skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no such thing as ‘the economy’. There is only ‘lots of people making independent decisions’

Inflation is a measurement one of the observable effects of all of those decisions over time. Businesses deciding how to set prices and when to offer discounts and what products or services to offer. Customers deciding what businesses to purchase from.

Inflation isn’t something that ‘does things’. It is a thing that happens.

And inflation alone isn’t a very interesting number - what really matters is economic activity.

Like, if Alice sells widgets for $10, and Bob has $100 to budget for widgets, he’ll buy ten widgets.

If Alice increases her prices by 10%, if Bob can’t also increase his widget budget, he’s going to wind up only buying 9 widgets. But if Bob also finds he can increase his budget by 10% he’ll still go ahead and buy 10 widgets.

The distinction you’re making above is just between cases where the same degree of inflation is accompanied by different changes in economic activity.

And the causal relationships between inflation and economic growth are not simple, linear, universal, or unidirectional.
those are well in the range of 'market correction' and not 'market crash', though. hell, those aren't even recession numbers.

had this discussion with my friend just last night when he tried blaming our current market on our current administration.

our ecomony was _heavily_ propped up by the fed during the pandemic. the market needed to correct itself eventually once the propping stopped.
The lengths people will go to avoid the gun question.

It doesn't make much sense to me. A, the reason for having bullet proof glass still exists because of the guns. B, if that justification made sense, why start at bullet proof and not any transparent barrier, like plexiglass?
I want to love this. I think we desperately need the "new heroku" and this touches on that.

BUT, it takes 24 separate commands to launch a "quick start" rails app. Hopefully this is just a alpha/beta experience, and the idea is get these going a little easier?

And once I launch it, what AWS resources are being used? How much should I expect this quick start rails app to cost me? Having a hard time figuring that out.
When a strong lobby is pulling the strings of judicial decisions like in this case, there is no limit other than the fact that UK doesn't have the death penalty.
I got that initial impression too but I think parent is actually addressing each party and saying, there’s room for them to change their sacred stances.
Systemd still has no dependency order. You still use Requires=, After= ,etc. Otherwise it'll start when it starts.

I don't think dependency order is particularly valuable in the real world. Manually specifying order imposes a strictness upon reality that isn't there. Most apps are messy and starting a system tends to be a messy affair in of itself.

The much simpler solution to specifying services to start in order is to write a script and have one big service start and terminate them.

But I can't really imagine a real world scenario where that is somehow better than just giving each service the dependency definitions it needs.

edit: the simpler solution to compiling the kernel is just blacklisting the module. Then bluetooth won't be loaded obviously. Though not everything can be a module, in practise I've found it to be rare that I was looking for a kernel option to be enabled that wasn't in my distro (but then again, I run most of my personal stuff on archlinux, which ships a near default config of the kernel anyway).
There's also neon, and wheat.

As for gas, we can see how overt declarations about going off carbon fuels are squaring against reality where German leaders are practically crawling up Putins ass in the middle of the war to ensure harmoneous future cooperation with a country that has only carbon fuels.
>Estonian here, the situation is getting quite bad indeed, particularly when it comes to petrol/energy prices, which of course has the domino effect of driving up other goods and services in the mid to long term.

People always focus on the price of gas in America, since it's a large expense and they commute a lot, but no one seems to talk about the effect it has on the prices of anything shipped in a vehicle that uses petrol.

Then again, some Americans do things like fill up across the border and freak out when between CAD sometimes having a 25 percent difference and them using pricing in liters not gallons, they paid many multiples of what they intended than much less fuel than they thought they got, despite having clear information on pricing, volume, and approximate currency value.

(It might be a 25 percent difference, but if you looked on your phone or in a currency shop, the difference for currency traders versus the public was only a few percent, it didn't jump around by double digits in a single day, and often if the difference was small people just would take the same amount as CAD in USD to be polite, when they could rightfully tell you pay in CAD, or get out of my shop, I'm not your friend you weird little Pennsylvanian.)
Just saying "36000 die" by itself doesn't tell me very much about how dangerous it is - expressing that as a percentage gives much more information I think.

As another person points out 0.03% is 3 times the risk of dying in traffic which, before looking at the numbers, I would have guessed to be the most dangerous aspect of a trip like this.

You seem to think I am being trite and using a "dry presentation" of statistics to minimise the risks of being murdered by a cartel but I actually find this presentation brings the (large) risk of it home to me much more clearly than with a contextless number like 36,000.

E.g. for the UK the numbers are 0.001% murders and 0.003% for traffic
https://hoogle.haskell.org/ can be helpful for this
For all the data driven ethos that execs tout, this is one area where decisions seem to be made at the whim rather than derived from data. I've seen many places where the business performance equals pre-pandemic years, with no discernable change to engineering velocity and hiring applications only increasing (albeit with a hit on conversion, go figure) and yet the execs stubbornly insist on return to office because "we believe it is better for all of us", "we need to bond and build community", "we need to see each other's faces" or some shit like that.
I'm sure CPI calculations include the frequency of consumption too. You eat a kebab every day, but buy glasses maybe once in two years.
I would venture that sellers overwhelmingly prefer stable prices to increasing prices. Rising prices require adjustment, which requires resources, and makes you the focus of customers' ire for what amounted to trying to keep things running the same. Meanwhile, any seller raising prices is setting up for a short- or long-term substitution effect away from their products.
The world has only gone downhill ever since medieval, centralised power structures disintegrated right? Are you following what you preach, and living in a non-democratic country?
> Food, Fuel, Housing - You know, the basics.

So, exactly what the HICP contains then [1]?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Bad news for the Auto glass replacement businesses.
I'm just talking about end devices here (source/sink).
Buy a thesaurus, then use it.
How are you using progressivism here? I ask because it seems to have a lot of different meanings depending on who is using it.
Interesting to see how, but doesn't mean you should.
Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment or privacy, quite the contrary in fact.
Connect how "more policing" does not logically equate to spending more money. Are people going to volunteer to be police officers now?
This is a really consistent pattern in HN comments.

Someone says, "X isn't producing the results people who advocate for X wanted." Then someone else inevitably chimes in, "X was never intended to produce those results from the beginning! It was a plot to benefit a few at the expense of everyone else all along!" X is variously Capitalism, Communism, in this case Progressivism...

What is the point of making comments like this? It seems very useless and gets us no further towards a discussion of things that might work.

Please drop the rote attempts at agitation. Agitation has never motivated anyone to make the world better. Only a vision of how things could be instead can do that.
Cowen's a bit late on this one. Keyword spam filters worked for a while back in the 90s.

He should use his fine economic mind to understand what about SMTP email was so encouraging to spammers, or maybe what moral failings lead one to become a spammer. Because spamming ruined several modes of communication and it would be worthwhile to understand how to avoid spamming in future protocols.
If you want to call wars mass murders, that’s your call. I support complete defeat of ISIS/ISIL to the last member. Seems like you have a rhetorical axe to grind, mass murders sounds like a dog whistle to the people with anti-US sentiments. Not an objective argument.
It doesn’t matter where the budget comes from. The US funds primary education very well - as well as many of our European counterparts (despite our worse outcomes).
Mainly because in the case of Estonia, for example, they don't use aggressive rhetoric toward Russia but are threatened anyway. Finland has continuously been threatened during this time despite 70+ years of balancing both the Soviet Union and NATO and while more culturally compatible with NATO they spent a lot of effort to be friendly and neutral with the USSR.

Georgia was invaded in 2008 [1].

> don't deploy NATO weapons and feel okay?

Estonia and other countries near Russia historically didn't really have a ton of NATO weapons deployments specifically because NATO wasn't intent on aggravating Russia. Training exercises from time to time because they're allies but that's about it. Troop buildups and weapons deployments have strictly been in response to the war in Ukraine which was launched by Russia. Sovereign states have the right under international law (law that Russia signed by the way) to choose their own defense arrangements and conduct their own affairs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
They have the largest percentage of their budget but not the largest in absolute terms.

https://www.statista.com/chart/10593/how-much-do-us-cities-s...
Does your mail service not have a temporary forwarding service available?
This is hilarious considering progressives in the 1930s praised Hitler as one of their own. Find a new talking point, 2016 was 6 years ago.
UK not to copy EU demand for common charging cable
> The Progressive movement, starting from its earliest origins in the late 19th and early 20th c.,

You are not thinking clearly about the history of American politics if you group all the movements that called themselves "progressive" together as one.
We already spend more money on K-12 schooling than nearly all European countries[1].

Throwing more money at a problem is very rarely the best solution.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
In this particular case why is

cat /tmp/com.txt | awk '{ print substr($1, 1, length($1) -5) }' | uniq > domains.txt

preferable to:

awk '{ print substr($1, 1, length($1) -5) }' /tmp/com.txt | uniq > domains.txt
See I'm surprised Python is not just a convenience that's ultimately transpiled before making its way to the MCU.

C++ is high level enough that I always assumed much of that work was already happening for microcontroller work.
Unfortunately, it appears that the Progressive DAs elected across some cities are just really bad at being DAs.

They've identified a real issue where 10% (arbitrarily chosen number...it could be higher/lower) of the justice system is not working well. But at the same time, 90% of it does work. They've turned out to be really bad at handling that 90%.
Consumer spending decreased during Covid, then rebounded. The extra money was poured into the stock market and cryptocurrency bubbles.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/changes-to-consumer-expend...
Lyn Alden wrote a very understandable guide to "inflation" which turns out to be different beast that are lumped together: https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/

See also previous HN post on inflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27099536
>If you think schools don't have enough money, you're not looking hard enough.

Some schools do. White schools. Take a look at any high school in the south side of Chicago and tell me they are doing just fine.
I use a Mac but an Android phone. I'd really like if things like AirDrop or FaceTime or other macOS/iOS integrations worked with Android the way they do with iPhones. I had to reverse engineer Google's Nearby Share protocol and build a (barebones and buggy and incomplete) file receiver for macOS to put an end to my misery of transferring things, primarily pictures, from my phone to my computer. But obviously Apple isn't interested in any of this; they'd rather tell me to just use an iPhone, since that would get me more hooked into their proprietary ecosystem.
Toit – A Language Designed for Microcontrollers
> Republicans: mental health is definitely an issue that needs to be solved in regards to guns but that's a long term solution - we also need a short term solution of preventing people who shouldn't have access to guns in the first place.

There are over 300 million guns in the US. I don't think there are any "short term" solutions with that many guns.
Not an expert, but certainly even in Slovakia you could do an 10 years mortgage and fix it for 10 years. But people usually don't do that because money was getting cheaper until very recently and also 10 years is not enough to finance houses or flats at current prices. And fixing it for longer is either not possible or very expensive.
Unboxing Quantum Computing (Goto 2021)
So tired of those buzzwords, used with for no particular reason.

Those countries reside on the border of Russia and logistics in operations were fairly easy and cheap. That fueled the business and money flow for may years.

Check out https://data.stat.ee/profile/country/ee/?locale=en. Russia was the second biggest trading partner, having Finland as the first. Surprisingly, if you check the trading structure of Finland, it's mostly the same Russian goods.

Russia accounts in 2B trading balance of Estonian import. This is a lot for a small country. Pretty much from the beginning of 200x the most money there were made either on raw re-export of Russian goods or processing and exporting.

If you have an idea of how to replace those 2B without rising costs tremendously, please share.
I think the poster is addressing those parties correctly, and asking them to support short term measures that differ from their longer term approaches, to maintain public safety until their preferred longer term approach bears fruit. (poster’s opinions not necessarily mine)
I appreciate the craftmanship, but domains should be ideated on offline, and only after years of thought, not crawled by machines to by hoarded by those with more wealth than others.

I own two domains right now -- one for this nym, one for my legal name. I actually put off getting the .org and .net for the former, because hackers used to have a sense of honor.

(But some might argue I was never a hacker, just a phone phreak[1] that was very late to the scene.)

[1] I'm from the generation that "Redbox" meant something... different
https://phonelosers.com/redbox/tonedialer/
In Germany, could be better but could be worse too, explaining:

Since around 50 percent of the price of fuel in Germany is made up of taxation, tax cuts can actually make a significant difference. The tax burden on petrol in Germany should be temporarily reduced by 32 cents/l, including VAT. Taxes on diesel should be reduced by around 15 cents/l with VAT.

However, the oil companies are not passing this discount to the consumers, making themselves (oil companies) the real winners right now.
Can we stop pretending the war on drugs is sending large amounts of people in California to jail?

It’s not the 80s / 90s anymore. It’s very difficult to end up in jail anywhere on the west coast due to run of the mill drug possession.
> I'd do the time

You've been for an extended period in the UK prison system before?

If not, I don't think your comment carries much value.
Gitlab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open-source DataOps platform
Yesterday I saw this video on YouTube from ColdFusion about Sri Lanka's situation. I wonder how many countries are on the verge of such collapse due to rising inflation. Most of the "rich" countries will survive this situation but at what cost really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zxYDHwf-Y
> were not aware of other similar businesses like GoodRX

There are folks in this thread alone finding CostPlus prescriptions for significantly less than GoodRx.

Your tone is dismissive - how confident are you that Cuban’s pricing is not actually cheaper, and is just glitz?
When it comes to naming SSIDs you need to blend in and not draw attention. Go for the default SSID or name it something generic like ‘NETGEAR-123’. Avoid emojis or non ASCII characters as old devices will just show a load of garbage or ‘emojibake’
You can compare the official release against scraped supermarket data. In general, official statistics align with the reality of consumers.

https://www.econdb.com/widget/supermarket-benchmark/
> Why do I need to rebuild without Bluetooth support?

Have you tried Bluetooth on FreeBSD? It's an unstable mess which does not support any newer device. Bluetooth always worked for me out-of-the box on any reasonable Linux-based OS. FreeBSD was like 20 years old memories of Linux Wi-Fi Cards. Remember 'ndiswrapper'? That's how bad Bluetooth on FreeBSD is. So the author probably assumes that Bluetooth is a piece of shite everywhere and want even Linux programs without a support or so.
I guess it all goes down to the fraction of oil and natural gas in the average income of these countries.

If your economy is more reliant on these (e.g. for heating, electricity or transport), all prices will go up significantly more compared to a country that is less reliant on these (e.g. because of nuclear/renewable, better energy efficiency, less heating required ...).
The Constitution does not apply at the borders
Is it possible to use heat pumps for office buildings or factories for instance?
How about a constitutional right to be safe and secure in our persons against Republican legislators who've been paid off by the gun lobby?
Well funded schools in bad areas just churn out bad students. There is no easy solution to crime.
> massive federal investment in K-12 schooling

Only 3 countries in the world spend more per pupil than the US: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Sp...

Furthermore, racial differences in per-pupil funding are negligible, with Black and Latinx funding slightly exceeding White:

on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...
You can't play with the index much if it's a few dozen SQL queries. I'm not even simplifying it too much, the metrics used for calculating inflation are mostly available in very high fidelity. Income, import prices, price of goods and transportation etc.

So for example when other countries calculate Gini index based on a reasonable sample, Estonia could do it across the entire population.
Actually, Zuora is the plural of Zuorum (according to many poorly OCR'd PDFs I found on google). :D
This is mostly true, but (I cannot believe I am going to do this), Rust is in a different tier compared to the other languages in the list.

From the last who is hiring thread:

Zig =0 mentions

Nim = 0 mentions

Julia = 2 mentions

C# = 4 mentions

C++ = 12 mentions

Rust = 13 mentions

Java = 18 mentions

JavaScript = 30 mentions

Python = 50 mentions

The threads here are not indicative of the overall market and 1 mention != 1 job, but the numbers above are pretty much in line with the proportion of offers I am seeing elsewhere.
Are software developer salaries going to decrease with the impending recession?
- the claim is absurd on its face: that's more deaths than from road traffic accidents, half as much as from all cancer, and accounts for a significant proportion of the number of people who die in the hospital for all causes (and would be the number one reason

- the figures come from studies with methodological issues (non-representative populations, overly-broad criteria for what's counted as a death from medical error)
Not OP, but it sounds like MySQL support isn't out yet. So I think the business plan can help them get paid to implement it. No clue if that means the FOSS version would receive those upstream changes once it's done.
> In economics inflation has a specific definition: a general rise in the price level. It can be caused by all kinds of things.

When the prices of all goods and services go up, it is the thing you measure them against that is going down. If there were no currency, there would be no inflation, only changes in relative prices.
A game that punishes you for not playing does not respect your time.

A game that does not respect your time is not worth playing.
One takes far more political capital than the other. A DA has direct and immediate influence over prosecutions.

Violent crime dropped on his watch. Although thefts are up [0]. The stats show it. Very disappointing result.

[0] - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-07/2022-san...
hoteltonight is owned by Booking.com

Edit: I was wrong
Check you contract and maybe get a lawyer involved.

Agreements usually can’t be voided just like that, no matter how smart elon musk thinks he is.
That's silly. I've spent like $40 in Hearthstone over the last 5-6 years. And I know a lot of people like that. It's not "all or nothing", plus there's a sense of fairness when you really like a f2p game, to spend something out of appreciation. (Although in general I'll cap my own spending to the price of a typical AAA game, e.g. $60, because otherwise I feel stupid and taken advantage of.)
Downvoters: how is a scooter going max 15kmph a danger to pedestrians? For sure it is a danger to its rider if put next to cars.

For the metrically challenged, that's a top speed of less than 9mph. It's not even the top running speed of the average person...

Note, are we talking about Vespa style scooters or kick-style scooters? For the second, yeah, if capped at low speeds, should be fine on sidewalks.
Nope, I can not, actually. This just doesn't correspond to reality. Name one city that has suffered the fate of Mariupol from US actions. Even NATO bombardment of Serbian cities doesn't come even close to the level of destruction that the Russians are inflicting indiscriminately.
CPI doesn't generally include housing costs, that's usually a seperate measure (CPIH or RPI in the UK).
I don't think you read the full details. The Asus Flow convertible is a tablet/laptop that supports a full desktop external GPU, in addition the discrete mobile GPU that is built into the device.
How San Francisco became a failed city
Are cities with traditional lock-em-up prosecutors doing better at reducing crime?

When was the last time a prosecutor got recalled because they failed to reduce crime by locking a lot of people up?
I mean, no we aren’t spending enough on it haha. Isn’t that apparent?

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...

You can see in the inflation-adjusted graph it has been flat except for after Covid.

If you aren’t getting the result you want, you will have to increase inflation-adjusted spending to see a change.

> In the United States, education spending falls short of benchmarks set by international organizations such as UNESCO, of which the U.S. is a member. The nation puts 11.6% of public funding toward education, well below the international standard 15.00%.