skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel afraid of saying anything about this for fear of getting clumped with people like Joe Rogan, RFK or any of these VCs who associate with this crowd now.

Who cares about the stereotypes and generalizations of intolerant idiots? Say what you believe, and associate with people who appreciate honesty.
Ancient Rome was such a hotbed of conspiracy theories that familiar tropes today, such as Nero's slaughter of Christians, stand on extremely shaky ground. The texts we have today were selectively preserved, and unreliably transcribed. We have exactly zero original manuscripts of any of what historians are obliged to rely on. Everyone writing the history preserved was biased, and much of it was doctored by medieval monks, often by accident. E.g., we now know, reliably, that a single-letter transcription error produced "peace on Earth and goodwill toward men" from the original (in Greek, of course) "peace on Earth for men whom God favors".

Every last scrap of documentary evidence of the beginnings of Christianity was deliberately, openly, proudly torched by the early Church, so every conventional fact stands on extremely shaky ground. Consensus among current scholars not pledged to uphold Church doctrine is that the entirety of the New Testament, absent about half of Paul's letters, is wholly fictional. Paul, of course, had his own biases. It is still possible that some anecdotes are based on factual events, but we have no reliable reason to believe any in particular. Opinions vary.

People invested in current consensus should want to have actually-reliable documentation for any factual basis for any of it. It is just possible that there really was a Jesus from Nazareth at the center of Christianity. It is even just barely possible that this Jesus was crucified, maybe even in something like the manner now believed. (Zombie dinner parties afterward, not so much.)
> Matrix has numerous built-in features (some of which are in a rather half-baked state), often with a tight coupling between the protocol and the expected user interface for the features, making Matrix notoriously difficult to implement.

citation needed? If anything Matrix doesn’t have enough coupling between the API and the expected UI for features - making UIs trivial to implement (which is why there are so many unfragmented Matrix clients - in fact, I’m not aware of any fragmentation?), but the lack of UI coupling then makes performance harder.

So ironically on the Matrix side we’ve been busy adding tighter APIs like Sliding Sync (MSC3575) which make more opinionated choices about the UI in exchange for better-than-telegram perf.
This article dresses up truth in class warfare costume:

Companies and investors who own commercial real estate are facing a loss.

The thought is if people have to go back to the office, the commercial real estate is worth more, so there is incentive to return to the office.

I suspect we're way past the point where a work from the office mandate is going to make any measurable difference in property value. CEOs sitting on big rents and big buildings should start preparing their investors and boards for the inevitable loss and not lose sign of this:

Your competitors without big real estate costs are in a much better competitive position.
There's at least two more. There's also https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo

And you can deploy a chat bot from within the Azure playground which runs on another codebase.
Our company is pushing everyone to use a similar offering. Most of the company is doing low value work … still using excels even though we have a custom ERP. Now seeing people who couldn’t write a coherent email before write 3 page emails. The illusion of being productive by doing more work even though it has zero impact on the bottom line. It’s insane how inefficient organisations are. No doubt we’ll have some KPI soon about using the tool.
Is there any evidence that modest deflation actually causes this "holding pattern" in the overall economy? I see this theory stated a lot for the reason that deflation is bad, and it definitely checks out on a basic logical level. But economics is complex right? So I'm curious what the evidence is in the real world.

I can imagine this happening with large deflation (10%, say), but what about 2% or 1%? It's not obvious to me that people would not buy a TV they really wanted if they knew it would be $392 instead of $400 next year. If consumers actually acted this sensitively toward a drop in prices, then wouldn't nearly all consumers wait for sales for all purchases? But we know that is not the case. Hell, if consumers were this sensitive toward their finances, they certainly wouldn't pay lots of interest on avoidable credit card debt, right?
Same goes for the US.
> That said, basic expectations of things growing up are just unreachable for many. My parents lived much more comfortable lives than I do. My grandparents even more so.

My wife’s grandma got married as a teenager to a trucker passing by because her family couldn’t support all their kids. This was not unusual in that generation.
It's more people see prices dropping hence their money increase in relative value so they save up more instead of spending it.
> is a _LOT_ of debt being added, household debt is up to something like 17 trillion dollars

Household debt to GDP is around at a multi-decade low [1]. Payments as a fraction of disposable income, similarly low [2]. Total debt is rising [3]. But non-housing debt rose 5.8% from Q2 2022 to the same quarter '23; that's about inflation.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP

[3] https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
>It’s about real estate.
That's it.

I don't think that is it. Most companies would be glad to cut down on office space. Certainly some companies have a direct interest in having office space, but most clearly do not.

To me it seems to be more about controlling your employees, which is easiest to do by proximity.
Also, music that sounds good isn’t neccessarily good.
1201(a)(2) prohibits selling tools that are either...

- Only capable of breaking copy protection

- Have minimal commercial utility other than to break copy protection

- Are advertised as being able to break copy protection

If you sold someone an aux cord with the marketing slogan "Copy music off Spotify and stop paying for your subscription", that'd violate 1201(a)(2) because of that third prong[0]. There's also plenty of copy protection circumvention tools that DON'T trip 1201(a)(2) because they aren't marketed as such and have noninfringing uses. For example, Google Chrome. You can use it to bypass right-click blockers because it lets you open Devtools without right-clicking. However, browsers have loads of commercial utility outside of this, and they don't specifically advertise their ability to get around annoying right-click scripts, so they're legal.

We don't normally contemplate this sort of thing because most DRM is specifically designed to be both obvious and separable from other permissible behavior. You cannot accidentally write a DVD decryptor that doesn't trip 1201(a)(2). This has led to people mistakenly assuming that the DMCA requires encryption to be involved or something for a copy protection circumvention tool to be illegal.

[0] I've actually seen this happen. There was someone selling VGA cables marketed as a way to copy Netflix.
> I am considering relicensing my tools under some sort of Attribution-ShareAlike license similar to the BY-SA the content on this site is licensed under. […] This would still promote community contributions, but would also require that any modifications be shared alike meaning that the modified source would have to be provided and I would have to be credited as the original author.

Wouldn’t the GPL be a better match, this being software, than BY-SA?
https://choosealicense.com/
The big fortune 100 tech companies are also commercial real estate owners and landlords. Look at all the buildings that Amazon owns and subleases in Seattle.

Those executives absolutely have an incentive to be pushing RTO because of their commercial real estate risk.

They also have an outsized bullhorn and the industry tends to watch what they do and report over what they do, and they have PR budgets which can get articles written the way they want. Bezos outright owns the WaPo.

Further down the ladder that PR will land on businesses where it just reinforces the attitudes of management towards RTO and gives them arguments to make in meetings. The people in those meetings don't necessarily have any skin in the commercial real estate game, but if they've spent the past 3 years reading articles about remote work and RTO published in the business press influenced by those who do have a whole lot of skin in the game, how do you attribute causality?

They way I'd look at it is that you can't take it in isolation and you need to step outside of naive root cause analysis that looks at the manager in the company who has no skin in the game and says that they can't possibly be influenced by the commercial real estate issues. For any individual "atom" of a manager in this analysis their own biases will more strongly influence what they're doing, but everyone in that room has been reading the same articles, and industrial propaganda and PR actually is effective at shaping attitudes. They are blowing on the dice, or turning up the temperature, or whatever analogy you like that draws a parallel to statistical mechanics and the bulk behavior of matter in the presence of individual randomness.
So silly that it's exactly what happened during the Great Depression.
I was laid off 2 months ago as a fallout from pandemic and war (fullstack dev with 17y experience). i sent my resume to about 30 job posts on linkedin (nearly none with cover letter, as i just cannot possibly write 30 unique cover letters even with chatGPT) and wrote a “looking for job” post in 3 tech discord servers i was an active member on. The 30 linkedin applications totaled in one job offer and the three discord posts lead to one interesting job offer each. it took 1,5 months from start to first offer and 2 months to competing offers, decision and signing a contract. Pre pandemic it would take about 2 weeks for a first offer and i would mostly get them by recruiters contacting me on linkedin which is completely absent now. Bottom line is be active in tech communities you are excited about and reach out in the dedicated job channels on discord.
He is a theorist: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/geometry-of-music.html

See his work on orbifolds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbifold#Music_theory
> I'd be pretty annoyed, as a child or not, if at every turn I'd be asked to retrospect about an accomplishment or even a failure.

Perhaps like: "I wanted you to celebrate/commiserate this emotional thing with me but instead you're always ruining it by trying to make it some kind of school thing--what the fudge, Dad..."
The kernel is still heavily involved in the process of going to sleep: it needs to coordinate the process, which includes freezing userspace execution. So it can quite easily unfreeze only a portion of the userspace. The main trick is making sure that the unfrozen bits aren't depending on the frozen bits, which is probably hard in general thanks to locks.
I have to shout out the “Masters of Rome” series by Colleen Mccullough. It starts with “The First Man in Rome” covering Gaius Marius’ rise to power, and proceeds through the fall of the Republic and the establishing of the Empire.

These books are incredibly well researched and informative, but also have SUCH a compelling narrative style and characterizations. It’s very immersive.
This is terrible and people should not use it! Many of these types of services are popping up and I’d like to remind everyone that the purpose is just the same as old; collecting your data and making money off of it somehow…

Don’t fall for it again.
This is kinda creepy. But at the same time, how do they do that? I thought the training of these models stopped in September 2021/2022. So how do they do these incremental trainings?
Bigger companies are cautious about using GPT-style products due to data security concerns. But most big companies trust Microsoft more or less blindly.

Now that Microsoft has an official "enterprise" version out, the floodgates are open. They stand to make a killing.
> to avoid the fragmentation that happened both with XMPP and with Matrix.

what fragmentation are you thinking of with Matrix? to my knowledge, we have zero fragmentation so far. some clients implement more features than others, but we don’t have any classic “my client sends different reactions to yours” or “my client archives messages differently” or “my encryption is incompatible” style problems. otherwise this smells a bit FUDy…
For a government, "green" isn't an end-goal, but a nice-to-have. People like the environment, but continued existence comes first, and that in turn required having a huge economy in order to make a huge military affordable, and that military is needed to maintain the continued existence of the government (as an institution rather than the specific jobs of specific people within it).
Bandwidth isn’t free, folks! Imagine all the carrier pigeons whose valiant effort we call upon every time we git clone! Must they toil in obscurity?
I don't get the last part - nobody should have to put up with this.

That's part of the problem - there are still some careers where people can "make it" and mentally say "well if you'd just done what I did, you'd be fine"

I don't think that situation is fine for anyone, and we should reinforce that. It's just not ok. People stay in abusive relationships for housing, all kinds of negative shit. Nobody should be forced to live like that.

We have the materials and the money; the system is broken.
With kid moving up to public school from pre-k we'll be saving an extra 2500$/month now. And in a couple years when our younger one is old enough that'll be another 2500$/month saved so I'm feeling pretty optimistic.
Your snark is unwarranted and your post is vague. State your point clearly. I don't know how Feynman (and his beef with the philosophy of science) is connected to global warming "coming along" or not.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.

Other companies might have a monopoly on Web ads, but Microsoft has been convicted. That's amazing. And evil.
$30k for the highest quality most basic car.

Other brands surely have cheaper basic options, and although I might not recommend going all the way to a Stellantis/GM car, a Ford/Honda/Mazda might be available for less and still be acceptable for quality.
Exactly.

Unlike the caricature naive people believe it to be, such real world conspiracies seldom are about some shady guys meeting in a secret underground lair. That's so third world coup style.

More like a huge net, cast by powerful people scratching each other's back, lobbying, advertising, and PR budgets, the media getting on with the program, and of course politicians, middle managers, academics, journalists, and other such types quickly figuring out the right things to say and the right signals to sent that would advance their careers - and trying to whip the majority into going there to.
> So I need 1-to be able to write text, 2-syntax highlighting.

If you just need those two things there's plenty of options - why are you forcing yourself into vscode ? VSCode is great because of the plugin ecosystem - if that's not your thing use something else - there's plenty of alternatives.
You’re supposed to be getting raises to keep up with inflation. Inflation means rising cost of everything, including your labor. What is your source of a fixed income? Even social security has cost of living adjustments.

If it’s an annuity, you can get annuities that vary based on changes to the CPI. If you put a lot of money into a fixed annuity years ago, you did not properly hedge interest rate/inflation risk.
Even with the prices of commodities falling, stock prices can still rise, and as long as this is higher than the deflationary rate, investing still beats hoarding.
this is a reblog of https://apnews.com/article/russia-crackdown-navalny-court-dm...
> youtube-dl is a copy protection circumvention tool

Wait until they find out that Microsoft has been providing tools like COPY and XCOPY with their OS for decades...
It's not that simple, though. You can't set a budget and let everyone die once you reach your limit.

Healthcare often uses "quality-adjusted life years", where the value of a medical intervention is judged by the amount and quality of the life years gained by doing the intervention. Once you set a value on a life year, it becomes a simple calculation whether the treatment is worth it. $5000 operation to save a newborn baby? Obviously worth it. $10M so a 90-year-old can live three more months? Yeah, not going to happen.

The best part is that you can apply a similar principle to other things. For example, at a certain point you gain more quality-adjusted life year per $ if you spend it on non-healthcare things, such as safer roads, better education, preventing homelessness, and fighting crime.
Runs in my wife’s family. Most of them refuse to get scanned. The taint of “pre-existing conditions” haunts many, and there’s really not much to be done about it. I just carry a lot of life insurance on her and we live our lives.

Meanwhile, I’m a land whale that’s been CT scanned and been told by a frequent NYT contributing cardiologist “I have no explanation for how a man your size has such a healthy heart.”

Genetics, yo.
> Not nearly as much as inflation

Over the last year, real wages are up [1]. They're about flat with Q1 2020.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
> vim understands the syntaxes of a lot of dotfiles, with home manager, you even lose that.

I wonder what we can do about this, or what is the best way to annotate long strings in Nix code that are actually source snippets. Something like how code snippets are handled in Org files would be awesome.
> even without deflation, a dollar tomorrow is usually worth more than a dollar today

No, that’s deflation.

If you’re talking about investing, that’s different. The dollar is still worth less on its own. It just made extra dollars in the meantime.
They're public and generating billions a year in revenue. Check out PDD's quarterly earnings.
> permanent WFH basement gremlins

Office life and commutes have so completely destroyed our ability to have outside social lives that the solution to not being able to socialize is to go back to the office. Brilliant.
The short version: https://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/whatmakesmusicsoundgoo...
Japan had deflation. Can search for information on that. Many articles out there about it.
TIL fridge logic

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fridge_logic
Speculative asset bubbles seem to tank money velocity more than small amounts of deflation. I think the 2% inflation target roughy yields the maximum long term sustainable capital gains tax.
Music labels sue Archive.org for copyright infringement
You're probably right. But was the title of the article.
GDP isn't a good metric to compare household debt to. The US has an incredibly unequal society (see Gini index) and a lack of welfare compared to other Western countries. In aggregate, it means that debt is likely higher for households where that matters. The poor.
Stickiness of nominal wages means thaf deflation leads to more rapid downsizing in industries facing slowdowns (including transitoy ones), which is among the reasons that the Fed, faced with a dual mandate of price stability and promoting full employment, prefers small positive inflation. There's also reason to believe that deflation is more likely to be sticky once entrenched than inflation, because the knock-on effects produce more deflation.

> For those on a fixed income, this is money we lost forever.

Yes, that's a fundamental problem with fixed incomes and why minimum support programs don't tend to use fixed nominal benefits across time. Most people aren’t on fixed incomes, and if we tried to manage price levels around people on fixed incomes, not only would it be bad for everyone else, but it would also threaten the investments underlying the sources of those fixed incomes (which aren’t really fixed, because they can drop, including to 0.)
Is it not meant to be paid off in 25 years?
Minivans are a special case that's not a good example. Minivan's have been drastically dropping in popularity (as defined by market share)for the last 20 years. Many models have been discontinued, and remaining models are being made in much lower quantity. It's basically a very niche product at this point at somewhere around 2% of all new vehicles sold.

Now there are only really 5 models of minivan left, so any small jump in purchasing, or misforecasts by a manufacturer leads to huge backlogs.
> I know folks who keep eating out, buying new vehicles, and even building new houses and I'm left scratching my head wondering how they afford all of this.

You can never judge people's financial situations from their spending habits.

Someone in my extended family spent years living large, buying new cars, building new houses, and wearing nice clothes. They had a family business and always said that the business wad doing well. Several years later the husband died unexpectedly. His wife was suddenly struggling to make ends meet, despite nothing actually changing with their "business".

As we later discovered, they were experts at amassing debt. The business wasn't really successful but they had used every possible angle to get more lines of credit, debt, "investments", and loans. They had even made a habit of "buying" supplies from vendors with Net 30 terms, reselling them, and then never paying the vendors back. They moved from state to state to scam new vendors every time they were blacklisted by the all of their local vendors.

That's an extreme example, but it highlights how appearances can differ so much from reality. More commonly, I think a lot of people just never learned how to save anything at all. I know an alarming number of people in their 30s who still haven't bothered saving anything more than the $1-10K they have in their checking account at a given time. When the number goes up, they spend it back down. You could have the same net income as these people but never achieve their level of lifestyle spending because you're doing some savings.

On the other end of the spectrum, many people are actually doing well. Wages are up (contrary to what you see on social media) and people's investments have done very well in recent years. Many of my friends are doing quite well for themselves by simply getting working a little harder to get jobs that pay a little above average and then carefully budgeting and investing over the long haul. Do this for a couple decades with some careful attention paid to where you live and the job you get and it's not hard to get a rather comfortable financial position by 40, especially in tech.
It easily could be. And according to the simulation hypothesis (by Nick Bostrom), it is the most probable thing actually.

P.S. There is also a hilarious Rick and Morty episode about a car battery universe: https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery
Minimum wage has no effect on inflation huh?