skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does being the reserve currency drive local wages higher?
Steinbeck was the first serious novelist I got into as a kid, even read his collected letters, so I have a soft spot for him. It really shook my perception of his "journalistic" approach when I learned that Travels with Charley was almost entirely made up. Makes me wonder how much literary license he used in other books like A Russian Journal.
Probably farming karma for posting a real doozie in a few weeks.
I don't see how that relates to the article?
Looks like it's undergoing maintenance: https://www.stackstatus.net/
after your comment, I looked at her main page more closely and found that she mentioned "it/she" in a superscript the middle of a paragraph, so that's what I corrected it to.

I do have to say that, while it's polite to use people's preferences, when just reading an article and posting a quick comment, it's pretty casual, and (almost always) no offense is meant, so none should be taken. Note that the bulk of the comments here are all over the map, and I'm sure no one means to be offensive.
That's an odd take but I'm getting old. Once you cross 30 its incredibly to spot when someone is an NPC laundering hate in the guise of reading minds. They're clearly young or angry, so you let it go.
It doesn't drive wages higher, but it improves buying power which is an indirect raise
There are scenarios where it is reasonable that a person makes a throwaway account to make this comment. Suppose the commenter is well known on this site and works for a business that primarily caters to right leaning people in the U.S. Such a person would not want this view to be attributable to them.
Oh god, I really hope we're not using Chat GPT as a source now.
If the value of USD is higher relative to an alternative currency, then you can earn USD in the US and visit a foreign country, convert USD to local currency, and achieve higher purchasing power relative to local wages there.

Or simply buy foreign produced goods cheaper (e.g. Chinese produced goods on Amazon). e.g. Exchange rate induced deflation
But the Chinese government is bad regardless of whether they played any role in starting the COVID-19 pandemic (we have no hard evidence on that). There should be no doubt among us that the Chinese Communist Party is an enemy to all of humanity.
it concerns millions of users directly and billions indirectly.

yes we can trust Mozilla and the other browser vendors to do the right thing. we already trust them very explicitly when using their software.

but the public by default approach is pretty good for these things. IETF, NANOG and other big org lists are also public. yes as all mailing lists there are occasional flareups. (and yes browser vendors or various CA/B forum members can still start a shadow list to conspire)

... but the business impact happened when they did the not-the-right thing, to minimize their impact they could have declared this an incident, suspend issuance, withdraw from the trusted set and apply again later. they again did the not-the-right thing by trying to bullshit their way to minimal impact.

it's not exactly virtuous, but quite understandable to throw a few rotten eggs. (and the list could be CA/B members & candidates only).
> Unlike a lot of tech companies, I still like Netflix. From "DVD in the post" to "We need to make/own our own shows" was a massive pivot that paid off for them, and launched dozens of wannabes. I genuinely can't think of another company that managed anything so large.

It's also been a massive pivot that, over time, has radically reduced availability of what they can show.

And far more massively, has destroyed the broad ability consumers & services once had to get hardcopy mediums they could own or share. Netflix very clearly, somewhat accidentally, begat the end of DVDs of everything.

It is a crowning achievement of destructive innovation. It served very convenient ends, but was a forefront in ruining ownership. Netflix used to acquire media like anyone else: by buying disks. Now the market is far more politically foibled & less clear, about how content is acquired & kept.

I'm in no way saying it's not a huge achievement. But the long term repercussions seem almost all bad for almost everyone, to me. Constant re-negotiation of rights to stream media is much more complicated than simply having disks. We can look at latter decisions like Aereo, where a company bent over backwards to try to appease media-consuming constraints, by giving each consumer literally their own over the air antenna + timeshifting in the cloud, and trace the path back to Netflix, who started the shift away from ownable media, to a new content-holder regime.

We are very early in. Still, the various networks each having their own media-production arm is very much a byproduct of what Netflix hath wrought, of the dark times Netflix created when they replaced good old fashioned fungible media. Literally the only way to have leverage, to be able to be a streaming service, is to literally make your own media too. Old Netflix ran by a playbook of the world that was much simpler, a modified Blockbuster+distribution model that was far less complected, that didn't constantly run off the rails, that could endure itself.
It attracts outside investment since being the reserve currency is at the very least the bedrock of stability
Uk is a densely populated country, and 95% of land is just empty - field, forest, whatever. Only 5% of land is built on.
" the enormous economic gap between the capitalist system of the United States and the centrally planned economy of the Soviet Union was clear."

This isn't entirely fair and is actually pretty flippant and tone-deaf given the situation of the time after the war.

In 1948 the US had been industrialized for much longer than the USSR. It was a destination for immigration, and had a vibrant young population. The two world wars it participated in were fought on foreign soil, far away from the homeland. After (and even during) WWII it benefited from a massive influx of European scientists and intellectuals. Industrial capacity from the war was redirected back to consumer goods.

The Soviet Union on the other hand bore the brunt of losses in WWII. It suffered massive deaths in the war, especially among its young men of working age. It was invaded by NAZI Germany, and some of its largest cities occupied or put under siege. Its agricultural and industrial lands were ravaged by war, its people by wartime famine.

While the Soviet planning system was a failure, and Stalin an evil tyrant -- in 1948 a working class person in the USSR not being able to afford a car had very little to do with the different economic models, but with the completely different situation of the two countries.

(Even if the movie/book was set in the 30s, the context it was being look at was post-war USSR. And even in the context of the 30s, the USSR had only just come out of civil war, revolution, and WWI)
The median income in tech (most people reading this site) is at least 4x that median, which is even more impactful.
Yeah, my comment there more or less sums up the thought I've put in so far. AWK doesn't really have nested data structures, but a lot of JSON / JSON lines is fairly flat, so it may work. It shouldn't be too hard ... though as I've noted there, there are a few tricky design issues to work though. Hope to come back to this at some point!
They couldn’t say that because saying it explicitly would hurt their core business
Snowden was a compromised asset of Russia, working for them. Most of what he released had nothing to do with his stated purpose. People have all kinds of reasons for doing that sort of thing. Sometimes they really believe in the other country, sometimes it's entirely selfish. We won't know even if he says something on the topic, since we can never know his mind, and he'd demonstrated that he's dishonest.
Yeah but are they happier? None of that shit means anything if you are in debt stressed working 2 jobs and can’t even get childcare or healthcare for you kid
Singular they predates singular you in the English language by about three hundred years.
Then why are countries who aren't the reserve currency also have a more valuable currency? In some cases more valuable than the USD?
Groceries are about as expensive, if not more, than new Zealand. Chicken breast is about NZD$16-17/kg, so minimum wage workers in the US need to work about an hour and a half to afford it. This is compared to minimum wage workers in NZ who only need to work about 45 minutes to afford the same.

This is not taking into account things like healthcare, crime and similar.
gives LGBTQ individuals a bad name

You are way out of line here, you don't get to decide how other people present themselves online and tying their persona to their gender or sexual identity is an outright stereotype/slur.
This is an interesting approach, and there's always a possibility to reopen those APIs.
Pretty sure Fast Hack'em could do this.
Ostensibly the tip is about service. Realistically the tip is about "doing your part" to give service workers a reasonable wage. Is it a terrible system? Sure. But let's not pretend.
On iOS at least, I find Siskin to be more elegant.
I've used WinDirStat but not Wiztree before -- Wiztree is so much faster!
... nah, it has error catching, it just won't process beyond that much.
because endless years are going into a fundamentally subpar system (GTK written in C and JS, because gnome devs were not edgy enough with just C, and they are obviously too cool for TS)
Im not even sure what value the Chat GPT response provides in this story.

So they watched the movie (not reading the book) and changed political parties. Why? No real reason was given. Then they plop a Chat GPT response in there and that's it. So what is it? They are just living their life as Chat GPT directs them? ChatGPT is a month or so old, so did this all happen a month ago?
I thought the entirety of postmodernism revolves around making infallible constructs to build argumwnts on top of.
I don't think they're subsidizing the cost. Gabe never said explicitly they were selling at a loss, and even if they were in the beginning, given their sales they probably aren't anymore.

The cost of the specs itself is likely to be very minor. I'd be surprised if they're paying more than 120$ for the APU. I imagine a lot of the cost came from it being so different from anything else.
In my early saas products, I just used two radio options either labeled on/off or yes/no. I know that’s “wrong”, but it’s super clear
It'd be nice to have universal undo/redo though, which it seems like this might enable.
Tell it to my English teachers from grades 3-12
After giving my email, get this in return:

Subscribe for $1 per day. Cancel any time.

NO, thanks NO
Whether the currency is <1 or >1 relative to the USD is not that important... it's largely a function of the money supply. 1 Euro is worth more than 1 USD, but goods in Europe may still cost more in USD terms than equivalent goods in the US. Or salaries could be lower (which is true as of today)
The 1 button instantly starting the microwave for 1 minute annoys me often. I want to set the timer for 15 seconds so I can walk away. For 1 minute, double-tapping the 30s button is sufficient.

The real annoyance, though, is that pressing cancel/off does absolutely nothing if the microwave is being used as a timer (without the microwave itself running). When the timer beeps, my first thought is to press cancel/off. Then press it again a few times, because it's still beeping. Then I remember that there's a dedicated button (somewhere in the middle of the panel, labeled with small text) to cancel the timer.
Re the "oh shit it's hacker news" edit: TIL dang is a white supremacist.
For the time period I'm interested in, change that to: inquiring to every person still living.
Yup, I read an account of a man who survived for a couple of years in the hellscape of Sarajevo during the war. He had a lot of detail, but the big points were that you needed a group. "A lone wolf is a dead wolf", he said. The key to survival was your group, being able to pool resources, watch each other's back, go out in groups, negotiate, etc.

(Sorry I've not got a link right now.)
It's not necessarily just ability, but also availability of jobs. Lots of places need people to help tweak the kernel they run on, so lots of Linux kernel jobs and some BSD kernel jobs, but no jobs to tweak the Rust kernel that doesn't exist yet. Gotta have some real commitment to pay people to build a new kernel from scratch, knowing that it's gonna take a long time to get anything useful.
So they are using the jabber.org client to connect, and know that's who controls the underlying protocol?

Or did they just install a random client?
This is true but I think there's a key difference which is worth considering if you're in this situation: app stores are in the business of selling apps. This means there's a risk of being Sherlock-ed but in general they're not going to decide that they suddenly want to stop existing. They want you to sell lots of copies since they get a cut of every sale: if you're successful, they make a ton of money for a modest level of expense.

Something like a Twitter client is not only not part of their core business of selling ads but diametrically opposed to it so you have a much higher risk of unexpectedly being out of business because their success is not directly linked to yours. Arguments about innovation, bringing in super users, etc. are good but they're more tenuous and exactly the kind of thing some executive will dismiss when compared to the money they can make right now with more ad sales.
Arguably both random projects and make-work employees. In the past 6 years the number of employees has increased by 150% from 280 to 700, revenue (donations) increased from ~80M to ~160M, while the number of monthly visitors has increased only ~10%.

Regardless, it is extremely hard to see how they could be providing additional value for their rapidly growing expenditures.
I mean, a link is what it displays and contains. The two documents referred to by these urls refer to each other. It's not a convoluted case to make.
I sympathize with questioning but this is pretty harsh. The explanation is fairly simple. “It” is how we refer to most inanimate objects and “subhuman” creatures in the English language. Debates on how appropriate it is to be addressed in this way or desire to be addressed in this way aside, it’s certainly not random or a stretch to imagine why some might be uneasy with the idea if they feel it somehow associates the person with the aforementioned categories.
Twitterrific makes money; it has a whole team of developers whose salaries are paid by them existing in the App Store and taking money via subscriptions. Adversarial interoperatability would result in Twitter sending the team a cease and desist, and given that their product isn't particularly decentralized or hard to enforce legal action against, they would probably lose the lawsuit or fold early. I think you need to understand that the number of people who want to be in this kind of relationship with an entity far larger than them is pretty small, and clients of this sort are invariably some sort of open source script or small project by a single developer without much to lose. A Twitterriffic where you could lose your access to you account and its many thousands of followers is not actually something people will use.
First result from Walmart (US) for chicken breast - about 10 NZD/Kg. [0]

First result from Countdown (NZ) - 15 NZD/Kg [1]

[0] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Freshness-Guaranteed-Boneless-Chi...

[1] https://www.countdown.co.nz/shop/productdetails?stockcode=73...
Artificial stone often has lots of stone dust and similar in it.
Think of all those millions walking thousands of miles just for a chance to get into the US.
They invested ~1.3B for an 18% stake in the company. At todays market cap that’s 2.6B for a profit of 1.3B from initial investment, or a 100% gain on their investment
The graphs are about long term returns. And how are those returns calculated? Because if they used arthritic mean, it’s overstating the actual annualized return.
I just took a quick look at the site for the grocery store near me in big-city-California-USA: I can get 3-and-a-bit pounds of non-frozen chicken breast for $9.50 right now (2.99/lb). Often frozen is a bit cheaper. Looks like this is equivalent to 4.66nzd/0.45kg or $10.35NZD/kg, so if that "NZD$16-17/kg" is a NZ price, it's over 50% higher than that.

CA minimum wage is $15.50/hr, so that would get me almost 2.36kg of chicken breast an hour.

NZ minimum wage appears to be 21.2NZD/hr, which would get me 2kg of chicken at US prices; and just 1.3ish at that 16-17 price point.

EDIT: Of course, not all of the US has CA's minimum wage. But the wealthy parts of the US are certainly quite wealthy globally, with still-low-globally prices for many things.
another person who read the letters!

I'm shocked at how high quality the correspondence was, makes friendships of today feel kinda cheap
That's not exactly accurate, Stalin's famine and economic contraction happened in the 30s. Turns out that shooting people is not the long run solution that induces businesses to sell below their cost.
Datasets.

The one with the largest, most personal, most obtrusive, invasive dataset will probably win.

The one that has absorbed every podcast, every youtube video, every close-caption text in existence, will have the most "complete" answers.
Did you know you is actually the plural and the singular is thou?

My problem with any of this switching around is that since it's used by a very small minority in a very forced way, until it becomes mainstream in the way 'you' has become mainstream, it's confusing af.

I've had multiple instances when a they was mentioned in a decision and I had to ask, " wait I thought we only had one designer on this ticket who else got added... Oh you're using singular they.. got it"
What if someone wants something else?

If they demand dixyzx?

What if they demand custom declensions on verbs that involve them?
While I don't disagree with your general point, central heating/cooling is more about climate than wealth. New Zealand is pretty temperate.

Also, don't people walk around barefoot because they prefer to and it is accepted?
gogetssl.com issues free 90 day Sectigo (formerly Comodo) certificates and they have an ordering API. Caveats: 1) I don't know if those certificates will work in old VLC clients or whatever. 2) After you order the certificate you get an email from the CA with a link that you have to click saying that you approve issuance. I don't know what happens if you try to automate that.

For me the main hassle of LetsEncrypt is the 90 day rotation and there have been situations where I'd rather just pay for a longer lasting certificate. Gogetssl (above) sells 5 year DV Sectigo certificates for $16, it looks like.

Ignore the prices shown on the not-logged-in part of the site: sign up for their "reseller" program (you get approved right away automatically) and you can see their real price list while you are logged in.
A long time Windows user who switched to Linux (PopOS) last year[1]. I have had an occasional issue with the boot env, where i had to reinstall it. Other than that and printer drive env not always maintaining settings its been a pretty good experience for me. After Windows 11 came out, I decided enough is enough, its funny now watching Microsoft dig it's own grave.

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
> explicitly removes all identity connotations randomly dehumanization

It's not randomly dehumanization, the neuter gender that the pronoun system preserves has always communicated inanimacy (read: nonhuman-ness) against the masc/fem animate genders. Etymologically, this distinction has been more primitive than the masc/fem distinction. One feature of the neuter gender is the use of the object form in languages that distinguish it from the subject form, hence he/him, she/her, but it/it.
It does. I'm a happy Blendle customer.

https://blendle.com/
Multi-kilometer and sub-terahertz communications at extreme frequency bands
As a software engineer even I sometimes can't help romanticising hacking in my imagination. But so many times it turns out to be just like some company left the front gate wide open and the "hacker" walked in and took a look around.

Eg when an airline had a public API where you could get someone's passport number and details just from their boarding pass https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minis...
Hmm boneless, skinless chicken breast is US$9/kg at Costco San Francisco. At SF’s minimum wage, that’s 31 minutes
I was too. Of all the books I read in high school, none affected me anywhere close to Grapes of Wrath. The book is very mature, and I think it is often given to students too early in life before they can truly appreciate it. But this book should be required reading for Seniors in high school before they go out into the real world.

John Steinbeck also wrote "East of Eden" which I would say was even more impactful of my life, but I didn't read it until my mid-twenties. That book really explores good and evil. It is slightly critical of religion (specifically Christianity), which is why it isn't read in school. But the principles and themes of the book dig really deep into human morals and how we choose our personal values. I really love it.

Lastly, Travels with Charley is a fun view of Americana. It was written much later in Steinbeck's life and is a much easier and lighter read. But its very fun and I recommend it to everyone. It is a personal story of Steinbeck traveling across America in his old age with his dog named Charley. Its fun.
> had very little to do with the different economic models, but with the completely different situation of the two countries.

but both germany and japan had great recovery, despite also having lost a lot in the war due to bombings and population deaths.

The difference is the economic system - USSR always felt that they're under threat from western powers, and devoted a lot of work in heavy production (which translates to military production), and very little civilian production. And even technological growth was kept militarily separate - e.g., they actually had computing but did not "give" that tech up for civilian use, after expending the R&D on it.

Mean while, the US's defence spending on R&D does spill over into civilian use (often due to profit seeking motives, but still this produces good results). Like the internet, GPS, etc. The thing is that centrally planned economies means those that aren't "central" to the planner's mind will be forgotten. But everyone in the country is important in reality - so those who get forgotten will decline.
I had always assumed that the “no fly” list was a phrase and that it didn’t refer to an actual list, but rather a database with more detailed information than a “can they fly?” Column with a Y/N entry. In pharmacy we have a database we have to access when we suspect there is abuse, fraud, or diversion of controlled substances. The database is regularly updated with current information about prescriptions that were dispensed including location, prescribing physician, etc. I had always assumed the “no fly” list would be something similar. Now that I think about it though, that wouldn’t be efficient or useful at all. It would make sense for it to be much more simple.
That said, the dismantling of streetcars that pornel mentions occurred worldwide, with very few exceptions.

(pornel is mistaken in what he implies, however, by citing Wikipedia. Had he actually read the cited the article as opposed to just relying on the title and half-remembered bits of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the article explains in detail why there was no actual conspiracy. Even if the conspiracy were real, it would only have applied to the US when, as I said, the dismantling occurred outside the US as well.)
Can confirm. I slipped up for a few seconds once while torrenting. My cease-and-desist letter from Sony was personally delivered to my door by the Hausmeister.