skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European banks definitely issue Visa and Mastercard cards (and in many countries, there isn't even any local alternative for card payments).

But given the network effect, Visa and Mastercard have a lot of power over both issuing and acquiring banks. Issuers have at least a choice out of these two; acquirers just have to accept whatever their customer puts on the counter at payment time (or lose ~50% of their card-paying customers).

In other words, participation is (relatively) easy; getting some amount of control, let alone autonomy, is almost impossible – again due to the network effect.
https://www.spazcosoft.com/blog-cover-flow.md.html
Seems self-evident to me that increasing the supply of dollars does not automatically increase the supply of goods and services that people actually consume.
And, according to the article "the CPI does not directly measure the prices of investments like stocks or the purchase price of homes."

So they have a category called "Housing" which presumably does not include the price of a home. Very informative and helpful infographic.
It seems to me that the Great Barrier Reef is going to go away. That has nothing to do with my mindset, or any actions I have or have not taken. We didn’t start the fire, etc.

That said, under discussion is whether or not resources should be spent to save it (and what format the allocation of those resources might be). It is thus more than reasonable to ask “what happens if we don’t?”.

Doing nothing is frequently (IMO in the vast majority of times) the best problem-solving strategy. Whenever faced with a problem, my first thought is always “if we do nothing and wait, will this problem go away in an acceptable fashion?”

For example: There are many thousands of stray cats out in the world who will die of lack of food and shelter very soon. Does your “mindset” have you out feeding and sheltering them? Do they not matter because they don’t have immediate functional utility?

This sort of black and white thinking you seem to be applying doesn’t lend itself well to doing cost/benefit analysis over a set of possible future actions.
These "price comparisons" really need to be divided into specific categories.

$1 from 1999 would be worth a lot more for buying a house, since house prices have gone up insane.

$1 from 1999 would be worth much less for technology: a modern-day phone would be essentially priceless, but if you only care about specs, it could be replicated in a supercomputer, albeit for >$100 million (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21977330)

Even within a category it depends: certain food items (junk food) seem to have gone up in price considerably more than others.
Coders use the best data structure to solve a problem not for the users but for another coder to appreciate.

I find that sentiment mildly offensive. I write a lot of code myself, but for every program I write, I use a hundred programs written by other people. If those programmers want to impress me, they will keep my needs as a user in mind, not their own egos.
Technology is a dramatic counterexample. 1999's ASCI Red 1-2 teraflop supercomputer cost $46,000,000 1999 dollars. A 2 teraflop 2022 iPhone 14 costs $800. Even if you nitpick the computation comparison, there's still a 5 order of magnitude reduction in cost.
Real estate prices are only indirectly included in CPI via owner-equivalent rent. Really, CPI is a joke for measuring broad inflation. It measures a specific basket of goods. Treating that basket of goods as the true value of the dollar is absurd.
Yes, I was speaking more generally about this sort of problem.
At what point does it stop being film of Mark Twain and start being what someone/a computer imagines film of Mark Twain to be like? Most of the data in this, from the color to the frames themselves, did not actually exist and, while looking reasonable, very likely does not agree with what the actual data would have been.

One other downside of this kind of approach is it makes high quality versions of the source significantly harder to find (I doubt the 240p encoding with blocks bigger than Mark Twain's head is the best copy of the source available).
Are they trying to say that costs of education have only gone up 14% since 1999?
This doesn't seem right. 24.6% unemployment. Unless I'm living in a bubble, that's not anywhere near the correct number.

https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-char...
> the government lies deliberately to keep inflation adjusted payments down

"Hedonic quality adjustment" is the preferred term. ;-)
I've been using pictures of artifacts from random museum visits through the years to test the recent vision models. GPT-V is the first that has gotten anywhere close to identifying them accurately.

It's usually able to identify 1) The materials the artifact is made out of 2) The country/region it came from 3) the significance/use of the item 4) roughly when it was created.

The images that I'm sharing are my own, so it's not pulling the images directly from the internet, and for some of the artifacts it's actually difficult to find similar images online.

I think it's fairly safe to say that it's truly able to perform advanced image analysis with images that aren't directly in its dataset.
Maybe because books and movies are more static/unchanging in nature? I realize IMDB also does TV but even then many podcasts have a frequent release schedule that outpaces nearly every other medium besides maybe streaming. Because of this, reviews become stale quicker, and some podcasts talk about something different every episode which makes recommendations trickier

Also worth noting Amazon owns both IMDB and Goodreads. Many folks seem to think they're neglected now and not great platforms anymore
Yes. The external bus on the 8088 is 8-bit while the 8086 is 16-bit (which is why the 8086 wouldn't appear in a PC until the mostly-80286 PS/2 line, since the 8086 and the 80286 could use the same 16-bit PS/2 bus).
Then I take them on a tour and they see why I choose not to move in.

i am fully with you, but not being familiar with your specific circumstances i am still curious what you tell people. would you mind sharing some examples?
I wonder how far into Canada they can hear WWV / WWVB[0]

[0] https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
USA is a big country. Yes housing has gone up a lot more in NYC and SF, but those numbers are offset by random farm towns in North Dakota and Iowa.
Unfortunately the shadowstats guy doesn’t actually do the calculations. He just takes the official number and applies an “adjustment”. He has said as much. It’s all bullshit.
Well, in fairness, the Milky Way is also a galaxy that we have a very obscured view of...
CPI excludes any categories that make it look like we have inflation.
Presumably they could tell stores that you have your card on file with? (Only speculating; I have no idea if they or any other card network actually does that.)
Wow, that is eerily reminiscent of the deterrence in Liu Cixin's _Three Body Problem_ novels.
More creative, and more whimsical. Modern icons are in comparison quite sterile.
The amount microsoft spent to acquire mojang seemed so big at the time. It's amazing how much its paid off for them.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA

Case-Shiller is up ~220%
Moderately successful but not a smashing hit in my book
Very understated, so probably driven from government deliberate statistical/interpretational manipulations.

Also: inflation is NOT fundamentally about price changes. Inflation is purely the result of arbitrary expansion of government fiat money supply.

A simple example drives this home. One could say that a $1,000 computer of say 10 years ago was much less powerful than a $900 computer of today, and be right. One could say that inflation hasn't affected computers, and they would be wrong. Without the expansion of fiat money, that $900 computer would be, say, $500 or less. The final price is not how inflation can or should be measured.
Show me anywhere, in the entire US, that has gone down in pricing for housing over the last three years.
This post seems to have brought the server down? It keeps saying there is a server error and to try again in 30 seconds.
No more so than it is to say "we should turn, so we don't run into this iceberg". Concern for the well-being of those around you is not narcissistic.
It might have been good for brand-new users and children, but not all computer users are like that. It would have been much better if they had had selectable themes.

The best-looking Windows UI, IMO, was Vista.
They were in the early days. I remember someone posting about how their Tesla broke down and a Tesla flatbed pulled up with a working car, swapped them out, and left their car as a loaner
Book stores. I’ve met people there. Pretty easy to ask what someone is reading or which author they love.

Concerts could be another one.

Btw these are all places where I’ve met girls, but it’s probably just as easy to make friends there.
I would agree, but on the other hand, Transformer (or attention really) based models seem to be the first time that computers are generating ad hoc human text on a variety of topics, so I do believe the hype is justified. I mean... people have spent entire careers in pursuit of this goal, and it's here... as long as what you want to talk about is less than 4096 / some K tokens.

Given how little progress (relatively) was made until transformers, it seems totally reasonable to pursue att ention models.
> Uber does not own cars.

Unlike, say, the NYSE, which owns all the equities that are traded there?
Also forgot to say, love the project and love the objectives! Allowing Postgres to do it all means so much from a server management perspective - imagine not having to manage any redundancy/performance/analysis outside of the health of the Postgres box - fantastic :)
Not only that, but I believe the USD is tied to Energy, not Gold. When I was young you could by a lot with just 25 cents. Plus I know people used less energy back then.

But the Oil Embargos hit the US twice in the 70s, during that period inflation spiked and only settled down when the price of Oil stabilized. USD had adjusted to the new prices.

Then in the last 20 years, a few times we had some relativity minor shocks due to OPEC decreasing production among other things. Thus inflation.

People like to point to other things, but to me, our economy is directly tied to the price if energy. And maybe that is why trying to get off of fossil fuels seems almost impossible.

And not counting the price of Energy in our inflation numbers skews our real issues.
I agree they are probably being over-applied but I for one am fascinated and excited for the future and all the possibilities. It’s amazing how much effort is being applied across the board and failures to me just progress other research.
Who is saying anything about prices going down?
>Just like Mickey Mouse or movies from the 1960s? Or the Lord of the Rings books?

Yes? It's because of Disney that copyright laws are as ridiculous as they are.
> long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994

The labor force participation rate, defined as the percentage of people 16 years of age or older who are working or seeking work (minus "institutional", aka military) currently sits around 63%. The US population is roughly 17% over 65. Those three numbers roughly add up to 100%.
Certainly true of many episodes.

But still think there could/should be a top 1,000 all-time list — filterable by category.
> An exaggerated emphasis

What exactly do you think it is that I'm exaggerating? I've been polite here, but frankly—given your earlier assertion that "most places [you've] seen [...] have bike paths, and houses are typically in a separate area from main thoroughfares", I don't think you have any clue what you're talking about re: any neighborhood even vaguely resembling mine. Furthermore, your implicit assertion here that making any dangerous activity off limits for children of a certain age is helicopter parenting—abuse, in your words—is totally ridiculous.

Am I a helicopter parent because I refuse to allow my nine month old to crawl around in the street out front eating dog shit to learn how bad it tastes? Because I won't let my four year old help out in the kitchen by chopping zucchini with the extremely sharp chef's knife I barely trust myself with? Get a grip, man.
Canadian news article about this shared earlier in the week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37834639
It’s doing one to one comparison of the comparable homes. Schiller looks at average home price without adjusting for newer homes being much larger and better furnished than the ones built 25 years ago
> Just so you're aware, C++ has three keywords here: co_async, co_await, and co_return...

This is admittedly an unimportant correction to what you said that doesn't in any way change your point; and yet, I still think it is an important one to keep in mind for people who only might end up with an indirect understanding of the C++ feature: C++ additionally chose to add a specialized co_yield... and specifically does not have co_async! This latter tradeoff then relates to the Rust discussions I have seen come up again recently due to the article "Was async fn a mistake?".

https://seanmonstar.com/post/66832922686/was-async-fn-a-mist...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37789057

https://old.reddit.com/16ugwuc/
IMDB itself already includes podcasts. I think your question is really why you and others don't seem to know that. The Joe Rogan Experience, which as far as I understand is far and away the world's most popular podcast, has 4.5k total ratings. Gen V, which has existed for a month, already has 19k. Podcasts just aren't that popular. But it's nothing specific about the format. Largely informational, non-fiction content, even extremely high-quality, long-running classics, don't get much attention from critics and discussion groups. Nova has been running for nearly 50 years now and has 3k ratings on IMDB, even fewer than Joe Rogan.
Imagine you took out a loan for $1000 in 1980. In today’s dollars, the $1000 to repay is much less in relative terms than it was in 1980, because of inflation.
Rob "Beatdown" Brown on youtube - love his no nonsense approach.
another good example is cars. in 2000, you got heat, ac, and maybe a casset player. Now look at all the gizmos and gadgets on them
> but they couldn't have made a greater effort.

Hmmm. To me it seemed like they spent a whole bunch of effort on marketing, but didn't want to spend the effort on actually figuring out the details of their proposal first.

And if they can't be bothered to work out the full and complete details of a change to our constitution (up front), in order for people to make an informed choice... then there's no way they were actually serious about wanting to change things. Or they were just er... tripping.

Seems more like it was just a political stunt / bullshit for some (unknown) reason. :(

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I was living in the UK when the government there did similar for Brexit. It was heavy on slogans and marketing, but they'd not even bothered to work out the details of what they were proposing.

And we've seen how well that went (extremely poorly). :(
And speaking of Germany, over there they don't lump everyone together: somewhere around high school level, they split everyone into one of 3 tracks. Only one of those leads to college, the other two are for low-performers, and for people destined for the trades. Looking at the state of German industry, I'd say the system works out much better than the American system. However, a lot of leftists complain about it because it's somehow "unfair" for low-performing kids to not be grouped in with high performers where they can magically become better students by interacting with them...
I'm not sure if that tracks in the field. I am currently experiencing such a case where a friend I previously trusted 100% and considered loyal has turned into a complete psychopath on a self-destructive warpath in which I am in the square center. And I can list plenty of other such cases in my life.

That said, I have some friendships which I do still put 100% in, and receive in kind, and I'm glad I have them. But I went through countless wasted relationships and hardships inflicted by others in order to know that these friends are the real ones. And I want to say that the process was worth it; But this idea that friends are extremely loyal to each other seems entirely unfounded in modern society.

I recommend Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone which breaks down the problems modern America and Western society in general are facing regarding civil action, friendship and loyalty.
None of the big 4 networks in the US don’t sell data.

Best to opt-out of each that you use.
I’ve been wanting to buy a national instruments data aquisition system for years but have been getting by with a PLC. Data sample rate with the plc is about 5hz instead of I think anywhere from 1-50khz with a proper daq.
Fuckin' get 'em! Agreed with your general sentiment. The navy probably does have a bigger problem with the cult of the chiefs, but the Army less so with its senior enlisted. But the problem is the JBSA post commander LTG Jones told Vice literally on Friday that "I don't have a mold problem, I have a discipline problem." And it's just a gross lie at this point.

https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen%2Fa...
Honestly I am enjoying the Emacs 29 experience and package management improvements in emacs generally. Way less brittle. Stuff is just working.
I work at a convenience store. We have a penny jar. Except about four months ago people starting leaving dimes, nickels and quarters. It was not a gradual change, people hardly ever left more than pennies. And it is not just one or two people.

My take is that nothing less than a dollar bill is worth much anymore. Part of this is could be the issue of cash vs card, but my uneven sample says that ratio is not really changing.

And what can you buy for $0.25? Nothing. $0.50? Nothing. Not a cheap drink, not a cup of coffee. For a dollar? Still nothing.
Guessing you’ve never looked at housing in random farm towns? They all mooned in 2021 too except the really crappy ones.
> the best model is at least 10x smarter than the free version of ChatGPT

Citation needed. What does 10x smarter mean here? There’s an ongoing debate about whether the word “smart” even applies to a text prediction engine.
>These "price comparisons" really need to be divided into specific categories.

Not it doesn't.

This is the primary difference between liquid and non-liquid assets.
Yep, this is "level 3 data". Merchants or payments services often get lower interchange rates for providing this extra data
The branding on this is a bit much, it’s not an operating system. However LLMs are the real deal, some papers claim they are achieving SOTA or significant breakthroughs in various domains. Surely they’re computationally intensive, but if you have read the most of the papers out of Berkeley, Microsoft, Meta, Google/DeepMind/Waymo… I think you’d have an change in opinion.
Of course. You don't need to investigate the license, learn about the vendor, inquire about payment structure, talk to sales people, justify the purchase to your manager, etc. There's much less friction, all thing being equal.
Judge it by its merits.

If the object of hype adds useful novelty, the interest could be justified. If, as it's often the case, it is not quite known - it's a question to figure out.

Granted, intuition is worth something, but it's still not a certainty, so somebody having a different opinion still could see something useful here.
There are spot treatments which general dentists do not have access to - which you must go to a periodontist for. My back molar had some bad sensitivity - and i could not risk loosing it before a major dental surgery - so i had this treatment done. These spot treatments (topical) last for 4-6 months. Going to a perio will cost you though (obviously)
These graphs are just lies based on lies based on lies.

Food prices have basically doubled in a couple of years. Prices for McDonald's have gone from about $5 for a breakfast meal combo to almost $9. I can't go out for dinner in the Bay Area for 2 adults and 2 kids for less than $100.

In 9 years up to 2021, my house price almost tripled. That is inflation that no one talks about. My new house price that I bought in 2021 is down 15%. This is deflation that no one talks about... yet.

The government skews numbers because they allow consumers to "trade down" to lower quality, cheaper products so that inflation doesn't look like it's going up. This doesn't capture the fact that the product is much, much lower quality. If you compare a real Big Mac to today's Big Mac, it's a pale comparison. Same goes for just about everything else. What use to be "regular" is now considered premium, and that inflation doesn't get captured over the decades.
Its owners equivalent rent i believe, which makes sense academically but not practically. When you are using it to gauge whether your monetary policy is causing inflation you should be looking at asset prices at least as hard as consumable prices and you shiuld be extremely wary doing substitutions.
You're not serious? Baldwin's ideas haven't stood the test of time.

The left-wing radicalism of the 60's fizzled out due a failure in the competition of ideas.
Hopefully $1 bills remain a thing. Making it rain with $5s is too expensive.
Simply?
We all know Microsoft bought Activision _for_ the Infocom IP. It’s clearly the most valuable asset.
Unfortunately, using cash does not by itself create an alternative that can be used for remote/online payments too.
I saw a YT vid that referenced a research paper that used a particular basket of goods to define the quality of life for a peasant in the Roman Empire.

I think the trick is to build your personal consumption basket for essential unchanging goods and use that for comparison. Certain things like the types of food I eat have been reasonably consistent over the past 20 years. So something like "how many calories & grams of protein could I buy in 2003 vs 2023", and then compare that my hypothetical wage growth over that timeframe. Or wow much is a quart of oil? I needed to do oil changes 20 years ago, and still do my own today, etc...
This is rather pseudoscientific.
Acyclic structure on variables is a very strong pre-supposition that, honestly, is not how many systems in engineering are well-described by, so I don't like this idea of boiling causality solely down to DAG-dependent phrases like "d-separation" or "exact causal structure". Exact causal structure a.k.a. actual causality is particular to one experimental run on one intervention.
Want some rye, course ya do.
The current approach employed by Omnigres users is good old sessions (since latency to the database is non-existent) and omni_txn's transactional variables (https://docs.omnigres.org/omni_txn/variables/) to store session-related data.

This way we don't need to handle the difficult parts of JWT (forced expiration, etc.) and the mental model becomes rather simple.
Feedback: having to specify addresses and ports is a drag. I suggest looking at how magic wormhole does it; nobody wants to look up and type in IP addresses.

The user probably shouldn’t need to think about whether it’s in p2p mode or not.