skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inflation is different "things" to different people, see for a good explainer Lyn Alden [1].

Inflation used to be defined as an increase in the money supply: this can be easily explained when you realize that for the longest time in human history, "making money" had a real cost [2]. After all, the material that a coin was made of was gold, silver or copper (for small amounts), that first had to be mined. If there had been no recent wars and therefor the supply of slaves was low, then new coinage was hard to make because labor for the mines was hard to come by.

Food prices would rise in times of drought, but would come back down afterwards [3].
So for a very long time, prices were more-or-less constant [4].

The 'simple' solution to go back to a "pre-inflation" world is to take the privilege of money-making out of the hands of governments [5] and leave it up to a natural restricted good that is in high demand and (constant) low supply, like, gold. There is, of course, no direct way today to do this, but as of now, nobody is stopping you from buying hard assets like gold or bitcoin, and using them to pay with.

[1] https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/

[2] https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/themes/money/the_origi...

[3] This effect is gone in today's "inflation".

[4] https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c6739/c6739.pdf

[5] https://mises.org/library/hayeks-plan-private-money
What does that do? Allow letters to be input in the field, but show a numeric keyboard on touchscreens? Wy would you do that?
It's incredibly difficult to rigorously assess technology levels in antiquity once the pottery is ground to dust, erosion removes an writing, and the cites are overtaken by changing climates.

What we have of the neolithic period is mysterious granite objects and other hard stones. These granite pieces are hard to build, but we have no basis to assess whether they were carved with primitive tools over generations or quickly using greater application of labor and better tools. Due to the difficulty in dating granite, it's also unclear "who" made the object - this gets exceptionally pronounced when looking at artifacts in the Andes or northern europe.

IMHO the only way this changes is if we get better at marine archeology, detecting signs of civilization via environmental changes (e.g. terra preta in the Amazon) or improve climate modeling to look for places where civilization was but is no longer.
> Of course there are many VCs who don't play this game, don't pretend to have seen behind the curtain of the universe, and people don't make fun of them on Twitter. And many of those people are plenty successful and fine.

That might be Ben Horowitz, the titular partner at A16Z. His Twitter is relatively quiet, mostly just retweeting other A16Z people's tweets.

In his book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", every chapter begins with a rap lyric from golden-age era hiphop (80s, 90s). It's quite ridiculous contrasting lyrics about street life and hustling to Horowitz's tales of trying to build enterprise unicorns. But in book format, it comes off as well-meaning tribute from a fan and not a cynical way of conflating the struggles of the American poor with say Loudcloud going through a down round.

But on Twitter, which is combative to begin with, him quoting Nas or Jay-Z while bloviating about Web3 would invite derision right away.
Distance field approach is actually discussed in the article.

One thing that is interesting to point out, is how these approaches differ from the classic approach: Fortune's algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%27s_algorithm

One particular differential to make is the "where" part here. O(N) always sounds good, but in this particular discussion we note that O(N) is the number of pixels, whereas in Fortune's algorithm O(N log N) time and O(N) space is the number of points. I wonder which one is faster and if it depends on the input.

For example, I imagine a massive field with quintillions of pixels and only two or three points - it seems Fortune's would be the way to go.

Now I imagine another massive field with quintillions of pixels and trillions of points. Now I might be interested in doing a distance field like approach.
> Anchor is a DeFi protocol operated by Terraform Labs, the creators of UST. For most of its existence it has paid 19.5% APY on any quantity of deposited UST. It has then lended these deposits at APRs that typically vary from 2% to 15%. Only about one half to one sixth of the deposited UST has been lent out to borrowers at any given time.

I had a friend I was trying to explain this math to, when he said he was getting I believe 12% APY earlier this year. I was of course concerned how anyone can offer 12% with any reasonable guarantee, but he was getting "paid"... I remember going to their website where you could see the interest rates on deposits, and interest rates on "loans" and it was clear as day those two ranges we're clearly in conflict with actually making money.

Anyway he HODL'd and lost a good chunk of money.
To be fair, parent mentioned "university", and I'm fairly certain that universities don't train hair dressers, so presumably he was thinking of things like engineers, lawyers, and medical professionals.

I also find the educational requirements for hairdressing to be rather perplexing.
Poorly researched. Usually the vanished trays appear again on their own, after the snow has melted.
Gloomhaven publisher transitions to Backerkit after Kickstarter blockchain push
I feel like this is a classic case of American exceptionalisms. Americans have an absolutely bonkers relationship with race and often assume that other Westerners around the world feel the same way.

The _only_ reason the phrase "All Lives Matter" has any remotely political juice to it is because of the riots that occurred in America two years ago; the phrase itself is entirely innocuous and is really something most reasonable people can get behind.

It bothers me to no end when people imply that the rest of the English speaking world should try to update their lexicon and tread carefully around certain words simply to appease a tiny minority of Americans.
I think they first rent a chair from an established barber and make little; once they have experience they open their own shop and start renting out chairs to other apprentice barbers.
It isn’t a tory vanity project, it’s a huge boost for our rail infrastructure which is unfortunately getting ever more weakened.

In fact, if it wasn’t for HS2 we likely wouldn’t have found it.
Sad part about this is that a “DoorDash tip” is more of a “bid for a dasher to take my order,” so if it ever seems like you get low quality dasher, that may be why.
Honestly, I was just assuming it based on the URL which is "/topcolors".

Although, taking a look at the source, I don't see anything to indicate that that's actually true. Seems to just list whichever colors it comes across, so I think you're right, it's just a list of all colors:

(defop topcolors req
(minipage "Custom Colors"
(tab
(each c (dedup (map downcase (trues [uvar _ topcolor] (users))))
(tr (td c) (tdcolor (hex>color c) (hspace 30)))))))
Apologies for not submitting the original source but I found the twitter thread and linked blog post to be more useful context than the nytimes story.

https://medium.com/@kwilliamlloyd/the-cult-in-google-3c1a910...

I was not aware of that guideline, will keep it in mind in future.
Nor is OP if you take their 20% discount into account.

Scalping tickets designed to be heavily discounted for fans, then re-selling them to anyone for profit is scummy even if the price still comes under the non-fan price.

At best you're just denying other fans the chance to get discounts for your own profit.
Very, I know people who work there, they open sourced their crypto engine [1]. They also struggle with people using WickrMe for bad stuff because of how little info they collect from users (no phone required, true e2ee encryption, and so on...) [2].Own by Amazon doesn't imply that have spyware embedded, unless you can prove, not defending Amazon by any means, there is plenty to criticize and condemn about them, I'm just stating facts.

1- https://github.com/WickrInc/wickr-crypto-c

2- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/wickr-amazons-encrypted-chat...
We try to practice this on my team. Essentially, it comes down to aligning people with their interests. We've found it's far better to optimize interest against projects than it is to optimize skillset. We've found people working on the problems they prefer tend to dive in more deeply, care more, and generally produce better results for our customers. Once people feel like they're just being dragged through the motions, they tend to put only the minimal effort in to collect a check.
Or they are the aliens, they're multiplying, and talking, but no body is listening to them
Certainly old enough to know that HN doesn't have DM capability unless it's a spam account.
> If I wrote a story about a night out with my mates, would you complain that only men were talking?

I don't think OP is complaining, just remarking on how it's a signal of the time.

You can write a story about your mates all day long, nobody cares, don't draw this false equivalence; however, when all of society is just writing books about "their mates" and somehow women aren't present in any of these stories in any significant capacity, then I think I'd raise an eyebrow: no?
They quite often rebury remains from more recent burials in the UK (100-200 years ago), for instance if the land of an old cemetery is repurposed (there have actually been several examples of this on HS2 as well). I don't quite know what the criteria is, but I think if there is little scientific value in the find, they will tend to rebury it.
What will happen is they exhume the graves, categorise everything, and then rebury the remains.
The "descendent community" is the UK government, which claims all the lands within its borders and a few sites outside. That bit can also be interpreted as applying to the local landowners as well.

But if Sweden or Italy cared, yes it might be a good idea to give them a call and let the interested parties sort it out between themselves.
"Dear beloved,

I am the daughter of a Martian king who recently was murdered on my hone planet.

In my possession are 200,000,000 US dollars. I will share 40% with you should you lend assistance.

Best wishes,
cheisnrheisoebr boo ofk"
Slightly off-topic, but is there any distributed db like Cassandra but written in Rust?
Is it POKT?
Apple used the very same processor family at one time. ;-)

They've come a long way.
That’s useful to hear, thanks.
What's going to give first? Interest rates? House Prices?

I was on the market to buy a place. First time home owner jitters, but interest rates started to rise fast. Buying power dropped so much that I'm dropped out. At these rates, I really need the price to drop by 20%-ish. I'm sitting on cash and it feels like shit. I wonder how other people feel.
Tesla significantly increases its electric car prices across entire lineup
Recruited employees?

Or people they unknowingly hired?

Small distinction?
I don't know about competition, but I think we'll see prices bottom out below MSRP before the 4000 level cards come out in the next few months.
It's about ensuring there's a mix and an opportunity to work on different types of work.

It's okay to have boring work. It's challenging to _only_ have boring work.
topcolor default to nil when the user is created, and the default color is set by the code instead. It's only when the user changes the color, as the value gets persisted.
Just watched a video of C64 "Seven Cities of Gold" with a colleague yesterday, trying to convey just how... exciting that was in 1984. Watching on YouTube, I had forgotten just how small the playing 'viewport' was. It seems like possibly a more extreme example - I don't remember too many other games having an action viewport that small.
What broke is probably their internal trust..
Recruiters pin you on LinkedIn all the time for interviews as well.
Which better desktop framework for cross-platform with some of the productivity available for web apps? Curious on your experiences because it's hard to avoid a lot of sprawl and inconsistencies over time.
Go looking.

What have you tried that didn't work?
I've been working on a 3d first person creative writing RPG where you're a Tentacle Monster with a magic mechanical typewriter. You learn ritual magic based on what you write and it can export .txt files. It even has printer "support". It's called Tentacle Typer.

My goal is to make people more prolific and creative writers.

It's not released yet, but I've gotten enough wish lists that I'm confident I will make some money when I do. It's also led to some freelance/consulting work that's kept me afloat while I shamble forth.

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1469737611824713739
<- My feed is mostly my progress.

A little discouraged by some gambits that didn't yield results I wanted has me not talking about it as much as I was last year. Ah well I bet the hype energy will come back. There's a lot cool here.
Dating of the pyramids is based off of things left around the pyramids and one mention of Khufu. If the pyramids are much older there is not much that would be left from the original builders to date after millenia of environmental exposure and human habitation in the area.
NASA rover sighting reignites fears about human space debris
I was under the impression (based on the USSC's opinion back in 2015, see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co... ) that this was not true even in the US. Has anything changed in the meantime? Or did I get that article wrong from the beginning?
Not sure if the linked articles covers it due to the paywall, but according this article [1], the estimate that carbon emissions to build it would exceed emissions is possibly overly pessimistic. Such as predicting that air and car travel will get cheaper over time and rail travel more expensive

Although if the estimate is accurate I would still hazard a guess that it could be a net positive if it successfully increased capacity/speed to the point where people considered it a viable alternative to air/car journies and it was combined with policies to reduce the costs of rail travel/discourage air and car travel where possible

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/will-hs2-rea...
The government argument in the case was: there is no limits to the government's power with respect to corporate speech during an election.

> During the original oral argument, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart (representing the FEC) argued that under Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the government would have the power to ban books if those books contained even one sentence expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate and were published or distributed by a corporation or labor union. In response to this line of questioning, Stewart further argued that under Austin the government could ban the digital distribution of political books over the Amazon Kindle or prevent a union from hiring an author to write a political book.

Given that, is it an surprise that the Supreme Court found that it conflicted with the First Amendment?
At the end of the last ice age, around this time, sea levels rose 120 meters. The areas around the Persian gulf, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Nile Delta, etc may have been settled by humans at the time. If they had any civilization or agriculture near the coast in these areas, it's now buried under the water. The black sea was possibly flooded by the Mediterranean in an epic deluge about 5600BCE.

I think even without the younger dryas impact, it's possible that early civilization got a reset at this time. When you factor in that the impact would have caused widespread and sustained crop failure, you could easily imagine early agrarian civilization reverting to nomadic hunter gatherers.That's my hunch, but there's little to no evidence supporting this at present.
If tickets were sold for "market price" then the vast majority of people would be priced out of many events because the wealthy are so much wealthier than the average person that they'd simply monopolise a whole lot of entertainment.

Not entirely unlike what has happened to the housing market in cities like London or Vancouver.

If you're okay with huge swathes of the population going without whole sectors of entertainment because "it's a free market" then you're entitled to that opinion. That isn't a society I value.
I had the same thought. I think they just make the students carry the plates without a tray?
Gee whiz this is a great chemical, let's find something it's good for and perhaps we'll be able to make money on it someday...

Seems like a really long diversion from the original goals, doesn't it? "People have problem A and i want to test solution X for effectiveness" was the first principle, right? Now it sounds a lot like "we bought tons of this crap now we've gotta push it somehow"
Cool. What's the URL?
Browsers do a lot of things simultaneously. They come bundled with devtools, codecs, have to render different file formats like PDF, need to sync bookmarks across devices, play video, handle JS APIs, do security right, etc A browser is the most complex piece of software on your system, apart from the OS.
or possibly it's an extremely capital intensive startup and sunsunsunsunsunsunsuns didnt put up any money.
Well all of the various tribes merged together for the most part. Most people in the UK are probably descendants of multiple of those old tribes.

Another difference is that in the UK there isn't nearly as much of a history of recent oppression of the decedents of the anglo-saxons the way there is a very recent and on going issue of oppression of the indigenous Americans and Australians. So there isn't the issue of the excavations being yet another example of an empowered people overriding the wishes of a dis-empowered people.

To put it another way, a large majority of the indigenous people of the Americas have expressed a wish that their ancestors not be excavated. And that wish has been ignored time and time again until recently (though it frequently still is ignored).

Here, no clear majority of the descendants have expressed such a wish, there's no history of it being overridden or ignored, and the excavators (for the most part) are descendants.
I have a pull request out right now for an open source project that hasn't been merged because I'm not in control of it.
Why don’t you go to some restaurants, find some people eating alone and ask them? I think that’ll answer your question pretty quick
I thought this is paraphrased, but this is lifted straight from the article. This is so incredibly wrong I simply couldn't get past this statement.
Sure, but in our case, it was helpful to be able to appeal to (apparently now controversial?) food truck regulations rather than reform a bureaucracy that the entire rich & connected rentier class would likely fight tooth and nail to keep unreformed.
Via DNS?
#Examples
Ironically, my local credit union dropped their 30 year fixed rate from 6.0% to 5.875% after the FED raised rates yesterday. I guess they raised them less than they were expecting?
People say this about using Apache as a webserver; I understand it, but don't know if I agree with it.
That 100 second video was really very well done and convincing. I shouldn't have watched it on break because now I want to do go home and do something with Tauri :)
Maybe we are lucky and all the big pieces have already hit.
Sometimes the bass notes (left hand) on an accordion are blended in this way. The stradella bass only lets you play a single octave of bass notes. But if each note plays octaves, and as you go up the scale, the top octave fades out and the bottom octave fades in, it's not very easy to tell which octave you're in.
I've been using this service on my dev laptop, tablet, and phone for a few years now. It works well, and every time I turn it off, I immediately notice a huge difference as it blocks so much garbage that brings my phone's browser, especially, to a crawl.

I have never paid a cent for it. I still don't understand how they can make money... unless I'm actually the product being sold (which I was always under the impression that they didn't sell or share user data). Who knows.
Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment
I really liked the book "Super Founders" by Ali Tamaseb. It has the information you're looking for at least, as well as a lot of other interesting stuff.

Most significant property of billion dollar startup founders is that they're more likely to have founded a multi million dollar startup before. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're super talented, but more that they've got the good qualities as well as the required experience. Anyway the book has loads of great insights.
That's just one of many ways to fingerprint you. This blog post is only concerned with showing you how they are eliminating a different one.
5 clocks later too check if it’s also webviews.
It is, so I stopped reading
I once thought about reading HD floppies on a BBC Micro (which can handle SD and DD). But it turns out it can't handle the speed at which the bits come in (500kbps).

SD and even DD are fine (125kbps and 250kbps), so you could read 360KB floppies from a PC.
This should still be fine, especially for LLCs which presumably exist at least conceptually in order to make money. The government has a well-defined, broadly accepted (outside the fringes) interest in knowing who is doing commerce and making money.

Making money completely anonymously, without reporting this to the IRS and state tax authorities, at least in the US as a US citizen, is and should be illegal. But still seems pretty straightforward to stay anonymous on the front end.
Where I live, it takes significantly more training hours to become a barber than it does to become a police officer.
> [...] if they were rewritten in native code, [...] Throw it all on a minimal OS that provides networking and some file IO.

You may want to check out MirageOS[0]. It gives you a library OS with the primitives you say you need, and then all you have to do is import them in your application code as if you are writing your typical OCaml, build the virtual appliance and boot it up anywhere you want.

[0] https://mirage.io/docs/overview-of-mirage