skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article makes a number of misleading claims I think stemming from a misunderstanding of inflation- which does not mean "price increase" but rather "a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy"- that's right, we define it as an average.

Okay, what about the variation? Definitely, prices for different goods change differently, and the NYT even has a calculator that estimates it for you based on your consumption:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/08/business/econ...
Try it out with a few different choices- you'll see that pretty much everyone experiences significant price increases, out of line with the previous decade- so the CPI while not perfect definitely tells us something.

The fact that the standard deviation is greater than the mean does not tell us its not meaningful- for example, if I give you 1 million samples from a normal distribution with mean 0.1 and std 1.0, you can meaningfully tell me the mean is greater than 0.

Individual components of the price index don't give a useful item to take the variance of, because very few people have all their expenses in one component. We'd actually like the dispersion of the change in expenses for each person/company to understand how much expenses rise in general. I suspect this will be significantly smaller since most people have 'similar' spending profiles, at least compared to the hypothetical consumers which only buy one component of the price index.

Okay so why do prices change differentially more during inflation? This is a tough one, and recently there are obvious confounding factors (covid) that make it difficult to dissect. But I think even Friedman would expect this, because he claims that quantity of money leads inflation by 6 months-2 years, and we wouldn't expect it to propagate through all supply chains at equal speed. This also means that the standard theory is predictive and can't just be an accounting identity- the prediction (which we can make after the huge increase in M2 in 2020) is that prices will rise, with some delay but eventually about 30%. I'm not counting any change in the output of the economy here, so with covid disruption I wouldn't expect this to have particularly good accuracy. Let's see how it pans out!

Finally, we can look at things like the price of gold: it rose significantly pretty much in line with the M2 money supply. I don't know of anything that would significantly affect gold supply recently, so it would seem the demand comes from devaluation of the dollar or fear of it.
Probably intel doesn't care about AVX-512 in the consumer sphere.
RDF and similar tech does suffer from documentation that is hard to digest, and hard to see how they combine.

The semantic stack is fundamentally about how you share data, integrate it etc
Taxi seems to try and differentiate itself by describing data better (I've not looked at it deeply just some of the comments here describing it) for interchange. Also the restrictions on data, i.e. its shape (mush have property x) is what Shacl supports, which is also declarative in RDF.

There are a bunch of tools, extensions and what not out there for all this, most of which isn't grasped by average devs (don't mean that in a bad way).
Looks like Windows only, so of low interest to hackers.
TypeScript and C# are both great languages from Anders Hejlsberg. The Danish know how to design a language, C# developer was Mads Torgersen. Microsoft employs them so they want it used more and people like it.

Fun fact: Anders Hejlsberg also designed Turbo Pascal, Delphi which were huge in their day.

I agree though, JS needs to just run in the browser. All the tooling is really a leaky abstraction or unnecessary guts that get in the way. Rant: Webpack is an abomination to anything simple and clear, many dev hours are lost on it.

I still think if ES4 hadn't been cancelled for ES5 we'd be in a better place. It had amazing typing, event handling and was very clear, essentially looked like TypeScript. Browsers could have easily supported ES3 and ES4, we'd have a more solid browser "just works" setup.
I don’t want to log in to read, so excuse the question if it’s already answered:

Is this a classic Citrix issue where the save game is in one pool of servers but not the other?
Can you explain why it's a mistake in this particular case?
Is there a distinction between values and references to values? Is there a concept of compound values and their components? Is there anything on referential constraints definition? Is it possible to indicate that an item cannot be removed if it is still used in another item? Or that if an item is removed other items that depend on it, should also be removed?

See for some explaination about what I mean: https://github.com/FransFaase/DataLang
Can anyone comment on the mindset of someone who creates a Blogspot for a single article? Is it anything beyond "I want to post this anonymously and have it hosted for free indefinitely"? It feels like an odd solution, but I also can't think of a better one.
Indeed. Any suggestion that economists (neo-classical or otherwise) don't care enough about relative price changes is utterly ridiculous. They just don't call them inflation.
> Because most of these killers aren't trying to kill as many people as possible.

I don’t understand, this kid just killed 21 4th grade kids!!

I agree that there are other affective methods of mass killing but then why don’t we see them happening more often all over the world. You keep pointing at these one off incidents.
The article talked a lot about winners and losers.

It's interesting that there's no mention of debtors and creditors.

The biggest winners in hyperinflation are people in massive debt. It's inflated away to nothing. The biggest losers are creditors for the opposite reasons.

When inflation is just abnormally high (~8%), your debt doesn't get deflated to nothing, but you're getting a ~6% discount.
Inflation isn’t measured on an average, it is measured on a basket. They are the same mathematically but the intention matters. If meat goes up 50% and fruits down 50% and the average is unchanged, that means the price of the basket that you will pay at the till is also unchanged, and you aren’t poorer.

Now you can argue that CPI baskets aren’t representative, and I think they often underweight real estate. But that doesn’t mean that you are measuring the wrong thing by using a basket.

It does explain though why the money printing 2008-2019 didn’t translate into CPI inflation, because that money was injected in the financial system, asset prices shot up, asset managers and VC investors got rich, but that didn’t affect main street. In 2020-2022, the pace of money printing massively accelerated and was directly introduced in everyone’s pockets through furlough schemes.
That is not a user experience I expected to read. Making me reconsider my stance on current cloud gaming...
Would it be interesting to do this for all knowledge artefacts? Books, articles, blog posts, blogs. It would create a graph of all these works after all they/respond to each other but also who reads what.
It's part of Un*x folklore, from Ken Thompson when asked what he might have done differently:

Xra Gubzcfba jnf bapr nfxrq jung ur jbhyq qb qvssreragyl vs ur jrer erqrfvtavat gur HAVK flfgrz. Uvf ercyl: "V'q fcryy perng jvgu na r."

Found here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
This happened to me in FIFA

Every time I lost my save, I added a letter to the end.

I am on
GAME SAVE-L

They are using containers I imagine and sometimes they don't sync and get destroyed.

But

Stadia is awesome for me, cheap way to get a console, easy to turn on.
Kids asleep, turn it on, play a game, no moving, all Cloud, all fast.

I hope they don't get rid of it, but I'm expecting they do as always but I really like it.

If they added Steam support, NVIDIA has, then they'd get so much more traffic.
I don't think this is a good analogy.

Not every programming project is a project that takes hundreds of skilled engineers. Not every programming project needs to deliver a product for others to use.

What Aella wants to do is something pretty simple, and it's frustratinc that this is so hard.
I've been using Podchaser, it's less about comments, more about community reviews: https://www.podchaser.com/
from what i understood, that is what they are planning to do, have an official built in language server
It may seem strange to some that the wrath is targeted at those who "destroy the earth", when Revelation is full of visions of angels doing fairly destructive things to the earth, but I think the traditional understanding is that it was the actions (or inactions) of "the nations" that deserved that destruction, so they were ultimately responsible in the sense of being culpable.

It's an interesting point, though, that only in the last 100 years have humans really been able to conceive of "destroying the earth" as something that we are directly capable of.
Dense zoning along transit corridors, with public green spaces left inbetween, can give the best of both worlds, but only if the temptation to fill those green spaces with SFH sprawl is resisted.
Instagram moderators say Iran offered them bribes to remove accounts
Bell often has a good price then an asterisk where you see the price jumps, alot.

Bell sends cold call salespeople to neighbourhoods every 6 months (before the pandemic). They're as bad as Jehovah's Witnesses.

But Bell is literally double for phone and Internet compared to the local cable TV/ISP offers. Plus their reliability and support are abysmal stuff of legends.

My local cable TV Eastlink has a local cable access channel with local hockey games Bell doesn't have that. That was my Dad's key argument and he never saw Bell again.
DeFi’s PoolTogether Crowdfunds Legal Defense with NFT Collection
Radio waves, like laser light, can be directed fairly easily.

However, laser light is absorbed by far more things than is radio, which causes them to rapidly heat objects up much more effectively. Some of these things will catch fire, but if the things are water-filled, the effect is much the same for both radio and laser: the water boils until the steam pressure makes them explode.

For example, eyeballs.

No, if you really want safe beamed power, you probably want something that generally doesn’t interact with normal matter at all, but will act with some specific rare thing that isn’t in your body.

Neutrinos would be great from a safety POV, if only we knew of anything that could absorb them usefully so we could turn them into useful energy at the receiving end.
Python is a mess too! There is pip which works great(if you’re lucky), but then the scientific community moves to a different variant of cinda like every two months, which just isn’t necessary usually and way more complicated than just using pip
Popular podcasts have their own subreddits that discuss each episode. Having a separate app/platform for this is going to be hard to sell.
How big was the population in 1969 compared to now

With bigger population you'll see a greater number of rare events
> The thing that has nagged at you as it has me, is the simple fact that not only was “economics” conjured and molded by and for the interests of the upper echelon of society, to control the language and thoughts about its terms; but that at the core of it, it’s nothing more than fraud, deception, con artistry.

Yeah this true, but I wonder if it's as straightforwardly sinister as that. I'm sure there are a lot of economists, esp in the mid 20th century, who would have liked to turn economics into physics. Some of those ideas are of no real merit after further inspection, but are kept alive by political interests.

You do come across a lot of thought pieces by think tanks, which seem to be more political than science.

> You are given currency coupons in exchange for your work, and then more of those coupons are just forged than correspond to actual work having been done, thereby defrauding you out of the value of your work, also commonly called theft of service.

The problem with that is there are legitimate reasons for printing more coupons, they're just mixed in with less legit reasons.

If people want to exchange more, they need more coupons. Otherwise everyone would have to wait for their income to arrive before sending it on, and while they wait some of the opportunities will vanish. A little bit of creation isn't so bad.
> You appear to be unaware of arena allocation.

That is literally what I described, and named. It appears I appear a lot of things to you that aren't so.

> Anyplace you do, there they are.

My point was, maybe, after all, there aren't that many things that have to be scheduled. And there are other, sometimes better (depending on situation) ways to schedule these things, too.

After all, there is a LOT of value in using plain-old-data without any "scheduled" stuff attached to it. POD is a huge tool for modularization, because it allows to abstract from arbitrary objects to "untyped bytes".

But hey, guess I might go back at some point and use RAII for some things when I've learned enough good ways to avoid them, so I won't tend to paint myself in a corner just because RAII is always easily available.
USA is fighting to get their military base in Japan, despite japanese against it, for some reason no western media is covering it, no wonder they also are pushing for nuclear industry there

I'm pretty sure they are looking to arm Japan again, in prevision of USA invading China in the near future

Some move also in Indonesia, the map is looking interesting!
All you're really saying 'freemail is bad because of abuse, gmail is just too big to fail', which is not a whole lot of news after 25 years on the internet, I guess that's where some of the downvotes come from.
It seems to be a link to an archived site because the original comment has been retracted by the author.
As someone who always throw away web side projects when it's time to do frontend, this looks perfect lol

Thanks for sharing !
Did I miss the previous GitHub announcements about this amidst all the noise about how badly Heroku handled their part of this problem? Or have GitHub been sitting on the specific facts they had a database, email, and hash passwords leaked for over a month now?
Not thinking about the tires is exactly the point. You said it yourself. What are you arguing for then?

The OP prob doesn’t want to enjoy the car. It’s a car. I don’t care about cars either. I don’t enjoy them as much as use them for their purpose of transportation.
Judging by the English it probably is where the authors of the malware are from. It's probably a cultural disconnect issue but there are places in South America, Asia and Africa where you could do this and it would be a big deal to those kids. Often people bring boxes of chocolate in their luggage to hand out to children when they vist these sort of places.

In the US places like that exist as well but under 13s aren't just hanging around to invite out and feed.
> Very jealous

It isn't always Friday 5 PM in Japan.
During the Blitz and through the V-weapon attacks, Germany relied heavily on field agents to let it know what it was really hitting in England. If the agents consistently reported that attacks were striking outer North West London for example, German targets would be adjusted South East to compensate. Like when target shooting.

Except, those agents didn't actually work for the Germans. Twenty Committee (because twenty = XX in Roman Numerals, a Double Cross) had identified all the German agents and offered them either indefinite imprisonment for Espionage, or service as agents feeding bogus information to their German masters (and we can infer, the third alternative was death). You can guess what most of them chose.

Twenty Committee in effect ran German Espionage in WWII. If they had destroyed all these agents the Germans would have known and perhaps, in time, the Germans would have replaced them, but instead the Germans believed they had a working on-the-ground network of agents in Britain.

The point of the story is: "Just" having accurate information when actually somebody else controls your source of intelligence isn't actually having accurate information at all, it means you're a fool. Either you have control or you do not.
This is really cool, thanks for providing such an in-depth view into Zig's comptime features and how you used them!
I think it's a very bizarre assumption to think that running some code you found on the internet will just do exactly what you want right out of the box. That almost never happens.
This is unnecessary. The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit.
Let people say and express whatever they want. Why do you want to censor anything that you "hate" or anything that looks "ideological" to you? I don't see anything wrong with someone supporting BLM or mentioning a verse from the Quran or from the Bible on a technical website. For me, it would be an interesting short read/observation, I don't care if I don't agree, it doesn't matter. If I read a scientific paper from a Chinese researcher that mentions "Glory to the CCP", it would probably give me a short laugh, then I'll just move and focus on my goal (the science).
As a consequence what one should actually strive for, if one is aiming to become a professional software developer, is to have a good process for mastering these types of “configuration” tasks. Understanding why language ecosystems are organized the way they are, understanding the trade-offs involved etc. I believe, will make you a significantly more productive developer.

It’s where I see a lot of junior developers plateauing. They keep “banging their head against the wall until it works” instead of carefully unpacking why things are breaking in order to update their mental models.
Even though some languages allow to use UTF-8 characters in the source code, we don't use it other than commenting.
But sometimes, it's really wired.
If you work in a team with members who don't care about naming, you see some wild variables like this (a little bit exaggerated);

const CONSUTANTO_1 = 100;
if (github.isNotWork()) salaryMan.drinkBiilu()

(BTW, it's 7:30 PM and apparently I'm still working)
Exactly. CC r/PKA for example. It's like how TV Shows have their own subreddits, not just r/television.
You don't need to use any tool, it's a general purpose programming language, so "making a script to analyze csv" requires you to learn the basics of programming and what csv is.

It's not unnecessarily complex, but expecting people to handhold and teach you programming for free when you haven't shown any commitment to learning is silly. If you were to do this, you will essentially be writing programs for clueless people for free and they just move on(they may not learn anything).

If you want to learn programming join a bootcamp or a hacker group or get a formal education(where people will be paid for this).
Shouldn’t occur in a positively inflationary recession. That is behavior that we would expect in a deflationary recession like the prelude to the 2008 period, 2007. If it goes to around 4%, I will start worrying.
While the action may look creepy and KFCs definitely not the healthiest choice, it is donating. You are donating food to someone hungry.
> Are municipal ISPs legal?

Most certainly. Tbaytel, Bruce Telecom, and CityWest are municipally owned. Sasktel, provincially. There are also a number of cooperatives, which has proven to be a nice model as well. My family farm in Canada is connected with fibre, offering gigabit service, by one of those co-ops. Canada's rural internet landscape is half decent as the big players never established themselves there.

> Do they pull the same trick of begging for government money to build rural infrastructure and then never build anything?

Yes, there are some known instances of that.
Jerome Powell announced an important factor for you during the last FOMC meeting: "We can't allow a wage price spiral to happen."

This means that the FED will certainly increase the unemployment rate and put pressure on companies. Why? Because they do not want a 70s type of inflation auto-fueled by wage increases which is actually already the case in the US but not in Europe.

During a time of layoffs, HR uses generally a LIFO (Last In First Out) list. => Changing job adds risk.

As several have noted: Work is not an individual sport (Forget the tv shows). You need allies. Working on your social skills will increase your income faster than changing job. And it will decrease your probabilities to be fire if (when?) a recession hits.
Never seen plain text credentials being logged in systems I've looked at.

PII, sure, even login usernames or email, also sure, but not credentials (plain text passwords, tokens, etc).
Hope you started working there years ago and got that sweet stock gains
Black Mirror meets Mr. Robot.

An interesting reality nevertheless.
Legally that's a very similar argument, yes. You act like that's some sort of 'gotcha' but that's actually a perfect example. I'd be hard pressed to find precedent for any award that wasn't limited to the cost of the film.
>That was the purpose of JS. To "just run" in the browser. It's getting there but very slowly.

It's not getting there, it was ALREADY THERE. Javascript has always "just run" in the browser.

We don't need any of this tooling. Typescript isn't necessary. NPM isn't necessary. None of this is necessary. They're useful, yes, but they shouldn't be mandatory. The simple act of testing some code you found on Github shouldn't require any of it.
"Just call them 'grift'."
I have had a couple of pretty cheap high wattage USB bricks for years (5-6 or so at this point) and none of them have died on me so far. Props to Ugreen, I guess!
I'm one of those learners and this is true to an extent. But there's fantastic people in r/learnprogramming for example. Even better than the Discord of the self-paced bootcamp I'm doing...

But the complexity is real. I'm learning Django, which is supposedly easy, and it's a completely different beast than learning the in and outs of a language. And Django has good documentation, for some libraries it's a mess.
>If you do serious analytics and collaborate with other people you need the data to be stable and not changing under your hands as you work with it.

Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake take care of that. The fact that you're reading a particular snapshot of data does not prevent you from adding, updating or deleting data in the meantime.

Also, your view is super narrow and focuses only on traditional analytics.
Is the passive one more reliable, less to go wrong?
> but I still don't believe this 18 year old kid would have just given up on his plan to seek revenge. What would stop him from ordering or acquiring a machete and doing essentially the same thing?

Nothing stopped him from acquiring any of that but still he waited for his 18th birthday so that he could legally buy guns. If it was made difficult for him to buy guns then probably he would have just dreamt about it and over time given up on it. Most 18 year olds are technically adults but still very very stupid and have no control over their emotions.
The fact that the words bottleneck and hotspot exist doesn't imply that they are common.
Was this incident facilitated by something inherent in the JS ecosystem? I have the impression it wasn't.

The JS ecosystem sucks, but anyway, not particularly their fault in this case.
I am. And there are a lot of good arguments brought up on why web3 is not delivering, a scam, cannot work, churning out C02 and so on.

But the many, lazy oneline comments, even on HN, like "Crypto is a scam" lacking any arguments, body or even basis, do show me an unhealthy amount of "hate" on HN.
Mobile phone plans are linked to this too it's the same players same terrible costs. Canadian mobile phone plans are terrible.
Wow, didn't know they thought it was important enough of a feature to put it in the name of the product. :)