skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except for the multiple decades post-WW2 with Bretton Woods.

Um, what? The Bretton Woods agreement was part of "the fiat currency situation we now find ourselves in" (just an earlier stage of it where the government was still trying to pretend to some sort of "linkage" with gold, instead of just dropping the pretense altogether as was done in the early 1970s when Bretton Woods fell apart). No US money was backed by gold at all (not even United States Notes, which were still in circulation) after the FDR administration confiscated all private gold holdings and suspended redemption indefinitely in 1933.

> being on the gold standard didn't seem to help with inflation in the US during the 1920s

To call the monetary regime in place in the 1920s "the gold standard" is a serious misnomer. The Federal Reserve was created and authorized to print money (Federal Reserve Notes, not backed by gold or anything else) in 1913. A significant amount of that money was in circulation in the 1920s. Plus, even United States Notes, which were notionally backed by US gold reserves, were not expected to be redeemed for gold in any great quantities, since paper money was so much more convenient than gold for transactions; so the fact that those notes were notionally backed by gold did not have much practical effect on their exchange value. What did have a practical effect was the fact that United States Notes and Federal Reserve Notes exchanged at par (one dollar of each was required to have the same exchange value), so as more Federal Reserve Notes were printed, the exchange value of United States Notes dropped.
Previous post was 10 months ago?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
CCP is the biggest threat to democracies around the world. Russia's stupid mistake now slowed down the confrontation.
My point was that wealth gap increased due to QE and a class war masked as racial equity is being waged amongst the 99% as a result (without any net benefit to society since the 1. source of wealth come from excess supply of money which makes debt cheap for those in position to take advantage of it vs those who are oppressed by it 2. increasingly diminishing to non-existent value added widgets and services being sold, see my coinbase example above), not between the actual winners or losers of the system but rather the professional advocates from both ends who are seizing the narrative to push their political views in all spectrum of American society, culture and individuals through that tiny screen we carry in our pockets.
Yeah, MMT basically asserts that the separation between fiscal and monetary policy is artificial, and that the only real constraint on “fiscal” policy (tax and spending) is monetary effects, not the metaphorical limited purse (“fisc”) that must be filled with revenue and borrowing to allow spending.

It is not “Congress can spend willy-nilly” but “Congress needs to stop thinking about fiscal balance and start thinking like the Fed.” (Or, perhaps, “Congress needs to define fiscal policy with movable levers which it gives control of to the Fed or a Fed-like body.”)
Thanks August, really appreciate it! Love the idea of proximity notifications and agree with volunteering, we’re definitely looking to add more opportunities in that area (there’s a lot to work with)
It's important to remember that this was in the past. The FBI, as well as every other three-letter-agency, are the good guys now, and they are totally ashamed of doing those things. They're definitely not doing anything like that anymore!
Did you misread the article? Says it happened two days ago (3/14/2022) and a murder charge is pending.
(casual observer passing through..)

A few questions for you personally:

1) When you use the term woke-ism, what are you referring to?

2) What would 'going too far' look like, to you in particular?'

3) In your worldview, is it possible for uttered opinions to have consequences that 'go too far'?
"The free speech search engine that never was" is apt. If it was about free speech then it was about a Microsoft version of free speech. And it never was a search engine, being primarily a search service (proxy) for Bing.

If people are looking for truth, they need a variety of information and freedom to seek. That comes from using multiple sources. One search ring to rule them all is not progressing us anymore. It might have done so in the late 90s and early 00s thanks to Google. But browsers, with Chrome leading the charge, conditioned us to choose one search engine or proxy.

It's time we embraced and demanded multiple sources of information in search. Whilst I'm biased in self-promoting Mojeek (an independent search engine index that crawls), you may note that we practice what we preach and offer search also with 8 other search engines and proxies including DuckDuckGo. Take your pick each time you search:

https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedo...
The value is you can stop running Nextcloud.
“The researchers found that the conditions imposed by obeying CPT symmetry would fill our universe with right-handed neutrinos, enough to account for the dark matter.“
TIL that saving up so that one can afford to pay their own bills after they are too old and infirm to work is "being a self-centered moron".

I guess the alternative is to not have any savings and rely on others to take care of them and that is somehow less self-centered?
How would it navigate? GLONASS signals won't penetrate the water to the depths mentioned. The 1.6 and 1.2 Ghz bands it uses won't even go through 1 meter of seawater [0] A star tracker would also be worthless. An inertial reference might be "good enough", as in "close enough for nuclear war"

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Radio-wave-attenuation-b...
>> You shared my exact sentiment. 0.25% is far too small.

Most reports were doubling the rate to 4% or greater. I think after the talk of moving it up that fast and that drastically, a lot of investors started getting the jitters:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/the-market-has-adjusted-its-...

That change came after traders had been pricing a move double that size at the March 15-16 Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Central bankers have been dousing the idea of needing to go up 50 basis points at the meeting, with New York Fed President John Williams saying last week that there is “no compelling argument” for the move.

Still, it hasn’t made investors any less nervous about what the path ahead will look like.

“I’m not so worried about whether they do 50 [basis] points out of the gate or not. But I also think they shouldn’t overdo it here,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at the Leuthold Group. “You can do 25, and if you want to do another one soon, you can do it, rather than add additional disruption or uncertainty.”

I can understand the idea of going slowly and evaluating the effect on the current markets with inflation still going on. I like the cautious approach considering the massive fallout if it did suddenly jump up to 4%, you'd see a ton of money get pulled out of the market which could be disastrous.

But like you said, either way could lead to another staggering recession so I'm not 100% confident in either approach.
Dug into this a bit, this site was a fork of Project Fedora when the site had a brief blip in RSS aggregation. At the time the subject of RMS was heated, and the creator of WMF appears to have wanted to get the blog posts aggregated quickly so folks could stay up-to-date.

I definitely think the tone of the creation of the site [0] is suspicious (Red Hat is changing shit, and trying to hide the posts about RMS, seems to be the implication), but at the same time, they are super clear that they are not affiliated with Red Hat and the paper trail is also super clear.

The point of the blog is to aggregate posts of Fedora community contributors (same as Project Fedora) - so it seems like the kind of effort that should be encouraged by an open source organization.

[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe...
Having frequented a few of the paragons of open discussion, I can tell you that they regularly ban users as well.

My takeaway isn't necessarily hypocrisy (although a few of them are certainly full of that), it's that moderation is hard because of the never-ending wave of people trying to clog up public discourse for a variety of crappy reasons.

Jeff Atwood (one of the founders of Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, developer of Discourse) has some pretty insightful things to say about community management.
I'm also not enamored of the fact that you can log into Github/Gitlab/etc. with accounts from everywhere (Gmail/Facebook/Twitter/etc.).

I suspect that making someone go through the signup dance stopped a LOT of the worst level of morons.

Is there a code hosting service that allows public viewing but still forces people to sign up for an account before being able to do actions?
Here is a good explanation:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/07/15/what-does...

The federal reserves buys bonds / treasures and mortgage backed securities.

It has an effect on long term interest rates and mortgages (keeping the interests low).
That's a small segment of "boomers"
I remember when I was younger looking into a microwave that was on, after the door had been smashed (don't ask). I remember my vision going all wavey, proper freaked me out. From this article it sounds like the water in my eyes was being rotated, which is kinda freaking me out again.
Weather balloon launched by swamp gas burp
This was expected since at least December. The market is pricing in 6 more rate increases throughout the year. They simply can't afford to lag behind inflation too much for too long.
Deno is also creating a standard library, so that too should reduce the amount of external packages you'll need.
i don't think bitcoin is the saviour it claims, especially now it's being used and swayed by all the usual suspects of the old monetary system. It's now just another bucket within sea of capital. Used to adjust and move capital around, ended up to be just another instrument....
We have what appears to be a shiny floating object. What data do we have that can't be explained by a shiny balloon?
So does Deno: https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...

It's not part of a package manager, because there isn't one, though.
He explicitly said he did those as UFO pranks.
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I'm not convinced.

> I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age.

We are living in a golden age. The beginning stages of one anyway. Where once a genius needed aristocratic tutoring, now genius is becoming so common that they're not the notable man of their time anymore.

> Think about the advent of the internet long enough and it seems impossible to not start throwing away preconceptions about how genius is produced. If genius were just a matter of genetic ability, then in the past century, as the world’s population increased dramatically, and as mass education skyrocketed, and as racial and gender barriers came thundering down across the globe, and particularly in the last few decades as free information saturated our society, we should have seen a genius boom—an efflorescence of the best mathematicians, the greatest scientists, the most awe-inspiring artists.

This is 100% the case. There are so many brilliant people out of the ~7.5 billion of us that genius just isn't as notable anymore. And that genius, instead of resulting in household names like Einstein, results in the marvelous modern world we live in. We see the evidence of it every day in our day to day lives. It's easy to lose perspective on this because it's the every day world to us, but the way we live today is just not the way we did even 30 years ago, not to mention 70.

I can name some great thinkers alive today, right now, and recently dead, in all sorts of fields from philosophy to mathematics to hard science. Peter Shor. Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, I'm sure anyone in this thread can name 10 more. There are unsung geniuses right now working for all sorts of companies, or just tinkering away anonymously in their bedrooms at their desktop computers. Just wait til the information availability afforded us by the internet breaks the institutional education system and begins producing scores of self taught polymaths and specialists at home. That's what the younger generation is going to live through.

Art: you can right now find with simple internet searches art made by artists that is mind blowingly wonderful with infinite scrolling. Of course 90% of everything is crap, but I guarantee you can find excellent art of all kinds in seemingly endless supply by people you've never heard of within 5 minutes of reading this if you try.

Its just good ol days nostalgia to me. A time when information availability was monopolized and bottlenecked of course will only produce a handful of notable people. When that bottleneck is gone as it is now they're just not as notable, and that is a good thing for them, us and everybody, except maybe the ones that controlled information flows before.
Stuff like this is why I've never bothered to promote any of the open source stuff I've released.

Worst case scenario - people tell me my ideas are dumb and xyz does it better (I'm probably aware of xyz and found it lacking).

Best case scenario - the situation in TFA happens, where people act like I owe them something.
This is trading typographical consistency issues, then. In this described setup, you'll have glyphs poking into the margin and padding between elements – which is what the existing bounding boxes work to prevent.

Here's an editable interface from that talk: https://seek-oss.github.io/braid-design-system/playroom/#?co...

You can see the issues when we write Hello World in Thai: https://i.imgur.com/MaHfPr3.png
What ceejayoz linked below
The solution to bad governance is better governance, not utopianism. Problems like this are the entire reason that democratic countries have elections and peaceful transfers of power. Does it always work? No. But looking for a technical solution (short of all powerful general AI) to a human problem will only lead to pain when the human problems start creeping back in to whatever technical solution was designed.
Ahh, the best content to archive!
The Fed raised interest rates into Trump's first two years in office.
Why Russians Support Putin’s War Against Ukrainians
As someone who builds furniture professionally, this article wasn't as useful as I'd hoped. As other folks have pointed out, one of the hardest things to figure out is what to value your own time at, and the article doesn't really touch that beyond "the customer is paying you to do it because they can't do it themselves".

One of the trade offs I find myself making is when I'm doing something new. There's a certain amount of inefficiency, and sometimes you end up having to pay yourself less hourly to hit a more-or-less established price point for something.

Sometimes that's worth accepting for the sake of doing something new or developing a new set of skills, but you don't want to do too much of that either!
Thank you for providing such a great service! Especially love the fact that exporting to PNG allows embedding the diagram data into the image, so it can be still edited later. Genius idea and implementation!
> There's a lot of "let's go Branden" type curmudgeonliness

:( That's unfortunate. I find the leftist stuff a bit repetitive, but certainly more aware than that sort of curmudgeonliness. I guess it's a natural consequence of the growing population of Gemini huh.

> criticizing "ecological" is like saying "and the posters on there are subject to gravity! They fall downwards, and they have the gall to live their lives going forwards in time!" We all live on the same Earth and wrecking it affects all of us

Oh I'm not criticizing the ideology at all. Ecology drives a lot of my personal politics as well. And specifically by "ecological" I mean "ecological punk" (messed up with the comma in my original post) here which I'm referring to as a low-tech/minimalist approach to ecological sustainability. I just find it overrepresented and a bit repetitive on Gemini. I can find myself nodding and agreeing, but few of the posts challenge me to think and grow the way talking with individuals with very different ideas of ecology (say more maximalist approaches) would. At the end of the day, for me, living ecologically sustainably is the goal, not _how_ we get there.
Got a source on that?

I feel like people just want to believe. But this is a pretty satisfying explanation.
Fish-Shell 3.4.0 Released
The only thing that everyone agreed on here is how equally uninformed they themselves are.

Which is a breath of fresh air compared to certain places where everyone believes they are the best informed and most well thought out.
Only 5?
Am I incorrect in thinking they also can’t afford to let rates rise too much as they can’t afford the interest payments?
>But if you don't know how to work in this hierarchy, it is difficult to find information. Also, if you don't know the specific keyword "Enrollee", you will spend a long time trying to find what you need. Contemporary search now uses dense vectors that embed language meaning, so recall is much more robust.

One more situation where raw power of hardware - building the vectors in this case - beats the old "knowledge engineering" approach as previously one would use ontology to get generalized term and siblings for the user's search term.
> I'm quite surprised that price inflation isn't significantly worse.

The one benefit of wealth disparity in the US and around the world.

I agree that if all that new money had been evenly distributed, then it would have most likely caused crazy inflation. But it wasn't. It went directly into the coffers of large banks, corporations and arms manufacturers, and eventually into the accounts of the 0.001%.

The supply of money has to be available to spend in order for it to affect the economy. With the top 1% owning 40% of the wealth, it means all that money is essentially locked away from the general public.
When I was in my teens, we took a class trip to a nuclear reactor being built (never completed) in southern Indiana.

I’ve long regretted I didn’t have a camera with me to capture the large sign on one gate that read (paraphrased): “Danger: Microwaves on premises”

I wasn’t sure (still am not) whether they were referring to something industrial, but the thought that household microwave ovens at a nuclear power plant were sufficiently hazardous to require warning signs like that amused me.
The ACLU historically defended many unpopular speech cases, and even now they will fight for some types of unpopular speech, and this was all definitely within our lifetimes.
Making Sense of Web3
12 years is longer than most startup free tiers. Longer than most startups.
The claim isn't that there is no flying object. The glare accounts for its appearance.
Hopefully nobody gets the idea to use AI-generated patent applications just to get your name on a patent, and sell that as a service. That would be very unfair to our patent clerks and a serious drain on our current patent system.
Read the news for any length of time and it is clear the US and Israelis are top of the game in this.

Just the sheer level of intel coming out of Russia over the last decade would lead anyone to believe that half of the Kremlin is on America's payroll.
7 years of command line history?
depends on what kinda specialization you are interested in, at least for me it’s mobile app development. I have been making apps since college, I was interested in Japanese language so I made a kanji learning app [0], then because I’m a bodybuilder, I made a workout log app [1], recently because I started reading hacker news, I made a Hacker News reader [2]. I learnt a lot from the process, from architecture, design pattern to code quality control. I would say learning is the key, usefulness is secondary.

[0] https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji
[1] https://github.com/Livinglist/Dumbbell
[2] https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
But it is indeed possible though for organizations to keep secrets for a long time, decades. Like Renaissance Technologies...still no one knows how it makes money despite it having hundreds of employees and the fund existing for three decades. Nothing has leaked.
It launched about a year ago.
Instead of thinking of this like a missile, instead think of it like a submarine. Submarines don't use star tracking, they use inertial navigation systems to inform dead reckoning. This accumulates error over time, but my impression is they work a lot better than you might expect.
What will socialism look like?
I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Sure, words can be used in less literal context, like "an ocean of thoughts swirled violently in his head". But simply declaring "deadnaming is violence" because it causes "vehement feeling or expression", would make millions of things violence. Your partner breaking up with you is violence. Your boss giving you a bad performance review is violence. Etc.
Which isn't what's happening. It's been months now that this was being floated, and the stock market has been volatile the last half year, an outright bear market in some sectors. Trillions in equity have evaporated already, and that's not even taking into account the wealth erosion of high inflation.

Now's the time to be skilled, but not the time to be a rentier.
I'm going to say the unsayable:

Paul Graham has a sophomoric understanding of art and philosophy, at best.

As with people such as Elon Musk, he attempts to leverage success in one narrowly defined area into an authority over vast domains of human knowledge.

When I was fifteen, I thought his essays were profound. When I was fifteen, I thought many things were profound. It has been many decades since I was fifteen.
clion still the best for rust