skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The econ 101 version of economics is dominant in popular thought. You see it everywhere in newspapers.

If only. Rent control wouldn’t exist. Policies that couldn’t pass any sane cost benefit trade off would be abolished. There would be a smooth, graduated marginal tax schedule. There would be congestion taxes on traffic.

The world would be incredibly different if Econ 101 was widely
understood.
Can I assume that the author of this ransomware is American or at least is very immersed in American culture? Because the activities listed sound very America-centric. I've never seen someone actually sleeping roadside in the cold, and since we have universal healthcare, I've also not heard of someone dying in the hospital because their loved ones couldn't gather up enough money.

I guess I might as well just smash my hard drive with a hammer if I get this.
I would imagine this is mostly the domain of on-call engineers/SREs (wasn't this historically a problem that was fixed by a reboot?) and you have to assume that you're going to be called at 4AM on a Saturday morning. So even booking vacation when you're on shift is risky, and unfortunately that means someone has to work public holidays. Good companies will give you a day off in lieu.

Having done on-call work, the most annoying bugs are the ones that you feel could be automated (especially when the pager goes off when you're asleep). Not to say that I hope these guys get called out, but it's the nature of the job.
I had started playing Skyrim on an XBOX360. A few years later I got it for my pc as well. I was amazed when I found out I could easily extract the save file form the console and use it on the PC version of Skyrim without any issues! Best part is that I was running Skyrim (and the extraction tools) on Linux under wine (this was before proton even).
There is https://www.hydra-cg.com in this space, which I've not even quite understood!

Also https://comunica.dev

I think the goals of these go beyond basic API specification and client generation.
I think you might be unlucky or buying low-quality models. I have a 100W Minix NEO P2 that was one of the first GaN chargers available near me and it's still going strong 2 years later.

I also have a 60W Satechi travel charger that's been powered-on 24/7 for 3 years now without the slightest hint of a problem. It's even been buried under cushions for hours at a time.

The only charger I've had actually die was a Hama-branded device. Hama is the cheapest possible Chinese junk the brand can find.
Entire lack of ownership is the whole point of points. If they wanted you to have something you could own, you would get dollars.
> straightforwardly sinister

If the impact is sinister, then debating the motive just extends the duration of the pain experienced.

Motives matter at the time of trial - when the action and pain are over. Until then, debating motive is just a distraction from stopping the unjust activity.
They never even got to the point of running the code because of Node's bullshit, which is the point.
I actually have a 100W GaN charger for my 100W Razer Stealth 13''.
Super compact and great for travel. The new Razer models actually come with the GaN charger included!
I need some ELI5 explaining to: colstores allow you to pick out just the cols of data you need rather than get the full row and discard what you don't need.

If that alone explained the 100X speedup that would mean the row is storing 99% of data that's not of interest to a query. That would a) be unlike pretty most table structures + queries I've ever seen, but in those cases cases such as when a fat blob is stored in the row, you hive off blobs to a separate table and only join to that when blob's wanted.

I'm missing something big here.
I thought the article made a lot of noise about very little.

Sure, inflation reports the change in price of an average basket, and some prices in the basket might have gone up a lot, and some down a lot. But that is a different issue, and not inflation.

The basket is carefully constructed to mirror what the average consumer consumes. Thus, the inflation of the basket measures how much more the average consumer has to spend on his consumption. That is certainly a useful number.

To your further points:

- [...] The models are not made properly, and there's a lot of hand-waiving.

I'd disagree, you must have come across the wrong models. Theoretical economics has many beautiful models precisely laid out. For example, the Arrow-Debreu equilibrium model [1] utilises "the Kakutani fixed-point theorem on the fixed points of a continuous function from a compact, convex set into itself." I doubt that any engineer can find fault with the specification of that model. Similarly, the Heckscher–Ohlin model of international trade is well specified and yields five informative theorems [2].

To which extent those models reflect, or can be applied to, the real world is an entirely different question of course.

Then there is empirical economics, a whole different ball park. But if you look at national accounts [3], for example, all those measurements are defined in excruciating detail, and there are books just dedicated to define the terms correctly.

- The pop-sci version of economics is a bunch of easy quips

Agreed. Some of them are more informative than others.

- The econ 101 version of economics is dominant in popular thought.

Yes, and that is quite bad, and is often exploited particularly by the political right, the business-friendly laissez-faire libertarians. James Kwak calls this Economism, and he has a great book about it [4].

- Inflation [...] can't look at it as a single figure.

Again, to the extent that it reflects the price increase for the consumption basket of an average consumer: yes, it is an interesting and important number, and in particular, it is one number. Obviously, with more numbers a more nuanced discussion is possible.

- Relative price changes are what matter in society.

Sure, they matter. But inflation in itself really matters also, per se.

By the way, Keynes pointed out that inflation need not be a bad thing. One thinks it is obviously bad because the average consumer has to pay more for his basket, thus can afford less of it. However, if there was, for example, a fiscal stimulus in the wake of a recession, and that leads to everyone having more money at their disposal, and aggregate demand rising, then there will be a new equilibrium with more demand, more supply, and higher prices (=inflation), but the average consumer having more of their basket than before. Good, not bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow–Debreu_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher–Ohlin_model#Conclusi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_accounts

[4] https://economism.net/
For once, I don't think this highlights an issue exclusively specific to JS.. this could've happened to any package system that Github owned when the attacker was able to pivot after accessing the private repos.
Only if the buyers pay for it. Most of the time support is billed separately.
Here we go:

const toBinary = (() => {
const u64 = new BigUint64Array(1);
const u8 = new Uint8Array(u64.buffer)
u8[0] = 255;
const decoder = new TextDecoder();

return (number) => {
u64[0] = 0n;
u8[0] = number; // We're assuming little-endian architectures
u64[0] = (((u64[0] * 0x8040201008040201n) >> 7n) & 0x0101010101010101n) + 0x3030303030303030n
return decoder.decode(u8)
};
})()
And? Bitcoin is already consuming tons of energy while not being anywhere close to what our current system is doing

And not only in context of storing and sending money around.

There is still no fraud detection or account recovery or any other protection in place.

And all that while Bitcoin has not even a strategy on how you would be able to onboard everyone on the Blockchain fair and square. Everyone joining Bitcoin after someone else has less value.

No one will be dumb enough to start trading their fiat with crypto in the long run.

And clearly you don't know how banking works with your suspicion.
These systems are less efficient than even mediocre cables.

But if you could affordably construct a continental scale vacuum tube, you could do much better than even a good existing industry standard cable: Vacuum is a good insulator, so you can put any superconducting cable you like in the middle of the vacuum tube and keep it cold with minimal cost.

In principle you could even do away with the cable, by shooting electrons down the tube and collect them at the other end. No resistance so this is a room-temperature superconductor (non-quantum, I believe the term is "ballistic superconductor").
I had an interesting conversation the other day with our delivery manager and two other developers from another team, who had a wildly different than me assessment of a recent candidate.

Their argument was that he didn't know this and that and how is it that I deemed him worthy?

I interjected by saying that during these 30min I get to ask questions I don't have nearly the time to check one's skills throughly. And the same is true for them.

The most I can achieve in this timeframe is check whether the person won't be actively harmful to the project by e.g. being a charlatan or just malicious.

This was news to the delivery manager and they didn't approve of that.

I refrained from replying that our rates vs the market don't really put us in a position to be picky.

But I did tell them that I worked with "net negative" people(with examples) and it's really not about the skills at the moment of hiring.
Pretty good and simple explanation, thanks a lot!

There are a couple of things I‘m left wondering:
When the SNS is used to notify through Email, Push or SMS then even in the fan-out pattern, no SQS is involved on these paths, right? (seems to me that only on A2A paths SQS would be involved, at least from the diagrams) So is there anything else to help with reliability there that the notifications actually do go out?

For workloads where you e.g. want to alert users through different means, not every user might have the same options selected, e.g. some only Push and others SMS and EMail; would that be modeled through different topics which have different combinations of subscribers attached (some only 1) or would it be better to skip SNS and push multiple messages to different queues directly?
That's a hilarious idea, but good luck writing the netcode to that!
My car loan just increased the interest rate I have to pay due to "increased costs". I had no idea they could do that (yeah, didn't read the fine print). I'm pretty sure consumer goods' creditors are doing just fine with rising inflation!
It's cheap and there's little responsibility for selling crap. Amazon is the only site I'm aware of where you can actually somewhat judge the quality of a product through reviews, and those too are often dodgy as hell. Otherwise it's all just the same fake pictures and outright lies about specs. And nobody cares because it's cheap.

Companies selling under brands want a premium for them (Anker, Aukey) and "no name brands" you can actually put a little confidence into (Ugreen, Blitzwolf) are, for some reason, rare.
Biotech co-founder arrested on murder-for-hire charges
Some podcasts have reddit boards, some are mainly discussed on Twitter, some run Slack Channels, some publish on Youtube and use its live commentary in the chat - most use a mix of these.

I appreciate this is a bit like the "we have 14 competing standards" XKCD, but there's a deeper, underlying problem that Podbabble tries to tackle: The majority of podcast discussion is either too general (i.e. debating the hashtag of a show as opposed to a specific episode), ephemeral (i.e. Twitter or live chat where discussion only happens within a few hours of episode release) and its almost always distributed (some on Reddit, some here, some there.)

Podcasting - albeit still comparatively tiny) is the fastest growing medium and I am confident that having a central, purpose built place for listener engagement will add value to the ecosystem.
If economists accept that there are winners and losers in society, they will never agree on a single theory. Therefore, the most successful economic theory, neoclassical economics, rejects that assumption, despite it being factually wrong. It is successful precisely because it can be agreed by all economists.
It looks like it'd work pretty well if you're listening to them at the same site - so comments are tagged with the timestamp, soundcloud-esque.

I can kinda see the logic - unfortunately sitting in front of my computer is my least favourite way to consume podcasts - and the workflow seems to break down quickly once you disassociate the two.
I literally have a bell flyer nailed to a post beside my front door as a “I obviously already have one. Stop dropping more off.”

It’s got to be the most passive aggressive thing I’ve ever done.
With hyperinflation yes, because then there are only real incomes, prices (and debts) become meaningless. A plumber can fix the toilet for a carpenter who makes a doorframe for the plumber, they don't need a number if they can agree those services are worth the same. Thus real incomes are still real.

With merely high inflation you still have insecurity. Many salaries are not inflation indexed (I struggle to think of anyone I know), so the only way to maintain your budget is to get a new job. For many lines of work, especially at the lower end of the scales, that's utterly unappetizing, and people would rather pressure their union to push up salaries.
Mostly I write my own firmware to improve my C++ skills :)
https://github.com/oblitum/caps2esc
A long time ago when I was freelancing (as a student, writing software) the company I had been working with for a whiole suddenly decided to not let me write up hours for meetings that were basically requirements/planning because they wanted to treat it like a pitch or informal business meeting or whatever (media agency). That's when I wrapped up the month and never worked with them again.
Maybe, but it sounds too difficult, why not just force people to pay in XMR and byebye.
> It's not like arbitrary jackasses can get behind the wheel of these vehicles anyways... there is a reason a commercial licensing program exists.

The problem isn't "arbitrary jackasses", the problem is the relentless pace modern truckers are put through. Utterly insane demands for just-in-time delivery that have absolutely no margin left for inevitable delays or completely unrealistic schedules that many drivers compensate for by driving longer than allowed. Add on that drivers who self-medicate the loneliness on the road with alcohol, dope or other stuff and that explains a majority of the accidents that could be (or are) prevented with collision avoidance systems.

The remainder are irresponsible other motorists who think it's a great idea to merge 2m in front of a truck after overtaking it - yeah of course, the truck driver will be widely awake now, thank you very much...
Inflation the scalar product (inner product) of the vector of price changes and the vector of basket quantities, with the former being uniform for the entire market, but the latter being different for different consumers, which is why an "average" basket is chosen for the official inflation number.
This is why a lot of our internal tools are in Dear ImGUI - it's just such a pleasure to make functional UI that still looks acceptable with 5% of the code.
Apple cares about its brand. Chinese no name vendors don't at all, it's horrifying what plain illegal corner-cutting they often engage in. But that's of course what they're rewarded for.
You're a vector.
Why is it so difficult to abandon old myths? One reason is that these myths are used to rationalize social order. Take, as an example, the Earth’s orbit. It took the Catholic church nearly 400 years to admit that the Earth revolves around the sun. Why so long? Because the church’s power was at stake. The church tied its dogma — and hence its authority — to a geocentric view of the universe.

Faced with a challenge to its authority, the church acted predictably. After convicting the heliocentric proponent Galileo of heresy in 1633, the church banned heliocentric teachings for another two centuries (until 1822). It took another 170 years for the church to formally admit (in 1992) that Galileo was right. Think about that. Almost four centuries of denial for an idea that had no effect on daily life. All because it threatened the authority of those with power. The lesson here is simple. When ideas challenge authority, evidence will be ignored, denied and suppressed.

That brings me to economics.
A video taken down, then found on review – twice – to have been taken down in error, then on the third review to have been taken down correctly, where the video in question is definitely not violating the policy it's under review for. I'm curious what sort of review procedure could lead to this sequence of events. Why would Youtube invest enough resources to evaluate a video four times, but do it so poorly?

It seems to indicate a lack of communication in each review of how thoroughly the video was evaluated. By the third time round, there should have been a note attached saying something along the lines of "I watched this entire video looking for keygens, patchers, or anything that might be a circumvention. There are none. This is a legitimate review of the product in question and nothing more."
As per my understanding - They differ in how their organisations are structured. Alma is mostly backed and supported by CloudLinux Inc, for whom, CentOS formed the basis of their commercial software. Rocky is a more grassroots affair - founded by some of the original CentOS founders.

I’ve not used either distribution yet, so I cannot comment on how their documentation and community differ.
That’s only the case if there are only two articles. In general you’d be looking at the difference of two order statistics (of the uniform distribution). You could probably approximate this quite well as a Poisson process though (since there are so many articles) and so have exponentially distributed gap size.
Universal healthcare is well overrated in the US.

From a country that had it, it usually means: ugly hospitals, sad faces, long queues for treatments (I mean wait time for "free" treatment can be well over a year).

There is no free lunch.

On the other hand, I usually can get my kid to doctor same day, while using private healthcare provider (paid by my employer) it is almost impossible, 2-3 days wait.

On yet another hand, to get registered to my local doctor I need to use phone and start calling when they open up (8am) - sometimes I can't get to registration. The private healthcare has a normal website where I can look up registrations - so it is less time consuming (and automateable to some degree).

Private hospitals are rare here, and most of real work is done by public ones. Because the hospitals don't have enough money, they e.g. don't provide separate meals for people that need them (e.g. you had a digestive tract operation), so it is up for the family.

Good thing recently is that if your kid needs to go to hospital, there might beds for parent to stay with the kid (I'm not sure if that is that common in all hospitals)
Any plans for supporting ruby as well? It seems that there is an OpenWhisk runtime for that.
You used GBP so I assume you are from UK; I think that UK and US jurisprudence differ a lot here. In UK compensations almost always only cover provable financial loss (unless there is explicit statute saying otherwise, for example injuries), while US is more willing to assign value to emotional damage and inflict punitive compensation.
Try http://deno.land - think of it as sequel to node (written by same guy who created node, aiming to fix mistakes of the past - e.g. deno does not use NPM)
Modern football through the lens of René Girard
From my layman's perspective, this is an analogue to Amazon's "Aurora with Postgres compatibility" [0]. Can anyone provide a more accurate comparison?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora
>The Reddit for podcast episodes is Reddit.

Yes and this is the problem, reddit is reddit and the comment-quality is terribly low, often toxic and dominated by a certain ideology that is particularly dominant and vocal on reddit in particular. I think this has potential if they manage to keep the comment quality higher, somehow.
For people not following Tether has redeemed over 10 billion dollars over past couple weeks (this is their claim, I personally don't know how to verify if it's true). Is this a move to somehow recapitalize? I'm kind of surprised they were even able to redeem 10 billion but they have to be hurting
This just a gay conversion therapy propaganda piece. Please don't post this homophobic crap on HN.

I don't usually comment on votes on HN, but weirdly, this comment got two downvotes immediately after posting. And I guess no response because the posting of the article is indefensible.
> I've also not heard of someone dying in the hospital because their loved ones couldn't gather up enough money.

It's more like "having to postpone treatment so long that it doesn't work."

The same also applies if you have to fight with scheming insurance companies.

The government, all of us, have most to gain from a healthy society. And a dead person couldn't care less about their health. It's about time our systems reflect that!
What is next? Be healthy ransomware? Forcing people to exercise on camera, for keys?
Well I think the first is kind of what orgdown is trying to do. https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/ As for the second doesn't guile have a feature complete elisp implementation?
I think you’re underestimating the impact of non-wage compensation, even for normal, middle class jobs. Your “pizza Fridays” is a pretty flippant way to describe things like health insurance, retirement benefits, etc.

When you add up the share of income that goes to employees, total compensation growth keeps up with productivity growth.

https://www.nber.org/digest/oct08/total-compensation-reflect...
> Markets can get messy during periods of mass liquidations but the risk is knowable, and it's in the size of the insurance fund.

The risk of a Tether collapse is knowable?

> Counterparty risk exists in every traded market, not just crypto.

Sure, and I’d avoid any of them whose daily operations are based heavily on a known fraudulent actor, too.
Not an EE, but it's a consumer product sold through non-shady channels, so it's presumably very safe.
That is why you always put down a foil-mat underneath laptop !
That however is not how the linux kernel guarantee of the stability of userspace APIs works.
Automate REST APIs
I wish to see this also for macOS, iOS and Android.
And who was leading that effort? When executing, hard decisions get propagated to the top and leaders like Jassy have to make the toughest decisions that result in moving the trajectory of the company/project. This can create or destroy a lot of value.
"ether-rot-mutex" could be the name of a cryptocurrency for all I know.
The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.
"I found that, ironically, common sense isn't all that common around here"
I'd like to see more of this.

It astounds me that software dev, historically seen as a field with and for "poor communicators", somehow believes its interviewers can do what top psychologists consider almost impossible to do. Same happens across almost every industry, but really, tech? "Cold hard logic" tech somehow became "yeah we can totally psychoanalyze someone in 30 minutes by talking"?

Worse, the lack of structure across the entirety makes it more of a lottery and a guessing game which is more or less sold as one's personal (in)capabilities. It's far more harmful than people make it out to be.
If only there had been some central planning so that three houses could have been provided with physical fibre instead of one house getting physical fibre three times...
U.N. World Food Programme is a better choice. You won't be accused of Comet Pizza atrocities, though to QAnon anything U.N. is a problem.