skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of "student aid" money is not given, but rather loaned, and I think that needs to be factored that into any analysis of its effects.

Also, education is rather interesting special case in that it's a highly price-insensitive good in the modern economy.
Mine does too. Not in the way it did when I "had covid" though... that was like a blackout.

(My covid experience: all I did was lose my smell for 2-3 days. No cough, fever, brain fog, or other issues. Felt fine. Continued to be outdoors, walked/biked the entire week. Avoided anyone/everyone at any visual distance. Positive PCR test.)
10+ years is far away? That sounds like right around the corner!
TikTok's ad revenue to surpass Twitter and Snapchat combined in 2022
Are you a Builder or an Optimizer? (2020)
There are several connections through the alps being built right now. Gotthard base tunnel through Switzerland, Brenner Base Tunnel through Austria/Italy, and a connection Italy/France. Not all connections through Europe go through the Alps, and u can get a decent average speed even if occasionally dropping below the maximum speed for some rough areas.
Trump pressuring the Fed to keep interest rates low is exactly why we are in this mess in the first place. Had he done the responsible thing and allowed the Fed to raise rates while the economy was hot, then we would have had more wiggle room when covid hit.

If you truly think Trump could resolve this issue, then please explain exactly what he would do to resolve it. I hate to break it to you, but more liberal tears are not a solution to higher inflation.
The Daily podcast released an interview with the Amazon Labor Union guys yesterday, it's pretty good:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/new-yo...
> moves to his own house.

i'm sorry we don't have the technology for that yet
That’s not critics, though. Grammy voters are people who work in the music industry. To qualify you even need creative or technical credits.

I bet that critics in 1989 overwhelmingly preferred Metallica’s album to Jethro Tull’s, which at this point was kind of a has-been.
> It would typically happen maybe once a month at most, but it was almost always on a Sunday.

Do you recall if you slept in on those days? I tend to get a specific kind of headache if I sleep for too long.

This also happens if I take a nap during the day. I don't really take any naps because of that, but I remember hating being forced to nap in Kindergarten (at least during the first two years or so), probably for the same reason.
Thanks for your input. Somehow my employees manage to take lots of time on their own as ultimately they have agency, not me. There is no cultural blocker to them taking time (that I'm aware of).

More correctly: I state that I do not have a time-off policy. This is mainly to prevent administrative overhead - something that a minimum number of days would require. I know this won't scale, so I imagine we'll have a "formalized" vacation process long term, but I'm not there yet and don't plan on being there for at least 2-3 more employees.

Illustrating the "no cultural block" point: I had an employee tell me on a Wednesday that he needed the week off the next week to unwind for mental health reasons. I moved a few things around with customers and he happily enjoyed the week. That is signal enough to me that my employees feel fine asking for time off.
In terms of CPU cycles and disk space, maybe. In terms of engineer cycles, absolutely not. Which costs more?
I think of this as meta cognition.
> Huh? Inflation has been ramping up FAR in advance of the Ukraine invasion.

Exiting COVID, lots of demand chasing limited supply, shipping issues, supply chain issues - especially for core inputs like silicon wafers. However, that was well on its way to being resolved, which is what you see in the CPI data in spite of the Russian war. +0.3% MoM vs expected +0.5% MoM. The worst is well behind us.

Lumber is way down, corn is flat, soy is flat, consumer discretionary inventories (excluding auto) are up and there's word that demand for chips has peaked too.

> No, these consequences have been in the making since Helicopter Ben launched QE.

The impact from QE is limited compared to all the above. There's a ton of demand for dollars, not just domestically but internationally. Monetary policy has some, small, impact, but nothing compared to the war, supply chains, shipping issues and labor market issues.
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Code generation... for data models - is some important context not in the post (I assumed it would be a Ruby compiler and decompiler, for example.)
Without explicitly saying this, many people have this job. They may get feature work in between, but an astounding amount of time is spent keeping software up to date.
The article is great, sorry for the quibble!

The maybe too subtle point I was trying to make is that, even though the TypeChecker object literally provides an EmitResolver (I think? something like that?), in terms of the conceptual layout of the compiler, if you have a box labelled "Type Checker" it's natural for the reader to think it's where type checking happens.

In other words, the graph is something like

TypeChecker object -> EmitResolver -> js files
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type checking
okay, I understand, when people think brain damage, they aren't thinking about sensory inputs, they are thinking about thinking function. I can see how the line would be blurred to someone that cares. but maybe this is an indication of further damage to be investigated.
Wow! This is the Redbean which is an "Actually Portable Executable", or a binary that can run on a range of OSes (Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSDs).

http://justine.lol/ape.html
Glow in the Dark Memory
I have accidentally failed to handle errors in golang code in a large corporate setting that was run under multiple linters. This was "simple" and straightforward code, and the last time it happened was within the past month. I wish I remembered exactly what I did, but it was rebased over to be fixed.

If you need sufficiently advanced linters to catch every case, your error handling is not explicit. Especially if those linters are not currently sufficiently advanced.
Maybe I should write an article titled "How Lotus123 macros got me interested in programming".

I wrote such a complicated program that I found out Bill Gates was wrong: 640K was not enough for everyone. But I realized that I could divide my mess of macros into categories, save them in separate files, and then selectively import only those that were being used at the time with a "root" set of macros. I was 18 or 19 at the time. It was many moons later when I learned about virtual memory and swap space, I realized I'd implement my own version of virtual memory/swap. In a very caveman like fashion. All without messing with someone else.
“I hire people who think exactly like I do”
Weirdly I had to update twice to see this option.
Not number related, but this reminds me how I've had it erroneously pronounce a street name containing "Vly" (an uncommon word [0], but not an abbreviation, a whole word) as "valley". Since other street names use the former as an abbreviation for the latter, I guess it's part of a standard lookup (like how "mt" and "mtn" expand to be pronounced "mount" and "mountain") without means for an exception.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vly
As a Marketing Ops guy, this gives me pause.

> nice and tidy. And then the marketers can do what they need in the platform, and they're able to iterate and learn at a much faster pace. It changes the whole game.

The reality is, marketers will frequently plug in any and every thing they can without thinking about the broader context. Sure you can plug all this stuff together, or you can spend a bit of time with ETL and rETL tools and develop a stack that isn't reliant on a bunch of third party silos.
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One way to make this clear to yourself is to observe how much more difficult it is to "define bread" than it is to answer "is this bread?"
I find it distressing how many people miss the obvious selection bias at play here.
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The biggest story here is in shelter prices.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

March saw a continuation of a year-long trend in which YoY shelter inflation accelerated by almost exactly an additional 0.3% each month. March came in at 5%, 0.3% higher than February's 4.7%, and so on.

Shelter is the largest category in the CPI basket, and it is critical for a reason. It isn't coming from Ukraine. It mostly isn't coming from supply chain bottlenecks and shipping container shortages. It isn't discretionary. And most importantly, it's a deeply lagging indicator with a long way still to go to catch up to the current activity in the housing and rental markets.

My expectation is to see this trend continue. Base year effects (in the second derivative) might slow it down a bit, but by June we could be looking at almost 6% inflation in shelter alone.

And remember -- a linearly increasing growth rate is faster than exponential price growth.

Interest rate hikes may help, but the dynamics are such that they'll need to make things worse before they make things better.
All inflation cures are painful. The standard cure is recession and high unemployment. Increasing taxes on the rich is much less painful. Better to take a little bit of your money away than to lose your job.

Or you can learn to live with the inflation.

Rock and a hard place is the standard expression for the situation we're in.
> Open question: won't inflation lead to mechanically higher stock prices, specially if it's demand driven?

this has been answered already but I want to add something that wasn't mentioned: if you are thinking about it now, the market thought about it months before you and it's probably already baked in the current price.

so don't expect a 10% increase in 1 year on spy even if everything goes up 10%. that 10% was grabbed by the better informed the moment the money printers were turned on.
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More money in the pockets of already affluent people doesn't spur much new consumption. Only policies that put energy efficiency in the hands of everyone are going to make a dent.
I am an atrocious artist who absolutely kicks ass at those mental object rotation tests. I can very easily manipulate objects in my head, but draw a picture? It's an ugly mess.
> You need a government with enough heft

Could you elucidate what you mean by "heft"? Sometimes I think people want a feeling of power over them (or others) without a clear sense of the mechanism or implications of that power.

It could be any of:

- more taxes
- more government employees
- more laws
- more law enforcement
- more bureaucracy
- more regulations
- more enforcement of regulations
- more military power
- more domestic espionage
- more foreign espionage
- martial law
- less democracy

I'd argue that having a better government does not imply more heft, but more efficiency and justice, without sacrificing democratic election and separation/limitation of powers.

Some of the most efficient governments in the world also lack proper separation and limitation of powers, which degrades personal freedom. Democracy that leads to freedom is an extraordinarily tough balancing act; early US founders recognized that and publicly called on almighty God to help and aid them in their efforts.
Very cool. maybe a way to go to market would be to sell it as a chrome extension to large corporates or even dev agencies by proving it will make their developers more productive?

i.e. spin up VMs for me when I go to any site, not just the sites which have chosen to use devbook.

I reckon that could make adoption a lot faster/easier and also it means the people/orgs directly receiving the value are the ones paying.
> LN doesn't fit BTC core values and BTC without LN doesn't work => BTC doesn't work

Strawman. I did not say it 'doesn't work'. I am saying it is pointless to discuss about 'decentralization' whilst telling people to use a system that is centralized by design which defeats the purpose of Bitcoin. Not even the transactions are transparent on the Lightning Network as it is off-chain.

> even if it's true that LN doesn't fit BTC values (which is debatible) and BTC can't stand on its own (which is also not clear) that doesn't imply that BTC doesn't work.

It is all true: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aba062

> Mainly because there are many people out there that see BTC only as a tool that fills their needs better than the alternatives, and can't care less about the inner philosophy.

You do realise there are more people not using it for actual on-chain payments and are just using it for hodling and speculation?

Another certainty is that on-chain Bitcoin payments are many times slower than VISA, and Mastercard, so why would merchants bother with accepting Bitcoin in supermarkets and groceries especially when the majority of users are not using it for payments and are only hodling it? No where in the Bitcoin whitepaper was it supposed to be a 'store of value' used for speculation.

Not only it tells us that on-chain payments with Bitcoin has failed, it also means that if one was to suggest 'use the Lightning Network' as the workaround for this failure of Bitcoin being unable to be scaled up, then the 'decentralization' argument there is null and void.
There's an interesting concept with user reviews, in that they're inherently OF the people, whereas critical reviews are FOR the people.

In a way, critical reviews are like celebrity chef cookbooks in that they should be considered aspirational. What we HOPE to be watching to please our senses of austerity, versus the pulp trash we might actually prefer to be watching.

Similarly, sure, we might WISH we were making / eating boeuf en croute regularly, but if you go to a recipe site, the highest rated reviews is more likely to be chicken soup, or something more accessible / makeable on a weeknight.

It's always fun to review Plex and routinely see <95% critic ratings, 25% user ratings> or vice versa, but the deltas are more often closer than not.

I don't know if I have a point to make here other than to point out that there's utility in noting the distinctions between aspirational and practical, and that serious critics have always given off a vibe of divorcing themselves from the practical, preferring arthouse to action, and in both arenas, Julia Childs-esque figures that can bridge the gap between the aspirational and the practical are extremely rare.
and whats the explanation for the opposite? when critics scores are much higher than audience scores?

I assume "out of touch" but almost any explanation I think of and ridicule could be seen as a strawman argument, so I'll wait for your response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

I think Jonathan Blow made a decent argument that we're in a decadent age of software. In a decadent age, the civilization still does and can do the thing, but has started to lose a grip on the fundamentals, so it's on the way out. A decadent age is a kind of end, doesn't necessarily feel like the end, it kind of feels like a stagnant bumbling.

How many programmers do you know that can write assembly code? How many layers of abstraction between a web app and the silicon? Processor, OS, probably a byte-code VM, probably a framework... leaking a little bit all of the way.

He makes a good point--where's the evidence that we can write good software? It seems possible, but it doesn't appear, so really, the feeling that maybe we could is just a feeling, not evidence.
They do 125MM in rev a year. Seems we have different scale systems because that's quite the number.
Yes, 7% of US gas imports, I think 3% of oil imports. But either way, it doesn't matter because it's a global market. While the US' supply isn't threatened because 70% of foreign oil comes from the Mexico and Canada (plus a ton of domestic production) the price is determined in the global markets.

As for fracking leases, oil companies have over 9000 approved permits they're not using already, and when pressed on why, CEOs stated it is because shareholders want them to be conservative with capital. I suspect it's because they realize this is all transient and there's no sense investing in the long run to address a short-term spike.
Sorry but I have a sideline question, which mobile phone is very easy to root nowadays? Definitely excluding those Linux phones.
Various Shinkansen lines average that much or higher for long stretches. To be fair, there isn't a 1000km line in Japan, but ~500km at those speeds should indicate that it's possible. Sanyo runs at near maximum operating speed (300km/h) for most of its >500km run.
Photographic memory is not a real phenomenon though. But eidetic memory is real, some people can remember almost everything they read. But they don’t remember photographic images.
Amusingly it seems they can't make cruise missiles because the engines are made in Ukraine.
That's possible as well. I have no idea about the accuracy of my friend's claim, which is why I relayed it as hearsay rather than stating it as a fact I was sure about.
Super neat, thanks for posting.

If you're looking for suggestions for improvement, I noticed the line numbers didn't make it when I pasted into Gmail. If that is unexpected it might be worth looking into.
I don't know if this tells the entire story, but I think these are 2 of the bigger issues at play.

1) The corporatization of social media is a big factor. There's big money involved in controlling reviews. Critics and influencers devoted to certain fandoms inevitably get influenced, pressured, infiltrated by studios who expect favorable treatment towards their product or that entity loses access, gets attacked, etc. Try being a blogger who writes about something like Star Trek for example and consistently writing bad reviews. I'm sure you're going to lose any studio access for interviews and all kinds of good things if your criticism ever becomes a little too harsh.

2) Everything has become political, and the media class is totally out of touch from what average working people are looking for. A critic is going to want to rate some drama about a queer latinx non-binary vegan sex worker thats trying to come to grips with his atheism while interracial dating higher than the story deserves just to appear to have the "correct politics". Typical working people don't care as much about that, and just want to know if something is entertaining and worth their time and money.
To offer a contrasting anecdote, my government health insurance (MediCal) was the best I ever had, including my current 6-figure job. It can be done well.
> These workers should have many options for similar work. The fact that they choose to stay at Amazon seems to imply that working for Amazon is better than any of the alternatives.

Or they are smart enough to realize they have the necessary leverage to unionize. Or both. Or more reasons.
Are there any startups in this space? There appears to be one that's yet another telehealth pill mill:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2018/10/16/docto...
Interesting that the gap is with lower budget movies. It goes along with my gut feeling that mid budget movies are disappearing (I have no data to back that up), and it's as if the studios have optimized movie making into two types:

#1 The big budget crowd pleasing blockbusters. A few flop, but generally audiences like them and they don't do anything critics can complain about too much.

#2 Highly targeted low budget movies. There are small but consistent audiences with endless appetites for horror, action/thriller, etc films even at lower budgets. This seems to be where the biggest disconnect is, the genre fans highly rate their genre films even if it's direct to streaming fluff, while the critics see them as flawed, and broader audiences just don't watch them.
Never thought of that but it makes a lot of sense!

Edit: worth noting that this also creates an implicit prediction about the extent to which the advertising is an accurate representation of the movie. This could go in the opposite direction and audience scores would be lower than the critical assessment.
This is the fundamental problem with hybrid. It's the worst of both worlds, as it forces a regression to the most-accessible, which will always be video calls.

I think a lot of the forced-hybrid environments are a result of companies waiting for their commercial leases to die.
Get one or two Raspberry Pis and start experimenting. I run an ethernet cable from my router to a $10 switch. The switch connects to a desktop server, some Pis and an external wifi point. I went from tinkering like this over the years to an Infratructure Team Lead.
It is all just another presentation of the mind :)
Show HN: Flint – Pinterest for Text
> Taxing those land/dwelling holding corporations just creates a pass-through situation

Rental prices are almost completely demand based because supply is completely inelastic in the short run and only barely elastic in the medium/long run. Landlords are already charging as much as the market will bear, they can't just unilaterally raise prices, people will move and they won't fill their units.
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Right, like Waco, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
I would say “let them”.

We all know how it would turnout.
This is a lot of hyperbole apart from the fact that the data here is transmitted in plain text, which is dumb and more likely to be an oversight. I fail to see how Apple would have something to gain by letting others see this data.
Similar: How to get into cool/cutting edge technical roles without on-call duty?

Nothing makes me want to leave this industry more than having to plan evenings and weekends around on-call shifts I didn't volunteer for and get shuffled around less than a month in advance. My expertise is all distributed systems and database engines =\
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Wow, very cool. I see at least 3 programs I wrote or helped with in the AIM section. I'll have to dig out my source code to see if any others are present. Definitely going to spin up a VM and see them run again. Thanks for this.
I mean, the biggest thing to remember for me is that the criticism is part of the entertainment. It feels as if things are even different from the Siskel and Ebert era, where you could be pretty sure that their review was driven by how much they liked the film. There's money in hot takes and extremes.

(My personal belief is that this is strongly reflected in the extremes seen in the superhero movies. I enjoy them and they are fun, but e.g. the variation between the Marvel and DC ones is just not that extreme. They're all "Dude, appropriately humbled, fights and beats other very similar dude.")
Putin needs to be a bit careful here. Historically, when a dictator purges his security service, the survivors sometimes have doubts about their own futures. And the FSB is one of the few outfits that could orchestrate a coup against Putin, if they felt threatened.