skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MoM gives you a more current view of the state of inflation. Even better is to annualize the previous 3m, 6m, 12m

Why care about inflation at all? Well, you can reference the history of most South American countries for that
16M, not 1M.
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India definitely belongs on this list.
Lobbying is cause promoting. You look for invested parties and plead your side. It’s fundamental to running society where groups want representation. I think you’re mixing lobbying with bribery. Bribery is illegal.
Who knows, it may become your most valuable skill one day. But let's hope it's something else instead.
I find clicking "not interested" followed by "show fewer tweets from..." kinda works. But yeah it's a battle.
How the Cloudflare global network optimizes reboots during low-traffic periods
s/Twitter Outage/Twitter Outrage/g ?
Slavoj Zizek didn't like ULoB, maybe just to be contrarian, I dunno :).
I mostly agree, but there were lots of signs the fed ignored and waited too long, and had to do large and sudden hikes. It could have all been less abrupt. They still have done a very good job so far, and it could have been very different.
Yeah, he actually wrote extensively about it as well.
It's a nice case study of mismanagement. And social dynamics.
> SpaceX’s satellites move when the probability of a collision is greater than 1 in 100,000, while NASA and other industry firms use a threshold of 1 in 10,000.

The article also implies that the uptick is primarily due to a 15% increase in the size of the installation, which is bit silly.
Notably core inflation is still 5%:

Fed officials are focused on cooling stubbornly high core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices. Economists see core prices as a better predictor of future inflation than the overall inflation rate.

Rising car prices, strong demand for labor-intensive services and an earlier surge in housing-rental prices have contributed to core inflation.

“Where inflation is proving sticky is in services—getting haircuts, getting your car repaired, buying car insurance,” said Leo Feler, chief economist at Numerator.

Economists estimate that core prices rose 5% in June from a year earlier, compared with 5.3% in May.

From:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-price-index-report-jun...
Wanting someone else doesn’t mean they didn’t keep Powell, which in fact they ended up doing. It also doesn’t mean she would have done a worse job. She could have done better, we will never know.
absolutely: a very pragmatic approach to "solving" the corruption problem. Let's call it lobbying and make it legal and legitimate
I'm one of those 3% but I'm not very happy with what's happened with My Opensource But Out of Linux Kernel Tree Realtek WiFi Driver Package! And that has gotten replaced after a Kernel Update with some not so good RealTek WiFi driver that's Now In Kernel Tree but has a bad case of narcolepsy and goes to sleep randomly to save on power usage and then loses WiFi connectivity.

So now I have to manually toggle the WiFi Off/On to get that to wake up there and reconnect as the WiFi management app in Linux Mint really lacks the smarts to notice that the WiFi has lost connectivity there and to initiate some action automatically to reestablish connectivity on it's own. And on Windows if the WiFi connectivity is poor and the bandwidth is too low I get some popup warning there or some Trey Icon indication that things are not as well as far as WiFi connectivity is concerned but that Linux Mint WiFi App/Applet really is Dumb there and lacks the proper level of end user indicators and some times it can not even properly indicate if it's connected or not(0% to 100% is meaningless there) regardless of the Tray Icon's appearance with or without any mouse hover!

And it's all these minor annoyances on Linux that add up there as to why Linux on the desktop is only at 3% after 3 Decades.
Aynd Rand criticized the welfare state and then went on welfare. She was a complete fraud.
The language is designed so that is possible, although the current compiler does not. At one point, the compiler did all the file reading in parallel, but that was finally turned off because it did not significantly improve compile speed.
There will always be an interface for any tool, mind reading tech or otherwise. And anything that does something against the user's will is a bad tool with a bad interface.
Get your DNA sequenced or checked by a private company in Canada where they don't share this information. You will pay much more but you lessen the risk of it being sold or shared to insurance companies.
Interesting, it reminded me of Inconsolata
(Rant)

The physical therapist example is horrible. As someone who has seen many, the majority are quacks who are unwilling to say "I don't know what the problem is."

Especially those that probe and say "I feel a knot" after telling them where it hurts. I guarantee that if I'd gone in with forearm pain, but didn't tell them which arm, they would find the knot in the wrong arm about half the times.

(/Rant)

My beef with articles like these is it's not easy to find the right granularity when to stop. My real problem often boils down to "I need to eat and have a roof over my head."
It's not Hotjar specifically trying to grab tax returns, true, but if Hotjar is using the data sent to it for its own purposes, then it doesn't actually matter if they intended to get tax returns specifically or not. They're still doing wrong.
where did they migrate to?

i'm still looking for a replacement to the r/python community that was [tyrannically] taken down by mods who hid a poll to do so under some vaguely named sticky post

that was the most useful place to find new python projects on the internet and i'm still peeved that the mods didn't propose any new place for the users to go
https://cglife.com/blog/23andme-sold-your-genetic-data-to-gs...
> I would personally prefer to pay for a service with my money as opposed to my information and ads being shoved in my face.

You might prefer to, but Google and others know better when it comes to B2C pricing.

Look at Netflix, Youtube Premium, HBO etc. The price increases every year, consumers get pissed. That's because:

a) these companies are bad at forecasting their margins

b) the real cost of pricing these services is MUCH higher than consumers would tolerate, and is thus heavily subsidized at the early stages ($10/mo), in the hope that future revenue deals (cable TV syndication, IP rights etc) will offset those losses later. The subscriber base isn't part of that equation here.

This is much easier to accomplish with a B2B model, i.e. ads. That's because advertisers and companies have budgets available, and aren't as sensitive to price changes.
I mean, if theatres weren't utterly destroyed by COVID something may have actually happened with theatres. But investing in a theatre in the current decade is like investing in cable at this point.

The only coincidence is this repeal happening during a time where it mattered least.
An artists work is copyrightable, a writers work is copyrightable, an a personal model could reproduce those and also produce new works in the same style. Also, data can be intellectual property without being copyrightable.
It is also down for me.
No worries, thank you for editing!
Better info? In my case it's mostly a hobby interest so you could debate if it's worth while.
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Top stories from Hacker News grouped by topics using LLMs (ChatGPT)
Not sure if we're calling it too early. Personal savings are half of what they used to be before COVID while personal debt has doubled. It seems like what's keeping this economy afloat is people going into debt and/or dipping into their savings to spend. The job market is red-hot and the money supply is still in the stratosphere compared to pre-COVID. The housing market is a mess for probably the next 10 years as the builders try to catch up with demand. There is really not a lot of great things going right now and I hope the FED has learned it's lesson from the 70/80s when they stopped raising rates too early and the CPI shot up to even higher highs from new lows.
"Fun" if you like living in a PvP zone
Ask HN: Where to go after giving up on big growth-obsessed tech companies?
Hello HN!

My name's Brandon, 27, USA, been in the tech biz since graduating college (so 5 years now).

Last month, I quit my job. Big public tech company, great compensation and benefits and snacks and all that, but realized it was really not my bag by my third year there. The set of individual incentives at any company so large can lead to irresponsible or nonsensical roadmaps, taken-advantage-of coworkers, etc -- by the end I was left frustrated and sad most days. I'm happy to say I'm taking a few months off now.

But, I love making software and want to get back into it soon! So the next question is, "if not that, then what"?

The short version is, I want to work somewhere I can feel good about. Somewhere every worker is treated with respect, and we actively cull sprouts of "political" or egotistical behavior -- a place that prioritizes transparency, trust, and psychological safety over revenue growth. For me (and hopefully some others), that's the catalyst for feeling motivated and responsible to deliver excellent work.

(and please no cynical comments like "good luck finding a business that puts culture over money, i.e. its own reason for existing" -- yes, I know what I'm looking for is not the norm, that's why I wanted to try casting a wide net here on HN, thank you!)

So, I figure this immediately rules out public companies. Them having the constant pressure (a legal obligation?) to put shareholder interest above everything else. Besides -- it seems hard to get such a large group of people with similar-enough values all working towards the same goal anyways.

I think it actually also rules out most startups. They take VC money, and are then beholden to those VCs just like a public company is beholden to shareholders -- growth at any cost. Bootstrapped startups could be OK, but those are pretty rare.

Maybe worker-owned tech companies would be a solution? But those are even more rare than bootstrapped ones as I understand it, at least in the US?

Anyways -- as you can see my ideas are pretty scattered when it comes to "where can I find what I'm looking for"! If anyone here has had similar thoughts, or wanted something like this and did something about it, I'd love to hear about your experiences :)

Thanks!
20x faster than pgvector: HNSW index in Postgres with pg_embedding
India's GDP in 2022 was 3.4T USD. They did beat the UK (at 3.1T USD) - but of course with a much larger population.

(https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...)

(And since someone mentioned California: 3.6T.)
The Vatican already has guards to watch things.
No, lobbying becomes bribery when money or favors exchanges hands.
This is an example of how btrfs is poorly handled by many userland tools by default. You should never ever need to have thousands of snapshots.

I use btrbk to manage my snapshots. It keeps my snapshots pruned to 300, pruning intermediate snapshots, so I can still easily step back 52 weeks, or I can purge them if I want to improve performance and reclaim space. While at the same time, every single snapshot is sent to two compressed encrypted backup images over ssh. The diff algorithm is pretty good, but for some types of files that fragment frequently, it is best to put them on their own subvolumes. My places.sqlite files from my browser testing profiles were adding tens or hundreds of MiB to snapshots, so they went in a seperate subvolume. I don't think the zfs would perform any better.

I don't blame people for having bad experiences with btrfs, it is very inconsistently documented.

I think it is especially annoying how many userland tools keep every single snapshot as a subvolume of the root, so that you have tens of millions of read-only files stored in /.snapshots. Awful.
These numbers are borderline meaningless for the average American. Economists, wall street, and financial news pundits can go back and forth all they want, the average person is most definitely feeling a massive crunch and a percentage number isn't going to explain away the rot building underneath the floor. IMO, the big elephant in the room is household debt - people are extremely leveraged, and inflation data doesn't illustrate this. Inflation #s to me is a political chip that administrations on both sides use for finger pointing.
I wish they would merge pull request #547 or one of the other proposed overlayfs options, would make a lot of interesting use cases into (granted, complicated) one liners. As it is now, linux overlayfs is "by wizards, for wizards" type of thing with an amazingly hard to do setup procedure.
It would seem that Sapporo did not do enough diligence when they bought Anchor. Anchor's facilities are far too small, their infrastructure and their team not setup to brew at that sort of scale. Stone is a much better fit for what they seem to be trying to do.
Exactly this!

And, the same could be said for other "entities" or "infrastructure", that, when things are fine no kudos; or worse, complaints asking "Why do we have X?", but then whining when something is not in place. :-)
Which is an undue burden on legit publishers who get effectively DDosed by big publishers with money. If the big publishers have no consequences, then they have no incentive to stop.

If they got ever increasing fines for false claims, then they would have an incentive to actually only make legit claims.
Computers and Automata (1953)
And give them a button border ffs.
Thank god for privacy laws! No corporation has ever violated those for profit. And laws never change, right?
It's a bit of a shame that filesystems are so OS-specific.

It's kinda a shame that there isn't at least some FUSE layer to let you run a filesystem driver from windows/mac/bsd/whatever on linux.
https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html

Governments make the same arguments. If you want encryption you are either a terrorist, or extremist. Everybody should be able to self host, and nobody should be looked down upon for selfhosting.

It is not a bad thing that somebody wants not to rely on any centralized government or corporate system, or want their data to be private.

Centralized bodies are prone to abuse power. We should work towards decentralized systems, and towards self hosting.
videogames also attach rewards/values to objects around you, so exploring is valuable in an explicit, observable way. you'll gather up whatever rocks or mushrooms you find because they're useful for gameplay. or if you don't find any items, you might see that part of the map is now unlocked/marked-as-explored/game progress meter ticks up.

but the rewards for real world exploration aren't explicit. sure, maybe you found a cool mushroom that was fun to look at, but what's it worth? you probably cant go sell it for 2 gold pieces or eat it to gain 5% of your health back.
One reason I like Brave having a subscription for ad-free search.
If I can follow my friends on Instagram from my Mastodon account it seems like a good outcome. Also, if others can easily share/repost/comment/quote content from Threads on Mastodon, that again seems like a nice outcome to me.

How Threads will implement "replies from Mastodon" is not really a question I care about. (Maybe I should?)
Because these companies have a ton of power, and no individual can stand against that. We have to act collectively, and getting there is slow and difficult process.
25000/6months = 4166/month = 138/day

Compare that to the frequency of a geosync bird's maneuver requests. Probably doesn't see that much action in a life time. I'm sorry you're so bored with extremely large number of satellites like it's a normal thing, but it's clearly not. It's new. It's a complicated logistical problem that is interesting. There's way more going on than just speed up/slow down decision. If you slow down too much, then you have another bird come up behind pretty quickly as well as lose altitude. you then have to know how much fuel will be required to perform the maneuver. the sooner you decide to make the maneuver the more fuel efficient it is.
Staying away from std::unique_ptr<T> and std::unique_ptr<T[]> while using std::vector<T> sounds kind of silly. The last one is a generalized version of the first two. So claiming you don't use the first two is really misleading.
All this indicates is that the problem is at the system level. It doesn’t mean the actor is somehow less culpable just because “someone else would have done it anyway.”
This is almost comically incorrect. A few decades rebuilding? We'd be lucky to come through that with even a semblance of our institutions and capabilities in one piece. Never mind the population...
Not American but in Canada right now. How much does something like this set you back?
Yeah, but without a proper exit plan - you're only delaying the inevitable.
He has spent 7 years in the embassy and 4 years in an UK prison - and his trial hasn't even started yet. 11 years and counting - many murderers don't get that much.
Hi, if you're looking into vector storage and querying, there are several things to consider. For lightweight usage, you can directly use FAISS without any database overhead. For heavy usage, Milvus/Zilliz is the most production-ready solution.

Also, here's a benchmark that allows you to easily test their performance differences through a user-friendly interface. This includes both cloud solutions and open-source options. If you prefer to view pre-tested results, there are standard ones available as well. Check it out here: VectorDBBench. https://github.com/zilliztech/VectorDBBench
Should the goal be "no bank ever fails", though?
I saw the first 40 minutes, which shows the lead up to the nuclear exchange, and the moments during and immediately after the nuclear detonations.

It was devastating to watch, and to know the death and misery depicted is exactly what would be suffered if major geopolitical disputes escalate.
You have too many zeros in your percent.
>What happens after 10 years?

Optimistically, Sony utilizes their Bungie aquisition and makes something worthy as a competitor. I imagine the 10 years is less a promise and more of a timer, and 10 years is enough for a AAA company to get at least a few attempts.

Pessimistically, MS drives Activision to the ground and COD isn't even a valuable IP anymore. Bigger icons have fallen from grace faster.
CEO of Neon here.

This was a relatively quick project for us and the index is currently in-memory. However it is fast! We would love your feedback and excited to invest further.
I just made a comment that pretty much is aligned with yours. Taking a victory lap on inflation numbers is just silly. There's some serious rot going on atm. We're probably a small disaster away from a really big problem.
Sort of went the way of Pete's Wicked Ale. Interestingly, Anchor was really bad beer before Maytag bought the company, updated the equipment, and started using quality ingredients. You have to give him credit for taking it from 0 to being influential in developing the American craft beer market and making Anchor something you could reliably find nationwide.

I guess time sort of passed it by. So many more interesting brews are around today. But saying that, I always sort of enjoyed an Anchor. Sad to see it go.
Excellent points on memory architecture. Though I’d posit that the non-base M series GPUs are actually already equal or higher performing than the fairly aging Radeons on a PS4/5, depending on the respective SKUs

The wild cards will be translation overhead , differences in TBDR access and thermal headroom.
Love this comment so much. Your brother sounds cool :)
That actually increases the chances of nuclear war.
Inngest helps developers build their back end workflows, raises $3M
My uncle plays at the Mirage, so excess profits benefit a forgotten community (the Seminole tribe) that was historically and brutally marginalized by the privileged ‘society’ whose net effect you are considering.

The lottery proceeds fund public schools.
True, but somehow I am never confident clicking on it. They have managed to make it confusing even with the same shape. Maybe due to the fact that all icons are very similar in colour?
"Sharing" implies that there isn't a value exchange. When I share something, I'm not expecting anything in return.
Twitter is still fun. So yes
Indeed but this comes back to opting to write spaghetti apps by default.

For example we're talking in English right here, and it's a rich language we can express a whole lot in. It has no version although it's slowly updated over time. But it's mostly the same version around the world, with some local differences. We still understand each other. Despite our minds may be vastly different, we can express each other in this language. Same goes even for language models now.

Imagine we had something as common as JSON, but more in-depth so it can be used as direct representation in memory, and this was the lingua franca not only between servers, but between libraries, apps, and even objects within an app.

Then our dependency entanglement issue would also not exist.

What we did was a choice. It was a lazy choice, ignorant choice. A choice that introduces instant tech debt. And dependency conflicts are one of the results of this choice.
You'll pay for it more if your health or children suffer from preventable genetic conditions though...
I guess you can find your answers in his videos.
> When you’re looking for a “UX expert” and they are showing you their portfolio, ask them ...

Also, what was the methodology used to decide the particular UX solution to the problem?
You're not going to find your ideals but you can get closer. There exist software engineering teams in billion or million dollar businesses where the primary product is physical. Manufacturing, infrastructure, and robotics. You might have to come out of the cloud and get closer to the iron, but that's my recommendation.
But Google's market dominance is so high that most people won't see your website because it is blocked on Google. The result would be almost the same as if it was blocked everywhere.
I definitely got a Universal Paperclips vibe from it (with illegible color choices).
The Twitter acquisition happened 7 months ago, on October 27, 2022 to be precise. 7 months is effectively 3 quarters. Let's take "Elon Musk" name out of the equation for a moment. How much do you think is possible to do with one of the largest social network companies in the world within 3 quarters? I work at AWS and I must say everything is really slow here.

What I'm trying to say is it seems like the world is "demanding" too much from Elon. Additionally, there is a weird trend of people rooting for his failure. This is something I strongly stand against.
More info: the SNP is rs9367106 ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs9367106 )

Preprint is at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.29.23292056v... .

A link to the UCSC genome browser of the location of the SNP : https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?db=hg38&position=ch...

The location in question is upstream of FOXP4 and in an intron of two genes: FOXP4-AS1 and LINC01276
Power and Chaos! Yeah, I remember watching The Tribe every Saturday morning. Turns out loads of people here in the UK watched it as kids too but they don't remember the name, so you have to say "it's the show where all the adults died and kids run around a city with their faces painted trying to avoid a villain called Zoot and his gang whose motto is Power and Chaos" which usually works.
Basically, Microeconomics vs Macroeconomics.
Programmers are 40 years old, should they retire
I am a senior programmer who has just celebrated my 40th birthday, but I have lost my job. I have interviewed several companies this year but have not received an offer.

Does no one hire programmers over the age of 40? 40 year old programmers have to retire?
I wonder how that compares to other features that have been added to Instagram over the years, like Stories or Reels? I suspect it is on the low side. It is only 4% of the user base.