skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The consumer price index has been relatively stable since the Fed started raising interest rates.

The PCE, which the Fed uses—not the CPI—as its inflation gauge for policymaking has not been flat (historically, the PCE and CPI have generally been pretty close, but the PCE shot up much more than the CPI in the recent inflation, and did not quickly drop and stay near zero monthly % change like the CPI in response to the Fed intervention [it was low in July and November, but not the intervening months.])
You presume that money couldn’t be spent elsewhere or even gasp saved away for a rainy day or paying down a debt early.
Contrarian investing (and contrarian opinions) are the way for the individual. Doesn’t mean every bet has to be opposite the herd but as an individual you need to lean into your strengths (nimbleness and ability to pivot quick) to beat the big guys.

For last 15 years it was about making gains at all, but now that inflation is 10% it’s how you prevent losing your money.

So much of the future depends on a tiny, unelected body that controls the global economy (the Federal Reserve) that you need to think about interest rates a lot. I come from the Austrian perspective but I understand mainstream economic reasoning so I can put myself into that mental framework when thinking about the future. However fundamentally I am a classical economic liberal, free market, Austrian.

I think inflation is here to stay for a while. I don’t think Biden and society in general can stomach a massive recession. Putting cash into short term treasuries can get you a guaranteed 5% which could be safe play given how crazy the markets are.

I am cold on AI. Everyone and their mother has been predicting self driving cars, massive job losses to automation, and so on for years. Never happens and not going to. I would avoid this industry as an investor. As labor it can be advantageous as talent is over-compensated.

I’m skeptical of electric cars. Renewables make sense in places but also a skeptic on the time frame. Would avoid electric car and ESG equities.

Residential real estate in places without strong rent control vibes is a good bet. If you can do it yourself even better - the government subsidizes your mortgage and small time landlords avoid a lot of the political intrigue. If you can get an investment property or a small multi family, I would consider swapping equities for that and let rent follow inflation each year.

Short Europe and China. Long Africa and India.

A bunch of opinions here but hopefully this fills in some pieces.
Isn't that largely because the most marginalized groups started speaking up, and started being heard? Hasn't it progressed from there?

I think it's fair to say LGBTQ, women and brown folks are being hurt in tangible ways by dominant language (words can in fact hurt when they influence generations of behavior), and like most progress there seem to be some who are experiencing downsides now that things are changing.

Who decides who has sour grapes?

Were these bureaucrats just waiting in the wings for an excuse to pounce with regressive policy?

Blaming the staff without examining the broader cultural shift seems as bad as an emotional support peacock.
This might be an artifact of a filter bubble, no? It reminds me of Scott Alexander's interesting discussion of outgroups, wherein he revealed that despite knowing around 150 people (probably), and that roughly 46% of Americans are creationists, there was no overlap in those two subsections of society. The odds of that happening by chance are, literally, astronomical. Despite living in a Republican district in a Republican state, he never managed to meet any Republicans. Socially, at least. It was fascinating to realize just how subtle yet powerful such filter effects could be.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
> some sort of system built-in to be able to internally and correct as the community learns about new issues

Can you reword this? Not quite sure what you're asking
Half of the United States feels like a hut in Siberia right now due to freezing temperatures and the lack of electrical capacity.

https://www.fox29.com/news/pennsylvania-warned-of-rolling-bl...
So in other words, gambling. Some will win, many will lose.
Patch's Prescriptions – 10 Everyday Actions to Heal Society
Yeah. I was in a bad state of mind when I wrote this. I'm sorry.
Besides that, as of now, https://poweroutage.us shows slightly less than 6 thousand customers out in Texas. Meanwhile:

"States and territories by customers out
Maine 110,693
New York 38,041
Virginia 19,038
New Hampshire 18,056
Pennsylvania 13,040"
No, just like bitcoin you need the cooperation of the community/users too
I don't totally agree with the magnitude of how much more work needs to be done- we don't have one gas pump per ICE car, and electric cars don't need to be charged every day.

It's fair to say that people hogging chargers even when they're done charging is a problem, there's a public charger on my street that is near 100% utilization. However this seems pretty solvable- companies can just charge per minute as long as the spot is occupied and let the free market sort it out.

Adding public chargers is also a great way for places like malls, grocery stores, offices, etc to stay relevant, since my weekly shopping trips would probably be enough to keep a car topped off
I keep reading, this, and keeping being told this. Yet I switched every system over to nix and have found no thing but the best examples documentation and help from nix to do so.

Within the span of a afternoon and a bit a reading I went from zero, to a script that lets me setup an entire dev systems with just a few commands in a vm, and or even on hardware.

If anything the Nix documentation is just as good as every other thing out there. What is different is there are more than one way to do many things in Nix. This to me I think is the core of complaints. Its a language, and thus the language has may expressions that result in the same outcome.

The second bit I think people struggle with is it is functional. If you look at Nix complaints they appear to nearly be identical to that of Haskell.
The amount of vitriol from some of the comments (on the article page, not here) is eye-popping. I’m not sure what to make of it.
Not showing travel speed was a missed opportunity
I think we can call a lot of this tragedy of the commons. If a business is able to capitalize on common resources (e.g. using air or water as a means of dumping pollutants) and pay nothing for degradation of those shared resources, then they will. But often we have no choice in the matter, and that's even before we get into the complications of even understanding the consequences and nuances of our purchases. Before we consider long term stressors and problems vs short term. Our brains were clearly not designed for solving these problems and it is rather amazing that we can actually do it at all. So I agree, we probably would make different decisions if these externalities were priced in (e.g. carbon tax, pollution/waste tax). But also the market would also likely simply change prior to choices being made simply because we know that we need to adapt to match said new market or be over taken by new players (i.e. if a carbon tax was instituted or seen as likely, oil companies would start investing into researching alternative clean energy solutions to maximize future (<10 years) profits).
Sports are zero-sum and the greater economy is not. What’s odd is Europeans treating each exactly the opposite of what that would imply.
Are you running Linux and Xorg, or something else? Have you ruled out flaky RAM?

Reason I ask: I don't recall ever having urxvt crash, in many years of use, and counting. Nor recall a crash in earlier decades of use of other versions of rxvt and xterm. I'd expect them to crash, but they haven't.
I'm so sick of "higher" educational institutions pretending they're some bastions of professional knowledge. I continue to toy around with the idea of going back to school for a PhD, but then I talk to friends who are or have done that, and their experiences don't sound like anything that would be useful.

I can read a research paper right now (and I do read research papers when they're helpful to the situation at hand). I can write an article, make a video, or share some interesting thing I learned in a professional manner without ever submitting it to a journal. I don't need a PhD to pursue learning as much as I can about the field of Computer Science, and I highly doubt a PhD will offer me any significant advantages in this pursuit. Especially after my experience getting a B.S degree (pun fully intended).

I can't wait for the day when we recognize that educational institutions don't actually signify any more authority than a random person that's devoted years of their life to studying a topic.

And it especially sickens me that this author was dismissed by a "professional" at one of these institutions that was plagiarizing their work. These "professionals" are the same as every other person out there, and the dumb degree really adds nothing.

Nobody cares about your degree.

And yes, I know that there are good professors/researchers out there. But man I'm really sick of these institutions that pretend they hold some higher level of scrutiny to their work. The more I learn about them (and try to replicate the results in their research papers), the more I realize that this whole establishment is rife with shoddy work just like any corporation out there.
The whole sports industry is a waste of labor and capital. And the athletes are the crux of the issue here. The stadiums, the sponsors, the billionaires, ect. are built around these athletes. Does it even matter if the athletes are "underpaid?"
Too late. Need a permit for the fire.
I have the M1 MacBook Pro and I don't have this issue (I also didn't have it on my 2019, 2017, 2012, etc MacBooks Pro).

Do you put your laptop in a bag where it gets squished between books and other stuff to cause the display to be pushed in?
Just enough to be buried after you die.
It's the spread between workers(labor) and owners(capital). Millionaires working for Billionaires could be under paid, the same as 100k-aires are underpaid by 100M-aires.

Overpaid, or extremely wealthy by the global society - but under paid in their "local group" (for lack of better term)

Edit: like when VC say they take the risk - bullshit. They just risk money - labor (athletes, entrepreneur) risk time and health. Those are not renewable - but money is.
> The FBI has destroyed the Constitution and ended the legitimate authority of the US Government with their blatant and flagrant censorship and election interference.

No, it hasn’t, and that's just the latest in a series of desperate attempts by a political faction to justify their efforts to destroy the Constitution, in support of their man-baby leader's extended hissy fit over the American people deciding not to retain him as leader.
Careful because inevitably someone would classify you as "high consumption" and try to halve you.
I went to a school with lots of parties, and I don't believe the presence of parties causes students mature to any extent. Most students acted like kids and were unaware of responsibility until after graduation regardless.

My gut feeling is being responsible for your own well being (rent, food, job) is important for contextualizing other aspects of your life, like studying vs play.
States are mandating no ICE sales by 2035. That is why people are becoming anti-EV. No one would care about EV policy if it wasnt being forced on an insane schedule.
With Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (and Ethereum and Ethereum Classic), it's no different from a demerger from the perspective of a company shareholder. You own a greater number of shares because the company has split in two, but they are not the same shares. They are shares in different companies that have the same origin but will go in different directions. Same with those currencies. The current version of Ethereum works a bit differently, as explained elsewhere in this comment section.
Bread and circuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
> I would guess it's far lower than 1 out of every 30 for most people.

So? It doesn't have to apply to most people, it just has to apply to many, and judging from the number of trailers that are sold, and aftermarket towbars that are installed, many people actually do intend to use their car for towing.
Sure: Does Ethereum have some mechanism that allows it to be patched if issues in the current protocols are found?
Just more proof that bread and circus remains an effective strategy for politicians to win favor with the masses.
There is a beta test of a new all in one container option as of earlier this month:

https://bitwarden.com/blog/new-deployment-option-for-self-ho...
Keep in mind, this is me reporting back decades later on the results. But I acted very social at the time and as if I really believed in the value of drinking w friends, going to parties etc. I’m just telling you now that the data is in, it was a waste.

For example, I made connections, including to lawyers and one to a friend who was an MIT prof for a while; the problem is, they didn’t amount to anything practically useful (I’m not a lawyer or in that profs field). And a connection is defined by its practical utility.

As for the friendships, truthfully I could’ve substituted any one of those friendships for another one in my 20s or 30s and I don’t see it changing much. Or I could’ve basically been as strong friends w them post college, even w less face time in college.

In other words all this partying and close time w your buddies in college is, in my experience, vastly overrated. I could’ve skipped out on most of it and not been worse off.
Adding 250,000 lines of code to render fonts to an 1100 line functional gui library is bloat no matter how you slice it. If someone want that renderer, it's not that hard to wire it in.

And if you in particular want it, fork them and merge them.
This is the frequently-cited theory, but most realistic studies show that it doesn’t really work out that way. I think the reasonable justification is more that having a team is an intangible good for the city, like a museum or a library, where you can’t measure the value in dollars.
I don't think you understand the difference and fluidity of what a distribution is and how it differs from likelihood curves.

You've made some significant assumptions, one of those assumptions is that the brute force way is the most efficient way or put another way there is no optimal way to calculate collisions better than brute force.

That line of thinking is very flawed. Has shown to be flawed many times in the past several decades, and shouldn't even be up for debate given the evidence and deprecation of various cryptographic functions (as vulnerabilities become known publicly). We all know vulnerabilities were known before the deprecation because detection is a lagging process.

Also note, as far as the respondents of the project I've spoken with have said, they do not even check for existing collisions. So if a collision did occur, you wouldn't even know it without specialized knowledge.
They did make the image for this a surprised T-Rex with the asteroid raining down behind it, and it looks great, so I'm not even that mad...
That, or roll out fiber nationwide and just have everyone do their business inside Fortnite all day in their parents' basements.
I've been out of the mapping world for quite a few years now, but at one time I was a prolific mapper in OSM.

I wrote a post on my blog about my concerns for the project, and some ideas for improvement:

https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/

It was not met well. I was (and still sadly am) subject to personal attacks by certain members of the OpenStreetMap community.

I don't know much about Overture Map, but standardization of tags, and a more sophisticated data model would both be very welcome, and make a map built on this data easier to work with.

More to the point, it's never been the technical issues that have held OSM back. Instead, as my post tried to point out- the technical issues stemmed from issues with leadership.

The post here mentions issues with the OSMF. At the time I wrote my post- the OSMF was largely symbolic, and certain community members simply held the key to certain aspects of the project- everything from servers, to software used, and more.

It was a huge mess, and I'm cautiously optimistic in seeing something new come around.
Typically we do this by voting. Voting is one means of solving collective dis/approval decisions.
And the car batteries can supply peak demand instead of having a blackout.
The reason these things happen is that the politicians get bought by the team owners. I've seen it happen in more than one city I've lived in.

Massive political corruption. Totally legal too, because it's "campaign contributions". We've legalized bribery.
I once worked at small org with a dozen people, and one person was "support" role: she was finance, admin, facilities etc.. We did have cleaning services from our landlord and separate legal and tax, but they were nowhere close to full time.

In another place we had maybe 30-40 two person offices, and 3 of them were occupied by HR/finance/admin/facilities etc...

So 1/100 does not sound very realistic (maybe for all-remote orgs?), but 1/10 I can easily believe.
Sure, it could be. But I like sports, and a lot of my friends like football. The civic angle (private businesses getting free taxpayer money) weighs more heavily on all of us (I suspect) than any pro- or anti-football bias.

Besides, creationism is a pretty hot-button social issue. People feel strongly about football, but hopefully not that strongly.
Since they have everyone's password vaults, it is likely a matter of time before your vault is decrypted. You should change all of your last pass passwords.
The line you quoted from Pullman includes an absolute in it - 'never'. Thus it's completely valid to bring counter-examples against it when people then promote his line as 'good advice'. If he'd said something like "I generally prefer not to disparage things that I once loved, even if I now no longer do", then I doubt people would take any issue with that statement.
> SBF supposedly doesn't have any money to lose,

SBF, regardless of the truth of his claim that he only has $100k in a particular bank account, almost certainly has anywhere from some to quite a lot of wealth to lose [0] (whether any of it is likely to remain after fines, forfeitures, etc. in the current criminal case is another story.)

[0] e.g., there is currently a legal dispute between SBF, FTX, and others over who owns a $400+ million stake in Robinhood.
> I like watching men in leotards fly around a track on their bicycles, but I haven't asked my municipality to pay for my personal athletic boondoggle.

It is often the case that so-called "lesser" sports not only don't get public subsidies, they pay taxes that the bigger sports don't.

For example, I enjoy watching curling. Granite Curling Club in Seattle is one of only two curling-specific facilities on the west coast and while it is a non-profit organization, it still pays property taxes, something that the Seattle Seahawks[0] and Seattle Mariners[0] do not. While the relative amounts are small, to be sure, to take the Mariners for example they pay $1.5 million in rent to the county yet the public expense is much higher than that[1].

This isn't a slam on the concept of sports--I also am a lifelong baseball fan--just how they are paid for, on which I think we agree.

0 - https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/InLieu_Leaseh...

1 - https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/king-county-cou...
California is basically Georgia with 2.5 Atlantas. Of course it can afford to lose Republicans, there are Republicans being born in every corner of the state to replace them. It’s not safely anything, it’s a competitive battle for political control, remember Arnold? (Whispers: this is how it’s supposed to be)

Also, Do smart people really think the nation’s richest collection of businesses owners, VCs and executives are a bunch of lefties?
Yes, the UI does matter. The user needs to be in control. This is also part of AI ethics and safety.

I'm creating a UI for AI, initially art generation, expanding to other categories in the near future. It will be Open Core, so the majority of the source will be available, but I haven't pushed to GitHub just yet, still preparing everything. https://inventai.xyz.
Bizarre. I've been using dwm for years, on a variety of computers, all day every day, and it hasn’t crashed one time.
Don't you want to have to solve CAPTCHAs in your head every time you want to unlock the door to your house?
I bet if you had just left it plugged in, it would’ve started charging after the battery warmed up. You freaked out because in cold weather the battery won’t start charging right away, energy will be used to heat up the battery first.
Much of the interior US has colder winters than most of Europe barring the far north of Scandinavia and Russia.
We live in a country the size of Western Europe with climates ranging from tropical to frozen tundra most of which are full of cheap land and housing if you don’t mind living a bit out of the way… and you picked Texas?
Zooming in on my hometown the buildings that I expect to be commercial are tagged as commercial, but on Google maps the same buildings are pretty inconsistently coloured. Are there other commercial maps that do a good job at that?
> No one is talking about making ICE vehicles illegal.

Certainly in Europe. Not directly but via a back door:

Must not enter the city center in a diesel car

No new ICE cars after 2035
I think the parent would likely agree with me in this but forgive me if I am speaking for them. I wouldn't have nearly as large of an issue with stadium funding if they were put up to a vote and I was outvoted. I can tolerate being in the minority opinion but I have little tolerance for dictation.
Yes, there are a lot of microclimates here and I suppose in some mold could be likely.

To that point though, most of the neighborhoods I have lived in have had little to no fog. Russian Hill being the exception. I’m not sure how much of a difference that makes in indoor relative humidity or chance of mold.
Doesn’t seem this person provides any evidence to the contrary or even believable hearsay to the contrary.
A long time ago, in a land far far away, I drop a fire engine. Big monster, 37 tons, with a giant v16 Rolls Royce diesel moter.

It didn't like starting in the cold, and it didn't have battery enough to crank it for long. And failure-to-start was, um, not good.

The solution was a built-in electric heater and charger. Basically it was permanently plugged in so the battery was 100%,and the engine block was "not freezing cold" (I wouldn't go as far as "warm").

Had a push button start that fired up instantly, at the cost of an extra 3 seconds unplugging it it an emergency.

My point I guess is that you don't really have to heat the garage, you just need to warm the battery up a little.
I agree. Most people who do this are introverted/shy by nature
unhappy with it and this is their method of proving to themselves and the world that they're not. However it ends up being just as awkward and an equal waste of time because it lacks genuine emotion. Don't say anything and be content with it unless it's something you truly want to express. I.e. whatever is natural for you is probably natural for them.
Thanks for sharing, I like how it works, I think I will use it. First, let's document myself a little bit again.
What makes them a waste of capital? And would you extend this same sentiment to other “non-productive” pursuits like art or writing?
Now, who would pay for this? Car drivers? City dwellers?
I agree with this sentiment a lot. Many people could benefit from understanding that a whole world of hard facts exists outside of their feelings.