skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at housing prices and tell me again there's been "not much inflation". Who cares if goods which are ten percent of your spending went down in price when housing and healthcare skyrocketed?
Can you explain why the process isolation model would matter here? It seems at best uncorrelated and my experience has been that aggressive process pooling improves, rather than degrades, system performance.
I don't think it's inherently capitalist problem.

My country got significantly more environmentally friendly since it switched from communism to capitalism in 1989. For one thing we decreased energy use by 1/3rd while increasing production, standards of living and exports significantly. The main thing that caused this was freeing energy prices (which increased them significantly in less than a decade - which made everybody invest in obvious energy-saving measures like house insulation).

To illustrate: in last 30 years my parents moved from burning 4 ton of coal per winter to less than 2 (after insulating the house) to nothing (because they installed heat pump and solar panels last year).

Another thins is open information about all sorts of indicators - publicly accessible measurements of air quality were introduced (before there was simply no data and officials lied about the threats while people living near industrial facilities died prematurely).

A lot of problems people attribute to ideologies and systems of government are actually technical and could be solved independently of these things, simply by improving procedures, tinkering with incentives and improving education.

EU has been a huge positive influence in all of these.
> If there was value in permanently pushing it all the way, would the body have evolved to leave it at baseline?

Sure. Evolution is not a designer.

I'm no biologist, but I think it's pretty clear that evolution gets stuck in local optima all the time. See the common gripe about humans using the same pipe for breathing and eating.

That said, I agree that messing with human biology is risky business for uncertain payoff. We simultaneously know mountains and nothing about ourselves and how we function.
Yep, this is a great little demo. I love these little bite-sized pieces of instruction. Well done.
I’m surprised that this is not a more common opinion.
Many places do. It was very much the norm as cities were expanding rapidly in the 20th century. Something like 75+% of land in major metropolitan areas in North America are zoned for single-family housing only[1]. And of course that's not evenly distributed between cities, and much of the remaining 25% is still zoned as exclusively residential or commercial.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities...
Wages over the same time period are about 4 times the amount of total COVID relief spending of all types combined. The dollar value of the COVID relief may be less of an impact than the fact that it prevented a larger labor market collapse and kept people earning wages. The stimulus was just a spark that kept the larger American consumerism machine chugging strong.
that is a completely separate layer run by and built by a different company using technology from 20 years ago
This does not match observations. The government has been in deficit spending for a long time without much inflation. There's something different about recent government spending(that it gives money to poor people), and the inflationary response by property owners is class warfare.

Greedy responses by the rich arent things that have to happen, they're things allowed to happen by a broken market. Proper competition would limit this
You're a doctor. I hire you in the public sector for $100 and you save that $100 in a drawer (or a bank account).

How does putting money in a drawer cause prices to go up? How do you have a deficit without somebody somewhere putting money in a drawer?

Money supply is a stock. Spending is a flow. Spending is from income less taxation, which means the next person earning the income gets less than you spend. If the spending continues then all the income disappears in tax. There is a finite transaction sequence and no deficit.

What that tells you is that government spending even if there is a balanced budget can cause inflation - because it depends upon the level of flow, not the stock.
1. You can disconnect your car from the internet if you wish
2. They have been very security minded, tested it multiple ways, and have paid attackers to try, paid for bugs like a real company. The internal car os is separate from the much more fragile 'infotainment' display.

Given all that, I still wish mine had an easy way to disconnect the internet, and also to disable os updates.
They're constraints. "Laws" bring up connotations related to laws of physics.
I'm sorry, but I'm not a nation-state. I wish I was though.
You can get a 16c/64gb semi managed (break/fix hw) for ~ $40USD/mo of course this isn't the same IPC of a 64c cpu
It's not as if capitalist models of economics are that successful either at important goals like equality or sustainability. All models are wrong; some are useful.
But the argument wasn't that increasing the money supply doesn't have any negative repercussions. The argument was that increasing the money supply doesn't always result in inflation. Inflation is the "one way" and sometimes we pay with the "another".
you give all the money to people who have nothing more to spend on. Is it hypothetical?
Yeah, I don't feel like this is something China lacks. Most of the cities I've been to were mixed-zoning (or, well, maybe just un-zoned?), such that you could go for a quick walk from most apartments and quickly find convenience stores, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc.
Ford does not understand infotainment or charging experience.

Tesla literally ship with AMD Ryzen CPUs, while other manufacturers still can't even get CPUs. They got 8 cameras, 4 of which you can watch live....anytime on your mobile phone. The supercharger experience sets a standard that no 3rd party comes close to reaching. The supercharger network itself gives Tesla customers the ability to confidently travel and easily charge - fast.

I actually test drove a Mach-E and a Model Y. Ford was straight up trying to rip me off, and made the whole experience really off-putting. On top of that, the Ford dealers literally had no idea what they were doing, or any of the facts. There is no passion in it.

Tesla is all passion. Every Tesla employee wakes up to do one thing; make the world's best EV. Ford (and every other legacy) is trying to change engines in an airplane midflight while trying to learn how to build EV's.

It isn't for the lack of trying - in any area, that Tesla isn't the best at something. Tesla has the smartest people in the room/industry. Their energy and focus is on AI, scaling up manufacturing, battery tech, charging tech, etc. They spend nothing on marketing, and get more free press and word of mouth than any brand but Apple.

Marketing like legacy car companies comes off as desperate and thirsty. Just listen to the two CEO; Ford CEO will play buzzword bingo and talk high level corporate empty-speak. Elon Musk will talk to you about the challenges in battery manufacturing, the nuances of the minutia of building these amazing vehicles. Elon Musk will sleep on the factory floor to get it done. What other CEO has slept on the factory floor?

The man is not without his defects, but literally consider his life accomplishments; PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, tunnel digging because why not, solar panels, residential utility scale battery storage, 30000 "gas stations" around the world.

Literally Ford can't even build vehicles right now. Like production down. Assembly stopped. Tesla is pumping out EV faster than ever before. And Elon Musk is trying to fly rockets to Mars in his spare time.

I respect the history of the legacy's; but they are simply not in a strong position. Musk won. His cars are the cool ones everyone wants.

It isn't that Ford has crazy demand; they have no production. Same as Rivian, etc. It markets well to say Ford/Rivian deliveries of EV are way out to 2024 - but has to be taken in context that they are struggling to produce 50k EV a year.

Tesla has the proven product. Literally no one knows how well a Rivian or Lucid will hold up, or what defects will haunt their early buyers. There isn't enough data out there yet. Same for the Mach-E. Tesla has 10yrs of data for customers to look at; and Tesla has what feels like a 100yr head start...
The parent comment asked about the NSA, and, well, they happen to do a lot of math.
I don't know why you would want to run mkfifo, over ssh, on rsync.net.

It makes me happy that it works.
So you don’t believe that worker productivity can increase? History disagrees. Do you invest your money or do you view that as somehow getting free lunch?
I was pedantic earlier, but this is wrong in a more profound way:

> But it's like the weather. We can predict long term climate reasonably accurately, but we can't predict next week's weather.

No we can predict medium term (decades) climate reasonably but over even longer timescales even general predictions about climate can break down (centuries or millennia), as is the nature of chaotic systems.

This is true as well of economic "laws" and why I agree that economics is chaotic. Those laws that hold at the millisecond level are different than those that hold at the second level, which are in turn different on the time scale of years, which are different from those of decades, and in turn centuries and millennia. There are general patterns whose efficacy and predictive ability are more resilient than the rest but those too are eventually worn down by the relentless march of chaos.
Databricks has an extremely bad API. So, sure, your Spark jobs might be a little bit faster some times, but why would you use it if you can't even read logs of running jobs?
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That's great! Couple questions, is this on a recently released version, will it be in the next Fedora? Is it best just to grab the Flatpak?
No, but I definitely think people would lie about being an expert coconut picker, and I think the number of trolls on the internet who would find it funny to try to get false information into articles vastly outnumbers the number of coconut picker experts who don't have any way to verify their credentials.
Re: the player exists, but the creator is lacking: in that sense the Web, even today, is a "Turing tarpit, where everything is possible, but nothing of interest is easy."
I wonder if it can substitute sunlight for the benefits of kids' eyes. Research shows nearsightedness is caused by insufficient outdoor time (not by looking at near things like screens), mechanisms unclear.
This isn't a meaningful distinction. The United States has been deficit spending since 9/11, and the last large deficit spending was the 2008 crisis, which did not lead to any meaningful inflation.
France and Germany have free college education.
I’m definitely not. I copied and pasted that link into a freshly cleared out Duck Duck Go browser window on my phone and saw the comment. I can’t reproduce not seeing it in any browser I’ve tried, except where I had an ad blocker installed that hides website comments.
I’d be hard pressed to recommend D&F to a self study audience. Perhaps it’s just me, but the endless enumeration of examples and counterexamples at the beginnings of most chapters seemed to destroy my intuition rather than reinforce it.
> The government has been in deficit spending for a long time without much inflation

There was still inflation due to the deficit spending. Just because inflation was low doesnt mean it wouldnt have been lower without the deficit spending
> To add my two cents, peace is not simply lack of war, it's an active way of being.

Reminds me of the Hebrew word "shalom":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom
I went to a Hadoop workshop in 2016 where the speaker was insistent Hadoop would replace traditional relational databases in the next 5 years. It’s been six and I think the death of relational databases has still been greatly exaggerated.

https://twitter.com/donatj/status/740210538320273408
No but the "West" would need to give up a good bunch of luxurious wants. Less trips to the bowling alley, less meat, less drive to the store to get just one thing.
Just to be nitpicky: JPEG is only one form of lossy image compression. Lossless algorithms are completely different. MPEG & co are based on something similar like JPEG. Apparently WEBP (the lossy format that has been gaining some traction in the last years) also uses DCT (or a Walsh–Hadamard transform) for its blocks, but with some additional "tricks" like block prediction.
Laws in physics can be broken too. Eg. Energy is not conserved in some circumstances
Skyrocketing housing prices are caused by restrictive zoning and speculative investors than the 2007 QE

Not to mention there are some real estate markets that have lost value in recent years
The empirical evidence supports that view - once you drop below the aggregate [0]

Housing increases in price because the market doesn't produce enough housing to go around. During the pandemic we saw the price of Used cars start to rise and behave like housing normally does. Did we call that 'inflation', or did we say 'we need to produce more cars'.

That housing increases in price is the sign of an oligopoly, not inflation. Smash the oligopoly, distribute the work around the country and build sufficient houses so that houses depreciate in value and that will fix that particular problem. As it does with cars.

[0] https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-abo...
Very surprised by this. Do you have a reference ?
Games have actively gone downhill. Entertainment is too much like drugs, and drugs are worthless outside their proper set and setting.

There are no LAN parties. Conventions are more corporate now. Nobody camps out in line for a Wii.

The 90s to early 2000s was the golden age of everything because of context. The substance is almost irrelevant.

All the corporate "Bring back 1996" releases fail because they just rerelease pieces. It's like telling people that drinking alone till you puke is the same as a party.

Even more businessy software is the same way. Programmers are no longer excited about tech. They just think it's a security risk and maybe secretly respect Kackzynsy's views

Why would they innovate even if they had time? The cool thing to do is interesting algorithms, blockchains, and minimalism. Nobody wants to make a super awesome GUI app. That's too easy and the new generation of programmers looks down on how the world is GUI dependent.

Everything it tech sucks because the culture in general manages to make it suck even though the actual tech is absolutely amazing.
I think they're using "onsite" here to indicate the second interviewing stage, after the initial "phone screen." Both terms are somewhat misnomers these days since both stages are often done over video.
This is why I check Britannica as much as Wikipedia now, especially for any topic that might be touched by politics, such as history, or even science (or especially science, given how bad it's getting on Wikipedia). The quality difference is remarkable, and is just one more counter to my previous assumption of the internet will make everything better!

Ah, young and halcyon days!
Honestly, these cross-platform apps are way better than the native apps of yore. I'd take VSCode any day over XCode or Sublime. Slack pretty much just works and is way less finicky than LimeChat ever was.

The reality is that the browser has become the OS that everyone targets. In many ways, this is a good thing. The apps I run on my Mac work just as well on Windows and Linux. You mention Microsoft/Apple dominating office software. But there's a whole new world built on top of things like Notion and Google Docs/Sheets now. Web apps are more than capable enough today outside of niche scenarios.
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> The interview process for seniors should be more geared towards finding a product-team-eng fit, rather than an evaluation.

Please use your platform to spread this message to employers. I have increasingly been getting leads asking for some sort of automated testing, even when I bring 25 years of hands on and management industry experience. The tests typically require multiple hours of time investment, with no real guarantees. That's asking a lot.
Very good. I also find the division rounding and symmetry in your implementation aesthetically appealing. I think I just instinctively reach for half-open intervals for reasons unrelated to this particular problem.

For signed search ranges, if you modify my implementation above to compute the midpoint as (lo + hi) // 2 and (lo + hi) < 0 and the language rounds integer division toward zero, you gain a rounding-related bug. In this sort of circumstance, your approach does not gain that bug because it doesn't care which way division is rounded. Python doesn't have overflow and rounds down, so ~all of the errors we can make on that line won't happen anyway :)

If the range is unsigned, lo-1 is likely to be MAX_VALUE, but it seems like it still does the right thing.
There are two different categories of nations, those in the EU or NATO and everyone else (the EU has similar mutual defense claims as NATO I recently learned, but the US isn't in the EU pact afakt). If you aren't in nato, then unless you have mutual defense treaties with big powerful countries, you aren't that protected. The US and SK have that. Georgia isn't in NATAO, doens't have nukes, they are pretty unprotected.

Denmark is another country that apparently isn't in the eu defense pact, but guess what, they are going to vote and almost certainly join - https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/denmark-hold-.... But interestingly, Denmark is in NATO.
Color comes from two additional "chroma planes", which are also monochrome images that are compressed the same way.

Example of an image split into three planes: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Barns_gr...

Often the chroma planes are stored at a smaller resolution and scaled up when decoding, since details in chroma don't matter as much as details in brightness.
The race to the bottom was absolutely Apple's fault. Software distribution over the internet existed before the App Store. Even Steam existed before the App Store.

But Apple based the App Store on iTunes, where the songs were 99 cents and curation was a token effort. It took years for Apple to recognize that people needed to be able to find the good apps more than a few hours after they released onto the store.
Yeah I use the math functionality in the built-in Spotlight search on the Mac and it does all the basics I need. Even does currency conversion.
Look at computer prices and tell me again there has been inflation.

Cherry picking one or two categories which are impacted by countless other issues does nothing to prove your point.
You're linking to the comment's own page. Of course it's visible there. It's the entire content. Navigating to that URL is an explicit request to see that comment and nothing else.

But it's not visible in the comment thread where it was made. How would you see it if you weren't specifically trying to?
We already do that in elementary and high school with logarithms, square roots, sin, cos, tan, pi, radians, e, irrational & imaginary numbers, etc. The tables are just built into pocket calculators instead of paper. Even Pythagoras is a bit weird.
Nix is an academic's solution to a large problem space based on a single principle ignoring several real limitations in order to shoehorn itself into an existing box of a problem. Of the many problems it has are assumptions about development models, deployment models, and operational models. Moreover, it seeks to be a monolithic proprietary solution rather than a collection of loosely-coupled layers that can be interchanged.

But what irks me is that it doesn't fundamentally change anything. There are clearly major inherent limitations in how software is developed that led us here. Nix is intended to find complicated ways to work around the problems in those development patterns. But we can't call out the pink elephant. Rather, let's make pink wallpaper, pink sofas, pink chairs, pink rugs, and then say that we've solved the problem, because you can barely even see the elephant now.

The problem isn't packaging. The problem is software design itself. The dependency hell, the conflicting versions, the filesystem hash trees, the DSL. It all exists because the software itself has no way to express its own compatibility with other functions or dependencies. We just kick the can down the road to a random package manager and hope for the best. But clearly the solution needs to happen in the software, not in how we install it.
At the time (still may be the case) their REST APIs exposed everything about their operation. I had a robot that tracked it, since it was publicly traded.
Any specifics about which services?
Thanks for adding so much pertinent information to this discussion. Definitely appreciated.
Inspired by Cargo?
I'm not saying there isn't a component, but you could not predict the current inflation rate based on continued deficit spending
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Most apps on Mac worth buying are either cross-platform (like Word) or a replacement for something on Windows (Pixelmator Pro, which you could argue is a replacement for several Windows-only paint apps for Windows, including MS Paint itself and Corel Paint Shop Pro). I think that some of the reasons are Mac's smaller market share (so it's harder to recoup your time spent making the app), and the fact that you have to learn a new language (Swift) or at least use a user-unfriendly IDE (XCode) to ship an app (meanwhile you can make an app that's cross-platform between Windows and Linux using GTK or Qt with relative ease).
Britannica is still running, I use it. It certainly doesn't have as many articles nor eyeballs as Wikipedia, but as I wrote above, it's a damn sight better. This outcome would probably have happened - as the example you've given shows - regardless of whether Britannica (and other existing encyclopaedias) had used a different pricing model, which really shows that they're not in direct competition. Same sector, different consumers.
>As a general statement, ZoL is less mature than ZFS-on-FreeBSD

That's strange since FreeBSD actually moved to ZoL a while ago
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In games where I've worked as a graphics programmer we have mainly used SSAO solutions such as HBAO and GTAO.

I wasn't really a fan of AO during the original craze but I really like these modern screen space versions.
It is. North American zoning certainly isn't ideal, IMHO. But a mix of superblocks, both dense and sparse mixed-zone housing, single family homes, and high rises would appeal to me. Just let people pick where they want to live.

I also find these superblocks a bit oppressive, TBH. If they were one option among many I might find them appealing, but as the _only_ option they seem a bit...dystopian. Very much like the endless suburbs you find in American cities. Do we really need an absolute all-encompassing housing ideology?
I believe the point of the article is that people seem to have a poor intuition for when it’s appropriate to choose the plane over walking.
That's neat!

Since Lake Powell was formed in 1966, it must have only been for a small number of decades in all of history that the bridge was easy to get to.
My suspicion (again, without the actual background to make this claim with any authority) is that they are dead wrong on point 2—the "real math" parts probably contribute strongly to most folks' dislike of the subject, and the parts the mathematicians didn't like are probably relatively popular among people who don't go on to become mathematicians. This puts point 1 on some shaky ground (though it could still be true and well-justified, for other reasons).

So you're saying you know nothing yet are sure "experts" are wrong, based on no evidence. OK.