skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better headline: most US workers had no choice but to accept the pandemic profiteering of corporations that have little, if any, competition, leading them to raise prices for no reason other than shareholder rewards and stock buybacks.

We talk about inflation as if it is some law of nature or some ethereal boogeyman. It's giant corporations deciding that muH suPpLy ChAiN DisRUpTiOn is a great excuse to paper over their own greed.

This last round of earnings calls have been nuts. So many times, the answer of "why are you raising prices when our profit margins are so high?" is always some corpspeak version of "cuz we can".
They all serve their regimes. Some are better than others, but ultimately you would have to put your trust in a few old white men to make wise decisions.
It's not a matter of opinion, it's factual.
Wind power costs less than $1.5M/MW currently. Your price must be a bit older.
No, trying to be perfectism is a long term game. Anything else will fail eventually. They eventually fail because noone can handle/pay big enough tech debts.

It was my experience at most of my tech company where people rushed features with full of tech debt implementation.

Like a wise man said: think clearly before any action.
Note that Wikipedia has this policy focussed on being a tertiary source; Wikiversity, another Wikimedia project, welcomes original research.

A lot of what people complain about Wikipedia ruling out is in scope for either Wikiversity or Wikibooks; it's not a “we don't want that” issue but a “we have structure, and within that structure there is a better place for that”.
How I treat my urge to hoard data
How clever! You really showed him.
Russia's official demands are similarly tame, mostly Ukrainian neutrality. In practice, neither Poland nor Ukraine could easily pick an anti US/Russian leader.
What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video]
I didn't write "only happens", either.

Consider "A implies B". That does not mean "B implies A".
But profit margins haven’t expanded…
Late but I saw this in the morning and was gonna try my hand at compiling it but looks like someone already figured it out (congrats!).

I have a bunch of old Flash games from back in HS. Been watching Ruffle for a while as well since I've been wanting to make a page to preserve them but AS3 functionality just isn't there yet...
I was raised on OOP, and at my ripe old age I really want to grok monads. This video did me a great service in that direction.
Here's a good heuristic: if those same experts are ones that denied that inflation was a risk before it actually happened, you can take their opinion with a grain of salt.

I saw many classical economist types denying that printing trillions of dollars and flagellating the global supply chain would lead to inflation. They were proven very, very wrong.
then why can't we just buy stock in these companies making mad money and get rich ourselves.
I've been using clisp in the terminal since, well, forever. There's probably no advantage over Python, though.
I have a 6900xt - works excellently on linux
The opposite of inflation is not deflation, it is stability (ie the lack of inflation).

Deflation is much worse than inflation, and quite difficult to actually make happen, so you don't need to worry about that.

In fact even steady, regular, inflation is not bad, but employers just need to understand the need for inflation based increases for all staff every year. Employers in the US are not used to that, and have been generally slow to keep up, but will eventually figure it out.

And yes, there won't be the same number for all, so expect plenty of cherry-picking example articles for years to come. And generally workers (and customers) will be losers, because, well Capitalism.

In most countries there is stable, regular, inflation and somehow they cope. The US has some catching up to do, but they'll figure it out. Albeit that the impacts of naked capitalism will be more pronounced there.
207 on my M1 Max, v98.0 stable.
tl;dr Ukraine could have withdrawn their interest in NATO, which Putin wanted them to do.

This is nonsense. It's not like Putin needed an excuse to invade. He had already annexed a large chunk of the country and was actively waging war in it for 8 years.

Ukraine could have avoided this war, but what would Putin have done after that? How could they then avoid returning to a neo-Soviet Union?
Discusses Barcelona, and 3x3 superblocks, and uses a 2xN illustration. Maybe its just me but the visual completely failed to make me believe Barca has 3x3 superblocks because it didn't show it.
I recently did fluorescent replacements to LED’s in my house. It’s surprisingly pretty straightforward. You can buy dual end power LED bulbs pretty cheap on Amazon - I paid around $30 USD for 4 (they will last around 10-12 years with regular use). They are significantly cheaper than that already pretty low price when you are buying 10+. Replacement is pretty simple: flip off breaker, cut the ballast wires about 1 inch before they go into the ballast, and strip the bulb wires where you cut and send them directly into the house wiring instead of into the ballast. I didn’t even bother removing the ballast and used the same wire nuts that were in there before so there wasn’t any hardware removal.

The only annoying part is getting rid of the old fluorescent tubes - they are hazardous waste due to the mercury content and there was only one place in my city that would take them and it was all the way on the far side of the rather large metro.
What is the hypothetical scenario in which deficit spending (creating more money supply) doesn’t lead to more dollars chasing the same goods and services?
This totally ignores the greediness in capitalism, which cryptocurrencies exemplifies (there's no problems they actually solve, except the problem of how to make the rich richer)
Are there any employers using Lightbulb now where I can apply?
Yes. I use my Mac primarily as a really nice platform for running Emacs and TeX; apart from that, there's Thunderbird, Safari and occasionally Chrome, Parallels (because I very occasionally need to run Windows), Inkscape, and the Gimp. Not a one of these is new.
> Most of the middle class kept their jobs and kept spending

because businesses and people were given regular financial jolts via deficit spending.
Not really much, but it was giving an example of the costs of computing in general. More like an upper bound. That you could buy crazy expensive computers and it would cost nowhere near what actual weapons systems cost. I was just trying to say that the cost for hacking is more in man power rather than machinery. And man power is far cheaper than machinery.
Yes. It's too bad that politicians got corrupted as usual. Not in all countries though, many have shut it down.
That is untrue. Corporate profits exploded shortly after the pandemic began.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CP
What are constraints if not laws?
I said some inflation is fine (ie. normal/expected) except hyper inflation/deflation.
You are right. Here is procedural:

doX(data, args)

Here is OO:

data.doX(args)

The only difference is that you can stop doX(data, args) from modifying parts of data. However you can do the exact same thing in non-OO languages like C or Haskell by using void* (in C) or (in Haskell) modules with hidden constructors.

The only true OO language out there is Erlang. C++/Java/C# etc. are not OO languages.

The idea that OO is modelling the world is BS. You don't ask your shoe to tie itself or ask a tree to chop itself.

And you don't ask an integer to display itself in a dialog in an "OO" language unless you are a bad software designer.
XPath was a great system. However I feel like most of the features required existing XSLTs to support them.
The products and services with the greatest increase in prices are all categories in which supply has been greatly disrupted, or demand has boomed due to lifestyle changes. There’s no conspiracy here, just basic economics.
If I understand global economics correctly...

Relatively speaking, if the dollar is strong and the US continues to export goods/services, then some of the inflation is absorbed by other countries.
I’ll admit I’m biased on this issue, but I’m very wary of this type of reasoning. There are plenty of courses that are more useful than calculus, but kids/young adults won’t be convinced to learn a subject purely out of its utility in adult life (same reason I’m against replacing math with a “life skills” class); in g TV fact Calculus was the course that changed my whole college and career trajectory. Up until I took Calculus, I recognized the importance of math, but hated every dull second of it - there was no motivation that appealed to me, and it seemed that math could only be used to solve the most contrived problems (word problems that resulted in linear systems, simple roots of trig or polynomial functions, etc).

The only reason I took calculus is because it was the next math course after pre-calc and I still had a year left in high school. I didn’t even realize that there was a type of math that could be used to exactly calculate quantities related to continuously changing processes, but I was absolutely fascinated by how many real world problems calculus could solve - I realized that the problems given in algebra were contrived out of necessity to resolve in a neat manner. Now I had access to an entirely new vocabulary that allowed me to describe the world as it is, not as it needed to be to neatly fit in a 10th grade word problem.

Until that point I was interested in psychology (and had a vague notion that I’d drop out of school to make a career in music somehow), but I immediately dropped everything to take as many math and physics courses as I could. 14 years later and I work in a very math heavy engineering oriented field.

I know my story is probably atypical, and I have no clue what I’d be doing right now if I hadn’t taken calculus, but it’s one of those things that I look at in hindsight and think that I was that close to giving up on STEM, but for being forced to take Calculus. Instead, I earned my Ph.D. in applied math, and there’s not a day where I don’t use calculus of some kind.
None of this is true, I'm sad to see such a misunderstanding of basic facts on HN of all places.

To actually believe something as stupid as you're claiming, you'd have to assume that the giant corporations suddenly decided to crank the greed knob in lockstep with a massive amount of money being printed in the last two years.

On top of that, you'd also have to assume that housing (which is in no significant way controlled by corporations) coincidentally skyrocketed at an unprecedented rate at the exact same time (along with equities) caused by a completely separate mechanism.
Pretty sure I just have dyspraxia, which is one of those dyslexia/add/etc type conditions that doesn't have any drug or surgical treatment aside from occupational therapy and always having 100 different backup plans.

But there's GPS apps now so aside from driving and math it's not that limiting. If they ever fix the public transit here I'd probably be fine...
right, but the cost of the factory is pretty much amortized over all the units.

that's the problem with nuclear; unless something like this reactor shows up and doesn't change that the costs are always associated with one plant. private companies just cannot afford to put all their eggs in one big, unreliable basket. (state ownership also doesn't necessarily change things, Areva has not done so hot after its nationalization)
But I can write SQL in Spark just fine. Can't I?
### How I learn something new, in-depth

I open...

- ...a text editor (VS Code)

- ...with Dendron (Outfitted with custom kb schemas and snippets, etc)

- ...a browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.)

- ...a new diagram (Drawio only)

Example: I want to learn about and become fluent in the topic of X.509 certificates.

1. Open VS Code (Dendron extension starts)

2. CTRL+l and type `crypto.x.509`. This creates a `.md` file in my knowledge base

a. Because I have a "Crypto" schema setup in Dendron, upon creating the new document under `crypto.`, a markdown template is applied with the following headings:

i. ### Acronyms / Definitions

ii. ### Questions

iii.### Resources

iv. ### Footnotes

3. Open Firefox and DuckDuckGo "X.509 standards"

a. Points to the [ITU-T website](https://www.itu.int/t/aap/recdetails/8529)

4. Find the spec website and download the PDF, save to my `dendron\assets\pdf` directory

5. In a new `crypto.x.509.drawio` file, draw box "ITU-T" on the diagram

6. Copy the spec URL to my `crypto.x.509.md` file under the `### Resources` heading (add some alt text)

7. Read the PDF spec VERY CAREFULLY; creating a box on the diagram _for each noun_ I come across.

a. Once boxes appear to either work together in a process or are part of the same concept, I contain them in a larger "parent" box

b. This is good for determining hierarchy and peer relationships

Benefits:

- Its fairly quit to get "a sheet of music" in front of all concerned parties (if you're working on a team)

- I like seeing the diagram and *easily* manipulate thoughts (boxes) and move them into combinations

- Writing everything in Markdown basically creates a website of your notes

- Using Dendron centralizes your knowledge base
Perhaps by proofs they are referring to formalised / verifiable programming languages such as the SPARK subset of ADA?

Those are indeed very useful for life/safety critical systems such as aerospace, air traffic control, medical devices, etc.
Do you know why you're Mac getting low results? Other users are getting 200+
Beat me to it...

https://judgedredd.fandom.com/wiki/Block
M1Pro

Chrome v98: 290
Chrome v99: 316
Safari : 278

All were with incognito/private browsing to remove the effect of extensions
> I understand that big surface areas are a thing, but there's just loads of content that exists as Flash and is fine.

Well, yeah; and there's loads of Win95 games that run fine under WINE. But if you want to guarantee that an arbitrary Win95 game will work, without knowing anything about it (as is the case with a content-blind bulk archivist like the Internet Archive), then you'd better wrap it in a real Win95 VM, rather than assuming it's one of the easy cases.

In the case of SWF files, though, it's not that the files themselves have heavy/weird requirements; it's that their abstract machine / runtime itself makes some extremely dated assumptions about a wide-ranging set of platform APIs.

It's a bit like how RPG Maker 95 games are hard to run on Windows 10. To run arbitrary games, you could in theory "just" make a 100%-coverage reimplementation of the RPG Maker 95 runtime, build it for Windows 10, and it would run just fine. But as it stands, the only 100%-coverage implementation of said runtime is RPG Maker 95 itself; and so the only good way to run RM95 games, is in a Windows 9x VM, where all the particular APIs RM95 is looking for exist.

> An extra layer here, Flash CS3 Professional is better as a quick iterating game tool than basically everything out there for people nowadays

You know that Adobe Animate (nee Flash Professional) still exists, right? And that you can still make games in it, not just animations? It just exports to HTML5 now, rather than to SWF.
Any multiplier > 1 is enough to keep a "grow by constant each iteration" loop from becoming quadratic.
So you're saying the western world needs to experience something drastic like third world poverty in order to actually change?
The first webcomic I remember was called Bruno, about a college-age girl with frizzy pencil hair and sardonic views on life.

Kevin and Kell

User Friendly

Something*Positive

Wow, trip down memory lane here.
For A, yes, you need to ensure the vendor is reputable and that their testing is trustworthy. Espressif, however, moves a lot of chips and I think it is safe to assume the manufacturer is reputable if they are supplying other well known ESP32 hardware - can maybe check importyeti to see who other people are using.

For B, yes, you are correct, but my understanding is that as long as you don’t have any other “intentional” emitters (for example Wifi or BLE) you only need the unintentional if your device is battery powered or uses a certified power supply. Then it should be quite cheap and simpler to get the full certification (think $500-$1000 instead of an order of magnitude more)
How is this a bad thing? I hate having to go to dealers to buy a car, they will actively change pricing every opportunity. It’s wretched.

The last couple of times I asked for the exact amount for the car, told them I was getting a cashiers check for that amount, got said check, and then left if they tried to change the price afterwards.
There are certainly lots of situations where one browser beats another

For example in this microbenchmark, Chrome is 10x slower than both FF and Safari at one method.

https://jsbenchit.org/?src=cfcb916dd03df45952183e6484a14344

Here's another where in one case Firefox is 54x faster than Chrome

https://jsbenchit.org/?src=beb26575ad78caa99a2a8c45ce2b780f
Oh yeah, I very much use it as a super quick access calculator. If I was needing in a situation where I needed controlled error etc it wouldn’t necessarily be great, but that’s ok because in general if you have me working on something requiring that your project has other issues :)
How long does it usually take between the announcement and becoming available?
Crontab for scheduling

+ BASH (or NodeJS/Python/Lua) scripts for map-reduce or whatever kind of computation you want to do

+ NFS v4.1 (something like AWS EFS) will do the job.

You get immense flexibility, however the team of developer who is maintaining this must be more skilful.
The standard scenario would be that the addition of liquidity allows trade to occur when it otherwise wouldn't. The growth in real production can exceed the growth in the money supply. This is generally what we imagine happening with credit cards and other forms of finance.
What is the I?

I like MAGMA which requires using Meta but not Alphabet.
You can write some SQL in Spark, but

1) Why would you want to maintain your own Spark infrastructure? Spark on Kube is a huge improvement over YARN but you still have to deal with OOMEs, filled disks, Kube upgrades, pushing custom images to container registries, etc etc etc.

2) Snowflake is probably 10-50x as performant as Spark for data manipulation. I don't know what kind of unholy demonic incantations Snowflake is doing on the backend to support their SQL performance, but it's really freaking fast. There's just no other way to cut it.

I've spent 5-10 years eking every ounce of performance I can get out of a Hadoop/Spark cluster. I'm not trying to be unreasonable about this. I would love for OSS to be competitive; it's great for the world, and it would be great for my skill set and earning potential.

But it's not a contest, and if you think standalone Spark is going to be a viable competitor in a couple years, you are deluding yourself. Make informed choices about your career and investment.
Reminds me of https://github.com/johnkerl/miller which is also a go based tool cloning features from tools like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
And the reason why that doesn't and can't work with USB2 is because, unlike Ethernet, USB is extremely closely tied to its physical layer and you cannot actually buffer and switch USB packets at all (without cooperation from at least one side). All communications are host-driven and stateful, and the timeouts for replies are on the order of single-digit microseconds, and the receiving end has no obligation to accept data, so there is no way to safely buffer data and forward it at a later time because that time might never come, and the mere act of accepting data from one end desyncs both ends' ideas of what data was successfully transferred, which can have higher level protocol implications. USB is a clusterfuck of a standard.
A sequence of sinus curves can compute any function. A Turing machine can compute any function. Lambda calculus can compute any function. etc. etc.
Very interesting to play with. Now I have to go read then JPEG spec.
Where's Japan's inflation? They actually spent more % GDP than the US did on COVID relief.

Note, currently a lot of other countries besides the US are having inflation because of international supply issues. They didn't print money - that suggests we'd also be seeing it if we hadn't printed some.

Actually, we definitely would be seeing economic issues if we hadn't rescued everyone, because we'd all be incapacitated due to COVID. That's called successful investment.
They have been sending them for around 20 years. It's not like these are new emails. The phishing team has been flagging them for a few years now, not sure how long.
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Didn't vikings do shrooms before they went and hacked at each other with iron weapons?

No. First, the theory is that they would use fly agaric to go berserk, a mushroom that, while a hallucinogen, gives a very different trip than psilocybin or typical magic mushrooms. Second, there is no evidence the Vikings used drugs prior to battle.

That being said, they could have learned the use of fly agaric from the Sami, who, like other Uralic people, used it for shamanic practices. The practice of using henbane in beer brewing was common in Europe right up until the 16th century or so, so they were likely no strangers to tripping.
As we have already seen this pandemic, you can't always guilt or shame people into action.
Reminds me of Arcology buildings in Sim City 2000 https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Arcology
It's not clear how any of the suggested attacks constitute 'permanent' damage:
disabling the transmitter, corrupting the antenna pointing logic, demod, power params can all be solved by reflashing the firmware and FPGAs. Not always simple but possible at least by the manufacturer.

One way to really destroy a transmitter is to transmit at full power without an antenna attached. Another is to burn the receiver front end by directing the full transmitter output to the receiver input. If the RF path is configured with software controlled RF switches a hack could burn out the front end circuitry for good. All depends on how permanent we're talking.
The Key to Escaping the Couple-Envy Trap
I’m glad perf is still a focus for the Chrome team. That said…

> We know that benchmarks are just one of many ways of measuring the speed of a browser.

This is very true, and with a few notable exceptions my experience is that Safari feels faster across the board even where it has consistently benched slower. This likely has less to do with runtime performance and more to do with process isolation models. I feel confident about that because Safari tends to be more liberal with spawning new processes, and that’s where I experience its pathological edge cases.

(Chrome starts to pool processes by domain sooner than Safari, which puts less pressure on the OS but more on operations within a given domain; Safari creates processes per tab more consistently but ultimately degrades overall app performance and eventually system performance too.)
Macs are basically standard developer hardware at well funded tech companies, for all sorts of engineers besides just iOS teams.
Why not? Is the overhead of Emacs around the calculator too much on a modern desktop computer? Emacs apps are far leaner than the many Electron apps people seem to not have a practical problem with.
Why all GW and no GWh? Units suspicious.
The US could have some of these nice things too if the zoning law didn't ban all business in residential areas. It baffles me how the US has no shops / restaurants / convenience stores in residential areas and nobody questioned it over half a century.
some of the superblock will have sun at any given moment.

parks are tricky. if they are not busy enough they can at best become a dead zone no one wants to stay around in, and at worst degenerate into a haven for unsavory activities, since no one is keeping an eye on it. parks are basically force multipliers for activity, but it can be a positive or negative relationship.