skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe inflation is not the boggieman it is made up to be.

We had much higher inflation in 80's, sometimes in double digits, and salaries outpaced inflation.

By contrast in 2010s inflation was nearly zero and oay has declined. There is no rule in economics that says inflation should be at near-zero like it was for the past couple decades.

Additionally, you would think that the ti.e period when we had near 0% inflation would be the time to invest in long-lofe assets like solar panels and wind turbines, that take lond time to pay back. But we didn't really take advantage.

Now we can see all stocks are down as speculating with borrowed money becomes more expensive. Meanwhile those of us without access to leverage can't afford to buy assets - it is entirely possible that inflation will benefit the common man.

https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/pay-rises-have-got-weaker-every-...
> The sad thing is that individual landlords are among the most responsive to tenant needs,

This is extremely dependent on a lot of factors. When you are an upper-middle class tech worker renting a luxury condo, your landlord will absolutely be responsive and helpful. I've been in those condos and they're great.

But I wasn't always able to afford to live in nice condos. When I lived in a cheap ground-floor unit and my bathroom started spewing feces out of the toilet and bathtub because the building's main sewer line was clogged due to the individual landlord fucking up a DIY fix, my individual landlord decided to ignore my calls because I was being annoying, and then I had to fight them through my local tenancy dispute board to reclaim the money I spent on hiring a plumber over a holiday weekend.

So yeah... it depends.
Its a Faker library being piped out to HTML. You can find much more exhaustive and comprehensive versions of this for almost any programming language, they're typically used to generate test data.

https://github.com/faker-ruby/faker
but that's not how Wikipedia works. their policies don't care how popular or well-known someone or something is, what matters is whether or not journalists, news outlets, and other such groups (who must themselves be "notable") find them "notable" enough to cover. the Philip Roth story mentioned in the article is one such example of this—it's a good thing Mr. Roth worked at The New Yorker (a verified "notable" news outlet) so he could set the record straight about his own article, otherwise he would've been shit outta luck!

it's really odd the degree to which Wikipedia's policies enshrine commercial journalism outlets as the Arbiters of Notability.
What's unique about Japan's economy?
nvidia, which they sold today at a large loss.
Pelosi bought a lot of Nvidia. It's unclear to me why they would benefit more than Intel.
About the time I started having second thoughts about defense work, Reagan came into office and kicked off a social conversation about how nuclear war just kinda happens sometimes. It gave me the the boost to get out. But for the war in Ukraine, a gig in logistics might work.
Regrettably, This is what does tend to happen. But its also a failure of society because immigrants are easy targets for scoring political points, despite it being repeatedly shown how beneficial immigration has been to Western econonomies.
How I Decided Not to Pivot
Mailboxes are typically outside of the fenced area where the dog is. Stay off my property and you won't have issues, is the point.
I think they mean the temperature spiking to 50C, instead of ~40C, in the summer.
Lol I updated it? But there’s a lot of articles with different values (interesting …)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-passes-280b-s...

It’s also interesting because it appears the title on the fox article changed so idk man
HackerLab is a for-profit corporation. Which isn't the norm for these types of places.
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Maybe it'll show up in their usage numbers. I stopped using IG because it's near impossible not to prevent the sound from blasting from accidentally scrolling or clicking on a reel.

I feel like a product team that gave any shit whatsoever would give people a mute button that stays put. People use their phones in lots of different locations (with other people around). And phones are constantly blasting music at random points because of Reels.
I'm fascinated by text rendering and just scratching the surface to learn more.

A few questions I have:

1. Is the pixel grid global to the the screen? or is it specific to application? Can different applications on OS have different pixel grids? Not sure where pixel grids come from

2. Sounds painful to write your own font rendering system. Why doesn't Warp use OS level libs CoreText, etc?

3. I know there are many font rendering techniques such as texture, distance and geometry based. The most recent one is pathfinder technique, which is geometry based? Which one does Warp uses?

4. In which step the font rendering pipeline spends most time? Is it the shaping? rasterization? font file parsing?
The problem isn't with the editors, but admins who spuriously make these judgment calls. It takes hours to create a new article and seconds to delete it. Not going to spend hours more in the silly appeals process.

The bar on deletion should be as high or higher than the bar on creation (spam aside, of course) or you're just going to keep losing editors. Nobody has time to play these stupid games with the juvenile admins.
It is a messed up world. Sadly people that have bad things going on in their lives get depressed and look for an escape. Here as in many places that escape is typically alcohol and/or meth. When people become addicted and overuse drugs their rational mind is overpowered by emotions and desperation. When in that state of mind one can not presume their intentions or how they will react when confronted. My own theory of which I have zero data to back it up is that on some level they want to leave this world but want someone else to do it for them.

As a pragmatic realist all I can do is work with the cards I am dealt. That is one of the many reasons I moved to a place I am allowed, encouraged and expected to defend myself, my family and my property. I do not consider myself or family to be replaceable. The best I can do otherwise is to mitigate getting into that situation in the first place by hardening my home but people will always find a way around it.
I'm seriously considering moving to Colombia, nice. Unfortunate that it's remote.
>> And how does life being infinite suddenly make it meaningful for you?

Good point.

Not about me though, many people derive meaning out of life being infinite, which is what I guess underlies even the conceptualization of reincarnation.

I personally am more inclined towards it being finite, like you said. Under that scenario, the question comes, what do "enjoyment", "happiness", etc. really mean?

>> Life means nothing in the "grand scheme of things". It just is. You exist because of a long sequence of random events and then it just sort of ends. There's no deeper meaning, it's just how our universe works. In this brief moment when you get to exist, you can choose to do things which make you feel good.

I agree in general.

And then I disagree with people viewing suicide negatively. If it just is, just ends, has no deeper meaning, and all the more so is about 'feeling good', then there is (a) nothing negative about someone not feeling good choosing to end it, and (b) nothing negative about choosing to end with a realization that even feeling good ultimately remains meaningless only.
I always wonder, for folks who self-host on Droplets or EC2 - how do you handle provisioning the server to ensure that it's secure and has everything you need? I use Laravel Forge for this. I'm not a server admin and don't want to pretend to be.
I wrote a new, general-purpose data management system that was originally designed to compete with file systems for storing large amounts of unstructured data (my background is in disk utilities like PartitionMagic and Drive Image). It can be used to convert 100M+ files (photos, documents, videos, etc.) into data objects and attach searchable, contextual meta-data tags to them.

The tags I invented were essentially highly-optimized key-value stores that worked really well. I then discovered that these same KV stores could also be used to form relational tables (a columnar store). It could be used to store both highly structured data or the more semi-structured data found in things like Json documents where every value could be an array. Queries were lightning fast and it could perform analytic operations while still performing transactions at a high speed.

My hobby turned into a massive project as I figured out how to import/export CSV, Json, Json lines, XML, etc. files to/from tables easily and quickly. It still has a lot of work to go before it is a 'full-blown' database, but it is now a great tool for cleaning and analyzing some pretty big tables (tested to 2500 columns and 200M rows).

It is in open beta at https://didgets.com/download and there are a bunch of short videos that show some of the things it can do on my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-L1oTcH0ocMXShifCt4JQQ
By this logic nobody should be allowed to own a pool. Instead we require pools to be fenced, which is the same thing people do with guard dogs.
Depends on the point of view.

The government there is very competent at stealing their people's wealth through inflation.

I bet there are people like this in every country. They just couldn't find a way to do it unchecked. Yet...
Have we already forgotten the aphorism "if the service is free, you are the product"?
Thanks! As a developer myself, I've loved seeing companies like Stripe, Plaid, Auth0, etc. build solutions to hairy technical problems catered to developers. In my experience, technical leaders (decision makers) always looked to their teams when evaluating core technical solutions. There's nothing better than letting your team work with the tools they love and get the job the done. We've spoken to many technical leaders across the industry who have echoed the same thinking.
MIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
I lived for 20 years there. In my opinion the root of all problems there is that it is embedded in the culture to be as egoist as possible and to steal as much as you can from everyone else in the most ruthless and shameless possible way.

People usually complain about the government being corrupt and stealing to the people. But most people are the same, at their own level. They will try to steal as much as they can at their level or what is close to their hands. From bit paying taxes to actually pocketing others money, etc.

I know it is not everyone, but it is the majority of the people that are like this, politician or not.

I still have a friend there, always complaining public services don't work (healthcare, police, etc) but then in the same conversation he says with a straight face that he prefers not to pay with credit cards or bank accounts because then he'd have to pay taxes and declare the money.

There are people like this all over the world, but the proportion in Argentina is huge, a big majority I'd say. It's part of the culture.
Unixbane Has Spoken!
They regularly go after teens and young people with no assets who are selling pot to their friends.
muon: Compact and simple binary encoding, on par to CBOR, MsgPack and UBJSON
we had crazy asset inflation, which is what he is probably talking about.
In a corporate environment you do have an investigation department that enforces such language.
However, my point is that in a totalitarian environment people treated you as a pariah for non conforming, as they would not want to face a similar fate. This is a similarity to the taboo of advocating against such an ideology.

about the examples, if you would take extreme slurs against minorities, these are not used in a professional environment already so they are never these that are discussed

The words that are discussed are such that are established for a different connotation. that connotation is completely metaphorical and does not carry any real insult, yet some insist on literalizing those, or finding hidden meanings
For French speakers: last year we released Cedille, the largest French language model.

Following the release, a French philosophy teacher would live stream sessions where he'd generate snippets from famous philosophers with the model then ask an (informed) audience which samples were real vs generated. They would get it wrong half of the time. One of the recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHLTEpr_7tM&t=5412s
> the tech developed needs to be open to all, not locked behind a patent owned by MIT

You would like it to be. It doesn’t need to be. In this case, that line would have tanked the bill.

> don't see any functional difference in tax credits vs money up front

You don’t see the difference between buying something with a mail-in coupon and being given the cash up front to buy it?
Option C, we will learn to die with the consequences
That's from controller chips.
Thanks! Enough catalyst for me to read through all of SQLite source files
How much of SQLite is D. Richard Hipp versus companies that are contributing to the code?
> I stopped using IG because it's near impossible not to prevent the sound from blasting from accidentally scrolling or clicking on a reel.

I don't know a single person who doesn't hate the muting functionality in IG. I can't believe how overlooked this is.
Pools don't jump over fences, though.
Adam Mosseri has been in full damage-control mode for years.

Simply put, Instagram knows you're addicted and will make as much possible product change to make them more money while you struggle to get it out of your life given how personalized and predatory the experiences are becoming.

There is a natural conclusion to "growth" of engagement though. Everyone is competing for our attention given we sit on devices longer each year. I think it's averaging about 3 hours today on a smartphone. That's crazy to think about.
"Baudrillard was right"

- me, often.
Partitioning with Native Postgres and Pg_partman
Emily Dickinson captures it beautifully.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pai...
Hmm, maybe we'd all learn something about this guy if only he had a Wikipedia page. Guess his life's work is too expensive for Wikipedia's hard drives.
As this comment illustrates, partisan propaganda in Argentina is effective at getting much of the population to blame anybody except the ruling party, who somehow believe that "widespread speculation" is something that doesn't happen in countries like the US, the UK, Taiwan, Japan, etc.

The current ruling party (the one that likes to blame the agricultural sector) just signed up for some new unpayable loans from the IMF last month.
Don't know why you're getting that, the link works for me from multiple different browsers.
Minecraft 1.19.1 released with chat reporting and global bans on private servers
> Unfortunately, so many people in the west have their net worth tied up in their homes that policies directly targeting property values is political suicide.

I long ago concluded that the only way to escape high housing costs is to leave high cost of living places. No reform large enough to make a real dent is politically feasible, and in some overpriced cities the sheer amount of construction that would be required to ease demand is itself problematic.

My generation (late gen-X / early gen-Y) was all about moving to cool cities and living where you want, but I don't think this works anymore. If you move to a place like New York or San Francisco without the move bringing with it a job that pays more than the real estate cost increase, you will never be able to accumulate wealth. Much of your surplus will be eaten by rent and you'll never be able to get on the ownership side where you can accumulate home equity because the rent won't let you gather a large enough down payment or buffer. (The prices are so high even a 5% down payment can be pretty sizable and you won't get a loan on decent terms for less than that.)

When these hipster urbanism trends got going the market was very different. It was right after the great urban crime wave of the early 1990s. Urban real estate was underpriced and going urban was seen as very contrarian, even bizarre and frightening. Going downtown meant affordable housing with nearby walkable stuff, cool old architecture (including those old school warehouse lofts... try getting one now!), and cool people. The underpriced real estate and semi-abandoned old buildings also provided a ton of "marginal space" for wild parties, underground performances, art, and all kinds of cool stuff.

Then the prices went absolutely crazy starting in the early 2000s and exploding after the re-inflation of the housing market post-2008. The core problem is that price signals didn't work. There should have been an urban building boom as more people urbanized, but a combination of NIMBYism and bad zoning largely prevented it. Demand went up and supply did not and grade school economics tells you the rest.

Personally I think the value proposition is gone now. Not only are the prices nuts but the cool stuff that provided a big part of the draw is all priced out. If I were 20 I would stay away from inflated real estate markets.

The only exception might be moving to one of them for a short while to build your career and then leaving. That may still make sense. But don't plan to settle there unless you land a massively high paying job. E.g. I would not stay in the SF Bay Area for less than $350k/year. If you're not in a field with high earning potential just forget about those places.

I'm seeing a quiet trend these days of artists and other creators working in areas that don't pay as handsomely as tech moving to small towns, and not even necessarily the "hot" cool ones. There are a few small towns in the Appalachian region that have become little artist havens.
The company name is changing, but the open source IDE name isn't; it will still be called RStudio.
Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate:

They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap. They hire people that basically memorized computer science algorithms. And so their employees are bookish, not innovative people. Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon do not have the same issues with creating new products.

Keith Rabois (top VC), mentioned that FB has always prioritized optimization over new products because of the Ad business. That also could explain their inability to do anything but copy other business ideas.

The opposing point of view would be that Ads on FB/Google are so profitable that working on anything else pales in comparision (in terms of profit generation). And so they dont innovate, but iterate and optimize.

My vote is that excessive leetcode testing selects for employees with no creativity. And while these companies are massive, lower level engineers hired ten years ago do rise to the top and run whole divisions

EDIT:

Counterpoint on how good early Google employees were:

the above maxim does not apply because that was before leetcode became huge, people passing those interviews were actually brilliant, they didnt spend six months studying in a basement
Saying an AI's output passed as human in one of these absurdly-restricted applications is like saying someone couldn't tell the difference between Da Vinci and your four year old's drawing when you flashed the picture at them for a quarter of a second.
The Ebola outbreak, 2013–2016: old lessons for new epidemics (2017)
To keep property prices up or to deal with an aging population / lack of manual labor?
Russia has stopped imports of many vital goods and industrial machinery, and the economy will likely seize up at one point after spare parts for machinery, etc. runs out
Pretty sure much of the famous music for Dragon Ball like "Makafushigi Adventure!"[1] and "Cha-La Head-Cha-La"[2] was made by Japanese composers.

Did he do the music for the US dub maybe?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makafushigi_Adventure!
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha-La_Head-Cha-La
No, obviously it means high temperatures of 50C will become reality even in urban areas, not just in deserts.
Hackers go after two kinds of targets: centralized high-value targets and distributed targets with common failure modes, via scripting. There's definitely risk in centralization, but there's risk in distribution as well: known exploits take forever to patch out of the distributed ecosystem. There's a reason Microsoft became so aggressive about patching Windows: without the aggression, people didn't put the effort in and internet-connected desktops became weaponized.

I predict a correlation between small self-hosting projects and more entries on shodan.io. Your small home server is probably secure enough... Probably. But you're the sort of person that posts on a site called "hacker news..." How much should we trust the average soul to do the bare minimum to not get owned? Do we imagine they're checking in regularly on https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1723... ?
I think that if we have to choose between letting hundreds of thousands of additional people die, or having a healthy economy, we utterly failed our priorities as a society long before the pandemic started.
Only guessing here... but maybe they wanted a sum that would actually hurt Charter. Not some paltry few million bucks that they can just write off as an expense.
WIV-1 can infect human cells in vitro. No complete human infected with WIV-1 has ever been identified, living or dead. When SARS-1 emerged in humans, cases were concentrated among traders handling civet cats, as were positive antibody tests. That seems to me like a pretty strong case for forward zoonosis, maybe not perfect but certainly stronger than any evidence we have for SARS-CoV-2.

I agree there's no evidence for any animal except bats as the reservoir for SARS-1 (or SARS-CoV-2). The intermediate host seems like the important link to show natural origin, though. Genetic engineers can't invent new viruses de novo, only modify existing ones, so a reservoir host must always exist; the question is just how it got from that reservoir to a human pandemic.
Has Nvidia announced they are building a fab? I haven’t heard anything about it.
Stop valuing the acquisition of other people's stuff over your own safety and you won't have this problem :)
Why would you hate it? It's just some words, part of a social interaction. You're and adult, you don't have to have every social rule explained to you in great detail every day, right? How often do you have to be told, "Don't pee in the corner of the meeting room because it makes the room smell bad and other people don't like it."

(Note: I carefully avoided saying "because it's unsanitary" to avoid the immediate response that urine is reasonably sterile and no worse than any other liquid that might wind up on the floor. I've learned my lessons.)
> What would actually change if you had certainty around one of these theories?

Widespread political support for ending all public funding of gain-of-function research or outright banning it.
It seems from the statement that the fed understands that the inflation is being caused by supply chains and the war in Russia. What I don't get though is how that's considered monetary inflation as opposed to the money supply increasing. I thought that it was just price increases.

So the fed mandate is just to ensure that the prices of goods and services barely ever changes even if it means tanking all the markets?
Track you ~/.config (or whatever your XDG_CONFIG_HOME is) directory in git, and create symlinks for those programs that don't look there, optionally by script. Many programs already use that directory to store their configs. The Arch Linux folks are nagging every upstream into supporting it[1]. Also it requires no extra dependency aside git.

I think i say this everytime a dotfiles manager comes up.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory