skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember: profits are a direct measure of the inefficiency of a given market.

In a functioning market, the existence of profits either drives businesses to reduce their own profits by competing on price (problem: cartels) or else drives new businesses to emerge in order to seize some of those profits (problem: barriers to entry).

To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient, and an inefficient market is useless (or possibly worse than useless).
unsurprising; existing cultures have been known to do this.
"The worker's employers say an initial investigation shows the incident was unrelated to safety procedures, but it is not yet clear how it happened."

This seems plainly related to safety procedures: either they weren't followed, and they were able to be not followed in a way that led to death, or they had a gap in said procedures that led to "correct" actions leading to death.

The alternative is it was intentional, which while possible generally results in articles saying something like "It is unclear what happened.<paragraph break>Hotline numbers if you need to talk to someone are ..."
Same experience. Receive hot air and fluff from Google, then a few months later the head of TAO announces a "fix" to the vulnerability originally raised.

Additionally, the first articles announcing the vulnerability tried to link it to Chinese/Russia hacking. Shove that propaganda directly back at yourself (i.e., Google; a US-based company). Google left the backdoor wide open for anyone to exploit, foreign and domestic. And, it was definitely exploited by both.

Google has real issues. Not sure what happened after 2019, but it's not great.
Major cause of crisis under capitalism found to be capitalism. Film at 11.
Seriously underrated comment chain here.
How many times can they keep raising money to do that?

There's not endless liquidity in the system (until rates go to zero again).
>Governments etc. argue

As they should. that's how it works and they are correct. Employees should argue against that and demand more if they dare.

The job of Central bank is to increase interest rates until unemployment rate increases to the level where employees don't dare ask more. Unemployment reduces both demand and wage growth. That will slow down inflation but it also baits recession.

Economy is a dynamic system with feedback loops.
Defined Contribution plans have been the trend in the private sector for three decades now and generally are seen as less attractive to pensioners who now hold all the risk for retirement. Do you have evidence that only DB plans have office real estate exposure?
Someone removed India a few month ago for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries...
But could they? For example, in a normal economy if you increase prices people will spot the trick very easily. Not when everyone is concerned about "inflation".
According to (b) any large company, including Apple, is a bureaucracy.
Governments argue both, that’s what this article shows. They can shout from the hilltops to “stop asking for more everyone!”, but it’s not going to help without actual action to force it.
Pinnacles park is like 60 dollars a night. I bet I could get a hotel nearby for cheaper. It doesn’t scale either for the season. I went to camp at a lake and recreation charged around 50 and the campsite was 20% full.
The type of inflation we're facing is possible because there's enough money in circulation. With a more or less constant money supply in regards to heavily used currencies increasing price levels at that scale would not be possible that easily.
I don't disagree but I also know who's going to "win" in a collision between me and a car.

When I cross a street I have my head on a swivel and I do not step into the crosswalk unless I have the "walk" light and the cross-traffic is already stopped, or far enough away that they have room to stop. I try to make eye contact with drivers so I can be (more) sure they see me. Or if there is not a signal at the crosswalk I wait until there is a big enough gap that I won't be causing approaching drivers to stand on their brakes to stop for me.

And with all that I still assume that the approaching cars do not see me and am prepared to break into a sprint if needed to get out of the way.
EdgeDB is designed on the assumption that it fully controls and manages the underlying Postgres instance. This is why we can have a better/faster binary protocol, proper connection pooling on both client and server, and many many other perks. Making it an extension would drastically limit what you can do with it, and besides, it will take years to make this extension available on AWS and others anyways. All in all, it's not worth it, even though on a surface it sounds like a good idea.
Ada was the DoD standard for a while.
It takes energy to produce food and various goods
Hopefully this will bring the EU to put Apple onto it's lane with this 30% mafia nonsense
I know right - it's certainly not like that Paul Volcker fella has any fucking clue what he's talking about.

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To quote the man himself, when referring to how he was going to solve inflation:

"But none of these policies, important as they are, can
substitute for commitments to fiscal prudence and restraint on the money supply."
"we should be ending unemployment insurance and moving to guaranteed employment and utilizing unemployed folks for public service projects such as solar installs."

While I agree with that, it seems the implementation of a program like that would be quite difficult...especially considering how difficult it is to get pretty much anything done.

Are these new workers doing things that other union workers could be doing? Would they have to join the union? Those two simple things would derail any plan like that for one side of the isle in the US, at least.
As someone about a year into a sabbatical to recover from burnout, I tend to agree.

I had a series of expectations about the role of the break I was about to take, and how it would serve as a recharge to enable me to jump back in. Instead, it’s been a gradual process of waking up to the systemic reasons that led to the burnout, many of which had nothing to do with the (legitimately stressful) work environment I was in.

It’s hard to summarize this in a comment, and I’m currently working on an outline for an extensive series of blog posts exploring these realizations in depth. But a few of the big things were (and I should emphasize that the following points just scratch the surface):

1. I am not my thoughts or feelings. It’s surprising how far this one will take you

2. If work is your support system, your life exists on shaky ground

3. Personal struggles become work struggles and vice versa. You can’t draw a clean box around grief and loss, or pretend that work stress can stay at work

4. There were major gaps in my life in terms of social connections, time spent in nature, finding artistic outlets, etc.

5. Focusing on real self-care/improvement as one’s primary purpose in life open doors internally and externally

As I transition back to work, it won’t involve picking up where I left off, but something completely different and oriented around these deeper realizations about myself and helping other people find the same insights for themselves.

These things are nearly impossible to see while in the midst of a burnout state.
Most likely #2 would be the best bet for both hobby level and above. You could do some fun stuff with Postgres and pgvector, but you'll be "limited" to creating some embeddings with an existing model, storing them in pgvector and again using that to add context to an existing model (more or less).

#3 would limit you to running existing models in a browser.

Only #2 would allow you to actually understand and create new meaningful models.
Interesting thought about a third axis but isn't tension essentially negative pressure? Superconductivity requires the atoms to be aligned and as still as possible in order for pathways for the electrons to emerge as far as I understand. Like a miniature version of a particle accelerator just without acceleration apart from the push each electron gets from the one behind it. Seems logical that I can get a material to stay put by either pushing or pulling on it on at least two sides.
That's good to know! Can't wait to try to my first bikepacking trip :)
There's word spreading around that a note was found and this was suicide.
> projecting a little bit

way to turn it around! But you're the one with the psychobabble rhetoric.
The lasers are used only between the Starlink satellites, not in the uplinks or downlinks.

While this experiment has demonstrated that it is possible to compensate for the turbulence of the air, there is no solution for the attenuation caused by bad weather.

It might be possible to use lasers between a base station and satellites only if the base station is located at high altitude in a dry place, like those typically chosen for astronomical observatories, so that the links will be blocked by bad weather only infrequently.

So I do not believe that there is even a remote chance of replacing most undersea cables.
Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz Was a Misunderstood Economist
Good, I don't know why I should have a problem with that?

Though I disagree that a phone is not a 'general computing device' moreso than a gaming console is, it is hard to come up with a legally-clear definition of one.
> if there's evidence that it was done on purpose

Nobody (who isn't a moron) is going to send an email about intentionally doing this, or talk about it with someone who wouldn't also be implicated if discovered. If you saw everything, kept careful notes, and decided to become a whistleblower, your career would be destroyed and your life might even be in danger.
That's neat! All papers should allow this discussion on them.

BTW, didn't Google released something like it too early?
A lot of moderators have an over inflated ego and coupled with delusions of grandeur they think they can enact change when the reality of it is they are unpaid employees subservient to Reddit management.

When push comes to shove a majority of these moderators would rather hold onto their perceived fiefdom for some form of semblance of power and control in their life than growing a backbone, standing up for what they say they believe in and deleting their account in protest.
> IMO, there is a huge qualitative difference between 15 and 14.7; 15 is an integer, while 14.7 isn’t.

Yes and no. The fact that one is an integer and one isn’t only really matters when considering them in the context of a set, e.g. when counting. But there’s nothing special about integers that affects how we use them relative to decimals. Multiply both of them by 10, and you’re back to integers. Divide them both by 10, and you’ve got decimals. It’s perfectly reasonably for all mathematical purposes to consider 15 and 15.0 to be equivalent to each other. This isn’t the case with computers, and that has nothing to do with mathematics.
Nobody speaks out for crypto crap because everyone not in the crap swindling business wants it gone in its current shape.

It has nothing to do with free speech or anything, it’s a wart
Something I don’t think many people know about is that marriages licenses, (yes you need a license to gain some tax benefits) often have an incentive to do pre-marital counseling. Tennessee, for instance, at least halves the price of the marriage license if you got any premarital counseling. Which they very broadly define, so you could get it from just about anyone a reasonable person could call trained in counseling.

Something along those lines, such as cheaper hospital stays or government covering part of childcare or some incentive like that could support what you are thinking. Not required, but a financial incentive. This is especially useful because it targets lower income families, hopefully reducing the correlation from parental income and career/health/etc outcomes.

PS: Smart of you to wear your nomex, this thread is a conflagration.
What government is arguing that employee wages should be lower/stagnant in order to fight inflation?

EDIT: I mean advocating not just that we should avoid a wage/price spiral through other means, but specifically that individual workers should accept/volunteer for lower wages than they could otherwise get?

Edit 2: seeing several cases of "$Reserve_Bank_Person says wage increases are too high and need to come down", not a lot of "Please turn down your pay increase so we can fight inflation." The reason no one would actually say the second is it is a ridiculous collective action problem that is obviously unsolvable on the employee side. The Australia governor warned against a 5.75% pay raise for govt employees (I think), but he was addressing the employer in that case, not individual workers.
I would love to go camping. I have some friends who are going over the 4th of July weekend. I was like: "WOW! How did you get a camp site??"

"Oh, we reserved it... in December"

Fucking WILD that these camp sites are selling out like miley cyrus tickets. Really annoying!
Does this make anyone else spitefully want to spend less, even though they don't have to?

My econ training is very limited, and perhaps this is a pointless idea, but

- the central bank approach to curbing inflation seems to assume that actors in the economy won't change their spending patterns (and decrease firms' price-setting power) until they're unable to continue (i.e. are laid off, can't access financing, etc) or are at least afraid of being unable to continue

- but if we can make people emotionally motivated, can we get people who are secure about their income to cut spending even if they aren't afraid? If you can get securely employed people with good emergency reserves to increase their savings rate out of a stubborn desire to "punish" gouging corporations ... we'd remove corporation's pricing power earlier, right?

- there have been a bunch of "unconstructive" recent examples of people willing to change their spending habits without being forced, for emotional reasons (e.g. boycotting budweiser), which I think do demonstrate that not much is needed to nudge (some) people to shift their behavior
(x!)^(1/x) ~ x/e

better:
(x!)^(1/x) ~ x/e - 1.8 * ln(ln(x))

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=+%28x%21%29%5E%281%2Fx%...
i agree. send emails/chats whenever you want and it's up to the recipient to manage their notifications to prevent them from getting sucked in after hours.

- i'd rather log in at 9am and see a bunch of late night emails than logging in at 9am and then seeing a deluge of auto-sent messages flood my inbox at 9:01.

- there needs to be some 'core' working hours, but people may be in different time zones or may do their best work in different parts of the day. if you're a night owl, we shouldn't do anything to stop/discourage you from doing work at 1am.
I went to school in New Mexico and it was a regular practice there to set controlled burns in places like the Gila National Wilderness.
Well it can’t be just profit seeking, companies have been doing that forever. Something has enabled them to raise prices without impacting sales.
> The same way people have talked for millennia? Talk, pay attention to what other people are saying, and be on the lookout (and open to) new ways words and terms are being used.

Can you demonstrate that people use toxic masculinity to mean "all masculinity is toxic"?

> Your mistake is to label usages different than your favored one as "misusages." It's not a "misusage" if someone is successfully communicating their meaning to others (but maybe not to you). If you're having trouble communicating because you're getting hung up because you cling to some "official" definition and reject all others, the problem is on your end.

I am having trouble because I'm using a word in the intended way and under the commonly understood definition (as seen in dictionaries etc.), and people are wilfully misunderstanding the word. I don't have trouble communicating, they choose to have trouble understanding. I don't think that anyone really uses "toxic masculinity" in the way you describe some people use it.
Wage inflation spiral is a myth.
> Coal and gas are even cheaper to build and run

That's not really true anymore:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy
In ideal world. Stuff like groceries are such a rigged market that (well I'm sure somebody already wrote a book about it, recommendations?) it puts financial institutions to shame. Just a few brands own most of the stuff you buy [1] and then supermarkets have deals with those. Both protect each other.

I mean market finds its way, people can move to small stores and non-branded products if it gets bad enough, but to paraphrase, market irrationality can outlast people's well being.

I'm not in favor of some more regulations which usually only help big players, but corporations power steadily climbs and I expect it to become bigger than those of governments.

New big companies, some decent competition, come from places when there was none. They hardly ever can push themselves into existing markets. They create new ones. But we still need groceries, gas, electricity etc.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/elzqf2/eleven_c...
> Analytic queries are not the primary intended use of EdgeQL

You can write analytic queries with EdgeQL now, albeit we do need to add support of windowing. While we certainly prioritize usefulness of EdgeQL for the kind of efficient data fetch operations you need when you build apps and services, the language itself was designed with a goal of becoming equally good for analytics too. We'll get there.
> Governments etc. argue that employees should not demand higher pay to match inflation to avoid a "spiral" out of the goodness of their hearts.

Source?
Would we ever move if we weren’t forced or would we just get to a different emergency after putting off necessary changes?

My point being is that the other option wasn’t to do a gradual, planned rollout, given the political realities
I am not concerned with achieving anything, so I think I'll be fine.

To clarify, I am taking a stoic stance on this, not a detached or unconcerned one.
This is how it works in a reasonably competitive economy. The economy is not competitive for the EU markets that matter and this means time beyond what you call short term doesn't see many new entrants.

Unless by long term you mean waiting until the EU has a competitive economy. That's not what most economists do.
I agree politically it's a hard change. I'm just speaking about ideal policies at this point.

Perhaps a wide retraining program offering. Something like "Hey you've been unemployed for 2 years, you're losing benefits starting (sometime). To help you along you can take a free solar installer course paid by the tax payer."
- "E.g., if I buy turmeric from Walmart or Whole Foods, can I safely assume that they're monitoring the product streams for lead?"

You can safely assume absolutely nothing.

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29375003 ("Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead (consumerreports.org)") (2021)

- "The lack of regulation leaves much of the monitoring of heavy metal levels to companies. [Consumer Reports] contacted all the ones with products in our tests to see how they limited heavy metals."

- "Of the companies that replied to our questions—Al Wadi Al Akhdar, Costco, Bolner’s Fiesta, Gebhardt, Litehouse, McCormick, Roland Foods, Spice Islands, Target, and Whole Foods—a few said they require their suppliers to have a program for controlling or testing for heavy metals. But only three—Al Wadi Al Akhdar, Bolner’s Fiesta, and McCormick—specifically said they test products in their manufacturing plants for heavy metals."
Do you think that only experienced murderers should adjudicate murder cases? Should all cops be expected to have extensive criminal experience, and should we expect them to return to crime after they retire from the police?
The profit motive & margins fund lobbyists and political campaigns to change policies that absolutely drive these market changes.

We could choose to have anti-trust measures with teeth. We could choose to tax assets. We could have progressive corporate taxes to encourage smaller company sizes and more public transparency. There are so many things we could choose, but the ones that we do choose are the ones that shareholders lobby into place to generate ROI.

This is either a feature or a bug, depending on whether your income flows through line 1 or line 7 of your 1040.
The problem here, especially if the prices are rising higher than wages is, that sooner or later the basic necessities (food, shelter, ...) reach a level, where people can barely pay them, and all the other industries suffer, because consumers don't have any leftover money for luxuries, gadgets, etc.

Some prices (mostly services) can be adjusted, some could be (rents, housing, mostly by rezoning and building more), but due to "reasons" (mostly local and national governments holding back) they aren't (until someone compares the average pension to average rent and instead buys a sniper gun and finds the responsible politician). Some prices are also stuck due to politicians doing their dick-measuring competitions ending in sanctions for countries that have stuff other countries need, and industries shutting down because that stuff became too expensive there.

On the other hand, we did print A LOT of money in the last few years, and blaming everyone else except (also) the ones who have the power to print is just stupid.
I definitely didn't use the open dialog in Notepad to run other executables at the library.
Pedantry - claiming ideas in other's heads is not much different.. That kind of 'political analysis' is similar to playground taunting - "you so stupid, you go gaa gaa gaa!" while making faces. Too shallow, broad and general to be useful as anything but rationalization.
Why could corporations and anyone else buy up everything - was it perhaps absurdly low interest rates?
A public release of TimelineBuilder for building personal digital data timelines
I froze in my 35 degree apartment for about 5 days a couple of years ago when the TX powergrid went out due to the unwinterized power grid. The state essentially did nothing, and the GOP politicians will easily get reelected who oversaw that disaster. The voting base isn't rational and these things won't move the needle.
Lol statistically nearly every traffic stop is a completely benign affair with zero danger. Cops just spend all their training being told everyone is trying to kill them and to shoot anything they don't like.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of cop deaths are from traffic accidents, but try telling cops to stop driving like idiots or driving distracted and they'll just tell you "no no no no it's a hard and dangerous job".

Sanitation workers die on the job more often than cops.
A good chunk of the tallest buildings in Boston are built on late 19th century landfill (Back Bay). Admittedly not an earthquake-prone area but still.
Meta’s new Quest Plus subscription gets you two free VR games per month
> I've always wondered why more private companies don't create shared buses to help backpackers hofit the entrance to the park.

Don't they, though? I've seen these at Zion, the Lost Coast, the Cascades, Olympic National Park, etc. And around big cities, often the city/county itself will provide a direct-to-trailhead bus.
If you are allowed to use R for base and exponent then this is tautological because Z is a tiny subset of R. And factorials are by definition in Z, which is closed under multiplication.
If the linear relationship is the interesting part then lead with that.
Mostly, a helmet is unlikely to be the difference between life and death for a cyclist.

30mph (faster than I've ever been on a pedal-bike) is about 13m/s. That's about ~10m fall if my maths is right.

Did you mean a motorbike?

It feels like the comparison to cycling would be at least two orders of magnitude in difference of increased risk.