skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Writing manifestos about the state of the industry has never really been our thing." Except, their website feels like a big ol manifesto. And when I read it the first time, I got excited.

But the more I read stuff like this, the more suspicious I get, and I get hit by manifesto fatigue. I want to see the product, and I would love to see something new in the browser world.

The vision is beautiful, and I'm curious to see how that turns into a usable product. I'm pretty sure I don't want my go-to browser to be an artwork or a build-it-yourself type of thing.

Function often comes before the feeling for a reason. A restaurant can't exist without its functionality. That "beloved dish that never fails" is not a feeling but a good product.

I have a strong feeling this will be a very niche product. I would also love to be proven wrong.
Maybe FreeBSD is more reliable and has better documentation so it doesn't eat up as much admin resources as its "competitors"?
Sweden = Swedish Krona, not Eurozone.

Thanks for sharing the stats, I hadn't looked into it in months and noticed that books got quite expensive on my latest purchase, glad to see it wasn't just my impression.
From what I can tell the 6.4% includes energy. The measure that doesn't include energy (KPIF-XE) is at 4.5%.
Ok, but, they have actually gotten directly involved in aviation matters in very specific terms, and they do so regularly. This isn't theoretical and I'm not hypothesizing; they've actually done it, a lot. Usually it's to tell Aeromedical to knock it off (a famously dysfunctional division), and a few years ago Congress ordered the FAA to make a whole separate medical track that routes around the FAA almost completely. So it wouldn't surprise me at all to see them step in here. You'd be surprised how many people in Congress are pilots and are quite happy to tell the FAA where to stick it.
You can just scratch it off and press the back button for a bit.
They've been keeping it close to the chest, I think. But their browser exists and I believe is called Arc.
Do you mean to say that other European countries are lying? This proposition seems knee jerk.

Inflation can be computed by anyone, so I don’t even understand how you could lie about it.
Hyperinflation is 50% MONTHLY. This is 20% annualized.
While I agree that detectives and judges should absolutely face charges that could lead to imprisonment (not just fines and not just termination!) if their incompetence or malice results in someone being wrongfully jailed, I worry that it could have unintended consequences: with such a policy, judges would likely help other judges stay out of prison by lying or what have you, and this would make victims look more guilty.

I don't know what to do about it, though.
I am guessing the Baltic countries are hit hard by the Russia sanctions and the lack of cheap energy and food imports that has to come from somewhere else now.
I find that shell scripts feel like the hack compared to systemd startup scripts.
168 months? That's more than some rapists and murderers get, holy cow!
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31662962
We've enough incidents of "50 shots fired at suspect, no one hit" to say that in tense situations, its silly to expect people to aim their weapons that closely.

Police tend not to be accomplished marksmen anyway. Its not really a big part of the job.
It depends greatly on the model AND on the country it was made for (the ones made for export were much better than "italian local market" ones).

As (by now historical) anecdata I owned an Alfetta (2000, gasoline, "America") for several years (used 50% with my father) we made 250,000 km with the original engine, then we put an used (from a wreckage) one with alredy 66,000 km and drove it for another 100,000 km or so when we had an issue with the gearbox/transmission and the car was overall too old to be worth the repair, but the body was in very good condition (car was around 15 years old).

Later I drove for a few years a 75 (bought used with already 90,000 km, "italian") and while I had no particular issues (engine and mechanics in general) up to the 150,000/200,000 km, the body had lots of issues with rust/corrosion after 6-7 years.

I would not call any of them "unreliable", they needed some little maintenance, but I would say no more than other make/models of those years (those were the '80's and early '90's).

Later Alfa Romeo became essentially "FIAT with another name" and reliability was essentially the same as the FIATs (rather poor, but not as bad as they are sometimes depicted).
Maybe you can't hire anyone because your business model just sucks.
Why would they do that? Isn't that setting them up for a pension crisis in the future?
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Because he wants it to be. It’s way easier to blame someone acting nefarious than living in reality.
Hah the Controversies section mention bots, maybe Musk should buy it...
Meanwhile corupted politicians keep robbing us and are free...
iPadOS 16 Lets Apps Use Storage as Virtual RAM on M1 iPads
Sharing big NumPy arrays across Python processes (2021)
Not really. Probably only a single-digit percentage of software developers will ever get to use any of these professionally. Howl in protest if you will, but the truth is that all of these (and more) are mostly the domain of students and hobbyists.

If you are already in the industry, and part of the 90+% unwashed masses, then you already know this. If you are a student or hobbyist who hasn't clued into this reality yet, then there's no need for "language-choice anxiety". Play with whatever you want to play with, and once you graduate you should have no problem transferring that knowledge to whatever language your first real job actually pays you for (e.g. Java, Python, C#, etc).
Been running my filter for more than a year. When it tells you it's the filter is done you can just scratch the NFC tag and reset the counter by holding the back button.
Ask HN: How would Jupyter Notebook look like if created by Apple?
Jupyter Notebook is a great tool. I'm using it every day. I'm even building tools around it - to make notebooks sharing with non-coders easy.

Sometimes I found JN hard to use. The biggest pain is installation and package management. It can also have a more modern look. I'm wondering how would JN look like and work if it was developed by Apple (known for great design).

Do you think JN can be improved?
Eh... I've worked with remote teams and found that you largely get what you pay for. Even if the devs technical chops were good, that language/cultural/distance barrier meant a lot of misunderstandings, and time spent breaking down tasks to avoid misunderstandings, that commensurately lowered their productivity. Also the overhead for their offices, HR, tax compliance, etc... it really didn't pay in the long run until a lot of them were hired.
I think it still shows a rough last seen (Recently, within a week, within a month) even with that off. Good enough for me.
You should at least know what hyperinflation is before you make statements.
As a non-Euro I would have easily confused that with something like "Schengen Zone" or one of the many other political subdivisions of which European Union nations seem to flitter in or out of depending on the political winds.

I'm thankful for the obvious comment.
Not affiliated with Ryan Stout's bustaname domain search site [1], but I love using the word combiner and thesaurus features. Also has good video tutorials [2], including one for his tool "for making fake words that sound like they could be real" [3]

[1] http://www.bustaname.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhSgMXwUQY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQYaUkNxT7A
A phone could charge fine with a 5.4v round charger.
Insurance, precisely. Insurance companies are pushing for performance assessment to put pressure on prices. All well and good until you understand that you can't force hospitals/practitioners to all get a random sample of patients. So measurements are biased, and therefore people game the system. In practice, it means all healthcare providers will concentrate on easy cases to lower risk and maximize revenue. So as you see, free market thought doesn't really work in healthcare.
Yes, I had to check that.

Question which I won't expect the "inflation is always and only caused by money printing" believers to answer: how is there different inflation in different Eurozone countries?
I use perl on a regular basis to manipulate text and display as webpages via cgi-bin
We have 9% inflation in the UK but the reality of the costs of things that you need to live a relatively simple life (food, heating oil, fuel costs), have all gone up way more than 9%. A shop that used to cost me £80 a week now cannot be had for under £110. So you can calculate them all you like and look at the data, but the reality in my life is that prices have risen way beyond the 9% we're told is the amount.
Here in Lithuania we were already independent from Russian gas and oil (lesson learned over the decades), and had liquid natural gas terminal for a few years. But inflation is also very high.
Doesnt' every country calculate their inflation separately? Because living in Germany, that 7% is laughable. Nothing has risen by that little of an amount. Not food, rent, petrol, etc.
Well, I do know of something that has risen to less than 7%: salaries.
I have been toying again with FreeBSD after a 15 year absence for fun. The intent of the project was to document every experience I have with it, from setup, to packages installed (with shell scripts to cover setting it up) and then do things like catch errors. I installed and toyed with it on another laptop and just moved to my main personal laptop a few days ago.

Why FreeBSD though? I used it for two years in college, so it has a sentimental quality for me :) But also, I want to catch up when life took over (i.e. job, etc.) and understand more of my own and other biases about UNIX operating systems, particularly as I understood and now understand it. It is also a way to comfortably go through problems I encounter without mental commitments. For example, I have two issues now: the wireless doesn't load after resume sometimes and sometimes X crashes. It's ok it happens - the FreeBSD is not even setup for desktop use by default. Anything I learn here like this gets applied to work, even if it is on Linux systems. It's a form of freshening up my problem solving skills, something I miss sometimes from work.

BTW, vermaden's guides are great. I use his desktop configurations and they are filled with things to look into.
I don't understand inflation. I understand that it's a measure of the price of things, but for me there should be two types of inflations
1. a dilution of money. Let say a central bank injects a lot of new money, then all prices will be higher, but salary will be higher too, and the overall effect is neutral
2. some prices increase due to change in supply or demand (e.g. gas or cereal), but salaries and everything else is unchanged.

In both cases, there's inflation according to the definition, but the second case is very different than the first, and it doesn't impact everybody equally (consumer vs saver).

I must misunderstand something because I never see this distinction in the medias.
That's the perfect learning project because there's something tangible at the end.

Whenever the question of "How do I learn Haskell" comes up, I always suggest to come up with a project that would be useful on its own, regardless of the technology used to create it, and use Haskell to do it. In my case it was a pandoc filter to embed plots in documents (https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot), which was ultimately useful to create my PhD dissertation.

There's only so much you can learn about Haskell by working through toy examples.
No. I was assuming that this blog post was about compressing PNG files for general use on web sites, but apparently that is not the case. He didn't actually state in the blog post what he was using the images for, but he says in a comment here that they need to be lossless. Usually that's not the case. JPEG works better for getting small sizes on photos for the web.
For micro-controllers having a choice in language is very new and there is still very few languages to pick from. Chip vendors only support C/C++, sometimes only barely.

Many languages (if it is AOT compiled and uses LVVM you can probably get it running on a uC) have POCs for running on an a uC, but often lack the HAL (libraries to use all the peripherals).
I believe it. In my 40+ years of dealing with the medical profession, Dr. Google, Dr. Wikipedia, & Dr. Pubmed have wiped the floor with them, time after time. If you get sick, do the research. I can almost guarantee that it will pay off.

And these days, medical research is excellent--if only by volume. I know people here like their canned responses--"small n!", "in mice!", "correlation != causation"--but when you're trying to make a diagnosis, every little clue helps!

I can't honestly attribute excellence to the typical medical practitioner.
We have not withdrawn from the middle-east - troops increased during trumps era substantially and obama era created new war fronts. We've redeployed troops to somolia this year (technically not middle east, but I think most people associate it with those wars), iraq combat didn't stop until last year, so while technically not within the decade of his predictions, close enough. We're still killing noteworthy figures in syria. I don't consider this an accurate prediction given it was made in 2009 and had a decade window. I think 99% of people would've made the same prediction and have been surprised by todays middle east involvement if they could've seen into the future.

I don't have my thumb on the global pulse of American strength perception so I really can't comment there, but my perception is that people do not perceive America as anything approaching weak with their military.
Same here in Germany. My napkin calculations on food & groceries is at least 30%.
> not rely on any other third party

That's the main advantage of your approach I think. And it works with all devices. A lot better than using the same password for several accounts, as many people do.
> Inflation can be computed by anyone, so I don’t even understand how you could lie about it.

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

Choose carefully and cherry-pick how you source your input numbers, as garbage in means garbage out.

Then let friendly media spokepersons help your PR quest by stating the numbers as if handed down by God himself. Then let peons on the internet call you conspiratorial.

All in all, we shan't worry - these numbers are all simply transitory :)
100%. The entitlement in that post is comical. Reminds me of startup colleagues bitching about the free gourmet sandwiches being 'shitty'. Some people need a reality check.
Exactly. If you notice, the second and third place are taken by Lithuania and Latvia respectively. A lot of 'cheapness' in all kinds of sectors came from RUS/UKR/BEL somewhere upstream. Building materials being a prime example. So, a combined effect of energy prices, sanctions on RUS, a war raging in Ukraine.

But then, as Estonian prime minister said recently - sure, gas is expensive, but freedom is priceless.
The invasion was in response to Confederate attacks on Union forts - starting with Fort Sumter.

Saying the civil war is not about slavery because the invasion was about responding to Confederate belligerence is like saying that someone who died with Covid-19 actually died from heart failure. You might be technically correct (most people's hearts fail when they die), but it's at best pedantic and at worst disingenuous.
The basics seems to be not "it didn't make enough money" as much as "studio politics after a merger left it weak to predatory behaviours by management seeking KPI"

What cast and fans think doesn't matter.
You can cash it out and manage your investment yourself. I interpret that small 14% as most of them doing so. Of course, I have no idea.
Make that a registered letter or whatever it's called in English, so that you can prove you sent something if they lose the cheque -- as they can be expected to in this case.
Thing is even if you're not using Russian gas directly, prices are still going to be influenced by the global gas market (and the wider global economy in general).
They absolutely can be. There are many stories of judges getting kickbacks for sending people off to prison and there's the FISA court rubberstamping (nearly) all requests from law enforcement.
That is completely normal, though. Inflation is not the exact price adjustment of every basket of goods over time, that is simply not possible to represent in a single number - rather, it is some arbitrarily chosen basket of goods meant to represent an average household.

It does not have to be perfect to be meaningful.
There is a lot of play room in computing inflation numbers. For example, there are assumptions based on which input variables are smoothed out to reduce noise.
Could you please elaborate more on this?
It's there but not loaded.

A slimmed-down kernel make the difference from ~100MB (kernel) + 32MB (Modules) to 2MB (Kernel + Modules), faster load, or for smaller devices, and overall less potential attack surface.
I want to see this show...
Divorces are between people not related by blood (usually). The reason you provide resources to blood relatives (kids) is to give your genes the best chance to survive.
Well, ok. I specify: in hardware matters.
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My surface level understanding from the article is that this was a little bit more for-profit organized-crime kind of thing than your average person ripping movies and making them available to others for free.

Like, it sounds like this guy might actually have all that money from the activity.
Yes, but you'll have to buy into Apple ecosystem first. Also, installing plugins from any other store other than Apple store would be forbidden. Plus you'll only be able to run your code on Apple silicon devices. Also, 99$/year developer fees would need to be paid upfront.
Are there public information, which data is used for inflation calculation per country?
> With assistance from anti-piracy company FACT, in 2019 a private prosecution brought by the Premier League resulted in a four-week trial at Warwick Crown Court that would end badly for the men.

I don't know anything about UK law, but what on earth is a "private prosecution"? And it can result in prison time???

In USA you have a criminal prosecution brought by the state. Anything else would be a civil lawsuit and those don't result in jail time.
Taking the sentence at face value, even the initial 7 year sentence seems really extreme given the actual damages but from the article:

> Over a period of more than 10 years

> Precisely when King began serving his initial prison sentence of seven years and four months is unclear but given the June 2022 instruction that he cannot travel abroad, assuming that he served substantially less than the 88-month sentence imposed in 2019 seems reasonable.

They made £5M over 10 years and the main guy actually spent 3 or fewer years in prison.

Ultimately this seems exceedingly reasonable to me. Granted I’m from the US and I’m not familiar at all with the justice system in the UK.
McDonald's has the same incentives with a franchise system -- the parent makes money when the franchisees thrive.
How much of Washington DC are "daily or more" cocaine users?

Seemed drug dependence was a good thing again; showing one's humility and community spirit and shit... Or is that just "prescription" drugs? I can't keep up.
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You see the zone for the euro is the eurozone. The zone that was agreed upon in the city of Schengen is the Schengen Zone. Everything is ordered and organized in the European Union ;P
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The food is trash, yes. So famously trash that it’s commonplace to joke about someone having gastrointestinal issues after eating it.
Because people are shortsighted and want a new TV/car/apartment RIGHT NOW.

Also, there's a certain mistrust of the pension scheme and people think that the money in their pension accounts will be gone anyway by the time they reach the pension age.
More like: I'm an astronaut with a degree in nuclear physics and a minor in underwater basket weaving and while I cannot give you personalized advice I can suggest reviewing this general information produced by professionals that are interested in this cause: insert link here.
Inflation isn't meant to measure the change in consumer purchasing power.

There's CPI and PPI and other measures to measure how prices change to different groups.

If you want to measure the change in purchasing power just measure corporate revenues by sector to PPI by sector. Or CPI to HH or personal income.
You're doing it for a return though: the joy of having kids, planning for the future and so on... I'm sure it's hard work, but it's certainly not an altruistic act.
Basic econometrics is now useless under the parole of “lies, damn lies”. Good stuff.

How about you propose a different metric then, that surely will be infallible and completely fair to everyone.
I'm wondering what kind of investment vehicle or financial strategy you can possibly use to counter these kind of percentages reliably.
You are not alone in that experience! Tech has so many fields that those curious find it easy to jump all over the place and get eventually get bored and explore something else.

What I would say is, remember that whatever work is just work and there’s the rest of your life apart from work, so figuring out what do you want to do or who do you want to be would allow you to clarify and optimize whatever job to match that.

Some want to work on the latest, shiniest technology.

Some others on something stable and then be done and go back home to their families at the end of the day.

Some want to travel the world so a job that provides tons of flexibility is want they prefer (think freelancing)

And yet others want to optimize for the highest amount of $$ even if it means not being completely on board with what they do (for me that would be something like ad tech or crypto)

Even more, some are planning their retirement from tech to a slower pace lifestyle (I love the stories here about people going into farming or carpentry or whatever after tech… none of those fields have daily standups!!)

So figure out first who you want to be and then find an area in tech that matches that!

As an aside, this knowledge odd also what gives you a reason to endure the inevitable drudgery of any job, the job is not your life, is just a part of it and it can be justified if it’s serving the purpose of enabling everything else financially speaking.

Best of luck!
> That is completely normal, though.

If not using basics like food, fuel, and pricing on rent or mortgage - what are we basing the numbers off of? If it's the stable price of a Spotify subscription, rather than real goods needed to survive, something is horribly off.
>The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close to a million per year. That's a big commitment to run anything and hiring is going to be tough.

This is flat-out wrong.
I single-handedly managed a fleet of over 100 FreeBSD servers running in various data-centers all over the world. 90% Nginx, 10% Apache. Mostly Wordpress websites. The 'brand' was #3 in the world for it's niche. $Million+ revenue.

In my experience, BSD is EASIER then Linux.
For those that "read" via HN comments, it's worth emphasizing that this particular group of (3) pirates operated for over a decade and made >$5M selling pirated football rights for profit. I don't think prosecution is uncalled for here, regardless of how the sentence compares to that of more socially damaging crimes.
This is a big sticking point for me when evaluating other init systems / system service managers. There are a lot of weird and bad things about Systemd, but the declarative service file format is a big plus to me.