skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0. A dollar your ancestors earned in 1919 buys about a 1/100 right now of what it used to.

1. A dollar you earned in 2019 buys about a quarter right now of what it used to.

2. A bitcoin you bought in 2019 buys about 5 times right now of what it used to.

3. A bitcoin bought in 2135 will buy around the same in 2135, that it will buy in 2235.

...and 2335

...and 2435.

You don't seem to care about [0] and [1]? I DEEPLY care about that.

[2] is noise, just like a dollar in 2019 buys more than a dollar in 2002, who cares, it's not whole picture, and you'd be wrong calling the USD a ponzi by looking at that particular timeframe

[3] is the whole point of Bitcoin.

If you don't care about [3], then more power to you, keep working for the politicians, as for me, I want to work for my family and children, and my grandchildren.

If you don't /get/ [3], then I don't know what to say.

Everything else, every single other talking point is noise, [3] is where it's at.

Even [3] is ultimately noise, and all of this discussion about Bitcoin is noise because...

...you cannot ban Bitcoin, so why go against it?

Acccept it.

Embrace it.

Adapt.

Overcome.

Start doing at least some of those steps because bro, you cannot ban it, as simple as that.

Bitcoin is here to stay.
I agree it should be this simple, but I'd bet they have tests like this and unfortunately it's never quite this simple in a production system.

I've always wanted to apply strong type systems to this problem – wrapping sensitive data in types that do not have the ability to be printed to logs would theoretically allow you to know after type-checking that passwords can't be output to logs. However again I think this is wishful thinking as a password needs to be sent somewhere at some point, and that creates places where issues can occur.
You can read the initial thread just by opening the chart and scrolling down ... the initial thread is there down the left side.

But, you know, whatever works for you.
Do you (or anyone here) think it's possible to unbundle Reddit communities?

Or is Reddit the "perfect" community engine?
Growth is and will continue to hit the limits of the domain, until the domain is expanded.

The principles of Western capitalism that drove growth for centuries are less and less reliable, so we need to adapt our principles.
More than just the most developed industrialised countries too. India has just reached replacement and is set to start declining in a few decades. And China ditched the one child policy years ago and are now pushing for more in a bid to prevent a crash landing after they dropped below years ago - currently they're maybe ~20 years from starting to see population decline unless they soften immigration rules.

It's going to take a long time before this change sinks in for people who are still used to worrying about overpopulation, outside of the fringe groups panicking over "white replacement".
Though I really like the idea of having some backup infrastructure already for those discussed simple cases like (top comment for example): car broke down and you..
.. forgot your mobile
.. out of battery
.. out of "credit" (in case of prepaid)
.. cuz you got robbed
.. cuz you got raped....(!)
.. cuz you lost your fingertips and can't operate a touch display anymore..
.. possibilties are hopefully rare but endless but you're just in whatever emergency at 3 am and really need a to make a call!

But just for curiosity, whom/where you wanna call in 2022++ in case of overloaded networks like Sep. 11th in 2001. At least I didn't even "own" (actually set-up) my landline anymore.
Were you infected with Corona?
Because "Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
That is one thing that RFC8959 is intended to solve. If you see "secret-token:" in any logs after running tests you flag that as a problem and fail the test.
This screenshot looks better than the other of yours, but honestly I think it's more due how how antialiasing is rendered there vs in your Firefox screenshot.

Additionally, for ages Linux had shipped with Full hinting, which means distorting the font so straight lines are always on integer pixel boundaries, which looks atrocious. These days distros like Fedora use Light hinting, which is a little better, and in my opinion No hinting looks best, which is what macOS does, but on a low DPI screen means having blurry font. So on low DPI screens you have the choice between distorted but clean fonts, or undistorted blurry fonts.

I don't know about sway, in my case I'm using Fedora with 2x scaling, so I have the option of disabling hinting and avoiding distortion.
React may have convinced the community to put HTML in their JavaScript, but I'm extremely reluctant to put JavaScript in my Python.
> do you expect any Lua to run in every environment Lua is used in?

I do not, but again - I think "I should be able to run any version of a language in any place" is not related to "it is strangely hard to run a given Javascript file."

I actually think Lua is a great example for comparison that illustrates the point! Different Luas support different features, but the basics (import statements, etc) are syntactically valid (and singular) in all of them. If you try to import a library that doesn't exist in the version you've embedded, you will get an import error. In Javascript - there are multiple import systems for different ecosystems. Getting an import error might mean you need to install the library, it might mean you're using the wrong convention, it might mean that the version of the library has a compilation error....etc. Javascript does not really help you resolve this.

What this means is that there's a clean separation between environment and language. If your Lua deploy supports all the features your script uses, you are good - there are no "families" of Lua script that use different conventions for importing libraries or interop or whatever. A given piece of Javascript, however, has an arbitrary number of deployment-specific setup actions that require pretty advanced ecosystem knowledge to identify.

Like, look back at the errors listed in the article. There's nothing "wrong" with the restrictions, but the language ecosystem does an unusually bad job of helping you understand and navigate them. Like, you can have two or three different import mechanisms for different environments...but if you want to do that you should be more helpful in pointing out when you're using the wrong one.
"highly skilled I lack a university degree which in my experience has made it almost impossible, despite trying."

I'm in the same boat, highly skilled and lack a university degree. I left for ~8 years and came back.

The TN visa program has many qualifying jobs that dont require uni degrees.

It was VERY easy.. apply for US job, take US Job offer to the boarder, pay like $35 and get a TN stamp in my passport. Use this to get a Social security number, bank account, etc.

I'm STRONGLY advising all my kids leave. The taxes and how you are treated in Canada is shitty.

Try finding a Doctor here, or sign up for any programs. 6 month wait lists, overbooked, overcrowding... This country LOVES to make promises to get your votes, takes your tax dollars to pay for it, but fails to deliver when you need the services you paid for?

Get a decent job, they will provide good coverage and you can see a doctor next-day.
My money is on the semiconductor shortage bring resolved way before The Factory has finished growing.
In the first year of COVID. I can't comment about how SF is faring these days, but LA also cleared out that first year.

But this year, people came roaring back. The average rent increase in my neighborhood was over 20%. The competition for rental units in some buildings is intense enough that potential tenants either sign a rental agreement on the spot or lose the unit to someone else willing to sign, and at least one of the apartment buildings on my block has a waitlist.

(Also interesting to note that the city of LA was not one of the top cities in terms of population loss per the Census, but several suburban cities in LA County, like Torrance, were on the list.)
Well put. Grade inflation is one of those emerging behaviors that is reinforced by the system as a whole as opposed to individual players. I think one major problem is we equate education with 'college education' which is probably quite harmful.
Government contractors are different than private companies that sell to the government.
For the rare occasions I need something like this, I’m glad Fabric exists. I find Ansible to be almost unusably obtuse, it does not gel with how I think about networked systems at all.
Show HN: Python package which allows easy access to alternative investment data
I have a hard time believing people feel comfortable using Python applications in production for anything other than prototyping. I have seen some shit over my career, across many kinds of interpreted languages, that will never let me approve of that.

Unless one simply doesn't care about runtime quality.
I want this too!

Datasette avoids offset/limit pagination because it performs poorly on huge queries - and I don't want random visitors (and crawlers) hurting performance of a public instance by crawling through offset/limit of thousands of pages.

That's why table pages implement keyset pagination instead - so you can do https://congress-legislators.datasettes.com/legislators/legi... and get back records following the one with A000106, which is a fast query because the ID column has an index on it.

Supporting this with arbitrary queries is harder. One idea I had is to allow the user to specify which column and sort order should be used for keyset pagination - so you could construct a URL like this:

/?sql=select+*+from+legislators+order+by+id&_pagination_column=id

If a pagination column has been specified, Datasette would use the same trick it uses on regular table pages and add next links that way.

Would that work for you?

The other, probably easier option is a setting that enables offset/limit pagination of arbitrary SQL queries - turned off by default, but easy to turn on for users who are running Datasette on a private server. If that takes several seconds people can at least opt into it.
SF Lawmakers were too busy playing AI vs AI and then complaining about the results.
By its nature, the employee's wages are more valuable to them than the time and effort they are expending on the job. Otherwise, there would be no point to working.

What's happening here is gains from trade. I have a lot of free time and a set of skills, while my employer has a lot of money and the willingness to shoulder the risk that the work they're asking me to do won't be profitable for them in the long run. Both sides get something out of the deal.
Definitely. Telstra in Australia recently made all their (15000) payphones free and the CEO specifically called out bushfires and cyclones (hurricanes) as events that have brought the mobile network down:

About 11m calls were made across Telstra pay phones in the past year, including 230,000 calls to critical services such as triple zero and Lifeline.

The Telstra chief executive, Andrew Penn, said pay phones were a vital lifeline, particularly for the homeless and people escaping an unsafe situation.

“I have been moved seeing firsthand queues of people waiting in line to use a payphone to tell their family and friends they’re safe after a bushfire, a cyclone or some other natural disaster has taken the mobile network down,” he said.[1]

I believe the existence/number of payphones is mandated by the federal government.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/03/telstra-to-...
Unless there's a kind stranger/public service avaliable, you're stuck if your phone fails for whatever reason. You could argue that there's no excuse to not go out with a spare charger and all, but I've had my handset just stop working while on the road. I have friends who have had their phone pickpocketed.

This also adds on an additional concern as places begin to forego say physical credit cards and IDs in favor of electronic ones that again live on your phone. If that phone is dead, you can't even buy a new one or get money from an ATM. Likely in such a future I'll need to have a redundant phone on me at all times just incase this happens.
Spending time in nature gets me out of the "I should be doing something now" mode you're talking about.
I can't think of many things an open workspace doesn't make worse compared to a cubicle farm. More distractions, even less noise isolation, less "privacy", ...

EDIT: ok, more natural light, that is a plus of many open spaces
There is no fundamental barrier to AI cognition that we know of. But we don't have any proof that superhuman intelligence is even possible at this point. It could be algorithmically limited in ways we haven't discovered yet.

Full brain emulation is probably possible, but we don't know if it will be cost efficient compared to baseline humans.

Likewise AIs smarter than humans might be possible, but we don't know what the tradeoffs would be. Maybe they will lose coherence at larger scales. Maybe they will have high levels of goal drift making them functionally useless.

The other thing to consider is that the universe is still very very young vs our best estimates of its lifespan. We are roughly 14 Billion years into something that may very well be going for 100 Trillion years or more.
Those are two of the most popular voices in this medium, it'd be needlessly limiting to exclude them if you're trying to launch a business around discussing podcasts.

For every one of you, there may be a dozen people who are attracted to the platform for the fact that these two are included.
> My current ideal situation would be that everyone and their mothers would have these two options on the internet:

> * Able to establish a small online community of their own and other people can join it.

> * Able to find and join an existing online community.

> The goal would be that barriers to at least one of these is very low.

The problem is these two goals are fundamentally at odds. You can either have a small community, or you can have a community that’s easily discoverable. If anyone on the internet can easily find and join your small community it won’t stay small for very long, no matter how niche it is.
Thanks I assumed someone else must've had the same idea.
> The US is all about Big and Powerful

Many Americans have a fundamental psychological insecurity that they try to hide by driving large vehicles.
> what I suspect we'll find is that what you oppose is having to sacrifice part of your salary for something you won't reap the benefits

Exclusive representation IS government coercion! Unless you're in a right-to-work state, the government forbids an employee from working for an employer outside a union, if the workforce is unionized. And the only way the government enforces any rule is, when push comes to shove, the threat of violence if you break the rules. That's the point of government!

re financials: I think you should "ask", rather than "suspect". And no, this is not primarily financial. Yes, I want to get more money for working harder and better (I am human), but we have a mechanism for redistributing money — taxes. They work! We should use them to achieve societal goals, instead of forcing financial balance by strictly regimenting job roles and pay grades.

What I primarily want is to be effective at doing a high-skill job I enjoy and feel is valuable. That means taking on responsibilities outside my JD and fundamentally answering only to my employer, not to a committee coworkers, many of whom couldn't care less about actually getting work done.
Well it's their choice to ask the user to send a plain-text password.

There are alternatives to avoid this, on the same model of SSH key authentication where the secret stays on the client-side.

Nothing prevents them from using a password to derive a private key using PBKDF2 in client-side and answer to a specific challenge.
I'd actually be fine with a simple slot you can mount (and charge) an iPad onto. i.e. the whole "let's glue a fake tablet onto the dashboard" aesthetic some manufacturers, most egregiously Mercedes, did for a while.

Debating whether I'd want some basic steering wheel bluetooth-based controls to help operate it though. Maybe a simple 4-way arrow/directional pad and a "ok" button?
I reckon grades inflation is going to keep following tuition inflation. Can't blame Harvard for this one, most schools have to balance the financial impact that academic exigence has on families. Going to study in Boston requires enormous effort - time-wise and financially.

Given the amount of sacrifice required to get there in the first place (in my case, I got half-tuition scholarship to a Boston school after a three-year prep, my parents sold their appartment to help me pay, I took a loan on top of that and still ran out of money mid-undergrad), tough-grading and failing assignments can definitely put a lower-income student at risk of failing to graduate.
If professors start playing tough-graders and put a student a risk, the school will appear as extorting money tuition while failing to keep its promise of providing an education and a future to the kid.
I definitely had some heated discussions with older generation liberal arts professors who couldn't understand why it wasn't OK to "F" me for some stupid petty deadline. They couldn't fathom that from a student's perspective, the money at stake increases over the duration of the degree, in turn growing the potential cost of academic failure (or under-performance).
Harvard is also subject to the problem, it just seems to deal with it in its usual magazine-cover-first-in-class-student way.
The original headline is wrong - garbage in - garbage out!
Everytime I read one of these articles I get the feeling that I'm reading a report from the village elders that people have never been fuller or more prosperous now that we've consumed all our seed corn. We just need to keep eating all the corn we can, and let's not worry about winter because our priests (engineers) tell us they'll probably find a way around it. I don't know, maybe its the background environment that I've spent my whole life growing up in, but every time I read this I'm always left asking what it is that I don't know/can't see, especially when it comes to the billionaire class.

Do they have access to different reports that suggest global warming won't be as devastating as the scientific consensus broadly predicts? Is it nihilism/sociopathy, aka I'll be dead by the time it gets bad and I can't feel any sort of connection/care for my offspring, let alone my fellow humans? At the risk of memeing, is there a project to build Elysium going on that us plebs don't know about and that's what SpaceX/Blue Origin is all about? I just find it hard to square what the current message is wrt to global warming, a message that appears highly credible to my lay understanding, with the behaviour of the people who have the power to help nudge the direction our society is headed. Does anyone else get this, or have thoughts on it? I am genuinely asking here, because I can't resolve the contradiction and it weighs on me.
Maybe governance simulation can be worked into some standardized test for basic competence for lawmakers. Or is that not democratic?
I'm mostly good. I always gain weight in the winter and feel horrible but now the weather is starting to get nice. Been at a diet for the last 3 weeks and seeing steady progress. I usually do keto but this time I told myself I'll try something a bit slower that I can sustain which is giving me hope that maybe I can keep my eating under control in the winter.

I also got a really amazing cost of living adjustment 3 weeks ago from my employer on top of my usual raise I got back in January. That was great because I've been teetering on leaving. I've known for a while I can make much more but I love my team, my boss, the location, and I'm comfortable in my role with pretty good job security so it's hard to walk away from that. The pay bump was enough to keep me at least another year unless something really exciting fell into my lap.
> Speed: 1GB down

> ~$140 USD per month

Robbery.
The free market is pretty phenomenal at ensuring that technological growth will continue until we hit theoretical limits.

Shortages cause price increases. Price increases make it more economical to pay up-front costs to develop technology whose per-unit costs permit extracting a profit compared to competitors who are not as technologically advanced, who die out and are replaced by new competitors who buy the technology off-the-shelf and reduce the price further in second-mover advantage, back down to the now-lower per-unit cost. Eventually demand develops to the point where there is a persistent shortage again and the cycle repeats.

The question is, what are the theoretical limits?

Will we run out of oxygen? Unlikely, the CO2 we breathe out can be recycled back into oxygen. Water? Also unlikely, for similar reasons. Food? With hydroponics, we're no longer limited by the amount of land we have, and it's renewable. Energy? The Sahara is a vast, untapped source of solar electricity which we haven't tapped because a) transmission lines are too expensive and b) security is too expensive. When energy costs rise enough to make those costs economical, the free market will get the underlying infrastructure built, and then we're good to go.

So yeah, growth will continue.
And yet, at the same time, growth can't continue forever (unless you get into space colonization on artificial habitats and are able to develop that faster than population grows and other stuff we are not going to discuss now).

What happens, as the article indeed points out, is that many things keep breaking, and we keep fixing and repairing and improving and more things fail and stop working and then again we fix and replace them. And so on and so on. The main problem is that people suffers in that process. The system self-regulates, sure. Nature self-regulates all the time through natural selection, evolutionary pressure and competition. That doesn't make it right. We develop medicine because being human is the opposite of accepting the randomness, competition and cruelty of nature. We want to have control, we want people to be happy, we don't want to be exposed to arbitrary tragedy, unfairness, pain.

As I always say, don't confuse the comfort of your boat with the state of the sea. That you are comfortable riding the current wave of pressure doesn't mean no one is suffering. This doesn't mean we should never grow, but it means we should do it responsibly. Saying growth is already responsible because the world keeps self-regulating is just being blind to many of the dynamics of the system.

And ok, one may argue that finding an equilibrium is impossible. That when there are resources available, we will always start taking more and more, growing above our possibilities, taking water until we hit the bottom, dumping shit until it spills. Then pressure and competition kicks in, people fall, people suffer, self-regulation is the way and all is good again. I don't understand.

(sorry for the rant, I understand you may also have concerns about the rate of growth and welfare of people in the process, but I wanted to share this take anyway)
A city fights back against heavyweight cars
> I am wondering how much immune "budget" do humans have for vaccines? ... Basically, the body has a limited amount of unspecialized naive T cells in its lifetime

I'm not a medical professional, so I suspect that my opinion is just as much gibberish as yours clearly is, but with more self-awareness.

Anyway, why would that "budget" be "for vaccines" _only_ ? Vaccines trigger the same mechanism as actual viral attacks, so you may as well ask "does the human immune system have a limited budget to respond to repeated viral attacks". It's the same question. And consider what answer would have better evolutionary fitness.
Was this pen on an arm later commercialized as the Phantom Omni?