skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest issue I can think of is trying to do PWM _and_ WiFi work simultaneously on an esp8266. If you have, say, an esp8266 serving up a small webpage for control and don't want to add an external PWM board then you might notice intermittent issues. This is more obvious if you're controlling something like a lighting ballast that's PWM controlled.

Of course now that I'm looking around I see https://github.com/khoih-prog/ESP8266_PWM which seems promising (subdivides the second of two available hardware timers to allow PWM that isn't sensitive to other running code). So there's multiple workarounds (libraries, breakout boards) besides upgrading to an esp32.
There literally was a compromise in 2009 during the passage of ACA that nixed the “public option” (taxpayer funded) healthcare in order to win the votes of necessary Senators to pass the bill.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

Seeing as how Republicans have zero interest in taxpayer funded healthcare, and they have held enough Senate seats to stymie any Democrat led effort for the past 20 years and probably next 20, I do not see why it is “silly” to call it politically impossible.
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How are Mullvad apps across multiple platforms? I've been with PIA for quite a while, and I got it to work they way I want it, on macOS, windows and android, and I liked even more some of their recent exit points marked "for streaming", as I watch sports online, and there is a significant improvement when using those, with some countries local free broadcasting, but performance in the rest , sometimes, is really atrocious. I am just concerned about trading performance gain for tweaks/options/stability on multiple platforms (never found OpenVPN to be better, at least when it comes to PIA apps).
Facebook is a dying platform. It's not exactly a secret. It's why Meta is acquiring other companies and investing in things like the Metaverse.
Distributed in terms of location, too. You can't expect people to move just because there is another low-wage job open 4 hours away.
The universe is required to run Mathematica.
With the IT shortage it has actually shot up quite a bit - when no one will work your 50-60k job because everyone is chomping at the bit the salaries have risen quite a bit. Medium to large city will not be paying top end tech salary of course but you should be able to make between 100-200k depending on experience and the job.
We understand. What are we supposed to do, sell our houses and move to a condo downtown? Whose going to buy them, and where the fuck are we going to get the resources to house that many people without a massive energy/resource exploitation. So "no cars" is childish and naive.

Awareness isn't the issue, but awareness of an issue we have no control over does nothing of value to anyone other than add anxiety.
The Yen is not the world reserve currency and does not have the status of the petrodollar.
Tangentially related:

Users can use Mullvad’s TOR address: http://o54hon2e2vj6c7m3aqqu6uyece65by3vgoxxhlqlsvkmacw6a7m7k... to generate their account ID and make their payment with Bitcoin seamlessly.

I have never experienced such a smooth way to purchase from a provider, this was brilliant.

+1 to Mullvad
Interesting timing...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/multiple-people-shot-i...
Do you remember an old ICQ program that generated accounts with user defined numbers so long as they weren't already in use? The software was hosted on a page with quite a few other ICQ related applications. I'd love to find an archive of the site.
Yeah, totally, I'm reinforcing your point. Fox News and conservative AM radio (which has many programs with a larger listenership than Democracy Now, I'm sure), not to mention places like Breitbart or OAN, portray unions negatively or not at all, while other mainstreams sources mostly just ignore them. You've gotta go pretty fringe-left to find anything that treats labor action outside of maybe the AFL-CIO or a few Hollywood unions and guilds, as worth consistently covering at all.
Thanks, that's not the answer I wanted but it was sadly convincing.
> Inventory is still bumping along record lows.

Absolutely, but that's part of the mechanism through which price rises happen, more than a causal explanation of it. It further suggests that shelter has a lot of momentum.

> Housing starts were... side lined with labor and material shortages.

That's a bigger part, but easily offset by historically low population growth in the US. Low pandemic interest rates were almost certainly a much bigger factor in driving the housing market than the cost of construction.

> ~5% mortgage rates are also likely to begin to slow things down.

Again, absolutely (although if inflation also levels out at 5%, that may be neutral). But, as I mentioned in my comment, there's a "right half-plane zero" in the transfer function between interest rates, housing prices, homeownership costs, and shelter. Rising mortgage rates may level off housing prices, but meanwhile drive up the cost of homeownership. Even as the housing market plateaus, those rising homeownership costs can carry shelter higher, both in the form of real rents and "owner's-equivalent" rents. (In Canada the relationship is more direct, with mortgage interest costs directly included in the shelter basket, but the relationship exists indirectly in the US CPI metric too).

That shelter CPI can trend higher as housing prices plateau is the price of reciprocity that we pay for shelter CPI appearing low after interest rate cuts, even as housing prices grew rapidly.
As you can see from this very topic the pros of unions tend to be ignored while the pain of them is repeated.

Higher wages tend to be ignored as it is vague. Harder to fire is tainted by police unions protecting cops from their own actions.

You end up with the benefits being vague and the problems being obvious. Dues are frustrating and any bad union leaders get tons of attention.

For better or worse everyone tends to assume the things unions work for are a given. So the only real talking points become the bad things. Not that this is unique to unions lol.
I used to really like CNN back in like 2010. Over the years its just become worse and worse to the point I don't read it anymore. It's basically turned into gossip news and is constantly skewing reality in favor of profits.

I'm over it, and I think most other people are as well.
I have never worked at FAANG but have had coworkers + have friends that have.

I'm under the impression that gRPC is popular, and in some places GraphQL.
> mom-n-pops places have gotten replaced

This is demonstrably false in my metropolitan area, we even have a few which are supermarket sized. They're often ethnic. Read an essay somewhere a month or two ago about how the supply chain economics are different, can't find it now. Think Zillow vs a guy with a lawnmower in the back of his pickup truck.
Some news outlets falsify their inflation reporting as a matter of course. Consumer prices obviously did not rise 8.5% in March, they rose 8.5% over the preceding twelve months ending in March.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
You also can’t discount how effective they are as marketing tools to signal “Apple is the computer company for artists and creatives”.
Plenty of places like that even in Tier 1 cities!
Sounds like you are in the best position to give it a shot and see if it works. You have source material, you have iMove...
Caveats: study is pre-omicron, and in a population that has a higher likelyhood of previous infection (nurses). Infection followed by vaccination leads to supposed "hybrid-immunity". These findings may not translate to those who did not get infected but were vaccinated
> An alternative theory posits that these massive corporations in fact depend upon the centralization of governmental regulatory and fiscal powers for their very existence.

I don't see what evidence there is of that. How does Walmart (specifically, since it was mentioned) benefit from federal government regulations in a way that gives them an advantage over other brick and mortars?
Yeah maybe, I think most other companies tho would recognize that all of that is such a small part of their business and cut it off.

I’m so happy Apple doesn’t.
> How much has your grocery bill gone up? What about restaurant bills?

What's interesting is although fast food prices have went up, it doesn't seem like casual dining chains have gone up. So even though steak prices have doubled at the grocery store, they've stayed the same at the chain steakhouses.
What do you mean? That the death rate is higher or lower?

I'm not even making a claim re: death rate, I'm taking GP's word for it.
> don't oppose it.

Formally they actively support it - they endorse PRC "deradicalization" policy since they suffer from extremist problems themselves. This isn't complicated, plurality of the world does not buy US/western genocide framing - they see PRC policy as relatively peaceful counter-insurgency and actual nation building effort for restive peoples which these regions have to deal with in spades. It's absolutely in their interest for XJ model to work, and perhaps be adoptable through a neat package like Huawei smart cities. West exports democracy that ultimately destabilize vs PRC exports security for serenity. Of course latter is preferable.
> What else but damage to the brain could do that?

Damage to the olfactory epithelia. That is what this paper is describing.
Yeah that’s fair too
I disagree with this definition. We have yet to produce a perfect model of the world (aka, a theory of everything). All models produced by "science" thus far are "wrong", at least on some level (ex. Newton's model doesn't cover relativity). I think "Creating models with predictive power is also a precise definition of science." is a fair description.
I agree. I was awestruck the entire time. I thought about the movie for hours and hours until I went to bed.
>It also embodies all of the metadata associated with it, which is still not encrypted.

How is this worse than any system that depends on a server that routes messages? Like almost all of them...

>For transient communication you're better off installing a purpose built client with a purpose built protocol...

Yeah, the world definitely needs more "purpose built" protocols...
Evolution of antibodies from general protein language models and sequence alone
As someone who better understands this subject than you, wine has plenty of alcohol, on average 10%, much more than beer. You don't need a scientific study for that.
No matter which party you choose, or if you choose to be independent, we are very likely to end up with a Democrat or a Republican in the White House. History tells us that a lot of inflation under a Democrat president will help flip the next election to a Republican. If Democrats want the next term they will have to get inflation under control, otherwise the WH is going to flip. The way things are going Biden is going to look like Carter.
Sanctioning Russia, preventing trade and precipitating the ensuing shortages is another item which political leaders could take responsibility for. Interesting how this has been spun.
American Rescue Plan may not have been necessary. Biden became president when vaccine rollout was already happening; we were entering a new pandemic phase of hope and recovery. I fully blame ARP for inflation being 8% and not 5%.
"Bread makes you fat??"

~Scott Pilgrim
While this is remarkably a good hack and I did learn quite a bit after reading the post, I'm simply curious about the motivation behind it? A docker image even if it's a few MBs with Caddy/NGINX should ideally be just pulled once on the host and sit there cached. Assuming this is OP's personal server and there's not much churn, this image could be in the cache forever until the new tag is pushed/pulled. So, from a "hack" perspective, I totally get it, but from a bit more pragmatic POV, I'm not quite sure.
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Every time they tried something new like with the redesigned feed and desktop site most of their users didn’t like it. Their user flow is so ingrained that they have to take losses if they want to objectively improve something. People adopt something new way easier than adapting to change of something they used for a long time. That’s one of the points why they stagnated onboarding younger people because their apps and sites feel old in regards to tiktok or discord. Facebook is the Volvo or Toyota of social networks does the job but doesn’t excite.
> This obscure Mac developer has 3 of the top 95 grossing apps in the Mac App Store.

I wonder if it's money laundering and most of the purchases aren't victims.
They can become a wholly owned subsidiary and still have access to profits.
I worked on the original (long since superseded) implementation of the metadata store for Google Drive, i.e. the system which was responsible for tracking file / folder relationships. The requirement to allow an item to appear in multiple locations was a huge complication, in part because of the way it interacted with permissions being inherited from a folder to the items in that folder. I imagine this change may be motivated by a desire to move away from that complex model, and whatever team owns that system now may be very happy to see it going away.

(IIRC, the requirement stemmed from the need to support the various applications that were being folded into / integrated with Google Drive, such as Photos which of course allows a photo to appear in multiple albums.)
Mullvad is fully open source, with the source code provided here [1], which has also undergone multiple rounds of audits with the reports available to the public [2][3].

[1] https://github.com/mullvad

[2] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...

[3] https://cure53.de/pentest-report_mullvad_2021_v1.pdf
“fear, uncertainty, and doubt”
This is really great. Hopefully industrial commitments to net zero carbon can create a market for removal without government assistance, which seems less likely in our current political quagmire.
The reason shelter is the biggest story is not because shelter inflation is leading the pack (of course it's not, so energy is grabbing all the attention!), but because shelter has so much inertia behind it, and couples so much more closely to interest rates than to supply chains and wars.
Speculating here: if the brain really uses embeddings similar (in concept) to neural network embeddings, the mechanism could explain a lot of the peculiarities of the brain. Embeddings are naturally entangled, so are memories. For example, a specific smell can evoke a previous memory.
The article describes an idea that there are startup opportunities to be found by identifying horizontal platforms (e.g. Craigslist) that cover a lot of ground and build something that handles just one use case (e.g. job posts) covered by that platform. The article calls it "unbundling".

A while ago I was involved in a startup that attempted to compete with a dominant horizontal platform in this manner (Craigslist, in fact). The ideas were fine, the people were good, but we had a lot of trouble getting traction. Turns out, Craigslist is where the people are, and if you want to build a marketplace, you need people. Features turn out to be secondary. It's unsurprising to me that, in the end, the best competition for Craigslist came from another big horizontal platform with tons of people: Facebook.

I'm not actually trying to say that "unbundling" can't ever work. Maybe Zapier is ripe for it, as the author suggests. This is just what happened to come to mind when I read this story.

Interesting overall. Thanks for the post OP!
This is absolutely brilliant. I'd like to have something like this for every endeavor where I suffer from "blank page syndrome".
If this is built well over time and catches on, it could decrease Firefox’s share on the Mac even further. Safari typically has the best (lowest) energy usage pattern on Macs. DuckDuckGo browser built on top of the same should be similar. The promise of extensions is also quite tempting.

I love that users who value privacy have even more choices and flexibility.
Ceephax acid crew played at Loppen (oldest rock venue in scandinavia, located in freetown christiania) back in 2012 if i remember correctly. I did visuals and the theme and dresscode was "cat techno"
Best gig ever. His gear lineup is insane. All original equipment with years under his hands.
It was mindblowing to see him orchestrate all the machinery and express the complex and melodic acid he is so known for.
Here is a video from the night, i made it start after a part showing how we welded old tv sculptures to be used for the visuals. Enjoy, i surely did!!!
Thanx ceephax!!!

https://youtu.be/5f3pPTpBxMA?t=137

(Edit: i wrote a ton of visuals software for that night only, some of it is listed here: https://github.com/sloev/psyphon_terrain) really miss dancing to "mediteranean acid"!!!!!!
There was a great article on this recently. The author made the point that if there was a day, week, or month where there were no backups or photos then you might put less value on that time of your life in retrospect. Conversely there might be a timespan where you took too many photos and might feel like there was more value to be had in that time.
Japan is a bit of a special case. They had extraordinarily high private-sector credit growth before their bubble burst. Now their private-sector debt has been dramatically shrinking, which would have led to deflation.

Basically, Japan's public-sector debt growth is offsetting private-sector debt shrinkage.

This dynamic is unique to Japan.
That's different and understandable. Everyone wants to have to comply with one set of regulations instead of one set of regulations plus fifty more additional sets of regulations (or more with counties/cities) that require additional effort to comply with and ensure the correct ones are complied with. Just the additional labor costs for lawyers must be real. Add to that the need to have special cash registers for one state, or other changes, and it gets pretty expensive. Hell, Home Depot would probably rather one national sales tax (regardless of whether it's higher or lower than the current national average) over the complexity of the current sales tax code. Just for the operational simplicity.
Small businesses are not usually hiring union busters for multiple hundreds/hour.

We could discuss this within for example the restaurant industry, and that could be interesting but AMZ does not fit the 'no generational wealth, just some business owners' rhetoric.

For restaurants what we find is incredibly thin margins being covered up by exploitation of the lowest rung rather than adjusting of prices, efficiencies in supply chain, focused menus, etc.
FDE is not enough against physical access, see the evil maid attack.
We outsource a lot of the marketing tech and website related work so marketing is not blocked by our own development team. We don’t see marketing tech and our Wordpress website as our “secret sauce”. The devs are just focused on product development.
I didn't see where you developed the bulletproof case that GDP was a bad measure. If you've proven that at some point, I'm happy to adjust my understanding. In lieu of that, I'll go with the economic experts who regularly study, use, and rely on GDP for real world analysis.

> you're the only one that had to read it twice, we talked about it now, good talk.

The lack of punctuation and choice of verb tense made it difficult to understand, no need for the condescending tone.
Most of the younger people have degrees in Computer Information Systems
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted because it’s true. I bought a house in 2021 with a 2.6% mortgage interest rate. Inflation is making my payment more affordable in real terms.
Adding to that, there's a lot of sampling bias as well. If a function fits my mental model of it, then I'm unlikely to revisit it. If a function doesn't fit my mental model, then it is very likely that I'll misuse it, increasing the likelihood of a bug, and increasing the likelihood that I re-read the code.
It must be attached such it tears when opened, tamper-evident- similar techniques are common fro doors, either across the frame or more stealthily near the hinge. You want it to be a little stealth because an informed adversary could break the seal, remove it, and be prepared to replace/recreate it when they're done (like faking a new wax seal)
Let's say you had a company which only hires 9 people. You decide that your next hire will be of a specific race and gender and not other candidates need apply. Would that be discrimination?
Stripe, Alphabet and Others to Spend Nearly $1B on Carbon Removal
First I've heard of it, and I spend a fair amount of time watching news, mostly PBS, SkyNews, and AlJazeera. All of which I can see on my Roku without spending any money.

Feels like they missed something in their marketing plan. I may have seen the little + there when skimming cnn.com at some point, but didn't understand it was some new product.

But, as mentioned in the first paragraph, I don't have a strong need for a paid product at the moment anyway.

Edit: Probably doesn't help that Google doesn't know what it is either...[search for cnn+] -> "Showing results for CNN -> Search instead for CNN+" -> "Did you mean: CNN?"
Ask HN: Any Defense Related Startups?
> Or you just don’t use a Macintosh

Exactly. The global menu and the top bar have been the main reasons I never bought a Mac.
I think this is what you’re looking for

https://indieweb.xyz

And here’s how you link back:

https://indieweb.xyz/howto/en

(Not my site, I’m just a fan of indieweb)
I think this is a good move – the cloning UX experience was a nightmare. I've moved many shared files to Team Drives because the language is easier for most of understand.

I imagine this was a tough call for a PM, with a lot of cases to consider and account for given this is so embedded in the Drive product DNA.
Trump lowered interest rates to near 0%, what are you talking about exactly?
The value of not having a plan for life
“Real price of gold” is an interesting concept, probably showing a statistical quirk of backtracing CPI than anything useful though? I’d have to study how it was calculated.

Yes, your graph at the end showing SPY in gold falling below the 200 day MA is exactly what I was talking about.

I absolutely agree gold is volatile in the short term and not some magical replacement for fiat currency nor an absolute indicator of the level of inflation in an economy.

Sometimes however it’s important to figure out if the “platform” you’re taking your measurement from isn’t actually what’s moving, rather than the thing you’re trying to measure. If you’re going to step outside of the fiat viewpoint, gold is where I’d usually start.

Maybe a VIX-adjusted price of gold or something like that could be useful to smooth it out.
I have an unsexy job where I automate JIT manufacturing processes, and I love it, despite the hodge-podge and duct tape. From what I hear, our on-prem setup is quite common in our industry, particularly in smaller family-owned shops.
Well, I spat out the list of numbers and just googled "graph values" and took the first result, but if you love to stay in command line, you can do something like so...

# awk '{print $7-$4}' chart | gnuplot -p -e 'plot "/dev/stdin"'

Where `chart` is just what I copy and pasted from the site :)
I didn't ever understand the value proposition here. I already get CNN thru YTTT. Or I can go to CNN.com for more choices. Why do I need to pay $$ for a different CNN source?
Luckily MaxLeiter already did that for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30963947
(That's what I'm reading)
> The worst is well behind us.

How can you accurately predict that the worst is behind us, when you don't know the outcome of the Covid tornado wreaking havoc in China? You can correctly forecast how that's going to play out and how it'll impact manufacturing and consumer prices globally? Of course not, nobody can.