skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Though there may be examples of opportunistic or anti-competitive behaviour, the effects are unlikely to have been material.

So, there is prove that it is anti-competitive behavior. There is prove that all big corporations should be split in pieces. But The Economist decides to ignore that.

The Economist is not that bad. At least, it presents the data. Big monopolies are the source of inflation, the lack of competition is the source of inflation. But it always falls short to get to any reasonable conclusion, and decides to ignore its own data. That's a shame.
> If climate change is not a thing or not man-made, the worst outcome would be missing a few percentage points of economic growth by unnecessarily restricting energy sources.

A “few” percentage points of growth means misery for many.
The vast majority of people are only headline readers. They see the title and they go on insane tangents on the subject. Facebook is the worst by far.
Sounds like the early days of GTA SA-MP where you could just set your local money counter. Later on real-life server admins/coders had pretty decent anti cheat measures like server-side money counters and max speed heuristics (to avoid teleportation).
You are a bit too negative and skeptical.

> One can design a study and publish a paper to support just-about anything

Then find and read the other papers, science is made in this way, you can make an average of the different papers but not saying that a peer-reviewed paper is "bullshit".
its a real geologic zoo around there
Makes me glad I live in a country where pay raise to match inflation (at a minimum) each year is mandatory by law.

Allows us to ask for actual pay raises on top of that.
With Joplin and Nextcloud on a self-hosted vps I'm basically done: access from mobile, linux, windows etc.
One stated reason was to build a 'super app'. Take Twitter and its user network as first step, then add features like peer-to-peer payments, app store

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/18/23687125/elon-musk-...

Same was reported about Zuckerberg and Meta

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-dreams-buildi...
Yes like I said in the comment. I'm for all that because even if we're wrong about climate change we got healthier bodies thanks to it.
Absolutely, sir. It's curious how strange the HN community sometimes becomes when we enter the world of actual business -- rather than VC-fuelled entrepreneurship, FAANG employment, or the like. Not everything is engineering or YC type entrepreneurship.

Podcasts are incredibly powerful, when done well. How else can you connect with:

1. Over time, all key industry players in your niche.

2. Their customers.

3. Potential large customers. (You're not pitching them; you're gaining insights for your audience, and giving them a platform. Potential work can come later if it makes sense for them.)

4. Academic thought leaders. (Tons of them. Many of them love the chance to finally talk about the niche.)

5. And yes, investors.

6. Potential high-value employees. You get to learn from them at the very least.

7. You name it.

Try doing this with cold reachouts or networking -- it's doable, but typically takes quite a bit more time, and potentially some assets. And podcasts build trust, and typically take the form of a real human conversation about a niche topic.

Relationships are the lifeblood of any business, and podcasts are a wonderful way to initiate and cultivate real human relationships. They can be a refreshing change from all this automation and technology.
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Part of what I fail to understand about our current situation is that it seems like there's enormous economic gains to be had in leading the world in the development, production, and distribution of alternative energy (solar, wind, etc) technology. Would not a USG led moonshot type clean energy project both lead to economic growth while also helping address the issues from fossil fuel emissions? Are we just lacking the political will to make that happen?
Who would reply to a message generated by a chat bot. That would set off all my fraud alarms
> Of course, the root cause is poor monetary policy in general. That doesn't mean the actors are innocent.

Particularly when C-level execs continue to award themselves double-digit pay-rises, then publicly cry that wages should be compressed.
FWIW if you use Datadog, the "CI Visibility" product allows to query GitLab jobs by name, status, duration etc. (as well as set up alerting on all this).

(One current limitation though is that only finished pipelines show up, no ongoing ones).
> gdscript is not python, it's lacking several small python things that makes python awesome: list/dict comprehension, .items(), sets, although gdscript is quite enough and still quite a good language for game dev as it does just everything well, especially for natives types etc.

This is my biggest issue with Godot, although not that GDScript isn't python, its that it isn't a "real" language (or I guess general purpose might be a better word). In fact its probably the only thing I miss from Unity.

To be fair I'm not sure I'd pick Python myself, as much as I love the language I'd probably pick something with a bit more focus on performance. Go might be a good choice, I dont know.

It's not even that GDScript is bad, in fact without comparing it to other languages its pretty great, but you just lose so much when compared to general purpose languages. I know theres bindings, but having done the same with Raylib the support for non-official languages is pretty much non-existent. Its pretty bad for Mono, which is an official binding
You're not wrong but considering all of the recent 0-day exploits, I would argue that it's a better practice than the wack-a-mole response from vendors like Fortinet & Barracuda.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-new-...

When the vendors you're buying from aren't taking security seriously, I suppose you take any necessary step in limiting exposure. I'd also argue that outside of the big boys like Cloudflare, no one else is displaying their topology via their own website.
I kind of have a thing for DBaaS pricing, and that table with the comparison with RDS looked suspicious to me because it doesn't specify the exact instance type used on the AWS side. ~~I think it should be `db.r6g.xlarge` because it has 4 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM. That is $0.43/h, so $0.43 * 730 = $313 / month. They have one primary and 2 replicas, so 313 x 3 = $940. It doesn't quite fit, so maybe that's not the instance type they chose, but indeed it seems cheaper.~~ But that doesn't take into account reserved instances, which can lower the price on the RDS side.

Edit: Looking again, I think the instance used for comparison is `db.r6gd.xlarge` from the Multi AZ-deployments (two standbys) list. That is $1.445/h, so $1054 / month. The difference could be for storage and I/O.

However, the PS Scaler Pro is $1.5 / GB, which is quite a lot. General purpose storage in AWS is only $0.115. The comparison table uses 10 GB only, but if the DB size is 1 TB, then RDS would be a lot cheaper?

Please correct me if I got something wrong, I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing.
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> If climate change is not a thing or not man-made, the worst outcome would be missing a few percentage points of economic growth by unnecessarily restricting energy sources.

It’s easy to be blithe about a few percentage points coming out of your bonus if you already live comfortably in the first world, but a few percentage points of economic growth is life or death for millions of people.
As someone who was a life-long liberal, but worked their ass off to become a 1%er, I 100% believe that the Democrats are using people like me as scapegoats and it makes me furious. I worked and studied when my classmates or coworkers were partying, made good choices, and now I enjoy a nice life because of it.

But now all of a sudden, because I make over $400,000 I "don't pay my fair share of taxes", according to Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden? They can go fuck themselves. Until the Democrats stop vilifying people like me, I'm going to hold my nose and vote anti-Democrat across the board. Everyone that I talk to feel the exact same as me.
> Any amount? How does this play out with a CO2 concentration of 0.04%?

It spreads out, like colorants in water.

Think about mercury:

> For example, if Isabella weighs 132 pounds (60 kg), she should consume a maximum of 95.8 µg of mercury per week.

95.8ug is just .0000001596..% of Isabella and yet it's deadly.
You don’t necessarily need the same teacher for the different subjects. Just coordination among the teachers.

In high school we did a solar hot dog cooker project. In my Algebra 2 class, we determined the right conic to use for the cross-sectional shape of the reflector. In my physics class we calculated the energy coming in from the sun at various times of the day for our latitude. In my drafting class we produced blueprints for the cooker. And over in wood shop, they built the cooker using the designs we drew (which were dependent on the math from Algebra class), and using the materials selected by the physics class.

Then one day we all went outside and cooked our dogs.

This was a one-off thing of course. My school wasn’t structured to completely integrate all the subjects all the time. But it was valuable in teaching mushy things like project coordination and management. It was kind of like a group project, except each member of the “group” was more like a cog in the supply chain :)
There are many others, e.g. the common beans, peanuts, sunflower, the cultivated strawberries and, more recently, the cultivated blueberries.

The European wild strawberries and wild bilberries are much tastier than the cultivated species brought from America, but unfortunately they are much less productive, being much smaller.

Also cotton. While different species of cotton have been independently domesticated in America and in the Old World, most of the modern production of cotton is based on American cotton species.
And I see refusal to follow those orders from a person who recognizes they're not a subordinate.
Well, sorta. XML style syntax already has open and closing marks for the tags. They just additionally have marks for the end of non-attribute children. s-expressions not having that is still a win.
> the root cause is poor monetary policy in general

These two things aren't even separate. Part of monetary policy is taxation and subsidies. The argument for "greedflation" is exactly one of poor monetary policy, in that we have allowed corporations (not necessarily any one person, but the corporation as a whole) to dictate too much of our monetary policy, and they're doing a poor job.
Ye olde Motte and Bailey.

There are in fact people who are saying its only corporate inflation.

The real reason i'm skeptical of the greed argument is that its just a vibes based guess on whats happening and not based on any data or insight into the situation.
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Yeah, it is a ridiculously bold to outright state it is not a factor of current inflation issues. At best you can argue that corporations 'only' further fuel it ( and take advantage in the process ), but are not primary factors for it rearing its head. Propaganda is strong, but I am starting to wonder if the powers that be learned nothing from Covid pushback to 'commute is your zen time'.
This was a statement Samuel Delany had well over two decades ago. Additionally it's clear Samuel Delany was himself a victim of child sexual assault if you knew anything else about him.
Yeah dozens my ass, another round of massive anti-government protests or Paris streets on fire, or some terrorist attack and they will not be very selective about this because "security". We know how messed up people with such powers are, it doesn't matter which country, for them 1984 is not some bad utopia but just first step in such direction
“Why are you being so mean to us :(“ - the 2 bit useless MBAs sitting around in corporations that sponsored this weak PR piece
which country is that?
> His trial and sentence were not so much about his science than about his lousy attitude toward legitimate authority

References?

The charge of heresy is for heretic views, such as the Copernican heliocentric model in his case. It threatens to upend the authority of the Church; if the Church can be wrong about the nature of the universe then surely they can be wrong about other matters as well. His Dialogues remain banned by the Church till 1835, ~200 years later. To say that Galileo was convicted of heresy for "bad behaviour" is simply disingenuous.
He was and worked on, among other things, Python while there. He's a trustworthy source.
PaperSpace product recently has been really bad. Gradient Notebooks are a worse version of Google Collab. Useless for any serious DL product building.

Their DL virtual servers, Core I think you call them is horrible. Very slow internet, takes forever to copy datasets into them. Most of the time, it's an uphill battle to get ssh access to them, they create some pointless virtual console instead and then a GUI to copy datasets, run trainings etc which is confusing and a hassle over simple ssh access. Programmers just want a simple ssh access to a server with a GPU, we are not looking for a WYSWYG like editor! I really don't know who the customer for this is? Marketing execs who want to do deep learning? I tried powering through the documentation, but it was outdated, and was plain wrong at points. It took me a couple of hours just to figure out how to copy a large dataset into my server and find the path to that dataset. Once I discovered, Lambda and Vast ai, I never looked back and forgot Paperspace for good.

Really as a cloud provider, all you need to do is create send a ssh tunnel to a system with a certain amount of compute and memory. Maybe like AWS you can create storage buckets but it's not absolutely neccesary. Don't add GUI, interfaces etc, your customers are engineers and they prefer simple systems that give them control.

One feature I would like in Lambda/ Vast is the opportunity to copy the dataset into the server before the GPU hours start billing. When you have TB's of datasets like me, you end up wasting 8-9 hours just copying the dataset and it feels annoying that I pay for the cloud hours during that time. Amazon kind of solves this, but it slows down data access in return. I would like a cloud provider who just lets me copy everything before starting to bill me.
Direct temperature measurements go back century or so, but proxies for temperature go back much further. Error bars may be larger but it's not like there's nothing to base the models on.
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You can't think of a scenario where the government should be able to express a thought about something? ;)
If you're a private citizen, yes. If you're a government employee, speaking in the course of your duties, then it's not your speech, it's government speech. The First Amendment doesn't protect the right of the government to speech, because the government doesn't have rights. What does that even mean, for the US Government to have a right to speak without fear of action being taken against it by the US Government?
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Given the new Isaac Arthur episode on Lunar industrialization, there might be an opportunity to sell Moon water "free from forever chemicals" back here on Earth.
The person talked about morally wrong. Legality, morality, ethics are not the same. The usage seems correct to me. The objective of wash trading to capitalist success happened well enough but not perfectly.
Not really, best in class network probes will regularly give you positions that are wrong by a few km, you need quite a bit of cleaning to reconstruct accurate paths.

That's why something like MDT was added to 3GPP standards and emergency calls trigger a hard GPS fix.
In my view the entire point should be maintaining the earth atmosphere in a balance that suits us. Too much CO2 is bad but if we remove too much will be bad for us as well. Right now the common agreement is that we have too much of it though.
That is such a Samantha thing to say.
What about /favicon.ico - or those pre-flight requests?

The only real way to refuse requests is to just close the connection, no 404s or whatever should be sent.

The deal with the way most people have designed the web from a client point of view, a lot of it works by convention - that's where this stuff starts to break.

cgi-bin was a fairly well accepted convention a couple decades ago - and today those URIs are considered malicious.

Unless people start depreciating conventions sooner, this problem will have false positives of its own.
> Society as a whole needs to be better at calling out the lies with hard facts and data.

It doesn’t work. In the time it takes to refute one lie with facts and data, the world has moved on and uncountable additional lies have been spread in the meantime.

Besides which. Both the people that produce the lies, and their supporters, are well aware of the fact that it’s not true. They just choose to ignore that. And any facts and data you are able to compile, will fall on deaf ears.
Coercion requires a stick, I see no stick here.

The judge literally cited Biden saying, "they're killing people" as coercion, which is a bald-faced lie.
>Whoever controls the media can adjust the public perception of reality

Imho this was the main reason. He wants to control the narrative. The old model is reporters ask questions and give (if they are not advancing an agenda) a pretty factual account of events. When you control the public perception, you basically write the news yourself. you influence the consensual reality. Rather than spinning, the spin is the "report." and for a guy who is amongst the richest on the planet, with fingers in the biggest pies, and shall we say a very specific editorial viewpoint about the world, he doesn't want to have to deal with a narrative that just relates facts. He wants to tell the story we tell each other about things.
Isn't Notion an Electron app or just a webapp?
If the government says vaccine misinformation is killing thousands of people on air on the evening news and Facebook agrees and starts banning people posting it and those folks have to share their misinformation on their own sites rather than Facebook how has your freedom been infringed?

Likewise if the communique takes place via a memo.

You have a right to communicate what you please you don't have a right to have your thoughts carried by a particular site any more than you have a right to have them posted in the New York Times or relayed on Fox News.
> Note that it is not just police. The core of GPS network, SS7 system, is more than 50 years old in this point. It is often exploited by authoritarian states, sometimes to the end to get human right activists and journalists murdered.

You must mean the phone network, because GPS doesn't run on SS7.
Have you ever looked for a product and found that ALL of the brands get poor reviews? Air conditioners are kind of like that, maybe half of them get a lot of poor reviews. Somehow air conditioners have seen a race to the bottom in terms of quality and features. The basic technology has also not changed in decades. Seems ripe for disruption. The Midea air conditioners are at least more efficient. There are a lot of commonly known problems with the basic design of window air conditioners though (uneven air distribution, creates drafts, mold, noise, temperature control). Maybe those problems are just too difficult to figure out? Maybe it's a problem of expectations, air conditioners have always had the same prices and features so no one will pay any more, even for a better product?
Where did I suggest that Greta should condemn him? She should simply not run PR for the government most proximal to the worst act of environmental terrorism in history, until more is figured out.

Imagine if Barack Obama did a photo op with the Saudi King in 2002, with the purpose of promoting the Saudi regime, just a year after a dozen Saudi nationals perpetrated 9/11. "Tone-deaf" would be putting it mildly.

I'm saying that Greta Thunberg, figurehead of environmentalism, is being unbelievably tone-deaf and it reflects very poorly on the integrity of her movement.
I note that the article does not even mention what the numbers in the chart mean in practical terms, for instance whether "7-9 PFAs detected" is something I should be urgently, moderately, or not at all worried about. I'm sure I could read the original study and find the answers to my questions, but providing that context seems like the most basic responsibility of a reporter, and the kind of thing that could make this article actually useful. As it is, it feels like the intent is to scare me without informing me in a meaningful way.
Economist saying that Greedflation does not exist is like the NSA saying they don't use encryption.
looks like Belgium, Spain, France, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/mb200805_focus05.en....
> In economics, inflation is an increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy. ~Wikipedia

If profit seeking is increasing the general price level of goods (via a “coincidentally” coordinated raising of prices), how is it not causing inflation?
What if he put a disclaimer in that he's not being toxic? Could he then continue commenting?
I stepped on that beartrap just last week, Chrome at least will swallow the rest of the page looking for the missing </script>.
Context: bulk export of thousands of legacy CGI HTML pages using "chrome --headless" to archive to PDF. The cause was a side effect of xmlstarlet which I used to inject links for CSS and JS rendering fix ups for PDF. The result was perfectly rendered 1-page blank PDFs :/
They won't use that if the GPS / "Location" service is turned off. But the cell network still knows where you are anyway, within ten meters or better. The FCC asks for z-axis accuracy within 3 meters; good enough to determine what floor of a building you're on (for E911 purposes.) 5G Rel 17 can supposedly locate people within a meter.
No of course you don't owe them anything. They opted in to doing this and didn't even consult you before doing so. They did this because they have found a way to monetize this, which is selling their own ads. On the other hand you just posted a blog post. You didn't opt in to anything related to search engines. You just posted something, that's it.
> inflation is being abused to raise prices

Inflation is the rising of prices. If prices are rising around you, it makes sense to raise your own prices. Just like it makes sense for workers to look for raises (i.e. raise their prices).
Oh, sorry, I didn't understand you were using iOS, I don't use Apple products and I didn't know there was no proper syncthing on iOS.