skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users can move to other instances on Mastodon without tremendous effort

Moving instances is unnecessary friction. I don't care if you qualify it as tremendous or not

> and it seems like your main beef, about some admin limiting what you can see by capriciously de-federating left and right seems to be primarily hypothetical.

What a disingenuous comment. You went from "have surveyed the 200k instances" to "it's hypothetical then".

No. It has already happened in a few of the instances recommended on Reddit. It happened in the first 2 I created accounts for.

> Why wouldn’t one start out on a pretty open, well-connected instance, follow whomever they want (‘constructing what you want to see’), and defer worrying until/unless some actual admin actions bother you?

I was following one that I thought was more open than the initial one I found myself in and suddenly it wasn't and the argument of some users was "of course the admin can defederate at any point for vague reasons"

> Second, users absolutely can run their own instance for full control over federation decisions, which is, while out of reach for normies, well in the capability of most HN readers such as yourself.

I'm also capable of hosting my own email and plenty other things but it's unnecessary effort for the value. It really is amazing how after disingenuous takes I get a ridiculous appeal to geekdom or something.

> I’m not even saying Mastodon or Lemmy is a good replacement for Reddit! It’s quite different and I think a Reddit-like thing offers way better threaded discussions, and find sorting through Twitter-style reply chains far, far worse than upvoted comments! But I’m still puzzled by the critiques you’ve chosen on the fediverse.

You're puzzled because you're unwilling to read them for what they are and instead produce strawmen in order to deny they are a reality.

Mastodon works for you. Great. But my points stand and are in no way rebuked by your "it's hypothetical", "wait, it's easy", wait, it's not easy but a HN type should do it.
Personally I'm really stoked about the Uno finally getting a 32 bit ARM core. And an M4 at that! I would've thought maybe a M0+ (like the RP Pico) on the Uno and perhaps an M4 on a hypothetical future Mega update.

Good stuff from Arduino. The AVR on the previous Uno revs was getting quite outdated. Simple to use yes, but the Arduino environment mostly abstracts over that and only "power users" ever need to dive into peripheral registers and whatnot (eg to use interrupts).
Music is a self eating beast these days. Any new artist is competing with not only all contemporary artists but all past artists too, since its so trivial to just go on spotify and find a playlist with the "best alternative albums of all time" and find all the usual suspects of the last 25 years or so. It's really unprecedented for old material to be at an even pedestal as new material. These older already monied acts tend to get the bigger venues in town and tour all the time too, so it extends beyond the digital realm. Not to mention how many small act sized venues have closed and no longer exist so there are even fewer potential opportunities for such bands compared to the arena filling acts.
There is no competition! There is like three companies on the shelf - hawking 12 different "brands".
I meant labels such as "educational", "funny", "thirst-inducing" or "sexy", as opposed to just thumbs-up / thumbs-down.
Same equation, different framing: What you're saying is that programmers are producing according to a Cobb-Douglas Production function with output elasticities of 1. Only caveat: in this setup, the production function has increasing returns to scale, i.e. doubling all the inputs (simulants, power of the machine, ...) more than doubles the output.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_productio...

[2] https://jigjids.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cobb-dauglas-tan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-Born_Confused_Desi
The nice thing about fees is that if the website doesn't work, then Booz Allen doesn't make any money. I know one local campsite that doesn't use recreation.gov; you have to call them to make a reservation. Often nobody picks up the phone. Another one you have to email them, and they might get back to you weeks later. Please, let Booz Allen have my $6 fee, in return for actually running a reservation service.
My favorite is when you search for things you know are there and they don't show up.

My second favorite is when you search for things, it shows up in search, you tap and it brings you to a page and the setting isn't there.
>Of course, for GPL code, their customers could redistribute the source code.

The fact that the subscription agreement does not allow this is exactly what we're discussing here.
The same way supporters of the greedflation hypothesis defend their position on corporate greed: by claiming it increased substantially in recent years. Except the money printing hypothesis champions have more convincing data.
All the union busting efforts are showing their consequences in worker safety.
I mean something unusual definitely happened in the US https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL. Is the alternative that companies suddenly discovered they were greedy?

edit: though I do want to add the m2 supply might be more important here, and it doesn't show anything as dramatic https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL. https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...
In textbook macro, if you have a shock to aggregate demand, then (ceteris paribus) the result is an increase in inflation and an increase in profits. That doesn't mean that profits are the cause.

So it may be an uninteresting or unhelpful way to put it, but I think he accurately summarizes how many people who have studied economics would think about it.
Do you ever check before you just show up? There's not enough rangers to go around checking permits on every trail, but if you're unlucky and get caught without a permit when you're supposed to have one, you might have to pay a fine (not the end of the world) but also might get turned around (ruining your vacation plans). And if the same ranger catches you twice on the same trail after turning you around... lol... they tend not to be too happy.
Since we have began keeping records in the late 1800s, there have been 26 confirmed deaths from cougar attacks in the US. Which is not to say one shouldn't be smart and aware of the situational risks of any activity, but calling it "dangerous" on that basis seems a bit extreme. In the past 30 years, despite a steady increase in hiking and trail-running, there have been 62 attacks total.

It is estimated that 50 million Americans go hiking each year, and of them 25,000 will die out on the trail. Hiking has some inherent risks. Cougar attacks should only be slightly higher than "swarmed to death by killer bees" on the list of reasons you don't go hiking or trail running.
Since this was written about 8 months ago. Our Elixir/Phoenix service has been incredibly stable and I can't think of a single time we had an issue with it.
Agreed. In particular the fees paid to Booz Allen should be disclosed.

Looking back earlier this year I paid $40 for two cave tours of a national park through the site. There are no listed fees. It is a reasonable price for the tour and the site was pretty easy to use, but now I am curious what the cut is for the park. Definitely am not against a private company getting paid to manage reservations but seems reasonable that the info is disclosed.
Can you imagine if kids actually started using this? mm.closeView() to instantly boot any pesky children off of your website, the ultimate age gate :)
But an endless cost on the backend...

Sounds like a great deal. At least for one political party who's entire theory of government is starving the beast. Labeling a fee based rental agreement as not being a tax is more important than what the actual final use cost actually is. Even if the users actually paying the fee end up spending orders of magnitude more in the long run. Its a fantastic way to hide immense sums of corruption, it just needs to be done one dollar at a time.
Late reply, but I have a friend with panic disorder who has had attacks from her heart fluttering, or even just eating food that makes her gassy. It's a straight shot from the vagus to your adrenal glands. I heard a term for this somewhere but Google is failing me utterly today.

She's in some sort of program now that if I understand what they're actually doing, they're trying to manage the vagus response.
Cross compilation is possible in elixir with burrito.
Knowledge Sharing by Managing Dependencies Between Spatial Knowledge Graphs [pdf]
My long term goal is to eventually be able to mostly run my house off DC solar. Considering that I moved to London from Las Vegas three years ago, it might not be the most realistic goal anymore, I grant you. ¦-D
I disagree -- I'd love if my last car was a station wagon, but there were eight station wagons on the market in the US at the time, made by five manufacturers. And of those eight, four have an MSRP under USD$50,000, and only two have an MSRP under USD$30,000. And the market hasn't substantively changed (Jaguar and Buick have dropped out of the market, but Mini entered the market and Porsche added a second model) since 2020, when I got my car.

I'm calling this out specifically because, in another era, the station wagon would have been the preferred option for a "family vehicle" that needed more space than a sedan. But since it's "easier" for an automaker to get an SUV on the road, the regulatory environment dictated how the market went.
Yeah! I read this maybe a couple years ago and now lead test anything w/ turmeric in it (tea, actual turmeric, etc.) Haven't come up positive yet though, thank goodness.

Can recommend just lead testing things. Test kits are cheap, it's very easy to do, you really want to know if you're eating/drinking lead (especially if you have kids). Also can recommend getting a water filter. It doesn't really fix dishwashing but for drinking or making things w/ water it's very easy -- you can get pretty big tanks where you could conceivably even make a pot of spaghetti and such.
I am thinking of just working in non-profits and foss after my phd.
Because the basic economic argument against this theory is pretty sound. Companies can't arbitrarily raise prices because market competition drives profits down. It's why highly competitive industries like the restaurant sector aren't profitable, everyone competes for the same consumers, and the lowest cost provider will win.

Inflation doesn't actually change anything about this so if companies can just collude and make up prices the question is why did they only start doing it three years ago
/usr was added when Dennis Ritchie's and Ken Thompson's /home partition was full and they added another disk - or so the story goes.
Open source projects can get RHEL for free.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/extending-no-cost-red-hat-ent...
Curious and just brainstorming a possibility here; is it possible for a city to rezone an existing property? Say a building that's unoccupied for N years triggers an automatic zoning review.
> First, analysts have been wrong about India’s rise in the past.

> Second, despite India’s extraordinary growth over the past two years—when India joined the club of the world’s five largest economies—India’s economy has remained much smaller than China’s.

> Third, India has been falling behind in the race to develop science and technology to power economic growth.

> Fourth, when assessing a nation’s power, what matters more than the number of its citizens is the quality of its workforce.

> But as Lee Kuan Yew explained in a series of interviews published in 2014, the year before his death, he reluctantly concluded that this was not likely to happen. In his analysis, the combination of India’s deep-rooted caste system that was an enemy of meritocracy, its massive bureaucracy, and its elites’ unwillingness to address the competing claims of its multiple ethnic and religious groups led him to conclude that it would never be more than “the county of the future”—with that future never arriving. Thus, when I asked him a decade ago specifically whether India could become the next China, he answered directly: “Do not talk about India and China in the same breath.”
Your time is up at this place, and it's time to move on.

However -- don't quit. Except in blatantly abusive situations, there's almost no reason to do that (and will hurt both your income stream and your chances at finding a new job).

Rather -- use it as a "lily pad", i.e. a safe base which you can use to find a new job. Even if you have to slow down a bit at the current job. It's fashionable to call this "quiet quitting", but you can ignore the current discussion around all of that.

By this point, they've forced your hand. And you're just doing what you have to do to move on and make the best of the situation.
I think it's fair to call my comment unhelpful because my point wasn't to suggest that the article's contents were unsurprising, but rather to criticize the HN title and provoke further reflection on causation. The article doesn't explicitly suggest that profits are the largest driver (which I interpret as cause) of inflation, but it does use the word drivers for categories in a graph, which I think is unfortunate wording. The data are consistent with corporate profits being the largest category of the bunch where inflation is realized rather than necessarily suggesting that it's the largest cause of inflation. An explanation citing corporate profits as the root cause of inflation would lose the ability to predict when inflation is most likely to occur (e.g. after periods of loose monetary policy combined with large fiscal stimulus)
I would not say "very short lengths", because undersea cables without powered repeaters (only with optical amplifiers) are possible until a few hundred kilometer.

But you are right that transoceanic cables need powered repeaters.
You probably need to add a zero to that amount, but it's a start.

Three years ago, I overheard a conversation of three CalFire employees on the way up to Tahoe.

The topic of the discussion was that "some" fire is desirable. And then I remember what the Chief said, and I'm roughly paraphrasing - "People tend to forget that CalFire's charter is to extinguish fires. [...]", and then hinting that unless that charter changes, more fuel will build up over time.
I'm surprised there haven't been any Georgist responses. I think the biggest reason this happens is that in dense urban areas most of these landlords are really speculating on land value. You'd like to have tenants but most of the profits you're going to derive from owning the property are from appreciation of the land value. It's not always worth it to sign commercial tenants to a long term lease and take on the costs of those tenants vs just holding the vacant building until you're ready to sell. I think the best method to fix these issues is to tax the value of land at close to 100%. This forces the landlords to put the land to productive use or sell it to someone else who will.
This already happens quite a bit with the referendums required to amend state constitutions in the US. Maybe not quite as nefarious, but they sneak in unpopular stuff, and the ballot summaries don't mention those parts.
Consumers have 3 inch chimp brains. Even the Kardashians have worked out how to exploit those brains.

Don't live in some day dream about what modern marketing can make the chimp brain do.
According to the article, this expectation is actually caused by "green" energy implementations and the shift to climate friendly infra. Mankind should be free to consume as much energy as it wants, but we need to focus on making that energy carbon neutral (or negative).

A quick google suggests that 173,000 terawatts of solar energy hits the earth continuously. If my googling and maths are correct, we're using 22k TWhr total meaning more energy hits the earth in 1 hour than we use annually.

Edit: plz do correct me on these maths if I'm off, i'm by no means an expert.
Why, I am shocked - shocked and chagrined - to learn that inflation is caused by capitalists raising prices to increase profits. I might even end up believing that the market system does not ensure fair distribution of resources and products in society. Perish the thought.
Black-Hole Radiation Decoding Is Quantum Cryptography
I've never tried it but I think I've heard of it. Regardless, it's a third-party tool, so not at the same level of support as Go.
Oh wow, I've seen this without knowing it had a name.
Thank you! Is there a particular book / article / video you recommend? Researching these things can be a nightmare so I find it helpful to ask for recommendations.
Also crashing into anything would kill you. Modern safety standards are very heavy.
The reason people in the Northeast are most likely to still have landlines
> How many web site designers and colocated machines does it take to run a freaking reservation system that probably gets a couple million reservations a day.

The cool thing about the US is that it's a democracy. If you feel so strongly about this, make this case to the government. There's precedent and it's bad, it's called healthcare.gov. I don't mean this in a pithy way btw, I'm a transit activist and I go to protests, phone up lawmakers, and attend public meetings. There are a wide array of small reasons that all sum up to the government being really bad at certain things. But again, this can change with you and me. Don't be emotional on HN, be emotional to your state reps!

> The _POINT_ of computers and websites is to lower the individual transactional costs of things like applying for a lottery. Rather than having to pick up the phone and speak to a person, or drive to the local office and fill out paperwork.

You're forgetting the huge growth our National Parks have seen. The days of the toll booth worked when the US had a fraction of its people, a fraction of the motor vehicle traffic, before the virality of social media, and with a more ingrained belief that a national park was a rugged place and not a place to take the family in an air conditioned, controlled experience. The old system of phone calls would have just made the parks out of reach for all of these new folks interested in them.
It just rises the upfront costs, but if the revenue exceeds these a thousand times...
> Okay, but how else are we supposed to talk? If we can't agree on common definitions we can stop right here and now, because any further discourse will just end up in misunderstandings.

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.

> Maybe, but are we then going to also use every other word based on misusage by few people? Or is it just "toxic masculinity" that we have to use wrongly?

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.

Once some other usage of a term is established or likely, it's a fool's errand to try to lecture it into non-existence.

Another thing to be mindful of is clinging too tightly to an "official" definition (especially a narrow technical one) can be an attempt at gaslighting: some discourse makes an observation and describes it with a particular term, but a competing discourse quibbles with the term as a way of denying the observation.
That's exactly what it's doing, though - deterministic floats, down to having exact same gcc version for all supported OSes. (Well, used to, haven't checked in a while.)
It was literally one statement. Please don't pull my leg like this because this site does have guidelines and it is very hard to obey by them when you're being challenged with ignorance.
This is appearing at Crypto'23: https://crypto.iacr.org/2023/program.php

Video of a previous lecture is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xNk3B-4TKs
An RA4M1 with an ESP32-S3 ... as the coprocessor for WiFi and BLE? Why not just do everything on the ESP32-S3? The RA4M1 seems a little unimpressive next to it. Something like an RA6M4 at least would have been cool, though: Add QSPI flash and an Ethernet phy ... Yes please! But this? Meh.
This is not complete as burnout isn't always caused by your job.

Family situation, school or even internal stress that you create for yourself because you have 100 hobby projects can all cause a massive burnout too.
Recently, I was approached by the biggest non-big-tech company I've ever talked to. They are a big EU startup and they have raised 1bn+ in the last few years. So I had a look at their Glassdoor reviews. Apparently they are extremely cheap, to the point that they make employees share a room when they attend corporate events.

Other than that, I have noticed a trend where recruiters reach out on LinkedIn with what I call "Hail Mary offers". They are way below market average job postings, that in some cases offer me half my current salary, for more complex work.
I still don't find the argument persuasive. Companies have always tried to maximize profits, as you said.

To me this highlights more companies realizing they have pricing power similar to monopoly power or cartel power. A company that has lots of competition can't raise its profit margins. But a company with a moat, where no competitors are able to fund the capital needed to compete, can raise profits.
and Korean?
No, we think we should have it eventually but haven't started to work on it yet. Potentially we can create a C-wrapper for the Rust lib, which isn't ideal but might be doable in a shorter time frame.
Arduino gets people into embedded. Its the brand name that uses the old name. It helps they have their own IDE and tutorials on their website.

Long term, you basically stop using them. Although during COVID, I needed some high GPIO boards and there were megas in-stock.
1. The Water Test: Take a glass of warm water and add a teaspoon of your turmeric powder to it. Let it sit for 10-15 minutes. If the turmeric powder settles down, it is pure. If it doesn’t settle to the bottom and leaves a dark yellow colour, it is adulterated.

2. The Palm Test: Take a pinch of your turmeric powder and rub it into the palm of your hand for a few seconds, then turn your palm over. Pure turmeric will stick to your palm and leave a yellow stain, whereas adulterated turmeric will mostly fall off.
> allows the user to monetarily reward a developer in the way the dev chooses is a bad thing

I honestly don't believe anyone can argue this in good faith. First off it's not user->developer but user->user and second "the way the dev [or user] chooses" is just silly. At the end of the day people want fiat currencies, Bitcoin (or any other crypto) in this case is clearly meant as a way to bypass the app store cut. It's not because "they really wanted bitcoin", no, they wanted a loophole. We can argue about if Apple/Google deserve 30% but pretending people actually want crypto for any reason other than avoid rules/regulations is silly.
Technically ecto, phoenix, plug, cowboy/bandit and Jason are third party tools too.
If you don't get the fee for just no showing I definitely agree. But I really do strongly believe that there needs to be heavy disincentives for reserving space that you don't use. The lack of extra space is the whole reason this site was needed in the first place.
This is exactly my reaction whenever I see things like this. Profit margins are not the DRIVER for any of these market changes, they are the end result of all the various factors at play.
Playbit is an endeavor to build a new operating system for software creatives