skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess OP means that very little of donated money gets to actual help to those suffering - materials, food, clothing etc.

I previously saw estimates between 85-95% is spent just on salaries of these NGOs and expenses related with their offices, cars, travelling to meetings etc.

I live in Geneva, the mecca of all these NGOs, there are hundreds of them. They even have NGOs grouping other NGOs. We are talking about one of the most expensive places on earth that they keep renting offices, often good flats too (at least the big ones do this) and paying employees swiss (untaxed) salaries. Its extremely ineffective way to do some good.
Yes, to understand all of the contents in this book you'd need to have knowledge of Math on the level of an undergraduate in a STEM discipline. To me it still meets the definition of "non-experts". It is much more involved than your average pop-science book, but at the same time is much more fun and easy to read than a typical Math college textbook.

Also, about half of the book can be read without any Math background.
Conflict of whose interests? You say the product is useful and other people should buy it, while you yourself use it seems pretty aligned.

It cannot possibly be the case that Microsoft runs on Open Office and MacBooks.
Except this year media sentiment plays into political lies. There’s a major party placing people in all the right places to choose election winners into the future. So the US just might lose its normal political way and indeed freedom because of inflation.
I like this a lot! I’ve been trying to find ways to avoid memory allocation as much as possible in my projects as well. So far I’ve settled on mmap-ing large slabs at a time and arena allocating (Linux’s mremap makes growing the allocation really efficient too!).

However, come to think of it just using a fixed amount is just as good if not better, since I’m always going to be constrained by memory in some way anyway. And if I allocate e.g. 80% of the system’s memory upfront, it won’t _actually_ be mapped by the OS until I touch it. There may be some interesting stuff with using huge pages for the first few pages and use smaller and smaller pages as you approach your memory limit. Definitely will give this a try!
You should probably read the Cheese and the Worms, about how an average cheese seller in 1500s Germany read hundreds of books and talked about them passionately. Printing was expensive in the beginning of print but book historians have demonstrated convincingly that there was a huge circulation of books and copied media (i.s. teams of professional copyists) pre and antedating the printing press. Less than 30 years after the introduction of the press humanists talked about how the flood of books was so massive that no one could read them all in a lifetime. You are operating on an image of print that is historically wrong.
When you order your PSYOPS from Wish
My point was that the title and conclusions were expressed in a more universal way than warranted by the population studied
First-class Vite support in Storybook
« Storybook 7.0 brings lots of Vite improvements: pre-bundled for speed, zero config setup, no Webpack required and smaller install size.»
I think most people don't care about percentages, this month vs last month or this month vs this month last year, etc. They do care about rising prices on the shelf at the store, or gas at the pump, and these are very noticable regardless of what the media is saying.
Depending on the intended size/scale, VPS probably isn't really a good fit for this - bandwidth and disk domination. Both of these are shared with other tenants

You'll surely be able to use the space allocated, but if you're consistently pushing over a gigabit you'll probably find more difficulties than if you had simply gone dedicated.

Which conveniently, also tends to include buckets of storage for more reasonable pricing. Largely because redundancy is now your problem
Unless I'm mistaken...'most' people are still living pretty much paycheck to paycheck, and budgeting based on what they can afford at the moment. TBH though, I haven't looked lately. Anecdotally, no-one I know complains about beef being $3 last year...they are more concerned with it being $4/lb last MONTH and $6/lb now. Gas seems to be especially prone to this, people seem to budget gas on a more 'weekly' basis.
My concern is also the social dynamics that "TC or bust" people engender around them. There is an obvious mentality that goes along with that approach, and more often than not this turns what should be a collective, holistic approach to social well-being into a quasi-zero-sum game where everyone is just trying to extract value from everyone else.

It is deleterious to community per se. Islands of nuclear families does not a community make.

It's true there are people who straddle both worlds -- those who use TC to improve and embolden their community. But I would bet a lot of money that it's mostly people who spend frivolously and selfishly so that their kids go to good schools and have good opportunities, but that others' kids don't get access to the same kinds of on-ramps to success.
The original UNIX design philosophy was very much one-command for one-thing.

=> http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful

But that argument is an argument against pretty much all command-line flags. Rob Pike argues `ls` shouldn’t have an option to split the output into columns, you should pipe ls into a column-splitting program.

So the pure version of that philosophy is long-gone. It makes this current effort seem rather arbitrary and meaningless.
> This information is important because it points to a global problem and not a local policy problem.

It only seems like a global problem because most governments had similar local policies. There are some countries with very low (as in normal) amounts of inflation at the moment.
Show HN: My one-man game Alcyon Infinity on Steam, roast me
I have been working on the prototype for 6 months,
and released it as Early Access on Steam two weeks ago for 2.99$ :)

Alcyon Infinity is a fast-paced bullet-hell with dynamic movement and crazy electro-neo-classical music.
Destroy hordes of ever-improving enemies and their Mothership. Up to 4 Co-Op players with Controllers.

As a one man studio it proved really hard to put on all the necessary hats to do everything from design to code to test and "marketing", without going crazy.

So please roast me, because I'm not sure I can tell what's good or not anymore XD
Here are a few lesser known editors/IDEs.

SciTE: https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Kate: https://kate-editor.org/

Geany: https://www.geany.org/

Last one comes from my OS/2 memories, it has been ported to Windows and runs fine also on WINE.

MED: http://www.utopia-planitia.de/indexus.html
Yeah, this is a good point. This is basically just GNU saying that those old aliases are not something they want within the scope of grep itself.
I’m not sure how you can reasonably argue that the chosen shade of green is a negative light on android texts. Any negativity is generated by the social systems interacting with it — the colors, and logos, just give enough information for those social systems to differentiate, and qualify, and judge your usage of, these objects.

Apple hasn’t done much of anything to say android texts are bad… they’ve just said they’re not iPhone texts (and iPhone—>iPhone has better texting). Everyone else came along and said android is for poor people, and used those green bubbles as a signal to act on — just the same as using the logo to judge your shoes.
Wouldn't this be a pretty cut-and-dry case of insider trading (or do regulators have an exemption to insider trading rules like members of congress have?)?
I guess I don't get it. It's possible to select by race (or at random) to make the demographics of a selective high school equal to that of the whole district. But then you get lower performance, as they've shown.

What doesn't seem possible is to select by race to match the district and get the higher performance of merit-based admissions, when there are confounding race-based factors like having kids and only 1 parent or less education. The only way it would be equal is if all races had the same level of education and probability of single parents (or if these two things are not contributing factors to a kid's school performance).
A peek at your website tells me that if I could have achieved half of what you have by your age I would be happy, dont sweat it.
I don't think the scooter battery example is particularly great. It seems like you're saying that perhaps ongoing battery use might be creating some ongoing harm where we would be better off prematurely end-of-lifing the existing ones. But either way the battery needs to be disposed of, and round trip storage efficiency is already high enough to make ongoing inefficency not much of a consideration.

I'd also point out that centralization is more likely to make destructive sweeping changes. An individual could keep limping along with their old battery with only 30% capacity, just for short trips and whatnot. Whereas a company would be inclined to scrap old scooters much earlier to keep their fleet uniform and ready for the needs of any user.

A better example is the automobile market, where we've already got the distributed-incentives situation. This seems to be getting handled just fine with EV subsidies and "cash for clunkers" (criticism of that program notwithstanding). Perhaps adoption is slower than we want, but there could also be more direct incentives to upgrade if they were needed, or even just higher gas taxes. Operating on the distributed model where individuals are free to judge their own situation seems better than centralizing things so that they can be changed quicker just in case the need arises.
From Microsoft[0]: "As we’ve seen, roughly 70% of the security issues that the MSRC assigns a CVE to are memory safety issues."

And from Google[1]: "memory safety bugs continue to be a top contributor of stability issues, and consistently represent ~70% of Android’s high severity security vulnerabilities."

[0] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe...

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...
There are a few posts in their feature requests forum asking for a portable version to run via flash drive, but so far I don't believe that request has ever been acknowledged, though some hacky workarounds exist.
Analysts estimate SSD prices will drop 50 percent by mid-2023
”removal of cpio and, uh, tar”

They’ve finally figured out how to make people use pax.
Makes me think of a recent LastWeek Tonight with John Oliver episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCOnGjvYKI0
Great questions and comments. Thank you. I will be taking a break now until around 11 am PST/2 pm EST and then returning for several more hours.
I looked into this issue over the last weeks and made a list of other solo founders and how they handle it.

You can find many, many of them when you search Twitter for "buildinpublic".

The sad truth is that most successful solo founders these days:

1) Make it very hard to figure out where the service they provide is located.

2) When you find out, it is usually registered in a country outside of the EU. Crunchbase often helps to find the location.

Apart from the USA, Singapore and Colombia seem to be popular choices among solo founders who know what they do:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nomad-list

https://openstartup.tm/remote%20ok

What the discussion about GDPR usually misses is that GDPR does not only apply to Google Analytics and Google Fonts.

A web business needs a hosting solution, a CDN, a payment processor, an email solution, an A/B testing solution, etc etc etc.

If you try to handle all that inside of the EU, you are cut off from all the good tools that startups usually use.
All I'll say is that I'm a huge fan and Obsidian has been life changing, so thank you.
I was quite proud of myself when I brought Simon Welker's obsidian-remarkable[0] plugin back to life a few months ago. It's one-way screenshot sync, but the experience is stellar (single shortcut, sub-second later you have a cropped, transparent screenshot of what's on your remarkable screen with no toolbar etc). I find it really useful for both staging meeting notes into Obsidian before summarising them, and for adding monochrome 'brutalist hand-drawn' graphics to my personal documents.

[0]: https://github.com/cobalamin/obsidian-remarkable
For a long, long time Microsoft was using Unix sendmail for its own internal mail system, while touting Outlook for its customers.

They only started eating their own dog food when people started making fun of them in public.
Put differently: if you were hired for a certain job, and your personal convictions don't align with that job such that you don't identify as someone who wants to "hit those metrics", find another job.
Perhaps most importantly to the average car owner, Reviver said Rplate owners can renew their registration online through the Reviver mobile app.

Renewing registration online in California is already incredibly fast and easy.

I'd bet its probably easier than an app is going to make it.

Simply because there was more money to develop it, no whims of an appstore to comply with, and no bored designers looking to differentiate the design.

By which I mean it is total driven by function and very good at that.
what is MDR?
I have nothing to add to the heap of praise here, apart from my own thank-you. I'm a fairly new user but exploring the tool gives me the childlike glee akin to coming home from school and continuing a video game or project.
Right now the reserve rate is 0%.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
Let's not forget about global chip shortages and limited production capacities. Apple is paying to be front in the queue as much as they are for the chips themselves -- as a shortage-induced revenue decline would be vastly more impactful on their market cap than paying extra on the BOM for key components
The Terminal.Gui library itself doesn't provide any special means for dealing with state. However, the full power of .NET Core is available for devs to do whatever they please.
All you had to do was visit the very first search result with the domain bls.gov.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

> In September, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 8.2 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted.

That's where the figure comes from. "12 months" is the key aspect.

Either the media is misreporting its context or people are just not understanding what it means.

Pretty much every source I've come across that sites that year-over figure reports it accurately.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-inflation-at-8-5-per...

> Consumer prices jumped 8.5% in July compared with a year earlier, the government said Wednesday, down from a 9.1% year-over-year jump in June. On a monthly basis, prices were unchanged from June to July, the smallest such rise more than two years.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/inflation-us-prices.html

> The government reported on Friday that consumer prices climbed 8.6 percent over the year through May, the fastest rate of increase in four decades.

And no, 8.2% inflation over a year is not a good thing. It's not necessarily the worst thing ever, but that's not a minuscule amount of value to lose from your dollar.
Microsoft Office will be replaced by Microsoft 365 – part of its ongoing refresh
Stewart’s Calculus has an enormous number of exercises.
Well, he lost his parliamentary seat in 2017, post-referendum, and there were no new UK commissioners created after that (Julian King was appointed in 2016 and was the final one.)
- inflation hasn't been an election issue for ~40 years, so that's a lot of risk for little gain

- studies of how much countries fudge their numbers have been done, and find that it's only common in authoritarian countries: https://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/350051528721174623/Nightlig...
One interesting thing I learned from my previous startup is that when you're raising, you need to find investors that understand your market.

The more niche the market, the more difficult it'll be for you to find an investor. But when you find that investor the likelihood of them investing will be higher.

Why is that? Because if you have to educate your VC as to what you're doing, you've lost.

Let's say I'm building an AI that helps agencies set pricing for their ad inventory. Ideally I would want a VC that understands adtech, because they already understand the problems in that field (at some level) and how big it us.

I don't have to explain how much of a fucking pain in the ass it is to manage all the line items, creatives, placements, and pricing rules. Someone who wasn't in adtech would be like "google's GAM does that for you." Uh, not really.

A VC in adtech would be all "here's my money and a LOC."

And, the VC will be able to help you with some client introductions, so you can get more customers.

That said, my business co-founder couldn't sell water to a man in the desert, so we crashed and burned. Live and learn.
The pessimistic view is that Tiktok is a customized propaganda machine.

Pre-internet everyone consumed the same media, TV, newspapers, radio, magazines. You had to read older books or listen to smaller, probably local artists to get a different viewpoint.

Now no one shares the same information feed, no two Tiktok feeds, Twitter feeds, Facebook/instagram homepages are the same.

It's making for interesting societal changes. How will future historians be able to judge the intentions of society of they can't view our individual feeds, previously you could refer to news reports, but now it's just lost in the day to day feeds of billions.
I think you missed the most important group:

4. People that think climate change is real, and investments to mitigate damages should be weighed on a cost/benefit basis.

That is to say, for a given change, how much will it hurt people to mitigate it now vs later, given the time value of money and exponential development.

People in #1 and #2 dogmatically believe the answer always falls into act now or act later.

Luckily, most governments end up taking some sort of a middle road between these extremes.
I was trying to gauge some interest for a seed round as well a few months back. For someone with my background, most investors want to see a prototype with some users, at the very least.

It’s actually worked out better for me since it’s made me realize that I don’t need that much funding that soon. Working on the prototype and getting some users has also given me far more clarity about the product and customer acquisition strategy.
Looking at this: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_core_consumer_price_index_...

Core CPI July 0.31%

Core CPI August 0.57%

Core CPI September 0.58%

Or 4%, 7%, 7% annualized respectively.

That's definitely higher than the Fed's 2% target.
> Working together to build safer, more open and fun federated tools and communities for the post-capitalist world

WTF is this sentence? And post-capitalist?
If you think this is sad then you wouldn’t want to know what’s happening with energy in Europe.
Because inflation has very high seasonality, and so it makes very little sense to compare it with a different season.

It's not "because it's a bigger number" or to "cause shock", it's simply because its a more consistent and useful way of measuring it.
We are building one such service and I agree (to name a few services doing GDPRaaS : soveren.io, ethyca.com, securiti.ai, datagrail.com, alias.dev) .this is so much needed as there is almost no legally valid answer on the whole comment section!
I started to write an article on all the points above… should get back in 2 hours and post it here
> Mainstream media has always been a little innumerate but this is a whole other level.

Listen dude, it's not the NYTimes's fault your 1 day options expire worthless and your leveraged ETFs went from +X P&L last December to -X P&L today.
Can you provide some examples of China banning American tech?
The context is engineering. In the article it's referred to as a "technical sensation" in it's time.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for doing this.
I have a startup incorporated in US. One of my founders is in NY, and we have some interns working for us from US. I am based out of Europe. What would be an ideal way for me to approach to immigration to US in this case? Would I have to apply under H1B to come and work there or is there other options.
Back in the 80's we had the Cold War, high inflation and an energy crunch. It ended with the 1987 stock market crash, which was the largest crash up to that time. Then we had to endure the Great Recession that came along with Bush's administration. The 90's were better, but the party ended September 11, 2001. I was a consultant at the time and I along with hundreds of thousands of others were soon to be unemployed. That was stressful because my wife was pregnant at the time.

We muddled through all that and got to the financial crash of 2008. Again many people lost their jobs, lost their homes and pretty much lost hope. Then things went well for quite a while and now here we are again.

Notice a pattern? You can bank on things going tits up every 10-15 years or so. The maddening thing is people overall seem content with this situation.

Do you need therapy? It never hurts. Really. Even if you're A-OK it never hurts to have some therapy. Think of your therapist as being your wingman to help you deal with the shit of modern life. Group therapy is even better because you get to hear other people struggling with the same things you are. I know they say misery loves company but it's really more than that - it's the realization you're not alone and you're not the only one feeling like this and struggling with these issues. It's actually very uplifting.

Good luck!
Perhaps, but 0.6% core inflation MoM is still a more updated metric than 8.2% (overall) YoY, which is explicitly ignoring that overall inflation has subsided in the last few months.

That is, I agree with the OP if all we have are the non-core numbers, but with the core numbers it's more nuanced.
> The student loan one.. woof. The timing is rough. I know it’s not popular to say, but all those dollars not going to loans are going to contribute to inflation.

That was the post above me in the tree.
And? There isn’t anything military going on between China and Taiwan, despite continued US efforts to change it.
No. The Core CPI should have gone down from the steep interest rate hikes. But they didn't and in fact it's still going up. That's huge. 0.4% MoM increase is 5% inflation annualized and that's just for the core. Other parts of the economy are inflating faster and that's a huge problem. The target is 2%. The Fed needs prices to drop and inflation to abate but it's not.
The aesthetic is poor IMO in the sense that it is hackneyed. I’m not too familiar with CSS frameworks to immediately point out bootstrap from tailwind from another, but we should all agree that there are groups of websites that use a common layout and visual style which leverages typefaces like Inter, or San Francisco, or other “Sweatpants Grotesks” (think of Helvetica in a pair of tapered sweatpants with grey new balances and an unbuttoned Cardigan waiting for his Tesla to charge).

I do immediately recognize that a product is being offered in some fashion, but it’s more about how it’s being offered, as if it is something ostensibly, potentially life-changing. I think there a few HN members who know that there are plenty of products shown on HN that use emotionally jarring language that dances around the fact that the product is something that functionally is not as enigmatic as it’s advertised.

There is plenty of something else mixed in there also, but if you can’t tell I’m working off of a hunch right now. I would need to sit down and do a concentrated analysis to get everything that I feel across to you, if I ever had the chance to do so.
Related: Munchausen-by-internet