skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love PlanetScale and if I had one request it would be a plan between Hobby and Scalar (or even a way to combine multiple DBs in 1 plan, and no 2 prod branches won't cut it).

I have 2 paid Scalar DBs on PlanetScale and I have no intention of moving elsewhere but it does kill me that they both sit almost unused ~10 months out of the year (I have bursty traffic and only during the events, in-person events, that the software is built for). At ~$348/yr per DB it's still a steal compared to managing it all myself but I look at my usage (even during my "busy" months) and I barely make a dent in the usage tier I'm on. In fact I think you could total up my total usage for the lifetime of my account (both DBs) and they wouldn't total up to 1 month of the usage tier.

Again, I'm not complaining and the cost is manageable but I did create and sell some new software in the last year that I built on DynamoDB (in part to learn, in part due to costs). My software that uses PS is single-tenant so I need 1 per client which is on me, if I was able to rewrite it to be multi-tenant then I'd only have to pay $348 total a year instead of per-client.

All in all I have had nothing but good experiences with PlanetScale from the product itself to the support staff. I love the migrations and the rollback support, it feels natural when you start using it and dealing with migrations in other DBs feels like a huge pain once you've done it in PlanetScale.
Does France have concentration camps manned by police or something? What are you even saying..
I prefer it over every forum I’ve used, especially on mobile.
For a counterpoint, see the Planet Money episode "Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral" [1], where a researcher has some convincing arguments that yes, corporate decisions and profits are one of the most important drivers of the current inflation.

Personally I found it much more convincing than this article.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu0HLfcK5hs
> Christopher has built his particular brand of stardom into a full-time business with 10 employees—including his husband and Senior Vice President of Operations Marco Bianchi—
...

>Christopher declined to provide his total revenue, but said he makes enough to turn a profit after paying his staff and the $300,000 in gambling losses.

So you throw away $300k but make enough to pay 10 full time employees and still live comfortably?

Kudos to the guy for the "hustle" but it does make me question the sanity of today's world.
Like I said, you got what you voted for.
The real winners are the shareholders. They unloaded an overvalued stock at a ludicrous price, and got to walk away Scot-free while Elon tended to the burning mess. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they were tired of Dorsey's indecision too, and just wanted the whole thing to be over. And they got their wish, looking innocent as an angel and pure as driven snow.
What do you mean?! The HTML standard is very consistent across browsers these days, while JSX is not an actual standard for how to format documents, its just an alternate interface to write JS expressions.
A reminder that The Economist is owned by oligarchs and part of the very system it is poorly defending in this article. Look up who owns the Newspaper - as always, it's rich families like the Rothschilds, Cadburys, etc.

Really stop and think, what would these families and corporations prefer? A bunch of pissed of people in the streets mad at their governments and policies? Or a bunch of people reading a news article that says your concerns are 'nonsense'?
Germany stopped all their nuclear plants to go back to burning natural gas and worse, coal. So you tell me.
Very cool! I didn't know that was on the roadmap.
By that logic, when you create an account for some website through your Gmail you're not creating an account.

Threads still takes you through the expected signup loop of adding bio/description, finding follows and what not. It's just missing an email verification because it goes through IG.
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/2292#issuec... became https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/commit/125a81f2e... for some inexplicable reason. Now it looks like droidmonkey authored that entire feature. I did see the "squashed commits" and "taken under my wing" part but it appears it was a `git add .` and not a `git rebase` type operation that would have preserved the original author separate from the committer

I mean in the end I'm not jammed up about it because my objective was to contribute back the local patches I made to scratch my itch, but it means I have to remember the PR number because that's the only evidence of my authorship
If interest rates go down, the value of current profits increases and the value of future profits decreases.

This would incentivize companies to be slightly more "greedy" if you define "greedy" by "seeking current profits".

In practice, a bunch of data scientists have looked into "greedflation", and I'm not aware of anyone finding anything significant.

NPR did an episode on it: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1182019025/is-greedflation-re...

If you start with the world view that companies are evil and the source of all problems, it's easy to see "greedflation" everywhere.

Seek and you shall find.
> Mozilla has earned some trust here, I think.

Mozilla has already burned through a fair amount of the trust they earned, though. The trust that is left is why adverse reactions to this are mostly in the form of suspicion rather than knee-jerk condemnation.
That seems like an effective way of creating self-reinforcing inflation.
Some very strong Kool-Aid being consumed over there.
Going to be hard to convince people of this.

In an efficient system, maybe we can blame monetary policy. But we don't have an efficient system; most of us live under mono/ologipolistic supermarket "regimes". They don't compete, they collude. And they're taking advantage of price volatility to gain profits.
The companies were always seeking maximum profit; obviously something changed since before the inflation hit.
It's probably not greed like in a supervillain way, it's more of the following (which I've heard almost verbatim multiple times from business owners):

"Our costs have gone up 7%, so we should raise prices"
"How much?"
"How about 10%?"
"Sounds good"
The fact that we can't eat fish normally is something that all Americans should be mad as hell about. CEOs of chemical plants and their families should be forced to live within 1 mile of one of their plants. Things would get cleaned up right away.

I have a friend who loved sushi and she ate it at least once a week, if not more. Her daughter was born in the bottom 1% of size, so they took a blood test and her blood was poisoned with mercury from how much fish she consumed. She went through months of chelation therapy to bring it down, but the fact that she had to go through that is a testament to how fucked up our water is and how much we are killing the environment and ourselves.
Good article. If you're old enough or know history, you've seen how artificially low interest rates cause (or at least greatly contribute to) these problems in the first place, and then somehow everyone except the central economic planners get blamed.

Money should have a market price, not be manipulated by a few people in power.
capitalists never let a good crisis go to waste
I think the title is off: the theoretical limit of how high a mountain can be on a rocky planet of given size can be found by physical considerations. The geological and other factors come into play, too to make the practical limit much smaller than the theoretical one.
> If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good.

Definitely not in my case -- sometimes we just stumble over these things. As an inexperienced programmer (around 1989 or 1990?) I found a bug in the beta of microsoft's first C++ compiler, shipped on a dozen 5.25" floppy discs. All the other developers around me said "Don't be stupid. It's your code, it's not the compiler!" but I distilled it down to a minimal test case and proved it. The bug?

i=i+i;

That's it. It would give random results based on prior instructions unrelated to i.

I reported it and got a nice note back from the MSFT engineering team. Something like "Wow! I've no idea how we missed this. Good catch!"
It's not going to be on the Instagram app and is not available in the EU for the foreseeable future.
15+ and there have been a few but nothing particularly notable. Gmail has had outages too, and I couldn't tell you from personal experience which is more reliable which is interesting given the big difference in the complexity of the deployments (obviously Gmail also has the burden of much bigger scale).
At least in the US the fed has specifically had full employment as one of their goals at least for the last few years so I'm pretty skeptical of "corporations control the fed arguments"

Like I agree there's a lot of regulatory capture in the US but I just don't see any reason to think the fed is responding to big business rather than their own preferences.
Is it possible to see the demo?
Okay, let’s dig into that one. The tweet quotes the court ruling, which says “Psaki publicly reminded Facebook and other social-media platforms of the threat of ‘legal consequences’ if they do not censor misinformation more aggressively.”

But that quote isn’t accurate. The second direct quote in the ruling is there; “legal consequences” is not[1].

I read the whole thing. I don’t think she came close to threatening legal action at any point. So what are we to make of this? I can’t come to any conclusion other than that the judge’s political bias led him to be sloppy about the evidence and misquote government officials in order to bolster his case.

1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
Flouride doesn't need conspiracy theories to be considered dangerous.

That debate is definitely going on and has no consensus as evidenced by the fact that some cities are still removing flouride from their water and some are adding it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6195894/
I’d imagine a smaller applicant volume helped a bit there.
Expected when the newspaper is owned by some of the richest families on Earth. This is basically the same as a police department investigating themselves for wrongdoing.
Being wrong in wartime doesn't make it right in peacetime.

No such thing as profiteering.
Hi Dillon - congrats on the offer! I adore your product. Quick question though - how sure are you DO won't be interfering with the product and the current team will continue doing its job? Alternatively, would you like DO to take a dominant role in running the product?
In transportation and logistics, it turned into a bidding war, with the biggest box shops able to outbid anyone else. So rail and trucking and ships made the most profit in the history of existence by pitting everyone else against each other for a limited supply.

A bit of greed inflation and a bit of how a market economy works during a shortage. Now as shipping costs have dropped, companies have not dropped their prices accordingly because they have to cover their new massive headcounts and severance.
Isn't a large newspaper always going to be owned by the rich, almost by definition? And there are a lot of progressive/liberal rich too.
loaded very quickly for me, 1-2s maybe on a macbook pro on 13.2.1
If you need to add /s to a comment you shouldn't post it at all. Sarcastic snark belongs on reddit.
At least in California, if you see a picture of a mountain on the label then it must be from a natural source, it can't be tap water.
The problem I have with these claims are the lack of examples. Which companies would you say have been unfairly exploiting inflation to raise profits? The data is all transparent. The reason I ask is because what I keep seeing is something people reacting to things like "Company ABC's profits increased by 5%, to record breaking levels!" And in many cases that's absolutely true. But if your profits increase by 5%, and inflation increases by 9% - it means you're both (1) showing record breaking profits and (2) getting absolutely economically wrecked.
Can you provide a summary? It's quick to skim an article for arguments, but not a video.
No anger or "jumping" (projecting much?), no misinformation - and nor a "sir" - but keep up the baseless drivel and assumption, toxic single-comment throwaway...
You're falling in the assumption that the studies being done are actually right, and I questioned that as well.
They said they're on Android.
FED many times said one thing and done completely a different thing this year
These are great questions!

Shaping something for the whole body would be difficult, because most puncture resistant materials aren’t very stretchy. You’d have to have the perfect shape for a specific person. It probably is possible, but likely to take a lot of work and be rather uncomfortable.

Doing some quick googling, I find sharkstop.co, which makes wetsuits to protect against shark attacks. They say the “placement of Shark Stop panels … have been strategically chosen to significantly reduce the amount of blood lost during a shark bite incident…” It sounds like they’re carefully choosing the location to make trade offs between protection and wearability, which I suspect is the right approach. We do the same thing with our booties, and only have stingray resistant material covering some percentage of the bootie.
$35 million is how much they raised. If they were purchased for $111 million that means that after the investors are paid off their principal there is $76 million left. There are 70 employees, the original investors probably made some profit on their initial investment, so split that remaining $76 million among everyone and none of the employees left super rich from this deal except maybe the founders.
> Are you sure climate change had a greater destabilizing effect?

Read my comment more carefully. You don't get to dismiss contributing factors simply for not having the greatest effect. The world is complex, nuance exists.
Yeah, I would have been interested in this alternative hypothesis if it had any evidence behind it. Just a lot of "trust me bro" statements which don't cut it when peoples lives/livelihoods are in the mix.
The orange man is bad.

What I find of great concern is that the US used to have a strong dissident faction that was against government suppression of basic rights such as free speech.

Now, we have two cheerleading factions.

I feel the division in the country has stoked authoritarian sentiment on both sides as they desperately grasp for measures to suppress each other.
Joplin is a solid option, using it along with Simplenote for some quick notes since Joplin's sync isn't that great.

But I was wondering whether there is somehting not tied to the simplistic markdown with next-gen note tech like rich text and CRDT for great sync conflict resolution and note history and non-Electron clients for performance?
it's a probability thing, esp. if you interact with anything sensitive. Even if you don't actively work, having the keys to the kingdom and being latently trustworthy enough to not immediately defect is worth a lot compared to trying to find an equivalent (and transferring knowledge to them). also the knowledge is invaluable in the one-off scenario where you're actually needed.

leave the hustling to the juniors
Only if productivity stagnates, which it hasn't been in most industries.
"the effects are unlikely to have been material"

"material" means "having real importance or great consequences".

So the Economist is directly stating the opposite of your conclusion: the opportunistic and anti-competitive behavior, if any, is unlikely to have been a significant source of inflation.
> Republicans will reject any funding methods that add to the national debt, or taxes businesses

It goes deeper than that. Much of the narrative rejects the validity of claims, or files solutions in the "woke" category, to be fought out of principle.
Not sure if I should publish my "blog" here or not. It's been in a hiatus the last 6-7 years due to life and because I don't "feel" qualified to publish anything.

Anyhow, lately the consensus on HN has been "some is better than none" and "hit that publish button"...

At the moment I'm transitioning from WP to Hugo, trying to retain content from the old blog to the new one. It is a joyful journey, which has lasted about 2 years give or take. It's not the top priority, but it has been chugging along.

Most of the time has ended up in tinkering with Hugo and partials/shortcodes, than to migrate and create new content.

The "new" blog is at https://studiofreya.org and the old one is at .com

The .org one will probably become .com when the perpetual tinkering is done.
"Greedflation" is such an odd word. It implies that, as of late, these companies have "jacked up the prices under the cover of inflation". But since when have any of these corporate entities needed a reason to increase their prices or lower their wages? So strange that we demand a rationale when it appears to me that they are behaving as they are made to behave?
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If the conversation is about Trump I don't think there's any hiding that, nor any avoiding of flame wars.

Honestly I think it's a reddit meme from Harry Potter fans.
At no point does this article argue the idea that corporate profit increases are a significant driver of inflation. It's just whataboutism: "but governments did X!" "but consumers did Y!"

The thesis that "shortages create higher profits" is also not proven at all. Yes, in a shortage prices get higher, but at the same time there's less sales. Not to mention that downstream business also suffer from higher prices.

In the end this article comes from a place of treating capitalism as a machine that should be left untouched. Governments, consumers and workers must behave and fall in line, but God forbid questioning who's taking home the money that's mobilized to compensate for certain issues (COVID, war) and what could be done to stop that. Apparently it's never the fault of companies, as if they were some natural phenomenon whose behavior can't be changed.
The S&P is at the highest it's been in a long time, and approaching an all-time-high, yet

> where corporate profits are falling

Bull-fucking-shit
> Everybody should have been asking for pay raises the last two years for at least enough to cover the inflation rate.

And your employer reserves the "right" to be ungrateful/not appreciate you/take a stance in negotiation to try to protect their bottom line and say "no".

If inflation happens, then you ask your employer to give you a raise, and they say yes, and they then pass the difference along (increased payroll cost) to their customers through increased prices of goods and services, that creates more inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage-price_spiral
You've been far deader in the past, so nothing to worry about.
These are words that are part of laws. Robbery is usually meant to be unlawfully taking private property. Why society in the first place believes we can have so much private property in such an unequal society makes this not a simple concept.

I would be surprised if most people trying to do some semblance of a robbery on a financial institution actually believe they are harming others. If it goes cleanly, who got “hurt”? A bunch of rich people? Insurance?
It's weird how deeply that seems to have been memory-holed.

It was practically a meme how every week Elon would come up with some crazy new scheme to back out of buying Twitter. I think Elon's original offer was even a weed joke on Twitter that was taken seriously, although I may be wrong about that. What happened is that, for possibly the first time in his life, his actions had consequences he was forced to accept.

Now the narrative is that it was all some 5D chess move we mere mortals still struggle to comprehend. Like no, he never wanted Twitter, and now that he has it, he's just fucking around.
How someone can look at that graph and say that greedflation is nonsense is absurd.

Look at the growth in margins from 2019-today and tell me that margin growth isn’t egregious. Forget rate changes…look at the base numbers - 15% average profit is usury by most definitions (the US financial system even got a legal carve out for credit cards to be egregiously usurious)

This author wants us to ignore the last 5 years of greed fueled inflation - which used debt to drive margins up - coming due now.
But that's not unique to EU, look at US post 9/11. Let's say there was a period of more freedom in the west, and its declining steadily. I've heard some US reporter predicting live in TV exactly this happening as towers were falling, I wish I remembered his name.
So because some people were mean to you, you just changed all your values about gay marriage, climate change, social welfare, etc?

Honestly I actually don't like the "tax the rich to make them pay their fair share" narrative either because it implies that taxes are what pays for the social programs, which is reductive at best (at least with current US monetary theory). I don't make more than $400,000/year [1], but I have traditionally done pretty well in total comp, and I still vote left because I my viewpoints don't change just because some people were to demonize me.

Also, wasn't Elizabeth Warren's "pay their fair share" tax for people making like more than $10 million?

[1] I actually make $0/year right now due to layoffs.
You said in your other post that the vaccine was gene therapy and that cheap treatments were effective. I'm presuming you either mean Hydroxychloroquine or horse paste. None of those statements are true and because of them countless people died. The statements are worthy of head shaking now. During the pandemic they constituted shouting fire in a crowded theater. They are fundamentally unworthy of protection.
"A few percentage points of economic growth" makes it sound so trivial. When what you're really saying is you want to keep billions of poor people around the world away from the chance at a better life.
> Regardless, the fact that companies raise their prices in response to shortages is not only defensible but desirable.

Gouging is good. I'm sure they'll be lowered again when supply stabilizes. Any time now.
The animal like systems might be interesting to observe, but it doesn't sound like they would be useful for doing much work. I am not sure where the reliance on them would come in.
kinda hard to square with oil companies pulling record _profits_ in the wake of oil shortages due to turmoil in eastern europe and well, how those high energy prices drove a ton of cpi inflation.

you can't blame it on labor or desirable price based rationing when it all ends up in the profit column.
> Despite all the technology in the world the majority of police work is still plain old-fashioned knocking on doors and making phone calls. People will always voluntarily give up all the information in the world to be seen as good citizens. In your friend's case I'm willing to bet that they asked the sister for the names of his close friends and acquaintances and yours matched up.

Sure, but that doesn't pass the smell test in this situation:

1. That's a lot of work, which would take a lot of time to do. For instance, does the sister know the OP's number. His full name? His first name? Are they going do all the work to piece together fragmentary information for a wellness check?

2. The technology exists and is widely deployed for the police to straightforwardly take a quick shortcut around all that work.

And most importantly:

3. The police said they took that shortcut.
Bill McKibben's reporting says scientists estimate via temperature proxies that this is the hottest the earth has been in 125,000 years. Is that better for you?
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/no-human-has-ever-seen-i...