skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think of money like water. You've got most people who spend every cent they get, that's rivers. You've got upper class people that save some, but if they have a lot they will spend slightly more, that's lakes. Then you've got the very top, whom no matter how much you give them, they won't spend another cent. Their the reservoirs.

So when you introduce money through debt, what you get is mostly the third group who takes out debt. If they have the money and don't actually spend it, you just get a lower velocity, you don't get any inflation. When assets are increasing faster than consumption items, of course they invest in assets, and you get stocks and homes and monkey jpeg reciepts going up.

That is, until a recession is coming around. When a recession is incoming, money managers look at history and find the best recession-proof investments. And it turns out some of those items are in the consumption basket. And it turns out widely inflated asset prices are exactly what you need to get out of.

What happens when you buy oils futures contracts 2 years out? Some bank will work out a arbitrage opportunity, hedge that contract, some other bank will hedge them, and within a few days the value of oil TODAY goes up. That's inflation.

And so you can say that expectations of interest rising causes recession fears, and those recession fears cause inflation. If the money supply drops, or is expected to drop, or we think that the likelyhood of debts getting margin-called is going to increase, you will see inflation.

But you can only see that inflation, as Friedman rightly pointed out, if the reservoirs are full. Wealthy people store possible inflation in their reservoirs. If as the Fed you completely ignore the possibility that the dam can release all of that water out into the rivers, you're always going to be surprised when it happens.
I doubt this to be honest.

If you could hire 2 or 5 of the next best engineers for the price of a top pick 'NFL' engineer, you'd be ahead in output in most situations.

The same does not go for the NFL.
interestingly I much prefer mine. :\

I guess font rendering is very subjective.
It's awful if you have a chronic health condition or need specialists but when you get hit by a car and don't have to pay a huge hospital bill it is pretty cool.

Still it's hemorrhaging talent because of dumb pay schemes that could probably be fixed overnight if it wasn't for the aforementioned financial illiteracy
Rare for you an individual, but on overall common.

Catastrophic medical expenses and college are similar, and inflation in those is very important overall.
Turns out, for me, watching on a 43" screen in SD is no different to watching on a 43" screen in FHD because I don't use my glasses when watching TV.

I can't really say that it has made a difference to my enjoyment of the shows I watched[1]. It is something to keep in mind for if we ever replace that TV with a 60" one.

[1]I just now compared a FHD download of "My Name Is Earl" to the SD Disney+ version and did not see a stark enough difference to switch away from Linux.
> Also rm -rf being instant is a big win (I know it probably isn't under the hood but I don't care, as a user I can get on with my day).

Oh it actually is. It's just that Windows is dog slow at handling files (as opposed to their contents), for a multitude of reasons (I understand that there actually has been a little bit of work in recent years on some of these issues to improve performance for WSL and git).
Title edit request: from 2011

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=a+brief+rant+on+the+future+of+inte...
The fact they don't know which ones have the defect suggests their configuration management isn't great yet. If it was they should be able to recall just the affected cars. That will help not pay the cost of recalling 100000s of cars when they get to mass production.
Your statement is actually addressed in tfa, in the first couple of paragraphs (now, it's in the context of a switch made to the index in 1983, but I think it's just as relevant today):

>This methodological innovation understandably sets off alarm bells among people who are predisposed to distrust the government.
> I'm guessing that (like myself) he probably just isn't that picky about it.

Correct, see my reply to myself upthread.
Do rational entrepreneurs make irrational decisions?
I'm afraid that's exactly how it's gonna turn out.
Poll: Is Large-Scale Climate Geoengineering Inevitable?
Yes, it will be done to buy time for carbon sequestration techniques to mature
Yes, but it will be too little, too late
No, there is not the societal or political will
No, we do not have viable geoengineering technology
> When was the last time you used Linux

Yesterday and it was terrible.

> Never have I faced any issue that can't easily be solved. (If at all there were issues)

Good luck viewing hdr content.
In general I think Spanner is more focused on availability than performance (especially across different workloads e.g. analytics/transactions). Also, the Postgres shim for Spanner is not 100% compatible and less mature than Alloy. Last, Spanner is expensive!
Not accurate. You've taken a valid data point and over-extrapolated from it. Openreach provides the physical cable for the majority of customers (excluding cable and FTTP, the latter of which is steadily expanding). However the physical cable connecting the customer to the IX is only a part of the picture of providing internet access - and you over-fixate on this.

From there, you're routed through to infrastructure owned and operated by the individual ISP you've chosen - and these infrastructures are not identical. Some do more filtering and inspection than others. Some are pure ipv4, and some support ipv4/ipv6 dual stacks. Different routing designs within these networks mean that latency and jitter can be very different (one major ISP is particularly notable for poor internal latency due to a legacy network design). There's a lot of complexity here that you're ignoring.
The main point is not whether it's free or not but that the main page is a landing page. If you visit Reddit, you immediately see content, you are one click away from reading comments. Registering is optional and comes naturally when you want to write a comment yourself.

To convince your visitors, your site is just a landing page. It requires commitment to an account before it is possible to judge the site.

I don't have the experience to judge if that is a good strategy. But if you want to be the Reddit of podcast discussions, then you should show the discussions to the visitors and only request accounts from those who want to write comments.
There's lots of things companies are legally obligated to do but instead do not.
AH, that's because I'm using a monospace font for editing, normal pages use the normal font: https://i.imgur.com/otqaSTa.png
My current thesis, from a position of absolute agnostic ignorance, is economics is what filled the void in society vacated by religion after the enlightenment.

They’re functionally indistinguishable, with mythology replaced by mathematics, and God replaced with GDP. Similarly, they’re both arbitrary rules; conjured, imposed, and protected from scrutiny by the ruling class.

That’s not to say it’s not useful, but I find it baffling that an imaginary concept is unquestionably granted veto over tangible and visceral phenomena.
Oh, yea, I agree that by default you should assume that travel time == client time.

I'm getting a bit "well, technically" on this. While rare, it is possible to have a contract that allows for this.
This is why Raspberry Pi used to only sell through specific distributors.
They don't state you shouldn't ask the parents (and also invite them) to complete task 2.
> So, maybe, it's you who doesn't understand how to use the system. Maybe!

It is possible that you are 100% right. But I also believe your answer (or that kind of answer) is part of the general problem.

I have to say that I'm totally capable of fixing those issues since I do it all the time for Android (which I debug and customize). The problem is: I don't want to. Not on my main PC.

On the other side, what am I possibly doing wrong to generate those problems? I install Qt, Firefox, Thunderbird, Git, build-essentials. I never hibernate, I always do a clean shutdown and... that's it...

The "Ubuntu has experienced an internal error..." dialog box still appears from time to time
So lovely OMG. I love TUIs. I once discovered a DOS version of Visual Basic - that was so cool. If this is something like WPF but for cross-platform .Net console then I feel so excited I can hardly even think...
> Is it really as bad as you make it out to be?

Yes.

> my 38" monitor ain't retina … perfectly happy

Put another way, either you are not visually discerning or your bar is lower.

// Since “FHD” laptops, and monitors <4K, are still a thing, you are not alone.
>SQS has a many-to-one relationship. You can send messages to a queue from many different producers but only one consumer can be defined. A consumer is another application, most often some compute instances such as Lambda, EC2, or Fargate.

My understanding is that you can have multiple consumers of an SQS through the use of visibility timeouts[0]. Once a message is consumed it is as if that message doesn't exist for all other consumers until it reaches a timeout period or is marked done by that consumer. You can also manually mark a message as being ready for other consumers. This moves the message back into the queue for the other consumers to see.

I'm going to be linking this article to my team. We've been talking about moving to SNS/SQS/etc. and this article helps understand the use cases and distinctions better.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...
In 2011 I expected that governments will eventually try do shutdown Bitcoin and that these attempts will ultimately fail, because it would require most governments to tightly collaborate, which I think will not work out, because of conflicting incentives. Everything is taking much longer than I anticipated...

> “I’ve been a great advocate of moving to an electronic payments mechanism. There are a lot of efficiencies. I think we can actually have a better regulated economy if we had all the data in real time, knowing what people are spending,” he says.

And he likes this kind of surveillance dystopia? Is he trying to sell us CBDCs?
People have been saying that for 15 years straight and its still totally wrong.

Its the exact opposite direction Tesla has gone in. Like literally the opposite.

And your are fooling yourself if you think non-Tesla companies have some magical manufacturing capacity.

On an individual factory level, Tesla already makes some of the most effective factories. Given their growth they are no longer a small fish, within a year or two from now they will be one of the like Top-8 automotive groups im the world.

And even if you assume the other manufacturing/markating maschines, are so good (they are not), the supplychain is not actually their for the kind of massive overtake of Tesla you imagine.

Ever BEV company is only slowly growing their volume, even VW with massive investment and huge existing manufacturing can not just make millions of BEV from.1 year to another. Let alone companies like Ford, BMW and so on.
Right-of-way, transmission lines running through expensive real estate, cooling towers heating up rivers, limits to size (you can run out of ground, but you'll never run out of space).

And on the ground you get this annoying eclipse phenomenon called 'night'. Takes away half your potential collecting time.

Also solar flux is like 9X more dense outside the atmosphere. So it takes far smaller surface to collect the same energy.
With natural monopolies like those promoted by the network effects crypto projects pin their hopes on the stable point is the same, minus democratic institutions ensuring some semblance of justice and equity.
If I understand correctly, when the author say "hierarchical rank" he means that the rank (let's call it R) is larger for people at the top of deeper hierarchies, and that seems to be confirmed by the graphic in Figure 5.

Anyway, if we consider that deeper hierarchies are generally also larger overall and therefor produce more in economic terms, and that people in a hierarchy are considered to be responsible for the productivity of the levels below them, then R value is really a proxy for productivity, so the primary thesis of this whole essay, that R better correlates with income than productivity, doesn't make any sense because they are not independent. In the sense that matters to neoclassical economics the CEO of a big corporation is more "productive" than the CEO of a smaller company even if in practice the two do the same amount and quality of work, have the same education, etc.

Whether this should be so is another question, but if neoclassical economics defines productivity in this way (as I think it does), then income correlating to R is in no way contradictory.
I'm pretty sure is more about money laundering than that.
I don't have a uni degree either, kinda sounds like a you problem for lack of a better term

A plane ticket out of Canada has never costed me more than half of average monthly rent in BC
99% of retail payments already happen through a tightly regulated electronic payment system today.

I haven't been denied my god given right to murder myself by purchasing tobacco and sugar products so far.
Show HN: Build, manage, and scale your ecommerce visually
It's not. If you can see it, you can copy it. It just makes life harder for a small number of legitimate users on Linux or rooted Android phones because their license/contract says they need to use DRM.
Lexicon: Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way
I wanted to mention something like this, but I felt like my experience is too limited to be sure. My impression is that in the US, the cost of care will lead to people avoiding seeking treatment for things that don't appear urgent. Sometimes, those things are actually urgent and they'll be worse off for waiting. But in cases where there's a clear, urgent need for care, they'll rarely be denied treatment outright. Instead, they'll be burdened with debt afterwards.
You're assuming they're not just going to start using their own DNS or DoH for these requests.

Orwell got things slightly wrong in 1984; he never realized that we would be paying for the privilege of being spied on.
In case anyone else is unfamiliar with Zig syntax and wondering: in Zig the .{ "somevalue"} represents an anonymous list literal [1], and .{.somename = "somevalue"} is an anonymous struct literal [2].

(A bit off topic rant, but Zig documentation is quite bad, it took me a lot more effort that it should to discover the facts above.)

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Anonymous-List-Lit...

[2] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Anonymous-Struct-L...
They absolutely can. With a simple shell script and a bit of configuration you can set up a box that will check some email and act after detecting some kind of commands directed at it. Securing that sounds like a lot of fun that I wouldn't want to experience.

That being said, I'm 90% sure the GP is sarcastic, trying pull reductio ad absurdum on people who will almost assuredly come here commenting that "the community" should "abandon centralized services" in favor of this or that pet-project.
I agree but I actually wouldn't mind if carbon emissions and offsets were tracked and ensured to be not too negative. There are easier ways to do that though - e.g. just include money for offseting in the flight price.
SPACs Are Warning They May Go Bust
GCC 9.5 Released. Bug fixes for LTS release
The person I replied to was comparing it to r/podcasts and bringing up the subscriber count there.
Writing like a pro with vale and Neovim
Until it runs where you can't touch it. Like the Intel Management Engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assert...
No, once the RSUs vest, they are yours at liquidation.
As the reporter already stated, just because the HTTP/2 spec permits it, that doesn't make it a good idea. Now Firefox may "resolve" a hostname to a different IP based on whether it might have connected to a different hostname before. I don't want to imagine what bugs this will cause. And for what? To save another (probably already cached) DNS lookup?
Which is absurd because literally anything Netflix has can be downloaded in 4K from the usual places anyway.

Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out their faulty reasoning.
Yes but individual companies can't magically fix a countires whole attitude to city planning, biking and public transport. People are gone us cars, and making them elelectric is hugly beneficial.
I have been using Linux for several years, but I am going back to Windows myself.

I vastly prefer Linux, but I need LINE (a messenger app popular in some Asia countries). Their Linux app (actually a Chrome extension) stopped getting new features 5 years ago. That's kinda THE deal-breaker for me.

Another minor reason is Dropbox Smart Sync. I can use Selective Sync, but having smart sync is of course better.

(I would rather Windows than macOS)
> Imagine all the "nudges" that could easily be introduced. You're buying too much [bad thing], card declined. You're costing the health care system too much by being overweight so we'll restrict your food allowance. Your carbon emissions are over the limit this month, we'll have to deny your flight purchase. A gas station charges "too much" for gas, payment declined.

Why would they do this when they can (and already do) use taxes and tax breaks to dis/incentivize behavior?
According to Wiktionary, it's been used since at least 2001. I was similarly confused.
I read the first sentence of your comment and I immediately thought of Photoshop. Good idea to have that splash screen, huh.
When I used Gnome3 on a HiDPI notebook fonts looked fine once I switched my interface font to a newer Helvetica and turned all of the system font smoothing feature off
You can't just shut them down... But you might be able to effectively halt their use by making it much harder to transfers money out if the ecosystem by making possession of them illegal.

I'm strongly anti-crypto but I don't support trying to ban them. I might support a middle ground such as requiring people to be accredited investors to buy them, depending on the details.
That's an interesting perspective. Certainly not saying you're wrong. I found the font on Windows (note: Windows 10) unbearable despite deploying a plethora of "tweaks" and "fixes", and wasn't content until I made the the switch to Linux & MAC (home and work, respectively.) edit: Noto Sans or Futura BK Book for Interface & Document, Hack Regular for Monospace.
Ask HN: What is your favourite allrounder language in 2021?
We might not even need cryptocurrency if we were capable of keeping the financial sector honest.

Remind me again how many people went to prison after the market crash of 2008?
It's not actually a total gun ban even though American campaigners like to call it that - rifles are still legal to own and keep at home, with restrictions, and although under-18s can't buy them it's perfectly legal for them to be gifted or lent one so long as they have the appropriate license. (Unlike in the US I think you generally have to be licensed just to own or use a gun, which is why giving licenses to 14 year olds is necessary. Currently, gun-owing adults in the US don't need to get gun licenses for their 14 year olds to take this approach to teaching their kids to respect guns because it's purchasing that's restricted, but if the US introduced UK-style licensing with the existing age limit of 18 or even 21 they wouldn't be able to - and I just don't think there's the political will to give gun licenses to under-18s.) The UK does have a really strict handgun ban though, with even shooting ranges not allowed to own them for use within the range anymore. Also, I really do mean that US gun control campaigners have been fearmongering about bolt-action .22 LR rifles because some of them are black and scary-looking, and as far as I can tell thinking that this is stupid is outside the range of acceptable pro-gun-control viewpoints.
>It quickly leads to creators sanitising feedback to prefer only positive feedback

I dont see this as a big issue. It seems to be a place for podcast community members to gather and discuss instead of making yet another discord. If you dont have positive feedback for a podcast why comment at all to begin with? The podcast medium is entirely built to taste and fits well with being a bubble (despite bubbles usually being a negative thing).

The hidden issue would be power to cover up a scandal, so I would hope that for serious issues users can report a podcast and site admins can handle it appropriately.
Sure HTTPS wouldn't help if an attacker had the cert for the OCSP server, but I feel like that is rare to happen compared to other certs being revoked and I believe there are privacy / anticensorship benefits you ran get from https.

To me it seems simple to just skip an OSCP check compared to having to use HTTP.
Cybertruck was not love at first sight for me. But after 24 hrs I signed up because of the value. 4x4, adjustable suspension, locking bed, 240v, pneumatic air and much more for $50k. Plus the usual no gas bill and very low maintenance. It's a deal.
Hey a bit late to the party (HN newsletter crowd). This really seems like something my BigCorp could use. I am on holiday RN, so I won't fire my computer to try it. But I was wondering, does it allows easy copy pasting the table into standard MS documents (work ? outlook mails ?).
The concept of polical parties and MPs/MLAs voting whatever their parties is telling them makes no sense. Polarisation is making this issue worse.

It's 2022, we have technology that can make direct democracy cheap, easy and secure. Some countries are doing it the old fashion way, and it works.

In the meantime, proper representation is a good intermediate step:

https://www.fairvote.ca/
Ask HN: I had a confusing WhatsApp exchange
I just had a weird exchange on WhatsApp, here's what happened:

- I got messaged by an account I don't know and don't share groups with.

- The exchange was roughly as follows:

They: [ask about piano lessons]
Me: [telling them they got the wrong number]
They: [some string of chinese? characters]

After which I blocked them..

Not sure what to make of that exchange. Can anyone here tell me what's up?
"He worries that they enable illicit activity by making money transactions less transparent."

I always have to prefix that I'm no fan of crypto, don't own any, never have, but this seems like a shill to me, and brazenly opposite to reality.

Blockchains show every transaction ever, to everyone, albeit the transactees are pseudonymous.

But the traditional system is totally opaque to most people. And even to government, when complex webs of tax-haven shell-companies are involved (unless records are leaked, as in the panama papers, etc). So billionaires, mafia groups, corrupt government, get away with all kinds shenanighans, because the transactions themselves are secret.

The complete opposite of what Stiglitz is arguing.
The shooter would not have been barricaded in the room for so long if he wasn't able to spray high-velocity rounds at the police. You know those penetrate body armor without ceramic plates and police do not wear ceramic plates.

Revolver rounds would not penetrate, and a carbine would allow him to be flanked much more easily.

EDIT: laws keep honest people in line, but they also give us the ability to punish the dishonest.
Windows 10/11 would be cool (I really liked 7), if you could buy a professional version. (not the one they call so). I dont want ads and telemetrics.