in (in terms of crazy application integration and whatnot). Been curious about it for a while with all the janky flickering I see on the screen when the receptionist swipes my healthcare card at the doctor's office (which can process both bank cards and healthcare cards though what looks like a custom application). It'll be very interesting to see how the banking space moves to the cloud and off-the-shelf consumer devices start to replace proprietary terminals and whatnot (and then other industries slowly follow suit, maybe, in a decade or so). I note the press release mentions this infrastructure is available in Australia, but I incidentally haven't seen this in person yet (two years on). Will definitely be keeping an eye out now, and I obviously need to start shopping at more interesting places :P

Thanks for taking the time to share about this!
I think the difference is that the toxicity on Twitter is much more visible, it overflows onto everyones timelines, trending topics and in reply’s to celebrities and politicians. On Facebook it’s all “behind closed doors” in groups and on pages.

They are both bad, but in very different ways.
Because profit doesn't matter as much for a growth story, growth does. They do it to themselves... in the face of this 'miss' the CEO continues to pitch the growth story: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/10/22925114/twitter-earnings... So it should be no surprise when the financial reporters and markets flog them when they miss.
Yeah, if you click too many links without an account it'll bring up a sign-up pop-up that takes you to the previous page when you close it. You can get around it by opening the link in a new tab, or save yourself constant hassle by disabling cookies on twitter altogether.

While we're here, take another pro-tip: Set yourself up with an RSS/Atom reader and "Follow" accounts you are interested in through Nitter. No account, no random "We thought you might like", and no ads, just posts and retweets from the accounts you're interested in.
I think you're ignoring the harm done to small businesses who cannot afford to implement decentralized services.

You are raising the barrier to entry, limiting competition.

Competition is good for so many reasons. I think you're deliberately ignoring the impact on small companies and not grasping the larger picture.
inflation is a hidden tax on savings

That's basically Germany's state motto.
If that's the route you want to go, prepare to spend more than half of your time not coding.

I personally think this is the future, and the myth of the introverted software developer who comes up for air to say 5 words in a standup is well past its expiration date, but a lot of people cling to that pretty strongly, so I expect people will prefer to code in dysfunctional teams that aren't well connected to their users for years to come.
But how can you blame Twitter for the divisive political culture when “we” are the ones generating the content?

I’m not sure if I understand how Twitter is systematically dividing the culture.

I really don’t think Twitter is the root cause of this. But I may be wrong.
> Revenue is a much more concrete figure that sort of tells its own story, unlike profit.

No single number tells any story on its own. You can have $1T revenue tomorrow. Just sell $10 bills for $1.
It really is absurd. I don't get why the focus is all on FB. I honestly only keep FB around because my family is on it, and sometimes I use FB messenger with my friends. It has zero impact on my life.

On the other hand, a single glance into twitter can lead to 2-3 hours of a sustained state of mild rage, and you just feel bad when you finally exit the app.
I don't know about other people, but I don't buy things I don't want.

P.S. I guess I am a unique snowflake!

P.P.S. Maybe it's because I'm a tightwad. I do not enjoy spending money. So I have to really want something to part with cash for it.
Interfaces as generic CS term, not OOP languages features.
Or realistically, bob looking good racking up tech debt and quitting before anyone needs to pay it off
Or you just buy proxies from bot net herders with anonymous crypto.
Man, this is so 90s. The bland mainstream, such a big fat tempting target. The comedian as a rock-and-roll star. The sarcasm.... The vanity, the ego, the sexual entitlement. Good times, bad times!
Our topmost priority now is launching a hosted version of the product, all hands on deck. Having a proper (and potentially fully type-safe) query builder for Python is literally the next to-do.
idk, it's pretty civil in my bubble, though obviously there is some drama every now and then like now (Jonathan Scott ^^)
It’s easy to mute accounts you don’t want to see on Twitter, even ones shown as ads.
The people hurt in most tangible ways are the ones who don't have the capacity to save; if you were spending all your salary each month, living hand to mouth, inflation now means fewer and less quality goods and services. And that can be eating less nutritious food, having to use more worn down clothes, having to postpone medical/veterinary expenses further, etc.

Now, it happens that in the US the people working the least paid jobs have seen a wage increase, but that won't be necessarily the case and they aren't the only ones on a tight budget.
What is "more intelligent" if not "more capable of abstracting, synthesizing and sharing knowledge"?
I only stopped saying my cat is smarter than the vast majority of people I've met because she is no longer with us.

I did, and still do, believe this to be true. Would love to befriend a bird
> I suspect it means their lawyer told them they don’t have a case

Since we're speculating, my take is that having the NLRB investigate the issue first and finding Apple was being punitive would bolster their civic case, and give them more leverage in the eventual settlement - they'll skip from having to prove Apple caused harm directly to how much harm was done.

Besides, outsourcing the investigations to the NLRB would cost them less (discovery is expensive!), and the NLRB has a clear mandate and can't be bogged down by appeals and other forms of delaying legal warfare. The NLRB is also likely to cast a broader net, and better resourced.
There's no way you can make that decision, which is why the simplest course of action, or the less risky one, is to treat any IP address as it actually conveyed PII, even 192.168.0.1.
"Don't make HTTP calls outside of our borders."

"We're not fragmenting the internet."

???
I see.
With matrix rooms it is possible to set permissions in a way that only the owner can send messages in that room.
There are also large(-ish) rooms, such as #/room/#matrix:matrix.org with > 30k users, but I think threaded discussions would allow for a functionality that resembles a blog where subscribers can comment on articles. And there is a preview functionality that technically allows users to read public rooms without being subscribed.

Of course Telegram is quite a bit more polished and fun to use than element or other matrix clients so far.
Shocker, a cesspool political platform that is banning users every day isn't growing....you don't say.
Those are, generally speaking, not homicides. Killings, yes, but not unlawful.