skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well part of it is definitely caused by Putin or at least our response to his atrocities, but wasn't something of this sort definitely expected in any case due to the absurdly high spending and economic cratering that covid has caused worldwide?

Do you think the US is alone in these hikes? The Eurozone is also showing very similar rates. It's unlikely to be something one country can fix by itself.
I've wanted to build something nearly identical to this for like a year! Thank you!
Strict lockdowns are more likely due to subpar surge capacities and an aging more vaccine hesitant population.
As it should be. I provide stability to both customers and employees. In exchange, we work on stuff that other engineers frequently turn their nose up at AND add value to the companies we work for.

And the best part - we're often able to integrate new technologies into older, legacy systems gradually, which is fun for devs and risky-yet-risk-adverse enough for stakeholders. Win-win!
We shall do something before it is too late.
I'm not sure if it links directly to dialectical behavior therapy, but it sounds an awful lot like a combination of an emotional regulation technique with an interpersonal effectiveness technique, plus a side of mindfulness.
Thanks. I'm nailing the behavioral, cloud and sysadmin stuff, need to work on my coding chops. I'm not even targeting SWE jobs, but to get the best SRE/DevOps type jobs you still need to code pretty well these days.
Just eyeballing the ShadowStats chart (because accessing the raw data requires a subscription), they're claiming that the inflation rate has been hovering around 8% since roughly the year 2000. That implies that the cost of living in the US has increased over 5x since 2000.
Probably. You go first.
So "little-to-nothing" is an understatement and even a fairly small percentage reduction means a lot when it applies to hundreds of millions of people. The "decrease of transmission" is really only talking about "If I'm in a room with a COVID positive person, will I get sick?" and nothing about population level "decrease of spread" because there are less contagious days per person per infection.

from https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2106757

"We provide empirical evidence suggesting that vaccination may reduce transmission by showing that vaccination of health care workers is associated with a decrease in documented cases of Covid-19 among members of their households."

So vaccines not only provide protection against worse outcomes (including the parent commenters loss of smell), but they also reduce spread, even if just through the fact that a shorter infection means less opportunity.
Not much. The Earth subtends a width of only 2° in the Moon's sky - it covers only about 1/10000 of the possible approach vectors to the Moon.

Think about a lunar eclipse for comparison: the Earth intercepts the Sun-Moon vector for a couple hours every few months, roughly 1/10000 of the time.

The Moon is a smaller target (1/4 the diameter, 1/16 the cross section, also 1/81 the mass and gravity), so it gets hit less because of that, but not because of Earth shielding it.
The comment was relative to why the market was up. The point is, in real terms the market is not in fact “up”. The market is repricing based on future expectations of the real value of the USD.

The terms “real” and “nominal” make it abundantly clear that I’m not talking about USD versus other currencies. Why are other currencies even part of the discussion? I can only guess because it was an easy retort to “disprove” my statement and derail the discussion.

The meaning should be clear enough from the context of my full comment. I’d rather hear feedback and discussion on that, than debating something I wasn’t even trying to claim (e.g. whether other currencies are rising or falling faster than the USD).

Countries are beginning to do real volumes of energy trade outside of the USD. Countries are also questioning the level of USD reserves they want to be holding with the Fed. This structural decrease in the demand for US dollars will have a very lasting impact that will become clear over the next decade. This is a tidal change which was a long time coming, but I think the weaponization of the USD and SWIFT thru never-before-seen sanctions have pushed it over the edge.

It doesn’t help to be reaching this point with debt levels at 140% GDP and deficit to GDP over 10%…

Because demand for dollars has been so consistently high in modern history, we usually think of inflation in terms of the US economy being too “hot” or because we’ve printed too many dollars. It can be bizarre to think about changing “demand” for a currency, because, who doesn’t want more money? The light bulb is understanding there are many options for storing value, and demand for one option versus another shifts through a combination of present utility and future expectations.

I believe that the structural reasons driving inflation this year and for the next decade have shifted entirely into something the US has never seen before, and it’s very interesting to consider where it will lead. The war and COVID are confounding variables which I believe some people use to try to ignore the new reality.

A weak USD relative to other currencies isn’t an entirely terrible thing. It leads to massive re-domestication of production for one thing, as imports become too expensive. But that depends as much on how quickly other countries devalue their currency.

In the near term the biggest hit from debasement of the local currency is to anyone with liquid savings, or anyone who has stagnant wages (e.g. once yearly wage increases become insufficient to not lose significant purchasing power).
You also can't drive your car onto my property without permission. There are valid reasons for a drone to do exactly that, and I'd like to know who is looking at my house. It would be nice to Google a drone ID and realize that it's just the power company looking for branches that might take down a power line.
> It seems like the views you're replying to, match reality (Greenwald is indeed spreading FUD about something which is totally normal)

Consider this: are things always as they seem? If you consider the entirety of your history on this planet, has there ever been a time where you were at least partially mistaken? Or even easier: have you ever observed another human being mistaking belief for knowledge?

I mean technically: is it not true that you are representing/asserting your perception of "reality" (virtual/perceptual/cognitive reality) to be 100% perfectly and comprehensively aligned with reality itself?

> and, I'm sorry, you are coming across as incomprehensible.

This is extremely common in conversations within certain domains.

Consider this:

- if someone has a bias against certain things, might this have some negative effect on the style and effort they devote to trying to truly understand it (also taking into consideration what is happening in the subconscious mind, which is sub-perceptual, and arguably has the ability to place a ~"hard cap" on what any given individual is capable of, especially if they are not intimately(!) familiar with the phenomenon and actively taking measures to counteract its effects)?

- if one was to give a quantum mechanics textbook to someone who has no background in math/physics/etc, might it seem incomprehensible to them?

And based on prior conversations, it is perhaps a good idea to preemptively counter some common rebuttals to this sort of thinking: often the response I will get to this sort of reasoning is that it is "pedantic", or various memes/slurs such as /r/iamverysmart, Gish Gallop, JAQing off, etc. I promise that this is not what I am doing - I am genuinely trying to have a truly good faith conversation (which, unsurprisingly, may appear "very weird"), and I encourage you to disagree with any points I've made that you believe (after some self-critical contemplation, ideally) contain a genuine flaw(s), however small.
You haven't cited anything "counterfactual".
Identity politics has been around and salient for a lot longer than eight years. McCarthyism. Slavery/Jim Crow. The Southern strategy. Women not being allowed to vote. Those all had pivotal effects on politics in the United States.
Part of what you describe is monopoly. That's not new. That's what capitalism tends toward.

The other parts you describe are all about connectedness. Or side effects of connectedness. Largely due to the Internet and partially to cell then smart phones. Those are new tech that humans haven't quite made peace with yet.

That happens with all tech changes, belive it or not. Over a century ago electrification was jarring. All sorts of magical devices [1] used electricity. And electricity was dangerous! [2] There was also the less obvious danger of con artists, who with sufficiently technological-seeming devices are indistinguishable from magicians (apologies to Clarke!). And the whole thing was such confusing upheaval to society that Rube Goldberg [3] helped people cope by laughing about it.

[1] https://www.announcingit.com/invitations-blog/what-came-firs...

[2] https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
They do however have a large effect on the severity of the disease if you do catch it. Anecdotally at least, loss of smell is much less common amongst those vaccinated.
> Add to this that dev teams at every company have full sprints planned for months. Getting a marketing project done through the dev team is months of exertion and sweat.

I'm confused by this, can you clarify?

This sounds like the exact opposite of agile sprints (assuming you're talking about agile)
Thanks. I tend to agree, I've never regretted changing jobs. But I've never had more on the line then now, I've got a wife and daughter and short commute and work life balance. Leaning towards staying and working on my coding skills for a while.
Tensorbook deep learning laptop (2022)
How are you going to make money as an entrepreneur if you are afraid to take risks? The risk/reward here is obviously good. You say this because you are scared of failure.
> Does it show it as loan forgiven?

Here's what it shows...

Loan Status: Not Disclosed

Date Approved: (ranges from "Jan. 27, 2021" to "May 5, 2021")

Business Type: Sole Proprietorship

Jobs Reported: 1

Business Age: Existing or more than 2 years old

Where applicants said the money will go: Payroll (100%)

Any guesses on how this works out for him?
Intranasal zinc has absolutely shown to have a direct correlation on loss of smell: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=78...
The US has been printing money non stop since 08. Never caused a problem before
Docker adds other value to the lifecycle of your deployment. An "optimization" where you're removing value is just a compromise. Otherwise we'd all run our static sites on UEFI.
Why did openstack fail? Or did it, was it just not adopted?

I think there is still a lot of potential for open source management of core EC2/S3/networking capabilities (aka "core AWS IAAS service"). We have a fair number of cloud abstraction layers now, and obviously kubernetes, you'd think we could as an industry produce core apis for doing resource listing, availability, etc.

Maybe some of the problem is that devs have a LOT of experience with the "ask" side of IaaS: gimme storage, gimme vms, set. But they have no experience with the "provide" side, and the sort of one-off manual nature of installing networking and machines doesn't have good standardization for "reporting available resources".

At this point, aws apis are somewhat stable. (I would bitch about the error codes and documentation... but anyway). It's obviously "good enough" after 10-15 years of them.

Are there projects that try to marry an aws-ish api, which really is a reporting and request api, with a "available resources" reporting api? Are some of these things out there?

AWS ten years ago was liberating. It was progress. It was a good thing. But Amazon is not a "do no evil" corporation, much the opposite. And you see this in AWS with its treatment of startups, open source projects, and other manipulations. They are a monopoly now, or at a minimum a dangerous cartel.

A real open source alternative would be a good thing. It would be good for the rest of FAANG, it would encourage competition by allowing lesser clouds to offer core competencies that are drop-in.
I think it's because we still haven't figured out how to architect how economy and society properly. We better systems to promote good outcomes.

Technology has always been a means to an end -- I say that as someone which has always been fascinated by tech, due to my attraction to understanding, creativity and invention.

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I am working with a friend on a system to better reward websites and technologies without requiring advertisements. Think a small payment going to every website you visit, every service you use automatically. You would get some control over how to distribute those payments. Maybe we could set up worldwide funds that reward software based on their contributions to society. You could have local institutions suggesting and supporting funding projects -- distributed, democratic, rational, fair, .

Jane Goodall has been saying all humanity needs to flourish is to get 'the head and the heart' to work in harmony -- which I think means to say we need a society where our work, and our tech, and everything is contributing to make the world awesome -- to promote sustainability, to make healthy happy lives, to make rich amazing existences.

We kind of have the tools at our disposal... this century is a very decisive one, where we show that we are capable of growing and achieving an amazing civilization (and not collapse due to environmental ruin, greed, conflict).
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Hacking Instagram Scammers and Takeover Admin Dashboard
You're right, that's veering off topic. Back to Covid.

The vaccine doesn't stop spread. We've known this for a long time now, but here's a fresh example just last weekend:

Seventy-two people have tested positive for Covid-19 after having attended the Gridiron Dinner in Washington last weekend, including members of the Biden administration and reporters.

Gridiron Club President Tom DeFrank said Sunday that the group had reported 72 cases out of the hundreds of people who attended. New York Mayor Eric Adams, who was also at the dinner, tested positive Sunday. It was the first Gridiron Dinner since 2019, before the pandemic, and guests were required to show proof of vaccination, DeFrank said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/67-attendees-...
Sure, okay. I was just following what I had thought to be the widely accepted narrative on this, eg:

"CNBC reported that Trump was shown the photo during the briefing. A flash visible in the center of the image suggests Trump or someone else took a photo of the original image — which Hanham says might have been the intelligence briefing slide."

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758038714/can-president-trump...

In any case, the point is that with proper staging, you could absolutely take a picture-of-a-picture in a way that would result in the image being marked as genuine and untampered, even accounting for the signing info including a GPS-based time- and position-stamp and including camera details like focal length.
It is actually quite challenging to show that the earth is round in a way that does not require you to take anyone's word for anything

Perhaps if you live nowhere near an ocean and have no trees from which to hang a pendulum and can't afford a rangefinder for lining up two boards with holes in them.
First LED lights developed from rice husks
Rational neural network advances machine-human discovery
Show HN: Code Snippet Formatter – for email and docs
I got tired of pasting code snippets into emails etc which always look rubbish, sure I could open up an IDE and copy from there but then I have to create new files. Anyway I made a quick tool to do this for me - kudos to torchlight.dev for the syntax highlighting API. Hope someone finds this useful!
chapman court in LA was originally built with that kind of hallway on the 2nd floor of a series of work-loft spaces (studio below, living space above). i got to see it via an LA Conservancy tour a few years back. unfortunately, i couldn't find pictures of the hallway, but here are promo pages for the recent renovation with some other pictures ('creative offices' in the 2nd shows one of the loft interiors):

https://kfalosangeles.com/project/chapman-court/

https://www.ottodesigngroup.com/07_chapman-court
Here's a comparison of CPI based on how it is calculated now with how it was calculated in the 1990s and 1980s. [0] There's a pretty clear trend here. Maybe the current calculation is more accurate. But I doubt it. Looks like suppression to me.

[0]: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
This desperate “it’s Russia’s fault!” angle being pushed by the establishment right now is not convincing anyone with more than two brain cells. We all saw and experienced the massive inflation and supply chain issues longggg before that war started and there’s mountains of data that shows that to be the case.
It is nullified if there is a coach class anywhere on the plane.
Of interest....anosmia is a known prodromal risk factor for Parkinson's disease...whether the similarities are coincidental for 2 different types of brain damage or note remains to be seen I guess.
I never understand Amazon's uncompromising stance on efficiency. They'll immediately fire a worker who is a few percentage points below target efficiency. Surely the grind in turnover has to cost them something.

What if they moved towards a more incentive based system. Workers who do 60% efficiency targets get minimum wage. 70% gets minimum wage + $X.YY and hour. 100% gets typical wage rate.

Adjust hourly wages up and down for the next day, based on the previous days productivity. Then nobody has to get fired for only being at 96% productivity that day.

Perhaps the increased job security would offset the somewhat dystopian productivity tracking this would result in. Workers might prefer to work a day at 85% wages to get back up to 100%, than to be fired?

Though, I suspect treating their workers better and giving them more benefits, security, and humanity would be about cost neutral compared to their intense current system of treating workers like cogs. You can only squeeze someone for so long.
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I'm not disputing that you can do these things? You could also host a party where everyone is comfortable and enjoys talking about the tooth fairy, or about how birds aren't real (great marketing campaign actually). The dispute comes when you go from incorrect private opinion to reality. For example, you can think that vaccines are a good idea, but be anti-vax yourself, but then you should acknowledge and recognize that your views are wrong and irrational and make sure not to speak publicly about your views in case you confuse others who may be harmed by your belief.
Like others have mentioned, it's not impressive if you look at it like something built in the 70s/80s but they are ~100 years old by now which makes it quite impressive in my opinion.
Does this imply the existence of Time Balloons?
>"Public School" in the UK are actually private

That's confusing as hell. Can anyone please explain?
I had a complete loss of my sense of smell, which I first noticed when I put my nose into a bottle of softener and smelled nothing.
The first scents like parfume came back after two weeks. Real stench was away for months and came back with parosmia. Sounds not too bad if you can't smell stench but on the other side: making new friends with dogshit under your sole is not easy.
Random drive-by user feedback: I like Random density better - the number of sites I don't want to visit is greater than the number which I'm interested in, Explore is too modal/singular at a time. The 20x density of the Random page is quicker to scan and discard results within seconds to try and find something I'm willing to click into that piques my curiosity, as I may reload the Random page a few times to get a hit I like.
What specific aspect of vaccine science is unsettled?
Isn't wolfram's new kind of science purely rational? No observations of the universe needed
Hypothesis: bad faith communicators are more persuasive among people who mostly agree with them; good faith communicators are more persuasive among people who mostly disagree with them.

Not sure if this is accurate, and I'm sure misses some nuance, but rings true-ish to me.
I feel like the same is happening with bots in todays chat platforms. I know some kids who first got into programming because they wanted to program a discord bot.
I was in Henry County, GA, which has a lot of poor areas (including where I was living) with no MARTA in place. It's been over a decade since I lived there, but I'm not sure what's in place now.
I was unclear, you’re not wrong, but I meant getting a $5 cpu and a $6 WiFi module and a $5 humidity sensor and a $2 power controller and a $10 lipo battery. The components are like Legos.
>For example, I live in Ohio. Can someone explain to me why I would expect a swordfish steak or tuna steak or salmon to be cheap whatsoever? And that's still not pricing in offsets needed from c02 emissions. Chicken on the other hand? Yea that should be very cheap and very fresh.

Because global interconnected economy. The same business processes that figure out how to distribute all sorts of widgets to warehouses and supply house shelves and parts departments all over the country are being used to send a steady stream of approximately the amount of swordfish to Cleveland that people in Cleveland buy. It doesn't really cost any more to ship it to Cleveland than it does NYC. It's just a giant customization problem. Thanks to modern communications technology the dozen swordfish steaks that you and eleven other people will buy this week get to your supermarket.
I heard similar from people. I did not get corruption but my sense od smell came back after 4-5 months. In some ways, I miss it, depraved of one of the earthly pleasures :P
Cross-Filtering and Data Drill-Down in Google Data Studio
A small project [1] that I use often on projects and teaching is a text-based ERD editor. Being text-based means I can write it with minimal tooling (with vim or vscode) and in git-friendly format. Since the students (and myself) requested more functions, I keep enhancing it occupationally but it is already useful since day-1 :)

I think the key motivation is being able to see the actual users (ideally also being the active user yousrelf)

https://erd.surge.sh/
You never would have converted anyway though, right? Black swan events are pretty weak justifications for any decision.

In other words, this outage is not -because- it's cloud software. It's because someone, somewhere, broke something fundamental. That can (and does) happen in on prem at a much higher rate.
Long story short, you don't. No competent security organization taking their responsibilities seriously is going to issue a blanket approval of something as broad as Zapier.

What you can do is get an enterprise relationship in place, deploy tight endpoint monitoring and management, careful management of permissions at every level, and then make the review processes relatively fast. Not marketing-wants-to-build-a-whole-new-thing-with-lots-of-PII-tomorrow fast, but fast. Having strong systems for generating realistic test data and systems will make this prototyping much easier, though from experience Marketing will tend to dismiss such things.

Marketing's needs and goals are real and important and valid and blah blah blah blah. Mostly their institutional incentives are to barrel ahead as fast as possible with any and every tools available. A security organization's remit is to make sure that this isn't reckless and liability-inducing, which often means dialing back the speed from breakneck to manageable and maybe even doing some token amount of planning around what you hope to achieve.