skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well ...

If there's inflation but no corresponding increase in the monetary supply, it becomes more difficult (in aggregate) to pay for things, which means that "actual economic growth" becomes necessary to pay the debt.

If there's inflation and a corresponding increase in the monetary supply (e.g. where banks just print money and prices rise, in either order), then (in theory) paying off the debt becomes easier.

If there's an increase in the monetary supply but no inflation, then (in theory) paying off the debt becomes easier.

However, all these scenarios are unusual: in general, inflation is assumed to be controlled, and roughly known, and the interest rate will already include the assumed rate of inflation. When things go upside down w.r.t. inflation, you can certainly get unusual conditions around debt. But that's not the normal situation, even when there is actual inflation.
Does Netflix even have much content left? Their offerings have been very lackluster and they keep loosing stuff
why do they hide what the real state is under "as is". "as is" can mean that it is great or that it is shit. So "as is" is not enough if you really want to be honest with people. But they don't want to be honest, they want to be famous and a little bit of "hide the garbage under the rug" doesn't hurt right? Well it does.
Nice to see someone expressing their enjoyment of something, without spending hundreds (or more) words nattering on about how other options "suck" or are "useless" or any of that.
The $$ amount. I have no idea how many flights most people miss.
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Good questions! Regarding maintaining the definition of what a role can or can't do -- I think this comes down to how you organize your SQL. If you keep authz declarations in one place, it's going to be more maintainable than if they're spread across many database migrations. One way you can keep those authz declarations in one place is by doing development/maintenance on that one place then using a database-diffing tool[1] to generate migrations based on whatever changes you made.

Regarding database connections -- one way to avoid needing a connection per user is to use something like PostgREST[2] to handle incoming requests, identify the user making the request, and use an existing db pool connection to switch roles and execute whatever queries are requested. EDIT: RedShift1 beat me to this explanation by a little bit! :)

RLS certainly isn't the answer for every domain or problem size, but I've been surprised by how powerful it is compared with how relatively unknown it is.

[1]: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/03/31/supabase-cli#migrations

[2]: https://postgrest.org/en/stable/auth.html
Fair. It's just that I am a bit grumpy at all the people denying parts of science to fit their agendas.
I've been dealing with a more classical denialist on Discord.
Halfjoking, if you are reading this, I apologize for being so forceful. I should not have assumed you were knowingly posting incorrect information, and I should have been more polite.
Didn’t they actually see the object on multiple radars using multiple types of detection methods? Assuming that’s true, the camera glare story seems unlikely.
Personally I enjoyed Tales of Pirx the Pilot. The main character is no hero - just an ordinary spacefarer keeping it professional.
Also check out https://openby.design. Where complete designs are crafted and made open source. Can be used for both open source software projects as well as closed/commercial applications.
The United States has had "born secret" laws about nuclear weapons details for decades [1], but it's unclear if they are actually compatible with the Constitution. There was a case in 1979 that could have established whether "born secret" nuclear information is a valid exception to the First Amendment, but the government dropped its case before the courts could rule on it [2]. The "born secret" concept does not apply to biological or chemical weapons.

Your nearest research university library probably holds publications about the effects and synthesis of chemical warfare agents, like Some aspects of the chemistry and toxic action of organic compounds containing phosphorus and fluorine by Bernard Charles Saunders: https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/587946

Which is also scanned and available online: https://archive.org/details/B-001-026-884-ALL

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....
> Being wrong does not mean being useless.

I understand what you're trying to say -- yes Newton was wrong and now we have refined Newton with Einstein. But Ptolemy was wrong, and we have not refined Ptolemy with Gallileo, we threw Ptolemy out.

As an example, the original power pose study has never been replicated. The idea that posing in a specific way led to a neuro-endocrine response was simply wrong. And yet it got cited many times. One of the the original authors disavowed it, the other continued promoting it, but now with a much weaker claim. Is it science? Or is it a waste of resources?

I think much of the research I'm deriding is actually pretty good thinking. Published as essays or thought experiments I think a lot of it would have value. But because of a perverse demand for publications, any good idea has to have prior work, p-values and if you can get a grant and fMRI slapped onto it.
Meh, I can live with it if OS becomes free.
If by "suddenly" you mean "with 5 months notice."
You can try the live simulation here: https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/
It's amazingly well done!

Quick inspection shows that it was done with tree.js. Neat!
I don't think full-automation would even be a goal - not when crafting laws for humans!

But perhaps better tools can be built to make the process more efficient, less biased, and less redundant.
I suspect a tiny bit of my code still runs in the handset.
> Next, we keep the DERP network costs under control… by trying to never use it. When using Tailscale, almost all of your traffic goes peer to peer, so DERP is only used as a backup. We continue to improve our core product so it can build point-to-point links in ever-more-obscure situations.

This is mentioned in passing, but shows a very good technique. They incentivize technical excellence by tying it to a concrete cost. A free plan, with DERP, is the sacred cow that must not ever be removed. If they don't fix the "ever more obscure situations", then the cost goes up. If they pay an engineer to investigate and fix this, not only does the engineer get to do interesting technical work, and not only does the system become more reliable and "good", they can also think of it as increasing the profit margin of the product (by not increasing costs).

I worked with Avery on Google Fiber, and we did the same thing. Our sacred cow was excellent US-based phone support. That is quite expensive. If there were bugs in our product, users would call in, and our call center costs would increase because we'd have to have more people working. So every week in our team meeting, we would look at summaries of calls, and take on engineering work to address the most common class of problems. That let us scale up the business and still provide friendly and competent phone support, because we were reducing the problems that people called in about. (This was things like having our Wifi access points steer 5GHz capable devices away from flakier 2.4GHz signals, or fixing "black screen" bugs where TV randomly stopped playing for software or network reasons.) Because we had that "sacred cow", every obscure bug that we spent months fixing not only made the product better and were intellectually stimulating to finally figure out, but had a concrete impact on how costly it was to deliver the service.

What most companies would do here to reduce costs is simple. Don't fix DERP bugs, just charge for it. Don't fix "black screen" bugs, just hide the phone number on your website so people can't figure out to call.

Avery has found the perfect balance between cost reduction, interesting engineering, and the somewhat nebulous "good product". Normally conflicting concerns, all living together in harmony. If everyone copied his technique here, the world would be a better place.
The author seems unaware that PKD was suffering from schizophrenia by this time. His delusions are more easily explained by his condition rather than his drug use.

Great read though!
I see pre built PCs come with free demo version of win11. They expect you to crack it yourself.

Microsoft stopped giving a shit about piracy from consumers. Its a far cry from the days when windows cost €300.
Unscripted television had been bubbling beneath the surface for a good long while (game shows have existed since basically forever), but the 2007 writer's strikes was the catalyst that caused MTV-style trashier reality TV to take over.
I don't really remember much about the contents, it was too advanced and foreign for me back then. It was hard cover, pages of about A4 size, the cover was gray with thin white horizontal lines. One of the pages contained the famous photo of "first actual case of a bug". The illustrations were in the 80s corporate style with subtle gradients.
"I yet have to see developer taking pay cut to retrain in a different tech."

I'd argue that most tech just does not take that long to train in. If I am proficient developer that knows Postgres, how long is it really going to take me to be productive with Mongo?

This is very different compared to say a web developer moving to robotics. I would take a pay cut for that because the knowledge gap is so wide.
> If you're competing against firms like Google or startups that just raised unicorn funding, and these days everyone is, then the people bidding in the market or labor are not doing cost benefit analysis. They just need to hire.

That is a cost-benefit analysis.

They've received funding, they have a business model, now they need labour.

It seems to me your real gripe is that there's a large amount of investment flowing into Silicon Valley and you don't believe that should be happening.

> This loop ends when only one of the people can still pay and everyone else starves.

That's right. And that means, in the valley in particular, some companies will never get off the ground because they can't afford the price for labour.

The solution is simple: hire in a different labour market.

> To the people actually in the market, they have limited information and don't know what the bidding limit is for the other players, and thus to them it can appear that regardless of what price they bid, they are always beaten by 20%.

Sure, that's called incomplete information, and it's a feature of virtually all markets, minus open and instantly traded markets like stock exchanges.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, here, other than to complain about a general feature of capitalism that (in a refreshing change of pace) happens to be working in favour of labour.

> In a properly functioning liquid market in which nobody has access to printed money

And now we get to the political axe you're grinding.

Look, the SV labour market has been explosively expensive for 20-30 years. This isn't a new phenomenon by any stretch, and it certainly pre-dates the 2008 financial crisis and the low interest rate environment that followed. There's a reason outsourcing became so popular throughout the early 2000s.

The problem is that tech companies failed to expand their labour pool beyond a few tight markets, either by opening offices in other locations or supporting remote workers. That's their choice, but don't complain when labour prices go up as a consequence.
I agree that their website is great. For the olds like me, we had just as big a love affair with their printed catalog before the website. Their shipping was on a different plane also, long before e-commerce changed the shipping game. They have always taken UX seriously. I had an engineering internship where the president had a saying: "If you can't design a machine from the McMaster-Carr catalog, you aren't an engineer."
working on it ;)
Here is the full list:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Why does the thing you build need to be useful? All of my side projects are essentially useless. Its more fun that way.
I have an idea log on my website. The content is in Portuguese, but I think you can use a web translator to get readable text. In case you find something of your interest and want to discuss it on detail, let me know.

https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/ideias/
How long is a book? How much text can I copyright for $45 and then go after people over "excerpts"?

I'm not sure but I can see how such a system can be gamed
> The pilots are trained

Fraver (not sure he was one of the ones in this incident) has a history of UFO pranks, shutting down engines and gliding over campfires then lighting up after burners when right over them, explicitly to give a UFO experience, and someone found a contemporaneous report of him doing it, so it wasn't just a story.
> the carrier group tracked

Naive question: If a carrier group cannot, in essentially real-time, document three dimensional trajectories at this point (four if you include speed), what possible defense can they claim to have against evasive incoming missiles, etc.
Apple's Universal Control will not work on my device. Anyone else better luck?
The idea of McDonald's diplomacy may not be absolutely true[0], but it is a good indicator. Good multinational corporations care about their customers no matter where they are. If corporations think that they can 'virtue signal' that they are following the latest trend, and it happens to be anti-Russian this time, then things get bad. This is horribly different than companies supporting LGBTQ. Instead of cutting off customers in Russia, these companies should be donating to the Red Cross, or some such thing with an outcome that betters the situation, instead of trying to put their voice in the communal amplifier for their 15 minutes of extra news time and accepting nods today that will be forgotten by all tomorrow.

Note: I find it very odd that I wrote this, and yet I saw Elon Musk's post yesterday. I guess cognitive priming is a lot more effective than I thought. Still agree with what I wrote.

[0]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-countries-war/
Isn't he only debunking the image that appeared on the video as being glare as opposed to the actual object? So the object is real, but what appeared in the video is glare, not an actual representation of the object?

West contends that what is being seen in the video is actually infrared glare that hides a hot object behind it and only rotates in the way it does because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right.
Do you have links to reading more about this? The video saying it was glare made it seem like the object was very far from the jet, much farther then the naked eye could see. Was it closer at some point?
Agreed, The Netherlands would be a better example
> Evidence Suggests Famous Navy UFO Video Was Camera Glare
> While if we look around today, we see all the people who will never make it into the history books

because it's simply extremely cheap to create stuff. so we have a glut of stuff.

because nowadays everyone can buy an instrument and take a few classes, and put it on youtube. and since there's enormous demand for novelty, and there's a lot of styles, niches that producers/creators can fill, quality isn't really a singular thing anymore.

> just like we see all the songs and movies that will never become "classics."

well, that's .. true, but also there's no classics anymore. there's a gamut of things. hundreds of years ago we had a few hundred/thousand extremely talented people who got into arts because they were talented, they visited each other in person to learn from each other over months and years. it was very very very homogeneous in time and space (and it was apparent who's the amazing real boss of that level/period/era) compared to today's hyperfast superglobal heterogeneous all-in content-bonanza, where it's impossible to consume all of it, impossible to filter it, impossible to comprehend/contrast/compare all of it to itself.

Sure there was no point in comparing Van Gogh to Tchaikovsky even then - but there was room for two, now it got even more impossibler not less since there are so many new forms/genres/styles and a lot more amazing feats of creation, and more new talents each day, so relatively there's even less room (less time, less space) to fit the contemporary greats.
You quote doesn't mean what you think it means. It just means "we will hide the real state of our software because we can, so you can choose to loose valuable time evaluating it now or else more time fixing it later. We could tell exactly how production ready it is, but we choose not to."
It's hard to know. In 100 years will the Beatles be remembered more than Beethoven? Who knows?

Edit: or if you prefer, maybe Miles Davis.
I just stopped buying Chinese crap from Amazon - this happened after they had issues with my credit card and of course I had to pay to fix it. This happended 6 months ago and I have been happier since.

My main problem is that there are no alternatives to buying ebooks. In terms of how easy it's to buy and transfer to the device.
You're right, that was an oversimplification, I should've been more clear.
Yeah, it’s the google drive integration on draw.io/diagrams.net . Big companies want some cozy feeling so we tell them over 25 users per org is pay for.

We don’t measure it at all, but there’s plenty of companies we know are over 1k users.
Does Podman have a VM wrapper like Docker Desktop for running on MacOS?
I'm not sure I follow, how would they be hell?
In standard time in winter, it gets dark at 4pm, with this it would get dark at 5pm.
I think you should add some form of contact info in your profile. In case somebody wants to connect with you directly.
This is dumb. Shitty parents exist in droves. Also parenting is really hard not surprisingly so with nurture is only 30-50% of outcome it absolutely is the difference between upper middle class and average. Tech bros competing to be top 1-.1% just don’t have much idea how shitty life is for the average American.
AIs cannot yet author anything as they still require humans to execute the programs.

AI software is just another tool. The human using it is still the creator of the work. Claiming otherwise is hype; we do not assign agency to software.
+1 I moved from Chile to the US and then from the US to Brazil, the experience was ok. Everyone goes in the same plane.

The only part that was harder was taking the dog out in Brazil. In the US he was delivered to US in the Luggage area, in Brazil we had to go to the cargo areas and deal with some bureaucracy. Knowing how it will work in advance can save a lot of time, potentially get a service in the destination country that knows how to do it in case it is needed.
After many years of service making it hard to remove, and a non negligible cost.
Those 5 months are irrelevant when companies have invested years of development effort in weaving docker into their workflow. It's a bait and switch, simple as that.
Emacs with EVIL? If so, do you like the integration?
I also find a common theme in vintage training videos: They don't assume the audience is an idiot. I find that the more dumbed-down the information is, the less trust they placed in the audience, the more they felt complled to entertain rather than inform the audience, the worse the result is typically.

I find this to be true and very relevant in modern education. You don't need to gamify mathematics. You need to clearly communicate just how awesome and interesting mathematics itself is.
Submit FOIA requests for data of your local government. You'll find it way more interesting than it sounds, I promise.
Asking about socialism on HN, you're not going to get great responses. The politics on this site can be pretty gross. I'm also not sure production being socialized really equates to the money-free society you're envisioning but I'll try to respond with my thoughts.

1. Who does the hard/dirty jobs in this society? Farming being one. But also construction, sewage, trash, ad inifitum.

I suspect quite a few people would be happy to spend their time farming or construction if they had their druthers. But that aside, you're asking "Without desperation and poverty, who's going to do the dirty work?" I don't do the job I have now because it's the thing I always want to do, but it carries incentives. If a garbage man's schedule was from 5am-9am every day, for example, maybe a lot of people would sign up to be done working that early.

But what if you really changed your thinking? What if we didn't need garbage men because we found a way to automate their job? Or because things were set up completely differently and people just bring their own garbage to a collection point in their neighborhood?

People are cheaper than developing automation in many sectors. Without perverse economic incentives, how many shit jobs could be done by robots or computers?

2. How are "needs" defined?

Everything you listed is a need. Some of those needs could be met without private ownership, as we already have libraries for sharing books / movies / games without needing to buy them. There is no reason you need to own all those things.

And the things you do want to own like your mattress, for example, could absolutely be free. Why would somebody hoard them?

3. What are the incentives to advance amd become highly skilled? Take doctors.

Doctors are a really poor example. Many doctors go through the process out of a genuine desire to help, only to find themselves kneecapped by debt. They often complain about the need to spend too much of their time dealing with insurance paperwork, and would rather just help people.

And while some do it for the prestige and money, and maybe some of those people would go on to other professions, do we really want them? How many other people would love to go to medical school but don't for financial reasons?

> Well humans would just have to fundamentally change their nature and learn to live like x.

It's not about changing your nature. It's about understanding how much of what you consider "nature" is a learned response to an environment. The entire capitalist structure is artifice; nature doesn't even come close!
Except the very idea of a "franchise" will also come under attack when computers can develop narrative, character development, plot devices, world build, etc.

Nobody will want Star Wars when a computer can make Galaxy Dragons and turn it into an epic 100 episode saga. Like your Count Dooku memes? Wait until you hear about Lord Drago Starstream.

And if the concept of a computer developing all of this still seems as far off as "Level 5 autonomous driving", note that with media there will be lots of intermediate steps with humans still in the loop. Just give humans knobs and dials and a "reset" button. Plot the story on a graph, drag the nodes. Nobody dies with this. Human editors can control for quality. There's plenty of automation opportunity until computers become outright storytellers.

Disney and their IP war chest are gonna be toast.
I think it's unreasonable to compare a person driving a car with a person smoking cigarettes every day of their life. If it were up to me, I'd also deny health insurance for people more than 100lbs overweight. Why should society pay for someone who wants to be a glutton or chooses to destroy their body with toxins that everyone knows are bad for your health?

Either that, or maybe the grocery stores could give out coupons based on soft drink purchases. The coupons provide health insurance discounts and are paid for by the soft drink companies. They're the ones making money by getting people addicted to sugar so IMO they should be the ones paying for the costs.

Russia and China aren't America's big problem. Our lack of personal responsibility is a much bigger problem IMO.