skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In simplistic terms, my understanding is that cash assistance to the poor generally does not drive inflation in any meaningful way, because the cash used is extracted via taxation in the first place, its, quite literally, shifting money around.

On the other hand, lower interest rates allow banks to synthetically create more money at a lower cost (e.g. corporations borrowing say, a million dollars at 1% interest is very attractive) and that will drive inflation more broadly, because its new money created. Raising rates makes creating money more expensive (setting a higher "floor" on the price of new money relative to what the banks get it at)

This is why interest rates rising in theory, will depress housing prices because it costs more in monthly payments to cover the interest on the mortgage to buy the house, which means fewer people can buy more expensive homes and it takes more money out of the economy as a result, because borrowing is more expensive. This is why you can get 5% yield CDs at banks quite suddenly, because giving you favorable terms on savings is cheaper than borrowing the money from the central bank.

Its false equivalency to think cash assistance and many other forms of social welfare drives inflation more broadly, in the general case.

I will caveat there are specific cases where inflation can be driven by government spending directly, but its not generally the case with things like cash assistance, in due part because its not creating new money.

[0]: I'd like to just point out, I'm explaining a very complex system of inputs and outputs in very simplistic terms. While its not incorrect per se, it certainly is more complex than I'm laying out in reality. Conceptually however, I think this explanation is rather sufficient in getting the point across that I'm asserting

[1]: if I'm wrong, I'd love for someone to point out what I'm wrong about. I'm assuming most of us aren't economics majors here, therefore, as noted, I omitted alot of nuance, while acknowledging that there are cases where the government can cause inflation via spending.
BoC policy is making creating new housing to become increasingly unviable at the same time that we need to accelerate housing construction the most.

I'm sure it'll turn out fine!
For those in the know, any comments about the team? Looks impressive to my uniformed eyes.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll do my best to make things more clear.
Roblox is coming to Meta Quest
>Computer security would be about 80% solved

Hmm, no. You'd use other attack vectors and once you've closed most of the attack avenues you'd find yourself on a smartphone OS with no permissions and mass tracking... and there would still be malware galore.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apps-with-15m...
I was in art pretty heavy. And ya, instability and dread the norm.

And obsession. To fixate on the creation of the hour 24-7. To be master of my tiny creative walled paradise and let everything else go to hell.

Now I'm not doing that. I'm doing the opposite. I'm expanding. I like it.
It's auto generated using ImageMagick. A lot of that is because he wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb in 1995 when things were done like that and then used the same tech for his personal site.
Younger audiences most certainly are not on Mastodon. The younger hardcore "gamers" might be, because they understand how to move around Discord servers, but that's not as huge a group of users as one might think.

Mastodon is not and will never be "normie" friendly, so it'll never be a contender. Sorry, just the way it is.

Time will tell how things play between Twitter and Threads, but Twitter seems to be taking some interesting steps towards maintaining it's relevance.

Mastodon was always a joke and still is.

Threads has 100 million users already. We'll see if they maintain.
Make sure to also test the safety of a spoon by scooping your eye out with it.
Every time I hear the Canadian government responding to this housing crisis... the only thing they do is pass policies that enable people to buy even "more" expensive houses.

For example, their big move last year was to let people sock another $8000 away to put towards a house tax free while at the same time increasing immigration to eye popping levels. Another thing to note with Canadian immigrant strategies, these numbers often don't include "temporary" students and others which use the program "on mass" to immigrate into Canada if they didn't succeed through other means.

An immigration explosion is typically excellent but it must be matched with housing development growth and Canada is literally doing the opposite... mind boggling.
There is something deeply troubling about the sentiment "if I'm incentivised to act a certain way, that is the way I will act". This is not how normal human beings think, and it is not the type of human being that society should be designed for.
Scrolling is completely broken on this website. There is nothing cool about implementing a silly retro navigation style, if you don't either completely disable the modern navigation, or don't fully support both. Here, we have scrollers inside scrollers inside scrollers, oh my.
I think you misunderstand. The GP comment isn't talking about inflation in general being misleading, but the monthly year-over-year change.

For your analogy, it's perfectly reasonable to say a population's average age is 32. But it gets muddy when you start comparing the rate of change of the rate of change, so if the age was 31 last month people start extrapolating that we'll all age 12 years in the next 12 months.
Twitter is very much a walled garden and is in that sense rapidly becoming more so, especially because Elon Musk is dreaming of making the Twitter app into the 'everything' app that will be a platform for all your comms and commercial transactions. AOL next gen.
The rewards are greater on the server.

If you pwn just one server you can attack thousands of people, their data, their credentials, etc.

Saying that there's no malware for Linux because there's no reawrd is myopic - the payoff is potentially larger.
Yep. And then also printed and squirreled away.
Does the main game need love? I feel like MS could die tomorrow and fans would still maintain Minecraft servers until the heat death of the universe.

>it's a million miles away from what should have been under good ownership.

Notch didn't exactly age well in the last 12 years or so, so I'm not sure if that's a good example of "it couldn't be worse".
The NYT used to be one of my favorite news sources. After their cheer leading for invading Iraq I started to change my mind.

Fast forward to today, their whole reason to exist now seems to promote pro war democratic politicians and to lie and slander anyone who is anti war or critical of big pharma. Their hit piece on Kennedy's wife Cheryl Hines was shameful.

EDIT: my point here is that they want to make the Biden administration look as good as possible.
I want to era of Walter Cronkite back.
> inflation eating away at pay

Real wages are lower than their pandemic highs, but higher than they've been at any point [EDIT: before] late 2019 [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
The EU/EEA has eIDAS which requires providers to recognise electronic IDs issued across the EEA to some extent.

Since I'm in the UK (grumble grumble Brexit) I haven't kept up that much despite being a Norwegian citizen, but in some countries at least this in theory IDs issued to certain standards by private actors. E.g. Norway has MinID (government issued), BankID (bank issued, also allows bank logins), Commfides and BuyPass, all of which issues id's that you can use to log in or sign with that tie your signature to the Norwegian national ID number.

Many of the countries makes extensive use of these IDs. E.g. in Norway you can log in to most government services with any of the recognised providers, and can sign contracts and even marriage licenses with them.

Interestingly Norway and Estonia appears to be the only two countries that have submitted more than one eID scheme to the European Commission for acceptance across the EEA, and interestingly for Norway both of them are privately provided; the (lower security) government run ID scheme has not been submitted:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/E...
Employment-population ratio is now higher than pre-pandemic. For prime age population, it's now less than 1 point below the all-time high in 2000. And the silicon valley layoffs seem to have run their course.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=16Q9S
You're talking about the ticket price for the service when that really shouldn't be the consideration. It doesn't matter how affordable it is when most US citizens can't cover a $500 emergency with savings. It's a shameful, political choice to have people walking around with curable blindness. Or to have people rationing insulin. The body is a temple but the temple is made of meat. It's inevitable at some point that you'll be sick. We may as well bake that assumption into the social contract than try to treat it as any other good or service. Can't exactly shop around hospitals when you're in an ambulance, unconscious.
Well, it's a more limited scope then attempting to address every greedy person on earth with enough money to lobby.

Potential solutions could include direct democracy, line item veto, or maybe both?

I don't claim to have a solution, and that should be no reason to not address the topic of what problem society needs to solve.
There are a bunch of bad legacy technologies still baked into windows for which I can’t see a non-windows equivalent

For example: credential hashes. They can be used as a bearer-token, and a privileged enough one can log into absolutely any system in the entire domain and do anything.
I read Unbearable Lightness in high school and it changed my life. I read it again a few years later in hope of changing it back, but it instead gave me a fresh perspective. I read literature all the time, but that one will always stick out as being exactly the right book to consult at several points in my life.
I miss the days when you could get a pint for 13 quarters.

And as someone who left SF almost a decade ago, I just checked and was very surprised to see that Bottom of the Hill is still open.
Looks like you're right. The first time you try clicking it shows a message telling you to use the keyboard to navigate and then flashes the list of keyboard controls. I didn't try clicking again after that.
That's the same with any creative job. Being an actor isn't easy, but there are still hordes of people that will work 100 hour weeks.
I think that SaaS products just disagree with your conclusion. Service accounts which are accounts that provide value and provide that value to your bigger and more complicated customers, should cost money. The smallest and most price sensitive clients, don't need them and thus aren't impacted by paying for them.
Coding? Your art is one of the most directly financially valuable skills on the planet and you're comparing yourself to starving musicians?
Saying cities are running out of housing is really just saying that jobs in cities still look attractive at current housing prices. Double current prices and suddenly most of those jobs wouldn’t look attractive which instantly reduces demand for housing until you’re back to current prices.

Interest rates do little to discourage home construction, the limitations are from transportation and zoning issues. Ie: The worse the transportation system the fewer areas are viable to build housing, and the more important existing housing and zoning restrictions in those areas are.
erm, Threads hit 100M on day 5
> This advantage doesn't work out when the officials are constantly splitting themselves around different social networks.

The social media department of any large org would have active accounts on all of the social media in order to get a message out. That's how it is already, not sure what your objection to mastodon, where they own the instance, is.
Scrolling is completely broken for both trackpads and mice scroll wheel, so no, not everything is accessible. At least not in a non-buggy way. Scrolling on a web page should never be buggy.
Things are also designed so that in Disneyland you cannot see any structure outside of the park (although I think there might be some part where you can see some high-tension power lines). It was a mix of design and strong-arming the zoning commission of Anaheim.
I agree. Personally, nothing from 2016 counts as "extremely outdated" to me.
> It's like home run batting, even the best in the world at picking and promoting music are lucky to have like a 10-20% success rate.

Mass market success is basically a crap shoot and doesn't really reflect the quality of the musician. You said:

> Playing music badly is utterly worthless from an economic standpoint.

And that's not true at all, being a virtuoso is pretty much worthless from an economic standpoint. It's pointless to try to equate skill to economic success because in pop art they don't have anything to do with each other. It's all about marketing and distribution. Not to say that the studio musicians that make the pop music aren't virtuosos, but they're definitely playing simplified songs.
Same boat. I went the VFIO route: my desktop runs headless Fedora, and I run desktop Linux, windows, and macOS in VMs. I bought an extra GPU so I can run two VMs at a time. 99% of the time I’m on desktop linux, but if I want to play a game I just switch my monitor input and hit my USB switch and I’m good to go. If I want to run ableton, I shut down windows, fire up macOS and bam.

This lets me completely isolate windows and only use it for games. And ableton runs just fine in a vm, so I don’t have to have a separate Mac. Plus it makes it really easy to try out the new Linux flavor of the month!

It was a bit of work to get it figured out but it’s been running smoothly like this for a few years now. I refuse to install windows as a first-class citizen on any computer I own, because as you said, it’s fucking garbage.
Just like any other open source project, they always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Its cool that techies have adopted Mastodon but normies have moved on or could never figure out the weird(to them) way in how it works.

Shannon Morse had something to say about this phenomenon a while back. She noticed that her stress levels went down after all the techies left and she did not join them(because there is no promotion she could really do on a niche platform and she is in the business of promotion). I 100% concur with her. Those people that complain about everything, living in a tech bubble and just generally raise your unhappiness level, they are all on Mastodon now. So "Task Failed Successfully" I guess?
Strong The last question[1] vibe here.

[1] http://www.thelastquestion.net/
Ask HN: Why is NPM and FE development in general so shit?
I just don't understand why there are always gazillion problems when I need to run some framework like Laravel or something, and FE stuff just never can fucking work from the first time. `npm run build` just gives gazillion problems that needs to be solved ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Why the hell is it so shit? Why can't FE be simple as BE?!?!? Who created this nonsense?
> As opposed to the Linux security best practices of curl | bash?

Just because some people like to ask you to install their software that way doesn't make it "Linux security best practices" and it doesn't mean you need to follow those directions.

You can review whatever you're running, and you should if you want to install that way and feel it's insecure. At a minimum you can download the script to an actual file you keep around for a while and run it, so if something weird does seem to be happening you can at least see what the script was attempting.

Or, just refuse to install software that way. There's almost always a different way, and that's just provided for convenience. If people are opting for the unsafe method because it's convenient, I don't think that says as much about the OS as it does the people using it.
It seems like your thesis is disproved in your own examples.

Linux is hugely popular on phones (android), which are every bit as juicy (if not more so at this point) than a desktop target.

There is mobile malware but it's far more rare and harder to come by.

But then there's just the fact that the way software is installed on a linux machine is wildly different from how you'd install it on windows. Just getting that binary blob to run requires some heroic efforts (To the point where we've pretty much decided it's easier to distribute via containers rather than compiled binaries for a given desktop).

And if we expand beyond the desktop, we find linux everywhere in the server world. Easily the most popular OS to run server software. Which makes it a hugely valuable target for hackers. They'd love nothing more than to compromise a bank server.

To say there's nothing about linux that makes it inherently more secure than windows seems just unreal. Because nix was designed around multiple users from the ground up, user permissions have been baked into the common flow for decades. That alone creates a huge layer of security that makes things like root kits or worms running at root super hard to pull off. The old windows (9->XP) pretty much gave everyone running admin permissions. Writing or changing a system32 dll was child's play.

To exploit linux, you have to either trick a user to run something with elevated permissions or find a vulnerability in software running with root permissions. To exploit windows (particularly older windows) you have to trick a user to run your software.
Is the film very excellent? I've been kinda avoiding it out of fear of slopping up the book
> Remove any and all analytics on tax websites.

Really ought to remove Corporate Analytic Software from all sites.

Is there an open-source alternative to handing over your entire site and all your users to the Big Two?
Yes, but there's a lot of resistance in the Mastodon community about it. I know Threads is making it a goal but there's a lot that can go wrong between now and then.
Unfortunately for the author, it would then become apparent that this approach is just something that sounds great for a blog post and has little to no practical value.

The advice isn't even consistent. He says that you need to break things down into a "one-word" problem, because anything bigger than that is too hard and abstract. And yet, his little template to fill out "I don't have a ___ problem, I have a ___ problem" gets filled out with single words in each instance!

"I don't have an acceptance problem. I have a communication problem".

The latter is somehow preferred to the former. Why?
How do you know my root password? Delete this.
Got any example of this new wave of sophisticated non-alcoholic liqour?
Not fully, others have already addressed this.
"terminal hipsterism"

That's a very apt way to put it, haha. Might steal that for future references, thanks!
I am not sure what they meant about "paying additional money to Turbotax" either. I just checked my account, and I have the ability to download final pdfs of my filled out tax returns for all the prior years I filed with Turbotax. No extra payments needed.
I like those icons - wonder what he used to create that chart
It is definitely not the same thing when money acts as a multiplier of "rights".
If you click on the icon it should tell you.

Basically any contribution to a repository which got archived gets you the nod. Likewise for the Mars rover one.
> For decades, people (mostly the industry) tried to suggest the problem was because America was just so gosh darn big. But you’ll notice that China and Russia, (ranked 25th and 17th, respectively) still perform better.

Size isn't relevant to utility distribution, population distribution is.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/popul...

https://external-preview.redd.it/wi2O5r6huRQgodhBQRebNw1--vG...

One of these things is not like the other. If the U.S. border moved just a two-hour drive north, 90% of Canadians would become Americans.
Reading the text literally, it just says that the CEO opened a dialog that helped pick laws the lawmakers liked but didn't harm draftkings.
Lawmakers consulting with people with experience in what they are trying to regulate is generally a good thing.

There is a reading of this story where draftkings helped lawmakers make better laws. It doesn't take much sceptisism to read it differently admitedly, but the plain text doesn't state that.
It is up to you to decide whether you want to chat with a ByteDance user or not. The rest of the ecosystem can still stay as secure as it is today.
And people are happier! I’m amazed at the pure joy you see on Threads. I’m not a huge fan, bit too normie for my taste, but to see the internet are people happy for a change is great.
There's actually a classic GDC Talk about this very subject!

They talk about using big visible markers (called weenies) for orientation and to help draw players. Having seemingly multiple paths that actually end up in the same destination. Tiny rewards for exploration. Good stuff

Talk:
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1305/Everything-I-Learned-Abou...
Slides:
https://mrbossdesign.blogspot.com/2009/03/everything-i-learn...
The transhumanist movement has more than its fair share of quacks, but I think Kurzweil is enough of a scientist to take his arguments a bit more serious. That said, I'm getting pretty tired of all the mind uploading, eternal life and other afterlife nonsense. That to me is just religion in a new jacket.
Do you enjoy mixing with people with views opposed to yours or does that upset you?
Underwater geolocalization using 10Ms of polarization-sensitive images
Can someone please help me read this situation? What are the potential benefits to Grammarly of removing support of this form of the Marketing by Tech channel?
Don’t underestimate how much cable TV costs: I did my budget recently and added up all my services together, having Netflix (highest tier), YT Premium (family, includes music streaming), Discovery+ (ad-free), and Hulu (ad-free), an all comes in at about $62.

That’s about the same price as live cable as a standalone product, and yet cable has advertisements which none of the above services have.

About the only complaint you might have is that I haven’t covered every single television studio (not included: Max, Paramount+, Disney+), but you could always rotate subscriptions in and out and still have a lot of them active at the same time.

Cable really just is that bad. Or, alternative take, cable sucks your dollars away and sends them to live sports and cable news.
Sure, for PCM stereo content it still works perfectly fine. Which is a lot of stuff! But it'd be a poor choice for 5.1 or better today.
VMAs sound expensive. Of course a 64 bit counter is going to work for moderately expensive things.

If you have a multithreaded app doing a lot of communication, that's going to be a lot of cheap allocations happening very fast.

Reducing GC and allocation overhead results in more allocations being done, and pushback against ever-expanding allocation behavior is more of a challenge. Instead of ten other things being a higher priority than judicious data architecture, it's dozens or more.