skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is inflation expectation. People (the market) starts behaving differently when they expect rising prices.

Best thing i read on the topic is how the Brazilian hyperinflation was fixed
https://text.npr.org/130329523

Once you look at it from this angle most of this starts making a lot more sense. Especially post-Austerity monetary policy

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tldr: They invented a new theoretical currency. All prices were each month listed in the actual price in the old currency and the price in the new currency (that didnt exist yet). And each month the new currency was redefined so that stuff still cost the same in the theoretical currency. They did this for a few months till they declared inflation fixed and creating the new currency that had "proofed" its stability the previous months.
And Abrakadabra, people believed and inflation was fixed through the introduction of the Brazil Real. Obvious when you think about it, its not called fiat currency for nothing.

>Say, for example, that milk costs 1 URV. On a given day, 1 URV might be worth 10 cruzeiros. A month later, milk would still cost 1 URV. But that 1 URV might be worth 20 cruzeiros.

>The idea was that people would start thinking in URVs -- and stop expecting prices to always go up.
There's bad spots, of course. But there are no shortage of pleasant places with dirt cheap housing, which is not the case in the bay area.

I've got a safe, friendly, walkable neighborhood, and my mortgage is 6 percent of my gross income. The bay area is not the only place where you can save a lot of money.
> Many arguments boil down to the definition of a word.

And this is awful :(

It's normally the Worst Argument in the World: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...

Arguing about whether a definition is particularly useful or outlines a cluster of similar things can be good, but it's rare.
i think api might refer to news like:

* North Korea: Missile programme funded through stolen crypto, UN report says
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60281129

* North Korea’s Crypto Operations Are Supporting Its Nuclear Program
https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/north-koreas-crypto-operatio...

* Could Putin be exploring cryptocurrencies to bypass western sanctions?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/01/could-putin...
One of my favorite “weird” conjectures is that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point it was evolutionarily advantageous for us to recognize something that looked human, but wasn’t… and to be afraid of it.
Are these the same type (touchscreen) or brand (Dominion) or even mode of use of voting machines that Republicans are currently suspicious of, but have no definite or actionable concerns about?

No. In New Mexico, there are paper ballots that are machine tabulated. Not voting machines. Looks like NM also does risk limiting audits, and has the ability to do hand recounts.

The funky voting machines in this article are the reason why vote by mail states like NM, CO, OR, WA have the tabulating systems they do have, with hand marked paper ballots, and why risk limiting audits take place. Stories like this and the 2000 Florida presidential election debacle caused a lot of states to make changes that mattered, and that make sense, not just limit drop boxes, require voters to stand in line on Tuesdays at a limited number of precincts and accept whatever count exists at midnight Wednesday.

Articles from 7 years ago simply aren't relevant, and reporting them uncritically serves only to create and maintain vague public suspicion about voting. So why post this?

The 2000 election, which produced the desired result of a Republican Bush presidency did not cause all the efforts to discredit voting and democracy in general. I suspect that a Republican win in 2020 would not have resulted in these in American PR campaigns
My issue with the Hanson objection as stated above (link to the original would be appreciated) is that it rests on the assumption that the N-1 level AIs still under human control can somehow completely eliminate or suppress the self-modifying AGI long enough until alignment research is complete. Meanwhile, the unaligned AGI could multiply, hide, and accumulate power covertly.

Humanity would also need time to align AGI before any AI reaches the N+10 power level. The existence of all those N-1 level AIs in multiple organizations only means there are more chances of an AGI reaching the critical power level.
Should I really add “in my opinion” to all the sentences I write? We are a smart bunch here. We can figure out when statements lack nuance in order to provoke some reaction.

We’re talking about the future here and a fairly complex one at that. So obviously I don’t know more than the next guy.
Thanks but no. The dismissive nature of your initial comment is irksome. As someone who has lived through a very similar phase, I would find your words encouraging but not very helpful personally. But then it is subjective.

I meant every word in the philosophical sense. While sharing what you feel and experience is good, it doesn't take away the fact that each one has a slightly different experiences, takeaways and optics & their alone. My goal was not to give a obligatory advice (like the usual case), but give a reality check that we alone experience what we are going through and rise up to the occasion.

Let me share: I had experience with therapy for suicidal depression twice. My parents were supportive but due to generational gaps, they couldn't empathize. I don't blame them. They are well meaning, like 90% parents. But they never could internalize what depressed me, although they knew what bothered me. The counseling made little difference. The medications made it worse. I learnt the hard way how I thought of my problem was unique to me. No one could put themselves in my shoes. My pain was mine alone. And I had to wade through it to get better. A lot of people confuse professional help to be the sum and solution to their mental issue, until it is late. Counseling was like a 'mental walking stick'. I have shuffled through a dozen therapists to know it will only help so much. Well meaning advice is great, but well meant reality-check is better. I mean to convey 'he is his best help and needs re-evaluating/rethinking how to brace with the issue in hand'. No one will solve his problems - at best cheer for him or handhold him. But he will have to walk the path. And it is okay to understand that people won't always get it 100%.

You and I look at hardship differently and choose to share our empathy differently as well. Your opinion is valuable for the OP too. I respect that. But to say "Fixed it" just shows you abjectly dismissed someone's viewpoint & suffering as worthless. To each his own. If this approach helped you in life, I am glad it worked for you. It did not for me. I will stand by my last paragraph - it is meant for the OP.
Understatement of the year: "Capitalism's in-built incentives may need to expand to embrace sustainability"
You can definitely get contracting gigs (Upwork at the bottom tier) or consulting work to work only 10-20% hours. Depending on your skill set you might find it easier to do “blocks” of 20-hour weeks to align with client needs, then take blocks of time off.

It’s doable, but not on a standard employment contract.
What is a "visual scripting system" and how is it different from a programming language?
I'm afraid you've gone off the rails and forgotten Bayes theorem.

P(alt-right|fren) = P(fren|alt-right) P(alt-right) / P(fren)

You have tunnel vision for P(fren|alt-right) and are confusing it with P(alt-right|fren).
Has Graphene left the lab yet?
This 70s sci-fi film doesn't exist [image generation and speech synths]
> My occasional 50-60 hour weeks with a deadline approaching are easy compared a normal week for my rancher grandparents.

The huge problem of the modern workplace is the psychological pressure that is applied by bosses such that deadlines are hold.
Here in Greece, they are pushed by both left/right too.
This is a very myopic view of the NFT space. There's more to it than monkey and punk profile pictures. There's a thriving community of digital artists supporting each other, think along the lines of patreon, etc. Of course it's a moot point to discuss this if you think all NFTs are a scam. I assure you there are different types of NFT collectors with various expectations. My favorite stuff is 100% on chain generative art. Take a look at Art Blocks for an example. There are also thriving NFT communities on cheap chains like Tezos, where the NFTs are very cheap and many folks approach it from a healthy perspective of having fun and supporting digital creators.
IANAL, but that’s not how copyright law works. Stealing a painting does not give you the copyright.
Apparently macOS sometimes just kills some apps randomly
Using buildings constructed before the invention of modern insulation is terrible for the environment too.
I have an RTC account (gemini link in bio), it's more of a pubnix than a social network - there are custom social oriented cli tools for posting internal text blogs, short message streams, BBS-like topic system, and others. Most of them are up on the RTC gitea instance [1].

Users log on infrequently, and you can catch up relatively quickly after not logging in for a couple of months. It's very asynchronous.

My primary use of RTC is hosting a gemini capsule and gopherhole generated from my Jekyll blogs markdown posts using a hacky shell script and pandoc.

1. https://git.rawtext.club/explore/repos
Medicine, finance and law are three disciplines that are being heavily threatened by AI.
Someone with XXY chromosomes, assuming a functional SRY gene and the genes downstream from that, will be male. Klinefelter's syndrome is a condition that only applies to males. The biological indicator of sex isn't the chromosomal configuration - that's just a proxy. The indicator is which pathway of sexual differentiation was triggered during development.

Sex is a binary because that's how anisogamic sexual reproduction works: females embodying the reproductive role organised around large gamete production, and for males, small gametes. This still accounts for disorders of sexual development too: a male with underdeveloped testes is still male, and a female with non-functional ovaries is still female. In some extremely rare occurrences of chimerism, a person could reasonably be said to embody both.

But that's not what anyone means when they use the term "non-binary" as an identity - it's expressed by people who are unambiguously male or female, but who feel that they don't fit into the cultural gender stereotypes of masculinity or femininity.
A lot of people are getting burned right now from the big lie, the one that enables the rest. Read the original Bitcoin whitepaper folks, as well as the early Satoshi posts. Bitcoin was designed for "small casual payments" on the web, and it used to function for that. No longer. You needed low fees and big blocks. People invest in BTC now thinking it still has these properties, but BTC has not been Bitcoin since 2017. Then they propped up Lightning network to hide the failing narratives, but anyone who reads the LN whitepaper would see it would never work. I'm not angry about it anymore. It's just a damn shame and people are getting hurt.
The Vala Programming Language
Sure, though my credit union credit card only charges 1% for forex, so presumably it could be done for less.
The article answers your question:

> a character device (e.g., /dev/rdisk0) ..., however, bypass the buffer cache and spec_strategy entirely. ... This is pretty much exactly what we want
A similar topic on the HN front page: "Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model"

https://benoitessiambre.com/macro.html , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785199
Masters of the Bubbleverse: Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing
Broadly, I agree. But the specifics depend on ... well, the specifics. If 20 years go by and there's new building techniques/materials that drastically reduce the energy utilization of a building, it's not unimaginable that it may be less wasteful to tear it down.

I would agree that this doesn't happen very often for something at least moderately well built; for the not-very-well built, I am not so sure.
You are of course free to swim against the current any boycott things as you see fit. This does not change the fact that YouTube needs to fix its player behavior to better accommodate the majority. Solving that issue will not prevent you from yelling at clouds.
how would that happen? credit card providers would need to pool transactions not the patreon?
Let's be more explicit:

Inflexibility: as workforces in the Industrial Belt were largely unionized, they refused to accept radical wage cuts (i.e. GM and Ford could pay $3 an hour in Mexico vs. $30 an hour in Detroit).

Non-adaptation: is this the notion that a heavily parasitized organism could survive by delivering more of its resources to the parasites? Labor costs were cutting into profits and dividends, and labor costs could be reduced by writing trade deals that eliminated things like tariffs on cross-border capital flows.

Homogeneity: completely unclear what this is supposed to refer to. The models of cars produced by GM and Ford in Mexico, or the types of steel and aluminum produced in China and imported to the US, seem to be more or less the same as was once produced domestically. Do you mean 'workforce diversity' perhaps (although I don't understand how that would factor in)?

It's curious how the corporate media is so resolutely opposed to discussing the Rust Belt issue, and the related ongoing financialization of the US economy, even though that's the key deciding factor that gave rise to Trump's surprise victory in 2016.
Would you like to have a look? https://github.com/rollcat/upmerge
Any stack. It's nothing stack-specific. If you're specific to some programming stack and knowledge of the DB, framework or language is what you're employed for, fine. Knowing the fundamentals and more-advanced topics in data structures and algorithms makes you more valuable to an employer and your ability to be employed by a top-tier platform company rises substantially.
To my ears just rephrasing it as "Patreon's real cut is..." would sound most natural.
So the non-owning references are kind of like weak reference but not implemented with Rc? I guess I now understand its purpose.

Wondering how does this deal with multithread though. For example, the object A might be dropped in thread 1 (increments the generation number in thread 1) and accessed in thread 2 (reads the generation number). How do they guarantee an error in this case without using atomics? (although this might not be a valid question because you can't really say A is dropped before thread 2 accessing A without some sort of synchronization...)
NFT access tokens: Build a crypto subscription model
I guess. I haven't used their software but I watched a brief video and I don't know if I'd want to pay £400 for it if it was my own money. PulseView seems comparable in capability.

I does still feel overpriced if you ask me. You can get a full Bluetooth Analyser with actually advanced software (I mean there's a huge difference between writing a protocol analyser for SPI or I2C or typical things that run on them, and Bluetooth) for like £1k.

But I guess it one of those things that is aimed at people who aren't using their own money so they make the most money by charging enterprise prices.
This is how Patreon already works - they pool both incoming and outgoing donations for the month into a single transaction to reduce fees. But there are a bunch of donors who only donate $1-$3 a month to a single creator, and these incoming transactions don't benefit from pooling.
> Inflation is inflation expectation.

That’s assuming the government is continuing to print money. Without that, inflation is an exponential function that quickly runs into real world limits.

That said why governments are printing money is often a very tricky problem. It can for example be used as a substitute for more obvious taxes in a highly corrupt society.
> So does the "OK" gesture.

P(uses the OK gesture) dwarfs P(is alt-right). Plug it all into Bayes theorem and you'll find that P(is alt-right|gestures OK) must be small.

In other words, you're falling for a manufactured hysteria. One that is designed to make people jump at shadows, level unjustified accusations, and generally make you seem uncredible and neurotic.
And here I was expecting thoughtful discussion on this website.
Super unlikely for a FAANG, even interns will be up on this stuff. Especially interns, all the school learning is fresher for them.
You sound knowledge about using logfiles for analytics.Could you recommenda good stack to do this?

I am assuming you need to do client side tracking for static pages though or you need to self host your static page.
Positively surprised that you are reacting, so I want to offer some constructive feedback: one thing you could do would be to describe various points on a 'Pareto curve' of privacy vs useability. Starting with a low-effort setup that explains eg password managers, cookie settings and other privacy-enhancing browser extensions, intermediate solutions with well-separated online identities, VPN, protonmail, local file encryption,... and a more extreme solution with self-hosting, custom OS...
Easier rigged characters in video games that can be personalized to a player
I did that a couple months ago without issue as far as I can tell
in india, banks give you working capital loan with floating charge on your stock/debtors at like 25% of your previous FY turnover... you could theoretically take up more loan but the interest would negate any "earning" considering the banks charge like 10-15% interest on the amount so if your turnover is 10 million rupees, you could get 2.5 Mil loan but the interest on it would be 325k inr which i am sure not many businesses can sustain normally.
I would suggest that they did not suck it dry at all. They just left because it became possible to (a) hire labor for much less in other countries (b) it became easier to move capital (and profit) between countries. There's still plenty of life left in the midwest, but it would need (metaphorically) good irrigation and even a little fertilizer. Globalization robbed it of those things.
So far it doesn't mean much. The last big 'crash' was from 20k to 4k. Now we are down from $60k to $20k. However once the Tether scam collapses we _may_ see the real crash of crypto. Think BC going below $1000 or to $0. Could happen in 5 years, anytime, or never.
Heck, there could be five.

[Dwight Shrute: “That’s a very real possibility.”]
Not sure why this is downvoted. I am not qualified to read the paper but I have the same question. My impression was that "long covid" was self reported and there is no way to medically confirm if someone is actually has "long covid"
You should include your grandparents age,generation, location becasue this doesnt sound like the life mine lived through the 60s and 70s
While that does represent some modest drag on your business, in this hypothetical you have very good foundations and you could outperform that 10% interest without too much trouble. To wit in this scenario you're a software company, not a restaurant, you should scale far more easily than brick and mortar.

And 10% interest to preserve your cap table and board?
Construction is simply an economic activity, not “life.”
At least not any more ‘life’ than say music, or physics,machining, the Grateful Dead, etc. As an economic activity, it has fluctuating valuations in asset values, prices, profitability, etc. and is greatly influenced by financing. As we’re all aware, China has hugely over-constructed, is in the process of asset value decline, and has wiped out some speculators.
GlassPoint is back from liquidation with big plans to decarbonize heavy industry using solar-powered steam — and funding from BlackRock to make it happen.
per the article, endosymbiosis has happened a bunch of times. multiple different kinds of chloroplasts, several prokaryotes, a parasite etc.

this was all when eukaryotes engulfed prokaryotes, but still, how does this mean unlikely? it seems imminently likely, since.. it happened a bunch of times.

seems to me like prokaryotes evolve a strategy of engulfing others for their resources, then one day engulf a prokaryote infected by a virus, which transfers DNA across, rinse and repeat.

how is this more of a filter than abiogenesis?
Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence
Sellers have to interact with the blockchain too, so all the same pitfalls apply... from phishing attacks to typos, to holding proceeds and not putting them in stables and losing your hat. If you deploy your own custom contracts there are many ways to botch that too.
Flag the dumb stuff and move on to read or write something better.
> Bitcoins are a tool to transfer and store value.

They're way too volatile to be any useful kind of store of value, as this month's ~33% drop in value has just proven. Nobody wants their stored value to depreciate that quickly and unexpectedly. That's simply not a good store of value — arguably it's not a store of value at all by most definitions.
I understand that you're both skeptical, as you should be.

My theory now is that ADHD is tied to diet and environment.

So basically what happened was, my psyche was already vulnerable to anxiety and depression when it got coopted by my physical health issues. I struggled chronically to make an appointment to see a doctor for years, always letting work and family obligations take priority, which prolonged and exacerbated my suffering. This all happened while I was broke and out of work too. After years of being gaslit about my instincts, going all the way back to childhood. That's why I didn't listen to my intuition and just take care of myself. I still thought there was nothing wrong with me, so projected my false confidence onto the world by blaming it for my problems.

Please view the list I posted more as leads than evidence. Also you're right, none of what I posted really applied to me until I hit 40, except maybe the general health advice about drinking more water and eating better. I do worry about leading people astray in their own journeys.
> But constant tearing up of streets isn't necessary for life

No city has literally all the streets torn up at once. Which means by definition all road construction is in stages. I’m somewhat puzzled how what you’re proposing is different from the status quo
This probably seems trivial, but real hedges, i.e. shorts, puts, credit default swaps, and insurance policies against whatever is crashing, will go up in value during a crash.
Elastic UI – design library in use at Elastic to build internal products
I think part of it is burn out. I have been getting more and more so the past few months. As a result I stopped pursing an AWS cert. The thought of opening my Ancient Greek textbooks brings no joy. As a result I play Skyrim.

Saying “I don’t have the time” means “I don’t have the will.”
You can "pool" individuals over time.

That is, instead of $3/month you do, say, $9/quarter.