skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is that people often claim that inflation is tied very tightly to printing and that the government is full of idiots who should have known that printing would cause high inflation.

Whether the people in government are idiots or not, it almost is always politically expedient to err on the side of printing more money, since politicians and politically appointed bureaucrats typically seem to be more focused on the short term (the next election) until there is uncontrolled inflation. That being said, I don't think we've had a president who had a strong intuition for economics since Eisenhower.

> Yet it is clearly more complex than this, since simple relationships between printing and inflation do not account for the last decade of observed printing and inflation.

How so? We've had inflation for the last decade, and we've had rising wealth inequality on top of consumer inflation (which I consider to be a different type of inflation), which can largely be attributed to increases in the money supply and broken graduated income tax brackets. The central issue here seems to be that you are not differentiating between the magnitude of money printing last time around (which did indeed affect prices throughout the market over the decade) and the unprecedented magnitude during the pandemic.

> If there is a many-year delay (to account for the low observed inflation during years of monetary intervention during the 2010s), then why are people blaming today's inflation on printing during the past two years?

2 years is a long time. While commodities, equities, and real estate started exploding pretty quickly, it took a little over a year for consumer prices to start increasing at an unsettling rate. But just because there is some hysteresis, does not mean it takes 10 years.
First, you don't want a way of life that creates problems, so take a step back.

If you're overthinking things, stop thinking. Go do something physical, ideally something physically exhausting, until your brain resets. Gym time, hiking, woodworking, yard work, physical therapy exercises, anything. Schedule the time each week doing something physical that ideally gives you a sense of accomplishment.

Balance the things you love with the things that create the life you want, and steer your brain towards iterating on understanding that balance. Then stop thinking and take committed action based on your results.

Committed action therapy may be something worth discussing with a therapist, but YMMV, and I am an internet stranger.
I wrote about these concepts, and have lived with my system since 2004:

https://www.vsta.org/spam/Traveler.html

(Ancient formatting, use reader mode if you're in Firefox.)

tl;dr Mail is broken because there's no authorization. Make your address act as an authorization token which is (1) transitive, and (2) revocable.
Does Facebook only operate in the US, now?
>can I transfer gems, skins, or titles between the games?

You could do that since the GameBoy Color and without having to trash the economy, become a fugitive and give Matt Levine writing material for years.
Pokemon Home solved this traditionally. I can transfer pokemon between Pokemon Go and switch Pokemon games (e.g. Pokemon Legends: Arceus)
>without blocking 50% of the internet

Your terms are acceptable
> passed through that process which seized ownership of a "domain".

No, this is not how it works. To be able to do that, they would have to rewrite the smart contract with the specific rules to revoke ownership, "upgrade" the contract (which I am not even sure if it is something supported by ENS current protocol) and then they would have to convince everyone else (or the significant majority of users) to migrate to the new contract as well.

> any actual government that this service is operating under the jurisdiction

What is the jurisdiction of "the internet"? There isn't one. There isn't a company behind this, there is no ZIP code, and so on. You can not stop tens of thousands of people running ethereum nodes all around the world. You might try to stop the current developers from doing further work, but the contract that is already deployed on the blockchain can not simply be removed. It is physically impossible to do it. That is the meaning of "censorship-resistant".
It's a fascinating phenomenon ... I call it "passionate dismissal". You can tell many of these people aren't 100% sincere from the mere fact they showed up to make a comment.

"This technology is boring and going nowhere ... so I read an article all about it and then took the time to make a comment about it ..."

I'm ready to predict that these people are radically wrong. The VR adoption curve is so sharp now in the 10-15 yr age bracket that people haven't caught up to the fact it is happening yet. I say that as someone with children in that age range and > 50% of their friends suddenly have and use VR routinely. These kids are all super acclimated to spending large amounts of time in VR. These kids are "primed" to become the next wave of tech users.

HN folks, get ready to feel really, really old in 5 years from now - probably how all our parents / grandparents felt when we showed up with smart phones.
yep, exactly my experience. I've almost never seen non Mitutoyo calipers anywhere that's not a personal/hobby shop
Eh, depends on your industry and the application.

Would you agree that it might be useful for architects or product designers to see the things they are designing instantly at the right scale?

New technologies don't have to be a full replacement of your whole workflow, they can just augment it.
`- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing`

This. Get rid of this. Everybody that reads this, get rid of it if you have such a step in your interview process.

Do a 1 hour maximum live challenge instead, or skip it entirely if the candidate has any public code you review and good enough.

This is what I've done in the current company and we've managed to hire some extremely good senior candidates because of it.
i would like to go even wider and just block all news sites as they tend to push political agendas from their prospective which mostly is filled with speculation that often causes unnecessary stress
People should use Wirecutter and CR to find a list of products that they'll probably be happy with. The expectation that they can identify the absolute best product for everyone is impossible and this article/discussion is probably a bit unfair.

If I'm an expert in a product area, then I'll find a more specific review site or do the analysis myself, but if I'm not, then Wirecutter and CR do a pretty good job of helping me avoid duds.
Visible light is also the ones turned into electricity, so it would make sense for panels to not be highly reflective at them.
I vaguely remember commenting something to the same effect when Mighty first popped up on HN, but ignoring all of the other problems of streaming my web browsing off of someone else's computer (which is a giant problem, I have zero interest in routing all of my network requests through this company), I just can't figure out how to make ~$330-360 a year competitive pricing as a long term investment.

I'm supposed to spend $1000 every 3 years for just a web browser and no other computing hardware, for a machine that I don't get to keep? I just don't see it, who are the people who need this kind of performance from a web browser and who wouldn't want to buy decent machine that can also do stuff like play games or run native software? An average computer will last me 3-4 years at least, and for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1200-1300 I can get a good computer.

And it'll handle web usage just fine. Maybe this is just that I'm on Linux/Firefox, but they're bragging about 40 tabs, and that's nothing. I regularly run 500 tabs in Firefox, and have on occasion reached 1000-1500 during periods where I've completely fallen off of the organizational bandwagon and completely broken down in terms of maintenance. I'm not saying that's good, but I am saying I don't need 40 Gigs of RAM to do that. This is wild overkill for web browsing. Even if they're never closing any tabs ever, it feels weird that this company is building a browser (even just wrapping around Chrome), and they're identifying a problem with existing browser UIs and resource management, and instead of copying Firefox's tab unloading, or improving workflows so it's easier to serialize and save tabs and close them -- instead we're going all in on streaming?

Do what you want I guess, but if Firefox can pull off 500-1000 tabs with 16 Gigs of RAM on my computer, and my computer can also run native apps and games... I don't know, what's being offered here does not seem like it's worth $330 a year to me, but people are free to make their own decisions.
The self-hosted version is discontinued and you can't buy it any more if you aren't already a customer.
Ask HN: Implications of open-source banking apps?
In the move away from proprietary services on the Android Platform many have experienced difficulties with the SafetyNet mechanism, especially regarding certain banking apps.

As there aren't any alternative FOSS apps, the customer cannot use these banking applications as intended.

I was therefore wondering, what would be the implications for an average, mid-sized bank, to go completely open source?
How feasible is it building such an app/transaction system especially regarding privacy and security measures (required by law)?
And lastly, what organizational changes within the bank would be needed to make an open source friendly banking system possible?

This is hypothetical and solely out of curiosity. I am looking forward to the discussion. Thank you very much!
Ah, that’s a misunderstanding.

Taxes are a cost from a business accounting perspective. Costs are not borne by the business but paid for by their customers in a manner which is usually obscured to them. A “carbon” tax would effectively be a tax on all goods and services that use energy (all of them).

Now my understanding (when I’ve raised this cost of governance issue with advocates prior anyway) of a lot of carbon tax proposals is that the taxes paid would be remitted back to taxpayers or citizens in some way in a kind of Robin Hood-like manner rather than actually used to cover the cost of government, but this doesn’t actually accomplish anything and I disagree with that kind of scheme on prudential grounds (inappropriate use of tax authority). In any case it would be cash seized from someone who earned it first. A power plant doesn’t emit hydro-carbons needlessly, it emits them as a function of a customer downstream paying for it: to power your refrigerator or to pay for the manufacture of the phone you purchased.

Whether you are levying the tax against the business operating the plant, the customer at the point of sale or any and all of the intermediaries, what you are effectively doing is raising business costs no matter how you phrase it or rhetorically justify it. This informs the final product and service price, so if costs go up including taxes, you should also expect prices to go up.
This! The utterly lack of respect is disgusting. The company is in need! What if the candidate asks the company to provide an 8 hours presentations about their processes, people, events, dancing capabilities is the CEO?
> Assuming I don't drop this computer and smash it to bits, I'll be able to keep it as long as my last MBP (a 2015 I bought new). So conservatively, let's say 5 years.

The benchmark is not whether your existing computer breaks to pieces, but whether it can do that "1) Browsing 2) Coding 3) Video and photo editing 4) Graphic design" smoothly for the coming 5 years in the newest versions of popular applications, as they inevitably get more demanding for older hardware.

That being said, I don't think the SaaS-part of the value proposition is particularly convincing, and there barely is anything else.
I have no idea.

> realistically, it's just a customer list.

I'd pay decent money to never interact with a BAYC owner. So there might be a market for this list.

TBF to BAYC holders, there are benefits to being on a "promising suckers" list. In this case the price seems high for those benefits, ofc.
> Nuclear is too expensive & takes too long to build
> Places like France (and Ontario!) have been 60–80% nuclear powered for many decades, safely and economically(*). It only took a decade or two to completely transition their grids. China is reportedly able to build nuclear plants with 1/3 the cost and time as the West.

This a misrepresentation of what people mean when they say this. People are talking about building new nuclear power plants, while you are referring to already built nuclear power plants. So far in the west these projects have been very expensive and they have taken much longer than expected. The west has lost its ability to build big infrastructure on time and within a reasonable budget.

We also don't really know what nuclear costs in France because EDF's nuclear activities are lumped together with other activities. I have no idea about Ontario, maybe their reporting is more transparent. Vattenfall in Sweden is also pretty transparent about the electricity generation costs needed to break-even, it's probably a better choice than referring to EDF's opaque economics.

>Nuclear waste is dangerous and is an unsolved problem
>Spent nuclear fuel can be stored safely indefinitely, and has been for decades. Moreover, it’s a resource, since it contains 90% of its original energy. That means it could be reused, instead of mining more. In doing so, it’s burned down to less radioactive byproducts that are even safer.

It could be "reused", but why would anyone do that when it's cheaper to mine uranium instead? This could be an interesting track to explore, it's probably possible to reduce the cost.

Anyway, good luck.
Its not the ads only - there is huge power over people when they can’t sort their feed and instead all they see is forced by an algoritm. It shapes people. Similarly how they recommend groups and people.
I gave up in about 5, not wasting my time with that
Nick says it is bad practice to post an x-language article, but change the title into y-language.

That x is German and y is English isn't that important. It's about wrongly signaling to the reader, who then after clicking is confused.
as someone who worked in the adult industry i can attest that some are unwilling to hire after looking at my work history(two in twenty years, both were extremely christian oriented companies), BUT many are excited about it, due to having experience with scale and technologies that cant be had at many companies outside of F500. streaming, ad serving, video encoding, etc.
Sure - it depends on the case, and that’s entirely my point. If it hasn’t erupted but still is, it may move teeth. If it has partially erupted it may be harder to clean, etc. My point is blanket “don’t worry until it’s infected” isn’t quite right either.
First, I would post a detailed list of your benefits package. This package should include 100% fully paid for health insurance that requires zero additional money from the employee except for perhaps prescription co-pays (not to exceed $20/ea or something).

You should also have a generous time off package and generous/unlimited sick days allowance. In Europe, this is already the norm. If I'm sick for 2 weeks in bed, I still would get paid. Obviously I need a doctor's note after a 2 or 3 days, but that shouldn't be an issue if they really are that ill.

Finally, really take a hard look at your expectations for when work will be completed. If you have a team of 10 devs and 2 of them really only work on average 10 months a year due to their disability, can you justify that to management and still meet your deadlines? Preferably, you work in a field where the deadlines are all made up and you can build in generous buffers.

This is true in industries like gamedev already. The game is sometimes done months in advance of the launch (or should be, ideally) and then marketing takes over while the team transitions to writing DLC or working on the next project.

It's laudable that you'd want to take on hiring people with disabilities but you must be realistic with what you are getting yourself into, especially if those disabilities are chronic in nature and require frequent visits to a doctor.

In return for providing all of these benefits, you will gain some of the most loyal, hardworking, and compassionate team members and all around great human beings. I have friends with such disabilities and it's not a secret who the good companies are to work for. By providing excellent benefits like these, you'll also attract a lot of other great talent and perhaps make new business partnerships because of the network influence of your engineering team. It's well worth it, in my opinion.
> All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they are going to contribute to “diversity”. What you’re supposed to do in these, and what everyone damn well knows you’re supposed to do, is (i) talk about your race, gender, and other “identity group” traits that it would be illegal for the university to explicitly ask you about, and (ii) talk about your activism on behalf of left-wing identity politics. Note: If you write a statement merely explaining how you will scrupulously avoid discriminating, or explaining how you will contribute to intellectual diversity, your application will be tossed in the trash. No university will say this out loud (yet?), but, again, everyone knows that.
> I wish I could sell my thousands of items in WoW for real money, or my Fornite skins for real money, or my unneeded Magic Arena cards for real money, but I'm locked in their ecosystem.

That's exactly it: you may wish it, but the reason it won't happen isn't that NFTs weren't invented yet, it's that companies making these products really don't want you to. One simple reason is that it might make someone else play less if they could all those items by just paying a little money.

The other reason why selling in-game items for real money will never be permitted (again) is all the gigantic legal crap that it brings along. If the items are worth real money, you can sue Blizzard or other players for events which unfairly make you lose an item, or affect the value of the items you hold.
They took payment in BTC back when it was several orders of magnitude less valuable. They can probably run the company indefinitely off their crypto savings.
I've been using EVM blockchain as an immutable registry / ledger to record small bits of data linked to IPFS to record events. These are supposed to be immutable by me or anyone else (essentially they act like logs and events).

Is there "regular" immutable events database like this that I don't have to host myself, has a super easy-to-use API, and costs less than $5/mo, but keeps my data around after I stop paying for it?
>If Twitter/tumblr/reddit had no app, their mobile engagement would halve or worse. Not true for Pornhub.

This fails at even cursory inspection. Reddit thrived for many years without an app. In fact Reddit has ruined their own website so that they can push/force people to their mobile app. The website is so popular that Reddit considers it a problem. A problem because it’s harder to monetize a website than a mobile app.

>Taleb's minority rule. Also read tumblr insiders' accounts of the porn ban that lay the blame much more on Apple than mainstream reporting does.

I’m sure the insiders at a failed business have everyone to blame but themselves.
It's not a review site, but the YouTube channel "project farm" is this. He not only has great objective comparison reviews but he shares his test setup, results and data so its clear its a great objective review.
> FAANG-alum seniors who are used to and will put up with full-day or even multi-day interviews full of leetcode shit or "gotcha" edge-case quizzes

As a current FAANG employee, I didn’t put up with that bullshit from anyone including FAANG companies.
This is literally what the article states midway through.
We are a small 501(c)(3), creating an app that is aimed at a particular demographic. It is an amalgam of a simple social media graph, and a location-based event database.

It's not really device control, but it does involve a fairly robust iOS app, talking to multiple servers, and synthesizing relationships.

I won't go into a whole bunch of detail in public. Like I said, it serves a fairly narrow demographic, and won't really make a huge splash.

I've been writing software for this demographic for decades.

I can always chat about it offline.
> Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

Why hide the salary if you think it's good?
swc typescript ts-node alternative would be nice!
I think the review industry is so bad that even a mediocre quality endeavor could gain a ton of traction. The problem with the current tech review industry IMO is that it seems like the benchmarking and review part of it are treated like separate business units that need to be self sustaining / profitable.

If you go by what LMG says on their podcast it sounds like the intent is for the lab to give them credibility and to act as an eyeball funnel, even if it needs to be subsidized by the entertainment side of the business. They've already shown that it's possible to make entertaining reviews if you keep the technical details light, so what they really need is hard data to back them up when they trash a product or get accused of being a corporate puppet.

I personally find their videos to be entertaining, so if I'm looking to buy something and I know they evaluate tech products, I'll go to their labs site, look for entertainment videos that are produced from that data, and watch those videos. Then when I find something I think looks like a good fit for me I'll jump back to the labs side to look at the details.

IMO the thing that might make LMG's effort different is that they're going into the space as a new participant. I think they realize the technical aspect of the lab is basically going to be content that needs to exist, but that no one reads (enough to be profitable) and their monetization is set up to accommodate that scenario. Compare that to traditional reviewers (and SEO spammers) that rely on page views for their revenue.

The whole review industry is going to keep shifting towards video and the low cost, low value SEO spam sites are a big part of that. Any existing review businesses that aren't shifting towards a hybrid model like the LMG / Labs plan are going to get crushed IMO. Even if it's not LMG doing it, it's going to happen eventually.
> NFT as some kind of license to access a service using web3 auth

Firstly, we have that on the web today with OAuth. It is centralised in the hands of a few companies but that's because people trust those companies. There simply is no consumer demand to allow other options but it's easy enough to do.

Secondly, the problem with the NFT approach you described is that it coerces people to use a single wallet for everything. Which goes against the best practice for crypto at the moment which is to have multiple wallets due to the many, many NFT scams that can steal your wallet. So in effect your approach trades off centralisation in one area for another. With the end user not really being in a fundamentally better position.