skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With lack of fundamentals in economics this is very counterintuitive. Japan is a good example of the negative consequences of zero or negative inflation.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/After-20-years-Japan-still-s...
> forced technology transfers are bad or they’re not

Why? Most things aren't binary.
For what it’s worth, housing costs are an issue now, for those of us currently adults, not an issue for the next generation yet.

My hope (which is not guaranteed) is that in the next 20 years or so we start to solve our housing woes.

While it might not seem like we’re making a ton of progress (especially on zoning and such), a lot can change in 2 decades. Additionally we can expect the largest generation will start passing away and birth rates likely continue to drop so subsequent generations will demand less and less housing.
Until due to increased demand that cheap food also becomes more expensive.

It will happen.
I'm just 35 :)

Most people retiring today were born before 1960, and you can draw SS as early as 62. The math still works out anyway. A 67 year old living to 87 isn't as uncommon as it used to be.
Libraries, not a library.
I’m getting increasingly confused with these modern, flat UIs on touch screens with near zero levels of juice. Most recently, I’ve noticed the HBO Max app gives no indication that the play button has been pressed. When using a Chromecast, the wait to see if the button press registered is interminable (okay, ~10 seconds). It’s enough to make me pine for the consistent, discoverable, butt-ugly UIs of Windows 95.
Does this law apply for students of all ages? Surely "sexually explicit" materials are a requirement for sexual education right? What am I missing?
It’s funny but probably fake as in most jurisdictions the religion has to be commonly recognized for employers to have to accommodate religious beliefs.
The money supply gets brought up in every single discussion around inflation on this forum, and it’s obviously relevant.

However inflation!= growth in the money supply. A lot of the reasoning behind that growth was because inflation was persistently below the 2% target for the entire period up until 2021. That’s two decades of stubbornly low inflation, despite the feds best efforts in juicing the money supply.

It’s maddening how common it is for this forum to treat the issue as so simplistic and formulaic as though policymakers are somehow dunces compared to software engineers.
It is so incredibly rare for public-facing service keys to be stored on an HSM that I don't think anyone could reasonably have expected this to be the case?
$4 million across an entire state worth of libraries
Are they down YoY or compared to pre-Covid? The linked article doesn't seem to have that information concretely, but does include "The average British home now costs about nine times average earnings: one estimate I recently read reckoned that the last time UK houses were this expensive was in 1876." which suggests they're still higher by that measure than three years ago. So: correction of a super crazy time, but still a "win" for asset values for the owners over the last 4 years, or "overall trending down"?
The vibe I got was that Wolfram wasn’t capable of answering the question directly, so it got the answer indirectly by using a different calculation.
What do you propose nginx does? Should they embed rust, go, c, visual basic, turbo pascal, nim, and 37 other scripting runtime? Should they pick 3 to support?

How many of these have embedded scripting systems? How different will they be? How many offer lightweight nano-processes? How many are secure sandboxes? How many support arm, RISC-V, or the next architecture?

Having a common platform here makes so much sense to me. Enabling a variety of things, safely, quickly, & with well defined patterns, seems intuitively advantageous, frees us from having to tangle with a variety of minor subdivisions that fix software onto narrower paths.
No of course not. Except there's not much push for that - so I don't feel the need to say anything against it.

On the other hand: there is a push to legalize and promote prostitution, decriminalize hard drugs, normalize sexual content towards minors, and so on all under the guise of "how does it affect YOU what other people do?". My point is that: regardless of the unhealthy behavior, if enough individuals are partaking, eventually it DOES affect me.

I don't care if you want to pay a prostitute, I just don't want it normalized (because then it affects me). I don't care if you want to do hard drugs safely, I just don't want it normalized (because then it affects me). I don't care if you want to follow fundamentalist religious doctrine, I just don't want it normalized (because then it affects me). Some things should just stay taboo.
In general, yes. Bazel has a lot of potential. It can improve developer productivity, with better correctness guarantees and improved build times. Or it can be a big sink of developer time, with people spending endless hours managing Bazel. It has potential to go both ways.
Another way to say it is that inflation is the most unfair tax that exists.
I would guess you were trying an older version or you somehow confused it. I posted your code with only "Consider:" above it, and GPT-4 produced correct answer on the first attempt:

The given Python code initializes a variable x with the value 0, then iterates over a range of 100 values. Inside the loop, there are two conditional statements:

The first conditional statement checks if x > 50. If true, it increments x by 1; otherwise, it increments x by 5.
The second conditional statement checks if x is equal to 90. If true, it prints "X is not 90"; otherwise, it does nothing (pass).
To better understand the code, let's walk through a few iterations:

i = 0, x = 0: x is not greater than 50, so x += 5 => x = 5
i = 1, x = 5: x is not greater than 50, so x += 5 => x = 10
i = 2, x = 10: x is not greater than 50, so x += 5 => x = 15
...
The loop continues until x > 50. This will happen when i = 10, and x = 50:

i = 10, x = 50: x is not greater than 50, so x += 5 => x = 55
Now x is greater than 50, so it will be incremented by 1 in each iteration:

i = 11, x = 55: x is greater than 50, so x += 1 => x = 56
i = 12, x = 56: x is greater than 50, so x += 1 => x = 57
...
This will continue until x reaches 90:

i = 34, x = 89: x is greater than 50, so x += 1 => x = 90
Now x is equal to 90, so the program will print "X is not 90". The loop will continue to increment x by 1 in the remaining iterations:

i = 35, x = 90: x is greater than 50, so x += 1 => x = 91
...
The code snippet will only print "X is not 90" once, when x becomes 90 in the loop.
I'd be curios to know how well someone like McCarthy (and specifically his new releases) sells these days.

Similarly, another one of my all-time favorites, Delilo, has released several novels following the success of his opus Underworld but it doesn't seem like many of them are finding much of an audience anymore.

I don't see anything out of some of that 80s-90s literature style, the stuff that got me into "reading for fun," making many best seller / best of the year lists anymore.

Suppose it comes naturally as audience, culture, and taste all shift, but it's also a little sad for a fan like myself.
Does this mean the matrices are highly compressible?
> 500+ mostly well-educated, privileged people in Congress can’t understand privacy on the internet suggests a systemic problem that is not only present in Congress

There is no national consensus on internet privacy. Most Americans simply don't care, certainly not enough to give up convenience. The minority who do are politically disengaged. To the degree there is consensus, it's on commons, e.g. national security.
Yeah, I'm waiting for MS/Bing to open it for everyone. Until then I use perplexity. It's quite good, mostly because it gives back the relevant answers with source included, from sites that have almost zero chance to pop up in a google result.
> In the UK it is very hard not to look at it this way. Unlike the US and other countries, Covid stimulus was very much aimed at maintaining the status quo: there were no flat amount universal basic income style checks handed out to everyone as in the US - instead you got put on 80% furlough and had a large part of your salary paid for by the government. This basically meant the rich got ever richer whilst doing no work and the poor tried to scrape by. In addition, covid contract schemes were widely abused by business owners, the most high profile case being that of Conservative peer Michele Mone who made off with £200 million. It is estimated that billions of pounds of public money has been irretrievably lost through what is essentially government neglect and corruption.

It was the same in most EU countries, but wouldn't that result in lower inflation? The rich that kept getting richer would invest in stocks, business, real estate, park it offshore, buy another helicopter or yacht, etc. which wouldn't impact demand for most products whose prices are increasing.
AWS Batch Launches Support for Configurable Ephemeral Storage on AWS Fargate
Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from schools
> Especially in Python.

as opposed to...?
If they are willing to go to such extremes to censor books how do they feel about the internet? The internet has a reach that is orders of magnitude greater than books, but I never hear about lawmakers attempting to shut down the internet or part of the internet. Is it just too decentralized to even attempt or is their pursuit of book censorship just for show to impress their followers?
If you don't, you shouldn't. But then why want a Framework?
Consider growing more emphatic to those less well off than you.
GPT4 rules seem too narrow so competition is going to be insane.

Are hacker news folks creating an AI constitution?
Parsing memes using JavaScript and PHP
> $4 million is a lot of money for a library and completely unnecessary in current economic conditions

It's a total of $4.5 million across all libraries in the state. In other words, nothing.

Libraries aren't a luxury, they are a valuable community resource, especially in tough economic times. This is a place where people can get access to the Internet and education, which helps them get jobs, which allows them to support themselves and ultimately pay taxes.
Wouldn't surprise me if they're planning to redirect the money to private school vouchers.

Iowa is pulling the same stunts, and then acts all surprised when they have trouble hiring teachers.
Most developed countries have a similar picture. This is a UK-specific chart. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/money-supply-m2
A good if overly simplistic model of inflation & recession etc... is building a rocket in the game Factorio

The rocket isn't necessarily intrinsically useful for everyone but is important because it is the thing that pulls forward all the demand for the all the commodities and all the intermediate production.

Without the rocket there would be no factories, no jobs, no meaning. The factory MUST run to keep everyone's livelihoods going even though the rocket isn't relevant day to day. It also incentivizes things like innovation, efficiency, etc...

However, building TWO rockets at the same time puts such a resource demand that there start to be shortages and breakdowns. Parts of the factory start shutting down. People are left jobless. One of the most serious is if the factory breakdown cascades to the power system (e.g. money) which causes the entire factory to breakdown.

It's a tough job to figure out how to restart the factory incrementally. Meanwhile everyone is left jobless while this is being debugged.

So there's a balance between how many rockets have to be simultaneously built. If there's too little demand, the factories are idle. Capital rots and there are less jobs. If there's too much demand, then shortages and price spikes will cause an even more serious breakdown.

What gold/bitcoin/austrian philosophers understand is that the price of money HAS to reflect market reality. E.g. in a Factorio game all bottlenecks are important to production but if you mess up the energy bottleneck, then the whole thing breaks down. Having a hack like "manually move a few tons a coal every hour" and forgetting it once is catastrophic. The market conditions have been manipulated with buffer.

The Fed & other central banks are usually concerned primarily with the layers of production that affect the most people. E.g. food and gas are critical. However when the "power supply" is threatened they need to start doing things like bailing out banks even if it seems insane to be focusing on this when people can't afford food.
> Facebook directly interfered in the 2016 election

Is this a reference to Cambridge Analytica? Their electoral effects were mostly dismissed.
Clearly a Mario-style "cha-ching" sound would be really annoying, but Excel's cursor is animated, Sheets slides tabs around when you reorder the sheet tabs at the bottom, there are all sorts of hover states and previews, the ctrl-f highlight has a little bounce to it, etc.

I think you could even look at syntax highlighting, matching-paren-highlighting, and intellisense/autocomplete as a sort of juice - they're affordances that indicate that what you're doing is "good", and the app is "understanding you".

Even more than a spectrum (where "pro apps" need "less juice"), it seems like there's just different juice for different apps. For example, it seems like some kind of better-designed juice could have saved Citibank a lot of money: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-go...
Genuinely, why not just prioritize the work?
>It doesn’t have to be this way.

fyi it's mostly because Nintendo don't want to comply with the "new" payment regulations at least in the EU. Since 2021 Strong Customer Authentication (aka 2FA) is needed for most online purchases [0].

OK "don't want to comply" is a bit harsh but it's pretty much not worth implementing the 2FA system on 3DS/WiiU. They already removed credit cards access a long ago so even today you could only buy games if you top up your Nintendo account which is shared between Switch and the still functioning other stores.

Also you will be able to redownload games. They are just removing the option to buy new games. Better to CFW though and dump everything (but that was already recommended even before this closure)

0, https://www.jpmorgan.com/europe/merchant-services/insights/P...
cloned, hmu if that repo gets nuked
Essentially every model worth anything has been trained on a unfathomably large amount of data under copyright, with every possible licensing scheme you could imagine, under the assumption that it is fair use. While you can argue that it's all built on a house of cards (and a court may well agree with you) it's kind of arbitrary to draw a line here.
You make it sound bad. "Customers are saving $22k per EV" is better
You're missing that most of these people want to kill sexual education too. They are openly against modern education, and think the father of the household should have final say on anything and everything.
> If they practice just a little bit of discipline.

Discipline is essential, yes, but equally as essential is just plain getting lucky.
> unavailability of affordable, healthy ingredients

I hear that a lot, and it simply isn't true. A bag of apples is cheap, so is a bag of beans, a bag of rice, a bag of potatoes, etc.

Some of the cheapest foods in the supermarket are an ordinary can of beans. Milk is cheap, too.
> corporate policy dictates WINDOWS

I can't help thinking back to iOS. It too was blocked because of (the easily updated) corporate policy in the beginning.

It became so common (ie... popular) in the corporate world that "corporate policy" changed overnight because everyone really loved their new toy. Corporate America wasn't just a Windows (Blackberry) shop anymore.

Now... the two most popular Mobile OSes integrate within corporate policy. It wasn't even a big deal - just a little extra coding. The ... long-term business relationships ... that often help create corporate policy... shattered because of how cool Apple made their portable devices.

What I'm saying is that it takes a tremendous amount pressure to break the status quo and until such time changes are made, we can put up with a lot of slow-moving malaise.

Corporate Policy will toss her aside as it does thousands of others. She doesn't matter. I wish this woman success at finding a job that accommodates her needs because she does matter.

When she does find something, she'll be much happier overall. That is a fight worth fighting for her. That's the only issue here. Along the way... maybe she planted a seed at this company.
Sweden is at 22% rise.

Thanks Economists!
Rosen did mention that persistent error eventually harden into tradition, and we get used to anything, and what we are used to becomes what feels right. On the other hand I have never heard that Chopin sonata before I read Rosen's arguments, so starting the repeat from the beginning feels right for me.

In any case the evidence seems incontrovertible to me. The majority of the earliest sources support the reading, Brahms felt it was correct. The end of the exposition prepares for the Grave perfectly both in terms of rhythm and harmony, and the Grave appears in the development so it's clearly not a separate introduction. Are there any evidence for the other reading other than "we've always done it like this"?
Well recently they went after a journalist for "hacking the government website" after he ran an article about how they had a bunch of people's SS#s in the source code of one of their webpages so I'm not sure Missouri is too keen on it either.
Maybe because the “correct” answer is zero? …for certain values of correct.

If it gives totally impractical answers that seems like a problem with the asker methinks.

Like, what would you do with the answer to “how many deciliters of flannel would it take to cover the earth?”
I wonder if this will give rise to more gardening, and specifically indoor gardening, or a 4 climate greenhouse?

Society has really quickly lost touch with one’s food sources in a few generations.

One way to stick it back is to set a slow running cron job.
Reference counting is Garbage Collection (and is Python's method of Garbage collection).

Borrow Checker is... hmm... I guess that's a new-ish pattern. Its inspired from C++ unique_ptr and auto_ptr (now obsolete, use unique_ptr instead). I'd say that Borrow Checker is still manual memory management, except the compiler writes the free() for you.

#4: purely declarative languages and such is going to be garbage collected in practice.

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So 1.5, 2, and 4 are all garbage collection.

#3 / Rust's borrow checker is debatable. I'm still inclined to call that manual malloc/free(), even if the compiler handles the free() for you. Because the compiler can only free() if you code it in the exact way that Rust (or C++ unique_ptr) expects the memory to be used.
Chinese, unlike Japanese or Korean, lacks a consistent phonetic mechanism for "importing" foreign words. Phonetic approximations are, with few exceptions, limited to foreign names. As such, practically every bit of jargon is semantically translated (examples include 电脑 "electronic brain" for computer, 端口 "end opening" for port), but since most programming is done in English-based languages, it's not uncommon for Chinese programmers to be more familiar with the English jargon.
In the case of OpenAI, the product is more of a research demo that had to be drastically scaled up, though. From an operations point of view it’s more like a startup.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/22/south-c...

https://mashable.com/article/texas-abortion-website-bill
https://twitter.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981
People know it, that's all.
On my quest to a "cleaner" web experience, I've created a new app that parses memes from memedroid. What I like about this type of solution is the simplicity of it. A few lines of code for the backend, some simple logic on the frontend and you're all set.

Let me know if you want to read the code or try the app itself.
They could eat less, though, and would be healthier for it.
As opposed to not in Python.
I recently bought a console and was considering a Nintendo Switch but went for the much more open Steam Deck instead.

And I can now play almost any released Nintendo game, even a lot of the Switch games can be emulated well (my kids love Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros!).

Honestly, if you're fine with tinkering a little bit it's a much superior platform.

And I haven't even mentioned access to the amazing Steam store, which makes Nintendo's stores seem like a joke.
History books are quite clear about this. When all other options are exhausted, violence has a way of presenting new ones.
That's an interesting example since some of the most popular DEFCON talks on youtube are about elevator hacking, which includes pressing buttons that are right there on the panel
In some ways, this is what some people thought would happen when Alexa etc starting taking off, but people got bored with it when they discovered all they could do with it was sometimes get it to turn off there lights.

The problem wasn't the voice interface, the issue was that the tech behind it wasn't there, now it is starting to be, I wouldn't be surprised to see these voice assistants get back into the game within the next few years.
If people stop visiting websites, how do Google Search and website owners make money?

The web is currently built on advertising income, if that disappears or reduce massively, should we expect a lot of website to have to shutdown? Bing or ChatGPT would become the main way to access information, which would be an even more concentrated power than the current Google.

And the only way to make money in this context would be to sell products, or provide access to a data moat via an API. That's a radical shift from the current ad-based model.
> The plugins aren't code

Effectively, they are—they are API pointers, sure, but also instructions to the AI model on how and when to use the API. That part is, effectively, code, and in an unreleased plugin its code that likely isn’t fully tested to the plugib supplier’s satisfaction to be ready for use outside of the limited set of testers.

That’s the whole point of the limited test process, to allow getting the instructions right before exposingthe plugin to general use.
Potatoes, beans, rice, etc., are cheap and healthy.
Down 0.44% after 100% increase over the last two years
Incorrect. The majority of human beings choose stagnation and comfort over discipline and future-thinking even when they could do more with what they already have.

This will become much more apparent and visible with ChatGPT fueling everyone and boosting those who are diligent, disciplined, focused, and in love with their craft(s).

There won't be any more of these excuses around luck for long.
Well I understood it in a very different way, and I was impressed by this exercise. I don't care about the caveats or warnings about obvious things such as not eating uranium, I care that ChatGPT is getting better at producing accurate calculations.
That said, EVs must be economically sustainable for everyone for society to reap the environmental gains. Otherwise switching from ICEs to EVs won't work.
Exactly. That kind of unequal ruleset isn't free trade, and it's not a good idea to permit it unless you're trying to subsidize the development of a foreign state (or, if you simply have no leverage to stop it without harming yourself way more than it's worth). Responding in kind is absolutely appropriate, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. It's ridiculous (and unpopular, in a pretty bipartisan fashion, among actual voters) that we've allowed China to "defect" on trade matters this long, without pushing back hard.