skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most rich folks aren't rich from holding dollars, they're exposed (to your point) to equity. Higher expected inflation usually means higher future nominal interest rates, and a higher future cost of capital. The DCF model used to value that equity means they get put through the ringer in exactly the way you're seeing paying out in the stock market right now.
But what makes them so awful? Most likely it was the medallion system that limited competition in the market so maybe there is a system somewhere in-between that and the unprofitable ride share systems that work well for everyone. I just got back from Madrid and taxis were plentiful and metered with a flat fare to and from the airport. They all have the same markings so you can tell they are taxis but there are a variety of vehicles from Teslas to bare bones stick shifters being used. Uber was barely a thing there but there was an app called Free Now that many of the cars had on them.
LibreWolf?

Source: https://privacytests.org/
Kinda related to this discussion about pagination APIs:

One year ago I had to design an API [0] for paginated nodes which also allows nested nodes. Overall there would be more than 100.000 nodes in the database.

On the UI side there would be a tree table to display the nodes. First you would fetch page 0 with 100 nodes and from there you could either perform a paginated fetch for the next page (page 1) or a nested fetch for page 0 for one of the initially fetched nodes. So essentially the API allows paginated and nested fetches where each nested fetch would be a paginated fetch too.

We used cursor based pagination, because there would be added and deleted nodes eventually in a collaborative environment. It was definitely a fun challenge!

[0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/react-tree-list/
I think it's worth noting that Go HAS a garbage collector available, but it's entirely possible to write code which doesn't rely on it, at least in the user-written code.

Furthermore, the compiler itself can help in the (re)writing of code to effect stack allocations of variables, avoiding runtime reliance on the garbage collector.

This is effected, in general, through "escape analyses" that prevent reliance, at runtime, on garbage collection.

Punchline is calling Go a garbage collected language can be entirely inaccurate, depending on the program being compiled.
Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.
I think they are referring to cryptocurrency, not cryptography in general.
Full unpaywalled transcript of Powell's conference: https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-fed-chief-powells-po...

Relevant section:

Q: Your level of confidence that you can slow hiring without pushing the economy into a downturn.

MR. POWELL: So I guess I would say it this way. It’s—there’s a path. There’s a path by which we would be able to have demand moderate in the labor market and have—therefore have vacancies come down without unemployment going up, because vacancies are at such an extraordinarily high level. There are 1.9 vacancies for every unemployed person; 11½ million vacancies, 6 million unemployed people. So—and we haven’t been in that place on the vacancy—you know, through the vacancy/unemployed curve, the Beveridge curve. We haven’t been at that sort of level of a ratio in the modern era.

So in principle, it seems as though, by moderating demand, we could see vacancies come down, and as a result—and they could come down fairly significantly and I think put supply and demand at least closer together than they are, and that that would give us a chance to have lower—to get inflation—to get wages down and then get inflation down without having to slow the economy and have a recession and have unemployment rise materially. So there’s a path to that.

Now, I would say I think we have a good chance to have a soft or softish landing, or outcome, if you will. And I’ll give you a couple of reasons for that. One is, households and businesses are in very strong financial shape. You’re looking at, you know, excess savings on balance sheets; excess in the sense that they’re substantially larger than the prior trend. Businesses are in good financial shape. The labor market is, as I mentioned, very, very strong. And so it doesn’t seem to be anywhere close to a downturn.

Therefore, the economy is strong and is well positioned to handle tighter monetary policy. So—but I’ll say I do expect that this will be very challenging. It’s not going to be easy. And it may well depend, of course, on events that are not under our control. But our job is to use our tools to try to achieve that outcome, and that’s what we’re going to do.
Which is funny because I recall SSR was how one referred to non-SPA websites. Anyway, the new term seems to be server side generated SSG.
This matches my memory as well. Safari was dramatically faster but it was limited to the Mac (let’s just ignore the Windows version).

Chrome was based on Safari and was far far faster than anything else available on Windows at the time. Not only that but they moved fast and kept improving.

Firefox is great now but it took a long time to catch up.
The author confused cause and effect.

Author: because this code sees a lot of churn it is important.
Reality: this code sees a lot of churn because it is bad.
The results of GPT-3, Imagen, Github Copilot, etc, have shown me two things:

1. A critical part of AI that was missing no longer is: the model of our world. In natural language processing (more generally anything that interacts with humans) it has been an eternal issue that to understand sentences you must know the content, and therefore must, in theory, know 'everything' there is to our world and culture. As far as I'm concerned, the current large transformer models have captured this. There is genuine intelligence here, a lack of reasoning still but an abundance of knowledge.

2. We are entering a terrifying era of computing. The amount of resources needed to get the genuine AI above, are monstrous (at least with our current methods). Not only raw computing power, but also data. This means an unavoidable centralization and monopolization of something that I predict will be an essential component for human-computer interaction in the decades to come.

What we're seeing here is a sign of (2).

My prediction? Google and Facebook are here to stay. Their primary income right now is advertisement, I expect this to change over the next decade. Specifically these two companies are sitting on the biggest 'oil field' in modern history: an endless pipeline of modern human culture, ready to feed into ever larger models of our world.
It's only restricted on the free tier.

Honestly they're probably finding that, like cryptocurrency miners, free tier deepfake users born burn lots of GPU time compared to others who might run a couple GPU tasks for a little while to get a few results or test things.
Does this also include the whole buying toxic assets thing? Not sure where that fits in your 3 options, but it’s definitely something they’ve been doing, to the tune of trillions of dollars.
Here's my question: how much will this hurt AWS? Oh, Uber and Lyft alone won't, of course, even though IIRC their IPO's revealed staggering AWS bills. But, there are a lot of goofy ideas out there masquerading as companies, and the VC spigot just turned off. That spigot was pushing VC money, via a very complex system of middlemen, to AWS.

If AWS has half their customers disappear, what does that do to Amazon's bottom line?
> Seriously, fuck you Powell.

Sorry to jump on your frustration, but this has always been the point of fed inflation policy <astronaut gun meme>

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

> It goes like this: even in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts.

Fed inflation policy is, and always has been a substitute for pay cuts for laborers.
>It says something about your worldview that you would take that away from what I said.

Yeah, probably says I know something about normal distributions work.
Url changed from https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vmpb/uber-and-lyft-are-out..., which points to this.
Can one explain schemes to biologists
Relax.

1. Interest rates are rising and asset prices are starting to decline. Higher rates and decreasing liquidity (where we are at and headed) makes it tough for the rich to generate capital gains & fixed income. Watch how this impacts California in the coming years.

2. Inflation, particularly wage inflation, crushes small businesses. It destroys job creation. This isn't about the Fortune 500, its about main street.

3. We have to compete globally. Inflation at home means our exports are more expensive AND it also means the US Dollar has less buying power for the imports we rely on.

4. 2 of the 8 trillion you're complaining about went to main street businesses and individuals in need. Another 2 or so went to foreign banks to keep the global economic system from collapsing. About 2 trillion more just sits on the Fed balance sheet. The balance went places it shouldn't have... welcome to politics.

What's best for America is to remain competitive with Europe, BRIC nations and other developing countries. The inflation & supply chain stories used to be about the US - but rapidly growing middle classes in other countries demand the same goods you enjoy, have a closer proximity to the source (in supply chain terms), and if you want your standard of living to continue then you're going to have to compete.
> Fed inflation policy is, and always has been a substitute for pay cuts for laborers.

No, that's Congress' fault, not the Fed. The Fed only controls the denominator. Congress controls the numerator. Inflation-adjusted minimum wage and support for unions would significantly alter the landscape.

Inflation has benefits, too, and it is generally accepted that a low, fixed, predictable inflation rate is the optimal outcome. Generally all the worst periods in history have been deflationary, not inflationary.
This is a non-sequitur on every front, lining the muppets up for slaughter. Economics for rubes.
This is seriously naive. The Fed doesn't set wages by committee. They are going to attempt to affect wages via rates.

Wage cost spirals hurt the poor more than the rich although it hurts everbody.

We already made the mistake. We already printed 4+ Trillion dollars and handed it out in a year. And we did it to mostly cheers from all sides. The time to stop this was then. Now they are going to do what they can to stop the inflation. It's their mandate to do so. So yell at congress not Powell if you don't like it.
Read the second half of the comment you're replying to
How do you define rational?
"The bottom is where most people are."

I'm not sure what metric you're using, but most of them don't work that way (percentiles, etc generally have an equal number in the top and bottom. I wouldn't call the bottom 80% the bottom - and that's not where the impact is. The outsized impact I'm talking about is in the bottom 25%. Those are the people seeing the brunt of it. Me being in the 80% as a software dev isn't nearly the same.

$15/hr is a problem? Let's be honest, McDonalds isn't scheduling full time. They would make maybe $22k per year at 30 hours a week. Now subtract taxes, gas, car insurance, etc. Look back at real wages and see where that falls.
thanks, I don't know where that link went
If you want, come mirror it on my gitea instance: gitea.slowb.ro. I'd be happy to take the load ^-^
> homeowners

401k/retirees, yes. Homeowners, no. As long as people can afford their mortgages (i.e. employment stays high) I couldn’t care less.
> I'm not saying you've not experienced these issues

It really sounds like you are. I hate these "Well did you report it? I can't reproduce it. Did you rebuild in debug mode and check the logs? Did you learn C++ and fix it?" responses.

It's open source victim blaming.
So, to make everyone in Texas a lawbreaker, send everyone in Texas six dildos, and include shortcut links in the dildo packages which they can click on, that unfurl and quickly list those dildos on eBay.

Everyone in TX goes straight to jail!
I believe in most cases the structure value does go down (or at most stay constant), it is the value of the land that is going up.
No, however heating is $200 if electrical. But I work from home, so it's always on high temps, unlike for most people.

Also, that's still far from $600, that's not anymore "preventing your food to spoil", and that's only a few months a year. A/C as well, you don't usually use it in december in most parts of the US.

So yeah, I find this number surprising for a very rich country that should have great infrastructures.
As a sidebar, you probably can see this already happening inside tech. Which companies do you know have frozen hiring? What will it do to your job prospects?
> garbage collectors can use lots of tricks like ... without involving the garbage collector

is there a typo: X can use tricks to avoid X ?
I would take hundreds regional monopolies over one global monopoly any day. At least if you're banned from the taxi service in Boston you can still catch a cab in New York.
I'm sure a screenshot would suffice
Debt is often used. But nowhere near the $8t this poster is whining about in their tantrum.
Jerome Powell was on Marketplace (the public radio show) and discussed this with Kai Ryssdal. It's worth a listen if you'd like to get a layman's idea of what's going on, how Powell is trying to act, and why...direct from the horse's mouth. My impression from listening to it about two weks ago was that Powell thinks a strong labor market is just fine, but things are accelerating far too fast and that's not sustainable. I could be wrong; again, it's been two weeks.

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/exclusive-jero...

Multipolarista is the new one-man show of Benjamin Norton, who used to be an editor of Grayzone until barely a few months ago. Grayzone was essentially a mouthpiece for Kremlin and CCP talking points and conspiracies, and has apologized for China's ethnic cleansing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

It is left as an exercise to the reader why he would leave Grayzone right as economic sanctions kicked in against Russia.

If you want actual informative takes on the situation, I suggest reputable outlets with journalistic standards and editorial review. The Economist, the NY Times, the WaPo, etc...and a friendly reminder that there is a difference between reporting, analysis, and opinion - even on the same site. I found pieces in the Economist both for and against rate hikes, for example.

Accessing these outlets, even if they're paywalled, is likely easy even digitally, from your public library.
The original article is talking about pagination over stateless (at the protocol level) HTTP requests. (Referring to APIs that are offered over stateless HTTP as "REST APIs" is technically incorrect but reflects common usage and is a convenient shorthand.)

gRPC is able to offer powerful streaming abstractions because it utilizes HTTP/2 streams, which are cursor based rather than strictly connection oriented. The state is still there; it's just a protocol-level abstraction rather than an application-level abstraction.

> Perhaps, but the requests can be pipelined. You don't need to wait for the response to complete before asking for more.

That sort of defeats the purpose of grpc flow control, doesn't it?
You found a difference between the same audio compressed losslessly and lossy. That's not a surprise; it would be a surprise if there weren't a difference. The whole point of lossy compression is that it throws away some information to get better compression rates. Of course it's not going to be identical.

But that doesn't prove anything, and more specifically it doesn't prove that there is an audible difference. What matters is the perception of the sound. In the end, the only reliable differentiator is a properly set up double-blind listening test.
Please don't cross into personal attack in comments. Making substantive points without swipes is essential to the kind of forum we're hoping to have here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're begging the question with your assumption that the previous price of labor reflected its true value and the new price is excessive. What if it was previously undervalued and the new price is correct?
So basically they had Uber but as a different brand.

If you remove the medallion system, let people drive their own cars, and coordinate with riders via an app, you have Uber.
https://archive.ph/bt3bA
I run Firefox for two months at a time with no memory leak issues. I have 6 Firefox windows open at all times with over 200 tabs open and over 300 tabs open at once at points during the day. Right now it's using 3.5GB of RAM. The only reason I don't run it longer than two months that is I need to reboot for OS updates. This is on Debian.
If a company gets a loan while interest rates are low, then does a stock buyback with cash on hand, isn't it the same as using the loan money?
It isn't surprising that the central bank wants to get unemployment higher, to keep increases in wage low. This is explained in depth in introductory economic courses.

What's surprising is that they believe their lever is precise enough to get the number of jobs openings lower without increasing the unemployment rate. He is outlining a best case scenario that would be difficult to achieve under normal situation, let alone that we are just coming out of negative demand shock straight into a negative supply shock, with inflation running above target already.

The central bank let inflation ran a little too hot during the negative demand shock, and inflation expectation has gotten unanchored, and I am not sure if the goldilocks pathway even exist today.
A fork of a browser that is already known from poor security history
> Without blowing out the labour budget so badly, prices won't increase so quickly, and so inflation tempers.

In Europe inflation seems to be primarily been driven by supply shortages, and the rise of food and fuel prices later on. We don´t discuss China often, but they are shutting of complete cities at this moment, driven by the zero-covid policy from Xi (who has committed himself politically to it). This really results in huge production/shipping delays. This comes on top of all the other disruption of supply chains we had in the past covid years.

Normally you rise the interest rate to tamper demand. But one could argue that we have a very special case here at hand, where the problem is on the supply side of things rather than the demand side.

The US might be a bit different here compared to Europe, as the former did inject more money directly into the economy than the latter. But it would be good to investigate what part of the current inflation is driven by too much demand vs which by a shortage of supply.

> Not because they shouldn't make more, but because low-income households are more sensitive to price variability (prefer stability),

Indeed, a Central Bank's main purpose is to provide price stability, and to allow for just a little bit of inflation to keep things going.
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Gas prices are rising. So where are the electric cars?
Apple has issued debt to buyback shares [0]. One problem many large tech companies have is that their cash is stranded overseas due, in part, to…creative…tax/accounting arrangements [1]. They lobbied [2] for years for a tax break to repatriate this cash, and eventually got a tax break on repatriation for “foreign” profits close to what they had asked for [3]. Before that law was passed, it was common to borrow to fund share buybacks due to not wanting to pay the repatriation tax. As far as I can tell, it is still common due to the low interest rate environment of the last several years.

0 - https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/apple-shores-up-%2414b-in-de...

1 - https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/double-ir...

2 - https://money.cnn.com/2011/02/16/news/companies/repatriation...

3 - https://marketrealist.com/2018/02/cisco-bringing-67-billion-...
Ah, nop. If it goes down, we'll figure it out.. 24hrs outage wouldn't be the end of the world. Would have been nice to have a second (read replica) machine in East Asia, to reduce latency for users there, but didn't find a provider like Hetzner.. maybe could take a server in a suitcase and install it in a collocation center there. Bit of a hassle though.
Any of the variations on the trucker's hitch or taut-line/midshipman's hitch mentioned in this thread can probably be made to work. Or maybe even just a clove hitch secured with a shoe knot or whatever else you're using now might hold together long enough to stay tight. I've used a constrictor knot for similar jobs before, but it's honestly not great; having space between the poles/cords under the knot turns it from extremely difficult to untie into somewhat insecure.
Sounds like HW acceleration wasn't working on Chrome, no?
You made 10+ comments along those lines, just for this article. How about providing at least some justification, rather than making absolutist statements?
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Doesn't need to be as long as they can convert it to real money.
I wonder (and am too lazy too try to find out) what portion of sales and marketing is driver-focused. One could maybe argue (as the grandparent did) that they should be spending less on rider marketing, but marketing to get drivers in the door seems pretty important. Dunno what their driver churn rate is, but keeping the pool of drivers large is critical for their service.
Why would I pick this over SQLite?
Yeah and there also just aren't any good server side component libraries as far as I can tell - everyone is still just using fairly dumb templating engines like Handlebars and the like. At least as far as I can tell.
A substantial portion is funded with newly issued debt.

https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/stock-buybacks-debt-financed/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-27/debt-fina...
Toyota aren't constrained in how many cars they can make a year (well, more or less, and under normal circumstances), housing developers are much more constrained.

In a world (kind of like the one we live in right now...) where Toyota only had components to build 500k cars a year then they'll make 300k luxury cars and 200k regular cars and buying cheap low end cars becomes almost impossible.

If the market equilibrium in an unrestricted market is 2mil:300k, or roughly 6:1, regular to luxury cars then an argument could be made that regulations should be but in place to retain that market equilibrium even during a restricted market, assuming we believe it is important that everyone can own a car.
The unconstitutionality of this law, references Lawrence v. Texas, which is itself based on the right to privacy provide by the presumably defunct Roe vs. Wade.

Given TX has historically wanted to control what people do in the home, as well as fighting women's control of their body, I don't see TX having a problem in which the judicial landscape gives them back legislative control of women's bodies, and people's private and intimate relationships.
The difference is there is some regulation around it because they are all metered so everyone is charging the same rates and I suspect it’s a better deal for the drivers and customers overall. Btw I didn’t use the app once as it was just easier to hail from the street.
I would argue that for most code, making it clean should be a priority over making it fast (optimizing for simplicity and readability over algorithmic performance).

It obviously depends on the application.
Make formal verification and provably correct software practical and mainstream