skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easiest way to curb inflation is to reduce purchasing power (read: increase unemployment)...
For all things mental health, try:

* Sobriety

* Regular sleep

* Personal connection(s)

* Exercise

* Clean diet

* Meditation

Meditation in particular can be a superpower. Next time you find yourself feeling a way that doesn't serve you, just sit quietly 5-10 minutes, close your eyes, and take some deep breaths. The Headspace app is an easy way to start.
> If you are pro-labor you want the fed to aggressively raise rates because that makes life harder for business.

the fed presents its goals as balancing low unemployment against low inflation. any projections for unemployment have it increasing as the fed tightens. i haven’t seen anyone say who these newly unemployed are, nor where they end up. but if the tradeoff were “low unemployment, but those at the bottom of the wrung have to move to cheaper housing (and commute further, etc)” vs “higher unemployment: those at the bottom of the wrung are SOL and end up on the streets”… well, i certainly hope that’s not the tradeoff we’re actively choosing here.
The original pilot episode of Stargate: SG1 had a scene where a woman is stripped against her will by the villain. The camera lingers over her naked body for awhile while a bad puppet alien snake slithers around.

The show was originally on premium cable and the network insisted that they include nudity. The producers hated the scene and the fans generally don't like it. The actress has said that she was lied to about how much of her body would be shown in the final cut. It's very tonally inconsistent with the rest of the series. When the episode re-airs on basic cable they show an alternate cut of scene which is much shorter and removes the nudity. This version also appears on some home media releases.

I think that's ok, right? It doesn't change the intent of the scene. We still get that the villainous Goa'uld are evil and cruel. Anyone want to argue that no, actually, the weird alien-puppet-hissing-at-a-naked-lady scene HAS to stay in for the sake of artistic purity?

Ironically the version that's on Netflix includes the full-frontal scene, and for some reason that affects the rating of the entire series: Each episode is rated M and includes a "Nudity" tag, despite no other episode containing nudity.
It's really frustrating to write, until it isn't. The language lets you be extremely expressive with about the same level of mental overhead as a garbage collected language. Once it "clicks," it's a joy to work with.
I've seen some people speculating that you could see a very complex mix of inflation and deflation, where things that everybody needs to buy would inflate (food, energy), and the optional things that people can cut out of their budget (expensive cars, boats, proportional to the ability of people to do without, do less, or defer purchases) could see heavy deflation.

This wouldn't be good for the economy at all, of course.
Machine learning could fuel a reproducibility crisis in science
> You can't get these speeds with even VDSL..

That's not quite true. At least in germany, VDSL2 with "supervectoring" profile 35b [1] is routinely used, advertised as 250 Mbit internet service [2].

Technologically it's quite a waste of hardware resources and electric power to put these kind of data rates on old twisted pair copper cables (instead of using fiber everywhere), but that seems to be the status quo here right now.

(And I'd guess that the ratio of people being in need of satellite internet is much lower in germany than it is in the US).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#Vplus/35b

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervectoring
The ethics of the thing seem to involve support mechanisms like disclosures, making the situation more broadly approved and more easily supported upon closer examination.

Supporting factor example: You know your thing is good, so you pay somebody to review it, knowing otherwise it doesn't have a chance against more popular, yet inferior products that are holding the industry back, maybe even humanity.

Typical situations aren't so serious but it's a good idea to explore the circumstances broadly and deeply both. "Use/not use" probably isn't a deep enough model and looking broadly it doesn't reflect the type of thinking that is going into the common case, let alone the successful case that meets with general approval. Good luck.
I am curious how you arrived to "fake" as conclusion where there is absolutely no sign or reason for faking anything.

I think that it is obvious, to casual observers as well, that this is a modern day photographer using vintage equipment. No need to resort to detective work to notice the obvious modern wiring (which is present in every picture except for one, the elephant), or that the author is still alive, when that information is just in the captions.

And the reason why it's done is obvious, too: It's a great artistic choice that meshes well with the subject's aesthetic.
I’m in San Jose. My choices are 25Mbps DSL or cable internet through Xfinity. After my previous interactions with Xfinity I will never touch them again.

Starlink is looking pretty good by comparison.
It's not just browsers. Other tooling will also benefit from a more explicit and less ambiguous syntax - think e.g. code completion.
Because I don't want to live in a surveillance dystopia where the state - or Google or Amazon - has a camera on the outside of every house.
Yeah some little kid wanders into the wrong space, shouldn't result in a dog attack.
even more ...was 2% and now 3.5% .
Ask HN: Ideas for Late Career Reinvigoration?
Throwaway. I'm a mid 40's developer (non-manager) who's worked at a gamut of companies (big cos, startups, self employment/contract, "fun" but low-paying gigs), in many problem domains, but mainly FAANG for the most of the last ~15 years. Close to being able to retire, but not quite there yet. I'm bored. I've done a bit of everything at this point, and it's starting to feel tedious. I don't care about title/level anymore. With various market meltdowns, the golden handcuffs are feeling less binding, and I'm feeling a bit more free to make choices career-wise, since at this point I'm fortunate in that I only really need to cross the finish line so to speak. I have no desire to leave software development - I'm not going to become a woodworker or teacher. After I retire I will still code as one of my main hobbies. But everywhere I look, it all seems very "been there, done that." I've reinvented myself several times over my career (domain-wise) and I think I'm quite malleable in that regard, but the intrinsic motivation is waning after decades of enthusiasm. What have other folks my age done when this sort of ennui hits?
Good luck finding a job at 70
If it's so good then why don't they just charge an appropriate price for their services? It looks great in the pics, I'm sure people will support it with their money if it is useful and valuable for them.
Thank you for explaining this. My claims about the reinvention were incorrect.

I didn't think about the replicated conversation history and did not know about the decentralized rooms (though looking back, I can see what you mean by that if XMPP rooms are tied to a JID). Those kind of properties seem to work better for some ideas of mine's, though there are others that XMPP still seem to be better for other ideas.
I'm sorry, but "is this musician notable" literally is a popularity contest.
The market is mostly untradeable right now. Low volume, lots of chop, possible manipulation by market makers. See how it settles in a few days, especially after we get through some more earnings releases(i.e. AAPL).
It's taking a while since it's a mechanical hard drive.
"Said 'gay' as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s."

In the HN guidelines, "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"The college I attended was small and very LGBT friendly. One day someone came to visit and used the word “gay” as a pejorative, as was common in the early 2000s. A current student looked at the visitor and flatly said, “we don’t do that here.” The guest started getting defensive and explaining that they weren’t homophobic and didn’t mean anything by it. The student replied, “I’m sure that’s true, but all you need to know is we don’t do that here.” The interaction ended at that point, and everyone moved on to different topics. “We don’t do that here” was a polite but firm way to educate the newcomer about our culture."
> Only five-ish* languages are approved to use within Google

what about dart, carbon, kotlin, and other languages they created?

Given the list of languages here: https://github.com/orgs/google/repositories there seem to be many exceptions if this were to be true
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. If a movie is released today, it obviously wouldn't have the towers. And a movie released in the past right after 9/11 would edit them out because it was still fresh in people's minds and most people agree that it was the right decision.

Are you saying that the movies/trailers/TV shows should be retroactively edited to re-include the towers? Isn't retroactive editing a bad thing that we want to avoid. That's what this entire post thread is about.
Read through any royal writings. English was almost never used. French is by far the most commonly used language of English royals.
You understand Birdy's mechanism correctly :D

> How do you make sure the same user who was on A variant yesterday doesn't get the B variant today?

You can't. You make the point that the stats generated by Birdy are not 100% accurate, but they're the best we've got given the limitations of the Twitter API :D

I make the point that the data is good enough, and statistically significant enough (especially if you let the test run enough) to help you find the better profile version.

I agree that this subset of visitors that may come twice or more can skew the data.

Birdy's stats are not to be taken as the absolute truth, but as solid clues as to which profile version it is alternating between is providing the best results.

I'm looking forward to improving Birdy as Twitter adds more capabilities to their API!
Hard Eggs and Radishes: On Percy Bysshe Shelley
Show HN: Decentralized Ecommerce for IPFS
The shortage of housing and population growth have been around for 20 years and the fear until a year ago was deflation not inflation. Don't think that's what is driving inflation.

Money printing is what caused the initial rise in prices. But we aren’t printing money anymore, so that would be a one off. Super tight labor market is what will create the self-fulfiling cycle of prices up => higher wages => prices up. I think the Fed is trying to create unemployment, so that it breaks the ability to demand higher wages, and stops the cycle.

It’s a ugly process that the fed should have started a year ago. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks Powell’s decision might have been influenced by the fact that his mandate was up for renewal by the Biden administration, who didn’t want to hear about inflation risk and tighter monetary policy at the time.
>If the barriers to entry are too high, then price controls or nationalization.

Or remove the barriers, like regulation/licensing/taxation.
Comparing strtod with from_chars (GCC 12)
What was the issue with the Ansari XPRIZE? I’m not aware of any controversy about it or the winner.
Time-Lapse Footage Shows Neural Stem Cells Grow in 3D Scaffolds
Our peers are bad at math or have no conceptual grasp of money in the millions or billions? Maybe juries know a judge will reduce the amount so it's some kind of game theory to ensure they don't low-ball the victim. I'm not certain.

An even better example is BMW, Inc. v Gore where a man sued because the brand new car he purchased had been partially repainted to cover damage caused while it was being shipped to the dealer. The jury awarded him $4 million in punitive damages. BMW appealed and the supreme court agreed it was ridiculous.
Local to me, real estate investment really only works if you're a landlord and the rent is your income. Buying then selling or flipping homes has not historically been a profitable endeavor. If you timed things just right for COVID, maybe you made a good return, but otherwise in history prices have been rather stable and increasing only similar to inflation for decades.

Surely there are markets where flipping houses is extremely profitable, but it's not all markets.
The National Defense Authorization Act? Obviously that answer has nuance and is not saying that the US should go without the spirit of what the NDAA is supposed to do, but in practice...
I did a Google search for "long-term returns from housing vs. other asset classes" (purposefully using exactly what you typed here to show how easy this is) and found a ton of references showing this is an overly-strong (and even somewhat "debated") claim but (as far as I am concerned) right enough for a discussion forum (and remember a lot of people aren't in a good mental position to own stocks but have to live somewhere anyway and so might as well own a house).

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4242070-in-long-run-house-w...

> This mix of comparable returns (Finding 1) with lower volatility (Finding 2) leads to one of the research's most puzzling, but fascinating, discoveries: over the very long run (circa the last century), housing earned a superior risk-adjusted return than equities. Sharpe ratios for the asset summarise this fact; note too that the pattern is consistent across countries.
Awesome, thanks for sharing and thanks for your work!
That attitude is the start of a slippery slope. If the end always justifies the means then none of your freedoms will be protected if someone else decides it's more convenient for you to not have them. This is the major problem with the big government authoritarianism that has infected the republican party.
There is really only one organization that price fixes oil and it's OPEC. Any individual oil and gas company has literally zero influence on the price of oil and gas.
> Unlike America, it's quite common and acceptable in India to just ask someone directions

What? What makes you think this is unacceptable in the US?

I think most Americans prefer to be independent and not have to ask someone, but it's not really that rare.
I'm looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States...

Although I guess I should amend my lamentation to say that 'we' did but it wasn't nearly enough and it took them way too long to start.
They actually started down that path, https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html, hence my remark.
> Welfare and retirement systems across the West are insolvent at current settings anyway.

Easiest way to solve that problem is to increase capital gain taxes significantly.
Probably just my pet peeve, but everyone conflates inflation with CPI. We've had the ridiculous inflation starting in 2008 (and doubling down in 2020), now we're seeing the CPI.

Why this matters (just my theory): previously all that new money went to banks, the stock market, VC, etc., not so much directly to consumers. So we saw the stock market explode, but not so much for the price of eggs. Now we have supply chain shortages and people itching to spend, so we're seeing CPI explode.

Raising interest rates won't help now (again, my theory), because they do nothing to discourage consumers from spending, other than maybe to slow housing or other purchases requiring loans. In fact, I can't get a better return from current interest rates (actually I can still get approximately 0) than prices continue to rise, so I'm incentivized to keep spending.

The Fed needs to convince people to start saving/investing (stop spending), otherwise nothing will change (for the better...)
Tupleware: “Big” Data, Big Analytics, Small Clusters [pdf]
Eames Power of Ten Reproduced with DALL-E 2
> California is only giving it to lower income citizens.

Not last time I checked. I work at a FANG and am definitely not low income yet my wife and I will be getting a few hundred.
If you'd told me stocks in high street shops would be a risk investment because of online shopping when Amazon started I would have laughed in your face. They are not immensely un-risky holdings any more, because people's shopping habits moved. Look at Macy's value. It's way down from peak.

Revlon is a major consumer brand. How many people know about its involvement in haemophilia treatment, and the downside risks? Its in bancruptcy. How can a brand with that kind of recognition, which also owned Elizabeth Arden, tank?

I love listerine strips. I use them all the time. I haven't used TCP mouthwash since a big panic around phenols, and TCE in the 80s. I think the market moved. I certainly don't use Listerine any more, or use "fishermens friends" mouth lozenges which have chloroform in then (or used to)

The risk isn't "cancer" its "ohmygod cancer" headlines.
> How should we understand something like the Great Oxygenation Event in the light of this theory?

The ancient war between anaerobic and aerobic factions is not over. Humans are a sophisticated biological weapon designed by the anaerobes to trigger the "clathrate gun" and return Earth to a non-oxygen-rich regime.

It's a very clever plan. We work faster than the aerobes can react, in geological/evolutionary time were are an explosion.

> what about this is self-regulating?

The answer to that question is in Lovelock's book. If you don't want to read the whole thing you can start with Daisyworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisyworld

> Where is the homeostasis?

Oxygen levels. The first clue that led to the Gaia Hypothesis was, IIRC, that the atmosphere of the Earth is not in chemical equilibrium.

> What does the theory allow us to predict?

Well, for one thing, if we find a planet that has a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere that it might have life on it.
We changed the GitHub repositories from private to public
Grafieks Desktop is an open source simple Self-Service Business Intelligence tool that allows users to quickly and easily extract meaningful insights from data.
> on DVD, where no one can change it

That can easily be changed if the DVDs are manufactured on demand. It would just mean changing the source files.
You mean, like a cellular network?
Penny Auction
see:
https://gist.github.com/darconeous/8c7899c4d2f849b881d6c43be...
> "has warned that the biosphere is dying due to human action. He said two years ago that the biosphere is in the last 1% of its life."

Having read many of his books, these are two different things. Biosphere is about 4 billion years old, so the last 1% is still 40 million years. This is inevitable, as the Sun grows warmer, eventually planet Earth gets too warm for life as well. But this death-in-40-million-years timescale is unrelated to human action.
The Federal Reserve doesn't print money. The Treasury does that.

The Fed does two things:

1. They lend money to banks through what's called their "discount window". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_window
2. They buy and sell US Treasury Bonds on the open market until interest rates hit the target that they've set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Open_Market_Committee

Today's announcement is about using that second mechanism.
My family are all on WhatsApp yes.

I don't have the energy to push them to move over especially because they also have their circles that use WhatsApp. So I decided to just set up Matrix Bridges and get all that shit (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord) off my phone, I use them all through Element now.

But I'm not going to do free promotion for what is yet another walled garden.

PS: Element works pretty well for me, and it gives me the added benefit of having all my chats stored in one place. Also gives me the ability to read chats that have been deleted by the user, make copies of what people put in their WhatsApp 'status updates' etc.
This article by Lyn Alden is the best on the dollar as the US Currency Reserve I've read:

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
> by raising interest rates to 20%

And confiscating hard currency and implementing capital controls.
UK Economy Will Have Slowest Growth in G-7 Next Year
Presumably they still pay out on that, but I wonder if with sufficient shift in formulation and brand, they could get out of it?
>much more reasonably informed demographic

My argument is that the "reasonably informed demographic" is incredibly small. I can only say the same thing so many times, though, so I'm not sure how to explain it in a different way.

To restate my example, even very smart CS graduates may not realize that anonymized data joined with other anonymized data can result in de-anonymized data, because the linking and de-anonymization of sparse datasets is a niche subfield that has only recently begun being explored.

Many people may think they are reasonably informed (they look into the ToS, see that data is anonymized, and decide that they are okay with that) without knowing that the data may later by de-anonymized through advanced statistical analysis they've never been exposed to in all their schooling. So while they thought they were informed, they weren't. This repeats across several domains.

>But again, i repeatedly fallback to "But who else can do this?".

Why is that when a problem is identified, people demand a solution be provided at the same time? I don't have a solution, sorry. But that shouldn't preclude me from identifying a problem.

I honestly did not expect saying basically "Let's put some of the blame on Google, because they're the ones with the dark patterns and lawyers and experts, rather than solely blaming the layperson" would be met with much pushback.
Seems like simple logic; harder to see a return on a billion dollars invested with prices at 2010 levels. Helps keep unemployment low as people feel the heat to hustle harder; worker insecurity being a long time policy of the Fed: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
If society wasn't as car-dependent as it is for basic survival, car sales would look different. It's not reflective of how much Americans sufficiently care about reducing emissions.
"The high accuracy of predictions in tests often fools people into thinking the models are picking up on the 'true structure of the problem' in a human-like way..."

A form of confirmation bias?
way off course on my comment here, oops!
I had a client which ran a $300M/annum business off a handful of servers with zero redundancy. Their PII/GDPR data was unencrypted on a single spinning disk.

Any advice about risk mitigation fell on deaf ears.

It was the most terrifying 6 months of my career and taught me a harsh lesson in risk assessments of potential clients.
Agreed. Having to work to 70 and possibly beyond because some employers haven't figured out how to make their jobs not completely shitty seems like a pretty raw deal.
Best pay in tech and a product that's important to the world, along with an apparently not-too-political inner culture. I'd hope that's the case for these employees (the full time ones, not the poor contractors who sleep in the parking lot or review posts for abusive images and such).
A bit of a tangent, but the Corecursive podcast has a really interesting interview with the creator of SQLite: [0]

[0] https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
I was about to post this.
The implied gun ownership rate given by the firearm suicide rate in Hungary, for example, is rather high. It is also surprisingly high in Austria. Neither are like the US of course, but unless the primary reason people own firearms in those countries is for suicide, more people own guns than you may imagine.

Granted, I did research on proxy gun rate estimators many years ago, using even older data, so it is possible that things have changed but I don't see why that would be the case.