skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your point. You seem to be saying that deflation is bad because if it happens, people will find that they can't buy goods at the price they expect. But that's the definition of inflation. So deflation is bad because it's actually inflation?

Or maybe you're saying that any period of deflation will inevitably be followed by a period of inflation, as production collapses due to the deflation? And you also think that people (other than you) won't realize that, and so behave as if the deflation is permanent, causing the problem?

It seems to me that as long as the deflation is less than the natural real interest rate (so nominal interest rates are still positive) there is no problem of this sort. It's no more a worry than thinking that anyone with a bit of money in the bank will decide to just live off the interest rather than work. There are such people, but most working-age people either don't have enough money for that, or want to work anyway.

The usual argument against deflation involves supposedly "sticky" wages that don't adjust downwards fast enough. Maybe that's the case, but it depends on particular social factors (eg, embarrassment at getting a pay cut).
Let me guess, Truebill itself is a subscription? Self-canceling?
I believe we've avoided a civilization ending, peak oil disaster. Currently ~35-50% of global energy consumption (including shipping, automobiles, etc) comes from petroleum. You might say, that's a lot!, and you would be right. But the percentage of total energy consumption petroleum takes up is going down. Over the next 50 years petroleum will get more and more expensive and renewables will continue to get cheaper and cheaper. If another energy source is cheaper, it will win.

If one of the many "super battery breakthroughs" we've all read about in the last 15 years comes to fruition in the next 15 then consider the oil crisis solved.

Yes, converting everything to electricity will be expensive but that's cheaper then relying on oil. The trend lines look promising. Of course this is all speculation based on the Western world being able to keep it's shit together.
An apparently self-indulgent YC Application – Laughing my way through a Paradox
I'm speaking completely out of my ass here, but my suspicion for why PHP took over the web is largely because it was "web-first". It was free, open source, and you wrote directly on HTML pages, instead of Perl spitting out HTML via CGI.

I think ColdFusion was briefly popular for the same reason (though I think that one fell out of favor largely because it cost a ton of money).
One of the biggest values of currency is that you must have it to pay your taxes.
Oddly, the cellar door is the most memorable part of Wizard of Oz for me. (There is a lot of strong imagery and I might be the only one though)
> when there is a steep supply curve

Where is this excess supply at? Have you seen gas prices? Are you aware that the US had to use oil reserves from the strategic reservoir for the first time in decades?

Europe is looking at legal measures to shrink its energy consumption such as regulating thermostats in public offices, schools and universities!

OPEC is also using this as an opportunity to shore up its state balance sheets after COVID, they will come through but not before they waste even more time to make sure they milk the West up to the very last politically acceptable petrodollar
The question to ask is has software gotten better? I say yes, cloud, mobile and web have exploded and are if much higher quality than they were in the past.

So I wouldn't say we've screwed ourselves.

Would we be better of if we took a different path? No one can or will ever know
This could be very useful for working on applications that store configuration in SQLite databases.
Exactly. Let's say the Tommy John underwear last 3x longer and are 3x more comfortable than Fruit of the Loom. Suddenly, the 10x price difference makes perfect sense. Unlike this post, which is pure nonsense.
I'd guess it does the opposite?

If I'm writing for a proprietary OS, that's probably Windows or OS X. Both of which give me a more stable target to aim at when it comes to what dependencies I can expect.

If I'm writing for an open source OS, that's probably some flavor of Linux. But which flavor? And which package manager does it use? And do they support all the dependencies I need, in the versions I need? Without pulling non-standard package repositories into the mix?

When open source software has difficulty working on proprietary OSes, I think it's usually not because of the package manager. More often it's because of something like a glibc dependency. At which point the domain of support isn't really "open source OSes", it's usually something more like "glibc-based linux distributions."
> if it were real, the company would be getting signed off by the EPA

Lots of things aren't regulated by the EPA, the FDA etc. Major cosmetic companies used lead in lipstick until fairly recently...

And ironically enough, a lot of the toxicity from Mattresses and furniture etc is caused by the government regulation because it's from requiring them to be treated in Fire Retardants
You really should change the front page to why I should use it vs why we built it. I don't care why you built it that it is in Go. I do care why I should use it which must be hidden somewhere in why you built it but I don't have that kind of time.
The first code base I worked on professionally was Perl. While I admire it's power I never got used to it. It was very difficult for me to read and our code base was pretty large and I didn't feel like Perl handled OOP well at all. When we switched to Python it was like a breath of fresh air.
You can pick up an HP MicroServer for around $400 on ebay… this is my plan, as I am also on a tight budget, and burning cash, even a $5/mo Droplet, is just more than I wish to spend.

Bonus, those MicroServers are supported by ESXi, IIRC
Introduction to Firebloom (iBoot)
Avery, co-founder at Tailscale, has some strong opinions about why SSO is sufficient for their product.

They wrote a bit about their thought process: Factors in authentication (2019), https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190114

> It seems to me that the above successful enrollment patterns all use one or more of the following techniques:

> A human authenticates you and issues you a token (usually in person).

> A short-distance, physical link (proximity-based authentication) like a biometric sensor, or USB or bluetooth connection.

> Delegation to an existing authenticator [SSO]...

> What people tend to miss... is that enrollment is necessary whether or not you send a push notification to the phone during login. The push notification is only secure if this specific browser instance is enrolled; but if this browser is enrolled, then the push notification adds no extra security... The enrollment was the security.

Fully expect them to ship u2f authenticators or sell them at tsCare shops!
It's a very safe assumption: we're just automating Tailscale ACLs. Tailscale admins (3 of us) can still come in and manually change them.
It’s not just that. Now the lower level jobs are often contracted out.
> What would be a good way to get started?

Rent a Linux server, deploy the Tailscale client, run apps on it.

> should I really self-host on shared CPUs

That shouldn't generally be a problem unless you're a very high value target (or really unlucky), but if you're that worried, rent a bare metal server.
Our nation (USA right?) has had many decades in its history where it seemed like things were falling apart as well, with much much greater turmoil than what we are currently experiencing.
TeX has stability to compare. But, stability is seen as a goal for that project.
Big oil expects 2019 to be peak oil year because they know that all easy fracking spots are spent. The easy fracking is gone and can only survive through heavy subsidies.

This is an infantile understanding of shale oil. From needing ever-shorter bores to the move to non-toxic frack fluid, fracking technology is improving at a breakneck pace. Global shale reserves are over three times the size of traditional oil reserves. This has and will radically transform global energy economics. For example, the full-cycle breakeven oil production cost for the United States just dropped below the OPEC average.
> paranoia/distrust of government.

Hmm, I wonder why.
A ‘galaxy’ is unmasked as a pulsar – the brightest outside the Milky Way
> ...whilst murdering the cache so comprehensively that there are likely still lines waiting to be filled even now.

Very evocative writing, I love it.
I was simply answering their question.
I wonder if there is some principled way of making Julia-style method dispatch statically checkable?
Check out Haiku Animator: https://github.com/HaikuTeam/animator
(they decided on an Electron app)
Thank you, even a native speaker can be learning nuance of usage and conventions, at any stage of life.

Actually, I was trying, in a subtle fashion, to suggest that deceptive crypto executives aren’t as rare as “the” would imply if you took “the” literally. However, I’m often too terse and omit the markers that allow my point to get across.
FreshRSS, Dendrite (Matrix), Keycloak+slapd (auth), TheLounge (IRC), Vaultwarden (Bitwarden implementation in rust)
This is exactly why a generic Set collection should have been there since the start.
The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
There is no doubt that, when using Lit, you're going to re-write portions of some existing framework. That's the big selling point: You're going to write them your way, and only the ones you need. Instead of inheriting and learning React (or Angular, or Vue), you decide what syntax and behavior your components will have -- all the way down to "bare metal" of when and if they render and with what contents or results. None of this is specified by Lit so you will be re-writing those pre-fab aspects of any canned framework.

You'll also be writing any kind of routing or other validation tools that you need. Which is actually glorious! You get to make one that's small and easy to keep in your own head, yet flexible enough to be extended and expanded in any way that you can imagine.

There isn't a React component that would have helped me build this game[0], other than very basic stuff like buttons. But with Lit, I could write components all they way down to SVG graphical elements and create all kinds of new behaviors that React doesn't understand.

[0] https://hexxedgame.com (100% Lit/TS)
Regulation is another red herring. People who are against abortion are not interested in regulating doctors, they are for 100% outright bans on any form of the procedure.
As a data scientist, I am oriented towards mining data for valid insights that allow us to answer important questions, such as

* "Who was in close proximity (~15m) of this known COVID superspreader event?" or
* "Who has spent a large amount of time in this region where the rate of cancer is 6 standard deviations above the statewide rate?"

So yeah, I'm firmly asserting location data enables us to explore a lot of important problems that negatively impact people's health, and I think learning from the past (ie from data) is how we improve the future.
Yes luckily FAANGchads like myself are helping the industry by constantly job hopping to max TC.
Or use vaultwarden for a lighter-weight community-developed selfhosting option that is compatible with the BitWarden client apps.
hah - "peak idiom" for that was when Mr Marketing and Sales from Hawaii, Guy Kawasaki, said that on stage to a bunch of developers. I heard it. It was because the Marketing and Sales-turned "software leaders" couldn't read a regex.
> Seventy-six percent of Apple workers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with Apple’s return-to-office policy that was implemented after the COVID pandemic started waning. The survey, conducted by anonymous social network Blind, collected answers from 652 Apple employees from April 13 to April 19.

Useless data
I'd say it sounds exactly like what you'd want for a typical headless machine, like a server: no GPU, since it's headless, and no management engine, because it's a liability and can't be used for actual management anyway.
Why not just use a Raspberry Pi? It's cheap and uses almost no power (=very low electricity cost.)
Software security starts with the developer: Securing developer accounts with 2
(Tailscale engineer here)

That's https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1572 which we haven't given up on. It's just not done. We did it for macOS and we thought the same thing would've worked for iOS (they share ton of the same code) but it apparently didn't work.

The mobile apps have been a low priority thus far. We just recently hired some people to work on them, though.

The highest priority for them currently is fixing battery life (we do some dumb things when LTE + wifi are both available, and when using exit nodes, and some unnecessary heart beating that sucks on mobile) and then there's also a mobile app redesign (or just "design" coming).

We like Headscale and we're super glad that it exists. (they saved us some work by doing it first, as our control server wasn't in a releasable state) We keep Juan et al updated when there's protocol changes or things they can do. (e.g. recent https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/552)
Yes, you can set up one node as a gateway to the network, then access everything on that local network.

I use it this way to access devices that can't run the tailscale software.
I certainly didn't frame anything as a dichotomy between suburbs and urban area. I did generalize cities as not having easy access to nature, which is strictly true even if there are exceptions that prove the rule. Generalization doesn't imply dichotomy.
Honestly, i don't see any reason to use it. Google meet works on all browsers. Zoom works on all browsers. And these tools are way better than this app.
Do you think 50 years is all that long in the historical context?

America showed that you could have hundreds of years of stable democracy until a simple combination of cable news, Twitter and a narcissistic president almost led to a coup.

The Roman republic was stable for hundreds of years until it collapsed.

The Turkish lira has lost more than 97 per cent of its value against the US dollar since January 2021.

I agree with you that the 1950-2010 world order and U.S. monetary system was better than Bitcoin. Where we disagree I think, is with our confidence in the stability of human institutions and the likelihood that the world necessarily remains stable in that world order for the next 1,000.
You can access your home network and any machines on it without exposing anything to the public internet. It's much safer to connect to my home network over a VPN than to expose all of the services to the public internet and hope they're all secure.
For that we have democracy. If you don't like the decisions taken by your countrymen, you should not get to extricate yourself so easily

Aaand the setup we're talking (and criticizing) about are completely legal, so following your line of thought they are the product of democracy
I'm just as cynical.

> I’ve been on the internet since I was 14 (11 years ago).

The author is young. They weren't around to remember the early internet or life without it. Their childhood/adolescence is corporate controlled, algorithm driven websites like Youtube and Facebook. Their outlook as an "Internet native" has been shaped by the enforced behaviours of sites like Twitter.
I agree they have a nostalgic appeal, kind of like candy corn which truly is inedible. They can't exactly change the formula. But their ingredients are pretty normal. There are other "truffles" that don't cost as much. The "no chewing allowed" pricing is absurd IMO

https://smartlabel.hersheys.com/00034000025053-0010#ingredie...
I liked this series. Pretty eye opening stuff.
There's also Hummingbird notation:

https://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/
Gotta say this is absolutely not my experience. I've worked at a lot of companies and have never seen one with anywhere near the developer productivity as Google enjoys. They have the groundwork that enables the velocity, so you can build/test/deploy very very quickly. Other organizations believed they had velocity because they skipped unit tests, code review, production security, supply chain security, etc. Consequently their whole thing becomes a haunted graveyard that everyone is terrified to change.
Doom sells. Always has. It seems to be all the rage these days too.

Maybe it's our continually declining testosterone changing our attitude towards monumental but surmountable problems like climate change, resource conflicts, culture wars, wealth gaps, etc. I don't know. It's really sad to see young people so hopeless when right now their biggest enemies are their minds.

The system won't have to kill us if it convinces us to kill ourselves first. Hopelessness and small mindedness will doom us all if we're not careful.
> an erudite sounding white paper that has plausible but nonsensical foundations

What is nonsensical about the white paper?

It is the first solution to the double spend problem, thus the first decentralized money system. Cryptographers had tried to create such a system for at least a decade, but no solution had been found before.

And it has been proven beyond a doubt that it works, and it's secure. It's kind of insane that the first solution to something is good enough to handle over 10 years later an almost 1 trillion market cap (thus a massive incentive to hack it / break it).

It has of course some big limitations, which is to be expected for the first solution to a problem. Namely, it's kind of a "brute force" solution, with this I mean the inefficient aspect in terms of energy usage. And it has very low throughput (TPS). It still is however, a breakthrough paper. It takes you from having no solution to a problem, to having a working solution.

The shame is how slowly it has progressed from there. It's been over 10 years and the efficiency part is only now being almost solved with ETH PoS. And the throughput part seems quite far away. Also the UX of most software that allows you to interact with cryptocurrency is still awful.

The bitcoin whitepaper is one of my favorite papers in fact. It is very approachable with minimal cryptography knowledge and only 9 pages long. And very simple, unlike more modern cryptocurrency papers.
I don't know if its backwards compatibility reaches into the 90s but I've been using ruby for this for like a decade now. Most envs that ship with anything ship with ruby and I've only very rarely run into version problems.

I think people tend to associate it only with a certain era of web dev, but it has remained a good scripting language with a large, consistent, well-documented standard library for a long time now.

Not worth switching off perl since you're very used to that, but iirc ruby was initially conceived as a successor to perl and for me at least it has landed in that role.
Best design of a documentation page I have seen in ages.

Large font, clear hierarchy, great use of color and font weight.
Silly take.

Maybe he's doing both? How do you know he's not fully prepared for food shortages, and is now concerned with electronics shortages?

Also, this is +50 years. Likely author might be dead by then, but hopes his software lives on. It's right there in the article.
Well, Nintendo is 133 years-old, so it's not impossible.
I think we've seen enough articles about how Apple workers are supposedly ready to quit in droves.

If it's still not happening in this market I doubt it ever will.
I sleep on my mattress and wake up feeling fine every day. My mattress is made of the same stuff everything else in my house is made of. If you buy into the idea that your mattress is poisoning you, you've bought into the idea that everything is poisoning you.
It's still a "market" so long as there are supply and demand, regardless of how frequently a given participant is conducting transactions in that market.

The housing market is probably a good example. Many participants probably only purchase property once or twice in their lives (less even if you consider the case of a married couple buying a house, that's 0.5 purchases per person).
Seen the same argument a decade ago over PHP for the same reasons a) PHP wasn't professional and enterprise ready, b) PHP cannot be taken seriously because it didn't have "this feature or that feature", and now look where we are. We at version 8 and PHP has still stood its ground in the face of how many other languages? Python is where PHP was a decade ago in relation to the points being argued over, and I believe Python will evolve enough to maintain its top place in years to come. And the reason for that is two points. First the huge community that underpins Python and secondly the continued development of the large library or module base it enjoys. And it has been said before. Each language is a tool and you apply the tool to the appropriate job best suited.
Android 13 blocks use of accessibility services by restricting sideloaded apps
Relying on price mechanisms alone probably still means we will use almost all fossil fuel that is in proven reserves though, and that means civilization ending levels of climate change.

We need a way to keep lots of oil in the ground even if it is profitable to get out.
It’s a blessing because once you are comfortable with a Perl dialect, writing code is very efficient and fun. Perl is very expressive and can also be very concise. It’s a curse, because reading other people’s dialects can be quite difficult.
The choice of tech stack for a desktop application seems like an interesting basis to claim a company has lost touch with its core values.
Nope. It was pretty much just Thomas and Erin working on it, and I don't think it's operational. Sorry :(
I can recommend a free alternative https://10minutemail.com/

It wont forward to your inbox though and is only suited for temporary usage.
In addition to other reasons they may have, an embedded database for Go being built in Go means they don't need to require CGO, which DuckDB in Go would require.
The bigger problem is constrained liquidity and deflation aren’t helpful attributes for a currency
Mechanical Watch
Raiz Vertical Farms, the Farms of the Future
I don't think Tailscale will focus on the consumer market, I'd be very surprised at least if they did. I think they built a developer-friendly product to get mindshare and early adoptors, but eventually the real market for such such products is in the B2B space, i.e. implementing the "BeyondCorp" model of zero-trust networking. There's also a market for building cloud mesh services but I'm not sure if Tailscale is well positioned for that as there are good open-source solutions available for that already.
If you just need a tiny, fanless board that runs linux, like-new Wyse3040 can be had in any quantity you like for ~$30 - $40 (ethernet only, though). Wyse5010 is a bit bigger and more capable (and has built-in wifi) around the same price.
yep i definitely know some of these words
Great questions! We're planning on persisting data in parquet format in object storage, potentially with additional metadata to help the query planner optimize queries. In terms of compression, parquet already supports various modern compression mechanisms (zstd, lz4) that we already support if the schema specifies it. Though we have thought about potentially allowing different compression schemes to be used in different situations, for now it's static and part of the schema.

While the pure storage for strings of labels might increase, since we got rid of the inverted index entirely, the saving of that is greater than what we're spending on potentially duplicate strings.

We intentionally put it on the Polar Signals GitHub org to distance it from the Parca project. While we initially developed it for Parca, we think the applications can be much wider so we wanted to emphasize that. I do agree it can be a pain to have it separate, but for now we think having it separate is worth it.