skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does spending a lot of government money make goods and service more expensive?

EDIT: At least here in Western Europe, we mostly have a supply side inflation, because energy got a lot more expensive, not because the government has been "printing" a lot of money. I suspect it's the same in the US.
There is nothing natural about farms either.

Schools should drop children in a forest and let them fight bears for berries. If it was good enough for 40,000 generations of hominids it's good enough for me.
There are other public companies than unprofitable tech cash blockholes.
They are more likely to be religious though. Which brings lots of happiness benefits because of the extra community and pro-social activities
The authors seems to imply that that Christopher Langan who scores extraordinarily high on IQ tests and who is developing a Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" (CTMU), is somehow dumb or ill informed for believing that the 9/11 attacks and subsequent collapse of the twin towers and world trade centre building 7, was planned.

Regardless of whether that is true or not, the author of the article takes direct aim at him for believing such a "conspiracy". Not only that, the OP also takes some personal shots at John Sununu and Bobby Fischer for their personal beliefs also.

I guess when you are smart as the author(Adam Mastroianni) and know everything there is to know about EVERYTHING because you have read it on CNN, you can pass judgment on other people like Langan, Fischer and Sununu for their beliefs because you know better than them, and you know for a fact that their beliefs are dumb and nonsensical because you read it somewhere and that is fact.

The OP seems to feel vindicated that someone who believes in a conspiracy theory is actually dumb and that actually intelligence tests mean nothing anymore and are not a relevant metric we should be using. Instead we should be using his Grandma as a baseline because she can raise a family and that, is all the intelligence we need. So shutup and talk to his grandma and get some wisdom.

It's difficult to take the OP seriously when he resorts to denouncing certain people as idiots for believing in non-mainstream accepted theories of certain historical events.

Was that really necessary to trash these people?
Part of the problem IMHO is that we make out wisdom to be this grand thing, rather than simple and effective thinking (that cannot be put into a short list of rules).

“How do you host a good party” might be ill-defined to OP, but I’m sure this is a well defined question with a good answer for a lot of people. (Let’s call that “social quotient”)
great nuance, we need more of this understanding of democracy. It is much more (or less for that matter) than just electioneering
Well, the acoustic model is created using deep learning loss-minimization by gradient descent, which is what people usually call AI these days.
So, why did these greedy companies not raise prices to this rate when times were good? Surely there's more money exchanging hands when times are fine and dandy.
Eh that’s higher than the low end of an F-150, which isn’t something to be really proud of for a small car. The Model X is >5000 pounds. I think EVs are worth it overall, but something to keep in mind.
Inflation isn't at 10% but it seems like investing in infrastructure is a good idea. If we needed to pinch pennies we could start at the bloated military budget
Gotta pay your fair share, so it can be granted out for someone elses gain
Good Interviews vs. Great Interviews
The number the authorities give out is far removed from reality. Just head over to the grocery store. Try buying electronics. Inflation is still raging and I'm afraid they are just going to tell people suck it up.

There is absolutely NO WAY inflation suddenly drops like this
Coming from the financial services industry, I can say that this is a fairly typical job description for an entry level role, and as an analyst I did need most of these skills. The term "analyst" is usually the 'pay band title', while software engineer is the "functional title". Usually the progression there is something like: analyst -> associate -> vice president: equivalent to a FAANG-like progression of L3->L4->L5. This is of course complicated by the fact that 'analyst' is a title with a very different meaning if you're in, e.g. the investment banking.

These requirements are vague, but if I had to guess, this role is most likely heavy on data extracts and reporting (hence the SQL in point 1), and expects you to be able to work with your business counterparts to understand what's wrong/right with your reports. The charts and graphs point is probably more like 'basic Excel knowledge to manipulate the CSV you pulled from the sql database'. PM skills is probably a roundabout way of saying "can you estimate how long a feature might take to deliver". This role is most likely "big investment bank is required by regulation[1] to keep specific positions and send us their trades daily, write a query to make sure they're netting out to zero and send us a daily report".

Do you need a masters in comp sci to perform this role? No, probably not. I think it's more of a "well if you have the hard skills in programming, we can teach the other parts'. In my experience, a lot of the people from pure comp sci degrees left financial services fairly quickly out of boredom, whereas people with information systems degrees seemed to thrive based on the higher need for soft skills.
[1] e.g. SEC's FIN41 https://dart.deloitte.com/USDART/pdf/793a25c7-3f31-11e6-95db...
If you want to replace gas stations with EV charging stations that 'full-up' your car in less than 5 minutes, you're right.

But if every parking space just gets 1KW of solar panel ~$500 and sun shines for 10 hours a day, you probably have enough power for the 30 miles of daily commute. A car sits idle for 90% of the day. We can use this time to charge it.

It's not the long road trip use case but I think will put a big dent in the resources needed to migrate to EV.
Sounds kind of fun. Is this a profitable hobby for you?
I'll have to pull out my Zenith Z-161 luggable and see what it looks like in shades of amber.
> though only less than 1/r^2, not more!

The electric field of a wire drops off like 1/r, which is larger than 1/r^2.
This glosses over the distinction between concurrency and parallelism, and the traditional & still common "pool of server processes" parallelism option.
He presented at an online nanog event. You can watch it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twe6uTwOyJo I did enjoy listening.
I don't know if I go so far as to say objectively wrong but definitely felt off. And other approaches would probably have been better.

If it is a question: "Should we do X?" They are asking for an opinion about if it should be done or at least some sort of conversation. Not asking for you to make a decision. Just state an opinion based on what you know and follow up. "I doubt it, it would be a large investment of resources that may not lead to noticeable improvements. Why?"

Is it rude to ask why someone is asking though? Understanding context can be good. It might be fine to ask something like "Why do you ask?" to get it started, before answering. Then, if relevant, follow up with those in depth questions. But just jumping into technical details feels like they are meant to shut the initiator down.

If they come to you and say: "I think we should do X." Then those questions make more sense. "Why?" is still probably enough though. Let them elaborate on their thought process. And if it really is just they say something about it in a blog. You can explain the trade offs and guide them with your knowledge.
what is the point of dismissing someones Autism purely based on a single blog post and one person you knew? Are you actually trying to convey something helpful here?
Forums are awesome for this, for example. https://www.photrio.com/forum/home/
Nikola taps its president for CEO post
'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
Nice search engine, but the 'country of origin' information is often lacking from product descriptions or is highly ambiguous ('Made in China' vs. 'Assembled in USA' for example - 'Made in USA' gets zero results).

I'd guess almost all the parts are manufactured in China these days, even if some assembly is done in the USA.
Is there a good knot resource that helps you start from "I need to..."?

e.g. "I need to make a loop that doesn't slip." "I need to tie two ropes of different widths together." etc.

I know most knot books and sites do tell you the purpose of a knot, but I often find their organization doesn't easily lead me to the answer.
For what it's worth, I'm a google workspace administrator and we've had issues with legitimate business emails going to our spam folders. We used various tools in the workspace admin console to whitelist the sender, but their mails kept going to our spam. We contacted google support, they verified our settings were correct, then kind of shrugged and said they can't explain why gmail flags things as spam. They clarified that it wasn't just that they weren't allowed to tell me, but that it was literally impossible for them to know.

So I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a "quality score", but there certainly is a machine learning black box.
Nope, most Tesla drivers very rarely use their disc brakes, it’s almost all regen.
i think randomised leadership might well work just as well. Certainly we can say it would be more efficient - no campaigning, no pandering to the crowd, no making decisions just to be elected again. More I think on it, the better it sounds!
you may be too deep into your grindset to appreciate the unquantifiable value of creating art only for creation's sake
Lol, article gives a few anecdata, that are absolutely insignificant for statistics.

> What does this mean?

The very first article I saw was claiming that couples had average IQ higher than singles, and that divorcees had lower.
As a small ISP you don't peer - you just buy transit from a bigger ISP. So the basic steps are:

1. Buy a 1G/1G or 10G/10G whatever link to a building you own.

2. Resell that link in parts to customers.

Or you can get yourself into a POP (point of presence) somewhere that multiple providers are also in, and get transit that way. Depends on where you are and what you can get access to.
Author here, thanks for the feedback. This article is indeed edited down heavily. I had more conversational drafts.

Your remark is something I have been thinking about. For me, it’s patently evident that I’m wrong about 90% of the time when discussing facts. In fact, “truth” is one of my core values, and the only way I can honor that (and be a good engineer) is to question my every statement. That’s why I write unit tests, run experiments, read so many books, etc…

When I know something is true, I tend to only state it once, because why would I need to repeat it. I am starting to realize this doesn’t work out that well :)

These articles are in themselves a series of experiments to see how I can convey these thoughts.
> This IS violence and it's a way of silencing gay people. Dehumanization is violence. This type of speech is why gay people are marginalized and why they feel the need to keep their sexuality a secret.

I'm against dehumanisation, silencing and marginalisation. I don't agree that speech can be violence.

I think it's important to make this distinction. Do you really want to disslove the distinction between someone beating you up, and someone saying nasty things to you?
Regulators Weigh Asking Hedge Funds to Report Crypto Exposure
Funny enough, this is the basis for one of David Copperfield's magic tricks. He sends the audience an email before the show starts, implores them to not open it (and I'm sure if they open it, it'll be blank or whatever). Then during the show, the audience comes up with a word that Copperfield could not have know. At the end of the show, he asks you to check that email that was sent long before the word was picked. Of course the word is "magically" there. In reality, the email was sent ahead of time with a linked image. The image contents at that URL are hot-swapped during the show to include that word... "magically".
You can lease fibre/lambda/L2 transport to an IXP (and there peer with other local ISPs and get global transit from Tier 1 providers) from many companies that don't even have any residential offering.

Or if (technically/financially/legally) possible, even run your own fibre to a PoP housing an IXP on your own.

Once you're in multiple PoPs and on multiple IXPs and with multiple upstreams/peers you're pretty much independent from the whims of a single ISP.
> unlawful to ... shout racist slurs

Unlawful? As in, go to jail unlawful? No, I don't feel that way at all. I don't think very many people do.
This Month in Rust OSDev: July 2022
I actually really love that idea. Thanks for expanding my mind about what is possible, maybe I can find a way to use it in human systems I do control
I still remember reading this and the impact it had on me at the time (I was ~20). Its funny looking back, in a way its such a cheesy and outdated book. I'm sure there are many better ones now. And I don't have problems with the kinds of conversations it talks about there anymore. But I still remember very clearly reading and having an epiphany in that book, and suddenly I could talk to people again. Strangers even. It was a definite turning point in life for me personally. Being able to act a little more normal goes a long way when you can't be normal on your own.
Honestly, why do you think house prices in Sydney will double again? Not saying your wrong but where's the appeal / drive coming from?

Australia has a pretty low birth rate, there is immigration, but not everyone moving to Australia is rich, it's limited. There is climate change which IMO makes Sydney less desirable (becoming crazy hot in summers). Why would it double again? Even if it did, why do you think it will stay at all time highs?

The only way I can see the high prices being sustainable is if developing countries populations were growing, more people with money to come compete for properties. Ultimately, that's not what's happening, so won't there be more properties on offer in the future? I've spent time in Australia and in the area I lived in Sydney, many of my neighbors were 50+, this was some while ago but still...
I'm not saying EVs are going to overtake ICEV anytime in the next few years. But a 10% reduction in demand for gasoline would be huge.

Not sure I'm feeling as pessimistic on infrastructure. A bunch of the infrastructure for EVs already exists and is wired to every house. Even if we converted 100% of all newly sold vehicles to EV today, the grid build-out required wouldn't be any harder than what we've done in the past.
Cat food has almost doubled and they’re still having problems stocking it.
If your industry isn't able to sustain a 6x increase on production cost, is that a market correction?
News article: Elon becomes vegetarian

Internet: Elon is manipulating the beef industry pricing!
> all of those different intelligences correlate, so it is not very useful to categorise them individually

Maybe it's not useful for the sake of discussion to list them individually, but it's definitely useful to measure them individually. Or you'll mistake someone who's a master of rotating abstract shapes in their head for someone who manage to get things done in a complex environments. The full-scale IQ tests (WAIS?) do actually test many different manifestations of intelligence.

This is a bit on the side of the point, but it's an important distinction when you're discussing and trying to measure people's real-life abilities.
I see a lot of data to prove smart people aren't much happier, but no data at all to prove that

A) multiple types of intelligence exist and can be measured that aren't already measured by a mainstream intelligence test

B) a type of intelligence that makes you happier exists, and can be measured by performance on another task

C) when you ask someone how happy they are and they say "7", it means they're experiencing the same level of happiness as another person who also said "7", or even experiencing the same level of happiness they were when they said "7" decades ago
Does the reason really matter, if what they're doing is a clear positive?
Best I ever heard it put was :

Don't try to be happy, try to be free.

Meaning that you should not focus on the ending, you should focus on the process. And try to get it so you get the most options
It never ceases to amaze me just how much complexity and story there is even in most random subjects. Wall mountable vacs. Volume levels. Power cord length. A family business that implodes after being the biggest player in the vac manufacturing market. Hose diameter. Washable filters (which should be called rinseable). Motor stages. Tank capacity.
I'm not related to IronSource but this is some serious mischaracterisation of them...

They made an SDK to create installers for Windows that was used by 3rd parties with nefarious means. Said SDK/toolkit has been discontinued for years as well.

Hardly makes them a malware/adware company...
Google + Your private information = No, even before this "dynamic interaction" business.

Use FOSS mail clients, using standard protocols, with IMAP, POP3 and SMTP servers.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24952040

Slides from Jared’s talk: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-By20iTnDzpNcAPFayO...
This is demographics in action. Reddit leans heavily under-30 and educated.

More importantly, why is a more left-leaning Reddit front page your exemplar? The social, moral, and intellectual decline of the post-Trump Republican Party seems far more noteworthy.
That logic doesn't follow. Making people feel afraid or ostracised into hiding isn't violence. Not everything bad is violence.
A wire doesn't look like a point source from far away, unlike a dipole. Cut off a segment of that wire (so it's not infinite-length) and it won't be 1/r at large distances.
Thats why median makes more sense for most calculations than average.

The median inflation for ppl in EU is around 30-50%.

In US its probably less 10-20%.

But its nowhere near of what goverments proclaim it to be.

Its really bad and its going to be worse if climate change hits hard.
"You can't acknowledge when you're wrong" isn't about whether or not you're actually wrong, whether or not you acknowledge it, or even about you, really. It's often a social ploy to make your agreement unnecessary for the rest of the group to commit to collective understanding and action. "Oh, Jim just can't admit when he's wrong" lets the rest of the group use a "consensus of people we think are behaving reasonably" instead of actual consensus.

(The biggest other thing this can be is a complaint that the victim doesn't let the complainant win enough arguments, and that the audience should consider more of the arguments won without the victim conceding and with an extra penalty of being seen as a sore loser.)
The end of a $7b money laundering machine
>The second problem is that Hate Speech regulation is, actually, being used against religious people.

Why is that a problem? Why should it be any better if you quote hate speech from the Bible rather than mein kampf?

Further, you say it was quoted without the violent passages. But the implication is still there, if you quote the Bible saying gay people are evil, it stands to reason that you also stand by the following passage that they should be stoned to death. So I'm not even sure this is that far from inciting violence anyway.
>- if Ukraine doesn’t surrender, we can expect less food production and potential oil disruption to center Europe

If Russia doesn't surrender. Don't put the responsibility of global food prices on the people being repressed and killed in their own homes. Do it on the aggressors and war criminals.
Because it's all business to them, and if they did it overtly they could get sued.

But also because once you're in a single location, you can pretty easily get multiple providers to that location for a Price, so there's really no point. Even small rural towns usually have multiple internet connections from different companies, and if they don't you can pay to run fiber if you really wanted to.

People find it hard to believe, but Comcast et al are actually businesses, not Satan's marketing department; and they happily take money even from "competitors".
Why have representatives at all? Let the Tyranny of the Majority begin!
if food production is getting more expensive, would that make this a good time to invest in companies that produce chemicals used in fertilizer?
> if Ukraine doesn’t surrender

I think you mean if Russia doesn't surrender. If Ukraine was to surrender, we'd have bigger problems than an increase in beef costs. I don't see any universe where Russia wins this war.
Google never wanted to be in the fiber business.

But they do want push ISP to increase speeds since that does benefit Google (e.g. Youtube, etc).

So from their perspective, they succeeded in PHX.
spectrum......
Humans prefer to have barriers to completing a task removed. No clicks is much better than one click and privacy is almost completely dead. Privacy will slowly die unless there are major changes legally and culturally. It’s worthy to fight against the loss of privacy. I think it will be a losing fight though.
There's no indication that smart parents don't get their child to cry less than dumb parents either shorter or longer term, so the entire argument is baseless.
@dang can we get title and URL updated to something that isn't blog spam?

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-m...
>Russia is not likely to renew trade relationships baring a reparations for seizing assets

Russia is quite ready to sell on the following conditions:

- Remove sanctions which forbid (or make it difficult) the Russian export in the first place.

- Pay in rubles (i.e. you have to "sterilize" your cache through the Moscow stock exchange) like was done with the gas export to Europe.

- Remove sanctions which forbid export to Russia. It has no interest in selling stuff to the West, if it can not buy the stuff it needs in exchange. We already can see that its export-oriented economy sectors suffer from the strong ruble.

Russia has answered to the frozen reserves by freezing financial assets owned by foreigners. Interestingly enough, both numbers are quite comparable to each other.
>I think the veneration of "the founding fathers" as a special group of wise people who set down words in the 18th century that will--that must--be held in reverence as unchangeable in perpetuity, well, I think that sounds a little bit crazy, even if you didn't know that that the special group of wise people in question didn't think much of well more than 50% of the current population.

First, if you took a trip in a time machine back to then, I'm fairly sure you'd come off as a raving lunatic. Second, you're completely glazin over the fact that what we ended up with was a hard fought for and won compromise, which is half of why we venerate the people who actually locked themselves in and reached it in the first place, and also stick to some of their guiding wisdom on things. We haven't changed much but the most obvious deficits, because the action potential hasn't been able to be reached, which is exactly what you're looking for in your founding Constitution. You want law to come and go, and not to be all enshrined at the highest level.

Whenever anyone suggests direct democracy at the Federal level, it's just a low key "I want cities/population centers/large States to dictate how small states do things."
Well there three tiers of ISPs, each one buying service from the one above them. It's ISPs all the way down, and the higher up you go the more expensive the hardware to run it gets.