skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is a change in the price level, i.e. an average. TFA argues that inflation is misleading because prices don't change uniformly, and therefore inflation doesn't fully explain every change in the price of every possible commodity and service.

I think it's a straw man argument, because nobody claims that inflation fully explains changes in the prices of commodities. Instead, measuring inflation allows us to decompose these changes into a general component (i.e. inflation) and an idiosyncratic component (i.e. a change in relative prices), which is useful because it gives us more information about the causes of price changes. Inflation is only misleading if you're willingly misinterpreting it.
Show HN: The Concept of a Personal File System
From the article:

> Activity 2: Take five less fortunate children to Dominos, Pizza Hut or KFC for a treat, take pictures and videos, and post them on social media.

It's one of the required activities to allegedly get the decryption key.
Ah. Yes, that may work but I am more like: i activate the program and then use the next ten lines in the terminal to display my 3 input boxes and not all 20 lines the terminal can use. And when I exit the program I am still in the session above and below.
I think the host sign-up flow is a bit odd. I can enter any podcast name and have that trigger an email to the authors of that podcast (multiple times? I hope not).

Seems like it would make more sense that an author could create an account on the site and then link podcasts to it. Triggering an email to podcast authors because I selected their podcast in a drop down feels a bit spammy.
That goes against Tesla's original mission statements:

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-y...

But who knows, 2014 Elon and 2022 Elon seem like two completely different persons.
I'm not a fan of node, but python is horrible in this regard, especially with package management and environments. I'd take "make random js code work" to the python equivalent any day, which is already a bigger challenge nowadays because of the chaos caused by the ES module transition. Other challengers are C++ (because people get creative), C# (1000 different runtimes and library support) and Java (I don't know where to start).

I have a love/hate relationship with Go but this is the area where it shines.
Promising once it has a volume of users. At first though, I imagine it would attract relatively new podcasts that don't yet have established communities.

That said, until it reaches some critical mass which adds value to creators in terms of discovery and community, asking small time creators to fork out 360USD per year is quite a big ask.
I looked into Ansible after reading your comment - I've only ever used it and Puppet for larger-scale stuff so hadn't even thought of using it as a localhost-only playbook. This looks like it could manage my symlinks for me very nicely :) Thank you!
National services are fine too! The reason you have physical fibre in rural Suffolk is because of national broadband subsidies targeted at rural areas.
I could walk from London to New York if the stewards weren't so touchy during take offs and landing.
>Yes, they bloody well did.

Yes, they passed one in 2019.

They didn't pass one in 1990s and they saw the same violence reduction that pretty much all first world countries saw from then till now. So attributing changes in Australia to a 1996 law without noticing the evidence for the same reduction elsewhere without such laws is still the same erroneous logic.

>Cherry-picking and failure to do basic research aren't good for discussion.

Maybe if you read what I wrote "For example, New Zealand didn't pass such a law, but had the same reduction. " and understood that to mean what it says - there was a reduction over that time without such a law. Passing one 20+ years after the fact does not change that those reductions were seen around the world, including New Zealand.

If they pass more next year it doesn't invalidate that without such a law they saw reductions. If they remove all laws in a decade it doesn't change the fact that without such a law they saw reductions. If the world ends it doesn't change the fact that without such a law they saw reductions.

See the difference?

>Please do your part to keep this from deteriorating even further.

Indeed.
All kinds, very often.

They aren't outright denied, just backlogged for years. Need a hip replacement in the UK, and you're a smoker? Good luck trying to get it within a year.

Because it turns out that healthcare is a service, and just making it "free" doesn't magically make it immune to scarcity.
While in Brazil a person very close to me suffered a very destructive paranoid psychotic crisis. We've tried help from the public healthcare but their earliest waiting time was 1 month. I've slept for days at the door because she was convinced there were Russian cameras and radioactive emitters planted at our house and wanted to run away. That person stopped to eat and bath and wasn't thinking rationally. We couldn't wait a month.

It was the worst time of my life. I had to pay a private psychiatrist to treat her. A very good one - we plotted together a plan to partake on her fantasy and administer a risperidone injection which was super effective. She is fine now and visits said doctor once in a year only.

Sure you can go to a general clinic but the doctor will forward you to the proper specialist queue which might take months or even years.
If I "walk along the train while riding it", as the author suggests, I can get from any station to any other station. Taking the tube from Moorgate to Barbican is not the same thing as walking underground, so this article is somewhat misleading.
These are pretty big servers with quite a few features. I haven't seen comparable implementations in go. Are you comparing them to go apps of similar complexity? Also, I'm not sure what you count as startup specifically, but are you sure they're not just doing valid work up front? Servers would normally optimise responses vs startup time.
New Unity offices in Moscow aim to support Russian devs
Valid question IMHO. For instance in German software companies it seems to be fairly common to write code comments and documentation in English (even mostly communicate in English so that employees from other countries don't feel lost), while when I spent a few weeks working in China I noticed that comments and documentation are written in Chinese and communication in English isn't easy (spoken communication, written works quite well). Now I do indeed wonder if this is common for other Far East countries like South Korea and Japan too.
Somewhat related: there used to be a bar on the platform of Sloane Square tube station: https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/london-underground-... now closed, unfortunately!
Okay, but if “everyone” goes out and gets a high paying job, who is leftover to do the jobs that keep us all functioning? Should we just mistreat them because they didn’t watch enough YouTube and “upskill” themselves?
There is zero new knowledge is these threads. I understand the HN crowd relies heavily on GitHub but it feels like Twitter. Anyway, I'm not adding anything too so...
No this is survivor bias, most cars in the 70s and 80s did not make it to 100k.
Typed the first thing that came to my head honestly, thinking about Russia and Ukraine.
For this profile, a fully integrated environment like Squeak/Pharo or Racket would be a better option. Perhaps even just Emacs! :-)

I won't disagree with you about the needless complexity, but OTOH programming does have a certain level of essential complexity, and profanes don't realize that "just upload the CSV" is fundamentally not an easy task; think about what you'd need to do if you were to do it from scratch in assembly. Lines in a text file is not something "the computer" or many OS have a concept of. I think a few developers could ragequit.

Of course, there is the "batteries included" solution - that is gluing together libraries with a simple language. Here I would rather see something like Lua rather than Python because OO is already an interference for normies. This is doable, the particular failures of Python here (or any of the languages I've mentioned) are to blame on Python's ecosystem (perhaps being too normie-friendly is a curse, because you sometimes end up with poorly done tools and libs - I see it in Lua too).

One last word: I learned programming from books alone with Basic (back in the days when phones had wires and I didn't have to shave). The books provided the source of simple games that I were to type in (Basic was a CLI but you could list and edit lines, better than the "Python Box" :-), test and then hack. This is a much easier approach than starting from scratch, and by the end of the Twitter thread it seems that this is what this person eventually came to - people would give them a basic program they could hack.
fractional nfts never took off.

the meta is collector daos.
You’re quite active and emotional in this thread, but you failed to do basic math, or just didn’t read the article. It’s not 200/y, it’s 210 in 10 years. That tells something you need to know as well, those little details.
The author encounters four problems trying to approach a programming task:

1) A problem common to every programming language (feature introduction/deprecation compatibility conflicts w.r.t. import/require)

2) A security issue around browser filesystem access (not-JS related at all: HTTP content-type sniffing)

3) A usability issue with the VSCode IDE (not JS related)

4) A bug in a single JS module

Concludes this is all the fault of "modern Javascript", gives up.

> What hope do actual novices have?

Programming is a profession requiring learning from experience - if a novice doesn't have the patience to overcome very small speedbumps like this on a daily basis while learning a new domain, this might not be a good path for them.

Don't get me wrong, there's A LOT about the modern JS ecosystem that could be improved from a UX perspective, but... it's not these things. I don't think any of the 4 bullets above are avoidable: (1) is a painful but necessary migration incompatibility is an unfortunate reality, the only alternative of which is to stagnate and never introduce/deprecate breaking features ever. (4) is human error - it happens. The others aren't JS-related at all.
Why not? SMTP is nothing if not a robust queuing system and surely procmail or your MDA of choice should be able to rig something up.
> (increasingly large) interest

https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

The 30-year yield is 2.97%. The way you read those figures from the 30-year line is that the US can borrow $98.19 today, and have to pay back $100 plus a $2.88 coupon in 30 years. That's not a lot of interest. And if it weren't for the use of interest rates to fight inflation, it could potentially be driven lower.

If the US could borrow $100 today and pay back $99 in 30 years, a negative rate, what would be the right amount to borrow?

The USD is safe because the borrowing is:

- in dollars
- from Americans (to a great extent; "In June 2021 approximately $20.9 trillion of outstanding Treasury securities, representing 74% of the public debt, belonged to domestic holders. Of this amount $6.2 trillion or 22% of the debt was held by agencies of the federal government itself")
- matched by real economic growth still
- and the US has adequate domestic oil production for its needs

There undoubtedly is a limit, but we're not seeing warning signs yet.
In Europe Ford has plans for an electric Transit with a 230 mile range. Having driven both types of vehicle I don't fully understand American's obsession with the pickups. For the same amount of footprint the Transit holds more stuff in a more secure manner, just a much more practical drive. Is off-roading that important?
why does fractional ownership diminish utility?
If you want to make an informed decision, you have to consider the entire period not just the later years.
I strongly disagree.

The dream is that you can deliver a project for 100 hour pricing in 10 hours of work, but usually value based pricing means you'll be spending 200 hours on something that was initially valued at a 100 hour level and there are no one to bill the OT to.
> A chat room in matrix is like an append only log with rules about precedence to ensure even when federated the resulting state of the room makes sense.

Doesn't sound very complicated, yet?

> The json encoding is large and seemingly under defined.

Examples?
One year later: A non-coders experience of 'everybody codes' culture
You can default on your sovereign debt.

Argentina does it every 10 years or so, and the next day after default banks line up to credit it again.

Greece practically (but not technically) defaulted in the 2012 European debt crisis.

China owns a lot of US debt. Now they are starting to question how wise that is.
And some queries, like, max(col) could be answered without touching the data…
In retrospect the Spark authors should have had a licence that forbids cloud providers from running their own hosted services.
> but those labour only decided to contribute their labour because they are guaranteed a wage - which is capital being spent.

That's only capital being spent if the company is not profitable. Otherwise, it's just reinvesting revenue back into the business. And a company that is going bankrupt may well become unable to pay employees' promised wages, which does happen occasionally.

> If you put up a job offer, where your wage is tied to the profitability of the business (aka, if you worked but the business didn't make any revenue or profit, you don't get paid), then you'd find that there aren't many who would take this offer.

While there are definitely people who are not happy with this kind of arrangement, it's not entirely unheard of either. Early stage start-ups often hire people on equity instead of wages; and co-ops where all (or most) workers are owners and only get paid if the business is successful also exist.
You can have the threads cooperate, distributing from those that got extra to those that were unlucky.
My response was to your false equivocation of JKLF and HSRA. If you want to talk about Yasin Malik, he was convincted after he pled guilty. Complaining about kangaroo courts in this instance is particularly bizzare.
I wonder if the quality of other data processing frameworks is also getting 'good enough' for many use-cases, and they often have less complexity than Spark. With Hadoop, many companies bought clusters because they thought they needed them, but they rotted because people didn't actually have suitable workloads. Does Databricks have a similar risk? Just based on users of our Python reporting framework[0] we are starting to see Dask/Ray displacing some workloads that would have been in Spark a few years ago. How quickly things progress in that space (e.g. Arrow/DuckDB[1]) is pretty incredible to watch.

[0] https://github.com/datapane/datapane

[1] https://duckdb.org/
Do you think those increases truly make up the huge gap between productivity increase and hourly wage increase? What's more, do you think most of near median earners get any significant benefits?

I don't think article is necessarily wrong in pointing out the huge gap when most big total comp increases only seem to apply to the upper middle class. At the very least, I don't think Pizza Friday is going to make up that huge gap.
5% is a fairly trivial loss, especially as PV is usually cheaper than 95% the price of most non-renewable alternatives.

The main limit to long distance, even genuinely global[0], electrical power grid is that it would take several years of current global metal mining to build. But we don’t have to do it all at once, so even this isn’t really a show-stopper.

[0] 5% loss per Mm is 64% loss over 20 Mm with existing HVDC products, and yet because you can place the PV in the globally optimal location where it costs $US13.5/MWh at source and therefore $US37.5/MWh on the antipode, it’s still cheaper. But even for just the electricity worldwide today you need to think in terms of square meters of cross section, and that’s a lot of metal to mine.
I strongly believe that ideas like culture, democracy, collaboration, opensource tech, and "doing the work" are stronger and more powerful forces than military enforcement.

i dont think that for aesthetic reasons. It IS more robust, there is a better chance of survival.
I didn't, but I am here to learn things: can someone please explain the reference?

TIA.
Bell had fibre to the door installed in my neighbourhood. I had a very fun time watching a low quality salesperson’s head gears grind to a halt when I explained I will gladly pay a premium to never do business with Bell ever.

Bell and Rogers are predatory and awful to work with. Never ever be swindled by low-looking prices. You pay for it with low-quality service.
Also, some people don’t have an “inner voice”. I don’t hear words when I read them. Sometimes I miss puns if I don’t go back and sound them out.
Not everyone lives in a city or near a bike path one can bike on to work/school/kindergarten. Not everyone lives close to public transportation..

So now you want me to not to use a car? I can't bike 60 km to work on public roads.
Depends. In Bolton I had the choice of OpenReach, Virgin and CityFibre. Three physical lines to the house.
opensea seems to be doing this internally already. is this tool necessary if most exchanges will flag copycats for you?
CIA forecasting model predicts change in US-China relations
> Inflation can be thought of as a high dimensional vector with dimensions equal to the number of objects you buy with money.

No, that's just the changes in individual prices.

Inflation is the change in the price level, and it has always been that. Nobody has changed subreptitiously the definition of inflation in order to rip you off.
It's super super common for people to recover from covid, be okay for a few weeks or even months and then lapse into long covid. In fact, it's relapse-remitting for many people. If you have symptoms of dysautonomia, this can be barely symptomatic until you do something that triggers an exaggerated sympathetic nervous system response.
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.

That’s all inflation is too, fraud that if you would commit it, e.g., you added filler to some product you delivered or forged signatures on delivery paperwork, you would be punished for.

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.
If word gets out that fullfilling those requests does not get your data back, no one would do it after the first attempt.

For a no profit hack, honoring the promises would lead to funnier/more interesting situations.
> but the money is simply deleted

What an interesting idea. Is there any historical precedent for actually deleting/destroying money?
> What kind of treatments? How regularly?

In the UK there is a department called NICE which uses health economics to understand how to best utilize the funding for the national health service to best improve health outcomes (generally measured by increasing QALY or Quality-Adjusted Life Years, but there are multiple measures in reality). This means that if there is a £500k treatment that could save the lives of a 70 year old, but there is a £1m treatment that could save the life of a 20 year old, and there is only budget for one, it would go to the £1m treatment because it has the biggest impact on QALY.

So the treatments that don't get approval are usually those that have a poor return. Note that it's usually the whole treatment that gets approved / denied rather than particular patient (or it is approved for a particular subset of people).

The other issue is capacity - so for instance, if there is only a limited capacity to perform MRI scans, then triage is required.
Isn't that's how most LSP servers are implemented? I'm only vaguely familiar with clangd.
Yellow & Green striped is the IEC standard for earth here in Europe AFAIK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60446#Protective_earth_and...
Epictetus' The Enchiridion aka The Handbook, 1st instruction, compare the last para here with the last para above (different translators);

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered. You will lament, you will be disturbed, and you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you suppose that only to be your own which is your own, and what belongs to others such as it really is, then no one will ever compel you or restrain you. Further, you will find fault with no one or accuse no one. You will do nothing against your will. No one will hurt you, you will have no enemies, and you will not be harmed.

Aiming therefore at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself to be carried, even with a slight tendency, towards the attainment of lesser things. Instead, you must entirely quit some things and for the present postpone the rest. But if you would both have these great things, along with power and riches, then you will not gain even the latter, because you aim at the former too: but you will absolutely fail of the former, by which alone happiness and freedom are achieved.

Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, "You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be." And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

Reference: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
Are you in a large city or rural area? Rural prices in Canada are extortionate, and the commenter your are replying to, their price is is likely in a City
Only if the main virtue in your life is money.
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s carbon credit crypto project sounds like a scam