skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really a good argument though because there are 2 definitions of inflation which are often confused due to the fact that they have the same name, and can lead to the same results. One is "the generalized increase in prices" and the other is "The increase of the money supply".

If you understand that those 2 things are inflation, but not the same thing, then you can see why there's some issues calling an increase in prices that isn't the result of an increase in the money supply "inflation", and vice versa.

This gets worse when you realize that an increase in the money supply can (but is not guaranteed) to cause an increase in prices. Like the professor says "The key driver of inflation is not just how much money exists in the world; it's what are people doing with that money."

What he's really saying here is that "The key driver of (general increase in prices) is not just (increase of the money supply) but what are people doing with that (increase of the money supply)".

You can have inflation even with a reducing money supply, for example when production decreases, or when velocity of money is higher.

In fact this brings me to another point that really irks me, which is that M2 and above are arguably not even money in the first place. They are better described as liquidity, and calling them money simply increases confusion with actual money.

By making that distinction clear, this dual definition of inflation becomes clearer since it becomes obvious that an increase in liquidity (willingness and ability to spend) can increase prices, regardless of whether the actual liquid (money) has increased.

Just like a pipe, you can pump more stuff out by either increasing pressure (increasing money) or making the pipe have less friction (liquidity).
just crawl it, a perfect ad.
The bad actors don't follow the robots.txt, or rather are bad actors because they don't follow robots.txt neither the informal courtesy practices. Then the main role of robots.txt is public shaming?
A year later means it's probably permanent.

I don't think there's any tissue that takes longer than a year to regenerate.
I've seen multiple people pointing this out, but completely ignoring the next sentence.

> I find it much easier to formally verify things correct than to test that they're correct.

I don't have anything else to say but I wanted to put it here for context.
But only 1/3 as much in their cerebral cortex. Maybe having a multi purpose trunk does bind a lot of capacity?
I can’t, because on iPhone it wraps.
> support your local accommodation providers

Well the whole point of a hotel is that it isn’t local to you, so this doesn’t make any sense.
Thanks! I've been on it solo since last year. Progress from the product side is going pretty well but still a lot to do and optimise! Usage wise, it's in experimentation phase so the pattern is rather spiky ranging from silent days to sudden influxes of traffic.
> So everyone is losing except the consumer that is getting a product for below the true cost?

The Uber Eats / Doordash execs are not losing money, even if the company is. They're rich as fuck and building their fortune on quasi-slave labor from thousands of immigrants who patrol the streets with bikes/motorbikes all night long for poor wages

The restaurants lose by having to deal with fucking algorithms and a non-existing company support. They get to deal with angry customers when the app accepted payment for something that's not available today, or when the shop has already closed, for example.
...and all the Arthur Comptons and Richard Feynmans!
I have created a poc of that and it works. I did not include it because at the time, I've had user accounts through firebase and it did not work with a header required for ffmpeg. Quite an odd issue. :D It was something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69179866/firebase-auth-i...
I've found so much value from your posts over the years (and books). Interesting situation, glad you didn't get banned!
People have been using "the ends justify the means" to justify all sorts of unethical behavior, not the least of which includes torture, genocide, and wars. Let's not go down that ethical reasoning wormhole.

As for his story, my read on it must be much different from your own. Because from what I am seeing, this is far more about the judge's husband than anyone else, and it is to right a sense of personal injustice than a (still misguided) aim of doing what's best for everyone else. Oh, and he's doing it for fun (his words).
This is to make sure they only crawl the Chinese version of their site.

It makes sense considering they have this: https://purpose.nike.com/statement-on-xinjiang
It can also mean that the people who were at the highest risk didn't live for a year, so the statistical risk is reduced for the remaining population.
Well, it has somewhat replaced flu the last couple of years. That might be largely attributable to lockdowns, though.
They may or may not care about individuals even though they may use an individual case as an exemplar.

However the rest of these comments seem to suggest they do help individuals readily.
Regardless of the base, be it text or encoded numbers, text, as encoded is just a different base of representing a number('325' is '3' * (2^32) + '2' * (2^16) + '5' * 2^8 = 51 * 2^32 + 50 * 2^16 + 53 * 2^8). Neural networks can approximate polynomials, and additions/substractions & multiplications can be approximated - in this case, the base is just not '10' but 'ASCII'. I think that if you tried to train it only with arithmetic expressions (in text) it should get even better, it should just approximate the underlying operation - it does not need to understand the text.
Tangentially:

> unstable equilibrium point

Is anyone looking at economics thru the lenses of chaos theory (complex adaptive systems), control theory, or cybernetics? I've foraged a bit, no joy, but really don't know where to start looking.

I only ask because...

Anthropologist David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years muses about the fragility of market based systems. Like maybe capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. Hence the recurrence of debt forgiveness, jubilees, and revolutions throughout recorded history. Seen from this angle, it sure does seem like some kind of debt crisis always has a role in social upheaval.

With economics simulations (modeling) attaining ever more fidelity, it occurred to me they'll inevitably hit "butterfly effect" type phenomenon.

Further, what if Graeber is more than right. What if "capitalism" can never be stable? What if market equilibriums will always collapse?

That insight would have huge impact on public policy. Instead of trying to keep things afloat indefinitely, we'd anticipate and plan ahead for the endless series of resets.

Proactive instead of reactive.

Because it sure does seem (to this noob) like crisis and resets are the norm.

I'm not saying that real life is just a weirder instance of Dwarf Fortress.

But given how hard it is to design stable and predictable closed world game economies, what hope do we have to do better with human economies?
* https://www.etsy.com/robots.txt

* https://www.tripadvisor.com/robots.txt
France did nuclear weapons tests from 60 until 90's with many presidents. And promoted nuclear energy with many presidents. There is an extensive feedback and overlapping between both programs and the successive governments continued basically in the same direction as the former.

France just keep a clean image doing the essays as far from Europe and indiscreet views as they could and hiding the real extension of the damage done, but can't be denied that they have their own quote of evil acts also in this field, as any other countries. I'm not comparing them with North Korea, but they commit mistakes also.
if you want to do it with NFT: https://project-memento.com/
Yeah the problem isn't nearly as pronounced for rust, since rustup exists and rust itself isn't really available on any platforms you can't just update the toolchain yourself.

C++ has a lot more tangled dependencies going on especially when you're stuck with a vendor's compiler.

Make no mistake: the problem here isn't necessarily technological.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_(band)
As a search engine operator, I can confirm webmasters put a lot of weird crap in robots.txt. ASCII art, poems, emoji, love letters, sudoku puzzles, philosophical questions, whatever. It's cute, but odds are at least some parser will choke on them and depending on how the crawler is coded, either ignore your robots.txt; or skip crawling your site. It's not great either way as the format is more of a set of conventions than a proper well defined language all specified up in BNF.

Webmasters also put highly specific URLs they don't want the world to see in robots.txt. Also not a great idea.
I wonder if Apple one day decides to put AirTags into iPhones and other iDevices - or if other vendors follow suit. Basically, that would eliminate phone theft since even shutting the phone off or, for those phones that still have replaceable batteries, removing said battery would still be discoverable.
That's my understanding of quaternions (but I might be way off).
You're misunderstanding what I wrote. What I claimed was:

(a) There is (at present) sufficient land for us to be able to sustainably plant enough trees to supply our need for such composites (including to the extent that they may substitute for our consumption of plastics), and

(b) Planting trees as part of this practice would likely be (non-trivially) beneficial in the fight climate change.

I did not claim that:

(c) Planting trees would somehow be sufficient to single-handedly solve climate change without us having to change any other of our current practices (like farming), or

(d) The planet would always have room for sufficient trees (for any purpose) regardless of how long current trends continue or how badly we continue to destroy more and more of the environment.
Disallow: /harming/humans

Honeypot or snarky?
I did not ask her or any judge to resign. This was a proposal to the prosecutor's office prior to filing any of the serious charges and triggering certain events then required from them by law.

Unlike public officials I was fully within my rights to first seek a more politically tenable solution.

There is no doubt everyone involved is fully aware of the situation, although people won't admit to it.
Nobody wants a guy who self claims to be 10x like Rick, who produce ton of code which is neither readable nor maintainable. All you have to be is 10x social. It is as simple as that.

10x is a myth unless you are Jeff Dean, you can't keep up like that forever and occasionally you need to tune up a little bit while you are testing in production.
Yeah, a UI toolkit that doesn’t have even basic accessibility bindings is basically illegal to use for commercial products in multiple major countries now. No specific shame on Slint (everyone has their own roadmaps) but when even big companies are failing* in this way it does seem like we’ve got a long way to go as an industry.

* Flutter has no accessibility bindings on the web and therefore falls under the same “illegal” category.
https://goo.gl/maps/hpuj9X7srT46NN3o8
The subtitle effectively says 'new plastics'. I don't think it is trying to pitch 'no plastic'.
I used Booking.com for the first time last year. It was OK.

But I won't use them again, and I find quotes like this all too believable:

"... Also, last year Booking have to their employees 2.5 days off to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company. You might think it's a nice move from them. During that day, only outsourced employees were working. They were just testing if they could carry the work without their employees."
But the utopian end goal is to make Mars hospitable. For Musk a Mars city is not the end goal but the first step. For example one could make a magnetic shield in L1 Mars Orbit. There was a speculative Nasa study (Wikipedia):

> If constructed, the shield may allow the planet to restore its atmosphere. Simulations indicate that within years, the planet would be able to achieve half the atmospheric pressure of Earth. Without solar winds stripping away at the planet, frozen carbon dioxide at the ice caps on either pole would begin to sublimate (change from a solid into a gas) and warm the equator. Ice caps would begin to melt to form an ocean. T

Of course there is much difficulty and unkown unknowns. Maybe this is truly impossible. Maybe this will take a million years. Maybe Mars soil is too toxic for plant growth.

But the upshoot of terraforming Mars is so fantastical, that it is at least worth dreaming about.
Your proposed alternative would also benefit from something like Starship.

Of course, we can (and should, eventually) do both.
It's a clever encoding of Asimov's Laws of Robotics

Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self

> First Law. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

> Second Law. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

> Third Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

If you ever get the chance to read a bit of Asimov, I highly recommend it. I'm particularly fond of his Foundation series.
For the energy transition, it is not enough to look at the way electrictity is currently generated. All use of fossil fuel needs to go, transport, industry etc.

A rough estimate is that the production of electricity needs to double.

I'm curious how France is going to double the production of electricty. The current plans for new nuclear power don't seem enough to increase capacity and retire old plants at the same time.
Yeah, I totally agree that providing the self-hosted option is a big plus.

Covers maintainability concerns at least in the short term. Some might still be worried about long-term security & bug fixing, support, etc.
> What do you mean by "a few hundred dollars of keys?" Do hardware stores charge more than a few dollars per key in your area?

If you're living in an apartment complex or skyscraper, re-keying can get extremely expensive.
The Best Books on Ada Lovelace
1st rule of robotics.
Quick twitter thread on this subject with extra bonus: https://twitter.com/jackniewold/status/1491196199256608770
Doesn't it depend on whether you feel he had a substantially realistic view as to his talents or not? Few would disagree that he was correct on that score. Moreover Feynman told a number of stories against himself - of how he turned out to be quite wrong about something. We may agree that false modesty is not much better than hyping one's non-existent qualities.
Asimov reference.
Show HN: UnitsWASM – A WASM port of the popular GNU Units command line tool
This is a personal project born from the need to have a good (free and open-source) units convertor on my phone (hence the UI; I now use it as a Cordova app).
The short story is that there was a time when I was converting from inches to centimeters very often, and the tool that I used for doing so was a simple DuckDuckGo search like this: "5 inch to cm". I got tiered of that and thought "It would be great to have the GNU units cli on my phone, but with some nice interface". Turned out that was possible using WebAssembly. This is the results.
I've added some bells and whistles, like the option to be able to save certain units calculations as calculators. The data for the order and the deletion/creation of the calculators is stored in the browser using Local Storage.
The source code for the project can be found here:
https://github.com/yanosh-k/units-wasm
https://github.com/yanosh-k/gnu-wasmunits
That exact sentiment exists deep in my comment history here: I think I used the word "blueprint" if you care enough to fact check that. That is why I said I don't hold issue with the content of the book.

My issue is that the book is useful. It helps solve the artificial complexity introduced by OOP.
# www.nike.com robots.txt -- just crawl it.

I think it's play on the Nike's famous slogan "Just do it".
And there's a chance that such contract terms, even if present, are not enforceable in Australia.
Ah, the joy and horror of rich text editors. I completely understand the selling points and the attraction, but I gave up on 'm for my projects. Not saying that OP must do the same, though.

I eventually settled for plain text in a simple textarea, with basic possibilities for markup by allowing Markdown. No more struggling with different browsers, no struggling with how the RTE looks and feels, no incompatibility issues with the underlying database, etc.

Still not saying everybody has the same use case as I have (no code website system), but I wouldn't trade my current peace of mind for even the best looking RTE.
The second one scares me. It implies some_state is mutated (or not, we may just be logging something) by the do_stuff function while the first makes it very clear that some_state is in charge of doing stuff and that the implementation is aware of how some_state is implemented itself.

OTOH, the second one would be much better (and imply immutability) if it were written as

new_state = do_stuff(some_state)

But it'd also allocate a new state.
I am developing in C++ the videogame I wish it existed.
I got burned by the opposite: I booked a nice place for my brother's wedding 4 months ahead. At that time the prices were quite good. Fast forward a week before the weeding and I receive an email that the host is unable to process my credit card. So I try to contact the host - by phone, email, all possible ways, telling them I have several other cards, I can also pay by Paypal or wire transfer - but they don't reply. I notice the prices rose by 100% in the meantime and the host is trying to cancel my booking in an innocuous way. I wrote to booking.com - no reply. After that a second email arrived that the host was unable to charge my credit card (with a limit 50x more than the value of the booking...) and booking.com cancelled my reservation. Of course when I read the comments online it turned out I was not the first victim of this scheme.

So, if booking.com cannot guarantee the very basics, why should I use them as an agent? It makes no sense to me - it's much better to book directly.
C++ the language also has pretty strong backwards compatibility. It's also trivial to install a new Clang version on most systems.
But it certain spaces that's not what matters. Maybe you are only allowed to use That One Certified Compiler from 15 years ago and getting a certification for a newer compiler is not feasible. Or maybe you're on a system where the C++ standard library is part of the system and so you cannot use newer language features because that would require raising the minimum required OS version (I remember that some parts of the C++ standard library are not available if you compile for older macOS versions, for example).
Branding is a bit of a moat that puts you ahead of other competitors. Literal true story but perhaps a counter example: my wife is considering buying an exercise bike and is trying to choose between Peloton and Beachbody. Everyone online seems to be suggesting she buy the Peloton. She is a little torn, because she already has done non-bike exercises on Beachbody for several years. Peloton has the leg up for the bike, because it has the best branding in that area; however, my wife was at least willing to consider Beachbody, because of her previous experience with their brand.
Getting a 403 for some of the assets on that site
I guess it boils down to how comfortable you are with hypocrisy and double standards.
WebPush is the feature that I'm missing. See https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/114503
Automating Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows
A really intelligent AI would just use a calculator.
> Why wouldn't they want to solve it?

Because they're rich as fuck and will never have to care about finding clean water to drink? Because they're profiting directly from destroying our planet, being part of the capitalist establishment? Because the hundred of millions of climate refugees will mostly be from poorer countries, and France will only have to relocate a few coastal cities and deal with more hurricanes? Because they're hopeful their descendants will go pollute Mars thanks to assholes like Bezos/Musk after they're done fucking up Earth?

I'm not defending nuclear energy, far from it. But pretending governments around the planet (except for a few smaller ones) care at all about planet change when all they've done since the 70's (the time we've know this is the most massive/pressing issue for humanity as a whole) is giving away money to the people who destroyed the planet in the first place (green new deal kind of stuff)... that's political denial if you'd like to call it that ;)

We need degrowth immediately. Heavily criminalize planned obsolescence. Outlaw industrial farming. Tax concrete industry 1000% and legalize eco-housing (illegal in France due to housing regulations). Reduce energy/resource waste on all levels and all fronts. That's the only way you can fight climate change. Keeping the same capitalist recipe that produced the disaster and hoping for a different outcome is either naive or manipulative.
Particulates from wood smoke are brutal.

(there are stoves that do better of course)
Well, Proxima Centauri isn't really "Sun-like" either, so what constitutes an "Earth-like" planet for a different type of star is debatable...
Places to Eat Perched on Cliffs, Mountains, and Volcanoes
China has now had lockdowns in about half a dozen cities where omicron has been detected. It seems more slowed down than stopped.
Could you please elaborate on Hickey’s and Kay’s key ideas and how to try them hands on?

I know about Smalltalk (Squeak) so I guess that is the playground for Kay’s. Would just playing with Clojure do the same for the Hickey’s?
I stumbled on this today, wondering why I had to manually clean up temporary update files from a windows VM.

I salute whomever implemented this, storing settings in a registry key, with a simple number for id.

I feel they did a good job of "how simple could we possibly make the change to allow automation of this tool".
Easier to add water to Mars, or fix Venus, all possible to have well underway by end of century.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1492091045873553411
That's easy to say when you don't know what other things may be bound to that code. As said, I have worked on similar stuff before, and was in a very similar situation where an audio device was kept open for longer than necessary, but "simply closing the device" would have broken many other things that depended on the audio device. Fixing it involved logic changes and refactoring. Sure it wasn't impossible, but it was not exactly as trivial as adding a new checkbox either.
The fragility of the American exceptionalism.

What if we don't want FAANGs in Europe? What if it's harder for FAANGs to develop in Europe because they can't be as aggressive and careless as american corps are?

Personally I don't want Europe to allow huge monopolistic corps to take over our economy.

Why would we want Google, the search engine that provides ads and spies on you instead of providing good results?

Why would we want Facebook/Meta, the ridicolously troubled corporation hated by pretty much everyone at this point?

Why would we want Amazon, famous for exploiting it's workforce, using old wild west methods against unions, exploiting its own sellers by copying their products and selling them for less?

Why would we want Microsoft and Apple and their cartel like attitudes, when we could have a different paradigm of software/hardware that goes to benefit everyone, instead of existing only as a competitive advantage to take over the market?

All of this companies will do anything in their power (lecit or not) to increase their market share and avoid paying taxes.

You can keep your silicon valleys and your oligocratic economy, thank you.