skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A consumer based society requires people to consume, or buy things. Because of this you want a low level of inflation so that people buy things now rather than next year and keep the money in the system moving around (ironically this theory of money also makes people that have more money than they can spend unhealthy to the system). You want the money constantly moving through the system instead of pooling up.
No, it's not just you. Huge mistake, in my opinion. If I see a page for a new programming language, I want to be one click away from code samples.
It's more helpful to look at a graph to see trends: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=XCAY

As one can see, the CPI was fairly steep during the period from Jan 2021 till June 2022; from there it has visibly flattened.

EDIT: A rolling 6 month annualized rate makes the drop pretty obvious: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VCEwEDWCAaWhmbosXIcD...
Just call it parental leave and cover all bases.
I'm curious what kind of plea deal Caroline Elison got.
The NIF exists mainly to validate nuclear weapon designs by providing input to models, the ICF thing is more a side gig the nuclear weapons side of the DoE runs to attract talent for the real job.
Inflation is not interest rates, it’s perfectly normal and proper to have higher interest rates than inflation.

They’re only linked due to
rehypothecation of money supply which is a problem in an of itself. But it gets a little complex to explain.

Edit: my brain skipped over the ‘cash’ part and assumed ‘risk free’ interest would still be collected.
Is this a big admission? There are only a handful of volume phone sensor suppliers. Anyone skilled in the trade would be able to identify the maker with a scan of the sensor (or disassemble the phone and check the part number). And, the sensor only gets you so far, sophisticated software can make a given sensor produce better final images, as Google has been demonstrating for several years.
The times we've experienced deflation have been horrible periods in history.

We're fairly convinced that deflation is an effect rather than the cause, but nobody's really 100% sure that it's 100% effect and that deflation doesn't make things worse, so we try and avoid it.
Comparing the Gatsby, Next, Nuxt, and Nest Open-Source JavaScript Frameworks
This blog post is for everyone looking for their new favorite JavaScript backend framework. A few months ago, I was precisely in this place and wanted to learn a new JavaScript backend framework.
Ah, yes. I actually remember the first time I learned what each of those options meant. My Dad had purchased an 8088 earlier that year and it was still a mystery to us (though Dad and I were the most proficient). One late evening while my Mom was finishing up something for work using "Word Star", she tried to print something but the printer was not turned on[0].

The issue was quickly solved but the prompt remained on screen. The funny thing about the prompt was that, at the time (I was 8?), I didn't understand that it was asking a question and provided for more than one answer. Every time my Dad had seen the prompt, he hit "A" and redid whatever trivial thing he was doing. I had learned to do the same.

Confidently, and very unhelpfully, I hit "A", watching the past hours work vanish. It was the first time DOS made my mom cry.

[0] Forgive me, it was a while ago; it may have been unplugged or some other trivial issue.
The real question is, who remembers how to get into the controller BIOS on an ISA MFM/RLL controller?
You're almost certainly drinking the smoked leaves. Smokers teeth stain as well. I'd bet this is the culprit. Maybe try switching to unsmoked yerba mate?
two tenths of a percent decline is barely a remarkable, let alone laudable achievement.

This might be a sobering sentiment but US inflation is still out of control. ideal inflation is 2% and policy handbrakes like increases in the prime rate are too little too late as we should have sought percentage point increases a year ago as opposed to the fractional increments we saw last november. Arguably the half-percent model of increase was a dismal failure even when it was rolled out four months early in March to market and all we're left with is chest-thumping from the federal reserve each time it undertakes a half-percent increase and razes the castle of free money it built up over a decade in response to the 2008 collapse.
Honestly to be expected here. I opened up about my own homelessness while being employed in my field of study for over 20 years. I received a bunch of vitriol and downvotes for my honesty. If ever you need a reminder that you are surrounded by "anarcho-capitalists" just scroll through any HN comments field pertaining to the intersection of ethics and the economy.
I’d be absolutely shocked if more than 25% can be recovered. They spent multi-billions on venture investments that were not just high-risk due to their early stage nature but also inextricably linked to ftx by way of the cryptocurrency market as a whole and thus about as undiversified as humanly possible. There’s a few of their investments that have value and value could be recovered through sales but almost all of them are illiquid and have seen valuations collapse.

Also consider that a lot of the players involved are overseas and anonymous* which makes it much more difficult to clawback relative to people onshore (like in the case of madoff).
You may not agree with the conclusions, or dislike the quality of the research, but of course there's research. There's always research with things like this.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/january/fed-infla...
.fr, the leading French TLD, reaches 4M domain names
> the point of a state is to be the sole place where tyrannical powers can be found

Sure, but that doesn't imply that we should create new tyrannical powers out of whole cloth, just so the state can have them. The more that power remains distributed, allowing the population freedom and self-determination, the better.
The NYC has a documented complaint process. Start there if you have evidence of a violation. My quick reading of the NYC law tells me HN and other public forums for job postings do not have to enforce the law -- the person/company writing the job posting has to comply. If YC-funded companies break the NYC job posting law I don't see where in the wording of the law that investors have any legal jeopardy.

The law in question only has vague enforcement provisions that include fines "up to $250,000," which means any actual cases brought for enforcement will end up in court in NYC. A civil judge will then get to decide what "good faith" means in each specific case, and also decide questions of jurisdiction and responsibility.
If anyone's interested, Japan is seen as a cautionary tale for the bad things that low inflation/deflation can bring. They've been fighting it for years[1].

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/25/inflation-japan-deflati...
Somebody more in the know, will this actually pass?
I wouldn't underestimate peoples' want (or need) to save extra money right now. Most working people will do anything they can to save in this economy.
You could imagine a much larger character set though. For example you might be interested in a sliding window of unique words instead.
Unconscious clarity trumps literary fluidity when reading code.
I think if MoM were widely reported, it would be stated as annualized to make sense for people in a headline. This would cause a lot of overreaction.
This attitude usually results in a company inventing some bespoke abstraction/framework whilst saying they are following standards.
> Do these companies likely have reserves to back their coins? No. Are the pegs currently holding just fine? Yes.

Fair enough. (Though I’m unconvinced of the value of a peg that can’t be redeemed against, à la Tether.)
I have fond memories of being a child and becoming an expert at DOS (and DOS-like) symbol manipulation.

I had no clue what any of the commands meant, but I knew how to boot up an Apple II, load a disk, and type in the commands to run a game (at age 4), to set up DMA, IRQ, PORT, etc. settings to make sound work for Warcraft 1 or other DOS games (7 or 8), and many other things. But again, I had no clue what any of it meant. I just had an older brother write down the incantations and a lot of patience.

That evolved a bit when I got into Robot Odyssey at age 9 or 10. I didn't know anything about logic gates, but because I have no Internet and I loved computers, I would bash my head against it for hours and hours and hours, organically learning how the logic gates differed from each other. (tangent: I loved this game so much despite it being far far too much for me. I did a presentation on logic gates, which was beyond my 4th grade teacher, and it got me put into an "enrichment" class, which in many ways screwed up grade school for me.)
Why? You just feedback the energy generated from the process into the lasers. Most powerplants have an initial negative net energy.
We're talking about the cost of power. Putting aside the unbelievable idea that Alberta has as much mid-winter solar energy available as at the equator, using solar to heat my house is more expensive than burning some stuff inside.
Though organizational dynamics are the same everywhere it appears...

"As for the physics and technology of reactors, it was a forbidden area for me—both because of my own education and because of the taboo imposed by Anatoly Pavlovich Aleksandrov [president of the USSR Academy of Sciences] and his subordinates working in this area. They really did not like interference in their professional work by outsiders. I remember how once Lev Petrovich Feoktistov, who had just started working at our institute, attempted to conceptually analyze questions about a more reliable reactor, a more interesting reactor, that would eliminate—this problem was worrying then—the production of such fissile materials that could be removed from the reactor and used in nuclear weapons. But his proposals were met with hostility; as well as the proposals about a new safer reactor from Viktor Vladimirovich Orlov who had come to the institute. They were somehow not considered by the existing reactor community.

Since I didn’t have administrative authority over this department but generally understood many specific details of what was going on, and because I was concerned, I began to suggest to the reactor department an engineering, not physical, approach to solving problems. But, naturally, I couldn’t considerably change this situation. And Anatoly Petrovich had such a humanly understandable and even likeable trait, namely, reliance on people with whom he has worked for many years. He trusted certain people who worked on, say, naval equipment, station machinery or specialized devices; and really didn’t like the appearance of new faces who could somehow bother him or make him doubt the decisions made earlier. This roughly is how things were."

He recounts after being promoted to the first deputy director of the Institute of Atomic Energy by Aleksandrov himself! And after it was transferred to the control of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building...
It may not be bad, economics involves a lot of unfounded speculation IMO. It's true that deflation would encourage delaying certain types of spending but that is already the case with electronics and some other types of goods. But that has not led to the downfall of society.

A deflationary economy would be a drastic change from the system we operate under now but I don't think it would be all bad. Maybe in a deflationary economy people would feel like they could actually save money. Or it could put an end to the 40 hour work week. I doubt demand of necessities would change much in a deflationary environment: food, medicine, shelter, etc.
Almost certainly not, at least in this iteration - but Meta's stock is up ~6%, so it's not nothing
More like they trusted two (well actually three if you count US gov) centralized entities instead of one. It's like asking permission from both momma and pappa to eat desert. They should have just depended on the single entity backing USDC rather than putting themselves in a situation where they'd be also be fucked if Binance froze by leaving their tokens on exchange.

When you put USD backed stablecoin on exchange you're trusting

1) Exchange won't fail

2) Backers won't fail

3) US gov won't fail

Any single one fail and you're fucked. America decided dollars should float in the 70s, and most of the world followed. IMO sooner or later crypto will end up all floating because pegging relies on centralized points of failure and eventually people will tire of getting wiped out.
GIT -- You have no idea how much better it is to be able to use git to push changes to a remote repository and have high confidence the copy is intact.

It is WAY better than a stack of floppy disks with the words Project Name / Backup mm/dd/yyyy on them.
Now it's "parental leave" :)
You randomly try changing every IRQ jumper?
Apologies for the late reply.

Was someone making the assertion that money laundering using one medium is (generally) victimless while money laundering using a different medium is not?

Can you explain or clarify for me why you believe that is the argument made? I re-read the thread back to original post and I don't understand why you say so.
You can't slow inflation by raising interest rates without slowing the economy. There are no rainbow unicorns here. The best outcome here is a so-called "soft-landing" in which growth slows but we don't have a recession or spike in unemployment. Taking the recent jobs report and this CPI report, we might just get that soft landing we need.

Also, fyi, while wages overall did not keep up with inflation, they did in the service sector and largely for lower paying jobs. I see that as correcting an imbalance in the economy, and as a stabilizer for American society as a whole.
Game development, especially Unreal engine, can produce repos in excess of 1TB.
Git LFS is used extensively for binary file support.
> prohibition has always been a questionable idea

Any data on it having counter effect on the actual consumption and prevelance? I believe are the negatives were secondary but it was effective in primary goals.
can you be more specific here,very interested
I really like your framing of it!

To be fair though, I really haven't seen a change in the content on Twitter at all since Elon took over (modulo meta-discussion about Twitter itself). Time will tell I suppose
I think I agree and I share the skepticism for several reasons. Especially lately, we face really high levels of distrusts in most institutions. I can maybe see a reason for this approach in the form of "we don't want to just hand over details of this tech to everyone in the world" ( not that is a very good position, but I can at least understand the rationale ), but that is about it.

You can mess with stats and so on ( especially in social fields ), but it may be nigh impossible to present results in energy field that are not replicable and still claim a win.

Are we being distracted from something?
I remember that and the sound you often heard right before. Different for 5-1/4" and 3.5" disks

I also remember the equivalent rattling on my Apple ][ disk drive right before something goes wrong.
If they need to "boost their holdings" in USDC in order for their customers to withdraw these coins, what had they been doing with their customer's deposits ?
I am thinking about the system they use to censor the WiFi at the gym which works at the network level.
Fukushima itself killed 0 people. Compared to the overall issues caused by the tsunami its footnote really.

> caused a 20km

Questionable if that is actually necessary or just over-reaction.
You can absolutely regulate towards the goal of affordable, instantaneous money transfers within the context of the traditional finance system. The EU has done just that with SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area).

Here's the SEPA instant credit transfer service (maximum duration of ten seconds):
https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/sepa-insta...
Crypto Sceptics
> HN and other public forums for job postings do not have to enforce the law

I don’t think Hacker News faces liability for posting non-compliant ads. (Not a lawyer!) But if it turns out to be a trove of them, HN’s essentially a honey pot.

> any actual cases brought for enforcement will end up in court in NYC

Precisely what you want your early-stage portfolio dealing with.
Yes, that's exactly why deflation is bad for the average person. You can't afford to save your money (which is increasing in value just sitting there) because you HAVE to spend it on food, rent, etc. People who can afford to, don't spend their money and they get nominally richer. Anything you buy will decrease in value, so people tend to avoid it. This isn't hypothetical, it has happened every time there's deflation in an economy. It widens the gap between the rich and poor.
Respectfully, if someone can't comply with the laws they're subject to (or more accurately bother to look up the laws they need to comply with), they shouldn't be trying to run a business.

It's literally their job as a business owner, and millions of people successfully do this every year.
No, BTC is just fairly correlated with the US stock market.
Smoking cigarettes has always been something that was started pretty young. It is an outlier who starts smoking after the age of 18. This law will affect total smoking in the population only as much as it can affect the ability of minors to obtain cigarettes. By making it a black market, this may backfire, since it is easier for an underage person to purchase something illegally from an illegal supplier than it is for an underage person to purchase something illegally from a legal supplier. However since NZ is an island nation they may be able to pull this off since smuggling in cigarettes may not be lucrative enough compared to something like cocaine or heroin. Of course the penalties would have to be more than a slap on the wrist for that to be the case.
DoNotPay is launching an AI chatbot that can negotiate your bills
It's not so much that deflation is bad, it's that inflation and employment are very correlated. Given the choice between 0% inflation and high unemployment or 2% inflation and low unemployment, we choose to have low unemployment along with a little bit of inflation.
Wait till they find out about IoT stuff from China that phones home.
This is a major annoyance in Visual Studio. You have to stay all the time waiting for feedback from the software, otherwise your commands will get processed on the wrong order.

And yes, autocompletion fires from many different keys, and if it misses the keys order, it will automplete into some completely different code.
I guess December 5th was Ignition Day and we didn't know it?
Wish rest of the world did same for FANG.
There's still TLS Server Name Indication leaking the hostname.
Isn't that the benefit of hackernews to ycombinator?

You have an incredible reach with highly technical users, and you can inject your hiring ads into the posts.
> Are the companies indeed inflicting self harm?

They are spending 14% more on recruitment advertising than they would have to if they just put a range in the salary box. So, yes, financial self harm. 14% is substantial for many companies.

> ther downsides - e.g. it might tilt existing employees.

People have access to wage data and job boards in their pocket. If they answer that unknown caller, it's as likely to be a recruiter as a car warranty hustle. It's amazing how many business leaders think that their people are not going to look.
For those of you in US academia, checkout the NSF Jetstream2 cloud [0] available through ACCESS grants [1]. They have various flavors of VMs including regular, GPU, and large instances.

[0] https://jetstream-cloud.org/
[1] https://access-ci.org/
> German famously has a word for nearly everything. I'm not sure that's elegant, in that it requires learning a far greater number of words.

That's not quite how it works though, right? Compound words are exactly that, combining two or more words to narrow down the meaning, without having to invent a new word. It's almost like "if not" vs "unless"...
Oven (YC S19) is hiring C/C++ or Zig engineers to build Bun
Fun fact: the person who created Pony, Sylvan Clebsch, has been working on a Microsoft Research project called Verona. From it's README [0]:

> Project Verona is a research programming language to explore the concept of concurrent ownership. We are providing a new concurrency model that seamlessly integrates ownership.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/verona/tree/master
one must admire the cleverness of getting the bill to read "anti-social"
Company press release:
https://mailchi.mp/boomsupersonic.com/supersonic-takes-shape...

Company description of "Symphony" engine:
https://boomsupersonic.com/symphony

Claims 10% lower operating cost, use of 100% sustainable fuel
Network costs for your logs, metrics, and APM data
>I'm not defending Binance in any way, but this is FUD that is getting blown out of the water (arguably, people are on edge these days). It was pre-announced downtime for a hardfork on their BSC chain.

>https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602510004795367424

>It has caused a bit of a bank run and cz says things are processing just fine (along with tons of 3rd party confirmations).

>https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602676998094069760

>I know HN wants to see crypto die in a giant ball of flaming fire, but let's not lower ourselves to the point of just passing on FUD.

>Edit: -4 incoming. I'm going to leave this here because it is worth it. I'm not a fan of FUD and neither should you be.

I'm going to quote this full comment for posterity's sake, but I also think that you're a bit confused. You say that "it was pre-announced downtime" and cite a tweet from yesterday that says "Also done now. All resumed". In point of fact, withdrawals are not resumed, and a tweet from CZ today confirms that withdrawals are down and they're waiting for a US bank to open[1].

Edit: Shit, Binance themselves even admit this is because of a token swap, not planned downtime[2]. How is this FUD?

Edit 2: Withdrawals back online as of ~5 minutes prior to my comment[3].

[1]https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1602579499903852544

[2]https://twitter.com/binance/status/1602579775721283584

[3]https://twitter.com/binance/status/1602708590271385600
A good analysis of the hidden costs involved while using a SaaS observability vendor
Dangling conditionals the parent was talking about. Where the conditional comes after the thing you told it to do. Computationally, that's increased backtrack/lookahead for no good reason.

Regarding `unless`, that's a different matter. I was actually the person who proposed adding an `unless` syntax to Racket, and later regretted it. I was bikeshedding, before I knew something more useful to do.

This isn't about learning new things to add to our mental toolbox. This is about our difficulty to introspect on our own thought processes and effectiveness, and about bikeshedding.

Software engineering competence is hard, or we wouldn't have all the huge expenditures, slipped project schedules, and rampant security vulnerabilities. Redundant syntax forms that objectively makes it harder to read (see the lookahead and parser theory), solely because someone imagined it was sometimes easier to read this way (see dying languages Perl and Ruby) is just wasting our time, when we could be tackling the real problems.

(Though us pulling theories about programming and process out of our posteriors, to defend to the death, is arguably half our problem in industry right now.)
Screen Gloom Optimization in Wavetale
Not much on an "admission"? They get that part from a supplier, who unsurprisingly is a large player in the space of part in question
I used to (illegally) order cartons from Eastern Europe when I was a broke college kid. They didn't taste as good, but were less than half price of US cigarettes!
Same thing for anyone posting Colorado jobs