skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is destroying capital and why?

Capital destruction doesn't have to be intentional. Hurricanes, fires, floods, wars, and pandemics can destroy capital. A bunch of chickens being killed due to bird flu is an example of capital destruction. Your house being destroyed due to a flood is capital destruction. Bananas rotting in a warehouse because the truck driver decided to take a vacation day is capital destruction.

Of course, arson and war can also destroy capital, and those are intentional. Policy can also destroy capital; e.g., a tariff that decreases international trade reduces the value of shipping containers; that destroys capital even if the shipping containers still get used (at a lower rate).

Rant:

No one cares about pushing around definitions of words; what they want to know is why they have to pay more for stuff! For this reason, the Austrian definition of inflation is kind of idiotic and imo often used in bad faith.

Why? Because most people understand inflation to mean "things are getting more expensive". That's the normal definition not only in mainstream economics but also in the lay vernacular.

So then an Austrian tells you that "inflation is monetary" and you infer that "the reason for increasing prices must be money printing". But that's an errant deduction! The Austrian is simply axiomatically defining a term in a non-standard way. In particular: the "inflation is monetary" is literally just choosing a weird way to define inflation, NOT making an actual empirical claim about the reason that e.g. egg prices have increased!

If you accept the definitional slight of hand and don't realize the silly game of axioms you've been recruited into, then you conclude that money printing is always the reason for increasing prices, even though not even the most staunch Austrian has the balls to make such a wildly broad claim ("oh, no, those prices increased because of capital destruction, not inflation!").

So far we just have a silly confusion. The pernicious thing is that the conclusions that you draw due to this stupid definitional game happen to support the often entirely self-interested policy preferences of (usually wealthy, and in a particular way) Austrians.

To your parent post's credit, they explain what they mean when they say that inflation is monetary; ie, that you cannot conclude from their assertion that inflation is the reason that prices are increasing. But generally I find the game that gets played with the definition of inflation (it's always monetary!!1!) extremely aggravating, since literally everyone else in the conversation understands that inflation means a general increase in prices. It's the same sort of pernicious definition game that people play when they say that that US is a republic and not a democracy.

And, in fact, you'll find that most Austrians themselves don't even understand that "inflation is monetary" is just a definitional choice, not an actual empirical claim about why prices increase. Or, when they do, they will freely move between the two definitions in a way that is -- even if not in bad faith -- an actively misleading use of rhetoric.
If basic homes become unattainable for the working class and the middle class -- teachers, nurses, construction workers, etc. -- we either have to raise wages so folks can afford the new prices, or drop house prices back to a reasonable level.

I guess it's a race between "rent-seeking folks who own investment properties" and "people who actually want to live and work in a community." Should be an interesting battle -- while the rent-seekers surely have the most lobbying power, literally everyone needs a home.
Totally agree. Just yesterday, I was finishing up an article [1] that advocates for conversation length as the new definition of a "score" on a Turing test.
You assume everyone is a robot and measure how long it takes to tell otherwise.

[1]: http://coldattic.info/post/129/
Yeah, title is clickbaity but correct. Out of all the Februaries in the previous years, this february is a february that monthly price increase is negative.
> You mean more inflationary than an economy based on extraction and profiteering which has increasingly impoverished more and more of the population?

Yes?

I mean that’s sort of what happened during Covid (savings rates increased dramatically in the short term)…
Tell us all about housing woes, give us some perspective! Also, yes, you're right.
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AirBNB has really compounded the problem - another reason houses are being treated as purely an investment by people who don't live in them. Even worse they are off the rental market.
Is data on European citizens held by US companies subject to national security letters?
> multiple home ownership

There will always be the need for landlords in some circumstances. Not everyone wants to own a home and sometimes life dictates the need for flexibility. Where do you draw the line? I'm not sure what to think of it, but the idea of owning investments isn't going to dissolve any time soon and physical assets (homes) are one investment vehicle.

Coming from a person who has rented for a long time, currently owns one home and does not rent.
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No, it was not, see https://arseniyshestakov.com/2023/01/26/yandex-services-sour...
Title explanation:

Out of all the Februaries in the previous years, this february is a february that monthly price increase is negative.
Blackrock is not buying individual houses. Are you confusing them with Blackstone, who did own a unit that bought and rented single family homes?
MS was smart enough to use the existing brands to somewhat whitewash their previously not so well perceived reputation in the developer community.

I guess some folks at Google will regret not buying Github. On the other hand, Google is in my opinion not the best choice in regards to product development and integration. Their business model centers around ads, while Microsoft has the better stance here with a subscription model.
> My expertise is in designing, understanding, and debugging complex systems. I will just apply my expertise to the AI.

That might be true for you and me but imagine somebody fresh out from university - the job market for junior devs will totally collapse in the near-near future. And then what? Where do the mid-level engineers come from if there are no* junior roles? Where will the future senior level engineers come from? We're certainly living in interesting times..

*: There will be some artisanal companies who will pride themselves in having hand-written, AI-free code. These companies will be a minority and 90% of junior level software development jobs will disappear in no time.
Thank you. Better comment than the release docs.

This is going to be fantastic!
The ideal market maximizes utility production because economic actors expose their utility gain by pricing commodities. The assumption is that price and utility are similar.

But when there is wealth inequality this assumption breaks down. A person with large wealth can offer higher prices for less utility compared to a less wealthy individual.

This biases markets to satisfy wealthy individuals, overall reducing total utility production.
I think you're broadly correct, but your timing is off. I'd say it's not in the last decade, but more like this has been growing for the last 15+ years, and the trend started at the end of the 1990s.

In the 1990s, RH was Linux to the extend that there was a site called `redhatisnotlinux.org`.

The thing that made Linux viable as a desktop OS was KDE, the first FOSS desktop for Linux. There had been commercial ones, such as IXI X.desktop, and Xfce which only became FOSS later, but KDE was FOSS from the start.

But not FOSS enough for RH, which took a Stallmanite position over Qt and excluded KDE from its distro.

That led to Mandrake, which was basically Red Hat Linux with KDE, but it also fostered non-RH distros such as SUSE, Caldera and Corel LinuxOS.

Rather than getting on board the movement, RH forced a split in the community and sponsored GNOME instead. Down with Qt, down with C++, down with dual licensing: we'd rather reimplement the entire thing from scratch than sully our hands with a toolkit that is sold -- ew -- and C++ -- doubleplus ew.

Result, RH starts to get sidelined.

GNOME does great, though, and GNOME 2 brings harmony to the FOSS Unix world. Even Solaris adopts it.

So Microsoft attacked.

Result, GNOME 3 and dozens of new and revived desktops.

RH made one good move: it found a funding model, and a great one.

It should never have bought CentOS in the first place. That was a huge, stupid mistake and it harmed both the company and RHEL. It finally did the right thing killing it off. Stream is probably good for those in the community contributing but it's of no appeal to anyone else.
You sent it triangles with aRGB color, and it interpolated and rasterized them. Dat's it. Total dud compared to Voodoo 3DFx or ATI Rage3D

I don't get it - that was what all gfx chips were before shaders came along. That's not unlike how the PS2's GS chip worked too. Texturing and triangles was everything. What feature did the Voodoo have that the 740 didn't?
The thesis bindings issue makes for an interesting argument about subconscious influences & semiotics. (along with to many covid-19 reruns of Connections[0])

Did the C language have inexpensive type binds ultimately leading/underpinning software for inexpensive, bound & non-bound type set work bindings (on demand electronic publications) because of the subconscious connection to the thesis binding issue?

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
A few ms? In my experience that seems well within the capabilities of Linux. I guess last time I measured wasn't on a Raspberry Pi. I'm kinda tempted to take a shot at profiling this and writing up a blog post since it seems like a useful topic, although it will probably be a few months until I can get around to it.
People will not sell at a loss bc they locked in to 2% mortgages for 30 years so no
I assume you are in the Seattle metro area?
> For starters, everyone has a different of what "better" is.

We can all agree on some things though. I'm talking about core metrics. Performance, stability, safety. Beyond that there are some more "controversial" things like privacy, and then you have purely subjective things like UX.

When I say "build a better browser" I mean that they should take those core capabilities and invest heavily in them. Instead, one of their most promising projects, Servo, was canned "because covid" while their CEO took their largest 8 figure payment ever.
I suspect TikTok being the most potent medium for propaganda also plays more than a little role.

The ability for a clever civilian to post a video (this is key) stitch of US officials projecting propaganda and then skilfully and completely deconstucting it is dangerous. It could undo decades of hard work.
You are right, perhaps it is our own expectations that have dropped.
Many of the Northern VA counties and certain others in the DC metro area.
The U.S. is not moving rapidly to the left. Your perception is being skewed by how far to the right the U.S. is in comparison to other OECD nations. The Republican party is far more right wing than any other major comparable party in the OECD.
Can the value of human judgement be overtaken by machines?
How is this news. Welcome to 10 years ago.
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lol Stalin killed 20 million people through direct executions, the Gulag, and famine, but how bout those yummy nutrients?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...

I'm sure the millions of Ukrainians who were forcibly starved during the Holodomor really appreciated the low calorie diets supplied by the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Characterizing the forcible starvation of millions as "a period of food insecurity" is peak techie-communism for me. Thanks for the laugh! :)
While this is true, the size of direct fiscal in the US i.e. stimmie checks was enormous. I think the original poster is correct, I encourage anybody in this thread to look into what happened with used cars. At times that accounted for as much as 1.5% of the month on month inflation figures.

A globalised supply chain was disrupted by covid and that exposed some pretty gnarly non-linearities in how pricing happens. Combined with an explosion in shipping prices that actually pre-cluded low inflation areas from exporting their disinflation to high inflation e.g. I've linked elsewhere charts on shipping costs. Have a look at a USDJPY chart and wonder why the US wasn't loading up on cheap Japanese goods..
You can do that, it will output whatever. I just can't like execute or show any output. When I have the virtual servers I will be able to run the code.
Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
> If anything, the class warfare was the low rates of the past two decades. There were a bunch of different reasons for the widening inequality gap of this millennium, but ultra low rates were a giant part of it.

This can be true, while at the same time it can also be true that it's irresponsible to suddenly jack up interest rates in the post-pandemic economy. Indeed, it's a kind of consistent class warfare to keep the rates artificially low unless and until wages start to suddenly grow.
FYI, after digging down a few links from there and winding up at the GitHub Next org page[1], seeing the verified email next@github.com and the official site link to https://githubnext.com was enough validation for me.

Can't wait for Voice Copilot :)

1: https://github.com/githubnext
Same, I have avoided FAANG for a long time (I worked for Apple decades ago). At my age I don't have patience for nonsense. I freelance and work through an agency that vets clients for me, I never interview. Either I deliver or I don't charge for my time, simple. I stopped applying and using recruiters and going through the interview process a long time ago. I get jobs and gigs through contacts and reputation. That doesn't necessarily work for people starting their career, I understand, but if enough of us said no to these stupid interview processes maybe companies would stop using them.
> We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance. Just like we need less manual labor in farms today.

When my team gets crunched, it's not usually because we can't write the code fast enough. It's because of product requirements (changing, needing to be fleshed out, being unrealistic, being understood properly by QA, being adapted to the realities of reasonable code, not existing, etc.).

On top of that, needing fewer workers to do X work !== getting X work done cheaper. Quite often, it means getting 2X, 3X, 10X work done. As an overall trend, modern society has increased worker productivity dramatically over the last few decades, yet many work as many or more hours than they used to. We could get the same results with fewer workers, or we could make them work more. We know what 99% of CEOs will choose.

Of course, maybe it will reduce developer jobs. I'm not ruling that out entirely. But when (not if) we create an alien intelligence that can wipe out our industry, we may have bigger concerns than steady employment.
Looks like they are copying Notion.

A lot of things have changed at Microsoft under Satya Nadella. One thing that hasn't changed is their inability to create anything original.
I have long doubted that policy has much to do with inflation. Having lived through sever inflation, in my personal experience inflation is all about inflationary expectations. It was all about trying to personally gain advantage by getting ahead of everyone else.

On the other hand I don't know squat about monetary policy, so I'm probably confused.
This study works only with static, noninteractive samples. In any of these cases simply ask the source why they think that or said that and then ask why I should agree. Currently hyped technologies find this kind of interaction extremely difficult to follow and tend to fail unless questions are asked in a contrived manner.
What are you concerned about?
More anecdata: my Open Sprinkler Pi has been running for many years, with only power-fail reboots (maybe once a year). It doesn’t write much to flash, but it’s never needed a reboot because it failed.
It kind of reminds me of what Google Wave promised to be.
<< it may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change, with the caveat that many other factors may have contributed.>>

Significant or not? <<many other factors may have contributed>>

<<The most enigmatic aspect of the rise of Candida auris as a human pathogen is that it emerged simultaneously on three continents, >>

I would be interested to know if COVID happened everywhere around the same time relatively speaking, with people self-quarantining while all running to the emergency room of hospitals, might explain the "enigma" above.
I guess what you experience is how I experience 1 px misalignment and similar things that some people always complain about in KDE:

I don't notice it at all.

Modern software that doesn't react immediately even when running on even more modern hardware however, that grinds my gears.
Having to sterilize a whole facility will get old fast
To your first point, `cmd + <right>` will accept the suggestion word by word.
That doesn't seem (to me) to be how it's being advertised to corporate clients.
Also notable, Sega Toylets, which I was surprised Yakuza Kiwami 2 didn't make up: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/sega-urinal-games/
If data or data derived from it is not stored or sent elsewhere, do you need consent? It would be like asking consent for installing a mirror.

Anyways, it seems like it actually works using a heat detecting infrared sensor, presumably similar to motion detectors used in alarm systems and automatic light switches rather than a camera.
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I was having a talk with some friends and we were talking about penises and vaginas, particularly the different kinds. We googled pictures of penises and I’m sure I saw more penises that day than I had in my life previously. We then googled pictures of vaginas and … did not get vaginas. It was kind of a bummer because one of the women in the conversation was trying to explain something and no one wanted her to pull down her pants.
>routinely make it so difficult to determine what's legit from what's fake.

Like the amount of times on my phone where I get prompted for a username and password different from the app im in (to make some kind of connection) but then suppress the url from visibility. An astoundingly poor design choice that has proliferated into every single variant of that interface design flow.
> I like how you probably spent more time looking up your multiple-year-old comment that could have instead been used to make sure that you’re not sounding like a fool that doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

It took seconds and it is still true and evergreen to this day. Thanks for your so called 'concern'.

> They have already committed to releasing it to all editors Copilot supports. So, you know, the exact opposite of editor lock in.

They are more 'Committed' to supporting VS Code than giving total feature parity to other editors. Do you really believe everything that Microsoft / OpenAI feeds you?
Considering this hockey stick is in the field that is in the business of making hockey sticks it could go pretty far. A hockey stick maximizer if you will.
This is how the effects of Magnetorheological fluids work with sound and vibrational damping. Glad to see they have figured out a corrolary with EM waves.
I currently use copilot in my terminal by using copilot.vim and then using C-x C-e in my command line to bring it into my editor but I have to exit and re-enter to get traditional autocomplete which I find annoying. Paths come easy since neovim will complete this for me with Deoplete but the rest is not straightforward.
The other part of Japan is that in the 80s and 90s it had the highest, most unaffordable houses anywhere. Much of the reason they're cheap now is that that bubble exploded. Demographics are different to.
To me the auth flow looks wrong. The CLI oauth would get act on your behalf, but the website to apply for access should not under any circumstance do that.

Maybe it's just copy and pasted from somewhere, but it looks wrong to me regardless.
I prefer the Pico to the ESP32. I'm very impressed with the quality and organization of the Pico SDK and documentation.

Although I have heard the Pico is not very competitive in terms of power optimization. I haven't done many battery powered projects to encounter these issues though.
Yes, but just look around you on a crowded bus or train. Most people are walking or riding with their heads down at the phone. You are the exception.
It's not about how much money you have, it's about what you do with it. Do you match your standard of living to those around you, or do you distort the environment to provide you with what you desire regardless of what those around you have? Do you isolate yourself except for your spending, or do you participate in the community in the ways expected of a local? Are you living there to live there, or are you living there for financial reasons?

If your goal isn't to live like a colonial master, make sure your execution doesn't look like an attempt at colonialism. That principle should get you 99% of the way there.
The downside is the spread on those mortgages is so huge precisely bc of refinance expectation
This was announced years ago.

Is every FPS a Doom clone?

Every wiki a wikimedia copy?

Every browser a copy of Mosiac?
What words would you prefer to describe adherents to an ideology that seeks to use colonization as a means to capture the public assets of another sovereign nation into private ownership for the benefit of a small number of capitalists then? And what words would you prefer to use to describe those who seek to undermine their efforts?
Pseudo-random number generator
The page you linked only shows those logos in a block that specifically talks about Copilot, not Copilot X, so I don't see how this implies that Copilot X will come to those platforms as well.

(I expect implementations for those platforms to show up eventually, I just don't think the logos on that page are evidence for that.)
Nice. I got a nice jacket for shipping SSDM for NSPG, but I lost it at some point
The same phenomenon happened in 2008. I think it boils down to the question of whether or not sellers are motivated at scale.

In 08, the poor labor market meant that many people had to sell. That caused prices to drop.

We aren't at that point yet this time, and I don't think anyone knows whether or not we are headed for a seriously rocky job market.
See https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NA/recent