skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting article on what could be driving housing inflation a couple of weeks ago-cant find the link. It was about the soaring prices on billionaires row in Manhattan.

The idea in the article is investors are trying to increase the liquidity of real estate assets down the line towards the higher liquidity of stocks. The results are more investors seeking returns from real estate, buying up buildings as if they were stocks. This can cause a fast step change in demand against the slower increase in supply, driving up prices quickly, which in turn drives up rents.

Energy costs hit this inflation as well, because most buildings need heating and/ or cooling during the year. With the supply of traditional energy being artificially restricted, this drives up the costs associated with real estate, increasing everyone's costs. Look at what's happening in NYC.
Half-joking, but yeah. "Managing the board of directors" of course means keeping the board happy, which is done by what ansible wrote. Not just directly trying to talk them out of firing the CEO.
I've seen electricity go down.

There were a lot of people complaining on my local Nextdoor about electricity rates being higher recently. I checked my bill and sure enough rates were higher.

But then I checked my old bills. I've been in this house for 15 years and have all my past electric bills. The rates have gone up and down, and have been higher a few times in the past. There was no obvious correlation between when they were high and what political party was running things at the time.

Similar with gasoline prices. I see lots of complaints of record high prices locally. I paid $3.60/gallon a couple weeks ago at ARCO which is indeed quite a bit higher than the ~$3/gallon it has hovered around for a while.

I checked my records. They only go back to the last quarter of 2017. I find that the highest I paid since then was $4.63/gallon on 2017-11-05. Second highest was $4.21/gallon on 2017-09-21. In between those on 2017-10-06 I paid $3.45/gallon and on 2017-10-20 I paid $1.90/gallon. All of those were at the same ARCO station. The next several times over the next several months were all in the ~$2.90/gallon range.

This puzzles me, because I cannot remember anything going on in late September or early November 2017 that would have caused short high spikes in gas prices. Anyone have have a better memory?
Less worried about AGI and all that, more worried that taking away all the 'magic' of how minds work does it take away some of the magic of how the minds work, i.e. it could be quite depressing for many to think of ourselves as 'mechanistic' automatons. Yes that has been discussed for years, but as that becomes fact and with blueprints ... I dunno, I think I quite liked the world how it was before that!

Also the more we can model the minds workings, the more some sod is going to exploit that for commercial benefits i.e. advertising, propaganda etc.
I don't believe these experts are speculating on future performance. Rather they are pointing out that the thing isn't working now. Also, yes, different experts.
Ah well, the people who burned at the stake, only burned, because the inquisitors wanted to save their soul, so doing something good to them.
I'm either too smart, too stupid or too something else, but I really, really don't see myself participating in these "Artificial Scarcity Activity Modalities" (SCAMs)
How are you supposed/able to make that decision on a log level?
Well, you only need one honest police officer to get wind of it and you'll be in a very bad situation. Plus, you still need good conditions etc..

If you're going for that kind of money, it probably makes more sense to make the race "official", close the roads down for a few hours and cross-finance it with viewership and sponsors.
With a similar outlook to yours, I landed on django, htmx and tailwindcss.

I had started down the path of fastapi, svelte and tailwindcss, but when I figured out that htmx let me use server-rendered templates, getting rid of the api and the packaging toolchain felt more ergonomic.

And if you're doing server-rendered things instead of APIs, django has a few more batteries included. (But I really like fastapi for APIs.)
Shows you how screwed the stat tracking on gun kills in America is; different sources give significantly different kill numbers.

Gunviolence claims it's more like ~1300 for police gun homicides in 2021 https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls.

I'm still trusting the CDC a bit more on these statistics then media outlets of varying political agendas.
Maybe once we lift the abstractions from the clutches of the Von Neumann architecture and reintroduce spatial and sensory mechanisms to our programming environments? Especially with server-client applications, the underlying topologies are often ad-hoc and brittle, which contributes to the complexity in sneaky ways. Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR, has a concept of "phenotropic programming" which is almost like OOP taken to the extreme - objects can only sense and act on each other in a virtual world akin to the real one [0].

If you want to really fall down a rabbit hole, Alan Kay has been espousing similar themes for years. He of course was the driving force behind Smalltalk, which did things in the 70s that still seem hard to do. Look at the examples built by middle schoolers in [1] - super impressive stuff! I personally believe OOP got a really bad rap by the bastardizations of C++ and Java, and a principled reframing of it may be what takes us to the next level of programming.

[0] https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-why-gordian-s...

[1] https://www.dgsiegel.net/files/refs/Kay,%20Goldberg%20-%20Pe...
For me, it's not just about e-mail, but our industry/discipline in general, and the state of e-mail is a good indicator in my opinion, because almost everybody uses it every day, and its implementation complexity is still rather manageable.

Besides, I'm interested in frugal computing and would like to reach a point where I can do my day-to-day stuff on a Raspberry Pi or similar device.
Humble brag? Why do people online always just assume the worst about a comment?

Why is it a GOOD thing I've never heard of it? I was actually kind of embarrassed about it, and simply expressed my feeling of being detached in a way that I typically don't feel.
Bauhaus is great but I’m not really into Peter Murthy’s solo stuff. /s
They will actually come buy you out and shut you down.

There are a million anticompetitive maneuvers short of a buyout. Off the top of my head:

* dumping to eat into your profit and bleed you out

* punishing retailers who stock your items, or payment providers who service your site

* buying up inputs for several cycles so that you cannot hope to even stock your goods
As always German laws are a mess and they want to bend freedom.
Anyway change to signal it was always the superior option.
This is still making a spectacular number of assumptions about other people's work environments. The technical debt they're dealing with may not even have been theirs in the first place, it could be an external codebase. It could be a dependency that's long since abandoned and is now a security risk. It could be that the project is deployed against a really old DB and the feature requested needs that upgrading. It could be any one of an almost infinite number of things that none of your scenarios seem to be aware of.
Yes, it is very Scott Adams to say “if someone points out many solid reasons why I am wrong, it means I’m really right!”
If the sharing is not required by any law they have to ask. Sometimes they do. I'm sure there are cases where they share without either of the precondition met.
> It's very rare for me to see someone just charge through a light that's been red for any significant length of time

I'm in southern Mississippi, and that's the socially accepted way to go through an intersection. I'm only partially joking.
Fair enough. The vaccine point is a bit of a tangent, I'm not really worried.

I wanted to get more at the "why and how" of the spike's impact. AFAIK there's no real explanation.
My bad OP, I was being too harsh. I feel the same way at times I think everyone does). But I always feel better starting than procrastinating.
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For comparison: 14 or 15 killings by police in Germany in 2019 (depending on the source). Germany has ~80 million inhabitants, compared to the ~330 million in the US, so you'd expect roughly 60 killings by police in the US if the level of violence was similar.

The English Wikipedia entry lists the circumstances for each killing by German police forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

The German version talks of 15 killings for 2019.
Maybe the parent poster was exaggerating a teeny bit for your viewing pleasure
Computer scientists prove why bigger neural networks do better
Whether it is a third "why" or not is a bit philosophical. I think the property I stated leans heavy towards arguing for maximizing expected geometric growth, because this property has nothing to do with the notion of utility. Indeed, no matter what you utility function is, as long as it is strictly monotone, it will be the case that a Kelly strategy always eventually permanently yields a bankroll with more utility than any other strategy. This holds for the simple reason that when reinvesting profits into the next bet, you must reinvest actual money, not utility.

As for me, I often waffle between thinking this Kelly property I stated is important versus expected utility of some sort.
Pihole? I think they share some block lists.
I already get a lot of "We are sorry, but for legal reasons we are prevented from providing this service where you live" when I'm accessing American websites.

Recent European judgements seems to make it illegal to embed content from YouTube or Vimeo for example.

I don't see how dividing services up by region will help me anyway. I'd rather be able to choose from a few (I imagine there are more than a few at the moment) international Mailchimps than one in EU.
As far as I understand: many people use Telegram channels as a sort of Twitter-like social media, since you can set the channel to publicly available and anyone with app can read what you wrote, and even interact with you through, like voting through giving your post an emoji or commenting on it (if you enabled comments).
we're supposed to be telling the market what to produce through demand signals. this is how we believe that monetary value translates directly into personal value. if instead the market tells us what to buy - who is driving?
I'm in the Northeast (Fairfield County, CT) and see red light blowing on an almost daily basis. Even during rush hour after 2020. I mean people even anticipate it. At least twice a month I'll see a clear intersection and a light that has been green for 2-3 seconds and cars are still waiting because some idiot is just barreling along in broad daylight with no intention of stopping coming the opposite way.
Ok, but what does that have to do with it? I never made any arguments on http vs https, so why are you going off topic? Consumers don't have any tradeoffs on https vs insecure http so this comparison is not even in the same ballpark.
I don't belive that to be true at all - EU have a lot of great SaaS/tech companies that emply a lot of really talented people. What EU need more of however is vc money.
That beggars belief (we're talking about what they said, not that they didn't sharply change their tune):

https://www.google.com/search?q=inflation+is+transitory&biw=...
That is my experience as well. I was really excited about this feature in Deno when I first heard about it. Then I started to get in to Deno, and it just seemed like it made everything harder. I thought it was going to be something like "here is a better way to do dependency management". But in practice it felt like "we got rid of dependency management. Figure it out on your own".
this is great, but what sticks out to me is how quickly this seems to have been rolled out. Unless I'm misreading something, this went from first public draft [1] to full support [2] in less than two years?

Maybe I just haven't been paying attention to the rate new CSS features, but from my perspective this totally just dropped out of the sky. Here's hoping we can continue this pace.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-css-sizing-4-20200526
[2] https://caniuse.com/?search=aspect-ratio
Advertising, marketing, propaganda [1], campaigning, “persuasion”, there are lots of words across a broad spectrum of, what is, a variation on a theme. Ultimately it comes down to manipulation delivered through multiple methods. Perhaps sometimes that manipulation is unavoidable, maybe even beneficial and not nefarious. But when you look at it in the context of economics - a “science” that is an artificial construct with none of the immutability of, say, the laws of physics, even though in some circles it is treated and discussed as such - and our false god, capitalism, it is vital, if not intrinsic to that domain.

It is our system a values, collectively, as a culture and a society, that allows it to continue and thrive, albeit often having to adapt. Because to ultimate goal is to keep us spending. To keep us acquiescing, complacent and conforming even when we believe we are not, striving to contribute to the not-so-greater good. Generating monetary wealth, not necessarily for ourselves, at the expense of, one could say, the wealth of the planet.

We’ve been groomed [2] in this way for a long time now. And the discontinuities that are beginning to manifest [3] are revealing how brittle and finite it all is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
[3a] https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/were-not-yet-ready-for-wh...
[3b] https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job
If you have Android, the easiest way to run uBlock Origin is to install it for mobile Firefox.
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20+ years here too, and I agree to a large extent.

The conclusion I've come to is that we're making expensive sandcastles. I don't know when I start a project how big the sandcastle will need to get, or exactly what it will end up looking like. I also don't know when the tide is coming in. Some of them were pretty good, others were disasters, but they've all washed away now.

I do quite like building sandcastles though, so I don't worry too much about it.
The EU privacy regulations seem to have a side effect of creating a de facto EU internet, where EU competitors can become dominant because they pay closer attention to changes in law vs north american or chinese counterparts.

It’s almost like a more subtle version of china or russia’s firewall
I just shipped my fourth large project based on Phoenix LiveView and I think it is the best thing that happened to web dev since forever.

The javascript is minimal (like to manage selection in text field or to handle copy/paste). Everything else is in elixir. Tailwind is used for CSS.

Having the full client state available on the backend is really incredible. It is so much easier, no more ajax/graphql... You just have all your backend data "under your fingers".

I can only recommend giving it a try.

Also, if your app is offline first, phoenix channels are great for sync. It is not live view, but it is easier to use than ajax calls.
The people in the Github thread advocating for this feature seem to be pushing really hard on the point that this isn't any more insecure than NPM already is. But that's myopic. That's like saying that the lock is broken on the second floor window of your house, so you may as well unlock all the other windows. If a junior developer working for me proposed something like this I would pull them away from the computer and have a long coffee chat with them about basic architecture principles.

Yes, we know there are problems with NPM. But why broaden the possible attack surface area by introducing another kind-of-sort-of-equivalent means of remote module loading? Now you're just going to have to spend time hardening two systems instead of one.

At the end of the day this just feels like a misguided attempt to try and recapture some sense of dynamism from Deno. But if I wanted dynamism, I'd use Deno, with all of its pubescent awkwardness. I'm using Node.js stable for a reason. I spend a lot of cycles trying to defend Node from its many (often reasonable) detractors, and things like this make me feel like I'm wasting my breath...
The real problem is that we have a default theory of value: stuff is just worth whatever people paid for it, otherwise they wouldn't have paid for it is the short version. It's a gaping hole in our economic theories, and unsurprisingly advertisers have driven a goods train through it.

It arises here because we're trying to figure out whether people are paying for stuff they don't benefit from (or don't benefit enough to make it worth the price), which to many people seems intuitively the case, but it's quite hard to flesh out an argument for how it's could happen when we think people only pay for stuff that they want.
Have you considered pi-hole[0], NextDNS[1], or AdGuard[2]?

[0] https://pi-hole.net/

[1] https://nextdns.io/

[2] https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
> The internet is just not designed for privacy at a technical level.

The Internet is A-Ok.

The issue lies with various slimy companies that exploit web developers ignorance, laziness and negligence with free and easy shortcuts in exchange for the private data of said developers' clients.

No one's forcing you to use CDNs in place of a properly setup caching. No one's stuffing Google Fonts down your designer's throat, they are just lazy to add local resources. An analytics service is not required and there are simple self-hosted options. And so on and so forth.

And the most infuriating part is that these companies, Google being the offender, know perfectly well that they are exploiting the ignorance and they are willingly facilitating and encouraging the spread of practices that would've been viewed as wildly unethical not 10-15 years ago.

Just look at the level of general erosion of privacy and nearly universal lack of concern for it in general population. If you reflect on it for a moment, it is plain fucking scary.
This isn't the first article about "traders" I've seen where it's questionable as to the detail of what they're actually doing. He "invested $50 and within 3 months it was worth $1 million". It should be obvious to anyone from that statement there's nothing normal going on there but the journalist has no questions. The absurd narrative being pumped out is you just dump money into something something crypto and instant riches. They endlessly show pictures of young people leaning on an expensive car, implying that these schemes are easy money and a sensible thing to be doing.
It would be weird, but sure, no difference. This is what a private investigator already does legally.
Question, how does this compare/contrast to “image based persistence” as used by e.g., most Smalltalk and certain Lisp based VMs?
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And here us software developers are still trying to do this and think we're the smartest people in the room for inventing it!
You are both right.

Buying an NFT is buying the right to the NFT. It's not buying the right to the art.

Even if NFTs were backed by law, so that if I use your private key to transfer the NFT to me you would be able to use the law to come after me for theft, what I stole from you wasn't the rights to the art.

What the grandparent post was complaining about was that it's not even the rights to the art.

If you buy the rights to the ape, then you can sell copies.

I suppose the holder of an NFT can sell a "copy NFT". Maybe that's the next thing. Selling an NFT of an NFT of an NFT of a Beatles song. With a holder chain making sure that whoever minted the NFT-of-NFT at the time did hold the parent NFT.

That last paragraph is of course exactly the kind of nonsense that is at the core of NFT, so you should expect these derivative NFTs to start becoming a product soon. If you can sell NFTs-of-art, why not NFTs-of-NFTs?

Anyone can sell copies of the Mona Lisa (because expired copyright). Anyone can make NFTs of it, too. Why would NFTs minted by the Louvre be more real?

To me, NFT is performance art. It makes you think about intangible ownership. But outside of being performance art it's worthless.
If you pay by cash the shop has no personal data about you.
So you are saying the US intelligence agencies have some unfettered access to all of GA data? Or that it is sent unencrypted and intercepted in transit?

It's not the DNS calls or phone companies that are more to worry about?
To save 20 minutes on a not quite hour-long commute by beating lights, you'd need to beat almost 20 lights. The average traffic light waiting time is 60-90 seconds. Even doubling that and taking the high end of the range (3 minutes), you'd need to beat 7 lights on your hour-long commute.

On the highway, if you are leaving 2 seconds following distance, and everyone else does too (obviously more than reality), every car you pass on the highway buys you a grand total of: 2 seconds.

Not impossible for you to save 20 minutes if you have a peculiar commute, but I have a competing theory: beating a light or getting in front of a couple of cars is the way you game-ify your commute. You get a dopamine rush from it, and you aren't flipping a coin in the morning to A/B test your behavior and using a stopwatch to verify the results.

Nothing wrong with that, but just try to be safe about it.
Shaking up the current situation doesn't seem to be an entirely bad thing. As it stands, the majority of the internet is depending/residing on datacenters provided by a handful of companies. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Building satisfactory alternatives to Office, Workspaces etc. isn't a monumental task by any stretch. With the sudden demand that you predict, they'll spring up like weeds.

This might be ham-fisted and crude, but in the end I see a lot of positives.
I actually appreciate domain-specific programming languages. It's fine (for me) that JS is the native front-end language. It's fine that Rust targets systems and embedded. I love that Python is a middle ground, and really great backends are built on it. I'm great with C being a really low level language that forces me to think about the machine.

Taking "I'm productive in it so it is great" to an extreme, we end up seeing precisely the kind of domain crossover TFA hints at. Somehow, since Rust is cool, it should be the future of web / in-browser[1]. Somehow, since JS is popular and easy to use, it should be on the james web space telescope[2]. Somehow, since browsers are well accepted, node.js is a reasonable benchmark for embedded systems performance [3]

GTFO with that. That is how we get language bloat and the many overlapping frameworks that creep into the language and make it unrecognizable. I'm looking at you, Tokio and D3.

1. https://leerob.io/blog/rust

2. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bglvey/the_9bn...

3. https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/
My windows laptop is "managed" in terms of forced IT updates, etc. But I can install whatever I want and have Admin privileges. They do scan the SW and if they see obvious problems (installed a SW that is not free for commercial use), I'll get an email about (show proof that the team purchased a license).

I can't make deep changes (e.g. reinstall the OS), and would likely get in trouble for disabling the antivirus, but there hasn't been anything I wanted to do on it that I couldn't.
Oh, interesting plot twist! And it makes so much sense, because if the potential buyers listed were the intended audience, the tone would seem a little condescending: too much "they might fall for it" badly hidden between the lines of "that would be a good acquisition for them"