skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Housing is an asset not inflation.

Inflation causes asset prices to rise.

> If inflation was running hot persistently at like 6% then long term interest rates would be higher

This is not true.

> housing prices would fall in nominal terms compared to wages

I suggest you reconsider your assertion that 6% inflation would result in lower housing prices.

> The low-inflation, low-interest rate environment has produced high asset valuations due to the cheapness of borrowing money.

The high asset valuations as a result of low interest rates is textbook monetary inflation.

> There is an important distinction on the spectrum between consumable things bought with wages and investments bought with borrowed money, and the rise in prices in those categories are different.

The prices in both those categories are affected by dilution of value as a consequence of monetary expansion and that increase in prices has a name, 'inflation'.

> If you want to play the semantic game that all rises in any prices are inflation there is a real distinction that you're missing -- in which case we should talk about asset inflation vs. price inflation vs. wage inflation as being different inflations and stop talking about it like its the same thing (which economists would tell you it isn't by arguing that you're talking about assets and not inflation, but now we've just gone in a circle talking past each other because of definitions).

The point of semantics is to enable us to communicate by having mutually understood meanings for the words we use. If you want to talk about price increases that are not a result of monetary factors, then you can just talk about the price of things going up without misappropriating the word 'inflation' and making it seem like you don't understand what the word even means.
Perhaps the rest of it isn't a tree and is some other optimized data structure? Like some sort of spatial hash or sort
> for BeOS and Linux

And also for OS X, Windows, and BSD.
Have you read the other books in the Culture series? If so, is the island a particular low point violence-wise, or is that the norm for most of them?
I thought the equatorial areas were some of the least affected by climate change (at least in terms of temperature)? If it were the primary driver of migration from central America you'd expect to see it in other parts of the world at similar latitudes surely, e.g. Indonesia or equatorial Africa (*). I certainly agree climate change and rising sea levels will be responsible for mass migration (as it has been many times in human history), but it's not clear it's such a key factor currently.
Interestingly I just read that Singapore is one near-equatorial location where temperatures have risen more than expected (and more than the global average), seemingly largely due the UHI effect. Needless to say, Singapore is not a common source of refugees.

* South sudan is definitely a case where severe weather events including flooding has driven up emigration, but most of the refugees have ended up in Uganda which is on the equator!
I think it’s right. The mirror takes f(x,y,z,t) and maps it to f(x,y,z-t), thus reversing it in the time dimension but not space. It doesn’t make it go backwards through time, it just reverses lights behavior with respect to time.
It’s safe to talk about EQ in addition to IQ regarding some jobs then. It’s more and more going to be about EQ jobs where AI feels lacking now, emphasis on the now.
Nothing is stopping you from using namespaces, and containers are just namespaces with cgroups etc

But containers aren't jails, pid and uid remapping is just remapping.

A huge problem container has to drop capabilities on the honor system. In the default docker mode, running as root, anyone who can launch a container can read from any block device if they don't drop the mknod capability as an example.

Actually a privileged container can update the bios or even load arbitrary kernel modules in the host context or change kernel parameters as it is a shared kernel.

I tried to get the docker folks to add a conf option disallow privileged container but they refused.

You can run in user mode now but most people want persistence and other features that don't allow for that.

The important point is if you assume containers are a security feature you are going to have a bad time. Jails were bad enough and containers are just one step up from chroots as far as security go.

namespace isolation is the main benefit of containers.

Selinux and apparmor are far more appropriate than containers for the security concerns. While I don't personally like selinux, apparmor profiles are pretty easy to write.
Plus on AMD's side we have their inability to commit to fully supporting any specific system long term, limiting open source interest in doing things for them.
Everything at "Rooms to Go" is built this way now. Didn't used to be, so we returned as customers.

The front cross-beam on a $1000+ couch of ours split in half within a few months.
The younger generations are absolutely not set on buying all-new stuff. Go in a thrift store and nearly everyone shopping there is younger than 35. Craigslist is much more popular among younger people.

The reason younger people end up buying shitty, disposable furniture is because they can't afford houses.
There's two aspects of the apple advantage for me.

The first is apple hardware is reliably nice. It's just done right, with minimal corners cut. Full aluminum body (not plastic), great screen (bright, high resolution, great color (accuracy and range), great keyboard, great touchpad, amazing CPU (fast and low power), very nice GPU (better than any other integrated GPU and much lower power than any faster discrete GPU), with a great memory system (100, 200, or 400GB/sec).

Sure the best laptops some close on some metrics, but generally have lousy iGPUs or lousy battery life. Laptop memory systems typically max out at 75GB/sec, which drives the need for discrete GPUs, which drives the need for larger batteries. Sadly FCC limits max batter size, so you end up with terrible battery life and performance if you aren't plugged in. Or they have are great, except for a poor screen. Or have a nice screen and a lousy keyboard or track pad.

I also find it interesting that if you try to buy a 3 or 5 year old laptop, but far the most expensive are apple laptops. Almost as if they are built better.

My second issue is I find OSX to be MUCH less intuitive. The lack of a real package manage for the OS is painful. Having to add my own, like brew is ugly. Then the UI inconsistencies drive me nuts. Even things like cut/paste (control-c/v) are annoying. Doubly so when using iterm2 where you don't need the control-c. Or if running xquartz I'd need a state diagram to map all the copy/paste rules.

Linux seems much more sane, granted I'm more familiar with it. I'm on a website and want to drag an image in, I just drag the image from any image viewer or file browser and it works. I can drop files into signal by dragging. Or documents into thunderbird as attachments. OSX seems much more finicky about dragging objects between applications, and I end up in the finder, which I find particularly counter intuitive. Oh, sure I could try to remember that bang, splat, apple A goes straight to apps. Seems that browsing from ~ should be WAY easier, or even better just have better drag/drop supports.

Linux just makes more sense to me. 99% of my installs are apt install <appname>, not playing the do I search for the web for a DMG, or try to find it in brew, crap that was a different user, or maybe I need a 3rd app store? Oh that works in a brew cask, but not a brew app, etc. etc. etc.

I also find apple's handling of multiple monitors quite annoying. I don't have anything fancy, just N desktop of 2 monitors each, with a quick keyboard combo to switch (control-alt right or control alt-left). I ask apple folks about their setup and they seem to always mention some weird paid app that worked with the N-1 version of the Apple OS, but the devel got bored and stopped updating.

If you just need Signal, Teams, chrome, Firefox, terminal, and like a nice coherent package manager, drag and drop (not select, control-c, select, control v) of strings, images, documents I'd recommend Linux. I find OSX frustrating to use.
Michael J. Hopkins: The great wild manifold rodeo: Dennis Sullivan in algebraic topology (Abel Exposition Lecture)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyBjMY2sDdE
For 20 years that AOT compilers for Java exist, even if only available in commercial JDKs at enterprise prices (PTC, Aonix, Aicas, Excelsior, J/Rockit, Websphere RT).

That alternative would be jlink, and GraalVM / OpenJ9 as free beer AOT.
In the case of Apple, Cupertino is a pretty boring weather locale. Sometimes you need to zipper your coat and once in awhile it rains.

Which also explains why iPhone headphone wires get brittle in moderately cold weather, and iPhones go into thermal shutdown mode at temperatures that are common in places like Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the non-Bay Area parts of California.
Great. Another thing I wont be allowed to take on a plane now.
From a high level I think this is roughly true especially in 2013. But I do feel that as more and more founders become VCs, this number has shifted much lower now.

A lot of VCs nowadays know when to shut up.
Hindenburg Research: “New report soon–another big one.”
I imagine most people don’t have the time, space, or skill to do this.
Can other programs run Ableton plugins?
Then don’t look at past temps.

The daily low is the lowest temp of the day. It could very well be in the future. But it’s certainly not in the next day, and it’s not from a specific hour. If you want to see tomorrow mornings temps look at tomorrow’s hourly temps.

Do you expect the daily high to work the same? So maybe at 4pm it’s down from the daily high and now it shows today’s high is actually some temp around 3pm tomorrow?

I get what you’re saying but in no way is that a daily high. More like a next 24 hour high but even then, do you want that? That means if it’s 80F at 3pm today and 90F at 3pm tomorrow and it’s 3pm, then the high will be 90.

It’s much easier to just accurately categorize these by day/hour and let the user find what they care about instead of warping definitions to anticipate certain use cases.
Your comment was extremely offensive.

If you think you're offended, imagine how the children and their families felt.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012100926/graves-found-at-ne...

A Canadian Indigenous group said Wednesday a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former Catholic Church-run residential school that housed Indigenous children taken from their families.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/06/24/...

Over 600 bodies found at another Catholic school for Indigenous children in Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-...

A mass grave containing the remains of babies and children has been discovered at a former Catholic care home in Ireland where it has been alleged up to 800 died, government-appointed investigators said on Friday.
What mistake would that be Bill? Would it be the mistake of making a fat, not physically fit, college drop out, a prominent "expert" when comes to health and medicine?
Like many things, this seems to reflect a difference in philosophy. Personal story:

I grew up poor, living on the cheapest possible option for everything, and no option at all for many things. Then I wasn't poor anymore. So I would spend time researching the absolute best toaster oven, say, reasoning that paying more would mean not having to worry about a toaster oven again in my life.

Later still, I got married to someone who grew up in Hong Kong, a city famously filled with tiny living spaces and street markets filled with goods from right across the border in China. Her philosophy, shaped by her upbringing, is that things are generally disposable. She will happily buy a $20 toaster oven from Walmart[0], and do so again whenever she decides it needs to be replaced. At $20 every three years, it would take several decades before she spent more than I did, and in the meantime maybe she has decided she wants different colors, or uses a toaster oven much less and doesn't even need one anymore.

While I look and see waste and a deleterious effect on the environment, she see flexibility and cost savings.

Back to the furniture: part of me wants to see if Ethan Allen is still making high-quality long-lasting furniture here in the USA, and buying a new couch there whatever it costs. Another part is on board with my wife's approach, which is pick the style of couch she wants, buy it cheaply, and just know it's going to need to be replaced in five years, but that's okay, because she'll want a different style then.

0. Literally, $19.96! https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-4-Slice-Toaster-Oven-Bl...
Acheong08 / Bard: Public Reverse Engineering of Google's Bard Chatbot
I experienced one of those strict Vipassana retreat for 10 days where most of the distraction you take for granted in today's life are forbidden: no reading, no talking, no phone, no internet, no physical contact in the premises and no contact from people outside. It's the closest it can be to a life's monk.
Your day is clearly structured, essentially waking up at 4am, meditating, doing some simple tasks, meditating, eating, meditating, eating, meditating, sleeping. If you play the game (which I did), you literally spend 10h/day meditating.
In a sense "boredom" just becomes an experience by itself which paradoxically isn't boring anymore.

As it's been noticed here, surely monks were not distracted by the same technology and at the same scale we are distracted to in today's world. When I came back to the "real world" from this experience, I could realise how much one life's was just constantly distracted.
But at some point, playing the same videogame with the same meta starts to feel boring, right?

I know the obvious answer is "well, chess hasn't changed (much) and people play it for their entire lives". And yes, I would eventually find chess boring too!
Honestly, the same could have been said about K8s when it was started too.

There’s nothing wrong with multiple projects in a space. It’s a big market with different niches.
We should have a "meat module" on the ISS so they can grow fresh protein.
If I was in a far flung part of the world I wouldn’t be perusing content rich bandwidth intensive websites.

I’d be smoking a cig sitting on a worn mattress in the highest floor of an abandoned apartment building typing on a late 90s ThinkPad, negotiating prices on stolen credit card lists through encrypted IRC channels and moving illicit files on SSH servers based in foreign countries.
Libertarian attacks on progressives remind me of GPT hallucinations, you can kind of see why they want to make these criticisms, and the words and emotions sort of fit, but there's just nothing there.

> The entire push for green energy is now in danger of failing, because progressives focused entirely on writing the checks and not on creating the institutional capacity necessary for translating those checks into physical goods.

Yes, definately the key thing to bring up in relation to the America government's weird off-on relationship with climate reality. Too much government support for renewables. That's the problem. And now it's all going to fail, and it's those pesky progressives fault.
[0]Doesn't say anything about nuns in particular so the poster may have been over extrapolating and conflating nuns with the actions of the Catholic church but mass and unmarked graves did happen under at least the auspices of the church

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243
I've built up a large personal library of hand made Anki flashcard decks over the years. This looks like just what I need to train a model on those decks.
More generally, searching for solid wood furniture should turn up some high quality local options in most places. Here in Austin, that includes Amish Furniture, Furniture in the Raw, and a couple other places that I'm less familiar with.
ooooh. yeah he wrote the book on Test Driven Development.

I had the same question initially, I thought tidy first was one of those home keeping books.
I discovered this effect in mirrors in bright hotel bathrooms. They
somehow distort time by inacurately making me look older. They need to
fix that.
Also referred to as a "corner cube":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
A website that hosts job listings might not have as high of a barrier to entry as an oil company or telecommunications network. Nor does Indeed have any sort of monopoly on job listings.
I've seen pendants with an EGA, spearheads, and whatnot but not insignia. I kind of diluted this thread by talking about rank instead of insignia at first. Very different things.
Thank you for that insight. I wish to mention that I live in the North and have been told by the "power" that I have to reduce my carbon footprint by 50% -- actually more like 75% to accommodate immigration (between now and 2100). If I am no longer allowed to burn stuff for heat, I will have to come south. I will be a climate migrant. I assume that Florida is willing to accept me? Perhaps somewhere in South America? Or Mexico?

The weather here just wants to kill people a lot of the time...
I’m really excited about this. It reminds me of OLE on Windows, where you could embed “objects” from one application into documents from another, except now it is cross platform and looks less clunky.
The AsyncIterator Interface
Valorant is far more sanitized in this regard and very “candy”-ish in its gameplay. I suspect the skins, female characters, and this candy-ness are why so many women I know play it. Personally, I think it’s super cute!
I both love this level of optimization (for the novelty) and hate it (knowing all the work involved is being done with JS, on my machine, costing more CPU time than the bandwidth saved)
VS Code is an electron app so much harder
So I'm going to ask a dump question, how much explosive power can actually be packed in a USB stick? Is it enough to kill someone, or is it about the shrapnel, or is it just some burns on the person who plugged it in?
Meanwhile, it's the knuckle-dragging cro mags who are having all the babies. I wonder how this ends.
Java never needed Docker, in fact the Docker / Kubernetes is now re-inventing Java Application Servers with WASM containers.
Doubly interesting knowing that both their engines are descendants of Source.
My 2012 Accent had this issue with a 2.0 engine. Started burning oil around 90K miles and was getting worse by the day. To their credit, Hyundai replaced the full engine at no cost right at 100K miles thanks to the warranty - I have had the car for 10 years without incident, so it's pretty cool to get a brand new engine. I'd buy another Hyundai just because their warranty is so kick-ass
I think apple made a choice a while back to yield software engineering workflows outside Swift to Microsoft.

I had expected Apple to produce its own version of GitHub, but the space is apparently too messy.

The earliest value of open AI is similarly messy. Lots of press about how to jailbreak or trick the thing. Bad answers or questions about legality of what the models produce.

None of that comes anywhere near where apple can use its strengths. It just opens new surfaces that require expertise the company doesn’t have.
I'm struggling to understand this.

First you seem to say it's unrealistic for consumers to be expected to charge back their credit card if they're defrauded and a better system needs to be found. Ok, I'm listening. I agree it sucks to have to deal with this stuff on your own. I don't really understand who else is going to do that, and what realistic measures could be taken to stop this kind of bad behavior without grinding all commerce to a halt. I'm definitely open to ideas though.

Second you say your solution to the problem is to make your own furniture? As if people for whom filing a credit card chargeback would be a burden have the time or skill to build all their own furniture from scratch?
I have ordered furniture from a catalog that took months to arrive, due to importing delays. They would have gladly given me my money back at any point. I just wouldn’t have decent furniture at a decent price I wanted.
> Humans are short-sighted, although not as much as compared to the other animals, but imagine how much further we might look if we couldn't just count on dying out of investigations.

I seriously doubt this is the case. Maybe a few septuagenarians have YOLO'd something because they expect to die soon, but few young people are considering their mortality when assessing the consequences of their actions.
VMS was released for x86, so if you miss it you can give it a spin.

https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2022-07-14-openvms-v92-fo...
Discord is yet another walled garden to be fair.
It might be good replacement for some little, private communities.

But also large communities are moving into Discord instead of using some public, index-able and findable platforms.
They used to be public in the past and people very able to read information about them without going process for creating account, acceptance or even finding whole community.

Discord is terrible for storing long term information in text form. People try to keep some pinned posts but no.. information disappears, when in comparison for forums it was there.

And let's not start with privacy.
I tend to use probability more for decision making - usually trying to determine whether I need to bring an umbrella or rain gear with me on a given day. If the probability is low I can usually just look out the window and time my trips outside when it’s not raining and probably get by without rain gear. Whereas a high probability means I’m probably going to need to go out in the rain at some point, and need to pack appropriately.

I also do a lot of cycling, and total duration spent in the rain tends to matter more to me than the amount of rainfall. I don’t mind riding through a quick downpour or two on a ride if I can dry out in between, but spending several hours in constant rain can be miserable (and hypothermia becomes a concern) - even if it’s light rain.

Of course expected amount definitely has uses, too. For example if there is rain forecast for tonight, and I’m trying to determine the probability that a field will be usable for practice in the morning.

Anyway I would say that both probability and expected amount are important, and any competent weather app should offer both. The Apple Weather app only shows hourly forecasts for expected amount, and that alone would be enough to be a dealbreaker for me.
First of all, I love the idea and I think it's very creative.

As for my impression, but I don't think the blurry images is impressive enough to load an additional 32 kB per image. I think the UX will be approximately the same with a 1x1 pixel image that's just the average color used in the picture, but I can't test that out.
> Calls for extreme curtailment of fossil fuel usage for example would lower quality of life beyond what global warming will do.

Depends on whose quality of life you mean. A lot of people (who were never using a lot of fossil fuels to begin with) will be deprived of water, food and shelter.

There is a lot of uncertainty concerning tipping points, etc. It seems conceivable to me that in a hunderd years we'll wish we had banned fossil fuels completely this very decade, even starting from now, despite the dramatic effects this would have on economies worldwide. As things are looking now, global civilization collapse as a result of climate change, leading to starvation, migration and war for resources, seems to me a very realistic scenario. You have to discount the future an insane amount to argue today's profits are worth even a small chance of this.
See also: Alan Kays comment on software engineering pop culture.