skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This diminishes your reply unfairly, and that's not my intention: I was going to try to word my way around (normal) inflation being somewhat of a solution to this, but felt it watered down my sentiment more than I'd have liked.

>You think you can do better?

I'm not a trader, and in my very (like, VERY!) low value dabbles I've invariably lost (like, apparently, 90% of amateur traders). If I had more money to gamble, however, I'd definitely put some on Tesla in the current environment of foreseeable-future high oil prices. Investing is always a gamble though. My meagre investments are a very high percentage in indexed funds or ETFs or whatever they're called (see, I'm a freakin' pro :)).
Sure that's true for any nation having huge stock of natural resources (i.e Nigeria, UAE). But still, the west wants cheap oil and other resources. Mistake is perhaps, from the power play perspective, not to have tighter relationship with the government.
Sadly, regular people always suffer in these kind of situations...
It seems to me I've seen comments here complaining about "the government printing tons of additional money" for at least the last decade.
Um, the dollar buys 1/28th what it did prior to the Fed. The price increases have been small for a very long time. Small enough that you might only notice when buying a product you haven't bought for a few years. Couple the slow creep of inflation with efficiency gains and you might not notice the cost increase for a long time. Now the cost of continually increasing dollar supply and enormous debt is too much. If the Fed increases interest rates the economy tanks. If they create a bunch more money we get runaway inflation. There is no painless way out of this mess. The only real solution is political suicide. So, unfortunately, the dollar will die before we are out of this mess. Hope you are prepared.
Yes, quality is going to hell in the US. It usually helps to book help from people who are from other countries, even places that don't have a good reputation. They left, right? And, managed to come here. However bad it is here, it is anyway hard to get and stay here.
I just got an email last month booting me off after 22 months continuously abroad with no problems.
This coincided with a lot of other people complaining online that they also just got cut.
They definitely don't have any "detection" for you to slip through, they just check and enforce this manually occasionally.
If these other factors cause inflation, then they would cause deflation, too. Why does deflation not happen?
It's interesting that you say that, I've also done quite well for myself, and I was in a position to risk more because I hadn't committed all my free capital to a down payment on a mortgage. In fact, at that time, I wouldn't have been able to afford a place I actually wanted to live in anyways. Putting down roots doesn't mean owning a property you don't want to, and being unable to then expose yourself to more interesting risks due to being house-poor.

This is of course equally anecdotal, which is why I think folks would do well to review the NYT calculator to evaluate the specifics of their situation :)

Risk is good! I'm a big fan of risk. However, a house won't go up more than a few points a year. That's never going to be life changing money. The opportunity cost of the down payment making you unable to early exercise some startup equity could on the other hand leave you pretty full of regret.
Price is not a very good indicator of quality
I had a bike stolen in Logan Utah once and the cops took it very seriously and recovered it in a few hours.

I live in Seattle now and wouldn’t bother reporting it because I know it wouldn’t be prioritized for a response.
Wow, weird, how could one ever have found this? Thanks for the link!!

Oxide if you're listening, please publish these on the podcast feed to make them more accessible and followable.
No, I don't. This narrative is so ridiculous and obvious Russian war justification propaganda I don't understand how people don't see through it. What the viewpoint is suggesting is that sovereign smaller countries (like Ukraine, Finland, Baltics etc.) shouldn't even allowed to think about making alliances to protect THEIR OWN INTERESTS (Not American, Russian on any other superpowers) lest they anger someone in the process.

This guy would rather see smaller independent states swallowed by Russia than provide any kind of resistance. Surely you understand that as a neighbouring country to Russia who has dealt with subtle threats from them for the past 80 years that there's absolutely no kind of sympathy for this viewpoint over here.

Kreml's human embodiment resembles a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks everyone is out to "get them" when in reality it's their irrational warmongering that countries want to shield themself from. Or do you really think NATO has some super secret agenda of assembling an offensive for conquering Moscow?
I realise that. That is exactly my concern, however sometimes one has to make concessions.
Functions I wish were in the Clojure standard library
Because Dick was a massive pessimist and had mental issues. Or maybe he was a genius seer. Either way congratulations, we live in the sort of dystopia he envisioned.
> On-call is a way for bad businesses to steal money from their workers by expecting them to work 24/7 without paying them 4.2x their salary.

This is not entirely true. I think the fact that companies don't have to hire separate support/SRE staff is priced into the exorbitant salaries that devs are paid these days. When I started my career around a decade back, there used to be at least 2-3 levels of escalation engineers/support staff between the customer and the developer. Today it's usually zero, and part of those salaries paid to dev instead.

I may be in the minority, but frankly, I'll easily take a pay cut not to have to go through the on-call sh*t every few weeks.
There is no information about their criteria for determining who qualifies as an influencer and who doesn’t. Without any hint at methodology, it’s hard to assess how they decided the winners of this popularity contest between devrel folks.

For instance, a few high profile ones are missing which would be immediately obvious to many in the devrel community:

- Kelsey Hightower, Google

- Cassidy Williams, Remote

Archive link to the original article: https://archive.md/8r3iy
Crap! I just switched to a workplace that doesn't use GitHub. This looks amazing. Certainly better than the quirky collections of shellscripts I used before...
Very excited about dialog being its own thing.

There are of course a lot of nice built-in solutions to things, but having a quick-and-easy modal mechanism allows people to have cleaner code for something they're gonna try to do one way or another.
GP here. I understood that part on later reflection. Yes, any random name-deleted address could be registered by someone else.

I’m unable to edit my previous comment now and correct it. Will add a note as a reply anyway.
Yes I do because I agree to a point with western media bias - all of the biolab and other things are being pushed in these channels too.
I love kurzgesagt. You should watch it and contemplate your place in the universe.
> The reason I still haven’t learned C isn’t that I suck or that C is impossible to learn

But also:

> I’m comfortable writing very basic C programs as long as they don’t have to do anything fancy like “memory management”

So when do you consider you learn something? Aren't we always learning?
Courtney Love Does the Math
it's almost like "complex reasons" is simply obscurantism.
But a month from now their storage will be full so they could be a lot more desperate. Full storage was one of the factors for the negative oil prices some time ago happening in the US.
You claim that supply issues are the root cause, but it's certainly some combination. If monetary and fiscal policy had been tighter, we might not see the same jump when hit with a supply issue.
The handing out money to consumers doesn’t help.

If the the extra money can be absorbed (economy can produce enough to meet demand), that’s fine and the economy just grows. But there were supply chain hiccups holding back the production capacity of the economy. So here we are.
A kid showing their age.

When I started at a company, I listened to stand-ups of 'yeah 4 weeks' and whined I could do it -today-. And I could. I was a rockstar, everyone else was an old lump.

FF to today and I realize how much I didn't know. Mostly business relations, relations with product, proper testing and pipeline integration, and honestly...just thinking. I used to be prolific and just write and write. Today I think way more than I write, and accomplish more.
I always love taking holiday oncall. Code freezes mean they're usually quiet, and we get paid for the full 12h (about 3x the oncall pay we would get on a normal weekday).
I think Elon Musk's big advantage over his competitors is that he has a high enough level of engineering skill to identify talent. Elon himself isn't the best engineer ever born, but he's good enough to know when someone's ideas or designs or plans make plausible sense. Most CEO's of large corporations, even engineering companies, can't do this, and it shows. So they run the company on the basis of making numbers bigger, and making sure that they cut costs enough to turn a profit each quarter, which eventually runs the company into the ground. They don't pay attention to the ground reality of what the company is actually doing, and only govern on the basis of what the stock price is doing, because the ground level reality is inscrutable and meaningless to them.
Just because somebody wrote something doesn't mean that people in general believed it.
nato is an aggressive, offensive military alliance:

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

Nato is a serious threat to Russia -- a threat the US would never tolerate on its own borders, it goes without saying (Cuban Missile Crisis).

i don't suspect Mearsheimer means that Joe Biden personally held onto Putin's face and moved his jaw and lips while lip-syncing to give the order to invade -- i suspect he just means the obvious - the US pushed Nato membership on Ukraine, knowing it/we/US would win with either outcome -- as long as it didn't escalate to nuclear war -- which it still might.

the possible outcomes were:
1) ukrainian nato membership, or
2) russian invasion of ukraine with all the pluses that brought for the US

once you realize the US played a central role in creating the conditions to start this war, you realize that they/the US/we have a central role to play in stopping this war.

there is no US anti-war movement anymore -- so Ukraine is getting smashed.

maybe the rest of the world is next.
I still use both Tortoise SVN and Tortoise Git, very fast, developer friendly and best of all, not Electron based.
Indeed, because it applies to the family.
I’m unable to edit my comment above, but I understood the problem of changing the email address (even to something like name-deleted, since it could be claimed or already registered by someone else). In this context, my comment above is pointless. :(

Thanks also to @paranoidrobot for the additional explanation.
In the US you can put 5% down and lock in your monthly payment forever. This is because the government subsidizes this. It’s an incredible trade and that’s why any attempts at reform are lobbied so aggressively.
I love how I inevitably see a comment in threads like this along the lines of "we're going to hit diminishing returns on Moore's law soon and so we can't expect to see much more advancement like we've seen."

I've been hearing some form of the "we're approaching diminishing returns" argument for decades now, and if anything, I've recently been seeing advancement compounding in ways it hasn't in the past.

As just one example, nearly every major tech school connected VC group I'm aware of has a photonics play in progress for enhancing AI workloads.

I wonder if those "things won't significantly change" folks are just broken records with it, or if there's new blood adopting the position each year while the old blood sees they were wrong and approach predicting future stagnation with greater trepidation.

(I'm sure it's the former, but the idealist in me likes to imagine it's the latter.)
For me Tortoise GIT + VS Git integration does the job.

I only use Git as a SVN replacement anyway, when anything goes wrong, I follow xkcd and clone from scratch, plain and simple.
Curiously, the above remark was at +4 and is currently -2, which really just goes to show how polarising Apple is by timezone.
Doesn't matter. People are roughly as good at comprehending languages given the same number of lines.
> I think what will really blow the top off of the CPI and inflation numbers are if the dollar loses reserve currency status.

How likely is that to happen this decade?
I agree that systemic changes are important. However, I disagree that personal responsibility cannot drive sufficient behavior. Look at individuals recycling.

But we're talking about this line of discussion. Which was sparked by someday saying they didn't care and no one did. I objected to the latter part of that. It's bullshit that no one cares. There are ethical vegans and people who do all kinds of things because of personal responsibility.
The risk seems overblown. Mostly because nobody trusts China either, which has as many economic and political problems as does the US, if not more.

Russia just doesn’t have enough power to move global markets. Its economy is smaller than Texas’, and is rapidly shrinking.
The Fed can't monetize the debt unless there is debt to monetize. The checks all came from Congress.

But there was simultaneous easy money policy for years, in contradiction to the Taylor Rule. This deviation from that rule was going on for years before Powell, but he continued it for years, all throughout a prolonged economic boom.

Instead of counter-cyclical policy, this is pro-cyclical policy. And resulted in the misallocation you noted, for which Congress is even more to blame.
> Is it name and shame time?

I feel like this will basically be "pretty much every company out there". A more useful list might be companies who actually do truly delete accounts.
We stuck to pretty much the main roads, but I went to Denali as well, so I've experienced how vast and beautiful it is.

I was just curious and looked up the population density. Alaska has a population density of 1.3 people per square mile and Yukon just 0.07 per square km. If I did the math right Yukon has a population density of 0.027 people per square mile. Or Alaska is about 5 times more densely populated.

Of the 34 thousand people that live in all of Yukon, 25 thousand live in Whitehorse. That leaves just 9k people for everywhere else.
Ha! I think many FAANG engineers would love nothing more but to "suffer" at the hands of the open-source ecosystem, instead of being force fed some half-baked not-invented-here thing that was cobbled together for political reasons.
> Apple is great at other things and you do get other benefits when you buy an Apple computer, the performance/dollar just isn't one of them for desktop. Even for laptop, the M1 was the first time they were completive on that metric.

That's a narrative which I think has been proven to be not true for quite some time? If you look at the prices of Windows ultrabooks from brand names, they have been at the same level as Mac laptops for many, many years.
Not really, you went with one extreme of what I said, which was 5%-10% so anywhere from 25% to 50%.

Even getting consumption down 5% would be helpful. Other countries can increase output.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&he...
Exactly right.

Demand was induced with money printing. Supply was restricted with lockdowns. When demand outstrips supply, prices rise.
1982—present is within the last century and has had a death toll of 36.3 million so far. I think your position could improve from some grounding and perspective.
> Do you not keep up to date? I live in New Zealand, a western democratic country and if I possess or share "objectionable material" of a political nature, I could land in jail for up to 14 years.

What exactly? I could not find anything by Googling on material which would land you in jail for 14 years.
Oh weird, a HS friend that was failing urged me to follow this idea. I don't know if he heard of it or if he invented it on the spot (necessity mother of invention etc). We only used it once and it raised his grades by a lot obviously.
That's ignoring the global nature of the supply chain. If supply is constrained and you give money to your own people, they may bid up prices some, but not by the entire amount because mostly what they're doing is using the money to outbid people in other countries. Which also means your people get more of the stuff.

This cancels out if everybody does it, but not everybody can do it.

The increase in demand from people having more money may also make it economical to increase supply faster and alleviate the shortfall sooner.
COM libraries aren't usually side by side, and they are used a lot.

Even if they aren't installed on System32 (thankfully), they get their own slot under Programs.

Most applications that do xcopy installs tend to be .NET based.
I've seen lots of products and services that are materially similar, if not identical, with vastly different prices, and the companies selling them are equally successful. Sometimes it's the company charging more that seems to be doing much better. I don't think there's any particular efficiency advantage. I think it's just a matter of marketing.
> An example from another industry: when I worked at a small chip startup, we had in-house capability to do end-to-end chip processing (with the exception of having its own fabs), which is unusual for a small chip startup. When the first wafer of a new design came off of a fab, we'd have the wafer flown to us on a commercial flight, at which point someone would use a wafer saw to cut the wafer into individual chips so we could start testing ASAP. This was often considered absurd in the same way that it would be considered absurd for a small software startup to manage its own on-prem hardware. After all, the wafer saw and the expertise necessary to go from a wafer to a working chip will be idle over 99% of the time.

This paragraph from the article reminds me of the recent HN discussion about resilience. In this particular example idling 99% of the time is cheaper, but even if idling 99% of the time is slightly expensive, it might still be a good idea not to outsource due to resilience. What if the vendor goes bankrupt? What if the vendor's vendor is unable to perform their contractual duty due to a disease outbreak? Or a geopolitical risk? You avoid these risks if everything is in-house, so these risks need to be priced in when determining whether to outsource. But more often than not, these risks are priced at exactly zero.
I keep hearing this business about the US being a reserve currency and it makes no sense.

First off, lots of other currencies are valuable without being reserve currencies. Swiss franc, Japanese yen, etc. Being a reserve currency probably boosts USD a bit but it's not the only pillar holding the thing up that people imply. If you disagree show your model: You have to believe that value for the euro, GBP, JPY, Swiss Franc is determined by thing X, USA does not have thing X and instead depends on being a reserve currency.

Second, what's the alternative reserve currency? Bitcoin? Don't make me laugh. RMB? Even more ridiculous. Euro? Probably the most realistic contender but seems to have major governance problems. As with democracy, the USD is the worst reserve currency, except for all the alternatives.
Is sass widely used nowadays?
But still you can post an article on the internet without Tw... 1/5
There’s not much to disagree with here.

I simply stated my experience — I never even said my experience was right or that it is wrong to read the article, or that others should experience HN the way I do.

I’m a slow reader and don’t have time to read lengthy articles, and therefore am drawn more to discussion.

You are (likely) a quicker reader and are drawn more to articles.

There’s room for both of us in the world — and on HN (I hope).
“You can’t benefit from my awesome work because I’m too comfortable using tools at my job. Did I mention I work for Google? Listen to my music.”

Not trying to start a flame war here but… who cares?

I’ve published open source while working at faang myself and they all have internal build tools, version sets, etc.

Plenty of employees still do tons of open-source.
Other than the standard search engines or Wikipedia, I don't know where to find a good history of language or hardware. I'm only aware of these examples because they were part of my "comparative programming languages" course in the early 90s.

I suspect this thread will fade without much more notice, but I'm half expecting someone to come along and set me straight that all this stuff was really invented in the 50s or 60s :-) (SNOBOL, Algol, Simula, or PL/I ???)
Petajoules would work for me.
Is it possible in Germany to file a GDPR violation against vendors who outright refuse deletion or fail to comply otherwise?
Haha. Sort of like what drove the great expansion of the internet in the 90's? The dirty secret is it was online banking/trading, and porn. Porn drove the development of streaming technologies.

Nobody likes to talk about it, though.
It's nice to have the option of deploying static sites to your own server, more-or-less as easily as they can now be deployed to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and friends.

Funny timing: I just finished converting all my old sites to be statically generated, and deploying them all on Netlify, so that I don't have to pay for, or be the sysadmin of, a personal VPS anymore (after many years of doing just that). It's hard to argue the case for hosting anything much myself these days, when the alternative is free, zero-maintenance, and (thanks to CDNs) able to handle any load lightning-fast.
But nobody would care about PyTorch if it didn’t have big tech’s blessing, which is the point the above was making.
Twitter is a mid sized tech company though, with a mere 5,500 employees. Facebook and Google are an order of magnitude bigger, and half the size of Uber and Netflix. It’s also a tiny bit smaller than Doordash and AirBnB by comparison.
It was just the other day I am thinking, may be all photos saved from the web should either be JPEG ( direct download from the page ) or it would be saved as lossless PNG. We now end up adding AVIF, WebP, possibly JPEGXL, the upcoming WebP2, and what else? I am not entirely sure more format is a good idea.
...itter. 2/5
I very much disagree with this. In fact, this article is a perfect counterexample to what you're saying, ironically - it's a lengthy, well thought out essay that the author clearly spent a lot of time thinking about and putting together. Quite honestly, it's very unlikely that any number of pithy HN comments could match up to it, and I say that with a fair amount of respect for the HN community at large. It's just very unlikely they're going to have insights on the same level: the author of the post had at least a couple of weeks of actual concentrated effort to put together thoughts on the topic.

Plus I just have a lot of respect for the author. Dan Luu is a smart guy.
It's not about roots. Especially now, there's a risk the Fed may raise interest rates to counter inflation which could negatively impact asset prices.

And mortgaging a house is leverage.

If you put your money in stocks and they go down 15%, you lose 15% of your money. If you plonk a 15% downpayment on a house and the house loses 15% of its value, you get zeroed out.

No guarantee that happens right now, but it sure could.
Not sure how you’d fare in Fortaleza, Recife and Salvador, which have their share of security issues.

I doubt you’d stick to a place like Lagos for more than a month.