skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is another one: Velocity of money.

Say you have an economy (ie: Turkey) where people only use the local currency as a bridge and converts their revenue to EUR/USD as soon as they receive it. The currency will get into an inflationary spiral as the stocks of savings turn into available supply of currency.
It's a success for Figma's founders/investors. It's a failure for everybody else.
> Besides, a general price increase doesn't occur without an increase in the supply of money relative to the value in the economy.

Not quite true, they are correlated but not linked 1:1 see 2020 and WW2. Think of economics a bit like the dual nature of light, not one theory can explain it. The 'Austrian'-school types believe this though, so maybe be where you have heard it?

> Why is 9% inflation (what we have today) not destructive? It certainly is destructive to my finances.

No, I didn't say 9% was good. It obviously reduces the value of savings materially, 2-3% y/y doesn't.
Nice puzzle: Was able to complete it after some trial & error.

Suggestions:

- Mark uncrossable paths with (an 'X' in the middle of the line) OR (red) to make it clearer that the path cannot be currently crossed.

- Mark paths with fulfilled conditions (as green OR with the 'X' removed)

- Mark fulfilled conditions with (a tick symbol OR green) and unmet flags with (a cross ('X') OR red) to make the fulfillment state of conditions obvious.

(edits because I can't use emojis in HN comments.)
Read the article. It's talking about something entirely different.
Trading in the zone
I mean, can you measure that or draw a direct causation? I’m also just contesting how much is inherent to an individual, and whether it is any worth bringing up that point against the idea that external factors have a significant impact to success, which is already nuanced enough not to say that external factors are the sole indicators?
> If you're touring internationally then you've hit some kind of success already.

Not really. Bands will tour Europe and Asia in small clubs, but until they make it in the US, they haven't really made it. Only after a band becomes big in the US can they then become a global sensation. The British Invasion is a good example of this. Beatles had exploded in England, but only after their US tour did they then fill large venues in Europe. Same with the rest of the British Invasion that followed them. What you almost never see is a band take over the rest of the world filling large venues, and then come to the US. If they're touring internationally prior to US recognition, they can only headline in small venues like clubs and small theaters.

Likely the only reason Femmes were even in Australia is they had by then saturated their US market and couldn't sell enough tickets domestically to justify the cost of any available venue. I was a Femmes fan, saw them in 1989 promoting 3 in a tiny venue called The Boathouse that literally was a small converted boathouse. Indigo Girls opened for them. The entire show was awful, bad sound, bad performances, and I regretted not going to see REM, playing that same night. REM was playing a coliseum, a huge venue, and I prefer smaller venues and try to avoid big crowds, but anything would have been better than what I was subjected to that night, and reportedly, REM delivered a fantastic show. I like the Violent Femme's records, but unless they played big festivals with lots of other artists, they never performed before a large audience, say, of 5000, and I'd be surprised if they ever saw an audience of 1000. Of course, Nirvana ultimately would find their biggest audiences in Brazil, with 100K+ people night after night, which is difficult to even comprehend.
> In legal writing, you're trying to make it impossible to be misunderstood.

I would argue that many legal documents have completely missed that mark.
> my understanding is that the whole X11 is network transparent thing worked great when apps used the X11 drawing primitives.

It did. It was awesome to be able to run one of the expensive academic apps from any X terminal on campus. Network security was largely non-existent then, and you could run X apps not just across campus but across the Internet. I remember a really early web page that had a text field (for your host name) and a button that would start a particular app on their side and would display on your local X server. It wasn't very fast.

Anyway, all that died as Athena and Motif began to look dated as newer applications in the mid-90s started using more and more bitmaps.
I appreciate you sharing this, thank you. Always good to see another believer on HN.

I did similar too. Amongst the dozens of despicable things, one of the precious few good things to come out of a divorce is the new appreciation and deep understanding of God accepting us just as we are. Married or not, perfect or not (mostly not!), guilty or not. He pursues us, loves us, and improves us, slowly, over time.
I think this is a pretty cynical viewpoint. You are right, he had privileges, but millions of other kids have them as well. For instance, he worked hard to impress at LinkedIn to get that meeting.

Please look at this pitch. It’s hard to come away unimpressed with what he and his founder were creating: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C1UUVdN3kdQ

I love when someone extremely smart and dedicated succeeds. Much better than a VC thought leader that happened to luck into the right startup and is now dispensing money and advice with abandon. That is luck and privilege.
If you're confused about who censored the report (as I was at first), it's UNI Global Union,
an "international network of unions" and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, "a nonprofit arm of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNI_Global_Union

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ebert_Foundation
After experimenting a lot here’s my productivity system that really works for me:
Apps I use:
1. TickTick (for task management and short term notes)
2. RemNote (for knowledge management)
3. Sorted3 (for time boxing)

How I use them:
I wanted a system where there are a number of to-do lists defined by the work area(I would do all tasks in one work area at once).

I used to use Trello before this but the three board format(to do, doing, done) did not work for me as it only took lots of screen space without simplifying things. I basically just wanted a “to-do” and “done” list on top of each other rather than side-by-side

TickTick
TickTick has a beautiful app that is very flexible to how you want to organise the tasks. You have boards > which have lists > which have sections > and also have tags. With TickTick I am able to make the list acts as to-do with check boxes and when we check them, they move to the bottom of the list struck-through. This way I am able to put more lists in one single view related to completely different aspects of my work.
Every task that I need to do or anything I hear in a meeting that I want to take action on in a few days, I dump it into TickTick. Then I have different board for Work and Personal (and I those boards lots of lists and within lists, sections)

Sorted3 (iOS/Mac only)
It’s a mind blowing time-boxing app where you can schedule your day to the minute. This way I get more done in less time. And then I chill!
How I use it: First I mark every task I am going to do tomorrow as “tomorrow” in TickTick. Then I have created a iOS shortcut called “Plan Tomorrow” which brings all those TickTick tasks into Sorted where I assign them a time of the day/sequence while mostly using the auto-schedule feature. And I have the Sorted3 widget on Home Screen so I see all day what’s next and stay motivated to see the work ending much sooner.
I have never paid for any app in life but this app compelled me to since it solves a problem no one else could and in an elegant and user friendly way.

RemNote:
For storing knowledge for long term use. It’s a knowledge management system that actually works. I never get confused or looking for old info as I have it organised in there.
I think it's the optimization the compiler writers insist on that developers absolutely do not want. When the compiler detects UB any code that depends on it can be 'safely' deleted.

It's the sort of arrogant attitude that's behind driving people away from C/C++
A very interesting counter-part design is the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai that while taller, does not have any dampener at all[0].

It does need to be mentioned that the Burj Khalifa only needs to deal with winds and does not need to worry about earthquakes where as Taipei 101 does both.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Burj-Khalifa-damper-system
Well you should've continued reading. It's not about how much energy is used, it's about the fact that energy is used at all. The numbers can be extrapolated from a third of that value and still look bad.
Yeh sorry, I forgot USA doesn't have hate-speech laws. I'm in Australia where hate-speech is technically illegal. To be hate speech, it needs to be a clear attack on someone using derogatory terms that target things like gender or religion.

I don't think there's been many cases here involving hate speech. More likely people will pursue defamation and discrimination laws. Many disagree that to be merely "offended" is not enough to establish a crime. Our hate-speech laws are not universally accepted as good laws.

The problem with social media companies deciding what is hate-speech, is they will get it wrong often. The moderator is human. They might be personally associated with a position or viewpoint in their own lives outside of work. They might decide to delete a post that presents a strong case against whatever position they align with, leading to an offended moderator. An offended moderator may not apply the same fairness in all situations. Too many grey areas.
It's an open architecture designed for extensibility. So if you're wanting to make an AI processor for instance it's much easier to add an AI extension to RISC-V than it is to ARM. And you don't have to pay ARM license fees either.
> People have been saying this for decades

Yep, if you look at the historical trustee reports[1], in 1990 it was projected to run out in 2043. In 2000 it was projected to run out in 2037. The same 2037 estimate was given in 2010. In 2020, it was estimated at 2034, which is the current estimate.

Of course money is just numbers to allocate worker productivity. The real important things are demographic ratios and what percent of our productive capacity we want to allocate to taking care of retirees. The running out of the trust just more directly forces us to revisit that question.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/index.html
If you're thinking of coming to Bangalore, you must know that the infrastructure is practically falling apart. Streets are filled of potholes, the city is overcrowded, rent is getting really expensive real fast, pollution is sky high, metro rail construction going everywhere but doesn't seem like it'll get completed even in next 5 years, recently most of outer ring road got heavily flooded because of incessant rains and illegal constructions on lake beds, corruption is rampant.

You should visit and live here for a couple of months (do a trial run) before you move permanently. Bangalore isn't what it used to be.
Well, the most common way to get to live beyond your means is to have your means pulled up from you before you have any time to react.

That doesn't mean the productivity crisis is directly creating hyperinflation. As an idea it doesn't even make sense, because productivity crisis are bounded, but hyperinflation isn't.
The Second Amendment is a bit more confusing than at first glance.

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed"

Seems nice and straightforwards, right? Trouble is, that's just one of many versions. Different states ratified slightly different versions of the Second Amendment, the main difference being the presence of absence of different commas. For example, see this version from the National Archives [0]

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

[0] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transc...
Sexual Behaviour Then and Now
> And that solution is to make search a paid-for utility.

There's nothing making the search engine refrain from additional ads.

Remember magazines? They were paid. And still had lots of ads.
Interesting, but difficult to read on mobile.
Dubai has earthquakes, and quite frequent ones.
Criticising a leader of China because of what he is and is not doing is not anti-China. It's simply criticising a leader, and a leader who is above criticism is too fragile to be a leader.
This show was just a clever way for Hollywood to extract a bunch of money from Amazon. See 25 executive producers:)
Do they carry a vegetarian option?
This definitely cries out for a detailed explanation of the engineering principles involved.
Great game! Reminded me alot of the game, "Baba is you". Keep it up! Would love to play other levels :)
I decided to solve AoC 2018 on 2020 Feb 3, targetting 1 puzzle/week. Pandemic, life and a whole bunch of things happened before I completed them yesterday. This is my experienced shared in words. Thanks!
That's not true at all. I wrote a simple set of threading functions and had 0 deadlocks no matter what I do to it. On youtube I watched a guy write out every possible state of his data structure for hashmap. It's implemented using atomics. It preformed pretty well according to the person and it also did not deadlock after being used in production for years
Did you read on a couple sentences and see this part?

> Later, when opportunities came to publish his thoughts, the written word became more important to him and he found mentors to help him polish his communication skills.

Worthy of note is that he'd published a book by the age of 14, so was probably at least at grade level. Sounds like he just didn't learn things homogeneously, but rather focused on some things before other things.
This Google black box is not just on the advertising side, it's also on the customer service side. Really impossible to get hold of a real person, even after giving them thousands of dollars.
Yes, and just because early adopters are disproportionately rewarded to laggards doesn't make it a "pyramid scheme" either.

If it was that would mean all stock investments are "pyramid schemes" too. Did early investors in companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, or Tesla benefit from a "pyramid scheme"? They saw value before others did, got in early, and reaped the rewards once the majority cottoned on to their value proposition.

It's no different with Bitcoin. People see value in it before others have and may reap the benefits if demand continues to rise from society seeing value in its properties. You can argue about whether that perceived value is justified or not, but ultimately only time (and the market) will tell.
This is a really cool feat of engineering, even when there's no earthquakes the sway of the building in the wind isn't as noticeable compared to smaller buildings I've been in.

If anyone is interested, there's a short article about Te Papa in Wellington NZ about how it handles earthquakes.

https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-p...
I have a slider for touchpad scroll speed on my KDE Plasma Wayland laptop.

Also, in my experience XWayland programs seem to exhibit overly sensitive scrolling, while native Wayland is fine (noticed this mainly on Firefox). Perhaps X scrolls by line, while Wayland natively supports pixel-based scrolling?
I agree. I can believe any 1 or maybe 2 things on the list, but in aggregate, it's complete fantasy. There's just no way this kid has enough time and brain cycles to execute all these ventures with any level of quality. If it's true (big if) it probably meant he spent an afternoon dabbling, and the article decided to treat it as if it were some serious venture.

> At 14, he had just published his autobiography. He was making plans to expand his 350-acre farm to buy up surrounding farms to convert to regenerative agriculture. He was saving money to build a house for his parents and another for his autistic older brother. He was polishing a movie script and a series of children’s books teaching business literacy for kids. He was looking for a celebrity to endorse his line of luxury toiletries made from the milk of his goat herd. He was breeding heritage turkeys. He was writing guest essays for notable bloggers higher up the political food chain.
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds
Exactly. Thanks for explaining it better than I did.
I was on the ground floor of a modern building in Tokyo when Fukushima happened and barely felt a thing. These systems are remarkably effective.
No. Last ones I read were about XMPP and the leading Erlang server implementation of it known as eJabberd. It was fun in a way to learn from a textbook, but I think it's just too slow and deliberate for modern programming. Even back then, the real learning only started when I sat down with eJabberd's src, a code editor, and a compiler. Nowadays things move faster. Mainstream software tools shouldn't require a serious manual, and for special snags, your best friends are solid GitHub Gists and StackOverflow answers. Math is a different story.

The last tech book I acquired was on FreeBSD system administration, found discarded on a street in Berkeley, CA.
Hah, wanted to say, nice current prices, can I have those? But you beat me, 0.41€, also Northern Germany.
Your own personal inflation may be different to the typical rate encountered by the typical person

US Gas prices are $3.68 a gallon, down from over $5 a few months ago. That's hardly inflation.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

Picking a random date about 6 months ago it was $4.25

https://web.archive.org/web/20220310032222/https://gasprices...

Lumber prices are down 65% since March, about the same as this time last year, and indeed back in 2018

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/lumber-price...

This is not symptomatic of hyperinflation, it's symptomatic of supply being lower than demand, causing an increase in supply or a decrease in demand, which takes time
I don't understand where is the censorship. Here is the relevant quote:

UNI’s demands were clear: either remove all material except the critique of Amazon or hide UNI’s funding. (It was suggested that Tech Inquiry wait six months before publishing its analysis of Microsoft and Google.)

The funders don't want to be associated with the report because they don't support it. Remove their names from the report and publish it as much as you like.
old.reddit.com is my go to. I still prefer HN's UI. It's slightly better.
And I'm with you, when old.reddit.com goes away, so will I.
The pulse oximeter was apparently not properly tested or calibrated on dark skinned people, despite being a widely used medical device. You don't see evidence of bias there, when people with darker skin are an afterthought?
I think you've misunderstood the point of the post you are replying to.

Pointing out the rare advantages Dylan had in founding Figma doesn't take away any of his accomplishment. Privileged people accomplish things and overcome things and do good stuff.

The point is to highlight that the privilege is load bearing - that a good idea and an amazing drive is not enough and that you often need to seem nice and likable to wealthy people in order to get that idea off the ground.

It's not that Dylan should have had to work harder, but that millions of other driven people's ideas die for lack of exposure.
> Are his claims false?

Yes
I've updated that Gist with a second run with your suggested settings.
The home screen on my Windows 10 copy usually has a nice image and a few bits of text about that image or location.

Recently, I got an image of a tropical island. The text was all about how Jurassic Park was shot on the same island, and how, more importantly, Jurassic World Dominion was also shot on the same island, and that Jurassic World Dominion had X many dinosaurs.

A very thinly disguised ad for Jurassic World. Right on my home screen.
Sorry, I don't recall.
> You'd be surprised at the things in your house consuming electricity 24/7.

I was ready for that. But it turned out that besides an idling rPI, modem, router and APs, nothing actually does. I have a bunch of zigbee connected smart plugs, and when I got those, I checked all my devices. Turned out regulations really do help, because all the standby usage was miniscule.
For sure, though I think their HS is actually pretty good. At least parts of EPA feed into Menlo Atherton HS.
I am looking forward to the future of aggressive-aggressive tweeting
from public transit agencies.

I'm not. Linton Johnson was plenty aggressive and aggressively stupid. He got shitcanned because it's a bad look.
Not karma farming, just message repeating when I see the same error.

HN points are truly worthless.

Cheers.
Game Theory and Winning at ponziFarm
I'm a physicist, and married to a chemist.

It gets worse, the deeper you get into it. The reason is that your work hours are rarely dictated by a boss, as much as by the progress of the experiment itself. In my case while in grad school, if an experiment was "running," after multiple false starts, it could be anywhere from 0.1 to 100 hours away from breaking down, and everybody in the group -- including the professor -- worked in shifts to reel the data in. I was good with hardware, so I was on call for repairs. In my wife's case, some reactions and tests just took a certain amount of time, and stuff began to deteriorate if you walked away from it.

There are people who accept these kinds of situations, others who are forced into it by circumstances. I'd never force anybody into it. There should be plenty of 9-5 careers.
True make-work isnt giving anything to society.
Apple also has a list of websites it autocompletes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903246
I would think that's a toolkit (GTK, Qt, etc.) issue, not a window manager (well, in Wayland parlance, compositor) issue. The apps just get the scroll events from libinput, and it's up to them to decide how much/how fast to scroll based on what it sees.

It's the same argument that the libinput author makes about why libinput doesn't implement kinetic scrolling, and that it's the job of the toolkit. Only the toolkit knows what's appropriate there.

For reference, the kinetic scrolling rationale goes like this: say you start a scroll movement in one app, and then it continues scrolling after you lift your finger off the touchpad. Then you alt-tab to another app. If libinput implements kinetic scrolling, then scrolling will start happening in the newly-focused app, until the kinetic scroll decays down to zero. That's definitely not what you want, and libinput can't fix that problem, because it doesn't know anything about windows or focus.

Granted, scroll speed isn't exactly the same thing, but I could imagine that a toolkit/application could want different scrolling speed in different contexts, which libinput would have no understanding of.
There's a "mute" button too.
Interesting. Yeah that's cool, am I intelligible or not? Well I can say for certain the malpractice, the lobotomy, didn't help with that. Lost the ability to express clever ideas. Like I can no longer think that way.
I buy physical tech books because I enjoy writing notes in them to keep track of concepts while reading.

For example I have a copy of the excellent Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision by Hartley and Zisserman filled with little sketches and notes I took in the margins while trying to grok the book, and it’s kinda nice to be able to thumb through the book and review concepts complete with my previous thoughts and notes. I could of course do the same on my tablet or in a separate notebook of course, but something about the space constraints and commitment of real marks on paper makes it feel more rewarding.