skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $1 from 1999 would be worth much less for technology

This is expected given technology is advancing but pricing hasn't changed much if you factor in relative costs to relative performance / outcomes.

For example in 1999-2000 you could have gotten a really solid machine capable of playing Quake 3 (the latest and greatest FPS game of that time) getting a rock solid 125 fps on a CRT monitor capable of doing 120hz for around $650-700.

Realistically a solid machine nowadays with a mid-grade GPU is likely going to run you $1,000 to $1,200 and that could easily be more if you wanted a higher end GPU.

All in all you're talking about a little under double the price which is roughly what an inflation calculator says (1.85x) for the same relative outcome.
Home values have gone up on paper due to real estate speculation, which CPI doesn't care about. It instead measures how much you would need to pay to rent an equivalent apartment year over year.
There were numerous 8086 PC compatibles before the PS/2 or the 80286 became popular. The most famous was of course the original Compaq Deskpro, but At&t, Wang, Eagle and others did too. Yeah, the BIOS had to be aware of the difference between the 8088 and 8086 for some setup stuff, but the 8086 is at the hardware level perfectly happy to talk to an 8-bit bus and the software mostly never knew the difference.

edit: And how could I forget (as mentioned by another poster in the thread) the numerous NEC PC98 machines with an 8086 which created their own industry. Sorry for slight, Japan.
Pretty much all of western US (and I expect 90% of the rest of the US) homes have declined in previous 18 months.
Yes. Enforcement action requires cash and man-hours, so its logical that you only go after fraud past a certain threshold.
>Maybe that last one is worth investment as well. Not just having an outside party clean it up, but prevention?

The military has two readily available levers: money and mandated training. Only the latter is applicable, so we spend hours each year sitting in training full of trigger warnings and trying to destigmatize Discussion about suicide.

Young men have a fairly high rate of completed suicide, and removing them from their social fabric must exacerbate the problem. There may be correlated socio-economic factors between completed suicides and the men who go into the military.

The powerful factors are the work environment and leadership, which the military works desperately to improve by any means they can contrive, and culture, which the military would be powerless to fix, even if underlying society could agree on how to stop funneling people into suicide.

So, if you ever recommend more suicide prevention around servicemen, know that that is why you'll likely earn a rousing, "fuck off."
> These "price comparisons" really need to be divided into specific categories.

The actual TFA is specifically about this very point!
I apologize for getting slightly mystical here, but I think of humanity as a vast consciousness, learning and growing and reasoning and evolving. We’re tiny aspects of that consciousness. We observe, develop ideas, bounce them off each other, deliberate, and eventually some take hold and spread, changing how mankind collectively sees the world.

It’s not enough to just share information with each other, and lately the internet has made that increasingly less necessary. We need to test our ideas, subject them to collective scrutiny, and try to spread or adapt them in response to those of others. There aren’t always great forums to do that in, but I think it’s worthwhile in principle.
What about the neighborhood made you choose it?

I'd like that sort of neighborhood as well, but other than sidewalks and perhaps a nearby park it seems difficult to gauge character like that until you live there. And there are lots of neighborhoods that have the objective basics (sidewalks, low crime, etc).
I think almost everyone realizes dark matter is a placeholder for the unknown. It doesn't mean we shouldn't explore the possibility of special dark matter particles that don't interact with regular matter. In fact, there's not much else to do.
In almost a century of economics, still no one has any precise definition of inflation, or how to calculate it. How inflation is calculated and measured or even what it means, is a hotly debated topic to this day. The observation that it seems to exclude a lot of things is part of the debate.
> it was entirely clear, if not well before then, that the actual risk of the COVID infection itself to anyone in even reasonably good health was far below being injected with some experimental gene modification thing

MRNA doesn't modify genes, that's not how MRNA works at all, it flows downstream from DNA. I would hope the so called high IQ critical thinkers would spend a few minutes on how MRNA, RNA, and DNA work.

The whole thing reads like the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. MRNA is very interesting and works like programming, because the cell's machinery is like a Turing machine protein printer that reads MRNA like the Turing machine tape, so it's extra ironic that on Hacker News we have people with limited idea of how it even works, but are confident that it somehow 'edits genes'. Respiratory viruses are fundamentally bits of MRNA that tell cells to make virus copies. When you have heard of flu or cold viruses editing genes?

How much percentage of people in western countries are in generally good health anyway? See how many more deaths happened in Biden counties vs. Trump's because of people falling for pseudo-scientific misinformation like you.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties...

So many sad victims of self serving political misinformation.

> Using level of educational attainment as a proxy for iq, not a perfect correlate of course, those with phds were indeed the least likely to fall for the injections among those with post secondary degrees according to the data I’ve seen.

What data have you seen? Even in the self reported survey that was used for misinformation to mislead people like you, 75% of PhDs said they would vaccinate.

https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-...

Not to mention 95% of actual medical doctors in a survey. Derek Lowe had great articles on Covid throughout.
They should just pay the bill, and then add more advertising to Windows to pay for it (and then some). Windows users aren't going anywhere, so MS might as well milk them all they can.
We would switch over to the other ISP
It's unclear what model was used for the outputs mentioned in the article, but here's the short story that Claude gave me for the same prompt:
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Here is a dystopian short story in the style of Margaret Atwood set in Canada:

The Snows Came Early That Year

The snows came early that year, blanketing the prairies in white before the harvest was complete. I awoke to howling winds rattling the panes of my solitary cabin, the radio readout blinking ominously, batteries too weak to check the weather reports again. I shuffled outside in layers of wool and coveralls, squinting against the icy gusts, to find the chicken coop door ripped clean off. Feathers and blood painted the snow crimson. The four hens I had left were gone, with only scattered tracks and droplets leading into the tree line to indicate the predator's escape.

I cursed under my frosted breath, the bitter wind stealing away my words. Food had already been scarce, each winter harder than the one before. I shuttered the coop and turned back inside just as the power flickered and went out. Now there was no heat, no light, no way to cook. The solar panels would be useless under the heavy snows.

As I sat wrapped in furs, watching my breath turn to plumes of smoke in the gloom, I made a plan to walk to town when the blizzard passed. Perhaps barter some handicrafts for a few days of rations. The trek would be risky, but staying here held a different kind of peril. The food stocks in my locked pantry were dangerously low. There was no choice but to go.

The Katskil wolves would likely be on the prowl, their numbers multiplying as the animal population declined. Stay to the road, move quick, keep head down. Don't attract attention. Don't look too frail, too thin, too cold. The robotic guards at the checkpoints would be indifferent to my starvation, but opportunistic thieves might not. This was the world we inhabited now. Hold fast to what is yours. Trust no one. Every day another fight to survive. My grandmother's voice echoed in my mind...from her days before the collapse: "Don't lose hope, girl. It's always darkest before the dawn." But that was in another era, now lost to us. There were no more dawns ahead, only the howling dark.
Looks like the median income went from 34k to 40k [1].

However, median income is very misleading because it does not include goverment transfer payments, which are substantial in that income range.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Additional notes:

* In my experience, the hyphen is usually very short in most fonts, the en dash is significantly longer, and the em dash can be much less than double the en dash (some of this may be a result of poor font design though. Monospace fonts have it rough!).

* It's widely recommended to avoid writing U+2010 and just use U+002D for hyphens. Hyphens are by far the most common of these punctuation symbols, so it's ludicrous that `man` pages to map them by default; most man pages will never want any kind of dash.

* Soft hyphen support sucks.

* For different reasons, it's rare to manually write U+2212, since you should generally tell your typesetting engine to switch to math mode (which also takes care of inserting the right obscure kinds of spaces).

* En dash is also used as a higher-level hyphen, when the inputs are already compound (not necessarily with hyphens!).

* En dash with spaces around it is an alternate style equivalent to em dash without spaces, for uses like a comma/colon/reverse-colon/parenthesis. A given work should only use one for consistency. In casually written text, space-asciidash-space is almost always intended as an en dash.

* Em dash is also the thing to use for interruption; there are several subcases here. This is the only time an em dash can potentially touch a space, though except for self-interruption they're generally inside quotes so won't actually.

* When there's a parenthetical interruption by the narrator, the em dash goes outside the quotes (“Foo”—bar—“baz”).

* Em dashes are also used for attribution after a quote, or for signatures. This is supposed to always be the start of a line, but if you're sloppy I guess it might be preceded by a space here too.

* U+2012 figure dash is probably the only other dash worth knowing; use it with digits. There's also a "figure space" you should use for monospace-like padding in a non-monospace font.
It reads like a someone tried to commit poetry by rhyming dot points in a list. Except they got a discount bulk-rate on purchasing commas at the grammar store so they stitched it all together with 50 of them and called it done :P

Plus like allmost all of its output, it appears to have the amount of profundity, aesthetic pleasure, insight and interest usually found in corporate boardrooms and marketing brochures. That is to say, vanilla dross.
For a GPL BIOS, Coreboot/Libreboot has already existed for a while.

For, what, a handful of old laptops? It's not a general solution for libre booting.
That lines up pretty well with how much ChatGPT responses ape the stereotypical school essay style of being 1/5th introduction, 3/5ths content, and 1/5ths conclusion that reiterates the content.
Up here in Canada, the CPI is adjusted from spending surveys:

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/survey/household/3508

When people change their habits in life the CPI is changed to reflect what that life costs. You can see the list of changes going back to 1913:

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/2...

Do you think coal and lard should be included, like they were pre-1956? Or do you think the CPI should try to model reality?

Here's the current list of products that StatCan used for Canada's CPI as of August 2022:

* https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/2...

Reality is messy, and you cannot take all of it into account, and so you create models approximations (cf. [spherical cow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow)). But in the words of [Alfred Korzybski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation):

* [The map is not the territory.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation)

* https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/

Or those of statistician George Box:

* [All models are wrong but some are useful.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)
In the interview, he actually says BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard own "90% of the stock market".

NB. There are all his statements, not mine!
The IO doesn't usually involve business logic, almost by definition. A web service can usually make a pretty good sandwich if it's actually doing anything - you do a thin state fetch, a thick business computation on that state, and then a thin write / return to the user.

There are definitely cases where your business logic and your I/O are more tightly interleaved so that you can't really separate them the same way, and the post mentions that and links to https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/07/10/pure-interactions/ as a deeper guide for those cases.
This probably varies from place to place. A high-quality double cheeseburger in my area can be had for $6.19, and adding tomato is only a little extra. (I checked prices a minute ago, so these numbers are fresh.)
[dupe]

So much discussion on a number of posts days ago, mainly this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850110
> Well, you're left measuring rents, but that's not satisfying when a lot of people buy a home.

It's perfectly satisfactory when the accepted rationale for many, many home purchases is as an investment vehicle, rather than as just as home (which is what rent covers).

> No one with two neurons to rub together would ever adopt this methodology in the modern world.

You're seriously making the claim that the BLS has nobody with your intelligence in a powerful position?
The one truly important 8086-based machine I can think of is the Japanese NEC PC-9801, so it would make some sense for someone to clone a machine like that. Though I'm not sure if I'd clone the original 9801 that kicked off the entire line or rather go for the much improved NEC V30 chip instead. (Which also powered Irem's M72 Arcade Board, which ran R-Type, and the latter M82/M84 boards that gave us R-Type II - though arguably, arcade boards aren't in the same category as home computers)
We can't say it's 100% genetic, but apparently more so than political orientation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874623/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18075477/

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10519-015-973...
That article doesn’t make any sense. At big companies like this you can’t just send money to someone who even convincingly looks like a vendor or partner. You need to have a PO created with the vendor as the recipient, and there are entire purchasing departments who vet recipients and make sure things like the legal name of the entity matches the wire instructions and so on.

I’d imagine that medium sized companies without much process might be vulnerable to this, but FAANGs?? No way.

If KNOWN_PARTNER simply emails an invoice and wire instructions to an employee of one of these larger companies, there is no way in hell that’s getting paid without multiple people in the paying company simultaneously screwing up.
Fewer competitors also means fewer organizations to service for vendors. This has a huge long-term impact on the economy and local job markets as it means fewer firms being formed.
It's time to start worrying about space junk around the moon, too
1000 open tabs until I absolutely must yield to the memory gods.
No, Verizon phased out T1 which is now PRI handoff via fiber. That’s only for phone service in most cases.
Exactly, two ISPs with BGP.
Omnigress developed a fresh view of the otherwise stalled industry approach to deploying and running software. Edge computing is a way to go!
For command-line parameters, yes. For everything else, I can understand that the writer would want to express more semantics in the character than just 'minus'.

In fact, I would guess that anything else than 2d as a command-line parameter prefix is a bug (bar using a /).

That said, normalization when searching is useful.
Varies, generally difficult for me in SW Ontario though with some occasional impressive 25MHz propagation with RS59 subject to heavy QSB. But I cannot rely on it for setting a clock...
If you think the only 'important' thing in computing at that time was the IBM PC, then maybe you think there were no 'important' 8086 boxes. There was a lot more going on at the time if you were actually there working at the time.
To run (let's ignore build deps for now) it needs dconf, desktop-file-utils, glib, schemas, python, ibus (you can disable it but it still has to be there, annoyingly), telepathy, a seat manager, pulse, polkit, eds, mutter, gtk4, and whatever fonts you want. If you want it to display on the local machine you'll need an xserver; as of now each of the apps can simply act as a client though (which is the capability they are discussing getting rid of).

I know this because I'm a packager...
Intercepting Allocations with the Global Allocator
The CPI is calculated by the US government. They have every incentive to understate inflation and zero incentive for it to be accurate.

The US government is the biggest debtor in the world. Inflation is good for debtors. The US government is controlled by monied interests. Inflation, as a wealth transfer from poor to rich, is good for monied interests.

Academic economists as always exist to provide air cover for the regime.
I haven't tried but at a glance, at least with the Android app, yes.

See setSelfHostingDetails

https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/a20b956e26dc98...
I peeked at your website and your profile. I’m not surprised you struggle to get jobs… Do you realize these profiles will turn up when recruiters and hiring managers google your name? You’re basically telling them two things when they skim it.

First, on this forum, your headline says, my work isn’t a priority in my life, it’s behind church. Church is about as popular as Congress in this industry. There’s a very funny HBO Silicon Valley bit about coming out to your gay dad as a Christian, that’s a little too close to reality for comfort (like that whole series).

Second, and more importantly, your LLC’s front page tells visitors, “I probably have ODD and am a gender discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.” Is that the message you’re trying to send? Mate, never mind getting jobs, you’re not even making it past the HR screen with such sloppy social media hygiene.

Have you ever heard the phrase “hide your power level?” That doesn’t even really apply here, actually. You don’t have to hide your faith or your politics. Just don’t make it your introduction. First impressions matter, a lot.

So no, it’s not that you couldn’t have had a job. You’re just choosing to have an extremely unprofessional online presence, and that has consequences.

Am I being unfair, biased, uncharitable, judgmental? Sure, probably. I don’t know you, and I didn’t look very hard. But do you really think the average employer or customer is any better than me?
Compounding interest on savings for most of us is much less than inflation, so the purchasing power of work done gradually dwindles to nothing over time. Pretty depressing.
That’s what I meant. Twits, twats, and all of that stuff is part of the language now. X is so stupid you can’t make fun of it, really. Comparing Elon’s X obsession to thirteen year old boys is not funny because it’s self-evident. None of our X jokes will stick because they’re less surprising than reality.
Our geotech prof at university played this for us (civil structural). I think it's applicable everywhere and very much a fundamental for engineering mindset, even if you hadn't heard it stated quite like that.
Its actually the opposite.

Hard data from Sweden showing lower IQ = more vaccine hesitancy

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230912/Does-IQ-influence...

Another study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8133799/
Because you will own nothing and be happy
Never heard “mooned” used in terms if rural real estate. It isn’t exactly Dogecoin
This really cleared things up for me, thank you!
a) It is impractical, but necessary to ensure a fair game. It is just as impractical as a virus-scanner trying to protect the OS from novel malware that's being directly executed by the user at admin rights. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it can't/shouldn't be done. Also the anti-cheat doesn't need to prevent it, it just needs to detect and report it.

b) It seems you're trying to argue against anti-cheat as a whole? Yes, anti-cheat will always be defeated in the end. We've reached the point where cheaters are starting to use Direct Memory Access attacks, no way to detect that. But it's still necessary to make sure there's a high enough barrier that prevents the casual cheater from just downloading a cheat without the fear of getting banned.

However I do understand your aversion to it, these are techniques that are hostile to the user and attempts to wrest away control over what code the user is allowed to execute on their own hardware. The fact that the PC allows the user to execute any code they want is a precious right that's being chipped away at.
I did something similar once, but integrated everything RESTful into nginx which connected to postgres directly, which ran triggers with JS. What I didnt like about it is being bound by max connections to postgres, and then blocking postgres thread when running javascript in it. The parallelization story just wasnt competitive enough.

Is this something that omnigres addresses?
We also didn't evolve for worldwide, nearly instantaneous communication; or even monogamy for that matter. Yet people are adapting.
MicroEmacs runs on DOS (and CP/M-86, I think). Not the whole GNU environment, but at least you get the keybindings.
LLMs can hit human quality writing just fine (not professional yet). The top LLMs today are all deliberately trained to sound bland, robotic and uninspired with rlhf etc. It's just the default voice, not some weakness of LLMs and it's not very hard to make them not sound like that.
I couldn’t see if it would work with chromecast audio. I have a few chromecast audios for in-sync music source to old school 70’s receivers and speakers in a couple different rooms, as well as modern iPhone dock / speaker eg in the kitchen that have a line in.

Whatever app I use to play music needs to support chromecast audio.

I think Plex could do it but I haven’t bothered to run my own Plex server for ages.

What alternatives to Spotify for self hosting are there that support chromecast audio, or what alternatives to chromecast audio are there, given they are discontinued
The Major Pirate IPTV and Free Sports Streaming Sites Labeled "Notorious"
Veterinarians Confront a Human Problem: Anti-Vaxxers
IME none of those modern gizmos and gadgets are actually useful.

But "intermittent windshield wipers" should not be an optional feature, Toyota!
That's begging the question, because the guy who picked up the codebase they abandoned was absolutely "working on Python" in any normal sense of the word. The people who used to work on Python stopped working on it to make a new language which they also wanted to call Python.
https://archive.ph/O1eOV
> > they believed gave them a similar level of immunity

> Believed correctly

Research disagrees:

https://www.immunology.org/public-information/vaccine-resour...
That there exists a cheap house in a rural area doesn’t help most people who need a job. For them inflation is higher.
Slartboz: Bonk and the Beast (A Homage to 80s Arcade Game Centipede)
"LLMs as Operating Systems"... —long-time AI researchers at Berkeley