skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think that chart is showing? How do you square it with a chart of USD value versus an asset which has held consistent value for millennia?

https://www.kitco.com/charts/popup/au1825nyb.html
Yes. However, it doesn't actually say much about affordability because interest rates drive such a large percentage of costs.

A $285,000 mortgage (ignoring taxes+fees) would be $1,126/month at 2.5% APR but $1,618/month at 5.5%. If you use "conventional" lending standards a borrower with a household income of around $39k could qualify at 2.5%, but at 5.5% the income requirement would jump up to around $55k. The ratio drops from around 7.3 to 5.1.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
I feel like tech has gotten to the point where it really does solve most of my every day needs. Take watching movies for example. Growing up when every year brought a number of computers that were twice as fast but it was hard to get a good copy of a movie to watch on it. Or at least difficult to connect it to a tv. Even if you could, the codec was trash and the video was low res.

Nowadays, I got a phone that can just get a 4k or hd copy at speed. I can cast it to my hd tv no problem. Now I can watch nearly any movie I can think of immediately.

Nowadays if I look at a tech magazine (heh) or any given gadget website. Everything is slightly faster or smaller. But I'd say most of my everyday tasks are already handled. Everything is pretty great, but the magic is gone. But that's ok.
> In Xinjiang, people are put in camps because of their religion and ethnicity, that's why millions are locked up.

Well, it's not by Religion. If so, China would have ~45 million muslims permanently imprisoned. Contrary to popular belief, the folks in Xinjiang don't make up the majority of Muslims in China. Those would be the Hui who make up ~3% of the population just by themselves.

It is indeed deeply distressing that Uyghurs are detained for months, under-go re-education before being released. And torture if they fail to comply. But we have an international council for that - the UNHRC. The US has no leg to stand on to individually judge other nations with their extra-ordinary violent history and propaganda in the modern era.

> Sometimes murderers snitch on murderers..

Indeed and such people should be treated for the evil hypocrites they truly are until they pay for their crimes. American citizens can support them and be sanctimonious about this, but the rest of the world (esp Middle-East/Asia) will take it for what it truly is:

"Might Makes Right and Daddy USA is Mightier Than You, So None Can Judge Us, But We Can Judge You".

The US should make make a clear, evidenced case at UNHRC, hold an international hearing and attempt a resolution. But hey, then everything would need to be questioned and analysed from more than one party.
The "." key does move the cursor to the next byte though, so you can quickly type an IP just like you would anywhere else.
I wish that were true, but it is not. The Biden admin has expanded drilling and has been generally pro-oil, despite their green rhetoric.
> Also, and this may be related to the airports I fly out of, but I have hardly ever had planned more than an hour of time from entering an airport terminal to the gate. In TXL (sadly closed now for the much inferior BER), I averaged 25 minutes. At Stuttgart, I once managed to get there in 20.

This is the saddest part of flying, that it really can take only 20 minutes, and instead of making it as efficient as possible, there's the opposite development, where the recommended time has gone from 1 hour to now at least two hours.
Places like that are around, but, crucially, don’t have much turnaround and don’t do much new hiring.
Caffeine is a cerebral vasoconstrictor. Supposedly its the dilation that occurs during withdrawal which causes headaches. Caffeine has a half life of 3 to 5 hours, so without a constant stream of caffeine headaches could come in before too long.
China is actually interested in helping people in Afghanistan. They sent aid[1] during the winter crisis and they have called for the return of the assets of the Afghan people that have been stolen by the United States[2].

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3160159/ch...

[2] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-02-17/China-calls-for-return...
Not necessarily, I live in downtown Toronto, ON, and I rent an apartment for my needs. These needs did not include working from home!
I could move and find a better place to allow me to work from home properly, but unless my employer pays for it, or give me a raise to compensate for it, I'll find a better paying job.
Meanwhile, the flu is now on a steep uptick from some 25y historic low.

We merely replaced one common pandemic with another only last time the government decided to try at some draconian public policy.
Investors? Coal plants could be hypothetically be shut down and hold the economy hostage too. Not sure your point.
They're not saying "I don't think it makes sense," they are making the much stronger claim that there's "zero basis in scientific reality."

Both claims were made, without any evidence, by commenters on HN.

I really wish people would be much more cautious in their pronouncements.

Especially if they have zero expertise in the relevant fields.
Right, that's what I said. For office budgets. I didn't say it was for them. I got the numbers from that exact website. It's not "officially tied to inflation" but obviously if you increase budgets its due to higher costs.
Extension support will be crucial for people to jump over, including me from Firefox.

I use Bitwarden for password management and I'm not really interested in porting that over to Duck.

Safari-like performance with extension support is essentially my endgame browser on Mac. Although it makes me uneasy that the entire browser is built on Apple's api's, it's seems like they will be at their mercy for whatever changes are made in the future.
I disagree partially. I do agree that modeling your domain in programming language objects and then transforming those objects into data stored relational tables (OR Mapping) is not a great design. However, DDD can also be done where the relational database is the model of the domain, and the application is merely a set of functions that execute SQL and transform the results. So based on the application two approaches for persistence are possible:

1) Model the domain in the programming language, and store data as opaque blobs.
2) Model the domain in relational tables, and use the application logic to extract and transform the data.
The unclosed tags were one method, and the other was applying a different formatting to every character. Even one or two messages of maximum length was enough to crash the client.
It's an alternative, but in windows minimizing works on a window, not the entire app. The philosophies of [apps] vs [windows] are just too different, I don't think anyone that wants windows can be happy out-of-the-box, with the apps vs windows thing plus with the minimizing being basically "putting the app to sleep" on macOS vs "putting the app away" on windows.
I definitely would prefer the second. That way I can read and dismiss them one-by-one.

Maybe an option would be to pick a update rate and have something like hourly, daily, weekly and monthly feeds. It would be a cool way to trickle possibly interesting new blogs into my feed reader.
The Chicken Combo Index
I had a job with a lot of ML and Data Science a few years back.

I learned that the job really should’ve been called “Data Janitor”. 90-95% if the work was cleaning data sets and making sure that last update in some ML library we used didn’t mess up something.
That's true but I think this is a relatively small part of the POD market. Some POD marketplaces (not Etsy, but Redbubble and TeePublic) detect stock content and automatically ban accounts.

Etsy tends to attract the more sophisticated POD merchants because it's more complicated (separate printer required) and there's a $0.20 listing fee so there's more upfront cost. Most successful POD merchants have thousands or tens of thousands of designs, so the listing fees really add up.

The most successful POD merchants have small design teams that produce content every day. That may or may not fit your mental image of an Etsy seller. But the low-effort non-artists who took a guru's "make money fast in POD" online course tend to do very poorly, and don't make up the bulk of Etsy.
Yes, but the new sensor pack to remove the rider is a huge upgrade. Like going from flipping toggle switches to Windows 95 kind of an upgrade. The previous commenter was amazed by the transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95.

But, again, it's boring because we watched the development of those sensors as it was happening. In the past the masses would have been unaware of the development going on. But nowadays we know what's coming and it seems old hat by the time it hits the market.
OK, so make the argument.

Embedded in what you're saying, as I understand it, is that Bernie and socialism are the answer and Occupy tee'd it up.

Well, not everybody feels that is the answer, even amongst the people who were involved in Occupy.

I don't see any coherent through line or economic thought whatsoever. Much easier to complain there is a problem than offer up viable solutions.

In this case, knowing wasn't half the battle and they didn't do half the work, they did at best... one percent.. of the work.
Across the board? At least 25%, 50% in some sectors like foods.

They keep, and some people on HN, keep calling it a conspiracy when you mention actual inflation is a lot higher than reported, my question is what is this crowd's reasoning? Are they so well off that they are not able to see the rapid rise in prices because they use maids to do the grocery shopping?

Why is it a conspiracy to suggest actual inflation is far above and beyond what is reported by the Feds, who are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to controlling the money markets now?

If they raise rates to match actual inflation they are going to cause the asset bubble to burst. If they don't raise rates than they are going to find hyperinflation that will certainly damage USD's "exorbitant privilege"
It's never going to be over. All the easy interesting problems were solved years ago. Now you have to work really hard to come up with something technology related that hasn't been done before.
It all works this way (though a certain female family member would disagree, claiming to remember conversations word-for-word years later).

But my memory works this way. A summary "party at so-and-so's house, weather was nice, overall vibe was ___". The rest is context. You know what the house/backyard is like, you know the general feel of that time of year, you know the crowd that usually comes, you can easily synthesize details like the smell of the BBQ and the taste of the food... build up a complete "memory" from stuff that could be summarized in a paragraph of text plus generic (not specific to one memory episode) context.

I can build up a relatively vivid mental image of my walking route to school (from the bus terminal) over 40 years ago. Is it accurate? Who cares. As long as no detailed record exists to compare it to that would reveal the "lossy compression".
We also had little idea and no direct way to bolster our immune systems against it.

Now, though, you can have had up to four shots of vaccine and years of learning various mitigation efforts (masks, distancing, etc).

The risk profiles are totally different because of greater tools and information.
When technology bores you is the exact moment it becomes exciting. Reality sets in and now you can change the world with your boring solutions to boring problems.

Welcome to the real world. It sucks.
I think most individuals keyed in and paying attention have been aware and saying this since the original stimulus under Trump. And at the time it was "yes inflation will be an outcome, but it may be better than burning it down in the short term". Most anyone I spoke with that had even a basic "macroeconomics 101" level of understanding or took any time to manage their own investment portfolio said this.

But then it came time to put the meat in the with potatoes. And there was little, if any, oversight in the distribution. A LOT of money was handed out to both individuals and companies that frankly didnt need it. And then the Biden admin added more and more.

Most that i recall seemed shakey at the prospect initially but understanding of the urgency of action. And outright offended at the implementation/outcome, and then viewed it as ludicrous with the follow ups.

These are largely the results coming home to roost.

But agian, those were not the majority or even a vocal minority that i saw. You know how many on certain sites will be outright certain xyz is how the masses view something (ie: an election) and then when the actual results come in everyone is shocked and just states that the differing viewpoint is stupid and gross. Well it seems those individuals got their way this time, and even now possibly haven't realized how shortsighted their viewpoints were and still arent connecting the dots.
> There are at least some car manufacturers paying for Qt that do not care at all about this issue.

I work for a car company using Qt. The open source community around Qt is a significant contributor to the talent pool we hire from (myself included), and it is also a regular contributor to (and indirectly/broadly, the inspiration for) integration-related Qt modules (e.g. QtWayland) we like. Its health is important.
Everybody within a business should be using the same language and concepts when thinking about the business, because it's important for effective communication: daylight between what people are thinking about is where problems creep in. The role of any people of any discipline within a business is to use their expertise to shape _how_ they think about the shared _what_.

Code is just one tool (of many) that a business will use to achieve its goals. There's a mythology in a lot of businesses around the genius of technologists because we understand the complex system that we built that everybody else in the business is too dumb to understand, but in reality it's because technologists are uniquely permitted to decide they're better than everyone else and diverge from the shared thinking because it's easier than reconciling business concepts with technology -- which is where the actual hard part of software engineering is!

If you walk into any business that has been around for a few years and has allowed their technology team to do whatever they want, you'll probably find a completely incomprehensible system that the business hates because it has diverged so far from how they think and what they want that they can't effectively do their jobs.

People come and go, the only constant in a business is the business.

An example that comes to mind is a business that has customers who pay for membership, and so they're called "members" within the business. However, the development team decided they knew better and implemented "user" accounts which can have a "subscription". Then, later, the business decided to introduce a subscriptions product... and so the problems began.
Comparing one pile of festering garbage against another and saying one smells better… you’re still standing in a pile of trash.
Theres a (pretty sure it's) Billy Connolly (comedian) story about buying a house and the previous owners kept getting sick: something to do with the floor varnish.

Sorry, cant look it up right now- im driving and the heavy rain on the autobahn is making me late. My own fault for drinking until 5 this morning, i guess.
> Why has a perfectly legit site like Wikipedia only a B rating?

https://tosdr.org/en/service/265
I suspect, with no evidence, that the distinction you are making here can be described as neurotypical nerds (what you call All Birds nerds) versus neurodivergent nerds (autistic, adhd, whatever you want to bucket them under)

Neurodivergent people tend to have a bit less of a social filter, they are more direct and honest, often to the point of bluntness (leading to the 'just say whatever' behavior you mentioned)

They also tend to be pretty unfiltered when it comes to their passions, and hyperfixate on them to the detriment of other areas of their life, like laundry.

And yes, these people are often excluded basically anywhere they go, and they have to mask their behaviours to appear more normal to get jobs. In that respect, the All Birds culture has absolutely pushed them aside, or pushed them under.

This is just my 2 cents, attempting to put some definitions around the All Birds and Nerd Nerds groups you described. I could be entirely mistaken.
This is nothing new; I have read several books and works on neurology, and this is best described a "a simplified representation of the environment". Thanks to signal noise and neuroplasticity over time the weakest connection points between "remembered" stimuli deteriorate and all what is left is even more simplified version of a "memory". I am surprised that they did not heard of it yet.
A friend who did some work on the project said it reminded him of lenses in functional programming. Since the company name was Snooty Software, he suggested calling the library Monocle, which seems appropriate :-)
I think one crucial thing people forget about Xinjiang is the context: namely, why those camps are there. They are a way of fighting terrorism - an alternative to how the West is handling this problem, which is killing those people from safe distance. US is propping up Xinjiang subject, because if China is successful - if they can show those people can be brought back into society - then it proves again how wrong the American invasion on Middle East was.
Many care more about cs and engineering fundamentals rather than bespoke products, even more people only care about having their problem solved and how much it costs.
> Denounce the music of the present day, and you’ve instantly become a walking, talking, (barely) breathing cliché, ripe for ridicule, a classic figure of parody and invective

Denounce it of course, but with a humbling footnote: I may be too old for this.
Apparently, you haven’t minimize the current and future need for an upower daemon, not even close.
You're the only person to even slightly respond to what I wrote. Everyone else repeated primitivist memes without engaging with the argument at all.

My hypothesis was that the edge cases were likely a problem. You might have been able to live well in a hunter-gatherer society of you were healthy and if natural disasters and invading peoples left you alone.

I'm sure deciding which children should live or die in a random weather-induced famine or watching invaders kill your family takes the shine off being a hunter-gatherer.

I suspect there are multiple reasons for the birth of civilization, agriculture, and technology, but one of these was probably as a form of insurance. Others probably included cults and religion, effectiveness at warfare (defensive or offensive), and simple fascination with and emulation of impressive feats like megalithic architecture (in other words mimetic behavior).

Of course people are right that there is no panacea and that we may have traded one set of problems for another, but that's how things go. History is a walk across state space exploring various nooks and crannies and finding out what angels and demons lurk there.
this really is a "let them eat cake" sort of attitude.

its really shocking just how far detached most HNers are from logistics that is hidden. literally the comfort we enjoy is run by people who don't work from home, who are most impacted by prices.
Similar point was made here quite recently and the conclusion of most this was a mere difference between exploratory and exploitative stages of life.
I have submitted my website's URL but didn't get any confirmation afterwards. Maybe it's just me and my browser, but it would be nice to have something like "ok, got that link! Thanks!" somewhere.
Arguably better
> Couldn't the people who own the windmills just as easily hold the country hostage as you put it?

It’s easier to enforce American political will on a wind farm in Texas than a pump in Saudi/Siberia.
Dos32.bas with Visual Basic was my first intro to programming. There was no useful search so you had to navigate through webrings to get programming tutorials. There were also networks of private vb channels where the hackers hung out, those were always fun to drop in on.

Maybe I’m looking back with rose-colored glasses but I remember Visual Basic being intuitive and approachable for beginners in a way that I haven’t seen since.

The fader text is a nice touch too, that immediately makes me nostalgic.
Well Said!

I suspect this where the real "expertise" in Building Software Systems lies. Stable, Steady, Fault-Tolerant, least MTBF etc. characteristics are the name of the Game.
Is the codebase flexible enough to add other source and templating languages? What would be involved in that?
> Download the DuckDuckGo mobile app (or update to the latest version)

I must say, this is a great method of marketing. I've never been super interested in trying the DDG mobile app, but the MacOS option caught my eye. I've now downloaded the app simply to sign up for the desktop option.
CO2 concentrations are rising everywhere. It's just easiest to measure consistently in the high atmosphere because it averages out the local sources/sinks.
Kubernetes scheduler in 30 lines of Powershell – because why not?
It isn't. There is helm charts and such that can be hosted on GitHub.
I try to do the same, now. From my perspective, a prerequisite is divorcing conversation from the concept of "winning."
> Purely consumption devices

I don't understand how this sentiment is still so common on HN. It's plainly false.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the vast majority of computer-aided personal creative work happens, in whole or part, on a smartphone—it's just that most of it's audio-visual and largely for personal wants and needs, so HN doesn't think that counts, I guess?

I only have a smartphone for those things. Do I browse HN and other crap on it? Yeah, of course. Would I buy it if it the only things it could do, aside from calls and texts, was watch Internet videos and browse the web? Hell. No. The GPS, the camera, the mic & speakers (it's my tuner when I play music!), and so on, are what sell it to me. I am 100% sure I'm far from unique in this. It also remote-controls my thermostats, acts as my document scanner completely replacing other forms of scanner for me, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting about right now. It's my still and video camera, for all purposes.

"But using the GPS, tuner, et c. is still kinda consumption!" BS. Tools aren't about "consumption". Not the way people seem to mean it when they sneer at smartphones (and usually tablets, too).
Ooh, I think this might have been the one (at least the mention of rmi and MS style paths would be consistent with what I recall working on at the time):

https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5083924
Now that explains it. I was just looking at the stats from my WordPress site and found traffic from a indieblog.page - I thought it was some shady marketing page and ignored it. Here 10 minutes later I am on HN and see this.

Great idea and probs for shipping!