skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect pressure to backdoor something or similar requests in the US are often (not always) one off adventures that collectively look like something larger, rather than say a policy where someone goes to companies and make general requests continuously like some regulator going about his business.

The effect may end up being widespread, but the actual access and details are more uneven / look strange to us because of how spotty it is at times.

At least in the us I suspect that law enforcement, the typical surveillance organizations may even try to cast a wide net at times, but I think they're more transactional in their intent / look for what they need for a given person, people, case and less so to keep an eye on where a random citizen comes and goes.

That's not a justification for any of it, but I think it might explain why folks don't always find the 1984 they're looking for / expect in the end result.
It bears repeating because this is a common mistake in inflation discussions: a decrease in inflation metrics means price increases are slowing down, it doesn’t mean that prices are going down （that would require a negative CPI print).

Also, this number is year over year, so the decrease just means the price increases between Oct 21 and Oct 22 are not as steep as between Sept 21 to Sept 22, which is not hard to achieve because Sept 21 to Oct 21 had a bigger month over month jump.

The right way to interpret this number is that high prices have plateaued a bit. Yes that means your groceries are going to be x% higher than in 2020. Short of deflation, they always will be.
There are many former nurses who have the academic qualifications but have since left the profession. Some of those could be drawn back in with better pay and working conditions.
I think an accessibility a la vim or with something like tree sitter, would help immensely like:

“Top of file
Down 5 lines
Modify import source to …
inside first class
Down 5 methods
Insert new method after
Inside arg list
Append arg named … of type …
…
…”

And add a way to indentify types and parameters with special pronunciation.
It's not a lie, it's just not so simple that you can stop reading after the headline. This very post includes information about category-by-category inflation. Inflation for food has been about 10% YOY. Dairy is 15% and fresh milk is 14.5% (13.2% for whole milk and 15.4% for 0, 1, and 2% milk).
I’m working on something similar. The target market is the 99% of people who want to program ad-hoc domain-specific problems. For example, generating charts w/o having to dig through all the data sources (Wolfram Alpha does a simple version of this). Building a financial risk model for a client’s specific request (you have to be a whiz at Excel, python or some internal ide). Even for home automation, my mom can’t use Alexa’s awful app to customize routines.

I don’t think the voice part is necessary. It’s easy enough to slap ASR on the front. But going from natural language -> full problem spec -> code is hard in the general case, but doable in well-understood domains. Why can’t Scotty talk to a computer? (https://youtube.com/watch?v=hShY6xZWVGE&feature=share)
It’s estimated via surveys and other statistical approaches.

The fed’s estimates can be found here. They should have links to the underlying methods.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.h...
You need to calculate all staples. It is human nature to focus on outliers.

Milk is also traditionally a loss leader for stores. 10 years ago stores were paying $4/gallon for their milk while only charging $2. They made that up by profit on other items you bought at the same time as milk. So if stores are changing this marketing tactic that alone brings milk to a normal price.

The price of milk is very volatile normally. When there is too much or too little rain the price goes up as there is less crops for the cow to eat. When rain is in ideal amounts the input costs go down and so the price of milk goes down. (milk prices are federally regulated so supply and demand do not apply!)

Fast food has had the dollar menus for over a decade, just 2% inflation over a decade means they should be $1.22 now. I can't remember when dollar menus first came out, but I think it was closer to 2 decades ago, which would bring the prices closer to $1.50 just on modest inflation.

There are a lot more factors like the above that make calculating inflation very hard.
> You can check which prices they are looking at. How could it be a lie?

By excluding prices which make the number look bad despite them potentially being the numbers regular people actually care about. The same is true of including prices which look good but don’t matter as much.

And then by marketing that average number as a realistic approximation of price increases in day to day life.
I tried to put "<375" in the submission title, but HN would truncate the title just before "<".
According to the Arizona Ice Tea index, there has been NO inflation.
I used to work in UI (within game development) and there are very good reasons for this. Almost every time someone decided to do something different, usually thinking themselves innovative, it meant disregarding conventions and confusing and frustrating players. There were some exceptions, but experienced designers know when to stick to conventions and the short of it is "most of the time".

The most frustrating experience for our team was regarding the design of a widget meant to convey a number of properties and statistics about some in-game object. Our very experienced Senior UI Designer came up with something which was simple, clean, and looked great.

A manager without UI knowledge didn't like it and mandated that it was replaced by his own unique vision, despite protests. This resulted in half a year of iteration and tests, bumping against problem after problem which needed to be solved. Readability, contrast under different circumstances, data edge cases, you name it.

Meanwhile, our senior designer was forced to follow along, protesting and reminding everyone at each step that he had a perfectly fine solution to begin with. In the end, after months of painful iteration the manager had a brilliant idea, suggesting a fix for the final remaining issue. He had now, by ordering our Senior Designer how to perform each iteration and then evaluating it together, designed the perfect widget. Our senior opened up his original rejected design and showed that it, indeed, followed that specification to a T.
It translates to market or marketplace
Unexplored by our current culture.

I suspect we were just as mysterious to the Acapa, as they were, to us.

Not everything needs to be turned into an opportunity to point out bias, because that’s a neverending quest (to be human, is to be biased).

The British, in those days, were about as bad as you can get.

But the Carthaginians were probably every bit as bad, to their neighbors, as were the 19th-century colonial powers. Basic human behavior.

I’ve learned that it’s a waste of time, going around, trying to convince others to see things, our way. I find that it’s always best to lead by example.
VSC is web because it was created for the web. It was turned into a desktop program later
Depends on your cellular coverage too!:

Pixel 3 - 4G

Pixel 4 - LTE Advanced

Pixel 5 - 5G (avoid Verizon's non-unlockable Pixel5), possible battery drain due to stuck G5 firmware

Pixel 6 - better choice (again, avoid Verizon-brand)
I've been seeing this as well with specials. At the worst point is was buy 2 get 1. Now it's back to buy 2 get 2. I expect to see by 2 get 3 soon.
That's when the video solves your problem. But how do you find the video that solves your problem? You can't skim through it quickly like you can with text.
Do you have inflation protected bonds? In the USA you can buy I-Bonds (max $10k/year per person) that pay interest at the current inflation rate.

But what is considered “safe” really has a lot to do with your timeline. How soon do you want to access the money? If it’s in tears then index funds are likely a good buy today.
Why are all the comments here so negative? Maybe typing is a hard sell, but some of the navigation stuff seems quite useful. Even being able to invoke VS Code's command palette would be really cool with this. Something like "Open Dockerfile" would be useful and maybe faster than typing.
> If I go to supermarket I don't want "shopping experience" - I want to buy bread and eggs - set your shop in a way where I can do it quickly and I will be coming back.

Nice, now do s/supermarket/Apple
The biggest lie of inflation numbers is that housing costs are explicitly excluded, but rent and mortgage are massive parts of most people's cost of living.

Edit: I notice this article actually does include rent (but not the cost of buying a house), but from what I understand, it's usually excluded. Including rent but excluding purchase price is also weird.
You said:

"Because part of the process of saying that something is wrong is being willing to learn that maybe you are the wrong one."

So which is it? Are they wrong for sure, or are you willing to learn that you may be the wrong one?
Ludwig Von Mises is sitting in his grave saying: I told you it was all relative.
If you are smart you will spend less than you earn over a long period

To achieve this you need a plan. The plan can be responsible and also contain periods of spending more than you earn.

This will allow you to invest in your life, and the lives of the people that you love. For example, go on holiday with your kids while they are kids. This could cement relationships (not just with you) that will be really important in their (and your) lives. Another example; do the job that's a spring board, but lower paid than the job you really need. Ok, so you run up some debt - but you get access to your future career.

Education is another (more controversial) one. I invested in my education when I was young, but I am from another era and I am well aware that what young people are asked to put in for a doctorate now is just unbelievable. It paid off for me, it may not pay for you.
I was thinking of smartphones in particular with that comment and I agree with you completely.
quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

You lose faith in media once you know that the same journalistic scrutiny is applied to the person at helm of NYT.
It finally has begun.
Wow. Every time I've tried to dig into the man pages to find an option that I need it's been overwhelming; and now I know why!

This is one seriously under appreciated piece of code, and I am so grateful that it exists.
BitMEX Provides Snapshot Update to Bitcoin Proof of Reserves and Proof of Liabi
I switched to Zoho when Gmail threatened to kill our legacy Gsuite account I was using for my family. So far I'm pretty happy although not everything is perfect.

I wrote up my experience here: https://jedfonner.com/2022/07/30/switching-to-zoho

TL;DR:

- pricing is pretty good. I use the Mail Lite plan for my kids which provided 5GB and upgraded myself to the 10GB plan, all for just a few bucks a month.

- importing mailboxes went very smoothly

- solid mobile and desktop apps, even for Linux (although it uses Electron which I know triggers some people)

- calendaring is frustrating but I don't think that's really Zoho's fault.

- a few small bugs but amazingly a human will reply to you if you file a bug report and eventually it will get fixed!

I feel better knowing that they pay attention to their customers. I'm happy to pay for good service.
A better question maybe. What is the edge of using java over others? 20 years back it was about cross platform support, but which language is not cross platform nowadays?
The way I read it the price of things like eggs increased by 43% (on table 6 which is seasonally adjusted it's still 10%)?
Does anyone know why?
Large holders of Tether would be pretty dumb to short it, as they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. If Almeda indeed knows something the rest of the market doesn't, they would (assuming rational action) quietly be exiting their position.
My point is that you are taking their point too literally.

Also, the business model is paying a subscription for the right to submit a pull request. Sure, you could wait until you are about to make the PR to buy the subscription, but that's a pain of its own.

Their point here is that this isn't a scalable business model. That's the assertion that started this whole comment thread.
Worth talking because there are still people who argue that TLS and HTTPS is hassle that is not needed.
Look out: Divergent representations are everywhere
When I'm the only person in the cafe, but the barista still wants to know my name for the order, I do a slow pan looking left, then right, then back to center, and say: "Guy".
You could do like Canada and change the basket of goods based on consumer purchase data. Conveniently dropping or down-weighting items experiencing high inflation that the general population can no longer afford.
That's a much easier thing to say as the person who's not the one who has to actually do it. Actively choosing to do identifiable harm now to prevent future diffuse harm is a more difficult version of the 'Trolley Problem' that already gives people trouble when the numbers are direct.
Whether it's through consumer price inflation or bond devaluation, retirees are affected by the economy.

There is no instrument or policy isolating them from it. The best you can do is diversify.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you refer to as blind-firing, but the change is to require a target ID from dismiss calls. That's regardless of focus then right?
I’m so bad at this game it’s appalling. I generally scapegoat my lavish shenanigans with the excuse that I’m single, no partner no kids. Live far away from family and in general I don’t think I’ll make it to retirement age anyway.
In the last USDA retail market report, the national weight average advertised price of milk was $2.98/gal, and last year it was $2.98/gal. In 2014 it was $3.78/gal.
Is amazon web services not a service people pay for? People are currently buying computation (a service) with crypto. I spend ETH to deploy and execute code, in the exact same way I pay USD to AWS to deploy and execute my code.
Depends on how you quit. If a nurse or doctor gives appropriate notice before quitting or striking, so that innocent patients can be rerouted first, then there's no problem. But if they're walking out of an ER room and abandoning a patient on the table with their rib cage splayed open, that's basically murder.

In this case, the nurse who "called 911" was faced with a situation where the waiting room was packed with people who needed emergency care. For her to walk away from her job in that moment would be like leaving somebody on the ER table. At the very least, a nurse in that situation should persist through their shift and quit afterwards, not quit on the spot.
I agree that inflation numbers aren't reliable on an individual basis. What people buy varirs too much across society and prices do not go up across all goods at the same rate. However, it is a relatively uniform comparison across time. You don't run into problems of selectivity. ("Hey, X costs twice as much. Inflation is out of control!") You also don't have changing purchasing habits skewing the perceived cost of living, if you compare grocery receipts from year to year (to choose one example).
Yes but that doesn’t mean we can’t have different baskets and look at that. Because “staple inflation” which covers food, water, electricity, gas, transportation, rent, and healthcare would be more useful measure for most Americans.

7% inflation with the current basket is meaningless to everyone but economists, but 20% inflation on the major household expenses tells you how much your bills are going to go up in real life.
Netflix’s ad-supported plan is finally here
The Terrifyingly Prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 Years Later (2018)
It would be nice to see a comparison of FreeBSD's capsicum vs OpenBSD's pledge vs Linux's landlock features. It seems to me that the general vision of these projects have overlap but the implementations wildly differ.

Another question I have is that we haven't seen popular adoption of "capability-aware" Linux programs prior to the above efforts. While obviously it would be beneficial for users for developers to adopt these patterns, I'm skeptical these will start to take hold now? Possibly the adoption method will be runtimes that do this under the hood before fork/execve the application?
Plans aren't needed if nothing ever goes wrong. What happens on the day you can't pay yourself first? That's what the budget should answer for you.
At this point I feel like C# exists in pretty much the same space but solves the same problems better. Java doesn’t seem to solve a unique problem any more or solve common problems better than other languages.
Costco Hot Dog feels the same.
The comparison shiukdn be an arbitrary collection of countries either.
I do not know how to only display tech issues specifically, but someone recently posted uBlock addon filters [1] that can remove specific topics by keyword. I've modified mine a little. Adjust the keywords as needed.

After installing uBlock, go to add-ons -> uBlock Preferences -> My Filters

# top (title / url)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(Musk|Twitter|Mastodon|blockchain)/):upward(tr)
# bottom (stats / comments)
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/(Musk|Twitter|Mastodon|blockchain)/):upward(tr) + *

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
> The people re-publishing my Mastodon posts on Twitter didn't think to ask whether I was ok with them doing that.

The OP lost me here. You posted your opinion to the public internet. Whether or not you didn't think your audience would reshare using the platform, they could have shared it in a myriad of ways, including posting it to sites like this one. It's even harder to moderate how your opinion gets spread around on the fediverse than on Twitter, where blocking and takedowns are possible. That's sort of the point of the fediverse.
If your appliances are low-tech enough, and you have access to YouTube and don't have hand dexterity issues, you don't need to replace or even pay for a service visit. I've fixed a clothes washing machine when its belt seized. That was $17. My refrigerator was no longer staying cold: a $50 controller board clone from eBay works great.
Used to be a paid customer, nowadays using its free email with custom domain, for the last 8 years. Thanks Zoho email!
It's the running joke - every new startup is "Uber for X".
I was just reading "Ray Dalio on the Downturn: 'There's a Lot More to Come'"[1], which said:

Inflation in the United States has risen 8.2 percent in the past 12 months. While the Federal Reserve’s long-term inflation target is 2 percent, Dalio predicted that the central bank will go for a more realistic target of around 4.5 to 5 percent.

Based on those numbers, he believes the real interest rate could land in between 4.5 percent and 6 percent. “Six starts to break things pretty bad,” Dalio said. “The vicinity of 4.5 and 6 may be the number in terms of cracking the thing.”

[1] - https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b20hpgzhxph5h5...
Because it’s antisocial behavior?

Reflexively casting doubt (without a counter-argument) on a number that the BLS has been publishing for decades using a transparent methodology isn’t helpful.

This number isn’t the “how much am I spending on groceries” number, it’s a much larger snapshot of the price levels across multiple industries. Nobody thinks it’s perfect, but it’s consistent.

You might not believe it, but Wall Street moves billions based on it. That’s ultimately the greatest vote of trust. If you think it’s wrong, you can put your money where your mouth is and trade against the consensus. That’s the beauty of the free market.
I'm old enough now that I've seen three or four waves of people moving into various neighborhoods, each and every one bemoaning the next wave and how terrible they were ... just like the folks they displaced (granted I say displaced indicating the typical movement of people, nothing forced).
It's also much more expensive to become a doctor in the US though right?
Unless the problems with nausea are fixed, VR definitely makes most 1st person games worse.
Housing is definitely not excluded from CPI-U. It's right there in the second paragraph.
My father was "low car" before it was cool.

He bought his vehicle new and put 144k km on it over the course of 22 years.

Of course that was only possible because there was a public transport network in place.

I, after an initial period of driving long distances, sort of followed in his footsteps via remote work and getting groceries delivered - the latter feels like cheating though, since that's just someone else driving instead.

In any case I can't recommend this enough. Cars are amazingly useful, but when used daily costs pile up quickly.
I'm not trying to argue whether it ought to be capitalistic or not. Just that the parent poster's assertion that it was contradictory with capitalism, or there was some sort of capitalism double standard doesn't hold water.
‘In recent years, there have been extensive debates about liberal (in)tolerance, involving topics such as the right to hold controversial views and the right of businesses not to serve conservatives. Yet focus on individual cases tends to miss the point.

Whilst individual episodes will involve different rights and wrongs, the large number of cases means that irregularities will even themselves out.

There has been a restructuring of liberal incentives. In Western societies, liberal values of dignity and self-expression have become hegemonic, meaning that liberals have fewer incentives to advocate tolerance.

We may wonder whether liberalism without tolerance is credible, ideologies which are stripped of central elements becoming something else. Indeed, social justice ideology seems to have succeeded liberalism, perhaps spelling the end of liberalism as we know it.’
That's not true. It was essentially forked from Atom which was built as a desktop application first. It just so happens that Electron makes it easy to run just about anywhere and web tech is arguably the easiest to use for building UIs
Archive link: https://archive.ph/dLRli
Asset price inflation isn't the same as trade. Most of that $4T never came close to being anything but an estimate for the value of something that never traded.
As Harvard's endowment abandons fossil fuels, University of Texas catches up
A Simple Computation Engine in F#
PinePhone Keyboard RGB – Part 1: PCB Design
Shades of every single application in the early 2000s avoiding the Windows design guidelines and building their own weird mishmash of buttons.