skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe inflation is corrosive for investing but maybe it is not bad for the average Joe

Joe wins one game of musical chairs once in a while, but the banks won't lose money lending money, they will get their dues, and with the uncertainty of inflation they will err on the safe side and the other Joes will lose.

> Maybe, it is time that something else than salaries hurt for a change

Low and middle class people are the most affected because wages and salaries aren tied to an inflation index. Rich people have easier access to inflation resistant investments.
It will suddenly become their business if that Prigozhin thug seizes nuclear weapons.
Your question seems to betray you - "How much" indeed... You seem to expect that a human life should be valued on the same scale as material goods - in dollars.

What changes would someone have to make in themselves in order to discover the real value of life? If they were to make those changes, would they be better off?
> However risk taking on housing has historically turned out bad for individuals and the economy

What are you basing that on? The GFC may be the most recent major crisis but home ownership is the American dream post-WWII.
That turn of events always struck me as funny too.

Ironically (re. the title), I believe he even referred to the preceding standard of mobile browsing as the “baby web”.

But now “responsive design” has taken over instead. Still no multitouch.
On iOS, HACK is my favorite of the several I've tried: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id...

There's an Android version as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...
+1 to Octal being fantastic
This video would seem to contradict that sentiment.

https://youtu.be/dB_YjuAMH3o?t=103
From the graphs in the article, the current price of rice is 5 and it was 4 pre-pandemic.

The unit of the price is in foreign currency, and we know there has been significant inflation in the last few years, so that looks like it is showing no significant change from then to now.

There were spikes during border closings during the pandemic, but this is in a border region where smuggling is prevalent, and the spikes are in foreign-currency based prices. They don’t have a way to normalize for effects such as less supply of foreign goods leading to less demand for foreign currency (which could have caused the foreign currency’s value to temporarily crash inside the black market.)
Can someone explain the feminist connection here? What, specifically, is "feminist" being used as a code word for? And how does that link back to feminism vis-a-vis patriarchy?
> Around 4.91% interest up to $4M.

Anyone being paid interest like that on demand deposits should expect their bank to fail, unfortunately, and consider themselves lucky to get cents on the dollar when it does.
Not sure but I comment from both my phone and desktop.
A lot of this probably depends on who "we" refers to. I would imagine that many regions are not immune to a mega drought.

For the West specifically, wealthier nations can kind of just export the shortage by paying more for supplies that would go elsewhere.

The West also feeds most of its crops to animals, so that is an area for relatively easy reduction in an emergency. 67% of what is grown in the USA is animal food. But that proportion is dramatically lower in places like India.

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
No we are not immune. At all
I gladly suffer the ux for the information density. I occasionally favorite comments that I meant to flag, or vote the wrong way, but these actions are all undoable. I've never deleted a comment by mistake; there's a confirmation prompt for that.
Surely CSS can detect and cope with screen sizes.
Yes? I traveled to China and had some amazing food I haven’t found here since, Same for pretty much anywhere I’ve traveled. This is due to not having to force things to fit the American palate and survive as a restaurant.
We also had a mass-hunger event in Eastern Romania in 1947, partly as a result of the war and partly because of a dreadful drought season.
Literally "so much for Marxism": they removed any mention of Marxism, Leninism, or communism from their (mostly-rhetorical) constitution way back in 1992.
Honestly having root on a phone or any OS is generally a bad idea. You can do anything as an unprivileged user. Better to not have root accessible at all. The problem is when someone else has root.
They link to all their sources. Do you disagree with the facts they quote, or the conclusions they reached from those facts?
Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit.
> Nothing that can be done about it now, but for the future you might want to look into getting a smart phone keyboard.

i've tried 3 of them over the past 10+ years and hated every one of them. The fact is that Android apps are simply not designed with physical keyboards in mind. They're designed for touchscreens, with keyboards being (if anything) third-rate citizens.
Most of the mortgages here in South Africa are variable interest rate. So whenever the government wants to "fight" inflation, they raise the interest rate. They cause a huge increase in the amount I have to pay to service the debt, to the point where it makes more sense to sell off that debt and just hoard the money somewhere else. Just a small anecdote.
What Do We Know About the New Russian ‘Civil War’–Can We Trust Social Media?
It reads like your saying that if AI reads the source for a Floss project then the AI has to make any code it generates Floss as well...

Which is like saying that if a person has ever read floss source then all projects they make must be floss...

Which we all know is absurd.

If your want to apply extant rules to AI then you have to actually think more than just superficially about the application bof the rule.
I think it depends whether you're talking about the philosophy or Karl Marx, or the philosophy of dictatorships that kind of started from some "Marxist" roots and kept the name
My grandfather died of smallpox and I'm in my 30s. A lot of things we think of as history were really not that long ago.
Government has plenty of levers to pull - they just don’t pull them.

Want to have utilities (or any industry) put cyber security front of mind? Just tell them that they are liable for consequential damages for any service outages related to a cyber security incident, and watch how good they get at cybersecurity.
The amount of scientific work that could be done with such a machine would be staggering, specially if it can be local. I use 2-10k cores on a daily basis, having a dedicated machine with 1k would make debugging large scale problems much faster.
I really don't see how this definition of consciousness in humans differs from that of consciousness in a bee, or a jellyfish, or a squirrel.
This is a great take. I thought the author was only trying to demonstrate problems that occur when moderators act in good faith. Since the only forum I use is HN, I forget that plenty of moderators do not act in good faith.
Virtuousness is assigned to activities and pursuits that, in that context, to the non-virtuous may seem inconsequential, or worse than the "real thing", or a waste of time. Virtuousness is assigned, say, to reading, "she's a great reader," or cooking at home, "she makes such homely meals," while living one's life or going to a restaurant or bar instead of grocery shopping and peeling potatoes and cooking for hours is seen as plebeian.

"She likes to drink diet coke" does not carry the same weight as "she likes to drink tea," where the former suggests an impoverished mind and the latter a certain philosophical attitude toward life. Or "she likes to walk everywhere" compared to "she likes to drive everywhere," where walking is "imbued with a vast significance, an aura of virtue," whether in the city, mountains, or woods (but especially in the mountains or woods). "She keeps a diary" sounds profound, but shallower when the diary is digital than when the paper smells of lavender and evokes flowering hills as far as the eye can see.

I like to travel to certain places and at certain times, which makes me a "conditional traveler", and very often I travel alone, which often allows me to get to know the local people and to lose myself, for a few days or weeks, in another world, perhaps in another life. Other people like other ways of traveling, which I may find more or less appealing to myself, but it's the same feeling I get from clothes worn by others: I may not like them on me, but I don't have to wear them.
I use the AVX2 version of Thorium on my laptop and it feels quite fast compared to Edge. Not sure if I'm imagining it.
> that it cost money to do anything is a confirmation that it is due to capitalism. I would argue that it is the definition of capitalism.

Sorry my friend. It isn't. It costs money to do anything on this planet, even if it isn't what most would understand to be currency. Barter is also a form of currency.

Altruism aside, nobody is going to give someone a dozen eggs without getting something in return. And that something has to be worth at least what it took to get the 12 eggs. Because, well, doing something at a loss is not sustainable. Eventually you hit zero.

And, of course, you have to protect yourself from unknowns --five egg-laying chickens are eaten by a wolf. Which means you need to get something more than what it takes to make those eggs or you will, again, hit zero when you can't sustain things because of various events.

At this point this isn't even profit. You are working for exactly what you put into making those eggs and a small insurance hedge because shit happens.

Now we get into capitalism: Your eggs are better than those someone else offers. You deliver. You have better packaging. If an egg arrives cracked, you replace it. You created a system to be able to package eggs safely with less work.

You recognize this delivers value. You determine you can charge more for your eggs than the raw cost of production. You also want to expand so you can service more people in town and maybe even neighboring towns.

You need money to expand...because the construction isn't going to be free. So, you tack on as much profit onto your price for a dozen eggs as the market is willing to pay and hope for the best. That last part is important. Someone else could come out with equivalent eggs and tack-on less profit. Unless you have a monopoly, you do not control profit, the market does.

And that, in a super-simple nutshell, is how capitalism happens.

Absolutely every person on the planet is a capitalist.

Why?

Everyone tries to earn more than the raw costs to exist. That's your profit. It allows you to save to get things you want, navigate tough times, support a family, go to school, etc.

In other words, capitalism is part of our very DNA. It isn't some weird evil thing that's been imposed on society.

We have family from the old USSR. You wouldn't believe the things they had to do to survive. Capitalists to the core...because the shit they lived in was just that, shit.
That seems like a stretch. I mean if someone just put some source code in your mailbox you don't suddenly get the rights to use it however you want right?
As you are looking for validation, I can give you some. While I work remotely, sometimes I pop in to the office. It's not so much conversation with the people as the whole ritual: biking to the city, enjoying the morning hustle, eating breakfast in my favorite cafe in the center, then doing some work away from my kids, having anything I like for lunch, and finally biking back home enjoying some new route.

But I do it only sometimes, and frankly I don't miss the previous set up at all. I would never return to the office, period. The very fact that I feel more in control of my life is so liberating I can't imagine giving it back.
Yep, it's tiny. On my iPad mini it's still enough of a pain that sometimes reach for the pencil. On my Android phone, I've noticed that sometimes the text size switches between tiny and not-quite-tiny when I refresh when I'm visiting new.

The accessibility on mobile devices leaves much to be desired.

Even on desktop the text is small, down to 7pt, which leads me to have Chrome show HN at 125%.
Its not. It is indifference which leads to the very few - who can hold the power - to continue holding it unobstructed and play their narrative with propaganda because they themselves know that even if people realize this is BS, they'd still not do anything about it.

There is a cumulative "corruption of will" - for the lack of better term - that comes with it. And when there is no will, those who can have their way, will continue to have it.
Same goes for nearly all cellular processes. Metabolism is virtually impossible to define as a series of discrete elegant deterministic procedural steps and properties. Same goes for insulin, and all other hormones.

You can't even try to think of something like insulin as massive polynomial function where you might eventually understand all of the variables involved and how they affect said function. In fact the function could completely change at any time depending on other esoteric confounding factors in the body. It's absolutely insane.

In fact almost all biological functions in the body can be described as trillions of chemicals and chemical pathways interacting in infinitely complicated ways that just so happen to occasionally result in enough homeostasis to support the macroscopic survival of said organism because of a sloppy brute force evolutionary system that took centuries to unfold.
The pain point for me with Hack is that the vibrations need the pro version to close (or literally anything in the settings).
Only those on the outside not involved with Windows desktop development with agree with a stellar job description.

Those still involved in Windows desktop, will assert that they are running like headless chickens, no clue which UI framework to invest, downgraded the development experience back to pre-.NET days, no longer hold the golden rule of backwards compatibility, and have teams of a ridiculous tiny size, only capable of bug fixing and very small feature development.

So most likely any employee involved in Windows desktop development, that doesn't drink the Kool Aid of COM/C++, will also not vote with much thrust on their business unit future.
Interesting. I guess I'm just curious if they accept the losses or have figured out a way to make it much more efficient.
Yeah, I'm not so sure about this. It may be a "golden age" for medical innovation, but I have little expectation that this will reach anyone except for the ultra-wealthy.
Other companies nickel and diming engineers think they are somehow getting something for free. All the highest performing companies in the world pay insane amounts to their programmers
Having helped implement NIST 800-171 for a small enterprise company preparing to work prime government contracts I can assure you it costs money either way.

Time and money spent working with cybersecurity professionals writing SOG/SOPs which map the business practices to the standard. Money spent buying and setting up some of the necessary equipment to handle CUI properly. Time (indirectly money) spent redoing decades old business processes to map to the new paradigm. Time (indirectly money) as the business spent time training their staff up on the components relevant to their business units.

I agree that building a culture is at the root of it, however, that culture alone isn't going to move the needle unless everything else is in place as well. Worse, you have to walk the company through the 5 phases of grief because in general people don't entirely understand what is actually going on and why it's important. "So you can get government prime contracts" is an easy answer, but doesn't erase the confusion behind all of the hand-wavy procedural work required to execute them.
> Maybe inflation is corrosive for investing but maybe it is not bad for the average Joe.

*The average homeowner
Yet I work in a company where the average tenure on my team is over a decade....

This extreme turn over is bad for both employers and employees, not sure how to fix it as it seems both employers and employee have terrible attitudes as to the cause, and neither actually want to fix it in general
> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit.

Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.
Give code review as a junior developer
North Korea is a capitalist country in which one family owns everything.
Not according to their own advertising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4
The Intel "Sierra Forest" Xeon CPUs with E-cores are announced for 2024.

Even if they are not branded Xeon, but Atom, there already are a lot of Intel server CPUs with E-cores, e.g. Denverton Refresh, Snow Ridge, Parker Ridge and the recently launched Arizona Beach.
Out of curiosity, what parts of the UI do you screen out?
https://www.wired.com/2008/03/ff-kurzweil/ Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity

Maybe we are in early or alpha pre-jackpot (one free upvote to people who got the ref).
Average Joes are paid wages not in stocks and real estate. And wages haven't been tracking inflation.
Unless Putin let this thing simmer to draw out dissent and then crush it.
Just installed, thank you.
I guess they didn't pause training large models. I didn't see their name on the list:

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

I am not saying they should have, but I am interested in what fraction of those training large LLM's have signed on?
Sure, I appreciate it's "old school" - though the markup, nested tables, embedded formatting, spacer gifs, etc make this rather hard.
Could Bank Regulation Be Privatized?
DS9 suffers from the usual "takes two seasons to get going" handicap common to Treks, but has the additional Bajor thing dragging it down. Is it the Israel-Palestine conflict or not? The show cannot seem to decide. The actors manage to be solid enough to redeem a lot of the show's problems, even non-regulars like Jeffrey Combs.
Unless the AI has state and a model of the world (including a model of mind of the other drivers) it won't be able to anticipate dangers. It's going to be as bad as any teenager who has just mastered the controls but nothing else. Such a person is perfectly capable of keeping a straight lane on the highway (note - that's what today's driver assist systems are good for) but nothing else. You wouldn't want to be near them in traffic (doesn't everyone keep double distance from jerky drivers with L plates?) and you wouldn't trust them in dense traffic.

You can see that at the point where the Tesla busts through the stop sign - any normal person would associate a stop sign with danger and proceed with caution, except of course the teenager with L plates.

Current AI is better than a drunk teenager, but that's too low a bar. Driving sober, well-rested and in daytime (driving during the day also keeps you away from all the other drunkards) is actually remarkable safe. Remember that the safest mode of travel per journey is not the airplane, it's the motorcoach.
What people forget is that web browsing in general sucked on the earliest mobile devices. Remember the mosaic tiling Safari would show if you tried to scroll the page faster than the browser could render it?

Taking that into consideration, Flash worked pretty damn well on Android. It wasn't doomed because of its mobile inefficiency. It was doomed because both Apple and Android knew that they could never convince developers to build for their 30% tax walled gardens if Flash remained a fee-free alternative on the open web.
Lucky for most of us who enjoy those platforms, two million people is plenty. Like all the bumper stickers in my town say, "BEND SUCKS. DON'T MOVE HERE."
Then when you go to zoom, it registers a click first, and you hit some random link instead.
What you’re implying is not true at all. I am massively critical of online moderation and dang and his team definitely curate a lot but it’s done very transparently when potentially controversial and he has an extremely reputable track record
thanks for your explanation, this clarified a lot of things.
FedEx Odometer Fraud
I was saying that in the scale of human enterprises, the cost of returning soil from another planet is a rounding error. 9 billion over a decade vs the operating cost of O&G industry as an example, isn't even close. Soil from Mars vs oil from earth.

Both are an amazing scientific and technological accomplishment, but one is also historic.
On the other side of things too, predictions out to 2100 felt like weird sci-fi until I realised my kids could be alive and in their 80s.
It’s easy to flag. Would not take much effort.
Ya, it's been said that "it is part of the issues to be fixed in the next UI update" for like 10 years now.

To me, the most annoying part of using HN w/o other clients on mobile is not this, which can be addressed with extra care or zoom in. It's the idiotic decision to somehow think the post text is less important than comments and so the font color must be set to be lower. It's so low that it's unreadable in mobile. For long posts like many show-HNs, I have to just skip reading it until I get back to desktop, which isn't only not ideal, but also defeats the purpose of show-HNs since the ones that doesn't stay at top are the ones needed all the attention and HN is not helping by making it unreadable.

Ya, a simple css color change to match comments' color need to be part of the fixes to be addressed when there's a blue moon.
>>Employment, like all trade, is basically an adversarial, zero-sum relationship

that is a very poor way to look at trade in general, and employment.

If I am looking to hire a HVAC company, or Auto mechanic, or anything else I do not want them to be "a gullible fool" nor should I be a the "a gullible fool"

This idea that every trade has a winner and a loser is moronic
It’s not about smarts it’s about incentives, if I’m incentivized to buy cybersecurity equipment but there is no incentive or penalty for not actually preventing cybersecurity breaches, a whole bunch of stuff is going to be bought with little effect.
I have wondered if the very minimal changes have been as there's some anticipation that the easier HN becomes on mobile the more likely users would comment while on the go, which may be considered a negative if it affects comment quality (eg: generally shorter time windows to read/parse content and therefore make thoughtful comments about, more challenging on phone OS UIs to write and edit longer form comments).

I'd be curious what the internal stats are for comments made on mobile since I wonder if the stats are already high and whether they show any trend of less highly rated comments.
The senior engineer's job is managing engineering intangibles:

- psychology

- team work

- understanding economics, business context

- establishing reinforcing and refining culture

- setting a strong example, inspiring through practical
demonstration + theory/reasoning

- improving standards in every aspect of engineering

- championing the system, making it work, but also making it shine

- retaining the best people, raising their standards even further

- dealing with politics at an above average level (not necessarily at grand-master level)

- "wisdom" - humility, strong will, reasonable words, firm decisions, etc

I'd recommend reading about Admiral Rickover. If I had to recommend one book - "The never-ending challenge of Engineering".

If you have less time, read his essay "Doing a job": https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
We can now buy grain in bulk and ship it anywhere through the world.